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Gazette fleppner Wei mp OF THE DAY Meresting Collection of Item! From ihe Two Hemispheres Presented In a Condsnsed Form. Senator Halo has been renominated by the Maine Republicans. Hon. Joseph H. Choate will be our next ambassador to Great Britain. Dr. H. Seward Webb, president of the Wagner Palace Car Company, is mentioned as siiooessor to Senator Mor rill as senator from Vermont. Thofiist formal state dinner of the season took place at the White House Thursday, when President and Mrs. MoKinloy entertained the members of the cabinet. A sensation has boen created in Ger many by the publication in a Cologne paper of an alloged conversation had with the late Prince BiBmaick, in which he predicted the fall of the Aus trian empire. An American named Boynton, who is trying to travel around the earth without monoy, mot with a terrible fall into a chasm while entering Franco by night through the Pyrenees. He was seriously injured. Another disagreeable oonsequenco of the late war has been presented to the government of claims from the cable companies for damages sustained through the suspension of their busi ness by the United States military and naval forces. The aggregate amount of these claimB cannot be foretold. ; Representative Tonguo, of Oregon, has prepared an amendment to the bill for codification of the laws of Alaska, now ponding in the house, providing for the licensing of main business con cerns in the territory, and especially tho liquor business. Mr. Tongue says that the Tread woll mines docs not pay anything in the way of taxes to the sup port of the territorial institutions, and that from the rogion surrounding Ju neau about 18,000,000 in gold is pro duced annually, and docs not contribute a cent to the government. . Tho Havana aftornoon papers sent a thrill through tho city with a report that a torture and execution chamber had been found at the residence of tho (Spanish miltiary governor, adjoining the palace. Tho papers declareed that there the Spanish officials questioned and murdered political prisoners. Ac cording to their accounts, tho floor of tho chamhor was covered with dried blood, and its walls were indented with machete Btrokes. An 'oxcited crowd soon gathored outside the house which was last occupied by General Parrado. I General Maximo Gomez, from his camp, 200 miles westward, near Nar ciso, lias issued a proclamation to tho Cuban army advising against disband ing until tho proceedings at Washing ton regarding the pay of the insurgent troops have been completed. By tho purchase of a largo block of stock of the Calburicn railway, in Cuba, L. Ruiz & Co., bankers, representing English capitalists, havo scoured a con trolling interest in that lino. The on 1 1 in men have also been large pur chasers of the stocks of Saguaand Oion fuogos companies. ' Tho monthly treasury statement of the public debt shows that at tho close of biiHiness, Decomher 81, the debt, less cash in tho treasury, amounted to 1,129, 17(1, 2H(I, an increase during tho month of ft, 703, 700. This incroaso is due to the delivery of U per cent bonds of the new issue, previously paid for. At Evansville, Ind., Minor Garrett, Edgar Gardner, Elijah Scott, Frank Curl und William Morris, boys ranging in ago from 10 to 12 years, were given n public whipping in tho poliio court for stealing some old wash boilers. Their parents woro given tho option by Judge Winfrey of whipping tho boys or having them sent to tho reform school. Governor Roosevelt, Greater Now York's new exeuctivo, has eatalbished a code of rules to govern his considera tion and determination of applications for pardons and commutations of sen tence. Ho will not cxeiciso executive olomoncy in behalf of a man who has been convicted of murdering or abusing iris wife, nor will he pardon any hab itual criminal. His mercy will bo shown only to those whoso sentence seems to have been severe or whose commission of a orimo was the result of influence. A most remaikablo wedding has taken place at the village of Trail, O., four biothers being married to four sis ters. The four knots were tied at the homo of tho brides, who aro tho daugh ters of a farmer named James Hooh stetter. Their ages lange from 18 to 28, and tho ages of their respective liusabnds vary only slightly. The grooms are four sons of John Summers. The ceremony of maryiug the four couples occupied almost an hour, the same olergymun performing all. Tho four brothers and their wives will live within a stone's throw of each other. Minor New 1 1 . Sebastian Bach Mills, the well known composer and pianist, died in Wiesbaden, Germany, aged 00 years. The preliminary report of tho Men nigua canal commission shows that it will require about f llifl. 