OREGON COURIER
A, W. VHKNKV, Publlaher.
OREGON CITY OREGON
EVENTS OF THE DAY
CRISIS IN THE SENATORIAL
CONTEST AT FRANKFORT.
EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
An Interesting Oolleetlon of Item From
' the Two Hemispheres Presented In
Oondensed Form A Large Amount
ot Information In a Small Bpaea,
The Commercial and Saving bank,
of San Jose, Cal., baa closed iu doors.
Tbe depoeitori, it is laid, will be paid
in foil.
Fire destroyed a block of " ten bouses
in Pittsburg, Pa., rendering ten fam
ilies homeless, and canning a loss of
460,000.
Tbe defeusos at Esquimau, B. C, are
again being strengthened. Seven new
heavy breecb-loading guns have just
arrived from England. ' '
Four men were killed and one in
jured by the blowing np of an engine
on tbe Delaware, Susquehanna &
Schuylkill railroad at Gum Kun, Pa.
Tbe collapse, of tbe rear of a frame
factory building in Chicago resulted
- in seriously injuring five persons and
nearly 100 others bad narrow escapes.
There have been floods in tbe Alpine
districts of tbe Tyrol and in Bohemia,
with avalanches and landslides on tbe
railways. It is feared that many lives
have been lost.
A project is on foot in Vanoouver,
B. C, to bold a championship profes
sional regatta at the time of the meet
, ing of the Northwest Paoitlo Associa
tion of Amateur Oarsmen. ,
In Oakland, Cal., two oihldren, aged
10 and 6, were run down by an eleo
trio oar and instantly killed. The
children were daughters of Frank E.
Booth, a commission merchant doing
business in San Franoisoo.
President Cleveland held his first tri
weekly reoepiton to tbe publio at the
White House, after a suspension of
nearly two years. About 200 persons
took advantage of the opportunity to
. shake hands with the president
In Ban Francisco 800 painters went
on a strike. They ask for an increase
of 60 cents a day, making their wages
S3 Instead of 12.50. Tbe strike was
ordered by tbe Painters' union, and
was decided upon some days ago,
The president has pardoned Nathan
Blum, convicted in Oregon of smug
ftling and conspiracy, but whose sen-
tenoe was suspended, and F. M. Sauls
-bury, oonvioted in Oregon of misusing
penalty envelopes, and fined f 300,
James Duggan, a well-known oitizen
of Denver and five others have left
there for tha Alaskan gold fields. The
party will number fifty and they will
go in a chartered vessel, and carry
applies sufficient for a two years' stay.
Thousands of dollars have been
filched from the Chioago oity treasury
through a olever scheme oonoooted by
. three tax sharks, in the controller's
offloe and in the special assessment bu
reau. The steal was accomplished by
forging special assessment tax receipts.
The disreputable women who infest
Morton street and St. Mary's Place, in
Ban Franoisoo, are in a state of torror
on account of the murder of two of
their olass within a month. Both
women were strungled to death in
their rooms, and in both oases the mnr
rierors have escaped.
A dispatch from Baroelona says that
the merchants of that oity have agreed
not to sell American products in event
of Cleveland approving the Cuban bel
ligerency resolutions. They have also
opened a subscription toward a fund,
whioh is to be devotod to the purchase
of warehips.
John L. Sullivan and Parson Davies
are preparing to head a movemeut to
place pugilism on a paying basis again,
Hallivan believes sporting men should
organize and refuse to cast their ballots
for legislators or congressmen who
would not agree to let prizefighters go
unmolested.
J. lie National Armenian relief oom
mittee of New York will send 110,000
to Constantinople. It is stated by the
committee that the distribution of
money is being now made among the
Armenians, and at tbo present time
. the greatest obstacle to the work of re,
liof is lack of funds rather than oppo
ition by the sultan.
Delegates from the various commer
cial organizations of San Franoisoo held
' a conference as to the best means of
protecting San Francisco's trade with
Eureka and other North PaoiSo way
ports against Portland s competition,
A committee was apoiuted to wait
upon the O. R. & N. and North Paoiflo
steamship oompauies, and ask them to
discontinue their service between Port
land and Eureka and intermediate
points.
