(Tam.). IId District-Charles F. Allen (Tam.), Frank J. Goodwin (Tam.), Patrick J. Ryder (Tam.). IIId DistrictGeorge B. Christman (Tam.), Harry C. Hart (Tam.), John J. Murphy (Tam.). iVth District-Stewart M. Brice (Tam.), Herman Sulzer (Tam.), Eugene A. Wise (Tam.). Vth District-Adolph C. Hottenroth (Tam.), William J. Hyland (Tam.), Bernard C. Murray (Tam.). BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN. VIth District-Francis F. Williams (R. and C. U.), Charles H. Francisco (R. and C. U.), Conrad H. Hester (D. and J. D.). VIIth District-Adam H. Leich (R. and (. U.), Henry French (D.), Charles H. Ebbetts (D.). VIIIth District-John J. McGarry (D.), William A. Doyle (D.), Martin F. Conly (D.). BOROUGH OF QUEENS. Eastern District-Joseph Cassidy (D.). Western District-David L. Van Nostrand (D.). BOROUGH OF RICHMOND. Benjamin Bodine (D.), and Joseph F. O'Grady (D.). ALDERMEN ELECTED. (Term, 2 years. Salary, $1,000.) "R.," Republican; "Tam.," Tammany; "D.," Democrats; "C. U.," Citizens Union; "N. D.," National Democrats; "J. D.," Jefferson Democrats. *Nat. Dem. indorsement. Dist. BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN. 1. Jeremiah Kennefick (Tam.). 2. Jeremiah Cronin (Tam.)*. 3. Joseph E. Welling (Tam.)*. 4. Bernard Glick (Tam.)*. 5. Joseph A. Flynn (Tam.). 6. Frederick F. Fleck (Tam.). 7. Patrick H. Keahon (Tam.)*. 8. Louis Minsky (Tam.)*. 9. Henry Siefke (Tam.)*. 10. John P. Koch (Tam.)' 11. William H. Gledhill (Tam.)*. 12. James J. Smith (Tam.)*. 13. Charles Metzger (Tam.). 14. James P. Hart (Tam.). 15. Robert Muh (Tam.). 16. Emil Neufeld (Tam.)*. 17. Dennis J. Harrington (Tam.). 18. James E. Gaffney (Tam.)*. 19. John S. Geager (Tam.). 20. Thomas F. Woods (Tam.)*. 21. John S. Roddy (Tam.). 22. Michael Ledwith (Tam.). 23. Collin H. Woodward (R., C. U. & J. D.). 24. Frank Dunn (Tam.)*. 25. P. Tecumseh Sherman (C. U.). 26. E. F. McEneaney (Tam.)*. 27. Joseph Oatman (C. U.). 28. John T. McCall (Tam.)*. 29. Homer Folks (C. U.)*. 30. George A. Burrell (Tam.)*. 31. Elias Goodman (R.). 32. William F. Schneider (Tam.)*. 33. T. F. McCaul (Tam.)*. BOROUGH OF BRONX, 34. Lawrence W. McGrath (Tam.)*. BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN. 1. John L. Burleigh (R., C. U. & N. D.). 2. James J. Bridges (D. and J. D.). 3. Moses J. Wafer (D. and J. D.). 4. David S. Stewart (R., C. U. & N. D.). 5. James F. Elliott (D.). 6. John Diemer (R. and C. U.). 7. William Keegan (D., J. D., and U. D.). 8. Francis P. Kenney (D., J. D. & U. D.). 9. Frank Hennessy (D., J. D. and U. D.). 10. Francis J. Byrne (D., J. D., N. D. and U. D.). 11. Stephen W. McKeever (D. and J. D.). 12. Matthew E. Dooley (D. and J. D.). 13. Hector McNeille (R., C. U. and N. D.). 14. Edward S. Scott (D. and J. D.). 15. Jacob J. Velton (D. and J. D.). 16. William Wentz (R. and C. U.). 17. Jacob D. Ackerman (R. and C. U.). 18. Jas. H. McInness (R., C. U. & N. D.). 19. Bernard Schmitt (D. and J. D.). 20. John T. Lang (D. and J. D.). 21. Elias Helgans (D.). BOROUGH OF QUEENS. 1. Joseph Geiser (D.). 2. William T. James (R. and C. U.). BOROUGH OF RICHMOND. 1. John J. Vaughn, jr. (D.). PRESIDENTS OF BOROUGHS. (Term, four years.) The TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPOSITION. The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition will be held in Omaha, Neb., from June 1 to November 1, 1898. exposition had its origin in resolutions adopted by the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress at Omaha, in 1895, representing twenty-four States and Territories. It is controlled by an organization known as the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, with a capital of $1,000,000. The management is vested in a directory of fifty members, with an Executive Committee of six department managers. Each department is divided into appropriate bureaus, in charge of experts in their respective branches. In addition to the stock subscriptions, revenues aggregating not less than $1,000,000 from various sources have been assured. Under an act of Congress the enterprise is granted recognition as a national and international exposition, with privileges for the admission of foreign exhibits free of duty, the right to strike memorial medals through the United States Mints, and all other privileges heretofore_granted to international expositions. The Government will have a large building and place therein a Government exhibit. The bill carried an appropriation of $200,000. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued official orders covering the regulations under which foreign exhibitors may participate. By direction of President McKinley, the State Department has extended invitations to the rulers of foreign nations soliciting them to participate. Nebraska has appropriated $100,000, Illinois $45,000, Montana $30,000, and Colorado, Utah, Iowa and other Western States have made appropriations and are preparing extensive exhibits. The city of Omaha has contributed $30,000, through its Park Commission, and will doubtless increase this sum to a total of $100,000 by expenditures for beautifying and improving the Exposition grounds and approaches thereto before the opening day of the Exposition, while Douglas County, of which Omaha is the seat, will issue $100,000 in Exposition bonds. There Ex N. Pacific Ocean. [44 55 N. 81 10 W. 13,427 116 50 E. 3,393 152 26 E. 4,655 1175 08 W. 4,428 175 32 W. 135 0 W. 2,146 1,640 119 50 E. 2,350 121 55 E. 2,549 4 16 N.124 02 E. 2,794 8 32 N. 5 24 S. 130 37 E. 2,799 7 43 S. 78 05 N. 120 26 E. 2,799 Antarctic Ocean.. 62 26 S. 2 30 W. 2,469 95 44 E. 1,975 Pacific In many respects the North Ocean resembles the North Atlantic. great warm current, much like the Gulf called Stream and of equal magnitude, the Black Stream or Japan current, runs eastern northward along the shore of heavy Asia. Close to the east coast of Japan was The great buildings of the Exposition include the Agriculture, Fine Arts, Electricity and Machinery. Mines and Mining. Manufactures and the Auditorium. are various smaller buildings in of construction. The grounds are within the city limits, on the north side. A large number of National bodies will hold annual meetings in Omaha this year. The principal officers are: Gurdon W. Wattles, president; Aivin Saunders, resident vicepresident; Herman Kountze, treasurer; John A. Wakefield, secretary; Carroll S. Montgomery, general counsel. Executive Committee Zachary T. Lindsey, chairman and manager Department of Ways and Means; Edward Rosewater, manager Deof partment Publicity and Promotion; Freeman P. Kirkendall, manager Department of Buildings and Grounds; Edward E. Bruce, manager Department of hibits; Abram L. Reed, manager Department of Concessions and Privileges; William N. Babcock, manager Department of Transportation. State Vice-PresidentsArkansas, W. G. Vincenheller, Little Rock; California, George W. Parsons, Los Angeles; Colorado, Henry P. Steele, Denver; Idaho, B. P. Shawhan, Payette; Iowa, George F. Wright, Council Bluffs; Kansas, C. A. Fellows, Topeka; Louisiana, C. Harrison Parker, New-Orleans; Minnesota, Frank H. Peavey, Minneapolis; Missouri, John Doniphan, St. Joseph; Montana, W. I there the highest recorded water in all H. Sutherlin, White Sulphur Springs; Nebraska, William Neville, North Platte: Nevada, William J. Westerfield, Reno: North Dakota, C. A. Lounsberry, Fargo; Oregon, B. S. Cook, Salem; South Dakota, Thomas H. Wells, Hot Springs; Texas, Robert Bornefeld, Galveston; Utah, Lewis W. Shurtliff, Ogden City; Washington, George W. Thompson, Tacoma; Wyoming, THE FLOODS. The floods that swept down the Mississippi Valley in the spring of 1897 were declared to be the most remarkable in the history of the continent. Not only was the tributaries of the Mississippi during the latter part of March and the middle of April, but the Mississippi River itself had been so dyked and leveed, and its aforetime outlets so stopped up, that the stream rose to 49.75 feet, or one and a quarter feet above the highest record of any previous year. The back waters, where the levees were broken, flooded lands not before in history known to have been flooded. From Marion, Ark., to Greenville, Miss., a distance of more than two hundred and fifty miles by river, at least fifty towns and villages were under water, and a territory extending from one hundred miles north of Memphis to two hundred miles south and from five LO forty miles wide, was submerged. Hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated lands were submerged, and from 50,000 to 60,000 people had their property destroyed and business suspended. On April 7 President McKinley sent a special message to Congress urging prompt, generous and intelligent action for the relief of the sufferers. A joint resolution was introduced in both houses of Congress on the same day, and passed by each, appropriating $200,000 to be used for the purchase of subsistence stores and the distribution of them to the relief of the destitute. The President signed the bill on April 