000.000 to build the canal. Encouraging reports of the condition cf affairs in Manila and Porto Rico reached the war department from tho officers commanding tho troops in those departments. Ohio school children have given 91,275 for the La Fayette monument fund. The first American flag over a Phil ippine educational Institution was mined over the Malate schoolhonse. A new counterfeit one-dollar silver certificate has been discovered. It is of the series of 1800, Bruue, register. Roberts, treasurer. Advices Bhow that more business is being done now by the merchants and maiiufm:turiiis of the United States than at any pieivoua time lu the his tory of the country, ' rrryf Thursday. Zr::7?C7. OREGON. HEPPNER . LATER NEWS. The Farmers' bank of In wood, Ga., rvas entered by burglars, who secured 20,000 and escaped. The ravages of grip among the mem bers of the national lion.se and senate may compel an ex Ira session of con gress. A disastrous freight wreck occurred on the Wabash, at Belleville, Mich. The loss on rolling stock is estimated at $30,000, with $3,000 loss on a store house. Thirteen persons were killed and from 30 to 45 injured in a railway col lision near Bound Brook, N. J. There was a head-end collision between a local train and tho Black Diamond ex press. President Alonzo's advance guard is within six leagues ot La Paz, capital of the republic of Bolivia. It is likely a decisive battle will bo fought soon between the government troops and the rebels who now hold the capital. It is proposed that a memorial he srected at Manila to the memory of all Americans who fell in the capture or died of disease during the campaign. Tho proposal is that all Americans now resident in tho Far East, of whom there is a very considerable number, BhoulJ be invited to contribute toward this object. Filipino committees havo made a formal protest, and President McKin ley has been warned from Paris, Madrid and London not to attorn pt to take forcible possession of Ho Ilo. The ground is taken that the American claim of sovereignty is premature, and that tho United States is not the possessor of tho Philippines until tho peace treaty is ratiflod. The Filipino agont at Hong Kong says a fight with the Americans at Ilo Ilo is unavoida ble, but little apparent uneasiness is felt at Washington. Tho Cincinnati Express Gazette lias collected data anent the operations ol trainrobbors during the past year. Tho effect o federal jurisdiction upon train robborios is evidenced in Mexico. Dur ing the past year there was not even an attempt at train robbery in tho sis ter republic. The crime is punishable thero with instant death. The record for 181)8 is as follows: Number of train hold-ups, 28; number of stage robborios, 7; number of passengers and train men shot, 4; number of robbers killed, 6; number of robbers shot, 0. Captain R. R. Shaw and the orew of the British bark Glen Huntley, long given up for lost, are alive and woll, and on their way to Liverpool. They abandoned the (Hen Huntley in a fierce gale June 4. 1898. For 154 duvs the 11 sailors lived on Tristan d'Acunha islo, more than 1,500 miles south by west of the Cape of Good Hope. They subsisted on penguin eggs and tho flesh of sea eagles, and shared with 72 white inhabitants tho scanty stock of provi sions that the captain of a passing ves sel had given them. At a firo which broke out in the no te! Rioholiou, at Pittsburg, Pa., three guests lost their lives and iivo people were badly hurt. Colonel Potter, spocial emissary ol General Otis to Ilo Ilo, reports that the rebels threaten to burn tho town if tho Americans bombard tho place. Governor Leedy, of Kansas, has com muted the sentence of J. R. Colcan, who, while cashier of tho Sate bank, ol Fort Scott, in 1805, stole $52,000 of its funds. Four dead, two injured, ono of these perhaps fatally, and tho loss of proper ty of tho Southern railway to the amount of about $35,000, is tho result of a wreck .which occurred at Knox vilie, Tumi. A heavy wind storm swept over tho remote section of Scott county, Ark. At Boles, a schoolhotiso was blown down and three pupils were killed, an other was fatally wounded, and a dozen or more sustained more or less injuries. A tremondous landslide occurred near Spence's Bridge, on the Canadian Pa cific railroad. A mountain which has long been an object of curiosity to travelers crashed into tho Fraser river, damming it oomplctely, and sending the water in torrents over tho fertile Nicola valley. Tho course of tlio river was changed completely. According to lato advioes from Daw son, tho United States government will bo called upon to relievo indigent min ers in tho Klondike. Tho Dawson Nugget says there is a strong move ment on foot at Dawson to send a rep resentative to Washington for the pur pose of enlisting the United States government in the cause of aiding in remedying the groat distress which prevails among the miners of the Yu kon. At the annual convention of tho Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and Diedge Engineers