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**«* BIRMINGHAM STATE HERALD.
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VOLUME 22; BIRMINGHAM, ALA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1895.-SIXTEEN PAGES NUMBER. 25.
AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL
The President’s Message Will
Result in More Bonds.
TAX PAYERS PAY TRIBUTE
Comments From the Alabama Delegation in
Congress.
THEIR VIEWS ON THE MESSAGE
Hon. G. A. Hobbins Talks Out—What Gen
eral Wheeler Sayff-For the Indus
trial School—Personal and
Pertinent.
Washington, Dec. 4—(Special Corre
spondence.)—The president's message ar
rived at the house of representatives a
little after 12 o’clock on Tuesday last. It
was a strong presentation of the gold
standard side of the financial contro
versy, but there is not the slightest possi
bility of the suggestions contained there
in on that question being enacted into a
law, therefore it is expected that before
the rifcw year shall have stood trembling
on the threshold of time that the greed
of the money lenders will have been sa
tiated by more bonds. Alas that the tax
payers of the country are compelled to
pay so much tribute to the misconceived
patriotism of a few servants In authority.
The following from members of the
Alabama delegation in congress shows
the sentiment they feel toward the mes
sage:
Hon. G. A. Robbins: The message is
devoted mainly to foreign affairs and our
monetary system. It is well written and
I am specially pleased with his definition
of the Alonroe doctrine, and to know that
the influence of the executive will be
spent in upholding this time-honored
democratic policy.
"While the president only briefly re
fers to tariff legislation it clearly appears
that he now approves of the tariff act
passed by the last copgress. He points
to several advantages which have al
ready come to us in our foreign trade,
and notes with pride that the act passed
by the last democratic congress, while
the custom rates are lower, raises a
greater amount of revenue than the high
ler rates of the McKinley bill. Those who
supported the bill in the senate and
house have just cause for gratification.
"It is a matter of regret that the presi
dent should oppose bimetallism, and
recommend ‘a standard,’ instead of sug
gesting to congress the use of both gold
and silver as standard moneys; also I
regret that he has recommended an in
crease of our national bonded indebted
ness and the extension of the national
banking system, instead of recommend
ing to congress in the vigorous language
which he is capable of using the repeal
of the 10 per cent tax on the issue of state
banks, for I am of the opinion that this
tax is both unconstitutional and un
defhocratlc, and every one knows that
the. democratic natiopal convention in
i892 expressly demanded its repeal."
Hon. Joseph Wheeler: “What Air.
Cleveland says upon the foreign policy of
the government will, I think, meet with
general approval of the people, espe
cially his determined stand upon the
Monroe doctrine.
"He makes the ablest argument pos
sible in favor of the gold standard, and
sustains it by assuming many things to
be true which are firmly controverted
by all bimetallists.
“His statement that in the event of
silver coinage ‘everyone who receives a
fixed salary would find the dollar in his
hand ruthlessly scaled down’ is a positive
assertion that bimetallism would largely
increase the price of cotton, wheat and
other farm products.
“He also argues that the money lenders
would also suffer. The history of the
world shows that government which leg
islates in the interest of salaried men
and money lenders retrogrades and de
cays. while legislation in favor of the
producing and industrial classes is what
makes a nation great, prosperous and
powerrui.
“I do not think that congress will
enact the financial recommendations o£
Mr. Cleveland into law."
Hon. O. W. Underwood: "That portion
of the message which refers to our rela
tions with foreign governments is clear,
explicit and in keeping with what we
should expect from the president of the
United States in his treatment of great
questions of state. I am in thorough ac
cord with the message in the position
taken in reference to the Venezuela con
troversy. It is thoroughly American,
and if maintained, must culminate in the
recognition by the British government of
the Monroe doctrine. When considered
in connection with the ultimatum of
Great Britain to Venezuela last summer
it can mean only one thing, that is the
English nation must retract its ultima
tum and submit its boundary dispute to
arbitration or the United States will con
sider its refusal to do so in the light of an
unfriendly act.
“I do not think the president in his
message treats the financial question at
all fairly. He assumes as the basis of
his argument that all our obligations are
payable in gold, whereas they are paya
able in either gold or silver at the_option
of the government.
