St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 17, 1898

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—_- mS Sy * THE ONLY ST. Lauis EVENING PAPER ‘wittt 1 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. aT. LOUIS “POST-DISPATC SWORN AVERAGE CIRCULATION FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 1898—SUNDAY, 119,188; DAILY, 106,975. Regu lar Fe 4 COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS. ee ll i i i i hi i i ae Aa Engineer Drank sorrow’s cup, Till a P.-D. «Want Ad" Fixed bim up. PICTURE THAT 1S A AOODOD, ee SE Mrs. Dellbregge’s Strange No- tion of a Photograph. Till he tried the results Of a Post-Dispatch “Ad."* gy, —_ ™ — — In St. Louisa, One Cent. Outside St. Louis, Two Centa. VOL. 49, NO. 365; RIED 10 BLOW UP A HOME. WEDNESDAY. EVENING —ST. LOUIS—AUGUST 17. 1898. PRICE} THEY HAD SLEPT JEALOUS LOVER'S IIS TROUBLES ‘FORCE OF ARMS, NOT PEACE BESIDE A CORPSE, INSANE CRIME.) IN OKLAHOMA, PROTOCOL, GIVES US MAN Two Laborers Have a Terri-| Milton Berry Shot Miss Mary| Charles Herman Wants to Sue Sanders in the Head. the Government. -— — Would-Be Assassins Use Dy- namite in Chicago. morn ggacior cid Terms of the Treaty Cannot Bind Military Com- ying Awakening, manders Until They Have Received Ac- tual Notice of Agreement. DEWEY CONFIRMS THE REPORT OF THE CAPTURE OF THE CITY, p= ww i id Eight Americans Killed and Fifty Wounded in the Attack by the Forces Under Gen. Merritt—White Flag Hoisted After About an Hour’s Fighting. a >» » wry THEY HAD LAIN DOWN ON A GRASSY PLOT. HER CONDITION IS HE WAS CHARGED WIT REPORTED CRITICAL. ¢ ’ KILLING A HORSE-TRADER. INTENDED VICTIM A BOARD OF TRADE MAN. HE HAS BEEN ACTIVE IN PROSE- CUTION OF A SET OF GAMBLERS. WISHES A SISTER'S ' BODY DISINTERRED. A COMPANION CAME DURING THE NIGHT AND TOOK CAEBOLIC ACID. SHE HAD FOUND REASONS WHY SHE COULD NOT MARRY THE MAN. POGGED BY DEPUTY MARSHALS’. AND ALLOWED NO PEACE IN THE TERRITORY, LIKENESS OF HER DAUGHTER WAS PLACED IN THE CASKET WITH THE BODY, eee ee SINCE THEN TROUBLE J HAS VISITED HER. DEAD MAN SUPPOSED TO BE FRANK QUINN. THIRSTING FOR REVENGE HE FIRED THE SHOT. QUIET, HONEST MAN RACE TRACK MEN ARE WORKING HIS FARM. CHARGED WITH THE CRIME. Grewsome Experience of William Doyle and John McMahon, Two Men Out of Employ- mont. Berry Now a Fugitive From Justice fr and the Police Exerting Them- selves to See That He Does Not Escape Arrest and Punishment. Came to This City to Make His Tor- mentors Understand He Proposed to Force Them to Pay for His Troubles. Mr. Hill’s Work as an Officer of the Civic Federation Is Supposed to Have Causei the Attempt on His Life. On the Advice of » Fortune-Teller the Woman Asks Permission to Open the Grave That She May Re- move the Cause. ’ WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—The Government received the first direct offictal information to-day of the surrender of Manila after a combined land and sea bombardment last Saturday. It came in dispatches from Admiral Dewey, brought : | | from Manila to Hong Kong on the dispatch, boat Zafiro. The Admiral sent two 4 panther ari « ee payers nero rangi dispatches, the first one briefly reciting the essential facts, as follows: morning at the Four Manila, Aug. 13, To Secretary Navy, Washington.—Manila surrendered to-day to the American land and nava! forces, after a combined attack. A division of — the squadron shelled the forts and intrenchments at Malate, on the south side of the city, driving back the enemy, our army advancing from that side at the same time. The city surrendered about 5 o'clock, the American flag being hoisted by Lieut. Brunby. About 7000 prisoners were taken. The squadron had no casualties, none of the vessels were injured. 