Recent advices fully confirm tbe re
port of the overthrow of tbe pro-Japanese
government in Cores and the es
tablishment of a distinctly Russian
ministry, the members of the late cabi
net having, with one exception, been
pat to death with horrible barbarity,
inclusive of cannibalism. The fortu
nate member of the late government to
aave his bead was tbe minister of war,
who is believed to have come to Ameri
ca in exile.
Tbe plan for the reorganization of
the Oregon Short Line St Utah North
ern Railway Company, agreed to by all
contending interests, baa been officially
issued. It calls for a foreclosure and a
new oompany to be known as the
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company.
It preserves the entire system, and
UNDER MARTIAL LAW
itait w mj vay v as, y aajn vuu svwsi nwivw
is secured by $18,000,000 collateral
trust bonds,, the new Short Line Com
pany paying the assessment upon tbe
Navigation stock.'
An attempt was made to wreck the
Union Paoiflo, Butte & Salt Lake ex
press one mile from Pocatello, Idaho.
When within a short distance of tbe
last switch, Engineer Andrews saw a
man throw tbe switch snd run away.
The engineer immediately reversed bis
engine. Tbe train left tbe traok, but
fortunately the cars remained upright,
and no one was injured. There is a
deep fill at this point, and, had the
train not boen promptly stopped, it
would have dashed down the steep
grade. No motive is known for the
deed.
The strike of 12,600 Berlin jointers
was ended this week. The workmen
bave obtained higher pay and shorter
hours.
Tbe British colonial office has been
asked to sanction a chartered oompany
to exploit Asbantee, but it is unlikely
it will consent
While sitting in his cabin at Eliza
bethtown, N. J., Jeff Bailey was
blown to atoms by the explosion of 86
pounds of giant powder.
To escape arrest for the embezzle
ment of government funds, Frank
Mapes, postmaster of Kansas City,
Kan., committed suicide at his resi
dence in that oity.
Tbe Anglo-German loan of 100,000,
000 taels has been issued at 04, with
interest at 6 per cent Tbe contract
stipulates that tbe customs administra
tion is to remain nnohanged.
Aooording to a report on the organ
ized militia of the United States, just
prepared by the war department, tbe
United States ir case of need, can put
9,407,004 men in tbe field.
The senate of Cambridge university,
Loudon, by a vote of 186 to 171, has
rejocted the proposistion to appoint a
committee to consider tbe question of
conferring degrees upon women.
During February, the exports of gold
coin and bullion amounted to $2,188,-
700, snd thu imports to $11,569,089.
For tbe eight months, the exports were
$68,642,992 in exoess of the imports.
Two hundred fishermen, belonging
to Reval, near St Petersburg, Russia,
with their horses and carts, bave been
blown oat to sea on floating ice. They
had only one day's provisions with
them.
A disastrous oollision between a
freight train and a snowplow occurred
on the Berkshire division of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad,
near Kent furnace, Milford, Conn.
Two men were killed and seven or
eight others injured.
A Moscow correspondent of the Lon
don News believes it true that theporte
has deoided upon the expulsion of the
British and American missionaries in
Asia Minor. "Such a measure would
be consonant with the wishes of Rus
sia." the correspondent adds.
At the request of the state depart
ment at Washington, the United States
embassy at Berlin has formally invited
all the German universities to send
delegates to the Prinoeton celebration
in Ootober next Some of them, in
cluding the universities of Goettingen,
have aooepted.
A terrible tragedy occurred in Seneca
Falls, N. Y. It was the murder of a
highly respectable young girl, Miss
Mary Mansel, by Thomas Pelkinton.
Immediately after the murder, and
with the same weapon with whioh he
committed the murder, he took his own
life. Tbe girl received two ballets in
the bead, and one entered the brain.
One hundred students of Muhlen
berg college, Allentown, Pa. , partici
pated in an anti-SpaniBh demonstra
tion. They paraded tbe oollege corri
dors and oampus, singing patriotic
Bongs amid obtering, and ended by
burning the Spanish flag and hanging
General Weyler in effigy.
Lord Dunraven presided at a meeting
held in London of the Yaobt Raoing
Association. Before the meeting was
oalled to order the question of tbe ad
visability of making a reply to the
New York Yacht Club in regard to the
expulsion of Dunraven was informally
discussed, and it was deoided that it
would not be good taste to do so. The
matter was dropped.