"The gold reserve in the treasury is not
the cause of the financial distress of our
people. We need sufficient good money
to transact the business of the nation,
without relying on a fictitious credit sys
tem to facilitate the exchange of values.
"The president recommends the retire
ment of the greenbacks and treasury
notes. This would contract the currency
$500,000,000, or one-fourth of the money
we are now reported to have in circula
tion, and in my Judgment the Inevitable
result of such a contraction would be an
other panic. I am opposed to a contrac
tion of the currency in any form, and do
not think a greater wrong could be done
the American people than that which
would destroy one-fourth of the money of
the country.”
For the Industrial School.
Congressman Robbins of the Fourth
district was the first of the Alabama del
egation to present any bills to the Fifty
fourth congress, and the sixteenth of the
entire house. Besides bills for the erec
tion of public buildings at Selma and
Anniston, and to provide for the making
of Selma a port of entry, Mr. Robbins
Introduced a bill providing for the dona
tion by the United States of 25,000r'acres
of land in Alabama to the state, the pro
ceeds of which, when sold or leased, to
forever remain a fund for the use of the
Industrial School for Girls at MontevaJlo.
Personal and Pertinent.
A. T. Goodwyn, contestant for the seat
In congress of Hon. J. E. Cobb, from the
Fifth district, is in the city in the vain'
endeavor to get, through partisan preju
dice, what he failed to acquire by the
suffrage of the people of his district.
W. F. Aldrich says he is not a candi
date for the nomination of the populist
republican combination, but if he should
be he would certainly be elected. The
wealthy mine owner and former resident
of New York state mistakes the condition
of affairs in Alabama. He is no doubt a
reader of the Advertiser and Register
only.
Hon. R. H. Clarke is the only missing
member of the Alabama delegation. He
is detained in Mobile in the Lavretta will
case, but is expected in Washington in a
day or so.
The Alabamians here connected with
the house of representatives are waiting
for the yellow envelope informing them
that their services will be dispensed with
on and after that date. There is no civil
service humbuggery about the places in
the gift of the house, although the mem
bers thereof have never had th" hardi
hood to strike from the statute books
the law which they themselves do not
maintain right under their noses. To the
victors belong the fruits of victory is
the legend written above the door of the
house, and with thirteen months’ notice
of their ultimate discharge there is no
room for kicking by the employes about
to be displaced.
There were four places to be given the
minority of the house, and in the caucus
of the democrats held on Monday last
the south, which ought to have had at
least three of the four places, received
only one, and that went to Virginia.
When it is remembered that there are
only thirteen democrats in the house
north of Mason and Dixon's line, it is a
sad commentary on the capacity of the
average southerner to get patronage.
Ohio, with two democratic members, got
one of the places; New York, with five,
another, and California, with only one,
the other.
Mrs. C. M. Shelley, who has been vis
iting relatives and friends in Alabama,
has returned to Washington.
Gen. George H. Harrison, the repre
sentative from the Third district, is at
tending the meeting of the grand lodge
of Masons in Montgomery.
DEPARTMENT GOSSIP.
The Chinese Government Facilitating the
Commission—A Riot Act Read to
Postoffice Employes.
Washington, Dec. 7.—Reports received
at the state department indicate that the
Chinese government has done everything
to facilitate the Inquiry of the United
States commission at Cheng Tu to inves
tigate the riots in the province of
Szechuan In June last, and has made
special efforts to impress the natives of
the dignity and importance of the com
missioners. No information that the
commission has reached Cheng Tu has
come to the department, but it is be
lieved that they have arrived there. The
reports mentioned state that the com
mission, consisting of Sheridan P. Read,
United States consul at Tien Tsin; Com
mander Merrill of the United States na
vy, and Mr. Cheshire, an Interpreter,
started from Tien Tsin for Cheng Tu
on October 6, accompanied by an escort
of twenty Chinese soldiers, magnificent
ly mounted and equipped. The Chinese
government directed the provincial judge
of Szechuan to co-operate with the com
mission. This Judge has the highest Ju
dicial authority and his assignment Is
considered as further evidence of the
good faith of the Pekin powers. The
route taken was also with a view to im
pressing the natives.
Bids were opened at the treasury to
day for ventilating the New York post
office. The Dalton company of Charles
ton, S. C., at $7008, were the lowest bid
ders.
