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VOLUME LXXX.-NO. 172.

STRANGE CRAFT OF THE SKY

Sacramento Men Describe

the Airship.

Claim They Saw Its Occupants and

Heard Them in Convex

sation.

SACRAMENTO, Cal., Nov. 18.— The one

topic of conversation in this city to-day has

been tlie reported appenrance of an airship

over the eastern portion of Sacramento

last night. While there are hundreds

of peopie who, failing to catch a glimpse

of this mysterious visitant, are extremely

skeptical, there are hundreds of others

who are positive in their declaration that

they did see its brilliant searchlight trav

eling over the city, and who will also

swear that they heard the voices of its

occupants and distinguished their merry

song and laughter. Tnen t'.iere are others

who declare that these aerial travelers

used the Englisn tongue, and that they

plainly distinguished the words used and

commands uttered for the guidance and

care of the air vessel.

In investigating this mysterious visita

tion the local representative of The Call

obtained personal interviews with scores

of reputable citizens who reside along the

route passed over by the air craft. Many

of them lived fully a mile or two distant

from each other, but their accounts ali

agree.

. As far as can be learned from eye

witnesses, the body of the craft was ob-

Jong and eeg-shapud, with fan-like wheels

on either side, whose rapid revolutions,

beating the air, served to propel the vessel

directly against the wind, and in so doing

caused the vessel to sway from side to

pide with a wavering motion, similar to

that of a boat being forced against the

rapid current of a stream.

Midway of the vessel and suspended

directly beneath it was a brilliant search

light about twice the size of an arc light,

evidently so placed that the occupants

could ascertain when the vessel ap

proached too near tne earth and was in

danger of collision with lofty objects.

Above the ecg-shapad body towered a tail,

indistinguishable mass, whose shape it

was impossible to ascertain, owiup to the

fact that the onlooker's eyes were blurred

by the brilliancy of the searchlight.

Such is the description of the vessel

given by R. L. Lowry, who also claims to

have been able to distinguish four men,

who were seemingly engaged in propelling

the vessel by its fanlike wheel?, much

after the fashion of a bicyclist driving his

wheel over a boulevard. It is also claimed

that a bys:ander in the vicinity of Mr.

Lowry shouted to the men in the aerial

vessel and inquired their destination, and

that they replied they were bound for San

Francisco and intended arriving by 12

o'clock— midnight. This, however, could

not be verified, as no one appeared to

know the name of the reputed inter

rogator.

J. H. Vogel, who claimed to have been

in the same locality, also states that the

vessel was egg-shaped, and that he dis

tinctly heard the voices of its occupants,

but says that as the vessel was rapidly

rising he was unable to distinguish any

word*, and that after a brief slimp3e of

the body of the airship it faded from view

and all that was visible was the brilliant

searchlight, winch moved siowly away in

. a southwesterly direction, going toward

San Francisco, and being visible for up

ward of thirty minutes, growing more and

more dim, until it disappeared in the dis

tance.

E. Wenzel, who is employed at Scheld's

Brewery, verifies the stories of Vogel and

Lowry as to the shape of the vessel, but

claims that when it passed over him the

occupants were trolling a merry choru ,

which, though distant, sounded sweet and

clear in the evening air.

The first person who, as far as can be

learned, caught a glimpse of the reputed

airship was David Carl, a horse-trainer at

Agricultural Park. When he first caught

Bight of the craft it was within a short

distance of the ground, and he states that

he heard a voice saying:

"We are too low down here; send her

up higher."

Then a discussion followed as to the ad

visability of attaining too great a Height,

as the occupants were evidently anxious

to reach San Francisco before midnight.

He stated that the vessel then started to

rise, doing so on an incline and not

roing directly up as would be the case had

ballast been cast from a balloon. He had

no, idea, however, that it was anything

but a balloon and had never even thought

of the possibility of an airship. Hs was

positive in his declaration that it con

tained at least two occupants, as he could

clearly distinguish two voices discuss, iv

the strata of air best adapted for rapid

traveling.

