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can merchants and planters. He had been an ob- 

 ject of suspicion and jealousy to President Heu- 

 reaux, and in consequence had lived in exile and 

 had suffered losses through the discriminations of 

 Government officials. He openly opposed the 

 military despotism of Gen. Heureaux, and on 

 May 31, 1898, he landed at Monte Christi from 

 the United States steamer Fanita, having plenty 

 of arms that he had obtained on the pretense 

 of conducting an expedition to Cuba to supply 

 the soldiers of Gomez. He expected to find 1,000 

 men ready, but hi's message had not been de- 

 livered to Gen. Toribo Garcia, and he was com- 

 pelled to flee before the Government troops to 

 his ship, and was arrested in the Bahamas on 

 complaint of the United States consul, tried by 

 a jury, and acquitted. 



President Heureaux was murdered by Ramon 

 Caceres, whose father was executed by his order 

 in 1884. Gen. Figuereo, the Vice-President, im- 

 mediately assumed the functions of President. 

 Partisans of Gen. Jiminez who were living in 

 exile at Cape Haytien prepared to enter Santo 

 Domingo. Jiminez was in Havana. With a staff 

 of Dominican and Cuban supporters he took pas- 

 sage at Cienfuegos, but was detained by order 

 of Gen. James H. Wilson. Later he was released. 

 War material had been collected on the east coast 

 of Cuba, and he intended to conduct an expedi- 

 tion from Baracoa. Meanwhile his partisans rose 

 at Moca. Caceres, who escaped to the mountains, 

 raised 300 followers and entered San Francisco, 

 the governor of which surrendered without a blow, 

 although he had 150 men armed with repeating 

 rifles. Business was suspended at the capital in 

 consequence of the severe repressive measures 

 taken by the Government to prevent an outbreak. 

 Numbers of Liberals were put into prison every 

 day. Five revolutionary generals occupied the 

 towns of Guayabin, Sabaneta, Manzanillo, and 

 Dajabon, which the Government troops aban- 

 doned. The insurgents were joined by 1,200 Do- 

 minicans from Hayti, who crossed the Yaqui 

 river under fire of mitrailleuses and defeated the 

 Government troops, killing 18. Gen. Francisco 

 Liriano, who was ordered to march from Monte 

 Christi to attack Gen. Ramon Pacheco at Daja- 

 bon, the revolutionary headquarters, was de- 

 serted when in front of the enemy by the main 

 part of his command, and had to retire in haste. 

 Gen. Pacheco next attacked the troops of Gen. 

 Antonio and defeated them, inflicting a loss of 

 150 men and capturing two field pieces, losing 

 only 13 of his own men. After this the revolu- 

 tionists marched on Santo Domingo. The Gov- 

 ernment sent out commissioners to ascertain their 

 demands. Porto Plata and all the other towns 

 of the chief maritime district and nearly the 

 whole of the interior were in their possession. 

 On Aug. 30 they established a provisional Gov- 

 ernment in the city of Santiago, with Gen. 

 Horacio Vasquez as President and Gen. Ramon 

 Caceres as Minister of War. The general desire 

 was that Gen. Jiminez should be the permanent 

 President. The Government in Santo Domingo 

 adjourned Congress. One city after another de- 

 clared for Jiminez, and the governor of the prov- 

 ince thereupon announced his allegiance to the 

 cause of the revolution, and sent out the intelli- 

 gence that the city had been taken by the revo- 

 lutionists. There was no fighting except the few 

 engagements with the trained soldiers of Gen. 

 Heureaux that remained steadfast. On the day 

 that the provisional Government was proclaimed 

 and the revolutionists set out for Santo Domingo 

 the Cabinet ministers had arms and ammunition 

 loaded on schooners to be sent to Azua. The 



people of the city collected together, demanded 

 that the ministers should resign their posts, and 

 broke into the palace and stoned the ministers' 

 houses. The frightened ministers announced that 

 they would turn over their powers to men selected 

 by the citizens. Four were chosen by acclama- 

 tion to act with the governor as a committee of 

 safety until the arrival of the members of the 

 provisional Government. Business and agricul- 

 tural work were resumed and went on as usual, 

 while the provisional President proceeded to the 

 capital with an escort of horsemen. The town 

 of Monte Christi did not surrender till Sept. 8. 

 Provisional President Sanchez issued a proclama- 

 tion declaring duties payable 70 per cent, in gold 

 and 30 per cent, in national silver, and announcing 

 that the value of paper money would not be de- 

 cided until the meeting of Congress. This made 

 paper no longer current, causing dissatisfaction, 

 and therefore with the approval of Jiminez a 

 fresh proclamation was issued announcing that 

 paper would be accepted at the same rate as 

 silver. When Gen. Jiminez arrived in the middle 

 of September Gen. Sanchez resigned the presi- 

 dency in his favor. An election was held later, 

 in which Juan I. Jiminez was chosen President 

 and Horacio Sanchez Vice-President for a term 

 ending in 1903. 



SEBVIA, a kingdom in southeastern Europe. 

 The legislative body is a single chamber, called 

 the Skupshtina, composed of 198 members elected 

 by the votes of all male Servians who pay 15 

 dinars, or francs, in direct taxes. The reigning 

 King is Alexander I, born Aug. 14, 1876, who 

 succeeded to the throne in 1889 upon the abdica- 

 tion of King Milan, his father, and assumed the 

 government in person on April 13, 1893. The 

 ministry, constituted on Oct. 23, 1897, was com- 

 posed in the beginning of 1899 as follows: Presi- 

 dent of the Council and Minister of Foreign Af- 

 fairs, Dr. Vladan George vich; Minister of Finance, 

 Stevan D. Popovich ; Minister of Commerce, Agri- 

 culture, and Industry, Sima Lozanich; Minister 

 of the Interior, Jefrem A. Andonovich; Minister 

 of Public Instruction and Worship, Andreas 

 Georgevich; Minister of Justice, Costa N. Chris- 

 tich; Minister of Public Works, Gen. J. Atanat- 

 skovich; Minister of War, Col. D. Vutchkovich. 



Area and Population. The area of Servia is 

 19,050 square miles. The population at the census 

 of Dec. 31, 1895, was 2,312,484, consisting of 

 1,186,594 males and 1,125,890 females. On Dec. 

 31, 1898, it was computed to be 2,413,694, com- 

 prising 1,240,105 males and 1,173,589 females. 

 The number of marriages in 1898 was 22,521; of 

 births, 84,789; of deaths, 55,300; excess of births, 

 29,489. Belgrade, the capital, had 59,259 inhabit- 

 ants in 1898. 



Finances. In the budget for 1899 the total 

 revenue was estimated at 68,824,500 dinars or 

 francs, of which 22,035,000 dinars come from di- 

 rect taxes, 6,000,000 dinars from customs, 3,850,- 

 000 dinars from excise, 2,500,000 dinars from 

 courts of law, 19,461,000 dinars from monopolies, 

 6,200,000 dinars from state railroads, 660,000 

 dinars from instruction and sanitary funds, and 

 5,084,000 dinars from various sources. The ex- 

 penditures were estimated at the total sum of 

 68,822,569 dinars, of which 1,200,000 dinars were 

 for the civil list, 360,000 dinars for ex-King Milan's 

 appanage, 76,810 dinars for court employees, 20,- 

 784,545 dinars for the service of the national 

 debt, 150,000 dinars for the Skupshtina, 155,816 

 dinars for the Council of State, 341,400 dinars 

 for general expenses, 2,722,051 dinars for pensions 

 and subventions, 1,722,531 dinars for the Minis- 

 try of Justice, 2,937,366 dinars for the Ministry 