The postmaster-general issued the fol
lowing special order respecting all em
ployes:
That hereafter no postmaster, postof
flce clerk, letter carrier, railway mail
clerk, or other postal employe, shall vis
it Washington, whether on leave, with or
without pay, for the purpose of influ
encing legislation before congress. Any
such employe who violates this order is
liable to removal. Postmasters and oth
er employes of the postal service are
paid by the government to attend to the
respective duties assigned them, which
do not include efforts to secure legisla
tion. That duty is .assigned to the rep
resentatives of the people elected for
that purpose. If bills are Introduced In
either branch of congress affecting the
postal service upon which any informa
tion or recommendation is desired I am
ready at all times to submit such as lies
in my power and province.
Comptroller Eckles today appointed J.
F. Flournoy receiver of the Chattahoo
chee National bank of Columbus, Ga.,
which failed a week ago.
MARYLAND DAY A SUCCESS.
Next to South Carolina It Surpassed Other
States.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 7.—Maryland has
surpassed all other states. South Carolina
excepted, in her representation at the
exposition. The militia exceeds in num
ber the displays of any other two states
combined, with the exception named.
New York and Chicago days, brilliant
as they were, are excelled by Baltimore
and Maryland. The parade of 1400 mili
tia was imposing. The line comprised
the Fourth and Fifth regiments, Com
pany B, First regiment, Captain Fisher
commanding; First Naval battalion,
Commander Emerson; the Gate City
Guards of Atlanta, Brigadier-General
Stewart. Col. Frank Marshal command
ed the Fifth regiment and Col. William
Howard the Fourth. The parade es
corted Governor Brown of Maryland
and his staff. The bands played “Mary
land,” "Dixie” and other southern airs,
while thousands along the streets cheered
the soldiers continuously. The day was
bright and beautiful, a crisp wind blow
ing from the west. Governor Brown re
viewed the column from the stand In
front of the Pennsylvania building.
Speeches were delivered in the Auditori
um. Governor Atkinson speaking for
Georgia. His remarks were very short,
but his welcome was cordial. Governor
Brown, responding, was received with
long applause. Mayor Porter King spoke
for Atlanta, expressing in a few words
the pleasure of his fellow-citizens at the
presence of the Marylanders. Mayor
Hooper of Baltimore followed. Rev. W.
U Murkland, orator of the day, spoke at
considerable length and with fine effect.
Daniel Miller, president of the Merchants
and Manufacturers' association of Bal
timore, made the closing address. The
exercises at the Auditorium were fol
lowed by a reception of the militia and
civilian visitors. The Marylanders left
tonight at 11 o’clock for home.
Last of the Georgia Central
• Montgomery. Dec. 7 —The Montgomery
and Eufaula railroad was sold at public
outcry today under decree of court and
bought by J. W. Hurthins for Thomas
& Ryan of New York. The price was
$500,000. This Is the last of the property
of the old Georgia Central railway, and
it is understood there will be no change
In the management, the road still being
part of the system to be operated as
heretofore.
THE HOUSE DISAPPOINTED
On Account of the Delay in
Getting
LORD SALISBURY’S LETTER
; Contested Election Cases to Be Settled Ac
cording to Evidence.
CIVIL SERVICE RULES EXTENDED
It Is Now Certain That Two Election Com
mittees Will Be Appointed—A Place
on the Committee Is Much
Sought Alter.
Washington, Dec. 7.—Great disappoint
ment was expressed by the house today
that the president should have left the
city yesterday and thereby delay laying
before them the information contained
in Lord Salisbury's reply to Secretary
Olney's letter, which reached Washing
ton last evening. Such of the represen
tatives as feel a keen and patriotic in
terest in the Venezuelan boundary ques
tion—and these constitute practically the
whole hoiise—have expected that the
British premier’s answer would be imme
diately forwarded by the president in a
special message to congress. The pres
ident’s absence will prevent the house
for possibly ten days from receiving this
information unless some other method of
procuring it is reached. Mr. Livingston
of Georgia, who is conspicuously friendly
to Venezuela, believes that he has
evolved a plan which will get the Salis
bury letter before the house by next
week. This plan looks to the Introduc
tion of a resolution when the house re
assembles on Monday calling upon the
secretary of state for his letter to Lord
Salisbury, written in July last, and the
British premier’s reply received yester
day, If this be not incompatible with the
public service. Mr. Livingston will ask
the immediate consideration of his reso
lution, which, if adopted, may be fol
lowed with the correspondence within
the next twenty-four or forty-eight
Hours.