T. P. de Long when interviewed said:

"I could not distinguish the shape of tfce

vessel. All I could see was a brilliant

light moving seemingly against the wind,

but I could plainly bear the voices of its

occupants, who were singing, and it

sounded to me like the noise produced by

a phonograph. At this time I should

judge the vessel was several hundred feet

high."

Frank Ross, assistant superintendent of

, the electric streetcar system, when mter-

I viewed said: "I did not see the form of

the vessel nor did I hear the voices of its

occupants, as I was not informed until it

had passed my residence. All that I saw

was a brilliant electric searchlight, ap

parently twice the size and power of an

ordinary arc lieht, which was being pro

pelled through the air by some mysterious

The San Francisco Call

fore c. From what I have learned from

my employes— men of undoubted veracity

—I am certain that this can by no possi

bility have been a 'fake,' but that a gen

uine airship passed over the city last

evening. I watched the light until it

passed oat of sicht thirty minutes later.

It was traveling unevenly toward the

southwest, dropping now nearer to the

earth and now suddenly rising into the

air again as it the force that was whirling

it through space was sensible of the

danger of collision with objects upon the

earth. I, of course, have no idea as to its

destination or purpose. I can only say

that 1 am fully convinced by what I have

heard that it was something out of the

ordinary."

G. C. Snyder. foreman of the streetcar

barn, states: "I am fully convinced that

an aerial vessel of some description passed

over this building last night about 6:30

o'clock. At the time my attention was

called to it the craft was at too great an

elevation for me to distinguish its form,

but I distinctly saw the searchlight,

which was goins directly into the wind,

and from its movement judged that it was

attached to a vessel of some description,

which was laboring as a seagoing vessel

will in a he:ivy spa and head wind. 1

also find that hundreds of the residents

in this portion of the city saw the light,

and there are hundreds whe claim that

they heard the voices of the occupants of

the visitor."

CharlesLv.sk, secretary of the company,

also states thai he saw the light traveling

over the city.

Mayor Hubbard says that personally he

failed to catch a gfimpse Kil this aerial

visitant, as he was engaged in his office

downtown when it passed over, buc he

stated to The Call representative that

upon arriving at his residence in the up

per portion of the city his daughter told

him that she hai seen a brilliant white

light, seemingly at a great elevation,

which had come toward me city from the

east and paired directly over it. moving

in a southwesterly direction. She s»£d if

certainly was not a meteor, as it was a

different shade of Hunt and moved too

siowly and unevenly, and she was at a

loss to account for it.

F. E. Eriggs, a laotorraan on one of the

streetcars running to Oak Park, saw the

light of the traveling airship, and at the

request of the occupants of his crowded

vehicle he stopped his car for a moment.

He says that while they could not discern

the form of the airship, yet the voices of

the occupants were plainly heard. He

had been informed by a man who resided

in the vicinity of Ea.-t Park, where the air

vessel had Deen first teen, that it was a

genuine airship, cigar or egg shaped, and

that it had at least four occupants. When

the vessel passed over his car he judged

that the occupants were singing, but they

were at such a height that neither he nor

his passengers were enabled to distinguish

the words or the tune, as they came in

broken snatches, as though borne on gusts

of the night wind.

When H. W. Marsh saw the traveling

light it was at least five miles away. He

thought that it was attached to some

aerial vessel, owing to its wavering mo

tion through the atmosphere.

E. Caverly saw the light, but refused to

be interviewed on the subject, evidently

deeming it to be uncanny.

M. T. Shelly, a gentleman of undoubted

veracity, saw the airship's i-ipht. and at

one time, when the craft careened some

what so as to partially sbscure the light,

he caught sight of the vessel itself, which

he declared to be a cigar-shaped recep

ticle, with what seemed to be a dark wall

above it.

