The Corvallis gazette., May 07, 1896, Image 1

VOL. XXXIII.
COR VALLIS, BENTON COUNTY; OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1896.
NO. 8.
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MEXICO NO ASYLUM.
Fugitives From This Country Will Get
No Comfort There.
City of Mexioo, May 5. In the case
of the Chester Rowe, of Poweshiek
county, Iowa, accused of embezzling
public moneys, judge Aguelar last
evening imposed a sentence of twelve
years and two months imprisonment
in Belim prison. This case has been a
notable one in the history of Mexican
jurisprudence, as Rowe, after commit
ting the offense, came here and took
out papers of citizenship, hoping thus
to evade punishment But under the
penal code, an offense committed
abroad and continued on Mexican soil
is punishable, and Rowe's case will
serve, as a warning for criminals hop
in to find a safe asylum in Mexico.
Lawyer Alfore, for the plaintiff, said
Rowe only made himself a Mexioan
citizen to evade punishment that
awaited him for misappropriating
funds to the extent of $38,000. He
had deserted his family, having sent
his wife but 50 from here. His de
fenders claim that their client was not
wholly answerable for the alleged
crime committed in the United States.
The case was appealed to the superior
court, but it is generally believed
among lawyers here that the decision
will be sustained.
Mr. Buckstone, who oame from Iowa
to prosecute the oase, says the Ameri
can people will warmly approve the
deoision which Btamps Mexico as a
law-upholding country. ,
Protectorate Over Abyssinia.
Rome, May 4. Qreenbooks whiob
have been issued show that Italy, in
the peace negotiations with King Men
elek, of Abyssinia, stipulated that if
Italy renounced her protectorate over
Abyssinia, it should not be replaced
by that of any other power. General
Baldissera was instructed to bold Cas
sala until the autumn, when the final
deoision was to be taken unless the city
was in great peril, when it could be
evacuated. .
Work of Spanish Butchers.
New York, May 5. The World's
Havana special says: ' A Spanish bat
talion of guerillas under the butcher,
Juan Tejund, is terrorizing the inhabi
tants of Congo Dos Cominos, San Louis
and Pulma Torinia. A party command
ed by Canosa killed a mother and four
children of ages ranging from sixteen
years to eight months. In the neigh
borhood of the sugar estate of Santa
Anita, the Spanish Lieutenant Perez,
of Tejunda s guerillas, Killed a man
and a girl because - they told him they
did not know where the rebels were.
In Caney del Sitio, another party fired
the house of the prefect. Three child
ren and four women who ran away
were horribly mutilated.
It is said that stammerers rarely if
ever show any impediment of speeon
When speaking in whispers.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News ot the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting; Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
In a Condensed Form.
A oase of leprosy has been discover
ed in California. The afflioted person
is a girl of 15.
Henry Gottharde von Treitsohke,
the German historian, died in Berlin.
He was born in 1844.
Lord Dunraven denies the report
that Mr. H. MoCalmont is now the sole
owner of Valkyrie IIL
Rev. C. O. Brown has given up the
fight and resigned his pastorate of the
First Congregational churoh of San
Francisco.
A German force defeated a large
body of Hottentot rebels in Damarand,
on April 5,' killing forty-six of them.
The German loss was small.
Daring a fete at the town of Les
Sanier, France,, an anarchist stabbed
and killed the mayor. The motive for
the crime was political hatred.
A general strike on the lines of the
Union Traction Company has been or
dered to take effect at once. The na
tional board has given its oonsent.
John Heinetz, aged about 28, and
James Davis, aged about 71, prospect
ors, mining near Delta, CaL, were
drowned while crossing the river in a
boat.
A dispatch from Athens says another
confliot has occurred in the Hagion
Vasileon district of Crete. It is alleged
twenty Turks were killed and thirty
wounded.
Altot Rieuff blew out the brains of
his wife, Julia, while she slept at his
side, in their room at the Pease lodg
ing-house, Seattle, and then killed him
self. Jealousy Was the cause.
Sir William Robinson, governor of
Hong Kong, telegraphs that there has
been seventy-five new cases of buboine
plague ' and seventy-five deaths from
the disease in Hong Kong the past
week.
. Commander Booth-Tucker, of the
Salvation Army, while out slumming in
New York, was arrested and taken to
the Elizabeth-street police station;
Bail was fixed at $1,000, which was
furnished by Steve Brodie.