So far as Speaker Reed's influence goes
the conclusions reached in the contested
election cases now before the house will
be based on the law and evidence, with
out regard to partisan considerations.
Upwards of fifty members of the house
have applied for assignment to the elec
tions committee, and many of these gen
tlemen have preferred their request per
sonally. Mr. Reed has repeatedly sought
from these applicants an expression of
opinion as to the spirit in which their
work would be undertaken in the event
they were placed upon the committee.
To such as he has talked he has ex
pressed a desire that the work should be
expedited, in view of the very consider
able expense which will accrue to the
government from delaying a (settlement
of the cases, and he has also emphasized
his belief that the committee’s conclu
sions shall be wholly free from political
bias, and that each contest shall be set
tled strictly on its merits. There is now
apparently little doubt that two elec
tions committees will be formed in order
to facilitate matters, and it is one of the
strong prababllities, so far as anyone
can anticipate Speaker Reed's action,
that the chairmen of the two committees
will be Messrs. Daniels of New York
and Call of Massachusetts.
The president has amended the civil
service rules and brought Into the clas
sified service about forty-five additional
employes. The amendment reads that
the special departmental rule No. 1 Is
amended by striking from the list of
places excepted from examination the
department of labor statistical experts
and temporary experts. So much of ex
ecutive orders as provides for the ap
pointment or special agents In the de
partment of labor by non-competitive ex
ecution is hereby revoked.
KILLED IN NICARAGUA.
A Chicagoan Who Talked Too Freely About
His Wealth.
New Orleans, Dec. 7.—Confirmation of
the assassination of Joseph Hlssmaier,
a German resident of the city of Chicago,
in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, was secured to
day by a Southern Associated Press re
porter from a gentleman who Is en route’s
to Nicaragua and who is perfectly fa-;
miliar with the circumstances attending
the tragedy. A year ago Hissmaier came
to Nicaragua, and often spoke of the
money that he was possessed of. This ex
cited the cupidity of the natives around,
and one night they set upon the Chicago
an and literally made mince meat of the
poor fellow with their machetes. There
being no law calling for the infliction of
capital punishment on the statute books
of Nicaragua, and, as It is the habit In
all of the Central American republics,
only a loose administration of law. par
ticularly where foreigners are concerned,
a number of resident Americans, know
ing the parties who had done poor Hiss
maier to death, went to work, and, catch
ing one of the ringleaders of the outrage,
promptly lynched him. Half a dozen of
these American regulators were arrested,
but on trial were discharged. One of
these gentlemen made no secret of his
conn 'tion with the lynching. There was
a so- of resolution made by the Nicara
guan officials to have the case reopened
and the self-confessed regulator again
put on trial. Fearing that he might get
into trouble over the second trial, this
gentleman made his escape from that
part of the country.
The gentleman that gave the above
facts to the reporter says that it is re
markable that Minister Baker made no
report of the case, as the facts of the
assassination and the subsequent lynch
ing were well known throughout the re
public. _
“A FARMER’S LOSS.
His Barn, With Much Corn and Stock, De
stroyed by Fire.
Mobile, Dec. 7.—(Special.)—A. T. W1I
kerson, a wealthy farmer living at Gas
tonburg, on the Mobile and Birmingham
railroad, sustained a heavy loss by Are
this morning. His barn, 1000 bushels of
corn, eight mules and one saddle horse
were entirely consumed by the flames.
No insurance._
Complicating the Question.
Boston, Dec. 7.—Prominent colored cit
izens have signed a petition for tomor
row’s meeting on Armenia asking, for
the sake of Christian consistency, that
the lynching of negroes In the south
without trial or before court shall be con
demned equally with the Turkish mur
ders of Armenians.
WOULD MOB SALISBURY
If He Should Tell All That He
Knows
ABOUT ARMENIAN AFFAIRS
Mr. William O’Brien's Recent Article Is At
tracting Unwonted Attention.