Hundred* of similar interviews could be

obtained. In this connection the Evening

Bee publishes the following account:

Startled citizens last night living at

points of the city along a rough diagonal

line, yet far distant from each other, de

clare that they not only saw the phenome

non but they also heard voices issuing

from it in midair — not the whispering of

angels, not the sepulchral mutterings of

evil spirits, but the intelligible words and

the merry laughter of humans. At those

intervals where the glittering object, as if

careless of its obligation to maintain a

straightforward course, descended dan

gerously near the housetops voices were

heard in the sky saying:

" ; Lift her up, quick; you are making

directly for that steeple.'

"Then the light in the Bky would be

seen obeying some mystic touch and as

cending to a considerable height, from

which it would take up again its south

westerly course. The light sailed along

the line of X street, so it appeared from

those in the eastern part of the city,

although it appears that after it had

pa.«sad Fourteenth street it was wafted far

south of K. Laughter and words sound

ing strance in the distance, though fairly

intelligible, fell upon the ears of pedes

trians along the course or the light who

had paused to look up at the novelty.

"Last night's Bee contained a. (eiegram

from New York announcing that a mnn

h;>d perfected nn airship and would on

Friday of this weeK, accompanied by one

or two friends, ascend from a vacant lot in

the metropolis and po directly to Calilor-

Dia, which he promised to reach In two

days. The description furnished in the

telegram included an apparatus which was

electrical, to supply light and power for

the astonishing contrivance.

"It is not regarded a3 lifcely, in view of

the announcement contained in the dis

patch, that last night Sacramento was

overswept by this aerial ship.

"But here is the incident— here the

chronicle of words heard, of v strange

SA"N FRANCISCO, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1896.

The Airship That Passed Over Sacramento Tuesday Evening, as Described by Scores of Eye-Witnesses.

spectacle witnessed. Whence the light,

which was not a meteor all agree, came,

whither it went, where it now is — these

things it is not within the capacity of this

article to deal with."

Then follow interviews similar to those

obtained by The Call representative.

Among the eye-witnesses of last night's

singular spectacle the wildest speculations

are rife. As to the destination and object

to be obtained by this night voyage of a

reputed airship, one of these onlookers in

formed The Call representative that in

his opinion it w.is the same invention

which it is rumored Edison claimed to

have perfected and offered to the Govern

ment at the time when the Venezuelan

boundary question came up, and that now

that relations were strained with Spain

the Government has sent a party of engi

neers out in the airship to test its practi

cability, and that they were keeping away

from populous localities, except during

the night trips.

The opinion of the masses is, however,

that some Jucky inventor, having solved

the mystery of aerial navigation, is, with

his companions, testing his invention in

secret, with no intent of allowing a ctirious

public to view it until his rights are fully

protected by letters patent. Tbey pre

sume tnat he is traveling by night and

laying by in desert spots during the day.

Be that as it may, there can be no possible

doubt thai an aerial vessel of some kind

passed over Sacramento last night, and

hundreds of the residents of this city will

so testify.

The residents of Oak Park claim to have

a little mystery of their own which may

possible bearing of this subject. They

state that yesterday afternoon an object

was se6n in the sky at such a great eleva

tion a« to be almost indistinguishable. It

moved slowly in a circle, leaving a volume

of smoke behind it. This phenomenon

was seen by many, who are unable to ac

count for it.

A rumor is afloat in the city to-night

that the airship was constructed near this

city and that a trial trip was attempted

last evening, a cable being used to confine

the machine to a certain elevation.

It is stated that the cable parted and the

vessel then drifted over the city and be

came the observed of all observers. Tliis

rumor cannot be confirmed at this late

hour, but it is claimed that T. Allen, who

formerly conducted an employment olfice

in this city, s-tates that s'ich is the

case and that one of the men who

had made tho ascension had informed him

that the trial was a success and the vessel

worked well, exesptthat it was impossible

to fully control its movements. In conse

quence the inventors had, after going

toward San Francisco aways, returned

and landed in a vacant field some distance

from Arcade and about six miles from

the city limits. This tale is not generally

credited.