A Pretoria, South Africa, dispatoh
says: The "Sentences of death imposed-
upon John .--Hays Hammond, the
American engineer, Colonel Francis
Rhodes, brother of the former premier
of Cape Colony; Lionel Philips, presi
dent of the chamber of mines, Johan
nesburg, and George Farrar, proprietor
of Country Life, of Johannesburg, have
been commuted.
The announcement is made that M.
Meline had succeeded in forming his
cabinet as follows: M. Meline, pre
mier and minister of agriculture; M.
Barthou, minister of foreign affairs,
M. Coohery, finance; M. Lebon, colo
nies; M. Valle, commerce; General
Billet, war; M. Darlan, justioe; Ad
miral Bernard, marine; M. Lacombe;
public works; M. Rambau, publio in
struction. -
The Old Dominion seamer Wyanoke,
when making for New Port News pier
near Norfolk, Va., struck the prow of
the United States steamer Columbia,
lying at anchor, and had a hole cut in
the forward part of the starboard side.
She sank in sixty feet of water. All
the Wyanoke's passengers and crew
were saved, but their baggage, and
probably the cargo, was lost. Two fire
men were badly scalded.
Cripple Creek, Colo., was again
visited by fire, and now from 8,000 to
4,000 people are homeless in a city of
desolation, with no homes to offer and
no food to supply the daily wants.
One life was lost The business por
tion of the oity left standing is less
than would cover a block. The resi
dence section is conQned to what were
formerly the suburbs. Relief parties
are being organized in Denver and
Colorado Springs.
The battleship Oregon, which was
recently completed at the Union iron
works in San Francisco, has been
placed in the drydook to be scraped, in
preparation for the final test of speed
required by the navy department The
Oregon will be the most formidable
battle-ship in the American navy when
turned over to the government ;
A special to the Denver Times from
El Paso, Tex., says the 'governor of
Chihuahua has sent a regiment of
troops to MinaVie jo to compel the peons
to open the mine and rescue the min
ers. He had the police gather all the
unemployed men in the city streets and
march them to the mine to work. Of
the sixty-one entombed miners fifty
were taken out dead. The disaster was
caused by the encroaching for ore on
the pillars supporting the roof.
: The Spanish gunboat Mensagera has
captured and brought into Havana the
American schooner Competitor, of Key
West, loaded with arms and ammuni
tion. - In command of her were Alfredo
Larode, Dr. Bedia and three newspaper
correspondents, who are held as pirson
era. Some of the filibusters are said to
have succeeded in jumping overboard
and : swimming ashore. Others who
jumped into the sea were drowned.
The insurgent general Monson, was a
member of the expedition.
Instructions oame from the treasury
department ordering the commanders of
the revenue cutters of the Behring sea
patrol fleet, equipping in the Sound,
not to take any spirituous liquors. The
fleet was ready to sail when the orders
were issued and the officers were com
pelled to land their private and mess
liquor supply. The captains them
selves, while in the North, must live
like prohibitionists, as they will not
be allowed to have on board the mild
est of intoxicating beverages. f -
The following unique challenge has
been sent to Colonel Robert G. Inger
soil, by Thomas Kenyon, a resident of
Providence, R. L : "I, the undersign
ed, challenge Robert G. Ingersoll in a
joint debate before three judges and
two timekeepers, ten minutes eaoh, for
points on his (Ingersoll's) Bible leo
tures, in any hall in New York or any
large city, but New York preferred.
The one gaining the most points 'must
receive 65 per cent of the net receipts
after paying expenses. Thomas Sen
yon." Colonel Ingersoll will probably
accept the challenge. ; -;. v
Spanish authorities in New. York
and Washington have recently discov
ered a conspiracy, which was formed
by Cubans, to blow up a Spanish .war
ship and at the same time intercept a
peninsula mail steamer and rob her of
a large quantity of gold intended for
the government troops on the 'island.
The plot further included the capture
of the seaport town of NeuvitaSr and
contemplated certain demonstrations
along the coast of the eastern Cuban
provinces, in order to. precipitate a
rush of troops from the west and effect
a weakening ol the military . trocna
across Pinar del Rio : . , .
J. C. Sommers, a millionaire banker
of Keokuk, la,, was killed by a train
in the union depot at Burlington, .
The six-story building of the Junior
Order of United American Mechanics,
in Philadelphia, was entirely destroyed
by fire. Loss, about $310,000.