and Cranesnion of America, held in Chicago, resolutions were adopted, urging congress to pass the Nieaiagua canal hill and also that a law should bo passed making eiht hours a day's work on said canal. Res olutions wore also passed urging con kicks to pass the river and harbor bill at the present session of congiess. Con gress was also uiged to create a labor commission of three union men to see that the laws in the interest of work ingmen were enforced on all govern ment work. Mrs. John Quark, aged 100 years, died at her home ne-ir Galena, III. Lieutenant 'Commander Sumner O. Pavue, United States navy, retired, died in Ashville, N. U. James McDonald, aged 103, a lesi dent of Chipixnva Falls, Wis., died at St. Joseph's hospital, Milwaukee. A Pittshuig company baa received a contract from the United States govern ment to re-equip Morro castle in Hav ana. Patrick llaggerty, who would have been 100 years old January 17, died near Malone, N. Y. Miss Margaret Dodge, a prominent literary worker, was found dead in a pew lu a church in Boston. She hud taken poison. Marine losses during 1808 were ma- ...rlulll nruulnt tl.n.t iliirltitt n.iiv!. oiin season on uie nines, mo aggregate being out i mated at J, (100,000, While Deputy Sheriff Frank K. Nye was forcing an entrance to a residence lu Chicago lie was shot and killed by Thomas U. Crosby, sged 13 years. ORE Both Branches at Salem Re- Members of Both Branches tain the Organization of at Olympia Are Induct Special Session. ed Into Office. BUT LITTLE BUSINESS IS TRANSACTED Ben 0. Worslcy, of Astoria, Elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the House Two Minor Resolu tions Passed. Salem, Jan. 10. Both houses 'of the legislative assembly convened at the appointed time, but beyond organizing little was done. The house spent some time in electing a sergeant at-aruis, and thon passed a couple of resolutions The senate was called to order at 10 o'clock by President Taylor. The roll call showed all present but three. Tho resolution for a joint committee to confer with a committee from tho Washington legislature relative to de vising a joint regulation for fishing in the Columbia river, was referred to the committee on fishing industries. Kelly's resolution for 15 committee clorks for tho senate, to bo under the control of the sergeant-at-nrms, went to tho committee on education. Cameron's resolution for the secre tary of state to provide $4 worth of postage stamps and f 1 worth of news paper wrappers was adopted, after Selling had made an unsuccessful at tempt to cut the stamps down to $3. The rules of the speoial session wore adopted for the senate, after which an adjournment was taken. The Diiy In the Mouse, The house was called to order at 10:20,with Speaker Carter in the chair. The roli-call showed a quotum present, 50 members answering to tneir names. Ou motion of Moody of Multnomah, Sneaker Carter was declared speaker for this session, some doubts having been expressed as to the legality of the continuance of the special session organization. Seaker Carter expressed his gratindo in a few remarks. The election of Carter was followed by a resolution offered by Curtis of Clatsop, continuing in office the other officers of the house, clerks, etc, ex oept tlio Borgoant-at-arms. Tho resolu tion was adopted by a vote of 49 to 0. Tho motion of Rocder, of Umatilla, that the house proceed with the elec tion ol a sorgeant at-aims was amended by Whalley of Multnomah, to enable the Republican members to hold a cau cub. A rocoss was therefore taken for half an hour, but n full hour elapsod before tho caucus adjourned and an nounced its choico. The plum fell to Don S. Worsley, of Astoria. A house concurrent resolution was thon introduced providing for tho ap pointment of a committee of three of the house and two of the senato to ox amino the books and accounts of the state treasurer. Representative Myers introduced a house concurrent resolution providing for tho apnointment of a committee of three of tho house and two of tho sen ato to meet with a like committee to be appointed by tho legislative assembly of Washington to investigate tho needs of further legislation for tho protection of fish in the Columbia river. Tho afternoon session of the houso opened with a resolution by Myers that tho clergymen of tho city be invited to open tho sessions with prayer. Topping of Coos, offorod a concur lout resolution providing for tlio ap pointment of a committee of threo, one from tho houso and two from the sen ate, to examine tho books of the secre tary of stato and report within 15 days. Williamson of Crook was thon given permission to submit a report of tho special committeo on clerkship abuses, which upon being read led to the first conflict of tho session. The resolution provides for sweeping reductions in the siumbor of clerks, and is the same one that was buried by the senato. Sev eral