SEEN THREE WEEKS AGO.

Story Told by a Hunt-r l.irino on Bo-

Unas Miidgr.

On Sunday, the first day of this month,

a representative of The Call met on Bo

linas Ridge, just to the west of Mount

Tamnlpais, an old hunter living there,

named Brown. The old man was very

nervous and started a conversation im

mediately by asking:

"Do I look like a crazy man?"

"Why certainly not, Mr. Brown. Why

do you ask?"

"Well," he replied," "I don't expect

anybody to believe me. To tell t!>e

truth I can hardly believe myself. 15m

it's an honest fact that yesterday morn

ing, when the fog began to lift, I saw an

airship right up there a couple of hundred

feet over them pines.

"No, I can't tell you much what she

looked like. She didn't show very plainly

through the mist, but I saw a large, dark

shape with something moving on it. Don't

know whether I saw any people or not.

It came on me so sudden I was almost

stunned, and by the time I collected my

senses she was out of sight.

"I have been kind of dazed ever since,

and to have you ten me that I don't iook

crazy is a great relief. But I kuow that

what I saw was an airship."

As the "superior" type of mirage is not

uncommon to people living on the Marin

hills it was thought that this was what

the old man had seen, so no attention was

paid to nis story. The mirage effect of a

large ocean vessel passing through the sky

might appear to him like some new

fangled machine for navieating the air.

Perhaps the mirage is what he really

saw, but in the face of the stories circu

lated in regard to the airship there is a

probability that in what Mr. Brown really

Raw. Certainly he would have no object

in telling snch a story.

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LOST ON THE

IRISH COAST

British Steamer Memphis

Guided to Destruction

During a Fog.

Ten of the Passengers and Crew

Losa Their Lives in a

Heavy Sea*

Drenched by Hi?h Waves, Some Fali

From Their Stations in the

Ringing.

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LONDON, Ejcg., Nov. 18.— The British

steamer Memphis, Captain Williams,

which sailed from Montreal on November

4 for Bristol, was wrecked in Dunlough

Bay. near Mizzenhead, on the south coast

of Ireland, last night and ten of those on

board of her lost their lives. The Mem

phis struck at lOo'clock, during the preva

lence of a dense fog. At the time of the

accident the steamer was proceeding cau

tiously, blowing her whistle continuously

and keeping a sharp lookout for the Miz

zenhead and lsrowh?ad lights, which the

thiCKness of the weather prevented her

from making out.

As soon as she struck the rocks the ves

sel began to fill and rockets were immedi

ately fired for the purpose of summoning

assistance from the shore. Three of the

ship' 3 boats were quickly launched, tut

i one of them was shattered by being dashed

: against the side of the steamer and two of

. the occupants were drowned.

The others succeeded in reaching the

' rocks along the shore, but tive were

: washed away and drowned, iheir compan

| ions being unable to render them the

i slightest assistance.

Those of the crew who had taken to the

I rigging soon after the steamer struck ex

! perienced an awful night. They were

I constantly drenched by the heavy seas

I which washed over them, and some of

j them, after hard fighting for their lives,

{dropped from their places and were car

i ried away.

The rockets sent up by the steamer's

crew were seen by the coast guard, but the

latter were unable to communicate with

the shipwrecked men until after daybreak,

when all who remained in the rigging

were taken off by means of a line con

veyed to the steamer by the rocket appa

ratus of the life-savers. The rescued per

sons immediately upon reaching the shore

were taken to various farmhouses in the

vicinity, where they were kindly cared for

by the inmates.

Many of them were almost naked, but

wee supplied with sufficient clothing to

enable them to proceed to Crookhaven, at

which p ace most of them now are.

