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Oregon City Coarier. A, W. OHKNBT, fabllibar. WDGOIf CITY OREGON OREGON LEGISLATURE. EVENTS OF THE DAY Aa Interesting Collection or Items Prom she Two Hemispheres FrtinuUd n a Condensed Form. The First National Imnk, of New port, Ky., has closed its doors. Heavy investments in real estate is suid to be tbo CUUSC. An important pooling arrangement has been brought almnt between the Alaska Packers' Association and the Alaska Improvement Compuny that will materially affect tlio salmon in dustry in Northern waters and the price of canned salmon in the country nest season. It is suid that the entire prod act of the coming season will be pooled and murketed at uniform rates. Louis Contcncin, chevalier of the crown of Italy, former president of the Italian chamber of commerce in New York, and formrely Italy's consul-general to the two Sicilies, died at his bome in Now York. He had been one of the most prominent Italians in this country and was a man of marked abil ity, to which Ituly frequently paid honorable tribute. A Washington special says the ad ministration is determined that Peru filial 1 pay the claim for $200,000 grow ing out of the outrage committed in 1685 upon V. II. MeCord, a consul of the United States. A cable dispatch lias just been sent to Mr. McKonzie, the United States minister stationed at Lima, directing Jiiin to inform the Peruvian government that the case must be settled without delay. A com mnnication received from tho minister a few days ago stuted that Peru desired to investigate tho case. Secretary Oiney at once advised Mr. McKenzie that Peru had hod more than ten yean to investigate, and the time was quit euilloiont. The first week of tho Oregon legisla ture closed with but little accom plished. The organization of tho sen ate was effected promptly on the first day, and Joseph Simoa, of Multnomah, who held the same position two years ago, was seated as president. The sen ate was in session four days, during which time eighty-five bills were in trod need, and then the senute ad Jounod over until Monday, in order to give tho state printer time to catch The Unorganised Horn. The house was unublo to perfect or ganizution, a quorum not being found present at any time a roll call was had The members are divided into threo factions on the senatorial nominee. eacii being a minority. All efforts to unito and agree on any member for speaker have been futile. Much bitter talk and discussion has been the rule since the first day. Senatorial Caucus. Near the end of tho week forty-three Republicans and one Populist held a caucus at the state capitol and unani mously nominated John II. Mitchell for United States senator. New Bills Pour In. Patterson of Marion has introduced a bill making general provision for the transportation of all insane persons to the asylum. His bill provides that the county clerk shall notify the super intendent of the asylum that he has an insane person to be conveyed to the asy lum. The superintendent then au thorizes somo employe of the asylum to repair to the county seat, whore the insane person will be delivered to him, and he will conduct such insane person to the asylum. All tho exitense is to be borne by the asylum fund. Senator Mackay has introduced a bill for the appointing of a fiscal agent ut New York city, who is to look after the state's financial interests. Alice M. Hartley, who shot and .killed Senator Foley, in Reno, Nev., two years ago, has been pardoned. PrinMns do Chimay, who eloped last summer will, Janos Kigo, a Hungarian gypsy musician, httB been engaged to appear in tableaux ylvunt ut a winter garden in Jern finmoliutely alter her difprpe from her hjisbumV jtye will s tiP pW 750 ft 'lite nomination of David R. Francis as secretary of the interior lias, been fa vorably acted upon by the committor on finance and reported to the senate in executive session. The nomination has been held up ever since the session be gan at the request of fjenutor Vest 'V After a long and animated session in , Olympia the presidential electors of "Washington agreed upon James E. Fen ton, Democrat, of Spokane, as messen ger to convey the vote of the stute to Washington. The choice was a com promise, as the electors were at first TinaXle lo ngroe upon any one of the four elected, each one striving for the hsmor, The sura of $800 is allowed, for excuses. jjTNThe trial of Mrs. AValter Carew charged with poisoning her husband by administering arsenic, and which has caused a