The Pope Manufacturing Company's
building, Boston, Mass., was com
pletely gutted by fire, necessitating a
general alarm. The loss is between
$350,000 and $400,000. The block was
a five-story structure of brick, profuse
ly ornamented with terra cotta trim
mings. Seventeen hnnrded bicyoles
and parts were destroyed in the flames.
Mllltla Ordered Out b'jr tha Governor
Bicltement la Kentucky'sCapltal If
at Fever Pitch, and tbe Street are
Crowded With People.
Frankfort, Ky., March 17. The riot
bell was rang from tbe fire engine
house at 1 1 o'olock tonight, and at tbe
same moment Governor i Bradley or
dered out the militia. Ten minutes
later, the MoCrary Guards, fifty-two
strong, Captain Noel Gaines, were in
possession of the state house and mar
tial law was proclaimed.
Until today Governor Bradley had
persistently refused to oall out the mil
itia, though urged to do so by citizens,
irrespective of party. Tbe Blaokburn
leaders, he was informed, bad been
preparing all day to take forcible pos
session of tbe statebouse tomorrow.
Threats were made that tbe senate
would arrest the governor tomorrow
for usurpation of authority in giving
the instructions he gave last night to
the sheriff of Franklin oounty to olear
the corridors and oloak rooms.
All trains arriving yesterday brought
in reinforcements for tbe men bent on
mischief tomorrow. It was only at
the last moment when tbe presence of
these orowds presaged serious danger,
that tbe governor yielded to repeated
requests of orderly oitizens of both
parties and oalled oat tbe militia.
Sergeant-at-Arms Summers has
sworn in Jack Chinn, Jim William
Eph Lillard and other desperate men
as his deputies,
It is reported to tbe governor by
numerous affidavits that armed men
had been collecting in the capital for
two or three days, with a view of tak
ing charge of tbe joint assembly today,
A oompany from Lexington and the
Louisville Legion, 800 strong, will ar
rive early in the morning. Guards
surround the statehonse and permit no
one but state officers, senators, repre
sentatives and others having a oonsti
tutional right to pass.
The excitement in tbe oity is great
and the streets are fall of people. No
little apprebnsion is felt
Governor Bradley, in an interview
at midnight, said, in explanation of his
aotion, that the presiding officers of
both houses had called on him for pro
teotion, and that he called on the
mayor to give it. He learned after'
ward that the sheriff and the police had
been insufficient, and had done nothing
to remove the disturbing element.
"Under these circumstances, I felt
could not allow such a state of things
to continue, and oalled out the state
guard."
BUTCHERED BY SPANIARDS.
SEVEN MILES A MINUTE.
Report! of More Horrible Mcre
From Cuba.
. New York, March 17. Dispa tones
from Havana, sent via Key West, de
scribe a series of horrible massaores
perpetrated by Spanish soldiers.
March 10, in Havana precinct, six
small Cuban boys were met on the pub
lio road by a detachment of Spanish
infantry, who shot and killed them.
At Palmas de Pedroso the Spaniards
shot fifteen nonoombatants, among
them being a man named Perdome,
Cnban by birth, but a naturalized oiti
zen of the United States. Ten days
ago a detaohment of Spanish troops en
tered tbe town of Artemisia. The
women of the town were violated and
many young girls were carried off to
the Spanish camp, where they were de
tained over night Two of the girls
oommitted suicide the next day. The
old men who protested against the out
rages were shot The correspondent
in Havana sends details of tbe mas.
saore of six persons on the Morales, or
Dolores sugar estate, two miles from
Bainoa, and the serious wounding of
Dr. Jose Manuel Delgardo, an Ameri
oan oitizen, by Spanish troops, nnder
oommund of General Melquizo.
Another Knoeh Arden
Sedalia, Mo., Maroh 17. Fifteen
years ago a man was run over by a
Missouri Paoiflo train a few miles west
of this oity. The remains were cut
into many pieces and strewn along the
traok. They were picked up and
brought here. The dead man, having
been patched up by the undertaker,
was identified as George Hatfield, of
this city, and buried as such. Seven
years ago Mrs. Hatfield married W. D.