The sceamer is a total wrsck and much

of her cargo is Deing washed ashore. The

coast guard are engaged in the work of

saivage. AH the survivors pay a high

tribute to Captain Williams for his efforts

to secure the safety of those on board the

vessel.

The Memphis was 3191 tons register, 345

feet long, 41 feet beam and 26 feet depth

of hold. She was built at Beliast, Ireland,

in 1890. and was owned by the African

Steamship Company of London.

INITIATION LEADS TO DEATH.

A Prominent Citizen of low* Succumbs io

Injuries Received in an Elk

Lodge Ceremony.

DES MOINE3, lowa, Nov. 18.— E. W.

Curry, chairman of the Democratic tftate

Central Committee, died to-day in bis

room at the Hotel Savoy. The death was

a direct result of injuries received while

being initiated into Dcs Moines Lod^e of

Elks about two months ago. As part of

the ceremony he was blindfolded and

placed on a chair with an iron seat. Then

a lighted lamp was placed under the seat,

with the expectation that when it got too

hoi he would jump. But he sat still until

he was badly burned. His trousers were

burned away and the flesh fearfully

scorched.

He was put in new clothes, and did not

realize at the time that the injuries were

berious. In a lew days blood-poisoning

set in and he grew worse steadily. It was

his desire that the real cause of his injuries

should not be made public, and another

cause was assigned for the illness, the

truth only becoming public to-day.

An evening paper published a highly

sensational story that the injuries were

caused by placing him, in tne process in

tbe initiation ceremony, in an electrical

chair and turning on a current which

burned him badly, out this is denied by

the Elks.

Mr. Curry lived at Leon and was a lead

ing attorney. The body will be taken

there to-morrow by a large escort of Elks

and Masons, and the funeral will be held

tomorrow afternoon.

PECULIAR CASE OF HYPNOTISM.

A Young Girl Induced to Sign Important

Papers and Then Elopes With

Her Svengali.

CHICAGO, 111., Nov. 18.— A peculiar

case was . presented to Judge Grosscup in

the United States court to-day in affida

vits and petitions. Six months ago Miss

Emma Cox, one of the heirs of the late

John Cox of Button County, Ohio, riled a

Mitt 'Or acco luting Dr. R. C.

Reed, formerly of Cincinnati and now

living in Los Angeles. The girl's mother,

Mrs. T. A. Cox, alleged in an affidavit

tiled to-day that her daughter had been

unduly influenced .to sign a petition for

dismissal of ' the suit by Charles C.'Bishop

of Elgin, 111., and c his ■ mother, a clairvoy

ant of this city, who had exerted hypnotic

rower over the gill, who is quite young.

The wife .of Charles C. Bishop also pre

sented, an affidavit reciting that he left

their home a month ago and had been in

the company of : Emma Cox since then,'

and that she believes the couple are now in

Buffalo, where j they went with money

furnished by Dr. Reed. ;

The petition signed by Miss Cox is

sworn to before Orrlsa Bishop, a notary,

who is father of the man whom the girl is

alleged to have eloped with to Buffalo.

Since coming of age Miss Cox has been

living at the Bishop home, and a few days

ago disappeared. Mrs. Cox resisted the

dismissal of her daughter's suit, and Judge

Grosscup said he would give the girl time

to recover her mind and make an expla

nation if she had signed the release in a

weak mental condition.

FATAL FLORIDA FUNCTION.

In a Row at a Country Dance One Man

Is Mortally Shot and Two Others

Badly Wounded.

NEW YORK, N. V., Nov. 18.— A Herald

special from Ocala, Fla., says: While a

dance was in progress Monday night at

the home of John Baggett, six miles north

of here, Noah Wilson and his son John

had a quarrel with the brother of a girl

whom they insulted.

The Wilsons finally drew their pistols

and opened fire, shooting down Joseph

Howel!, Nelson Howelland George Avery.