7 Gen. Merritt and I formally demanded the surrender of the city, DEWEY. ee b. William Doyle and John McMahon, labor- ers out of employment, trudged through the hot sun all day Tuesday in search of work and at night sank down to rest on a grassy plot at the foot of East Grand ave- nue. At 4:30 o’clock Wednesday morning Doyle and McMahon awoke and were horrified to discover that they had slept alongside of a corpse. The dead man was a stranger they had met on their rounds the day before. He, too, was looking for work and the three joined in the search. Some time during the night the stranger had committed suicide, as was shown by an empty bottle that had contained carbolic acid and by a note which read: o The condition of Miss Mary Sanders, who was shot in her home, 354 South Jefferson avenue, by J. Milton Berry, continues criti- cal. She was rational Wednesday morning and readily recognized the different members of the family and the intimate girl friends who were permitted to see her. The bullet from Berry's 32-caliber ver entered her head just above and in front of the left ear, pierced the skull and brain, coming out oa the same side about three inches from the point of entrance. At this time it cannot be told whether the wound is fatal. The physictans believe if the bullet was clean the young lady will recover, but if it carried hair into the brain CHICAGO, Aug. 17.—An attempt was made last night to take the lives of John Hill, Jr.. his wife and two children by ex- ploding a heavy charge of dynamite against Mr. Hill's residence in Belmont, a suburb of this city. None of the family though the frame and sash where the explosive was pla< with great force into the ‘bedroom Mr. Hill was sleeping. The perpetrators placed the means of a pole of sufficient reach the second-story window. On the end of the pole was stick of dynamite or a bomb. A slow fuse was attached and the ex- plosive was so arranged that it was directly against the frame of the window of the bedroom on the cast side of the house, the room usually occupled by Mr. JIill and his wife. The splred against whcen Mr, Civic Federation, Mr. Hill is a well-known operator, « Mre. Elizabeth Dellbregge of 1301 Ohlo av- enue applied to the Health Department Wednesiay morning for a permit to ex- hume the body of her sister, Mrs. Minnie Schauber, who was buried in Concordia _ematery Dec. 2, last year. ln explaining her request, Mrs. Delibregge related a story of superstition that sur- prised the Health Department officers and reminded them of the witcncraft that early historians tell about Mre. Dellbregge’s belief is that scmething interred with her dead sister that she is causing the Dellbregge family death, mysterious disappearance and gen- eral ill luck. “A picture of my buried in the coffin with my Mrs. Ill bregge, “and I w: int es ment for man Wednesday Courts. Herman went to the warrant office and conetlted Col. Johnson to ascertain wheth- er he could bring suit for damages. said Herman, “a dep- County. O. T., suffered injury, al- of the window ‘ol were blown where ‘Four years ago,” uty marehal of Pawnee wrote mea letter. He said he wanted me to buy a claim in the Territory and I went out to take a look at it. I was satisfied and paid $400 for my claim. I staid out there for a short while and decided to return for my possessions and clothes in St. Louis, intend- ing to make my home in the Territory. Jus? before I left a prominent horsetrader in revoi- hy Lo missile length On August which the Spanish Governor-General refused. Lieut..-Brumby is Admiral Dewey's flag lieutenant. The second dispatch from the Admiral had not been deciphered up to noon. They were received early in the day, and after the first one had been translated Acting Secretary Allen carired it over to the White House and laid it before t President. While it bore out the news already brought by press dispatches, it established the additional point that some 7000 prisoners of war were Bow by the American commanders, and that no casualties in the navy or Gamage ships had occurred. Now that the surrender is officially reported, it can be stated that Manila being held by virtue of the military occupation and surrender, and that not virtue of the protocol. The difference is said to amount to little in practical sults, yet, such as it