great sensation among the .V'i-1 l,iilttitnnts ' Yokohama, T' . has been brought lo a dramatic close by the appearance and confession in court of Miss Mary Jacobs, the gov erness of the family, who, it seems,. was the real murderess and the person who wove the chain of evidonco around thejvidovtr, , Attorney-General Harmon was asked about tho probable wnrso the govern mnt will pursuo with respect to the Pacific railroads, now the funding bill lias failed. Beyond the statement that some action would probably bo taken within thirty days, ho declined to die cubs tho matter. It Is believed, how ever, tho first step will bo against the Union Pacific, inasmuch as foreclosure proceedings instituted by the first lien Iiolders of that road are now pending in the courts. .two other bills of a general nature were introduced, ono by Senator Mc- Clung, which authorizes the mayor of any city to bin in property sold at pub. lie sale for tuxes. The other wns by benator fcmitn, authorizing counties. cities and school districts to dispose of reai estate acquired at tux sales. Senator Michell has culled attention to the subject of navigation on the Co- lumbia river, by introducing bill au- tnorizing the governor to uppiont a gpnjmfpsion to construct and equip C6rtg railway from The Dalles to Celllo, ' The bill of Senator Price of Unia-' McClung'i senate Dill relating to the qualifications of school election voters requires that the voter shall have paid an annual tax on $3fiO worth of prop erty. The present law is somewhat lnx.'and more or less confusing. There is somo doubt of the constitutionality of McClung'i bill, but tho judiciary committee win puss upon that ques tion, benator .McClung says the trou bles at the lute school election in Port land and Eugene led hi in to prepare a more dcsirublo law. . Tho inevitable deduction-for-indebt-edness bill has been presented to tho senate. It conies from Senator Duw son, of Linn. . The question of supplying each mem ber of senate and house with a copy of 1 1 ill's Code of Oregon, evoked some de bate in tho senate. McClung presented a joint resolution that the secretary of state bo ordered to purchase ninety copies of the code. lie afterward ex pluincd that a similar resolution hud been adoptdd by the senute, but. inas- much as it was only a senate resolu tion, the secretary of state was unwill ing to comply except on joint request of both houses. Selling of Multnomah thought that from an economical stand point, twenty-five copies would bo sufficient, ten for tho senate and fifteen for tho house. Price of Umatilla sug gested that fifteen copies would be sufficient for the senate, giving one to each new member. McClung'i resolu tion was flnully adodted. Another subject of debate was the resolution requiring the appropriation bill to be prepared a sufficient time be fore the close of the session to permit a careful examination. One member wanted the bill prepared within the first twenty-five days. This was gen erally regurded as too soon to be prac ticable, and it was finally settled tluit the bill should be before the senate flvo days before the tiose of the session. m taxe xea, provides that all property levied upon shall be advertised and sold in the same manner as real estate, thus saving expense. Senator Price has also introduced a bill which enables a farm laborer to file a lien upon a growing crop, even though there be a mortgage on the crops Senator McClung's bill, No. 8, "to define the terms land and teal property, for the purposes of taxation,' is vir tually a establishment of the old mortgage-tax lawi It provides, how ever; for the exemption only of record ed Indebtedness, and in that particular differs from the old law, and from other proposed statutes. Tho inauguration of Governor Tan ner in Springfield, 111., developed a eon sat um ut the close of the stutchousi ceremony, when tho retiring governor, John P. Altgeld, was not permitted to deliver tho furewoll address which hai been ono of tho features of the pre vious inaugurations in Illinois. Gov ernor Altgeld had prepared his Soech and hud brought a copy of it to the hall, but he was not called upon by the presiding officer to speak. Much in dignation was aroused by the occur rence. Tho house committee on public landi has authorized a favorable rtNirt on the bill providing that settlers on Northern Pacific railroad lands, whose right would have been forfeited January I, 1897, for noncompliance with law, hall have an additional term of two years in which to comply