Nelson Howell, who was shot three times,

is mortal!} wounded. The other two men

are badly wounded, but have a chance to

recover.

After the Wilsons had emptied their

pistols they drew knives and threatened

to kill any one who molested them. They

then started to leave when John Wilson

was seized by Mamie Avery, sister of one

of the men who was shot. With a vicious

slesh of his knife Wilson gashed the face

of the girl in a horrible manner and she

fell fainting to the floor.

The Wilsons then fled and have not yet

been captured, though the whole country

is aroused and poshes of determined citi

zens are in pursuit. The fugitives are

desperate men and have been in many

rows in this county. They will not sur

render without a desperate fight, for they

know that if taken alive they will proba

bly be lynched.

SLOW REFORM IN TURKEY.

Sone of the Demand* of the Vovserw Car-

ried Into JHxrcution.

LONDON, Eng., Nov. 18.— The Daily

News to-morrow will publish a Constan

tinople dispatch saying that Sir Philip W.

Currie, the British Embassador to Turkey,

has been instructed in regard to the re

quest of the Porte that negotiations for

commercial treaties be pushed to take no

action in the matter until the more im

portant matters have been disposed of.

This course, the dispatch adds, is typical

of the general atii'.ade of the foreign pow

ers toward the Turkish Government.

Advices received in Constantinople

from all parts of Asia Minor say that

business everywhere is stagnant and that

great distress prevail*. Nobody in Con

stantinople, according to the news ad

vices, is aware that the reforms adopted

by the powers and agreed to- by the Turk

ish authorities have been carried into

execution.

SENOR CASTILLO'S DEFIANCE

Utters a Threat Against This

Government.

Says Spain Will Brook No Interfer

ence on Behalf of the

Cubans.

PARIS, Fkaxce, Nov. 13.— The Journal

publishes a report of an interview with

Senor Canovas del Castillo, Prime Min

ister of Spain, in which he says the re

lations between Spain and the United

States are excellent. The United States

Government, the Premier says, alrvays

observed a correct attitude, and he does

not believe it will change its policy for

the sake of Cuban negroes and adven

turers.

If, however, the United States Govern

ment should do so Spain would cause her

rights to be respected. While in power,

Senor Castillo is reported as saying, he

will make no concession to the rebels, nor

will he show the weakness of drawinc

back belore anybody. Spain, the Premier

added, regards the Cuban question as one

of international politics.

SPANISH BRUTALITY

Story of Barbarous "treatment Told by

Recnt Prisoners. ■

NEW YORK, N. V., Nov. 18.— The

thirteen shipwrecked seamen of the

steamer Coila, who were brought to this

port Monday by the steamship Yucatan

from Havana, continued to be very bitter

in their denunciation of Spanish officers

in Cuba, and, in fact, everything Spanish,

when they appeared before tne British

Consul in order to get their discbarge and

tickets to their respective homes.

Jacob Moore, colored, who shipped on

board the Coila as an apprentice, told the

story of the cruel way he had been treated

during his stay in Cuba.

He said that after the Coila had almost

reached Havana and began to sink so rap

idly that it was thought best to abandon

her, which was done at 6 o'clock on the

night of November 4, the entire crew put

out in tbe ship's boats, and alter rowing

several hours reached the River Gani

quanice, Cuba. At a town at tne river's

mouth, they were fairly treated.

The following day they were taken to

Port Mariel under guard of a troop of

Spanish cava.ry and thrown into prison

there. They were all huddled into a small

cell and were compelled to sleep on the

concrete flooring, not being allowed to use

their ditty-bags as headrests, nor were

they allowed to eet the most necessary

toilet articles. Spanish soldiers were on

guard outside of the ceil door day and

nizbt and watched their every movement.

