[Inclosure 3 in No. 383.-Telegram.] Mr. Hay to Mr. Day. LONDON, May 9, 1898. I received the following from the foreign office this morning: Extract from telegram from Governor Sir F. Cardew to Mr. Chamberlain: "Regret to inform you that following American missionaries, Mr. and Mrs. Cain, Misses Archer, Hatfield, and Schenck, killed by insurgent bands at Rotifunk; but Miss Ward, as well as following American missionaries, Mr. and Mrs. Burtner and Mr. and Mrs. Minshall, from Shengeh, and Miss Mullen, from Mamaligi, are here quite safe.” Please inform American ambassador. HAY. Mr. Day to Mr. Hay. [Telegram.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Telegram about missionaries received. Inquire as to the fate of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. McGrew, stationed about 40 miles farther interior than Rotifunk. Mr. Hay to Mr. Day. DAY. No. 396.] AMERICAN EMBASSY, SIR: Referring to your telegraphic instruction of the 12th instant, relative to the fate of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. McGrew, I have the honor to inform you that I lost no time in causing a prompt inquiry to be made at the colonial office in this regard, and was informed that the name of McGrew did not appear upon the list at that office of those killed in Sierra Leone, but that the missionaries formerly at Robethel, which, being a station 40 miles in the interior from Rotifunk, is supposed to be the place where the McGrews were living, were all safe at Freetown. I sent you a cablegram to this effect yesterday, a copy of which is also inclosed. I further beg to transmit herewith a copy of a note from the foreign office, dated the 13th instant and received this morning, which officially confirmed my telegram to you above mentioned. I have, etc., JOHN HAY. [Inclosure 3 in No. 396. Lord Salisbury to Mr. Hay. FOREIGN OFFICE, May 13, 1898. YOUR EXCELLENCY: With reference to my note of the 7th instant, respecting the United States missionaries in Sierra Leone, I have the satisfaction to inform you that the secretary of state for the colonies has received a telegram from the governor of Sierra Leone from which it appears that the United States missionaries from Robethel are all safe at Freetown. SIR: Referring to your telegraphic instruction of the 12th instant, a copy of which is herewith inclosed, and to previous correspondence relative to the fate of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. McGrew, I have the honor to inform you that a special telegram in this regard was sent from the colonial office on that day to the governor of Sierra Leone to which a reply was received on the following day stating that Mr. and Mrs. McGrew were said to be alive but detained by the chief of Taima, the sense of which was conveyed to you in my cablegram of the 17th instant, a copy of which is also herewith inclosed. A further communication from the colonial office on the above subject was received this morning, conveying the intelligence that Taima is about 10 miles to the interior from Kwabu and that Colonel Woodgate left Freetown on the 12th instant to push on a column to the relief of Kwabu. A copy of my cablegram to you of to-day's date to this effect is also inclosed herewith. I have, etc., JOHN HAY. [Inclosure 1 in No. 400-Telegram.] Mr. Hay to Mr. Day. AMERICAN EMBASSY, London, May 17, 1898. Informed by colonial office McGrews said to be alive, but detained by chief of Taima or Kiama. [Inclosure 2 in No. 400-Telegram.] HAY. Mr. Hay to Mr. Day. AMERICAN EMBASSY, Re McGrews. Further informed by colonial office, Taima, 10 miles interior from Kwabu. Relief column from Freetown sent thither 12th instant. FR 98 -24 HAY. Mr. Day to Mr. Hay. No. 671.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, June 3, 1898. SIR: I have received your telegram of the 28th ultimo reading as follows: Colonial office has received following message from governor Sierra Leone: “Regret to report Reverend and Mrs. McGrew murdered Paina (Taima?) about 8th May. Respectfully, yours, WILLIAM R. DAY. No. 643.] DEATH OF MR. GLADSTONE. Mr. Day to Mr. Hay. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, SIR: I append on the overleaf copy of my telegram of the 19th instant, directing you to express to his family, through the proper channel, the sympathy of the American people, in view of the death of Mr. Gladstone. Respectfully, yours, WILLIAM R. DAY. [Inclosure in No. 643-Telegram.] Mr. Day to Mr. Hay. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Through appropriate channel express to Mr. Gladstone's family the sympathy and sorrow of the American people at the passing away, in the ripeness of years and fullness of honors, of one of the most notable figures of modern civil statesmanship. Mr. Hay to Mr. Day. DAY. No. 419.] AMERICAN EMBASSY, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith an autograph letter from the Right Hon. Herbert J. Gladstone, expressing the grateful appreciation of all his family for the message of sympathy which by your instructions I transmitted to him on the occasion of his father's death. He would be glad if you would kindly submit the letter to the President. I am, etc., JOHN HAY. [Inclosure in No. 419.] Mr. Gladstone to Mr. Hay. HAWARDEN CASTLE, Chester, June 5, 1898. DEAR COLONEL HAY: On behalf of my mother and the family I beg through you to offer to the President of the United States our most grateful thanks for the kind message of sympathy sent to us on his part and that of the American people. We see in it the recognition of the abiding interest which my father cherished in the welfare and wonderful progress of America, and we value it all the more because it has been sent by the President at a time of inevitable pressure and absorption. With our best wishes for the prosperity of the President and the American people, I have, etc., HERBERT J. GLADSTONE. No. 717.] Mr. Moore to Mr. Hay. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, SIR: I have to inform you that your dispatch of the 7th instant transmitting an autograph letter from the Right Hon. Herbert J. Gladstone, expressing the grateful appreciation of all his family for the message of sympathy which by the instruction of the Department you transmitted to him on the occasion of his father's death has been received. The letter in question was shown to the President. Respectfully yours, J. B. MOORE, No. 1054.] SETTLEMENT OF BERING CLAIMS AWARD. Mr. Day to Sir Julian Pauncefote. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, June 15, 1898. EXCELLENCY: I have the honor to inform you that the Congress of the United States has made the necessary appropriation to enable the United States Government to discharge its obligations under the treaty between it and Great Britain of February 8, 1896, and the award of the commission organized in accordance with that treaty. A copy of the act of Congress is herewith inclosed for your information. It will be seen that the sum appropriated by Congress for the purpose indicated is $473,151.26. An examination of the terms of the award rendered by the commissioners shows that this amount not only includes the sum awarded by virtue of the treaty, but contains other sums awarded for certain claims respecting which the commission had no special jurisdiction, but which, by agreement between the Secretary of State and yourself, the commissioners proceeded to consider and determine; and for which it assessed the damages sustained by the claimants. These claims are those of the Black Diamond, arising in 1886, and of James Gaudin, master of the Ada, in 1887. While the Government of the United States has contested the validity of these two claims, nevertheless, being desirous of reaching a conclusion of these long-standing differences, it is prepared to make payment of the sum appropriated by Congress as above indicated, with the understanding that it is in full satisfaction of the two claims herein cited as well as of those definitely acted upon by the commission. I should be pleased to have an expression of your views as to the manner of the payment which I am now empowered and ready to make. I have, etc., WILLIAM R. DAY. [Inclosure in No. 1054.] [PUBLIC-NO. 134.] AN ACT making an appropriation to pay the Bering Sea awards. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the President to pay to the Government of Her Britannic Majesty the amount awarded by the commissioners appointed pursuant to the stipulations of the convention of February eighth, eighteen hundred and ninetysix, between the United States and Great Britain, providing for the settlement of the claims presented by the latter against the former in virtue of the convention of February twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, the sum of four hundred and seventy-three thousand one hundred and fifty-one dollars and twenty-six cents is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. This appropriation is made without the admission that any liability exists for any loss of prospective profits to British vessels engaged in pelagic fur sealing; or for interest on the sums awarded to Great Britain, and without admitting the authority of the arbitrators to make any award on the basis of damages for the arrest or detention of vessels not included in the submission contained in the treaty. Approved, June 15, 1898. Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Day. BRITISH EMBASSY, Washington, June 17, 1898. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your note No. 1054 of the 15th instant, inclosing copy of the act of Congress of the 15th instant making an appropriation to pay the Bering Sea awards. I have transmitted copy of this note to the Marquis of Salisbury, by whom, I doubt not, the payment by check, which has since been adopted, will be entirely approved. I have, etc., JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE. Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Day. BRITISH EMBASSY, New London, Conn., July 25, 1898. SIR: Upon receipt of your note No. 1054, of the 15th ultimo, I fully notified Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs |