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THE FORREST CITY TIMES
LANDVOIGT i VADAKIN. Pnblilhsra.
FORREST CITY, • ARKANSAS.
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Mbs. Lease's house ut W ichita. Kas.,
was sold at sheriff's sale, on the 6th,
for 8600. It cost about 83,000. It was
bought iu by J. Marsh, the eastern
mortgagee.
Bishop Keane, formerly rector of
the Catholic university at Washing*
ton, has l>een nominated bishop assist
ant at the pontifical throne. It is un
derstood that Bishop Keane will be
stationed at Rome.
Tiie returns issued by the London
board of trade for December, 18W>,
showed an increase of £6,540.000 in
importsand an increase of £1,111,000
in exports during that month, as com
pared with l»ece in tier, lsitj.
It is understood that the Union Pa
cific reorganization committee has
practically matured its plans for pur
chasing tae indebtedness of the com
pany to the government in the event
of the failure of the funding bill.
Mr. Mange, director of the works
of the Panama Canal Co., has sailed
from Colon for Jamaica for the pur
pose of eugagiug 3,taw laborers to
carry out the plans of the company
for an extension of the work on the
canal.
Ox the lith at 12 o'clock, James A.
Mount and Thomas Haggard were in
augurated governor and lieutenant
governor respectively of Indiana, upon
u platform erected in the main corri
dor of the capilol building at Indian
apolis.
At the request of Lord George Ham
ilton, secretary of state for India, lit. |
lion. George F. Faudel-Phillips, lord
mayor of London, has started a fund 1
for the sufferers from the famine in
India, and large sums are being sub
scribed.
The one hundredth anniversary of
the establishment of the stale capital
in Albany, N. Y., was fittingly cele
brated in that city ou the 6th. Elab
orate literary exercises occurred in the
afternoon at llarmanus Bleecker hall.
Gov. HlaeU presiding.
Wm. Downing and Charles Williams,
both colored murderers, paid the pen
alty of their crime on the same scaf
fold at Norfolk, Va., on the 5th. both
men displayed considerable nerve, and
the execution passed off without any
extraordinary incident.
The Times of India, of Bombay, in
an article on the bubonic plague w hicli
is raging in that city, says that since
the outbreak of the plague the popu
lation of Bombay has been reduced
one-half, and the weekly mortality
has averaged 200 per l,0u0.
Rt. Hon. and Most Lev. Frederick
Temple, l). U, the recently-appointed
archbishop of C anterbury and primate
of all England, was entbroued in the
cathedral at Canterbury, ou the 8th,
in the preseuee of 12 bishops, 300 cler
gymen and a large gathering of the
laity.
The Johannesburg Standard an
nounces that the government has com
pleted its bdl against the British gov
ernment demanding indemnity for the
Jamieson raid, amt is about to for
ward it to London. The amount of the
llocr claim, the paper says, is under
£2,000,000.
Prop. Rudolph Fai r, the meteorolo
gist, of Vienna, is lying bedridden in
that city, lie has a w ife and five chil
dren, and the entire futudy are iu a
stale of extreme destitution. A num
ber of Benin scientists and savants
liavo started a subscription fund for
their relief.
The north German Gazette, an in
spired organ, asserts that the German
government has no intention of inter
fering iu the ease of Cuba whatever
the hual issue of the insurrection iu
that island or of the differences grow
ing out of i*. between the Enited
Mates and Spain may be.
The Spanish newspapers iu Havana
savagely attack the American repre
sentative, Mr. Money, for violating
the laws of war proclaimed by the
Spanish authorities, which forbid all
iuvestigations iu the military camps
not expressly sanctioned by the oom
mauder-iu-chief of the army.
The state department recently re
vised the diplomatic regulations, and
Secretary Oiney took occasion to w rite
u provision and insert it iu the regula
tions prohibiting speeches upon politi
cal matters by diplomatic representa
tives of the United States. This is
understood to be a rebuke to Minister
Buyard.
Lawrb.nck \\ u.so>i, aged 11 years,
one of the eight Baltimore (Md.) boys
who were bitten by a uiad aog on De
cember 1, and who was the tirst of the
eigtit to go to the 1'usleur institute m
•New York city for treatment, died in
convulsions on the 5th. lie was the
fourth boy to die lroin the effect of the
Ucg's bite.
Mbs. Luma Sikbcrii>-\\ at6o.n, the
only uuug liter of tiuus bpreckels, the
millionaire sugar king, whose recent
secret marriage to Mr. ‘lliomas Wat
son, a £?uu Francisco giain broker, of
ieuded her tailier anil called forth a
rebuke, with a single stroke of a pen
relinquished about 13,000,hOO which her
father had previously given her.
Tub Pacific railroad bill, w hich was
deieated in the bouse, on the llth,
provided for the settlement of 8112,
000,000 of indebtedness of the Union
Pacific and Central Pacific on the
basis of an extension of over 80 years
at two per cent., witn an annual ex
tinguishment payment on tne princi
pal at the rate of 8505,000 for the first
ten years; 8580,000 lor the second ten
years, and 8150,000 for the remaining
£ears.
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CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Second foilon.
Ik the senate, on the Ptb. a resolution call
ing upon the secretary of state for copies of
the correapon ence in the matter of Julio
Sanguilly, the American citizen condemned by
the Spanish authorities in Cuba to perpetual
imprisonment in chains was agreed to. Sen
ate bill to amend the a t repealing the timber
culture law was passed, the Maybrlck resolu
tion. reporter! adversely last session, was in
definitely postponed.In the house the bill
to amend the laws relating to second-class
mall matter was passed. Mr. Qrosvenor. on a
question of personal privilege,called attention
to the failure of heads of departments to fur
nish information aa to the ope* atlon of the
civil service law called for by a resolution of
congress A resolution calling for an explana
tion of this ueglect was agreed to without divi
sion
Ik the senate, on the 7lh, Mr. Mills Intro
duced a bill recognising the iudept ndeuce of
Cuba and appropriating *10,000 for the salary
and expenses of a minister to the government
of ( uba. The unfinished business—being the
bill to extend the homestead laws to alt lands
acquired fiom Indian tribes—was taken up and
considered at k ngth.In the house a bill
was passed providing for the appointment of a
surveyor-general of Alaska at a salary of R.
bbO per year. The rema.nder of the day was
occupied in the discussion of the Pucilic rail
road funding bilk
I he sana e was not in session on the 8th....
In the house the Pacific railroad refunding
bill was further considered, and developed
much more iuterest from a popular pdut of
view, some bitterly yituperal.ve speeches be
mg indulged iu. The house t<*ok a recess un
der the rules until 8 p. m., the evening session
being devoted to the consideration or private
pension bills.
The senate wag not in session on the &th....
In the house the bill to refund the indebted
ness of the Union and Central Pacific railroads
to the United States was reported from the
committee of the whole ufter a three duys bat
tle, a vote 011 its passage to be taken on the
llth Mr. Hell (dem.. Tex.) proposed a sub
stitute for the committee » bill fixing the in
terest at three per cent, instead of two, as the
compromise. The discussion of the bill was
quite interesting at times.
IK the -enate, on the llth. the house bank
ruptcy bill was made a special order for
Monday. January 25. Mr. Proctor spoke iu
favor of a proposed constitutional amend
ment making the presidential term six
years and making the president Ineligible fur
re election; also making the term of repre
sentatives three years. Mr. Mills idem.,Tex.)
spoke in support of his joint resolution declar
ing that the expediency of recognition of a new
government belongs to congress, etc., which
went over. In the house the Pacific rail
road refunding bill was defeated by a majority
of votes. The house devoted the remainder
of the day to the military acade in appropria
tion bill, ana lomeasures brought forw ird un
der the call of committees.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
1.17.Z ik I’feiffeu, a Chicago telephone
operator, pul her week's pay in her
stocking, on the 6th, aud started for
home, l-'ootpads held her up at Fif
ty-third street and demanded her
money. She denied having any, and
the robbers searched her aud secured
the money.
Tut American national bank of Den
ver, Col., which suspended April 21,
18v*5, has been permitted to re-open its
doors for business as an active na
tional taukmg institution, having
complied with all the necessary con
ditions.
Muon Cooi’kb, a negro desperado,
who ha 1 killed live persons, was sur
rounded by a sheriff's posse in Sumter
county, S. C., on the 8th, and killed,
tiov. Evans was asked for a cannon, as
Cooper kept up a fnsilade with his
Winchester t itle ou the posse, but u
lucky shot dually brought him down.
He was afterwards hanged autiriddied
with bullets.
The Hunk of Canton, at Canton,
Minn., with a capital of 510,000, and
the Citizens' bank, of Lauesboro, a
small institution, both operated by
Field, Kelsey A Co., suspended busi
ness on the 6th.
r The Kritish ship Ulrica, Capt. John
son, which arrived, on the 4th, at
Queenstown from Sau Francisco, aud
sailed later for Dublin,went ashore,on
the 7th, on Copeland island, on the
northwest coast of Ireland, and be
came a total wreck. Her crew was
saved.
•i in i.v»v» »"uiunicu ilia l O«o,w^l per
sous have fled from Bombay as a re
sult of the spread of the bubonic
plague. They are scattering contagion
in the villages up the couutry.
Ex Pension Examiner James A.
Jordan was sentenced in the lint ted
States court at Grand Rapids, Mich.,
on the 8tli, for defrauding the govern
ment. The penalty imposed was that
he pay a fine of $1,000 and return to
the department all misappropriations
of funds, lie paid the tine and was
released.
Part of the winter quarters, at
Bridgeport, Conn., of Barnutu &
Bailey's show was burned on the night
of tlie 7lh. Wild and exciting scenes
took place in the menagerie. Ele
phants, lions, tigers, bears and all
manners of fierce and strange breasts
were taken out of the buildings iu
safety.
A MISPLACED switch caused a wreck
on the Erie railway at Orangeville, O.,
on the 8th. Train No. 82 weut iuto a
ditch, and ten cars were completely
wrecked. A steam snow plow was
also demolished.
The weekly statement of the asso
ciated banks New York city for the
week ended the 9th showed the fol
lowing changes: Reserve, iuerease,
$1.704,500; loans, increase, $'.’.'>9,700;
specie, increase, $550,700; legal tend
ers, increase, $14,467,100; deposit*,
increase, 817,253,200; circulation, de
crease, $692,300.
Tiik export of German raw sugar to
the United States lias assumed enor
mous proportions in the past year.
From January to November last the
totals were 3,397,191 don hie (or meter)
hundred weight, as against 473,154 in
i 1S95, and 675,057 in 18 *4. The raw sugar
exports to England during those
periods have largely fallen off.
Mrs. Wm. Waltfr Phelps, widow of
tlie late United States minister to Ger
many, is visiting her daughter, the
Countess Von Rotten burg, whose hus
band is curator of the university at
Bonn. Germany.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg
says that the czar is suffering from
the effects of overwork, and is about
tostartfor Livadia for a two months'
sojourn.
Os the 9th the associated banks of
New York city held 84:t.'J91,45(1 in ex
cess of the requirements of the 25-per
cent. rule.
At last the fatal chunk which divid
ed the Missouri river and the famous
fishing resort, bake (Juinnebaugh, in
Nebraska, has dropped into the river,
and what was once a body of inland
water next summer will be nothing
but a barren piece of laud.
1 iik conference of gold standard
democrats, held at the auditorium in
Chicago, on the 9th, declared for con
tinued opposition to the tenets of the
free silver wing of the party and for
a continuance of the party organiza
tion.
A board of naval officers has com
menced investigations looking to the
rehabilitation of the fortifications on
the Dry Tortugas, the key to the gulf
of Mexico, and the establishment of a
naval supply station there.
V\ ill S. Eams, of St. Louis, has been
appointed architect to draw plans for
the new military prison at Fort Leav
enworth, Kas. The new prison is to
cost 8200.000.