Columbia -university will send a
band of naturalists to explore the Pnget
Sound region. The expedition will
Bet out from New York June 10.
The Paris newspapers confirm the
rumor that M. Hebete, French; ambas
sador to Germany, will at once return
to Berlin, to present his letters of re
call. . " -' A.
Mary.wife of William Shore, leaped
from a bridge into Elkhorn river; near
Washington, W. Va., fifty feet, to es
cape a passing - engine, fane was res
cued but will die. , .
Rain fell for 24 hours in Ocon
to, Wis., and all the lowlands are
flooded. The oity is nearly inundated
and the river reached the highest mark
that it has for years. - . -
Warren Fisher, who oame into
prominence in 1876. through his con
nection with the- investigation ' of
charges directed against James G.
Blaine, died at his home in Boxbury,
N.Y. t !
Princess Beatrice the youngest
daughter of Qnwiotoria,gd widow :
of Prince Henry of Battenburg, has
been appointed governor of the Isle of
Wight, the. office previously held by
her husband.
Word has been received in Washing
ton by telegraph that tne uanadian
government has adopted an order in
council exempting American vessels
from entry and clearance charges at
Canadian ports.
A dispaoth from Madrid says: The
Spanish government has declined the
pope's mediation in Cuban affairs, on
the ground that acceptance would be
tantamount to roeognizing America's
right to interfere.
The black plague is still prevalent
at Hong Kong and Canton. Two Eu
ropean children have been attacked by
the disease. Japan is taking elaborate
precautions tn prevent the introduc
tion of the plague.
An attempt was made to burn An
derson, CaL, by saturating a number
of buildings with ooal oiL The plot
was frustrated by the discovery of the
fire five minutes after it was started,
when it was soon extinguished.
An explosion, by which 100 persons
are believed to have perished, has oc
curred at Micklefield. Yorkshire, Eng
land. The explosion took place in a
colliery, and twenty injured persons
have been rescued from the shaft
An "X" ray will kill the bacteria of
diphtheria. The electrioal department
of the university of Missouri, at Co
lumbia, announces that, after exten
sive experiments, diphtheria germs had
been killed by the Roentgen light
Seven hundred men were thrown out
of work by a strike of the employes in
Sherman & Company's iron mines in
Port Henry, N. Y., whose demand for
an increase of forty cents a day was re
fused. The mines were shut down.
In Woodland, CaL, two armed men
stood up Jailer Labrie in the jailyard
and relieved him of $187 in cash and a
watch chain. The official had occasion
to go into the jailyard for a moment,
and left his pistol and hat in the offloe.
M. Coubertin, president of the inter
national committee of the Olympic
games, writes to the London Times
that the games in 1900 will be held in
Paris, and for 1904 the committee will
choose between New York, Berlin and
Stockholm.
The little 2 -year-old son of Mr. Ford,
a trainman on tne sumpter valley
railroad, Baker City, Or., walked on
the track as the engine and two cars
came along. He was unobserved and
the train passed over him. - His skull
was badly fractured, and the child will
die.
William A. Holcomb, one of the best
known business men of the Pacific
coast, president of the San Francisco
Produce .and Merchants' Exchange,
died at his residence in Oakland. - Mr.
Holcomb had been ill for some six
months with an affection of the kid'
neys.
James Beals, a stove dealer, of Iron-
ton, O., shot and fatally wounded his
wife. The couple had been out walk
ing, and immediately upon their return
home he drew a' revolver and fired four
shots at his wife, three of them taking
effect The deed was actuated by jeal
ousy. Beals escaped.
A FATAL EXPLOSION
A Large Cincinnati Building
Completely Demolished.
AT LEAST SIX PERSONS KILLED
Accident Was Caused by Blowing; Up
of a Gasoline Tank The Build
ing Collapsed.
Cincinnati, May 6. This city and
vicinity has been greatly excited over
the explosion of a large tank of gaso
line, which completely demolished the
five-story building at 430 and 432 Wal
nut street, at 8 o'clock tonight After
the explosion the wildest reports were
current as to the loss of life. Before
midnight it was known that six were
killed and eighteen injured, but the
work of removing the debris had pro
ceeded so slowly that the general esti
mate of the killed and wounded greatly
exoeeded this number. The building
was occupied by Adolph C. Drachs, a
saloon-keeper nn the first floor, and by
Diehl & Cj. . dealers in fire works, on
the upper floors. There were also many
roomers in the building.
