IMMIGRATION STATISTICS

 

Terence V. Powderly.

Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, N. Y.

Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, November 12, 1898.

IMMIGRATION STATISTICS.

Annual Report of the Commissioner General T. V. Powderly.

   WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Commissioner General T. V. Powderly of the immigration bureau in his annual report to the secretary of the treasury gives the total number of immigrants who arrived in the United States during the last fiscal year as 229,299, a decrease as compared with the fiscal year 1897 of 1,538. Of the whole number 135,775 were males and 93,524 females; 10,737 came into the United States through Canada.

   During the year 3,030 were debarred and of this number there were 12 insane, 1 idiot, 2,261 paupers or persons likely to become a public charge, 258 diseased persons, 2 convicts, 79 assisted immigrants, 417 contract laborers; 199 were returned within one year after landing. Of the whole number over 11 years of age 1,416 could not write, 43,057 could neither read nor write, 27,608 over 20 years of age had $30 or over and 96,203 had less than $30.

   The total amount of money shown by immigrants during the year was $3,852,077, but the actual amount brought over was probably greatly in excess of this amount. Of the whole number of arrivals, 58,613 came from Italy, 27,221 from Russia proper, 25,128 from Ireland, 17,111 from Germany, 16.659 from Hungary, 12,420 from Galicia and Bukowina in Austria-Hungary, 12,398 from Sweden, and 9,877 from England.

 

Lord Salisbury.

AGITATION KEPT UP.

Madrid Newspapers a Very Disturbing Element.

ARE ANXIOUS FOR HOSTILITIES.

They Advise the Spanish Peace Commissioners to Leave Paris After Lodging a Protest Against the Demands of the Americans—Marquis of Salisbury Abused.

   MADRID, Nov. 12.—The newspapers assert that the government of Spain is sending instructions to its commissioners at Paris not to yield on the question of Spanish sovereignty over the Philippine islands, which is asserted to be entirely outside of the protocol and, it is added, the commissioners are therefore not authorized to discuss it.

   It is further asserted that the Spanish government will declare that it has not been authorized by the cortes to negotiate the cession of the Philippine islands.

   The Liberal advises the Spanish peace commissioners to leave Paris after lodging a protest against the demands of the Americans.

   The Spanish newspapers are angry at the Marquis of Salisbury, whose speech at the Guild hall banquet on Wednesday night they declare to have been "merely a glorification of brute strength and a denial of the rights of the weaker."

 

Gen. Juan Arolas.

DEMANDING THEIR PAY.

Critical State of Affairs Now Existing In Havana.

   HAVANA, Nov. 12.—Following the example of the Third company, part of the First and Fourth companies of the Orden Publico (police) have demanded their pay, now several months overdue. As a result of this attitude upon the part of the police regular Spanish troops are now quartered in the streets and General Arolas, at the head of two battalions, has been patrolling the main thoroughfares. The city is quiet, but the mutineers persist in demanding their pay.

   The body of Colonel Williams, who died of yellow fever, will be embalmed and will be carried directly on board the Ward line steamer Seguranca, which is expected here from Vera Cruz for shipment north. The remains of Mr. Stewart will be buried here. The deaths have caused a profound sensation. It is a strange coincidence that the only cases of yellow fever among foreigners here lately have been those of the members of the American commissions and staffs.

 

Mass grave, Havana cemetery, 1898.

CLEANING UP HAVANA.

Importance of the Subject Discussed at a Cabinet Meeting.

   WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—At the cabinet meeting there was a prolonged discussion of the sanitary conditions at Havana, largely brought out by the dispatch which was read, announcing two yellow fever deaths in the regular army. The fever situation at Havana is conceded to be very serious and the administration is cognizant of the necessity of a thorough sanitary overhauling of the city before its occupation by our troops is safe.

   Elsewhere than Havana there is also need for assistance of this government along these lines, and it is asserted a chartered steamer of the government will soon be dispatched to the island laden with supplies. The report made on the discouraging conditions at Havana was of a general nature, but it showed an immense want of work in cleaning up the city will be necessary.

 

Infanta Maria Teresa.

ECHOES OF THE WAR.

Military Notes and Items About the Recent Conflict.

   The Philippine insurgents have taken the island of Negros, one of the Philippine group separated by narrow channels from Panay and Zebu, and are besieging Iloilo, capital of the island of Panay, and the second largest port in the Philippines.

   C. A. Williams, chief quartermaster, who has been suffering from yellow fever for some time past in Havana, is dead. At the same hour of his death, F. C. Stewart, a clerk in the chief quartermaster's office, expired in the same hotel.

   It has been ascertained without a doubt that the vessel wrecked on Cat island is the former Spanish cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa, abandoned several days ago by the vessels convoying her from Santiago to Norfolk navy yard.

   On account of the growing discontent of the Spanish troops in Havana in not having been paid, General Blanco is hastening his departure for Spain and will leave Havana not later than the 20th.

   Spanish commissioners did not have their reply ready and another postponement of the peace commissioners occurred.