OWING TO EASTERN DEVELOPMENTS
The English Public Is Taking Little Inter
est in the Venezuelan Question, But
the Leading Papers Have Muoh
to Say on the Subject.
London, Dec. 7.—(Special Cable Let
ter.)—What information is obtainable
and the nature of the consular reports
that are reaching the foreign office con
firm the worst fears of the destruction
of the Armenians within the area from
Trebizond southeast to Van, thence
southwest to Alexandretta, on the Bay
of Iskanderoon, from Alexandretta
slightly northeast to Kara-Hissar and
from Kara-Hissar northeast to Trebi
zond. Whole Christian towns and vil
lages have been pillaged and burned.
Those who have been left alive have
been forced to adandon their faith and
turn Mohammedans. Accurate details
concerning the condition of affairs in the
district beyond the immediate sphere of
the consulates remain wanting, but there
Is no reason to doubt the reports derived
from fugitive survivors and the better
Sort of Turks who have not shared in
the outrages that a similar condition of
affairs exists In those places.
The correspondent of the Speaker, the
paper which first gave publicity to the
Armenian outrages, is npw known to
have close relations with the consulates
in Constantinople, and from Information
derived from them he estimates that not
less than 500,000 persons have been either
killed or are now dying of starvation,
beyond the chance of timely relief. He
says that after the soldiers had sacked
the Armenian towns and villages the
Kurds completed the plunder. The lat
ter mixed the grain they could not carry
off with dung and set fire to the houses
leaving the people with no food and theij
homes heaps of smouldering ruins.
The ambassadors have advised the
porte to permit the Red Cross Bociety to
undertake the relief of the distressed
people, but the presence of hundreds of
Red Cross agents would reveal horrors
that the porte must conceal. This fact
debars the possibility of the government
giving its assent to the plan.
The representative of the United Press
who has been for some time in Constan
tinople in the Interest of that organiza
tion has received a letter from the Hadjin
mission, which begins with the words:
"We are alive, praise the Lord.” The let
ter refers to the prominent part Circas
sians have taken In the atrocities around
Hadjin, and says that 10,000 Circassians
and Turks were actively employed in
sacking the Christian villages. The gov
ernment did nothing to protect the Chris
tians, and even refused them permission
to defend themselves. H did, however,
promise the aid of regular Turkish troops
who. the writer states, were of the same
feather as those engaged in the murders
and pillage.
In the face of these statements the
official Turkish statements, repeatedly
communicated to the press, that order
has been restored everywhere, become
worthless. If the foreign office publish
ed all its Information, says the Speaker,
Lord Salisbury would not dare to appear
in public. He would be mobbed in the
streets.
All ttlllUIC Wllliui
O'Brien for the Review Politique, on
"The European Aspect of the Irish
Question," has attracted unwonted at
tention, owing to the developments in the
east. Mr. O'Brien argues that the Irish
bond of sympathy with England's ene
mies has not entirely disappeared. The
new movement begun in Chicago ought
to be for statesmen a matter of study.
The Irish-Americans have sufficient In
fluence with the United States govern
ment to stop the programme of a family
entente between the two great English
speaking nations. They have also the
power to arouse an enemy that England
has the most reason to fear In the world.
The-young men of Gaelic athletic asso
ciations. he says, would form a ready
made army for a French or a Russian ex
pedition. which would put rifles In their
hands, and they would capture Cork and
Limerick and hold them long enough to
allow Irishmen to rally (heir flag. Mr.
O’Brien is of the opinion that the English
fleet watching the channel could not pre
vent a landing in Ireland.
The latest instance of British greed for
new territory is the proposed protector
ate over lower Siam, which would place
the whole Malay peninsula, from Singa
pore to Burmah. under British rule. The
Westminster Gazette states that the ex
tentlon has been on the cards for years
and has been clearly explained by
France. Such a protectorate. It Is claim
ed. would be welcomed by the Malays,
who are now only nominal tributaries of
Siam while the mineral and other re
sources of wealth in the country are of
grsat Importance to Great Britain. The
other papers curtly refer to the acquisi
tion in a similar strain, as if it was the
natural consequence of the position of
the territory between countries already
held by England.