is, all officials agree that the occupation Is the result of 1 combined military and naval operations. According to Admiral Dewey's disp? the surrender occurred about 5 p. m., last Saturday. The peace protocol w signed at 4:23 p. m., on Friday. It is satd that the difference in time betw Manila and Washington is such that the surrender, reckoned on Washington would be about 12 hours ahead of the time at Manila, or about 5 o'clock Sati morning. In point of actual time, therefore, the signing of the peace proty preceded the actual surrender of Manila by a few hours. But ft is a well esta lished rule of military law, accepted the world over,that a peace armistice or cess tion of hostilities, does not become binding upon commanding officers until ti receive actual notice of it. Hence Manila is ours by right of military occupatl Admiral Dewey and Gen. Merritt would be bound by the armistice only fi the time the notice of it reached them at Manila. This could not have océur, on Saturday, prior to the bombardment, as the cable was not working and boat could have gotten through with the notice before Monday is a hoodoo attached a cjauvuchter Annie was sister,”’ sald to take It “TI herewith take this means of ending my © life. FRANK Q.” wt? Ges». ; a i - ; : x y From other papers found on the body after it was searched at the morgue, it is believed the man was named Frank Quinn. But little else is known of him. According to the story told by Doyle and MeMahon they met Quinn Tuesday on Mor- gan street and causally dropped into con- versation with him. He explained that he was out of work and despondent. Doyle and: McMahon being similarly situated, a bond of sympathy resulted and each member of the trio tried to comfort the other. When night came on they looked for a place to s.eep, agreeing that thes would journey over the city together the following day. Being exhausted from con- stant tramping McMahon and Doyle soon fell asleep and they supposed Quinn would do likewise. What time he took the drug or what torture he suffered as he lay oui on the commons dying no one knows. Dovle and McMamon say they reached crime ts belleved to have been in- if not executed by race track men, Hill, as an officer of the has conducted a crusade, Board of Trade em ee ee L FOOD FOR ALL NATIONS England, Russia oe Japan Want Our Meats for Their Soldiers. CHICAGO, Aug. 17. tritain, sia and Japan have entered the markets ov. United States for the purpose of pur- chasing provisions, such as canned, and salted meats, for use in their army and | navy. For several weeks a rumor has been! over to wake him up when they awoke and in circulation among the great packing | @fter shaking him a few times found he about Great tus- the Vrs, DELLBREUGE, —d ELIZABETII -_— ——— a — ~ out. A fortune teller Causing all of the trouble.” When Mre. Dellbreggwe visited the Health Office she was clad in deep mourning, for She hurled her daughter Anna but two weeks ago. The death of her child set her to thinking that some ill luck attended the burial of the picture, and when she sug- Gersted that idea to a fortune teller. it was promptiy confirmed To add to Mra. Delibregge's troubles her son, John, years old, has disappeared from his home, and she has no information as to his whereabouts. Her hushand is aiso ssing but she thinks she knows where find him. lwo sons, Henry and @t home and have not of the hooden. but Mr; doesn’t know what day the baneful influence “T didn't know thes Anna’‘s picture with mi hever have consented to if.’’ the woman explained. did not get alone well with my sister, and I believe the burial of that picture in her coffln was the work of some enemy of mine, The picture was laid rigint over My s#istere« heart, so the fortune teil- me ~ ¥ and that is the most dangerous pince it could have been put. My dat | die of eonvVulsions ey tnt Added to thie Weird breskKe’ 8 is @& Story “Suet wm iitth she related, but a shert } told Anna lieved my sure enough Suys that picture is dispatch Tuesday. In