'J in Colorado Potato trust lias pone
to pieces, and Texas consumers, who
tuke almost 1,000,000 bushels a year of
mountain tubers, can gloat over the
prospect of a potato war.
It H11.K returning from church at
West Branch, la., ou the 10th, Mary J.
Hawley,; an aped woman, aud a pio
neer of that community, suddenly
dropped dead on the sidewalk from
heart failure.
W ITU more ceremony than ever be
ore known on sucli an occasion in
Jefferson City, and in the presence of
the largest aud most brilliant assem
blage ever gathered there, Lon V.
Stephens was, on the 11th, inaugurated
governor of Missouri.
The United States supreme court,
in an opinion by Justice Cray, on the
11th, held that an application for an
injunction against au executive officer
of the government was vacated by his
death or resignation.
John R. Tannkk was inaugurated
governor of Illinois ou the lltli Fif
ty thousand strangers are said to have
visited Springfield to witness the in
auguration ceremonies.
Late dispatches say that copious
rains have fallen in most of the fam
ine-stricken districts of India, but a
great deal more rain is needed. The
bubonic plague is increasing at Kara
chi.
The Anglo-American general arbi
tration treaty was signed in the diplo
matic parlor of the state department,
in Washington, on the 11th, at 12:20 p.
m., by Secretary Olney and Sir Julian
Pauucefole.
The tariff hearings before the ways
and means committee were concluded
on the lltli, the schedule containing
“Sundries” aud tlie “Free List” being
considered.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The electoral colleges in all the states
cast their voles Monday and selected
messengers to carry the result to Wash
ington.
A recent decision of the Missouri su
preme court lias opened tiie way for
the state tube overrun with quack and
ignorant doctors.
Senator-elect Money, of Mississippi,
who recently made a trip to Cuba,says
Spain can not win, and that independ
ence, as a inalty, is sure.
Comptroller Eckels has authorized
the National Bank of Commerce of
Memphis, Tenn., to begin business,
with a capital of *1,000,000.
The name of lion. Charles Emory
Smith, of Philadelphia, is now con
nected by rumor with the portfolio of
secretary of tiie treasury in Maj. Mc
Kinley's cabinet.
1 he recall of the German minister to
Japau has been demanded on account
of a receut display of unprovoked bru
tality towards a Japanese student on
the street iu Tokia.
(ieu. Karaou l’el a, ex-Venezuelun
consul at New York, and son of (leu.
Jose Antonio l’elz, twice president of
Venezuela, died Monday, in New York
city, aged 6T years.
'ien head of valuable Durham and
Jersey cattle were killed on the farm
of John 11. Gentry, near York. l*a., by
the deputy state veterinarian, ou ac
count of tuberculosis.
There has been much seismic activi
ty in the state of Oaxaco. Mexico, and
at one point on the Pacific coast earth
quakes under the oceau have kept fish
ermeu in constant alarm.
Senator Edward O. Wolcott, of Colo
rado, who is visiting Europe iu the in
terest of bimetallism, called at the
United States embassy Monday and
bad an hour's interview with Mr. liuv
ard.
T he result of the January mental ex
amination at the West Point military
academy has been announced, und so
members of the various classes at the
academy were found deficient aud dis
charged.
John H. Tanner and Geo. II. Klint
worth were arrested at Catoosa and
taken to Muskogee, L T., charged
with stealing three car-loads of cattle
from Edwards Pros., cattlemeu of
Wagoner.
Andrew G. Sollman, a prominent
citizeu near Princeton,Ind., was found
with a bullet hole in his brain. He
had taken his gun to kill a hawk, and
iu getting over a fence the gun was
discharged.
MONETARY REFORM,
Opening of the Monetary Conven
tion at Indianapolis.
REMARKS OF EX-GOVERNOft STANARD.
Missouri’s Leading Representative, Tem
porarily Occupying the Chair, Talks
in Favor of Retiring the
Greenbacks.