Barnhart, who is now a prosperous coal
dealer in this oity. Today, George
Hatfield arrived here from California,
where he has been for the past fifteen
years engaged in fruit farming. He
bad never written home in all tbe past
years, but bad prospered and grown
wealthy. When he learned his wife
It is now gonerally thought that the had remarried he viewed her from
river and harbor bill will carry about across the street, and. seeinir that she
$12,000,000 for the whole' country, was happy and comfortably situated, he
left his "Annie undisturbed with
Philip," and departed in the oompany
of his brother.
The Hpeed Expected to Be Attained by
a Brooklyn Inventor.
New York, Maroh 18. A local pa
per says: If the vessel whioh has been
invented by James Gresham, of Brook
lyn, proves able to accomplish what its
inventor intends it shall, New Yorkers
will be able to have breakfast in this
oity and dinner the same day in Lon
don. If the ambition of the inventor
of tbe boat is gratified tbe famous sub
marine oraft told of in Jules Verne's
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the
Sea" will be nowhere.
The boat invented by Mr. Gresham,
when completed, it is claimed, will
make tbe voyage over the ocean in a
little more than eight hoars, whioh
means the rate of something under 600
miles an hour and seven miles a min
ute.
Mr. Gresham is a cousin of tbe late
secretary of state, W. U. Gresham. He
is prominent in Brooklyn politics, hav
ing been nominated for oongress, but
being defeated by ex-Mayor Boody,
He is a chemist of note, and is well
known in business oiroles, being a man
ufaoturer of paints and oils in that
city. ,
As an inventor he has made a repu
tation ior nimsen. some years ago
be invented a submarine torpedo-boat
to be steered by means of eleotrioity
running from shore or from a mau-of
war. Tbe Russian government placed
itself in communication with him and
shortly after pubrchased the inventon.
Other inventions have been patented by
him, all of them more or less import'
ant.
The latest invention of Mr. Gresham
is the one in whioh be has taken tbe
most interest. For months be has been
at work upon it and today he has the
satisfaction of knowing the model is
oomplete, and that he is in a fair way
to astonish the world. The boat is
constructed and designed upon a me-
obanioal theory which is as astonishing
as it is difficult to explain.
The model has been thoroughly
tested in ponds and in a specifically
constructed tank. The tests, he says.
have been all that could be desired, and
in a.11 the boat attained a phenomenal
rate of speed. Guided by the electric
wires, it went from one end of the tank
to the other a distance of 648 feet
in seven seconds. .
When the boat is completed it is safe
to say it will be the most wonderful
affair of its kind ever put into the wa
ter. In talking of his boat recently.
Mr. Gresham said if be constructed a
vessel 100 feet in length she would be
able to carry 100 men. These men,
he said, would be carried in an inner
shell which would remain absolutely
without motion. The cyolinder of the
outside would revolve with greater
rapidity than the sorew of an ocean
steamship and a spiral flange would
drive the vessel forward at an enor
mous rate of speed. 1
It seems almost inoredible," said
the inventor, "but I would not say that
the Atlantio could not be crossed in
eight hours."
The boat will go faster under water,
Mr. Gresham said, because the entire
flange is then submerged. When the
boat is under water persons who are in
it will be supplied with breathing ma
terial by means of liquefied air carried
to them by an arrangement whioh will
be inoluded in tbe patent. Mr.
Gresham explained that a model when
tested made absolutely no commotion in
the water and left no wake. He says
his application for a patent in the
United States has been accepted.
IS NEARING THE END
AGAIN THE VENEZUELA DISPUTE
IS REPORTED SETTLED.
speoial
A CHOCTAW EXECUTION.
though it may fall below that. This
is what the chief of engineers of tbe
army says is absolutely neoessary to
properly carry on the work. Represen
tative Hermann says that, whatever
tbe amount, Oregon and Washington
will get their share and perhaps a
larger per cent of the whole amount
than ever before.
It is reported that tbe sugar refiner
ies in the vicinity of New York will
probably shut down. John A. Searles,
treasurer, said that some of the re
fineries might be closed, but that there
was no special significance in this.
Killed Their Fellow-Soldlere.