motions to refer were lost, and the ropoit was adopted. Following are tho officers of the houso of representatives: Speaker, E V. Caitor, of Ashland: chief clerk, A. C. Jennings, of Albany; assistant clork, A. V. R. Snyder, of McMinn ville; reading clork, Frank Motter, of Portland; calendar clerk, D. D. Maokio, of Portland; sergeant-at-arnis, D. S. Worsley, of Astoria; doorkeeper, M. P. Isonborg, of The Dalles; pages, Robert Duncan and Charles Lano, mid Frank Swope, of Porltand. Theese are the officers of the senate this afternoon: President, I. C. Talyor; chief clerk, S. L. Morehead, of Junction City; assistant clerk, J. Fred Yates, of Cor Tallin; reading clork, J. D. Lee, of Portland; calendar clerk, F. C. Mid dleton, of Portland; sergeant-at-arnis, Joseph S. Purdom, of Grant's Pass; mailing clerk, 11. II. Humphrey, of Sa lem; dooi keeper, W. W. Smith, ol Clackamas. Serjeant-at-Arms Purdom, of the senate, this morning presented to President Talyor a fine gavel, made of Josephine county manzanita. The old gavel was never ornamental, and, it had become much frayed by loug use. Dills were introduced in tho house as follows: llawson of Gilliam, providing for the sinking of artesian wells in arid lands. Moody of Multnomah, Increasing the number of justices of the supremo court by two, and providing for the appointment of the same until the gen eral election in 1000. McQueen of Lane, fixing tho liability if torn moil crnieis. Flagg ot Marion, amending Hill's jode to tho end that all hangings shall sake place at the state penitentiary. Fieoltuid of Morrow, amending 11 ill's code in reference to the attachment of personal property. The house commit too to which was refoirod tho Curtis clerkship resolu tion, met tonight and agreed to roort . a modification of the resolution so as til .....wiiti, ..tip itt.iwiirril ntlma fit und 40 clerks, two of which will receive ft each, and the others f3 per day The total cost for the session will be 15,577. Iu 1805 the house had 83 .' clerks, to whom f 10.239 wasp aid. The Selection of Clerks and Othe Employes Occupies the Time at Olympia E. H. Guie Chosen Speaker, Olympia, Jan. 10. Lieutenant-Governor Thurston Daniels called the sen ate to order at 12:30 P. M. The lobby was crowded, and unusual interest was manifested in the probable organiza tion under fusion or Republican con trol. The lieutenant-governor gave way, without making any remarks, to Secretary of State Will D. Jenkins, who read the official roster of those en titled to seats. Secretary Dudley Esholman called the roll. All were present. Judge Anders, of the state supreme court, administered tho formal oath. On motion, of Senator Miller, of Thurston county, seconded by Plummer of Spokane, and Cole of Pierce, all fu sionists, the rules of the last sonate were adopted temporarily. On motion of Keith of Pierce, fu sionist, the roll was called on the elec tion of asecretary, and Dudley Eshel man, of Taooina, a Deinoorat, secretary of tho last sonate, was unanimously re-olected. Other officers selected uunanimously were: Assistant Secre tary Herbert de Wolfe, Republican, of Tacoma; sergeant at-arms, Edward Wheeler, Republican, of Soattle; as sistant eergeant-at-arms, Lee Smith, fusionist, of Fremont, King minute clerk, M. J. McGinnis, county; fusion- ist, of Snohomish county. On motion of McRoavy, the further election of officers was postponed, and on motion of Keith, the election of president pro tern was taken up. Keith placed High of Clark, in nomina tion, and Preston of King, named Megler of Wahkiakum. Tho vote was: Megler (Republican), 14; High (fusion ist), 17: Miller (Deinoorat), of Walla Walla, 1; one blank (High); one absent (Daum). High was declared elected. Megler voted for Miller. Willis Rand and Raleigh George, of Olympia, were elected pages. Keith, Plum and Warburton wore appointed a committee to notify the house and Governor Rogers that the senate had organized. The House Organ izes. Olympia, Jan. 10. C. E. Cline, ex speaker of the house, called the session to order at 12:15, and announced piayer by Rev. A. G. Sawm, pastor of the Olympia Baptist chuich. J. M. Pago, assistant clerk of tho last house, read the list of members certified to the house by the secretary of stato. C. E. Boyce, of King, was absent, and was reported dangerously ill at his home. All other mcmbeis were present. Acting Speaker Cline appointed a committee of three to escort Chief Jus tice Gordon into the bar of the house. The latter at once administered the oath of office. The speaker announced that nomina tions of candidates for temporary sneak r were in order, and recognized Jesse Faye, of Whatcom, who an nounced it as the wish of the caucus that tho speaker be elected as a perma nent officer. He nominated E. II. Guie in a stirring'speeeh. Judge Calvert seconded the nomina tion, and moved that the secretary cast tho unanimous vote for Mr. Guie; sec