The family of Adolph Drachs suffer
ed most severely. Drachs and wife are
injured, and the 5-year-old daughter
is dead, and the 5-year-old boy is be
lieved to be dying. Nolan David, a
traveling man for the : Columbia Car
riage Company, of Hamilton, O. , and
two others, unidentified, complete the
list of those known to be dead. : '
Among the missing, who are believed
to be in the ruins, are A. R. Fricke, of
Nowrood; Joseph Worthner, barkeeper;
Liouis Fey, wife and baby; also two
servant girls in the family of Fey and
Drachs.
A most touching soene occurred when
Fireman John McCarthy found his
brother pinned under a beam and beg
ging the men above him to kill him.
McCarthy said there were three other
men near him, and they were alive.
The most heroic efforts to liberate these
sufferers were made.
Herman Nolte, jr., was standing in
front of an adjoining building wnen
struck by debris, and suffered a broken
leg and other injuries.
The shock was so terrific that it was
felt all over the oity. Not one brick
upon another was left in the front and
rear walls of the building, while adja
cent buildings were badly damaged.
The glass was broken out of street oars
that were passing at the time, and one
of the cars was badly damaged, but
none of the passengers were seriously
hurt All the horses in the immediate
neighborhood broke from their fasten
ings and ran away, and there was not
only intese excitement, but the greatest
confusion.
The dust and dirt continued flying
for a long time, bo densely that the
work of rescuing the victims proceeded
with geat difficulty, although the po
lice and nre departments rallied hero
ically to the wreck. The saloons
were said to be quite full of -. people.
One of the bartenders who was not on
duty at the time, and who escaped,
lived in one of the upper flats, and was
wild with grief because he knew that
his wife and four children were in the
ruins.
HAMMOND IMPOSED UPON.
Be Refused to Take Part in Jame
son' Raid.
7 New York, May 6. Samuel Lioh-
tenstadter, a man who lias just return
ed here from Johannesburg, says:
The Johannesburg reform commit
tee met last Christmas day at Cecil
Rhodes' house to receive instructions
from him for the movement against the
Boers. I was present Rhodes' in
structions to the reformers were that
they should march into Johannesburg
under the British flag and when the
town was captured, a triumph of Brit
ish arms should be proclaimed.
"The reading of the instructions
was followed by a silence of some min
utes. Then Hammond arose and said:
" 'Not for all the wealth this land
contains, not if you were to make me
the absolute ruler, would I have a
hand in carrying out these instructions.
I can pull a trigger to shoot down an
oppressor, but I oannot and will not be
a party to a revolutionary intrigue. If
I am going to take up arms under any
flag, it will be the one that is flying
today over tne ocean under the banner
of a free people, who believe in revo
lution as a remedy for oppression, but
who hate, with a Kaffir's hate, the
rape of a free people's territory. You
can count me out'
"The reformers, nearly all of whom
are Britons, were thunderstruck. They
needed Hammond. After he had spo
ken, they realized that Cecil Rhodes'
order must be reversed. Jameson,
however, refused to be put off. He in
sisted on carrying out his part of the
original programme of conquest But
when he invaded the Transvaal, the
Uitlanders, influenced by Hammond,
gave him no aid, and the raid failed
miserably.
"Rhodes and Jameson, being En
glishmen, are now enjoying the pow
erful protection of the British govern
ment, whose agents they were, while
Hammond and the other Americans
are made to pay the penalty of the
others crimes."
Perry After the Meteorite. .
Washington, May 6. The secretary
of tne navy has granted six months'
leave, with permission to go abroad.
to Civil Engineer R. E. Peary, the
Arctio explorer. Although no expla
nation is furnished of the object of his
leave, it is supposed the officer is about
to go to Greenland, for the purpose of
bringing home the largest meteorite in
existence, which he discovered when
last in that country.
A TRAGEDY NEAR PARIS.
Young Man Killed That He May Not
Disgrace His Family.