IsniANAPonis, Ind., Jan 13.—Tom
litisou hall presented much the same
appearance when the delegates to the
monetary convention assembled that
it did during the national convention.
The stage was drapeit with national
colors, aud a temporary platform for
the press seats had been erected in
front of the stage.
A railing built two-thirds of the way
back separated the delegates from the
6cats Lhrowu open to the public. The
delegates, wearing red silk badges, be
gan to assemble at 1:4.» p. m. They
were a substantial, prosperous aud
brainy set of men. Each state delega
tion sat togetner, aud as near as possi
ble representatives of each commercial
body sat together. The members ol
the executive committee took place?
on the platform. There was some ap
plause for lien. Buckner aud ii. 11.
Hanna, but for the must part the
delegates did not recognize the more,
prominent members of tiie convention
A few minutes after two o'clock
Hugh li. Hanna, chairman of the
executive committee, called the con
vention to order and introduced E. O.
iSlauard, of Missouri, who had been
selected as temporary chairman.
Mr. Stauard revieued the steps
which led to the convention, and then
said:
“It ts not my purpose on this occasion tc
suggest any given line of policy to be pursued
in remedy lug the evils ot which complaint ha?
been made, < r thi.t may be suggested here 01
hereafter. But 1 may meutlou — to rnj mind
seme of the most glaring Uetei s in our hnan
eial system. In tuls connection it is sate for
me to say that the stability, prosperity and
safety or our commercial, man . (acturlng.
banking ana agricultural operations de
pend on a safe. coiuprt heiisive and
stable financial policy lor our gov
ernment—a policy that can be
relied on to last, from one year to another and
from one political administration to another,
and to bo taken, us far as possiole. out of ti.e
realm of politics.
"Confidence is the foundation on which busi
ness and all affairs of material inleiest are
built. There should be enough money to do
the business of the country and there should
be no doubt about its character and no shaking
of coutldence to take it out and keep It out of
circulation.
"The people of the United States not only
should have continence lu our nnaneiul meth
ods, but all the nations of the earth with whom
we have commercial relations should have as
surance of the stability of our financial affairs,
so that they may know u wuat basis tney are
working This is of great importance to us as
well a? to foreign nato us. when we take Into
account that during the last year we exported
i to foreign countries more than a thousand mil
I lion of dollars' worth of surplus prouucts of
our soil and the industries of our people, and
! Imported a little more than seven hundred
millions of their products.
"The present lluauuiui methods of our govern
ment are largely those adopted during the w ar,
when there were great emergencies 1 believe
there is a very strong and constantly-increas
ing convict,ou among our people that some
method sh uld hi* adopted Tor toe retirement
I of the United States and trea, ury notes, ami
1 that they should not muen longer be to.eraled
as a circulating medium They ..re a constant
■ menace to our tieasuiy reserve and to the credit
of the government, an i when encroach
ments are made upon me reserve,
corn:, er e stands in fear and trem
bling. There seem? to be a well
defined conviction among business men, Irom
tue experience of the past, that them should
be n notes in circulation wuich should not be
retired and cancelled when the.r icfieo has
been once fulfilled. Whether these note?
should oe retired at once or gradually, I am
Hot disposed to say, but of tile necessity of
their retirement 1 tb.nk there can bo no uues
lion. 1 would retire them by the sale of long
government bonds at a low rate of interest, if
there can be no better way devised for their
withdrawal from circulation.
"While 1 am mentioning some of the defects,
as 1 believe, of our monetary system which
come to my mind, I would say that l see no
reason why our national banking law should
not be so am .■tided as to allow the national
banks to issue notes up to the par value of the
bonds wiiieu they ho,d *?? a basis of ibeir Issue,
Instead o. i??uiug. a? they ur, now compelled
to uo, only M per cent, of the par vu ue of the
bond? that cost them perhaps lls to 1.0.