onded also by Jodgo McDonald, of tho opposition. It was ordered, nnd Repre sentative Bellows, of Claik; Ponder- gast, of Douglas, and Mount, of Spo kane, wore appointod by the chair to escort the new speaker to the chair. Mr. Cline referred to tho newly eloctod speakor as one of the ablest and best members of tho last legislature. Speaker Guie, in assuming the chair, spoke briefly but pointedly upon the events of the past two years, declarod it the duty of the legislature to dispose piomi tly of tho senatorial election, promised fairness and impartiality, then proclaimed his readi ness to take the oath, which was administered by Chief Justice J. Gordon. . W. F. Dillon, of Cowlitz, was unani mously elected chief clerk. The rules of the house of 1807 were adopted, uutil the commit tee on rules can report. Oilier officers elected were: Post master, A. B. Feasloy, of Okanogan; assistant, E. E. Hall, of Stevens; pages, Fred Mitzner, Estorly Rinehart, Alorris Tweed, of Thurston, nnd Ray Davidson, speakei's page, of Seattle. A lesolntion commending President McKinlev's war policy, as well as his peace policy, by Judge Calvert, of Whatcom, was unanimously adopted. Messrs. Wickeisham, McDonald and Falknor were appointed a committee to notify the governor of the organization of the house and its readiness to receive any communication he may have to impart. Death of a Fmuuiu ltellrliifrer. Netw Yoik, Jan. 11. The death is announced in Brooklyn of William Peake, the famous belli inger, aged 04 years. Itolil llHiik Robbery. Ashbiiriiham, Mass., Jan. 11. Dur ing the night robbers blew open the safe of the First National bank, seem ing between 11,500 and tJ.000, and es caping. The building was damaged to the extent of 3,000 by a heavy charge ot dynamite. Constitutional Right Expansion Policy. Washington, Jan. 11. -This proved to be an interesting day in the senate, the principal subject nndoi discussion being the constitutional right of the United States to carry into effect the policy of expansion. The leading speaker was Hoar, Republican, of Mas sachusetts, who delivered a speech in suppoit of tho resolution introduced by Vest, Democrat, of Missouri, declaiing 1, t., I .it in niimuiili.in , i ,l.n iln. .... .1 . : . . luui ur una wiiiurjr iu nuiuire lurrigu teintory to be goverened permanently a colonies. I HONOR3 TO A DEAD SOLDIER. Service Over the Remains of Colonel Msjbry. New York, Jan. 10. A ITerald dis patch from Havana says: The body of Colonel Maybry, of the First Texas, rested in state in a tent near Lee's headquarters at Buona Vista on Thurs day. Short services were held at 5 o'clock by Chaplain Watson, Generals Lee, Keifer and Hasbronck being pres ent. The body was brought to Havana, being escorted to the Almandares river by his entire regiment. It will go to Miami on Friday to be forwarded to Texas. Adjutant-Gonoral Dorst. of the Fifth cavalry, is critically ill with malarial fever. Lee's former forces aro being lossened day by day. Four companies now doing provost dnty in the suburbs have been detached from his command and ordered to report to General Ludlow. When the American occupation took place tho membersof a lottery company that was famous a fow years ago in a Sonthen city made an attempt to tocura a concession hero. Local papers have apparently been subsidized, but Gen eral Brooke declares that so long as tho American occupatiou lasts lotteries will bo barred. Smallpox lias becomo 'epidemic at Mariana, ami General Leo has ordered a number of infected houso3 burned. Franklin Scott, a privato of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana, has tho smallpox. Two hundred and fifty nanigoes arrived on Thursday on tho transport Covcdonga, and weie turned looso in a bod v. SANTIAGO'S TRADE;. General Wood's Report Shows It Is on tho Increase. Washington, Jan. 10. Tho trado of Santiago is already showing a surprise ing growth under American adminis tration. General Wood has submitted a report to tho war department, in which ho states that the policy of non discriminative intercourse extended to tho vessels of all nations in Santiago province has greatly facilitated the re establishment of commercial relations and has been one of the chief features in the restoration of comparative pros perity in commerce, industry and agri culture. Outward cargoes of sugar and other products are being graudally found for shipping, but exportations from the mines of the province have contributed the bulk of the exports. "The fact," says General Wood, "that the mines were put into opera tion at an early date' after tho capitula tion of Santiago was important in that the employment of largo numbers of natives during a critical period was stimulated by the facilities for ship ping ores." The division of customs and insular affairs of the war department has re ceived from the colleotor of customs at Havana, Colonel Lasker II. Bliss, un