short, it is agreed In all offfcial quarters that the forcible taking of Manil: was entirely regular and that the city and bay is now held on the basis thi enforced taking rather than on the besis of the mutualatfe en betwecn the two countries This may become material when ine question a as to the future of the Philippines, for it is likely to proceed from the Amer Standpoint that Manila was taken by force of arms and is so occupled. The rule which applies in this case is expressed in the United States regula- tions governing armies in the field, as follows: “Article 159--An armistice 's binding upon the belligerents from the day of th agreed commencement; but the officers of the army are responsible from the 4 when they official notice of its existence.’ car by the suicide reads a6 military is he able to se furcizy powers’ orders prices placed by the par of packers are representatives to meet to confer with furnishing all be pla ‘ al or _— the big those countries MARY SANDERS AND : bids for only receive orders may SENTENCED FOR THIRTY YEARS Severe Punishment for a Man Who Precipitated a Street Brawl. Special to the Ivat-Dispatch. DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 17.—The jury in the | of A. L.. Clay, who killed Isador Brady, has brought in a verdict sentencing the defendant to 30 years in the penitentiary. ehe tells about a dream About two months Brady , “ hile bef re Anna die.’ | friends game com- dream ‘| That ms rte would live | Ly ce < at wer: aian - time Phe dream troubled mv ing on nelehborood \ dag if and ehe sald sho he. | when Clay came along. a companied by his ‘ ‘. “id tae rome true and brother. and be! ne intoxicated proce ded i ta ” poor gir! died in | to precipitate a | Ment, which resulted agony, and it all might have been avoided | oO + Pemusted in the Sut Ver that pic ur een avoided | killing of Brad "IT have perl @sion of (;erhart, are stiijl vel hecame Victims Delibregge save she they will fall under put her of sis? mus that will is no Way thes arise There doctors say or part of MADRID, Aug. 17, 10 a. my It Is now asserted that Gen. after the surrender. The Government has received his report giving detalls as to the surr er it yet to publish it. yo It is asserted that Gen. render YARK, August! left Manila he than Oet. 1, were going to bury ficht has Bistey or | would lates ate led between not upon at a conference here to-day but Is not ready Will Hawthorne deci Augusti, on Aug. 7, refused all propositions 4 8 classed as MILTON BERRY. and low bs ‘hing ht was repres ni ing MeCoy Athletic (‘orbett's backer. am Gray, He Wi is gashed There clew to and } Club, -—-- ——_—_—_-03:-@ CAPTURED 7000 PRISONERS. with ths tolmndaderey the accariean taal with the commander of the American troog Gen. Merritt's Sesion Gathered in 12,- to act and repel an ineurgent aggression which may occur before we come to ae un OOO Rifles and Ammunition. murdered. hody badly to the laat slightest and the ix cause George Considine It hetween Sept. 25 and Oct, 1, date, Scere | was dead. They reported thelr grewsome houses at the etockyards to this effect, and experience to the police and then stood now it is confirmed. What such an order as! guard over the body of their dead comrade will be probably placed by each country until a dead wagon hauled him away to tT ; : | the Morgue. The deceased was apparently witli be only be estimated from the] anout 50 vears old. amount ordered by our government during T! letter left the early part of the war between tha | follows ' ; States ¢ Spal gut it cafe ro Whom It May cern: T take my own life. United States and Spain. But it safe tu | on 1 cannot face : © heaped on me by say’ that each foreign power now figuring | Dave. the hobo of Hoehn’'s Grove, I feel sorry for ~a . whease ~mewte :, ' cn wn poor Shawhan, but I had nothing to do with the for the purchase of provisions ts SUACO AN | 5 ccactten of bia tout. Mave. waa stoke we. the order for at least 5,000,000 pounds, paprr, and Joho Hoehn are the parties responsi Whether or not the American packer wi!l PS LS ‘ure the ful! amount of the | ‘kers. Already some ‘ sending on their | ~on® of the other | Corbett-McCoy Meeting Set for a Date the and s1 ; - em and submit Not Later Than Oct. 1. whatever wintideae cee sain ra gnome complications may Aug. 17.