The day following their imprisonment

young Moore was sent for by the official

in command and asked whether he could

speak Spanish. He gave a room full of

officers to understand as best he could

tbat he did not comprehend their lan

guage, whereupon one of them felled him

to the ground b} T a blow on the ear with

the butt oi his revolver. John de Lorrey

here took up up the thread of the story.

"After they had knocked the senses out

of Moore," he said, "and while he was re

gaining consciousness, they sent for me.

The first question they put to me was:

'Are j'ou an Englis: man or an Ameri

can?' I told them I was an Englishman,

whereupon one of them said: 'You lie,

dog of an American,' and struck me over

the head with a cane. I was then given

to understand by motions that I was to

have my throat cut and then s-hot.

"I had almo?t persuaded them that I

was an Englishman, when they discov

ered an American flag which I had tat

tooed on my left hand. This acted on

them like a red flag to a bull, and they

sprang upon me and struck me repeat

ediy in the face.

"They then called in a squad of sol

diers, who were given some orders, upon

receiving which they all pointed their

guns at me. I told them that I was an

Englishman and desired them to fire.

This seemed to cool their ardor, and

Moore, who had by this time come to his

senses, was again brought before them.

"They pointed guns at him and pricked

his flesh with the ends of their swords

until he cried in agony.

"After about two hours of this treat

ment they allowed us to go back to our

cells.

"When I told our Consul in Havana of

the treatment we had been subjected to

he fold us that really it was not anything

out of the common and not worth bother

ing about. He told me, however, not to

say anything about the matter when I

reach- d the States, as those Americans

have so much to say."

Ten of the shipwrecked men will be sent

by the British Consul to their homes in

Canada. Moore will be returned to Ja

maica. David Burns went to his home in

Brooklyn and Joseph Yuhl will remain in

New York.

FILIBUSTERS ON TRIAL.

James Quinn. a Pinker lon Spy, leitifltit

Against Them.

NEW YORK, N. V.. Nov. 18. -The trial

of ; Colonel Emiiio Nunez and Captain

Charles B. Dickan upon a charge of having

engaged in a filibustering I expedition in

May last began j in •. earnest in the United

States Criminal Court this raornintr. Dis

trict Attorney.Macfariane opened for the

prosecution. He insisted upon' the neces

sity -of preventing ?- expeditions against

Spain being sent from this country if the

United States desired to remain, at; peace

with Spain; and emphasizing the fact that

the verdict ;of the ' jury would \be impor

tant. /

When he had concluded Assistant Dis

trict Astorney Hitman offered in evidence

President Cleveland's latest proclamation

regarding the Cuban rebellion.

This was objected to by Mr. Rubens and

was ruled out by the court on the ground

that the proclamation was issued after the

offense charged against the defendants

was committed. A previous Presidential

proclamation regarding Cuban rebellion

PRICE FIVE; CEXTS.

I was, however, admitted, and tbe examina

tion of witnesses was then begun.

James Quinn, one of the party who

sailed on the Laurada, was the chief wit

ness, and detailed every movement of the

party, which according to his testimony

was a full-fledged military expedition.

j Qtiinn acknowledged that after reaching

Cuba and going to President Cisneros'

camp with the party, he obtained permis

sion to return Home, being allowed to

reach Havana by permission of the Span

ish general. The witness came to New

York, Consul Fitzhugh Lee paying his

passage. On cross-examination by Gen

eral Tracy, witness admitted that he had

solicited a letter from Cubans in Boston

to enable him to sail on the Laurada.

"And so," said General Tracy, "you got

this letter at your own request. You went

to Cuba and you are now here testifying

against the Cubans?"

In the direct examination the witness

referred to the letter he had received from

Cisneros and it was offered in evidence:

James Quinn: I hope yon will never forget

that (.'uba needs the help of every man that

loves liberty. Your nfl'ectionate

BAZ.VATOS C'ISNEP.O3.

San Bias, August 1, 189 G.