Havana, March 17. A terrible mis
take has resulted in the killing of a
number of Spanish soldiers by their
fellow-Spaniards. The battalion of San
(juintin was approaching tbe town of
Cano, seven miles from Havana, to
save the buildings of a burning plan
tation. The town shortly before that
had been attacked by insurgents, snd
the garrison, without hailing tbe San
(jnintin battalion, and taking them for
How a Murderer There Will Pay the
Penalty of Hia Crime.
Guthrie, O. T., Maroh 18. At the
Bogby Creek oourt, in the Choctaw
nation, Charles Homes, a full-blood
Indian, was convicted of murder and
setenced to be shot March 27, between
10 and 12 o'clock. On the 2d day of
last November Homes went to the
house of bis wife's son-in-law, Wilson
Katiatubbi, living in Stringtown, and
while he and his wife were in bed
asleep crept into the houBe with an ax
and chopped his head open. He then
forced his wife to go with him, threat'
ening death. At the first opportunity
she made her escape and told what had
happened.
Aocording to Choctaw custom, Homes
is not in prison, or in oustody of offi
cers, lie will be allowed to roam
about at bis own will until tbe day of
the execution. This is an old law of
the Choctaws, and only one case of i
violation of it is on record. On execu
tion day Homes will be dressed in
black robe and stationed in tbe oourt
ground. A star two inches across will
be placed over his heart as a target and
be will stand on his coffin. Twelve
Indians stationed thirty paces away
will shoot at tbe target, but only two
the guns will be loaded. Only
oourt attendants are allowed to wit
ness the execution.
Official! In Washington, However, Deny
Thla, but Admit au Amicable Settle
ment la Very Probable Tha Preal
deut In High Spirit.
New York, Maroh 16. A
from Washington says:
A settlement of the Venezuela ques
tion has been reaobed. It will be an
nounced at an early date. Of this sat
isfactory conclusion of the controversy
the president has bad knowledge for
two days past Great Britain has
acted with the magnanimity which
commends her to her severest oritios.
She oonoedes so much that there will
be little left to arbitrate should arbi
tration be necessary. It is not improb
able that the entire matter may be set
tled outside of the Venezuela commis
sion by the president and Lord Salis
bury.
Under tbe terms so far as outlined,
Great Britain agrees to submit all of
the questions in dispute to amicable
adjustment. That Venezuela would
agree to almost anything suggested by
the United Sattes baa been known all
along. It is surmised that the atittude
of some of the influential London pa
pers in pointiong out alleged defects
in the Briitsh bluebook may have had
something to do with the change of at
titude by Queen Victoria's ministers.
Tbe president was in very high
spirits last night over the favorable
turn in the controversy between the
two nations.
DOINGS OF CONGRESS.
Washington, Maroh 16. It can be
stated positively, notwithstanding pub'
lioation to tbe contrary, that no settle'
ment has as yet been reached on the
Venezuela question, but, aooording to
the best authority, matters are proceed
ing in such a fashion as to warrant the
belief that there will be a satisfactory
outoome.
At the present time it oannot be told
whether the ultimate settlement of this
quostion will be effected as a result of
direct negotiations between Great
Britain and Venezuela, initiated
through the medium of some mutually
friendly power, or as a conclusion of
the work of our own Venezuela bound
ary commission. But in one way or
another a peaceful settlement is be
lieved to be entirely probable in tbe
end, though the end still may be far removed.
THE LUMBfcR TRUST.
a
Times were dull and it is said the piroe insurgents, returned to a second attack
tnav Ka Milnfttil a it,, i n Tkk Pnlun 1 , ....
may be reduoed again. The Cuban
controversy in oongress is giivng tbe
sugar trust some oonoern, tor if the
belligerency of the insurgents is recog
nized the trust may be cut off from re
ceiving supplies from that source for sn
indefinite period, whereas, if the de
bate on the resolution is postponed the
shipment of sugar from Cuba will con
tinue for a while longer.
and opened upon them with volleys
The San Uuentin battalion, on the
other hand, mistook tbe garrison for
the insurgents, and charged three times
with great determination, taking the
town. Before the mistake was dis
covered tbe San Uuintin battalion had
loat twelve soldiers killed and a cap
tain, four lieutenants and twenty
seven solidera wounded. I
Poison In Their Uollee.