—-The Corbett-Afec life in great peril. ate | certaining this. the mn postponed until a date lawait developments at Buffalo. -This was Miss Sanders is a girl of spirit and the fact that she has not weakened inspires the bélief that no Ill effects will follow thi consequent nervous shock In the meantime Berry, murderer, is be ing sought high the police. Capt Bova Seal district th oughiy in the belief that Si gogundg a, vith his op | Man is '- hiding near the of th nalt crime. . - however, rot the fight should oce was agreed that the everv avenue thy a tert closely guarded and | * eft - Sr Louis tn the eonfidently predicts that Berry will be the man’s murder and hind the bars before nightfall | has wn he onlv a short while when I The wounding of Miss Sanders was the from the deputy marshal | act of a drunken and tInsanely fealous!; se , ack as soon as possible as he AN INFANTILE CRIMINAL lover. who Was forced to the conviction che t. cee me on Important business, I . that his passionate attention was without hurried throueh with my business here and avall. The young girl is attractive tt | went back When Ll arrived there and was manner as she is In face and form. Apart! thrown prison They accused me of i'from the idolatry of her parents’ and bro-! killing the horse trader for money. is greatly beloved by a wide cir- was tried and the evidence against me was ‘ampbell has cape from the city and not later (Chief ¢ , ridat of the derstanding with the American Viace the troopa occupying the rall territory under your command. ingen especial attention to the comfort troops, and for these also place A wn communication with the American troops if they exist In that territory i? theory of Mrs. Tel] | several of azo and after a house the one night than the latter hen | their boarding the sidewalk in Special Cable to the Post-Dispaich. MANILA, Aug. 13. via Hong Kong, Aug. 17.—Manitla was capturel on Saturday, Aug. 13, by the combined land and naval forces of the United States. At 9 o'clock In the as " «& _-—- my dead sister's Sy: Milton Jacobs, a Ninc-Year-Old Lead nee hie hueband for the ad: and I propose to out If it ‘stave ore & ° farm! lvand then 1 will have ’. |\Karges, mortuary cle: Mrs Dellbrecge that the rus as ok the Koard of Health do not allow the die*nte rment of bodies at this seas aml she waa told to Wait mntil Septem be r Then, if Mainta Me that the ploture is a har mve will be Opened and the ierure removed, Whil Mra. 1 libregge's« ® peratfrion rarely en Behe appears perfectly determined and thhore ia \no doubt MW re Tel! bregee is a member of the \ uth eran Chuoreh at Grand avenue and Caroline Street, She consulted her pastor Re, a. h }. ler, about the disinterment of the ‘body, ana althe ugh ahe ia A devout chure hwoman the pastor war unable to discourage her. When she loarned that she must wait un- til September for the removal of the ple ture she became deepondent and = teans droppet fr Oem her eves aw she trudged awa, from the. .:\ty dispensary RAGING AT BOMBAY. One Hundred and Three Deaths From Bubonic Plague. BOMBAY, AUR. 17..-The bubdAilc plague '« again epidemic. There were 108 deaths offi. olaliy reported sat week. inMvierment of the body, ‘ture taken my ray TO ormed on sha story dilacloaes OuUNntered these day", rational That she is firmiy @et in her belief, THE WEATHER FORECAST. THUNDERSTOR MS—COOLER. For with aml Wednesday night Wednesday and = vicinite We ' Thuradas ; St Lanuls l‘artiy clondy att partly el nndly; thunder showers lnesday rboeon elightive cooler bor ard pertion Wednesday night Missourl—VDartly clouds Wednesday night Thursday with thundershowers southeaat Tl pror- afternoon and south tion Wednestay night; cooler southeast Wedneasdar For Llinots an’? Thursday, Wednesday nigdt; The river at st tlenary FOST-DISPATCH tien night (senerally fair Wednesday pt night a oo irtien showers south px cooler W elnesdar Louts bight Will remain nearly «ta- THERMOMETER. ™ Mh m tr mM In Other Cities at 7 a. mi. ] ’ ‘ \" ‘ l (alre Chi ago t incipnat! (‘leveland Denver LL tinlvest: on ' a India nap ls 72 . 