In accordance with unvarying prece
dent the reply of Prime Minister Salis
bury to the note of Hon. Richard Olney,
the American secretary of state, on the
Venezuelan dispute, will not be Issued by
the foreign office until It is presented to
parliament.
The English public takes small inter
est in the dispute and in) the attitude of
the United States on the matter. Not
the remotest reference to the subject has
been made on the political platform dur
ing the period that the prime minister
has been wrestling with Mr. Olney's note
and the reply thereto. The comments in
the press alone Indicate the line of Brit
ish opinion, which, according to the
newspapers, is unanimously against any
arbitration concerning the territory
within the Schomburg line.
. The Statist says neither for Its own
sake nor ours ia it expedient for the
United States government to put for
ward a claim as of right to dictate how
we shall conduct a dispute with another
country relative to territory that has
long been held by the British. The Unit
ed States government is entitled to ofTer
Its good offices, but there Is a wide dis
tinction between these and intervention
based on the ground of the United States
having right to forbid any government
in the world to enlarge the area underits
jurisdiction in any part of the American
continent. Still there is no occasion for
heroes. The bit of territory in dispute
Is of small value, while good relations
with the United States are of the highest
value to us and civilization.
The Spectator says:
President Cleveland addressed Great
Britain in the tone of a master in laying
down principles so absolutely. His sent
ences read as if Great Britain was order
ed to choose arbitration or war. Negoti
ations will not be carried on in that tone
unless the president and the American
people are seeking war, a crime of which
we would not even mentally accuse
them.
The Economist, treating of the same
subject, declares that Mr. Cleveland’s
words means that Great Britain must
not defend what she considers her own
soil against any Spanish-American state
under penalty of the United States de
claring war. It is impossible for Lord
Salisbury to yield to such pretentions,
yet it Is more difficult for him to deal
with them so as to avoid exasperating
American feeling. His only sensible
course is to repudiate seeking for any
extension of territory and do nothing,;
leaving on Venezuela or the Unite/ -
States the responsibility for aggressk>
All of these supposed leaders of hi *
class opinion in England make the u?^
commonplace reference to the Amer i
vote Influencing utterances of thotrSf.u
political life. ^
Alluding to the suppression by the for
eign office of the consular statements
concerning the massacres at Anatolia,
the Spectator says it hopes the foreign
committee of the American senate will
procure the publication of Minister Ter
rell’s dispatches, as it la quite clear that
he has not minced matters in reporting
to his government.
By agreement between the powers the
official details of the massacres are
meanwhile withheld, as their publication
would endanger the safety of the consuls
and ambassadors. It is held to be possi
ble that the sultan, if his deposition were
imminent, might permit or incite an at
tack on the embassies. During the revo
lution that resulted in the dethronement
of Abdul Aziz the Russian ambassador
filled the precincts of the embassy with
Montenegrins. The Austrian embassy
was guarded by hundreds of Croats and
the French embassy by marines. The
British embassy is by far the strongest
of any embassy in Constantinople, and
is best adapted for defense against sud
clous grounds overlooking the Golden
Horn. Its one entrance Is flanked by
massive structures, in which guards art;
constantly on duty. A strong and solidly
built iron fence 10 feet high surrounds
all the grounds. Report has It that its
internal armament includes several can
non. Sir Henry Elliott, the British am
bassador at the time of the deposition of
Abdul Aziz, deemed the security of the
embassy so complete that he took none of
the extra precautions adopted by other
ambassadors. The report that Sir Phil
lip Currie, the British ambassador, has
called in blue jackets from the British
guardship to guard the embassy is
doubtful.
Said Pasha has chosen the best refuge
In the city. In the event of the sultan
being deposed and the powers selecting
a successor pledged to reforms, Said
Pasha is the man who is most likely to
be made grand vizier.
Letters have been received from Aden
stating that the Arab revolt in Arabia
is spreading. Indian pilgrims arriving
at Jedda have been warned that it is
unsafe for them to attempt to proceed
to Mecca without an eseort. Medina, the
city which contains the tomb of Moham
med, is inaccessible, being surrounded
by insurgents.
Sir Matthew White Ridley, the home
secretary, has undertaken to reconsider
the case of Mrs. Florence Maybrlck, the
American woman who is undergoing life
imprisonment on conviction of having
some years ago poisoned her husband, a
well-known Liverpool merchant. Mrs.