New York, May 4. According to
the Journal's Paris correspondent,
Eugene Vasseuar, a young Frenohman
whos dead body was found in a thicket
on the Bois de Viennes, was murdered
by his own father and cousin, the lat
ter having been hired to assist in the
crime by the former. Vasseuar did not
bear a good reputation, and it is
olaimed that his father wished him
dead rather than that he should dis
grace the family. The cousin, whose
name is Boucher, tells the following
story of the crime: -
A lonely spot in the Bois de Viennes
was fixed upon for the soene of the
tragedy, and it was arranged that
Bouoher should go along a small path
with Eugene, while the father was to
hide in a thicket and then spring out
on their vioitm. At 8 o'clock the next
evening Boucher persuaded Eugene
that he had a job for him at Cravelle,
so the couple went down in a boat to
Charenton, climbed to the plateau, and
as they passed the fatal spot the father
prang out like a tiger and seized his
son by the throat
Eugene shouted for help, at the same
time making a desperate resistance,
and the father, who was becoming
black in the face, called to Bouoher:
Why dont' you help, you coward?"
Bouoher seized the young man by the
throat, and was bitten in the hand.
He then loosened his grip, whereupon
the father, with a desperate effort
threw his son down, and bending over
him, strangled him. As he pulled the
cord which they had prepared, Boucher
said:
"Let him alone; his punishment has
been severe enough." The father re
plied: "I believe you; this time the
scamp has full measure and running
over." Both men are under arrest
HOW IT FELT.
Suicide - Recorded His Dying
San-
sationa.
San Farncisoo,' May 4. An un
known man committed suicide in
Golden Gate park last night, by drink
ing carbolic acid. The strange part of
it is that he left a record of his feelings
while the biting fluid was at work
upon his vitals. He wrote that he was
dying beautifully," but that his tak
ing off was a pleanst one was made
doubtful by the evidences of a final
frenzy, furnished by the fragments of
the card on which other words were
written. " : :
In his last moments the dying man
had torn it to bits, together with an
other on which he had written after
taking the poison. " When the pieces
were adjusted, it was found that they
bore the , name of Descalso Brothers,
wholesale liquor - dealers. On : one.
doubled with the first one on which the
man had used his penoil, were the fol
lowing words in printed letters:
"Drug is working; friends only two
one dead. No hope in this world.
Wife good, but obstinate. . My wife,
God bless"
Then the writing broke off into a
few unintelligible words. On the
other oard appeared the line, also
printed:
"I am dying beautifully."
In some further writing appeared the
words "soul" and "sleeping." Then
the final frenzy had evidently come,
and the life that was held valueless
had gone. . -
There also lay beside the body a
newly laundried and folded apron,
which might have belonged to a bar
keeper. It bore the initials "O. W.
A."
THE OREGON'S TRIAL
Speed Test of the New Battle Ship
Soon to Be Made.
Washington, May 4. Instructions
were sent forward from the navy de
partment today to San Franoisco for
the trial of the battle-ship Oregon.
The conditions for the trial will be
precisely the same as those in the oase
of her sister ships, the Indiana and
Massachusetts. The trial will take
plaoe over a thirty-one knot oourse in
the Santa Barbara channel, just out
side the old Olympia course. As there
has been a strong spirti of emulation
manifested between the shipbuilders of
the Atlanito and Pacific coasts, much
interest is felt in the outcome of the
Oregon's trial. The California build
ers are expressing confidence that she
will be able to macth the 16.2079 knots
of the Massachusetts when the trial is
run off, which will be as soon as the
board can receive the instructions
mailed today.
LAND OFFICE MATTERS.
Decisions in
Several
Wash Ins; ton
Cases,
Washington, May 4. The secretary
of the interior has reversed the deoi
sion of the general land office in the
case of the state of Washington against
the Northern Pacific railroad. The old
deoision, rendered in October, 1894,
held for cancellation the state's selec
tion list No. 2, for agricultural college
support, on account of conflict with
the indemnity selections of the road.
These selections were made in the
North Yakima district
An order was issued on the railroad
to revise its lists within six months, so
that proper basis will be shown for all
lands selected as indemnity, and the
road failed to comply with it The
land office - therefore is held to have
erred in its action and advised that the
state's selections, if otherwise regular
and legal, shoud be submitted for ap
proval. -
The fast westbound mail on the
Northern Paoifio met an eastbound cat
tle train near Livingston, Mont ,
wrecking both trains. Engineer Fan
ning, of the cattle train, was killed;
Fireman P. McClelland, was fatally
injured and several were badly hurt
Many passengers jumped.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Daily Proceedings in Senate
and House.
IMPORTANT BILLS INTEODUCED
Substance of the Measures Being Con
sidered by the Fifty-Fourth
Session Senate.