70 Kansas (i: ¥ GS Little Reck New Orleans Mitaehurg et Paul Vieckatl rg Wash in gt oT 74 mee — eS being k! Ned Pipe Thief. Arrested A lead pipe thief 9 yeare old is one of the the holdover at the Fourtn District ic the name of the youthful two companions of about getting lead pipe Franklin avenue Barry took the Jacobs hov. but the two others escaped. The rolice report Says A “vigorous effort is be- ng made to apprehend them MANY LIVES LOST. ———_ — 2 —— e- Tlames Sweep Ove: the Russian City of Niji-Novgorod. novelties tn District Poltce Milton Jacobs thief. He and the same age were the house at 1311 trolmen Kear and l’a- + Aug. 17.—There was. ST. PETERSBURG, another great fire last night at Niji-Nov- sorod, about 20 miles northeaet of Moscow. The city workhouse was destroyed, the in- mates jumping from the windows, many and many more -njured. Thirteen hodies burned fo a = have al- ready been found in the ruins ane the inmates are still unaccounted for. eee ee THERE ARE OTHER HOT “PLACES. TO-DAY. CRORE OOOO OOOOH OHHH LONDON, Avg. i.—There is no abate- at of the het weather in England. Many oo OY. . Pa s a? hae i oad * toe Rey D1 y : a a vs, . ; BS PARIS, Aug. 17.—Fight cases of sunstroke of | the intensity of the heat, occurred in this city yesterday. The heat jte-day bids fair to be more intense than any dey of the summer, BERLIN. os —Many of the echoo!s closed because of BPRLIN, Aug. 1: this city have been have been prostrated, aa ok CES ——— ow — — ‘thers she ' of the from | omised -t | handed , could many of . : "yy Many children | ee i RT i es friends in the neighborhood and her business associates Her bright face and tract all, and won the They met two vears was attention from the first and girl's gentlemen friends were of sultors, Berry had comparativel: easy success He then owned a race comfortable circumstances, vear of their acquaintance ® marry him, vered traite in her Hie began en Intoxicated that she found her cle of girl ready sympathy love of Milton KRerryv AKO ata picnic AS role was ir | the first she had ¢ bh ; and Refi as out was after his chara: drinking mor love hor a, re ~*~ ehe disc: alarmed his actions wi her. it is said, to disgust One evenirg, about two months ago, v he had di<pleased?d her more than usual, ‘told him that she had deceived net - he did not love him and could never his wife. lie had sanled thelr engzaxze- with a beautiful gol! ring This him when she deciare, they never be more than friends. Accordirg to Mrs. Sanders. mother, Berry's whole condu changed Instead of the loverlike anxiety to please her that characterized tis demeanor even when in his cups, he Decame domineering and sourht to force the girl's will to his He is said to have dogged her footsteps continually and frequently threatened her that that t} fhe ! turn | so en “Vs ashe the girl's ahe was of Miva hecatise conviction Olive ‘He wo them ta ahe ai tolerated him f him,.””’ is the Leona Owens of .1825 wounded girl's chum. take back the ring her and her family if Me would want her to «go outlandish places that wer to her. and would tIneist whet they choose the quented paths convinced Mar’ Violen oe I have would sudden! y Dia box and catch her aren as if ing to escape from him. ‘He constantly accused her of going with ‘ This, from behind a she were try- re deputy r ’ ] P if ‘ CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. r too weak to do any harm and I was si ‘ets then claim and when I mar Any was hoause on my last January 3, slapping a deputy would not give me even though I built a until for hls trial, offi er my iway seome one watching ard near mv house. I got dav I told one of tpe marshals