Craig, Mo., March 17. Tbe family
of W. B. Taylor, a wealthy farmer,
was mysteriously poisoned here yester
day. Tbe drug is supposed to bave
been introduced in tbe coffee, though
by whom and for what purpose is a
mystery. W. B. Taylor died last
light; bis three sons, one of their
wives and Taylor Criman, a cousin,
are dying. It is rumored that a near
relative of the family administered the
poison. There is mncn excitement.
Price of the Product of the Pacific
Ooaat Advanced.
San Franoisoo, March 16. Tbe prioe
of every foot of lumber whioh is
shipped to this port and is manufac
tured or handled in any business cen
ter of the Pacific coast has been ad
vanced. The prices became operative
today when the great lumber trust
began its existenoe. As already an
nounced, suooess has crowned the
efforts of the organizers of the Central
Lumber Company. Every mill ot
slightest importance on the coast is in
oluded in the oom bine. The retailers
are in a position where resistance is
out of the question, even if contemplat
ed. The wholesale dealers and mill'
men control, the situation, and intend
to make the lumber business profitable,
It is olaimed many of tbe most power
ful leaders in the industry have con
ducted business for years without
profit. Domestio and foreign competi
tioH have reduced prices to that point
whore heavy losses could not be avoid
ed. Tbe trust will remedy these evils,
and allow members of tbe corporation
to charge what tbey believe reasonable
for the product handled. Tbe organ
ization of the trust after so many fail
ures and apparently unsurmountable
difficulties, has caused marked exoite
ment in business circles in this city.
It was known that one prominent deal
er was blocking the suooess of the plan.
He refused to accept the terms whioh
others had found agreeable, and de
clined to enter the combination exoept
npon terms whioh the organizers be
lieved were unfair. The name of this
dealer was kept a secret until yester
day, when it became known that he
had at last agreed to sign the required
contracts. He is P. B. Cornwall, who
controlls tbe Bellingham Land & Im
provement Company.
NOT A CHRISTIAN LEFT
Routine Work of the fifty-Fourth Sec
tion Senate.
Washington, March 14. Senators
Sherman and Hill were the conspicuous
figures in the Cuban debate in the sen
ate today. Tbe New York senstor
forcibly urged the mercenary character
of the pending resolutions, while Sher
man upheld them with another graphic
arraignment of Spain and Weyler.
It was tbe fourth day of the dobate on
tbe conference report and yet there
was no evidence of a near approach to
a final vote, although Sherman an
nounced that be would press for a vote
at the earliest moment. Mitchell in
troduced a joint resolution in the sen
ate allowing tbe engineers to use $20,
000 of the unexpended balance for the
cascade locks, to be used for making
a protection wall. He made a brief
talk, asking the ooromittee on com
merce to report the resolution as speed
ily as possible.
Washington, March 16. The excite
ment of the Cuban debate gave way to
Cockrell today, his elaborate speech on
the financial question occupying four
hours. There was a spirited reference
to Cuba early in the day, when it de
veloped during an explanation by
Lodge that the committee on foreign
relations had reoeived from Secretary
Olney a statement by Senor de Lome,
tbe Spanish minister, giving tbe Span
ish view of the case. This brought
out animated suggestions from Hoar
and Woloott that the senate be put in
possession of this important testimony.
Cockrell's speech was an elaborate
presentation of the finanoial question
from tbe silver standpoint, so much so
that Hoar stated that it was the ablest
silver speech he had ever listened to.
Washington, March 18. Tbe senate
bad an hour of spirited Cuban debate
today, after tbe early part of tbe day
had been given to set speeches by
Lodge on immigration and Pugh on
silver. Tbe Cuban discussion was
mainly important in bringing out the
full reading of a statement of the
Spanish side of tbe oase by Senor Do
pny de Lome, the Spanish minister.
This bad been referred to some days
ago, but oould not be made public.
Today, however, Morgan read a letter
from Seoretary Olney saying the Span
ish minister gave his permission for
the publio use of the statement It
olaimed to detail the insurgent nieth-
oos oi guerma wanare, ine on n ring
of oanefields and tbe disorganized
oharaoter of the insurgent bands.
Those Not Killed Became Muaaulmans
to Save Their Live.