der date of Decembor 29, 1898, his re port. Colonel Bliss says that the first seri ous embarrassment he met with on tak ing charge of the custom-house at Ha vana was caused by tho fact that the Spaniards had removed nearly every thing except the bare walls and floors, is first official step was to obtain a full list of employes in the custom-house, their salaries and nationality, and next information as to thoir general charac ter and reputation for integrity. Colonel Bliss says that, as was to be cxpoctod, the soveral places in the cus tom house when he assumed charge were chiefly held by Spaniards, the to tal number emplojod being 239. The problem that confronts him, ho says, is how to repair a house from founda tion to roof without a material disturb ance of it occupants and without in terfering with thoir daily business. Under this oondition, he remarks, he cannot of course begin by tearing the houso down. I'ilgrintHge Ended In Riot. Paris, Jan. 10. Tho socialist annual pilgrimago today to the tomb of Blan- qui, in the cemetory of Pere la Chaise, led to riots botweou rival partisans of Henri Rochefort, editor of the Intrans igoant, and M. Juares, editor of the Socialist Petite Republique. Many wero injured, and the police made a number of arrests. The wroath intend' ed for tho tomb was trampled upon. Insurgents Respect Europeans. Madrid, Jan. 10. Advioes were re coived here today from a leading mor chant at Ilo Ilo, to tho effect that agri cultural operations in the vicinity of Ilo Ilo have not been interrupted, and that all the insurgents respect the Eu loneans, both nt Ilo Ilo and on the island of Xegros. Present Keleaite of Prisoner. Madrid, Jan. 10. Rios, the Spanish commander, telegraphs from Manila that strained relations between the Americans and insurgents prevent steps being taken in favor of the release of the Spanish prisoners in the Philippine islands.. He adds that be will act in that direction as soon as it is possible. Immigration at Sau Francisco. San Jbrancisco, Jan. 10. The report of the immigration commission for December shows that the total immi gration into the port of San Francisco was 420 persons, of whom 93 were fe males. There were 149 Japanese. Twelve assisted Japanese were deport ed, and 27 others were not admitted who could neither read noi write. Record Ca.rli of Halibut. Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 9. With her rigging and decks covered with ice, the steamer New England arrived in port early this morning with a record catch at the halibut banks off Queen Char lotte islands. The steamer hs.d 180, 000 pounds of fish. During the three months the New England has been en gaged this season she has brought to port 600,000 pounds of halibut. Medicine was the first profession to which women were admitted in Russia. Inviting DUarniHinrnt. Havana, Jan. 10. Major-General Ludlow, governor of the department of Havana, has decided to issue a procla mation inviting the surrender of arms at the arsenal. Receipts will be gi"en for the arms, which will be probably returned later. There are supposed to be as many as 40,000 rifles in private possess ion, held chieflyby former Span ish volunteers. A medical authority in Berlin, Get- ! many, declares that not one ot Ger , many pmiebsional bicyclist has r sound W't CLOUDS OVER AFRICA I Tension Eetween England and France Increased. THUNDERER'S FIERY LANGUAGE Cromer's Tlaln "Word -at Khartoum Rhodes I'lans a Cape Town Cairo Railroad. London, Jan. 10. All events seem (o work togethor in European politics lo increase tho tension between Great Britain and France. Tho past week baa brought Madagascar and Egypt for ward as irritants just when the mutual irritability was subsiding. Even tho most conservativo observers begin to tako a pessimistic view of the relations between tho two powers. This in cludes those who up to tho present bave considered tho belligerency to be duo to supersensitiveuess upon tho part of Franco and to tho unnecessary gruff ness upon tho part of Great Britain in insisting on what aha considers to bo her rights. Tho past 21 hours brought tho pub lication of Madagascar bluo book, which was followed by a leading editorial ia tho Times denouncing Franco in Ian gnago so fiery for that conservativo newspaper that Frenchmen aro reading the two together and aro construing them as parts of a deliberate policy in spired by ore mind. That mind, in the theory of -tho man in tho streets, is Joseph Chamberlain, tlio secretary of state for colonies. Other papers may storm and scold and not bo no ticed, but when the Times becomes abusive, foreigners interpret it as boing the voice of tho government. In the present instance, somo Englishmen will Haco tho same construction upon its utterances, recalling how tho Times led tho "no suriender" cry over the Fashoda incident, under evident in spiration. Ono fact is certain', public opinion