Maybrick’s friends are hopeful that Sir
Matthew will find grounds to release the
prisoner.
BLACKBURN’S CHANCES
Improved by the Election of A. J. Carroll,
Democrat, Over Charles Blatz, the
Republican Candidate.
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 7.—Tn the special
election held in the Sixth and Seventh
wards of Louisville today the. Hon. A. J.
Carroll, ex-speaker of the last house, de
feated Charles Blatz, republican, by a
majority of 452. The majority is the
normal majority of the district, though
the republicans carried it in the Novem
ber election for governor. The re-election
of Mr. Carroll makes the general assem
ble a tie on joint ballot, with sixty-eight
democrats, sixty-eight republicans and
two populists.
One of these populists is pledged to
vote for the republicans, who indorsed
him, -and the other with the democrats.
There are still seven avowed candidates
for the senate among the republicans,
but it is regarded as certain that no one
save W. Godfrey Hunter, republican In
congress from the Third district, has any
show. The defeat of Blatz may serve to
throw a slight damper on th^ Inaugura
tion of Governor-Elect Bradley Tuesday.
The republicans hoped at that time to be
able to lay claim to the senatorshlp, but
this cannot now be done until after the
house is organized. The inauguration,
however, will be the most elaborate ever
held In Kentucky. Special trains will be
run from all parts of the state, and all
people, irrespective of party, have united
to make it a social function as well.
SALISBURY’S NOTE DELIVERED.
The Usual Formality of Reading It Dis
pensed With.
Washington, Dec. 7.—At 11 o’clock to
day Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
ambassador, came to the state depart
ment, bearing in one of the character
istic blue envelopes, with the accom
panying red seal, which form the dis
tinguished features of British diplomatic
correspondence, Lord Salisbury's reply
to Secretary Olney's note in regard to the
proposed Venezuelan boundary argu
ment. The document was In print, with
the usual wide margin for notes and
printed in the customary legible type
pertaining to such communications. The
British ambassador was saved the neces
sity of going through the formula of
reading to Secretary OIney the exceed
ingly lengthy and argumentative com
munication of which he was made the
official bearer, by perceiving that Secre
tary OIney himself had a duplicate in
his hands, which had been transmitted
to him by Ambassador Bayard by the
same steamer as that which conveyed
Sir Julian Pauncefote’s missive, and
which had consequently reached him last
night.
This naturally shortened the official
ceremony. The presentation of the note
barely occupied ten minutes; the reading
of It would have consumed several hours.
Sir Julian Pauncefote left the depart
ment before 11:15. Secretary OIney him
self shortly afterwards disappeared, and
his confidential clerks declared with
much emphasis for some hours after
ward that the British ambassador had
not been at the state department today
and that the British note had not yet
been received. >
WILL HAVE A CANDIDATE
That Is What We Hear From
the Capital,
HE WILL SOON ANNOUNCE
A Gold Bug So Informs a State Herald
N Reporter.
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governor charged by the braves
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P 'rom Birmingham in the Interest of Mr.
Crawford-Pleased With I heir Trip.
Wo Appointment Until the Expi
ration of Present Incumbent.
Montgomery. Dec. 7.—(Special.)—Th°re
is no doubt but that Captain Johnston
will have active opposition for the nomi
nation. In less than a week, perhaps,
his competitor will be announced.
"We are forced to present a candidate,”
said a prominent administration demo
crat to the State Herald's correspondent
this morning. "Joe Johnston, Senator
1 ugh and the other silver leaders have
called us republicans and persistently
abused democrats of our way of think
ing, and as a matter of principle we must
resent It. As a matter of policy we do
not think Captain Johnston Is the man
to lead the democracy to victory. We
are going to have an enormous fight next!
year. If the combined opposition to de
juin.Tu.i-y snoum nominate some clean
and able leader, like David D. Shelby
(republican) of Huntsville, or Col. Hen
Long (republican) of Jasper, 1 should be
very apprehensive of our success. I think
we would have a practically easy con
quest if some of the populist agitators
should be selected to lead the opposition.”
"Yes, I confess that conferences are be
ing held and available candidates are be
ing discussed. You can state with all
that a sound money democrat
will be offered for the nomination. I
venture the assertion he will be nomi
nated, too.”