17. SEAGOING The estimated losses by the floods were: Louisiana, $1,750,000; Mississippi, $8,500,000; Arkansas, $4,250,000. The Commission reported that the flood of the Mississippi was the highest of which there is any record. The total length of the levees on both sides of the river was 1,377 miles, and there were in all thirty-eight breaks by the flood, aggregating eight and seventenths miles. An interesting feature of the breakages is that none of the levees built by the United States Government were broken, but the breaks occurred in those portions which had been built by States or municipalities or private per sons. On April 27 a cloudburst swept over Oklahoma, and on the following morning a wall of water from six to eight feet high and a mile wide broke over West Guthrie, crushing houses, sweeping away property and drowning many persons. RECORDS, ETC. VESSELS: DIMENSIONS, (A) signifies armored cruiser; (B) battle-ship; (C) commerce destroyer; (Cr) cruiser; (T) turret-ship. *Although only one large vessel of each foreign naval power is noted, in several cases there are two or more of the same dimensions. FOREIGN COMPLICATIONS. HAWAII: ANNEXATION On June 16, 1897, President McKinley sent to the United States Senate the following treaty for the annexation of the Republic of Hawaii to the United States, accompanying it with a message, and a report of the Secretary of State briefly reviewing the negotiation which led the signing of said treaty: to The United States of America and the Republic of Hawaii, in view of the natural dependence of the Hawaiian Islands upon the United States, of their geographical proximity thereto, of the preponder ant share acquired by the United States and its citizer.s in the industries and trade of said islands, and of the expressed desire of the Government of the Republic of Hawaii that those islands should be incorporated into the United States as an integral part thereof and under its sovereignty, have determined to accomplish by TREATY. treaty an object so important to their mutual and permanent welfare. To this end, the high contracting parties have conferred full powers and authority upon their respectively appointed plenipotentiaries, to wit, the President of the United States, John Sherman, Secretary of State of the United States; the President of the Republic of Hawaii, Francis March Hatch, Lorin A. Thurston and William A. Kinney. Article I.-The Republic of Hawaii hereby cedes absolutely and without reserve to the United States of America all rights of sovereignty of whatsoever kind in and over the Hawaiian Islands and their dependencies; and it is agreed that all the territory of and appertaining to the Republic of Hawaii is hereby annexed to the United States of America under the name of the Territory of Hawaii. Article II.-The Republic of Hawaii also cedes and hereby transfers to the United States the absolute fee and ownership of all public, Government or Crown lands, public buildings or edifices, ports, harbors, military equipments and all other public property of every kind and description belonging to the Government of the Hawaiian Islands, together with every right and appurtenance thereunto appertaining. The existing laws of the United States relative to public lands shall not apply to such lands in the Hawaiian Islands, but the Congress of the United States shall enact special laws for their management and disposition. Provided: That all revenue from or proceeds of the same, except as regards such part thereof as may be used or occupied for the civil, military or naval purposes of the United States or may be assigned for the use of the local government, shall be used solely for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands for educational and other public purposes. Article III.-Until Congress shall provide for the Government of such islands, all the civil, judicial and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing Government in said islands shall be vested in such persons or persons, and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct, and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned. The existing treaties of the Hawaiian Islands with foreign nations shall forthwith cease and determine, being replaced by such treaties as may exist, or as may be hereafter concluded between the United States and such foreign nations. The municipal legislation of the Hawaiian Islands, not enacted for the fulfilment of the treaties so extinguished, and not inconsistent with this treaty, nor con-trary to the Constitution of the United States, nor to any existing treaty of the United States, shall remain in force until the Congress of the United States shall otherwise determine. Until legislation shall be enacted extending the United States customs laws and regulations to the Hawaiian Islands the existing customs relations of the Hawaiian Islands with the United States and other countries shall remain unchanged. Article IV.