with th regulations. Tho committee also or dered a favorublo report on a bill allow ing settlers on Indian lands opened to ettlement in tho Dakotas to acquire patent by paying tho minimum price provided by law any time after the ex-1 juration of fourteen months from tin date of entry. The Minnesota Stute Savings bank, of St. Paul, bus closed and filed a deed of assignment. National Hank Examiner Escott hut elooed the German National bank, of Looisville, Ky. The bank is an old one, but for some time has been regurd ed as nnsafe. A bittei fight is being waged in Cleveland, O., between the Arhiu-kle Coffee Company and the sugar regarding the price of coffee, ler Cut is being met The registration bilj fiiiroductnl lit the senate by Senator Harmon is idmi: tlcal with the nioutmrB til bo Mi'ty duced in the house by Thomas Wt Mult noninhi Senator Taylor W amending the incorporation tirt w Pondleton changes the city 'chajier in three particulars. It prtviH that (1) tho city may be di vided ip into wards; (2) thut the pres ent water-works system may be en larged into a gravity system; and (3) thut city treasurers shall hereafter be appointed by the city council, and not elected by the people. There has been trouble in Pendleton over making the city funds immediately available when they are desired for the payment of warrants. It is thought that, if the temptation for candidates to place themselves under personal obligation to financial institutions has been re moved, the difficulty about the funds may be obviated. Senator Mnlkey, of Polk, has intro duced into the senuto a bill covering the subject of taxation. Tho bill, in effect, is practically a re-enactment of the mortgage-tax law. It has three general objects in view (1) the assess ment of all property, (3) equal and im partial collection of tuxes, (8) economy in operation. Senator Mulkey says it will save the stute ut least $35,000 per year. Tho bill provides for the deduc tion of indebtedness where the eorre siKtnding eredit can be found and as sessed. It abolishes the state bourd of equalization as it is now constituted, vesting that duty in the governor, sec retary of state ami state treasurer. It also provides for the collection of taxes on the original assessor's roll and for the sending of the summary only of the rou to the stute board of equalisation. It makes the county treasurer the col lector of taxes up to the point of delin quency, when they shall be collected by the sheriff. Senate Committee. President Simon has announced the standing committees of the senate as follows: Agriculture and Forestry Johnson, Hughes, Holt. Assessment and Taxation Hughes, Patterson of Marion, Price, Mulkey, Mackay. Claims Selling, Carter, Daly. Commerce and Navigation Harmon. Johnson, Dufur. Counties Mackay. Qesner. Talvor. Gowan, Driver. tyucation McClung, Harmon. Mul key. Elections and Privileges Mulkev. Gesner, Smith. Engrossed Bills Gesner. Eeed. Mitchell. Enrolled Bills Calbreath. Patterson of Washington, aud Gowan. Federal Relations Bates. Dufur.( . , ' Fishing Industries Reed, Michell, Patterson of Marion. Horticulture Carter, Calbreath, Holt. Insurance and Bunking Bates, John son, Driver. Irrigation Price, McClung, King. Judiciary Gowan, Brownell, Mich ell, Smith, Dufur. Revision of Laws Patterson of Washington, McClung, Reed, llobson, King. Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry Calbreath, Driver, Daly. Military Affairs Price, Huseltine, Gesner. Penal Institutions Driver, IIobeoHj Selling. Mlnfejg Julljisoii, King, Holt. Munlcfbiu PorimriiriniiH itnnelrine. ifermon, Calbreath. Printing Michell, Mackay, Smith. Public Buildings and Institutions Hobson, Patterson of Washington, Wade. Public Lands Patterson of Marion, Mtilkey, Dawson, Haseltine, Wade. Railroads Brownell, Gowan, Patter son of Washington, Mackay, Dawson. Roads and Highways Dawson, Car ter, llobson, Brownell, Duly. Ways ami Means Taylor, McClung, Selling, Hughes, Dawson. Tariff Mullen ltuo on a Snag. Washington, Jan. 18. The Republi can tariff-makers held no meeting to day, having encountred several per plexing points in the chemical schedule which they begun work on last night. Certain members were assigned to pro cure information on variom points, and tomorrow the committee will re sume work on the schedule. From tho experience of tho first ses sion of real work on the bill, it is con sidered by the members doubtful j whether it will be practical for them i to follow the original plan of work, j which was to have the full committee ' work together on every schedule of the j bill, instead of dividing the schedules among the subcommittees. ; Manifesto lamed by Populists, The Populists have held aeauous and Issued the following manifesto, which gives their lido of the. tangle in the house: -"To the People's Party of Oregon Tho undersigned, your members-elect to the legislative assembly, ask yonr loyal support mid that of all good oiti zens in our contest for such an organ ization of the house as we believe will result in economical and remedial legis lation that will make an honest vote and a fair count possible in Oregon, We are contisting for a fair orgunizu tion of the house, in order to make pos sible the passage of the Bingham regis trution bill, tho Holt judges-of-cleo tion bill, and an amendment to the con stitution providing for direct law-mak ing by the people by means of the ini tiutive and referendum in its optional lorm. "We ure assured by eminent lawyers that the Bingham registration bill is constitutional, and likely to be . effec tive. The Holt bill allows county cen tral committees of euch of the three principal political parties to designate one judge of election in each precinct, and committees of the two principal parties to each name one olerk of elec tion in each precinct. The initiative and referendum need no explanation to Oregon Populists. These measures we believe to be all important in obtaining honest elections and control by the peo ple oi lawmaking m Oregon, and there by preserving our liberties. The situa tion is this: "Last June tho Republican party elected thirty-eight members of the house of represenutives. Only twenty- eight of this number have agreed to act together in organizing the house. . Part of the remaining ten Republican mem bers support Mr. Bourne and part do not support any candidate. The Popu list and Democrat io members are stay ing out until such time as a Republican majority may agree upon a candidate of its own for speaker, or until a suffi cient number of them unite with us to assure Bourne's election, which we be lieve will enublo us to obtain the measures herein named. As long us Republicans ore thus divided, und it is possible that we may, by preventing or ganization, finally elect Mr. Bourne, und probubly obtain the legislation be fore mentioned, Ave feel it to be our duty to the people of Oregon to stuy put wages or no wages. AVith this knowledge of the facts, we feel that we are entitled to your support for our selves and our allies." The manifesto is signed by two sen ators and twelve representatives. It is said that the remaining PoDiilist sena- tor and representatives, who were out 1 of the city when the caucus was held, j fully indorsed the mnnifesto. WOOLGROWERS MEET. forest A short session of the house was held Sunday, the temporary speaker having ruled that it was necessary ac cording to the constitution. Senator Holt'i bill, for the tem porary relief of counties in certain cases, proivdes that, whenever any railroad company shall neglect or re fuse to pay its taxes, or any portion of them, in any county within the state, such county shall not be required to pay into the state treasury its portion of taxes on the assessed value of the. railroad's property. The county is trust ' , t0 relieved from all interest or Cut af-1 otIlpr penalty until ono month after the . delinquent Ux is collected. . A Konl and HI Money. San Francisco, Jan. 18. Oscar Low, a Victoria man, was buncoed out of $180 today by the old dice game trick. Low lives at the Yosemite house, on Market street, and started for the Bar bury Coast for a drink, lie got into a saloon on Sacramento street, and there'; began shaking dice with a stranger. : He loot $30, and a newly made friend ', told him he could beat the winner out i of all his money if Low could only get , some more cash. The victim went to his room, and got $100 more. He re turned to the saloon, and soon lost ' that. Then he complained to the po lice. rowder-Honle Kiploeloa. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 18. Ai the re- suit of an explosion in the tankhouse of , the Columbia Powder Company, locat- ; ed in a hollow a half mile from the Ohio river, midway between boroughs Shoustown and Shaopin, Mr. Sticknev. ; proprietor of the works, and his two prorwea. The measure is the daughters were killed, P. McClusky aame as that introduced in 1895, except fatally injured, and Walter Crane seri-; bat time, until 1899, is given to re ously hnrt. By almost superhuman j B0Te trP- Two years ago the bill efforta the flames were controlled be- 1 parsed the house, but it was defeated lore the glycerine machine ignited. j n tie senate by a clo vota. The house hai ajhtin fuiluJ to organ ize before Tnesdofr nii.l this defers the senatorial election tintil Tuesday, Feb ruary 2, and, of course, no ballot can bo tnkotrtm that .date unless the speak ership problem is solved before Tues day of next week. The senute meets daily, but no busi ness other than the introduction of bills is taken up, ' Senator; Itarmoii has introduced a bill d&igned to restore to sheriffs of the various counties the duty of convey ing all committed persons to the state insane asylum, reform school and peni tentiary. It is irYer'ely made the duty of the committing courl to plaoe such in charge of the sheriff. Nothing is suid as to "Compensation, but the siimpti?A "is that the state is to py, as at pneso'iit. , 1 1 " dnator Brownell ntii introduced a hjil in the interest Vf bicyclists. It directs thftt all trniisriortation companies shall be 'required to check and trans port bicycli's lik'o other bugguge. The bill is general in its provisions and do scribe et length how ruilrond and other transportation companies shall convey free of all charges to euch passenger, with a ticket, not more than 100 pounds of baggage. How it shall be checked and how reclaimed are describ ed, the provisions simply enacting into law the present pratioes of railroad 1 companies. ! Senator Smith has introduced a bill ; changing the beginning of the close sea i son on the Columbia from August 10 ; to August 1. This is in accordance I with tho recommendation of United i Stutes Fish Commissioner McDonald, j There are provisions for the regulation j of fishtraps, by which none shall have I a lead more than 700 feet in length, and no fish wheel shall have a lead of more than forty feet in length. Other regu lative provisions are added. Senator Mulkey has introduced a bill intended to prohibit, as far as possible, corrupt practices at elections. It lim its the sums of monev that mv rm legitimately expended in securing a j nomination or election to any office created by the constitution of state or j for representatives in congress. It pro- vine ior a public inspection of the ex panse account of any candidate or political committee. Other states have similar measures on their statute books, and public sentiment in the state of Oregon, Senator Mulkey thinks, is ripe for a similar statute in this state. A fishtrap bill has been introduced in the senate by Smith of Clatsop. It is provided by the bill that it shall be Unlawful tO OOnStrUCt. own. maintain Resolutions Concerning- the Reserve Passed. Salem, Or., Jan. 19. At a meeting of the North Pacific Sheepbreedent and Woolgrowers' Association, held the state capitol, pursuant to a cu from the president. Hon. John Minto, the following resolutions were umiu mously adopted: "Whereas, The congress of the United Stutes bus authorized the presi dent to proclaim as forest reserve 1,600,000 acres of the Cascade range of mountains, extending in an unbroke body across the state of Oregon, there by creating a physical division of the state; and "Whereas, This immense body land bus been placed under the euro of the department of the interior, to protected from the injury of its forest growth by the aid of the United States district court and by its officers, and citizens of the United States, residents of Oregon, have been arrested and put to cost on the assumption thut grazing stock (sheep especially) within sue reserve is an injury to the forest growth thereon; and Whereas, By an experience extend ing over fifty years, in some cases members of this association know that despite grazing of sheep or cattle upon the grasss lands of Oregon, whether on the mountains or in the valleys, the reforestation of open land has extended is extending, over all pasture land, near enough seedbea'ring trees for the seeds to be carried by the wind; and the truth of this statement is well set forth in papers now published by the state board of horticulture, by persons who have seen theso processes going forward for from- forty-four to fifty-two years' observation; therefore, be it "Resolved, These prosecutions of stockowners, whose Btock has in past years ranged on the mountains of Ore gon, is totally unjustifiable, on the ground of injury done by such grazing; that we, as citizens of the United States, residing in Oreogn, claim all the right of the citizens of other states to the