New York, March 16. The Armen
ian Relief Association has received
from Constantinople detailed informa
tion concerning tbe recent massacre at
Birijik. This town had about 800
Cbritsian bouses, or say about 1,000
souls, in the midst of a Mussulman
populaiton of about 9,000. January 1
tbe news of the massacre of several
thousand Christians at Onrfa by tbe
soldiers appointed to guard them in
cited tbe troops at Birijik to imitate
this crime. Tbe assault on tbe Christ
ian houses commenced about 9 o'clock
in the morning and oou tinned until
nightfall. Ninety-six men are known
to bave been killed, or about half the
adult Christian men. The others have
become Mussulmans to save their lives,
so that there is not a single Christian
left in Birijik today. The Armenian
church bas been made into a mosque,
and the Protestant church into a
medresse seminary.
. The Mother Country Denounced
Toronto, March 18. Circulars are
being distributed through tbe mails by
tbe so-called "Canadian Pacific party,"
declaring in effect that Great Britain
ia robbing tbe Dominion through the
medium of the Canadian government
Tbe sending out of such matter through
the mails is in direct violation of the
law, and government detectives have
been set to watch affairs.
More Klotlng la Spain.
Madrid, March 16. At Com una,
200 students belonging to the univer
sity joined in a parade yesterday,
cheered for Spain and burned the
American flag. The police succeeded
in preventing the rioters from ap
proaching the United States consulate.
At Alicante, the mayor and police,
while dispersing similar demonstra
tion, were pelted with stone. Some
policemen sustained injuries.
Houae.
Washington, March 13. The house
today passed the postoffioe appropriation
bill, whioh has been under considera
tion sinoe last Friday. The feature of
the debate today was the attaok on the
spy system" in connection with letter
carriers. The salaries of speoial in
spectors have been paid nnder tbe car
rent law, out of a fund at the disposal
of the first assistant postmaster-general.
This fund was cut off by the present
bill, but provisions were made for the
employment of thirty additional regu
lar inspectors under the fourth assist
ant postmaster-general, increasing the
appropriation from $176,000 to $212,
000. CJuigg led the fight against this
increase and, after a protraoted debate,
his amendment to reduoe the appropria
tion to $176,000 prevailed, 70 to 67.
Washington, March 14. In the
house today, during tbe morning hour,"
on motion of Johnson, a resolution was
adopted by which the olaim of Cole
man, Republican, of the seoond Louis
iana district, to the seat of Buck, was
deoided in favor of the latter. Daniels
oalled up the contested eleotion oase of
Aldrioh-Robbins, from the fourth Ala
bama distriot, in which the Repub
licans recommended the seating of
Aldricb. Three hours and a balf, he
said, were to be allowed on each side
for argument. Moody deonunced in
focrible language what he termed the
crimes against honest elections in Ala
bama. Seversal others spoke on the
subject, but it went over.
Washington, Maroh 16. Provisions
for putting soveral craft of the navy
into oondition for service as soon as
possible was made today by the house
committee on naval affairs. Commo-
dore Hichborne, chief of the bureau of
construction and repairs of the navy
department, made a request for a "De
dal appropriation of $860,000, to be
available for use immediately, explain
ing tnat several gunboats and other
oraft oould be put in shape to go into
commission, if needed, for compara
tively small expenditures, and the de
partment considered it advisable that
the work should be done at once. To
partly balance the allowances for Com
modore Hiobborne's bureau, the gen
eral appropriation therefor was cut
down from $14,000,000 to $12,500,000,
There are twelve boats which the f e
partmentwill put into condition for
service, snd for which the appropria
tion is asked. Some of them are new
craft, and others old ones now out of
commission.
Washington, March 18. This was
suspension day in the house, and sev-
ereal Dills were passed. The most im
portant was the Oklahoma homestead
bill, which relieves homesteaders in
Oklahoma of the payment of the pur
chase price of their homesteads. The
house also deoided, at the request of
Hitt, chairman of the committee on
foreign affairs to consider the resolu
tions censuring Ambassador Bayard on
Friday. A bill was passed Brsntinir
to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Company the right of way
through the Sao and Fox Indian reser
vations. Bills were passed granting
to the First National bank of Sprsgue.
Wssh., tbe right to chsoge its location
to Spokane, Wash., and to increase tbe
rank and psy of tbe judge-advocate of
the navy when appointed from the
navy.
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