-The public debt of the Republic of Hawaii lawfully existing at the date of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, including the amounts due to depositors in the Hawaiian postal savings bank, is hereby assumed by the Government of the United States, but the liability of the United States in this regard shall in no case exceed $4,000,000. So long, however, as the existing Government and the present commercial relations of the Hawaiian Islands are continued as hereinbefore proided, said Government shall continue to pay the interest on said debt. Article V,-There shall be no further immigration of Chinese into the Hawaiian Islands, except upon such conditions as are now or may hereafter be allowed by the laws of the United States, and no Chinese by reason of anything herein contained shall be allowed to enter the United States from the Hawaiian Islands. Article VI.-The President shall appoint five Commissioners, at least two of whom shall be residents of the Hawaiian Islands, who shall as soon as reasonably practicable recommend to Congress such legislation concerning the Territory of Hawaii as they shall deem necessary or proper. Article VII.-This treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the consent of the Senate on the one part, and by the President of the Republic of Hawaii, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, in accordance with the Constitution of the said Republic, on the other; and the ratifications hereof shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible. In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles and have hereunto affixed their seal. Done in duplicate at the city of Washington, this sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. JOHN SHERMAN, FRANCIS MARCH HATCH, LORIN A. THURSTON, WILLIAM A. KINNEY. The President's Message was, in part, as follows: "The incorporation of the Hawaiian Islands into the body politic of the United States is the necessary and fitting sequel to the chain of events which from a very early period of our history has controlled the intercourse and prescribed the association of the United States and Hawaiian Islands. The predominance of American interests in that neighboring territory was first asserted in 1820, by sending to the islands a representative agent of the United States. It found further expression by the signature of a treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation with the King in 1826, the first international compact negotiated by Hawaii. It was signally announced in 1843, when the intervention of the United States caused the British Government to disavow the seizure of the Sandwich Islands by a British naval commander, and to recognize them by treaty as an independent State, renouncing forever any purpose of annexing the islands or exerting a protectorate over them. "In 1851 the cession of the Hawaiian Kingdom to the United States was formally offered, and although not then accepted, this Government proclaimed its duty to preserve alike the honor and dignity of the United States and the safety of government of the Hawaiian Islands. From this time until the outbreak of the war in 1861 the policy of the United States toward Hawaii, and of the Hawaiian sovereign toward the United States, were exemplified by continued negotiations for annexation or for a reserved commercial union. The latter alternative was at length accomplished by the reciprocity treaty of 1875, the provisions of which were renewed and expanded by the convention of 1884, embracing the perpetual cession to the United States of the harbor of Pearl River, in the Island of Oahu. 1888 a proposal for the joint guarantee of the neutrality of the Hawaiian Islands by the In United States, Germany and Great Britain was declined, on the announced ground that the relation of the United States to the islands was sufficient for the end in view. In brief, from 1820 to 1893 the course of the United States' toward the Hawaiian Islands has consistently favored their autonomous welfare, with the ex |