full benefit of the use of the public domain, and of the general land laws of the national government, and believe it an oppression, unjust as well as unnecessary, to harrass stockmen by trials in the United States court for acts of technical trespass, where benefit rather than damage lias been done; that we heartily indorse the concurrent resolution introduced by Senator Mul key, in the present legislative assembly of Oregon; that we are unanimously in favor of the restoration of a reasonable tariff duty on wool, adequate for thq encouragement of woolg'rowing, anil also favor an import duty being placed on shoddy, sufficiently high to dis courage the importation of said ar ticle."' , ftehatUf Miilkev's resloutioil, pro vides for three reserves, instead of one. PLAGUE AND FAMINE The Appalling Calamity Hanging Over India. TRBBIBLB SCKNKS IN BOMBAY United Million by Hie Kuropeaa Pow ers to Prevent the Introduction of the Disease. Bombay, Jan. 19. Plague and famine are stalking urm-in-arnt through densely populated portions of tho Brit ish empire; thousands are dead or dy ing, and the outlook grows blacker and more terrible every day. Millions of hapless men, women and children are starving, and the fumine- itricken districts, having a population of nearly 40,000,000 pepolc, will huvi to depend upon tho aid of charity for food enough to keep body und soul to gether until April or Inter. Other dis tricts, with a population numbering about 50,000,000, uro already feelin;,- the pangs of bitter privation from food. and this must he endured well on into pring, before iermanent relief will be afforded by nature. Funds for the re lief of Biifferers are being raised on all aides, but a very large amount of money will be needed to provide food even foe tjiose unfortunate people who live on almost nothing (in comparison with Europeans an.d others.) " ". . J:, Hie calamity, awful in its its mien- THE DAY IN THE HOUSE the Late Oratorical Tributes to Speaker L'rlsp. Washington, Jan. 19. Most of this day in the house Was devoted to ora torical triubtes to the late Speaker Crisp, of Georgia, who died during the recent recess of congress. The speeches were listened to by nearly all of the DfniocratSj and, a large contingent of Republicans', while many Southern people filled the galierfes. All of the members from Georgia niij sevejal IeadeTS on both sides of the house de livered eulogies, which, were unusually impresslvei itiid were listened to with, much hWrdj than the usual attention. TUC 1)111 authorizing the Columbia & lied Montain Railway Company , to build a 'bridge across the Columbia river, in Stevens county, Wash,, culled tip by Doolittle, passed. Delegate Cat ron attempted to secure the passage of a bill to give the deserted Fort Marcy military reservation, at Santa Fe, N. M., to the American Invalid Aid So ciety., of Boston, for the establishment 1 oj 11 sanitarium for pulmonary diseases, but it failed on objection. Flogging; on Shipboard. Cleveland, Jan. 19. Senators Frye and Hale, who were responsible for the senate substitute for house bill No. 2603, which restored flogging in the merchant marine, are being severely condemned by the 300,000 members of the Western Seamen's Society and va rious branches. At a meeting of the local trustees ot the society, w ho are prominent business men, were adopted protesting law. the left 1 sity, is possibly not much greater thim the ravages of the dreadful pluguo here. threatening to spread through th'i crowded cities to other purts of India, und, if it reaches the greutly weakened fumjne sufferers, the mortality may b terrible. The natives have lieen re duced bv lack of food to little less tlinu iving skeletons, in the most heavilv stricken districts, and us such they cannot but full victims by the thou sands to the plague. ' The mortality here has quadrupled, without counting the deaths which have occurred among thousands of people who have fled in terror from Bombay, in many cases abandoning their all in their hurried flight from the great peri!. Uj to recently, Bombay, with iw population of about $50,000, enjoyed tho reputation of being one of the healthiest cities in India, its sanitary orks being equal to those of tho Eu ropean capitals. But all this is changed. Moro than half of tho 'popu lation has disappeared, and those wht feinain are either lielph;, ami cannot get away, or ara fjfowdiiig out of the ty qy Tiyl, water and road, or else contemplate so doing unless there is, "change for the better shortly. The gov