who Was near my house he would have to get away He re- and 1 slapped him. 1 was arrested ed san No one has ever been found for the murder of the horse «om badiv that I left If of getting redress I would Was it snveting g£u if ana one treated anv wry ‘* em to know it W'KINLEY. MAY NOT COME. But Battery A Will Be Here for the Peace Pageant. Ithough {t Is reported President McKin- has said it will be impossible for him to come S:. Louis to attend the peace jubilee suggested by the Post-Dispatch, tt l« thought that if an invitation goes to him from the proper persons and organizations 1 may be induced to change his mind, Press re ports indk ate that very ecoon ht Rattery A with other volunteer ar- now mn service n Porto Rico, will ad hom ami mustered out of the United States If thie be h its 176 bronged heroca and can participate in pageant They would certainly be a popu.ar feature of the great demo istration Even if President McKinley ta forced to decline the most pressing invitation to come to St Loult. the peace jubilee need not suffer in consequence. He would be with usin -irit and th® patriotism of the people wor wure @ nt success, ley to jeurgents Go not resv- morning Admiral Dewey's fleet opened fire Malate Fort and the Spanish trenches, and continued two hours. There was no response on the fleet, but a heavy fire on the troops was made. After the formal surrender the Spanish flag was replaced by the American flag. We captured. 7000 prisoners, 12,000 rifles and un- limited ammunition. Gen, Merritt has as- sumed command, restoring the civil laws Kight Americans were killed and W wound- ed. The Spanish loss Was much greater. The ships were not struck. The biockade has been raised and the shops are reopen- ing. The people are pileared. gE WwW HARDEN, Special Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. -_-_---P -- BLANCO AT HIS POST. on The Government Has Declined to Ac- cept His Resignation. MADRID. Aug. 17.—The Government has decided to reject the resignations of the Governors-Generals of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. The Cortes, it la asserted, will reassemble on Bept. ls. HAVANA, Aug 17. —<“aptain-Genera] Tilanco made it evident that the Govern- ment wili not allow him tore ign until mat- tera In Cuba have been settied Hie made public this circular, which he has sent to the military commanders, and whith shows pe he remains in charge of the events prec ed ng the evacuation: “The eretary of War tellea me the pro- tocol with preliminary negotations for ce between Spain and t' United States been signed. Bend you rdere at once s nd hostilities of t? ‘'Tmy on jand it the sensien es ahd land under your com’ a AUGUST TOLD TO RUN. The Spanish Gunenel Bays Dewey Not Object to His Escape. Special Cable to the Post-Dispate’ HONG KONG, Avg. I7.—Auguet! ches. that he offered to surrender himeelf per sonally to Admiral Dewey ten days ag Dewey refused to accept his surrender w leas he surrendered the city at the aa time. He told August! that If he had 4 good chance to run away he had no ob Jections. August! requested the Germans te carry him to Heng Kong. If the Auguatf story be true, {t makes ft all the more) mysterioua why the German Consul dented to Consul-General Wildman all knowledge that August! waa In Hong Kong. He denied that the Kalsertn Augusta him. The Philippine Junta is 4 with the news, and delegation after delegee tion is crowding the American Consulate tendering allegiance. RERLIN, Aug 17.—The Norddeute Aligeemeine Zettung explaine that the * serin Augusta, which brought away August! from Manila, left the harba, the surrender of the city and eaesert: the Soantsh officers were allowed to free ao that Gen. Auguet! was able te whither he wleaerd “When Admiral Von Diedriche perm him to go to Hong Kong on board the ecrin Aucueta,”” says the Norddeuteche lerneine Zeitung, it wae by agreement the Amertcan commender- hief, deed. the German Admiral pee aateement still necessary se fe also to be observed that ~4 nos REARS