"Then there Is a tax of one per cent, on the
Issue of national bank circulation, and 1 see
uo necessity for so large a tax as this, as it
must u.innately be paid by the borrower. 1
believe ibe tax shoul be reduced to one-fourth
of oue per cent.
i uert ary mway auvanUges connected with
the uauouai bunking system of the country,
and this, system, 1 believe, might with grout
beneilt to all Interested, be extended by al
lowing. under proper sab guard*, the establish
ment of branch banks In smaller ettiea
with largely reduced minimum of capital. 1
believe there is no Instance on record where a
loss has come to the holders of a national bank
notes.
"There are many suggestions of reform. One
Is to withdraw all paper money under the de
nomination of *10. thereby forcing a larger vol
ume of silver und gold to circulate in the hands
Ut the people, and i believe this Is well worthy
of favorable consideration.
1 am sure the banger, merchant, profes
sional man. furrier, miner, artisan, mechanic
and laboier all have a community of interest
in the cause tfe are here to promote. In the
language of Benjamin 1 raukliu: We must uli
hang together If we wouid not all hang sep
arated.'
"The country can not permanently prospei
If any of the essential interests are neglected
or sacrificed All legislation should be lor tht
greatest good of the greatest uumbor.
uli the gri atest confidence In your wis
dom and In lour patriotic devotion to me work
in hand. 1 now announce the Convention read)
for any business which may be brought be
fore It "
Illinois legislature.
Si'JilXGFKLD, 111., Jan. 13.—The ses
eiou of the legislature was short and
resulted in setting Tuesday, January
If, to ballot for United States senator
und Wednesday, the 20th, as the day
for a joint session to elect. Both
* houses then adjourned until to-mor
row, the senate to meet at 10 a. m.. the
house at H p. in.
Tl»« First Electoral Meassnger to Arrive
Washington, Jan. 13.—Mr. William
Witherow, of Pittsburgh, is in the city
He is the first of the electoral vote
messengers to arrive in Washington,
having been selected to bring the solid
vote of the Keystone state for Williaa
Mekiuley to the senate.
COSTLY FOR SPAIN.
Hundred and Twenty Million* *pi»n*
bj Wejler Without Rfsnlt.
New Yokk. Jan. 13.—A Sun apecial
from Havana via Key West, says: 1 he
sum of Cl20.000,000 is the total amount
of Spain's expenses in Cuba m the
year, not yet ended, of * apt.-Gen.
Weyler's government. Considering
that for only six months of 1 S9.'» the
expenses were officially reported to
exceed 863,000,000, the above tigures do
not seem as large as might be expect
ed.
THE MONEY SPENT HY WICYLER
covers the payments made to build the
trochns, to ieed, dress and pay the
army and to defray the secret expense
of the captain-general and the Spr.uisli
legation at Washington. Martinei
Campos said that to conquer the pa
triots Spain would need jjL’ud.OOO.OOC
and two years. Weyler has had the
men, but iu less thau one year
HE HAP SPENT $20,000,000
more than the estimate for oue year
made by his predecessor. No further
explanation is necessary of Spain s de
feat in Cuua and of Weyler's great un
popularity iu the mother country, as
well as iu the colony, than the mere
statement that this tremendous sum
lias been vainly poured.
OCT OF THE SPANISH TREASURY.
It can be safely predieted that Spain
is unable to continue the war on the
same scale that she has done up to
this date, and uuless she give* up the
struggle, abandoning the island to the
Cubans, the day of a general cessation
of payments and a public and shame
ful confessiou of bankruptcy is very
near.
THE U8KI.K88 TROCHA.
The troacha from Mariel to Majana
is said to have cost £5,000,000 The fa
mous troucha is not worth £500,000
with all its humbug1 of electric lights
and heliographic service. The trocha
from Jucara to Moron has cost in re- ;
pairs about 34,000,000 and it is very
poor military work, absolutelely use- \
less so far as preventing the advance
of the Cubans to the west is concerned. j
SPENT FOB SECRET EXPENSES.
The correspondent, of the Sun has
been informed by a trustworthy per
son that the Spanish legation in Wash
ington has spent this year S‘J,000,00(,
for secret expenses, not including the
ordinary payments charged to the
treasury of Cuba.