Under redirect examination the witness

said he had gone to Cuba with every inten

tion of acting right by the Cubans. "But

they did not act right by me, and that is

the reason I came horr.e," he said. Ha

also testified that he had never seen Dis

trict Attorney McFarlane before to-day

and had not gone to Cuba as a spy.

The witness admitted under cross-ex

amination that he expected to get money

from the Pinkertons and that he had al

ready received about $50 from them. He

also acknowledged tbat he had a erudge

against the owners of the Laurada and

wanted to get even with them.

At the conclusion of the cross-examina

tiou court was adjourned.

WEILER'S MOVEMENTS.

Reports That 'lie 'Wilt Shortly Return to

Havana.

KEY WEST, Fla., Nov. 18.— Advices re

ceived in Havana from Arlemisia state tbat

Weyler was expected to arrive at Cayaja

bar to-day. A parlor-car plated with iron

is waiting for him at Arleraisia. Tbe in

surgents are reported in force near

Cienaga, the leading military authorities

being in command.

General Arolas believes the time has not

yet arrived for large operations and that

it is nee. s«ary to wait for cooler weather

to improve the sanitary conditions. It is

believed Wevler has the game opinion

and has announced his intention to return

to Havana.

The insurgent leaders Perico Diaz and

Perico Delgado are reported hard pressed

by the Spaniards. They have asked Maceo

for re-enforcements, but they were tohl it

was impossible to do anything for them

and they must do tne best they could. It

is thought that Maceo will attack tho

trocha.

It is reported Weyler will return to

Havana inside of three or four days.

SLIGHT SKIRMISHES.

Engagements in Which but Fete Art

Killed or Wounded.

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 18. — Colonel

Moncado hag had an engagement with

the combined parties of rebels who were

found strongly intrenched in tho Grillo

hills in the province of Havana. The

»nemy were dislodged and dispersed, the

Spanish column advancing and capturing

the position of the rebels under a heavy

fire. The Spanish troops had six privates

Rilled and a corporal, two lieutenants and

thirty-eight privates wounded. The rebels

left seven dead on the field and carried off

many others. General Gonzales has bad

two engagements with the rebel parties

between Silo Hondo and San Christobal

inPinardel Rio province. The Spanish

had a private and one corporal killed and

twenty-seven privates wounded. The in

surgents had twelve men killed.

S PAIN'S NEW LOAN.

A. Considerable Sum to lie Expended in

liepnirina . itarthijm. ■

MADRID, Spain, Nov. 18.— The Cabinet

has accepted the bonds of 400,000,000 pese

tas, representing the total amount of the

new Spanish loan authorized by the Queen

Regent, and the bonds already subscribed

for 250,000,000 pesetas will be allotted pro

rata. The sum of 7,250,000 pesetas derived

from the loan will be allotted for the pur

pose of repairing warships. The Cabinet,

at its meeting yesterday, passed a resolu

tion of thank* to the couniry for the

generous and patriotic manner in which

the people subscribed to the new ioan.

Humor* That Heyler Hag Resigned.

NEW YORK, N. V., Nov. 18.— Rumors

are current here to-night that General

Weyler has resigned as captain-general of

the Spanish army in Cuba. A private dis

patch leceived to-ni£rht says:

General Weyler has resigned. General

Prando has been named by the Government

as his successor.

PRINCE LOGANOFF'S SUCCESSOR.

Count Vorontz'.ff- l>nnHoff Tendered the

Office by the Czar.

LONDON, Eva., Nov. 18.— The Daily

Chronicle will publish to-morrow a dis-

putcii from St. Petersburg announcing

definitely that the Czar had invited Gen

eral Count Vorontzoff-Dashkoff, Minister

of the Imperial House and Imperial Do

; mains, to succsed the late Prince Lobanoff-

Rostovsky in the office oi Minister of

Foreign Affairs. The dispatch adds that

it is undersiood that Count Vorontzoff-

Daskoff will accept the position.