in Great Britain will not sanction tha government to swerve an inch to avoid war with Franoe, thinking that if it must coiuo this is tho best time to havo it out. Many people give importance to tho issuing ot tlio Madagascar blue booic almost simultaneously witli tho quiet but unmistakable announcement at Khartoum by tho British agent thore, Viscount Cromer, in his lemarks to the shiekhs, that Great Britain lias set her seal upon Egypt. If there was a doubt in the minds of her European rivals that Great Britain intended to fore- 3lose the mortgage upon which she has expended so much labor and blood to secure, it must have been set at rest by tho utterances of Lord Cromer, in which the word "protectorate" was written in largo letters, though tho jovernrnent's mouthpiece c.irefully ab itained from using that incendiary word. A more definite notice that Breat Britain's tenure of Egypt is per manent could not be aBked. In the meantime an enterprise of the utmost moment in the furtherance of Great Britain's domination in Africa is about to be consummated. Cecil Rhodes, the ex-premier and alleged in stigator of the Jameson laid, and the io-callad "Napoleon of South Africa," is going to England to arrange for pushing forward the Capo Town-Cairo railroad, so long the dearest dream of imperialists. A definite proposition will be presented by Mr. Rhodes to London capitalists for an extension of the railroad from Buluwayo to Lake Tanganika. Ho does not pretend it will be a paying investment from the start. Its importance fo." some years will be political instead ot commercial, and he hopes to persuade tho British government to smooth the way bv guaranteeing 8Jj per cent interest on the bonds to cover the cost of construc tion. But ono barrior stands in the way, in tho form of the Congo conven tion,' guaranteeing neutrality .of tho part of the continent about Lake Tang anyika, which even the autocrat of Rhodosia will find hard to force. Here Germany has the veto on Great Brit ain's advance, which she cannot be expeotod to waive without an indem nity. PASSED THE SENATE. No Debate on District of Columbia Bill First Appropriation Measure. Washington, Jan. 10. At a brief session of the senato today, tho first of tho regular appropriation bills to be reported to the body, the District of Columbia bill, was passed. It carried a trifle over 17,000,000, and was passed practically without debate. The pres entation of a memorial fiom a camp of Confederate veterans in opposition to the proposition of Butler of North Car olina to pension ex-Confederate soldiers was made the text by Allen of Nebras ka for somo remarks, during the course of which he said that Butler, in making his proposition, and the president, in suggesting that the nation care for the graves of the Confederate dead, had been cairied away by their enthusiasm. The house was engaged all day on the legislative, executive and judiciacl bill and completed it substantially as reported, except the items for the civil service commisbion, which went over. Given Vp for I.ont. Boston, Jan. 10. The owners of the Boston brig Mary Gibbs, Captain Hor ace Coombs, now 120 days out on a voyage lrom x.owport ews to Para, Brazil, have abandoned all hope of the vessel, although they still believe there is a chance that the crew may have been rescued by some Bhip bound either to the Pacific Of to some remote quarter of the globe. The Mary Gibbs carried eight men and a cargo of C00 tons of coal. Murdered and Robbed. Butte, Mont., Jan. 10. George Pe terson, who came hero recently from Nevada, was found dead in a gully just southwest of town today. His head had been mashed or cut to pieces with an axe, and less than f 1 in change was found on his person. He had boen killed and robbed, and the body diag ged into the gulch. It is said that every thread of a spider's web is ruado up of about 5,000 separate fibers. If a pound of this thread were required it would oocupy 38,000 spiders a full year to furnish it. NO APPROPRIATION. Anti-Civil Service Reformers Victorious in the House. Washington, Jan. 9. The anti-civil service reformers scored a victory in the house today. The executive legis lative and judicial appropriation bill was taken up for consideration, and then, when the appropriation for the civil service commission was reached, Evans made a motion to strike it out. This motion has been made annually for a dozen years or more, but invari ably failed. But today the opponents of the law laid great stress on the fact that they could not get a decisive vote upon the proposition, and were there fore compelled to seek its nullification in this manner. Even these appeals failed to bring out the full strength of the opposition, though the motion to strike out carried by a narrow margin, f7tnfil. This was in committee of the whole, where no record was made of the vote. Moody gave notice that he would demand