Washington, May 2. The senate
spent another day on the naval appro
priation bill without completing it
Gorman further opposed the item of
four battleships and expressed the opin
ion that the appropriations already
made would consume the balance in
the treasury. A determination of the
number of battleships has not yet been
reaohed. Chandler has proposed sub
stituting thirty large and fast torpedo
gunboats for two of the battle-ships.
White spoke of the need of ooast de
fenses before further naval vessels
were built,' and Allen made a speech- of
over three hours arraigning the two old
parties.
Washinton, May 4- The debate in
the senate today was of a dramatic and
sensational character, . recalling the
famous Ingalls-Voorhees contest of
some years ago. Senator Tillman,
of South Carolina, again brought his
uniane nersonalitv into the debate, hin
speeoh being the first of any length
since his memorable maiden effort at
tacking publio officials high and low.
Wnile he spoke today, the silver pitch
fork recently presented to him . in the
West was conspicuously displayed on
his scarf. The senator used the blunt
words characteristic of his utterances,
arraiging the presidnet and cabinet
offioers with unsparing criticism and
personal invective He also addressed
himself personally to Hill and Sher
man, and drew from the former sharp
rejoinders, while Sherman declined
to be brought into a controversy with
the South Carolina senator.
Washington, May 6. Senator Teller
today, from the committee on forest
reservations, reported favorably a bill
for the protection of the publio forest
reservations. The bill provides that
no publio forest reservation shall be
established except to improve and pro-
teot the forest within the reservation,
for - the purpose of seoaring favor- ;
able conditions of water" flow and to
insure a continued supply of timber
for the people of the states wherein
General rules are laid down for the
protection and government of such res
ervations, and the bill gives to states
wherein such forest reservations are
situated civil and criminal jurisdiction
over persons within such . reservations.
House.
Washington, May 2. The debate on
the bankruptcy bill was resumed today.
rwn 1 t ! 1 n . a
Culberson, in support of the bill;'
Strode, Terry and Bailey, in favor of a
voluntary system, and Griffith, De
Armond, Bell and Trncey against
any bankruptcy law. DeArmond, who :
opened the debate argued that the
states had ample legislation to enfoore
tne collection of debt If a bankruptcy
law was passed, he thought it should
have only the voluntary feature for the
protection of the insolvent debtor. He
oharged that the pending measure had
been prepared by the agents of the
oreditorclass. Bell opposed the pass
age of any bankruptcy bill, and Barton
advocated the measure. The latter de
sired particularly the technical pro
cedure under the terms of the bill.
Washington, May 4. The house
again devoted the major portion of the
day to debate on the bankruptcy bill.
Several amendments were offered, but
none were adopted. A bill to provide
for a delegate in congress from the ter
ritory of Alaska was defeated, 44 to 60.
Soranton called up the bill and spoke
of the development of the Alaska min
ing and fishing industries and the in-
UIcaBo Ul pupuxabAuii ui wo ii uxvoou
years. Its vast area rendered it proper
and necessary that it should have a
well-informed representative in the
house. There were over 10,000 white
Americans in Alaska.
Washington, May 6. The first skir
mish over the senate amendment to the
naval appropriation bill, reduoing the
number of battle-ships provided for in
that bill from four to two, occurred in
the house today, when Boutelle, ohair
man of the naval oommittee, moved to
nonconcur in all the senate amend
ments and requested a conference.
Boutelle undertook to chastise some of
the senators, for their inconsistency.
He referred to the war scares of the
past, and the bellioose resolutions in
troduced in the senate, and then sar
castically contrasted the war talk of
some of the senators with their voting
to reduce the number of battle-ships
provided for in the bilL
Cruelty of Mastre.
Key West, May 6. A passenger
from Cuba reports that Candido Mas
tre, lieutenant-colonel of the local
guerillas of Cruces, Ceinfuegos, has
been shot by order of Captain Alba, of
j the Spanish forces. This passenger al
; leges that he was in Cruces and saw
' the dead body. He also reports that
, there were some appalling stories in
circulation as to the cruelty of Mastre.
He is alleged to have killed over 150
peaoeful peasants. This, it is said,
came to the knowledge of the govern-
t Mim 4V.AMr.K hia Irillino nf ttiA nnnnin
of the unole of General Suarez Valdez.
The people of Cruces are reported to
have been terrorized by the presence of
Mastre and Alba.
-Cyclists should see that their shoe
laces are fastened before mounting a
machine; for as in skating, a loose lace
may cause a bad fall..