ernment officials are seriously alarmed native physicians have nearly all the city, business is paralyzed, thj mills are closed or closing, the stree'a are partly dosertod, and on all sides an empty houses, boarded up or wide open. The passage of funeral parties through the streets goes on day and night, burn ing grounds, or ghats, light the akie with their reflections, and line after line" of bodies there or ai the parsee burial spots five awaiting consignment to the flames or to mother earjb. The number of deaths" from the plaglie in this" cily is how estimated, unofficially, to be 3,000, and there are aboltt 170 additional victims dailyr with this number increasing as time wears on. The Europeans, however, have been singularly free from con tagion up to the present time, only three deaths among them being record ed to date. j At Karachi, Pooiia and Bandra, where large numbers of refugees have sought safety, the plague has broken out in most threatening form. At Bandra, for instance, 129 deaths are re corded out of 180 cases of plague, caus ing consternation, even among the phy sicians. In this city there are thou sands of houses without native serv ants, nearly all the latter having joined the fleeing multitudes. Employers are helpless because of the departure of clerks and porters, and stores are closed on account of the utter stagnation in business. The mortality during the past week here has been unprecedented, while the returns of deaths from re mittent fevers are extraordinarily high " above the plague rate, which is natur-. I ally interpreted as meaning that num. j bers of people who have fallen victims resolutions 'ne plague have been offlciallv re- against the j corded as having died of remittent fy'ver. . j A VENGEFUL HUNGARIAN. Has Dlscorered No Lymph. I Paris, Jan. 19. In an interview, Dr. j Roux, who is connected with the de partment of hygiene, denied a report that he had made experiments with an 1 anti-plague lymph. He would know ! how to prepare the lymph, he said, if I it was needed, but he felt that bubonic ! plague would never get a hold in Eu rope. The Temps complains of the in-! activity of the present Indian govern-! ment in dealing with the scourge. j Victim of Commodore Wreck. Salem, Mass., Jan. 19. The remains! butcher knife, of the late William Alexander Iliggins, who met his death with many others at the foundering of the Cuban filibus tering steamer Commodore, off the Florida coast, Sunday morning, Janu ary 3, arrived today. The funeral was held at the undertaking rooms, and was attended by a large crowd. The Death ot Mace. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 19. A let ter has been received br one of the ot operate any poundnet, fishtrap, fish- representatives in this city of the Cu- nurci ur Oilier MlfVl annliunv fn.l hln Inntl lYlnflrtr.ino ciucning aaimon in any waters of the state after January 1, 1899. Penalties Associated Press dispatch of Friday giving an ac count 01 the death or General Macea The letter is from Lieutenant-Colonel Hernandec, who was encamped with a company of cavalry and other forces near where Maeeo was ambushed. The insurgents are reported to be encamped j nine man ran 01 Havana. He Beheaded the Man Who Had Out-, wrestled Him. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Jan. 18. After be ing bested by Joseph Kalata . in a 1 wrestling bout, John Cournett, a Hun- -garian, beheaded his successful , rival. . The men were rivals for, the hand of 1 Anna Jopkapotah, witj, whose father.' they boarded. There was a gathering at the house and Cournott challenged Kalata to a wrestling match. Cournott was de feated, and in his anger left the room, returning in a few , minutes with a Rushing at Kalata. he swung the knife around bis head, and with all the force, he could muster brought it down on Kalata 's neck. The keen blade cut, its way through the muscles, arteries, and jugular vein, sev- -eringthem and , stopping only at . the opposite side of the neck. . Kalata fell : to the floor without so much as a groan. . Corpus Christi, Tex., Jan. 19. It is -a well-known fa;t among certain parties here that while Dan Stuart was in Co pro s Christi last May, he held sev eral consultations with a leading Brownsville attorney, the result of ; which was the lease of an island in the -Rio Grande river from the Mexican gov- -eminent , Several knowing ones here aseert that the probabilities are that the Corbett-Fitrsimmons fight will be polled eff on the island, which is abont ta mi' from Brownsville.