"In view of the fact that Captain John
ston has not taken occasion of late to
force national issues into the campaign
for the nomination, do the sound money
element in the party regard It as un
wise to inaugurate a family fight at this
perilous time?" asked the correspondent.
"No. The campaign cannot be divorced
from national issues entirely. If Captain
Johnston's friends had pursued the even
tenor of their way after his defeat in the
last convention and had told the people
that they aspired for him to serve the
state as governor on account of his abil
ity. his Integrity and the service he had
rendered the party the friends of the
administration would have rallied to
him. But instead Captain Johnston's
mouthpiece, the. Birmingham State, de
voted almost all of Its efforts and its
space to abuse of the democratic admin
istration and the democrats who ad
hered to the administration’s policies.
T he captain has also been busy organ
Izing silver leagues and never allows an
opportunity to go by to advocate free
silver and abuse the president’s policy.
His nomination and election would mean
the return to the United States senate of
a free silver senator, and the sound mon
ey democrats of Alabama are not dis
posed to see this done. Yes, the ’gold
as they are pleased to-eali us,
will have a’candidate for the guberna
one** nominatlon and he be a good
Unterrified Birminghamians.
A special car brought to the city this
morning about thirty of the unterrifled
who came to press before Governor Oates
the candidacy of Mr. Webb W. Crawford
for president of the Birmingham police
commission. The delegation called in a
body on Governor Oates at 10 o’clock
and spent about an hour with him. The
governor gave them a most cordial recep
tion and listened attentively to what
they had to say. The members of the
party have evidenced the best of spirits
since the Interview. The governor told
them he could make no appointment
until the term of the present Incumbent
expired. He did not commit himself any
further, but the boys say they like the
way he talked and looked. They Appear
greatly encouraged over their candidate’s
chances. The following were of the par
ty: Messrs. Charles G. Brown, John C.
Carmichael, Hugh McGeever, Pat Bren
nan, A. J. Camp, John M. McCartin, J.
T, Mullen, A. S. Cowan. Robert JVar.
nock, D. A. Green. J. C. Curran, William
Cutcliffe, F. W. McCarthy, W. C. Coch
ran, E. G. Chandler, W. T. Johnston,
Sylvester Daly, Robert Waldrop, John,
D. Miller, J. L. Lockwood, Thomas
O’Byrne, P. Cosmlnsky, P. Houpperti
Henry Zoebel, W. P. Ward. John Patter
son, A. Hood, James E. Webb and J D.
The party returned to Birmingham
this afternoon.
An Infirmary Burned.
The Watkins Infirmary, comprising
four large frame buildings, situated In
Highland park, south of the city limits,
was burned to ashes this morning. There
were some eighteen or twenty patients in,
the buildings, all of whom were safely re.'
moved to the residences In the neighbor
hood. The fire caught from a defective
flue.
Dr. Watkins saved a large portion oft
his furniture, but his Instruments, whlclfc
are said to be very valuable, are a total)
loss, and it Is reported that several pa
tients at the Infirmary have sustained
losses of property, the amount of which
could not be ascertained. One patient
on going to bed Friday night put a purse
under her head containing $25. When
she was removed the purse dropped, and
when It was found and returned to her
it contained only 1 cent.
The building destroyed. It Is estimated,
cost about $15,000, and the trrtal Insurance
held by Dr. Watkins was $7000.
Dr. Watkins, it Is said, will make ar
rangements to rebuild at once.
~ A>Flyor” WreckedT
New Castle Pa., Dec. 7.—The Pitts
burg Flyer, a fast train on the Pittsburg
and Bake Erie railway, which left New
Castle at 6 o’clock this evening, collided
with kn eastbound freight train near
Newport station, six miles from thia,
place. The Injured are:
Engineer Frank Adams, both legs cult,
off, skull fractured: will die.
Fireman John Doubt of McKee’s Hock,
knee cap torn off, badly scalded; may not
recover.
W. W. Bishop, mail clerk of Pittsburg,
badly scalded; recovery doubtful.
Unknown passenger slightly hurt on
scalp.
The wreck caught fire and a panic re~
suited among the passengers, all oft
whom were badly shaken up and terribly
frightened. Willing hands fought bad*
the flames, and the passengers escaped:
serious injury.