DURRANT'S CASE
Awaiting a DecUlon of the California Su
preine Court.
(San Fka.ncibco, Jan. 13.—The final
paper iu the Durrant ease was filed
Monday afternoon in the office of the
clerk of the supreme court. No fur
ther legal proceedings can be taken in
this celebrated case until the supreme
court renders its opinion in
decision of it. The case has
been under submission since October
21, lti'Jrt, at which time no briefs had
beeu tiled, but an order of the court
permitted those of both the appellant
and respondent to be filed in order
that it might be helped iu its delibera
tion of the cause. The brief con
tains 75 pages. It goes into
the testimony of witnesses for ti:s
prosecution with the a -.section
that not one has shown by competent
evidence the connection of Durrant
with the murder of Miss Lamont, and
that las alibi is complete; tliat no
witness was produced who knew Dur
rant who could identify him as a com
panion of the dead girl at any of the
times immediately prior to the com
mission of the crime.
The admission of Jurors Nathanaud
Crocker are vigorously attacked be
cause of their bias against the de
fendant. The dismissal of J uror Drown
is alleged as an error. It is maintained
that tiie life of Durrant was one that
would preclude the possibility of
thought that lie had any criminal in
stincts, and that his acts at the time
of the commission of the crime were
those of an innocent man. At present
the court is behind seven months in
submission and a decision iu this case
can hardly be expected before May
next.
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
((Second Session.)
SENATE.
Washington. Jan. 12,-After the
transaction of some routine morning
business, the senate, at 12:15, on mo
tion of Mr. Sherman (rep., O.), pro
ceeded to the consideration of execu
tive business.
HOUSE.
The hope of those members of the
house who are anxious to secure some
legislation with reference to the Pa
cific railroads this session was
quenched by a decision of Speaker
Heed.
\esterday Mr. Powers (rep., Vt.)
moved that the bill be recommitted to
the committee on Pacific railroads, but
objection was made that this was not
in order, as other business had inter
vened. Speaker Heed asked until to
day to render a decision, and Boon after
tlie house met he stated his opinion
that the motion of the gentleman
from \ermont to recommit the bill
was not in arder. The motion, he said,
could have been made if the house had
passed the bill to a third reading or if
other business had not intervened.
No demonstration followed the an
nouncement.
I lie bill to better define the rights
of aliens in the territories, which was
passed over temporarily yesterday,
was taken up uuder the' ca'll of com
mittees, and the bill was passed by a
rising vote—ayes. 59; nays, 26.
A bill allowing applicants for min
eral land patents to appear before
clerks of courts or notaries public, in
stead of before the land office officials
in making the preliminary affidavit,
^a*» ftUo passed.
Dtut to Jeatonsj,
Webb Pitt, Mo., Jan. IH.-In a fit of
jealousy Monday night Grant Edwards
shot and killed Miss Louisa Hodge aud
theu attempted suicide by shooting
but he will recover. He is iu jail
Report That Canovaa Has
American Intervention*1**
WILL GRANT CUBA AUTONOMOUS ^
The Island Will Be as Free as ,he -
minion of Canada If ,he
States Can Induce Cuban*
to Accept the Term*.
New York. Jan. la.-A Madrid,
cial to the Journal, signed “tu, ?*'
naudo Rodiguet" says: 0 "**
"Spain has at last'coneluded th»
her efforts to suppress or even to ^
any impression upon the Cuban in***
rection are futile and useless B*ar"
"Appreciating this fact, which h
been patent to all other natiooj f
nearly six months, Prime
Canovas del Castillo lias definite). ?
cepted Secretary of State
proffer of American intervention*'71
well as the terms which piesidt*
Cleveland and Mr. Olney prescribe
the price for their interference andij*
use of their prerogatives in atteam*
mg to bring about a state of
the island of Cuba.
"Following the refusal of the Aa*r
icau secretary of state to accept ,
far as America was concerned th,
plau of the Spanish prime minister for
a restoration of Spanish rule in Cub*
Mr. Olney, through the usual official
channels, submitted in full to Senor
Canovas the terms for peace with Cnb*
upou which the administration 0(
President Cleveland was prepared to
interveue and use its efforts to bring
about a settlement between Spain »na
its colony.
“The conditions, 1 am able to ,tlt,
udoii the highest authority,,mean per
fect and complete autonomy for Cub*.
“I am unable to transmit now at
authentic copy of the correspondent*
on the subject between the United
States and Npiin through Secre’.arj
Olnev and the Spanish minister to the
I'uiteU States. Dupuy de Lome. 1 caa
state, with absolute knowledge of the
facts, however, that they provide for
home rule for Cuba as thorough is
Canada, under the British North
American act, enjoys. Iu brief, .the;
are :
Cuba to govern herself.
To collect all taxes.
To disburse all public moneys.
Spain to be debarred from all shire
in the revenues of the island and ill
interference in elections held on the
island.
Iu fact, the scheme went to the ei
treme point of empowering Cub* to
levy a tariff in her own favor againit
exports from Spain sent to the island.
The Cuban attitude toward Spain wm
to be entirely one of independence, ex
cept on tile one matter that Cubs was
to remain in name a Spanish provine*.
The Cleveland administration prom
ised, however, that if these terms were
agreed to by Spain and she would pat
Cuba on as strong a footing toward
Spain us Canada lias toward England,
it would attempt to bring about i
money remuneration to Spain for this
practical loss of the island. If in ne
gotiating a peace Secretary Olne;
could induce the Cubans to pay Spain
a sum something in the neighborhood
of a hundred millions, it would be
done. This might he brought about
by a Cuban bond issue, and the United
Slates would, in a fashion, stand
sponsor for the bonds. But nothing
definite was proposed in this direction.
It was simply indicated that in the
event of Spain's acceptance the best
that could lie accomplished in this di
rectiou would he done.
The Spanish government hs* noti
fied Minister Du pay de Lome tint it
will accept Mr. Olney’s proposition.
The minister was instructed to so in
form the American secretary of state,
and he lias cabled the authorities her*
that he lias done so. He does not make
clear, nor does it appear from »nj
thing which has come to this cspital
from Secretary Olney, just how the
Cleveland administration intends W
force these terms on the insurgents.
Gen. Gomel himself has said that noth
ing but absolute separation from Spain
would be agreed to by him.
With this unyielding attltde on theu
part of the general-ln-chief of the in
surgents it is difficult, from here, at
least, to see how I’resident Clevelsa<l
will enforce these terms on Cub*. Tb*
Spanish government, however, len™
that entirely to him. It is the Ameri
can proposition. Premier Canovs* W
gues; Spain on her part agrees to it
and Spain now leans back and expect
America to carry it out.
SLAUGHTERED BY TRIBESMEN
Trrrtbl* Fate of m llrltlsli Eip*<H‘lon U
the Niger Country.
London, Jan. 13.—Dispatches re
ceived at the foreign office confirm t*
previous reports of the massacre J
tribesmen in the territory of
of Benin, of the members of *
British expedition which left theooa*
of Upper Guiana, January 1, intending
to proceed to Benin in the Niger cos*
protectarate. The confirmatory t*
ports say that all of the whites co®
prised in the expedition, together wi
U-13 native carriers, were killed, a®
tliat only seven Kroomen escapes
The expedition consisted of Actisfl
Consul-General Phillips, Maj
land Crawford, Capt. Boicragon, w
was the commandant of the foro*
the Niger coast protectorate.
Maling, belonging to the same foroes
Messrs. Campbell and Locke, cons!!*1
officials; Dr. Elliott. Messrs. P°"
and Gordon, civilians, and a ‘»r*^
number of Kroomen and Dative **
riers._
Saginaw H»wb»U Club.
Saginaw, Mich., Jan. 13.—The fr*J*
chise for Sagiuaw in the Inter*S *
Baseball league has been transf*r_
to W. H. Saltoustall, W. E Pearso®
and S. Perrington of this city. w
will handle the team during the o#*
lug season.