a record vote in the house, where the friends of the civil service law expect to reverse the deci sion. When the senate -convened today tho resolution offered yesterday by Hoar, calling on the president for information as to the instructions to tho commis sionets who negotiated the treaty of Paris, together with all correspondence and reports relating to their work, was laid before the senate. Chairman Davis, ono of the commissioners, asked that it bo referred to the foreign rela tions .committee, but Hoar insisted that the senate had as much right to such information as the members of the foreign relations committee, and that the president should determine whother the senate should have it. The resolution was adopted in secret session. In support of the resolution offered some time ago by Vest, in oppo sition to expansion, Caffery delivered an extended speech. At the conclusion of Caffery's argu ment, Morgan announced, on. behalf of tho Nicaragua canal committee, the acceptance in modified form of the amendments offered by Berry before the holid'.ys to the pending oanal bill. The amendments were not passed upon by the senate. MISSIONARY OUTRAGE. Catholic Priest Rrutallv Treated In a Chinese Tillage. Berlin, Jan. 9. Letters received here from Kiao Chou, the German fortified sjtlement in the province of Shang Tung, China, give details of an outrage upon Father Stenz, the German Cath olic missionary, November 9 last. The missionary was about to leave Tie-Tau, province of Shang Tung, owing to the anti-Christian feeling. Finding him self confronted by crowds of Chinese who were clamoring for the destruction of the Christians, he took refuge in a hut, but he was dragged out, his cloth ing torn from his back, and he was struck with sticks and pricked with knives and lances and his beard torn out. The Chinese threatened to flay him alive. The following day, his persecutors prepared to hang him by tho wrists. Finally, a mandarin in terfered in his behalf, but compelled him to leave the distriot with a prom ise never to return. Davis in San Francliico. San Francisco, Jan. 9. The United Stales torpedo-boat Davis arrived today from Astoria, via Tillamook, and after taking on coal pioceedcd to Mare isl and. She proved to be a good sea boat, but owing to the heavy weather along the coast sho did not attempt a greater speed than six or eight knots. The Davis crossed out of the Colum bia about two weeks ago, but put into Tillamook to "scape a storm, remaining there until Wednesday morning, when she again headed south. She was in command of Captain Thomas F. Neill, and Arthur Zwicker and J. E. Wolff, of the firm which built the vessel, were in charge of the engine and boiler rooms. Ambassador to Russia. New York, Jan. 9. A dispatch tc the Herald, from Washington, says: The president has practically seleoted William Potter, of Philadelphia, for ambassador to Russia. Mr. Potter was formerly minister to Italy, having been stationed at Rome during tlio Harrison administration. His record during that period has been carefully exam ined by the president and Secretary Hay, and both feel confident that he will satisfactorily fill the St. Peters burg po6t. Explosion in Shipyard. London, Jan. 9. A big boiler being tested in Hewitt's shipbuilding-yauls at Barking burst today, and the super intendent, enginoer and eight other men were killed. About 40 persons were injured, some fatally. The whole ship-building works were wrecked. A woman was found dead 800 yards from the scene of the disaster. A number of men and boys are missing. Windows half a mile away were shattered. Life Imprisonment. Madrid, Jan. 9. Colonel Julison San Martin, who was in command of the Spanish garrison at Ponce when the United States troops under General Miles landed on the island, and who abandoned the place without resistance, has been, sentenced to imprisonment for life. He will be incarcerated at Ceuta, the Spanish penal colony in Morocco, opposite Gibraltar. Morrill's Successor. Montpelier. Vt., Jan. 9. Governor Smith has tendered the place in the United States senate, left vacant by the death of senator Morrill, to B. F. Fifield, of this city. Mr. Fifield has not vet accepted. Washington, Jan. 9. The housa committee on Indian affairs today or dered a favorable report on the bill granting tv the Kettle River Valley road a righ.of way through the Col ville Indian leeervation, Washington. Tnlstni Maj lie llanlshert. London, Jan. 9 The Berlin corre spondent of the Daily News mentions a rumor from St. Pe'erslmrg that Count Leo Tolstoi will be banished for championing the causo of the dis senters who are being persecuted into wholesale immigiDtion from the Cau casian districts, mostly for Canada, whither one of Tolstoi's sons is going to inspect land that has been acquired for the immigrants. Fowls are plucked alive in Malta in the public markets, and in some parti ol England.