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O w ing to the prevalent* of yellow
Inver in Guayaquil, all steamers from
that
w ill be placed in quarantine
fur observation.
Five miners were instantly killed in
Alderson, L T. The explosion is sup
posed to have been caused by the lire
boas unscrewing his safety lamp, which
ignited the gas.
A big strike o f coal miners has oc
curred on the W heeling division of the
Baltim ore & Ohio road, as the result
o f the refusal of operators to pay the
■ixty-cent rate, as promised at the late
joint convention o f miners and opera
tor*. About 1,200 men are out, and
nearly every mine is closed.
The report that miners are to be im
ported from Missouri to operate the
Virginius mine ami Revenue tunnel
near Ouray, Col., is stoutly denied at
the office o f A. Reynolds, the principal
owner. Preparations to resume work
are going forward at the.Revenue tun
nel, and the old miners w ill be em
ploy ed.
A band o f masked regulators went
to the house o f C. W. Reddick, a few
miles west o f Newport, Idaho, and
called him to the door. They seized
him, dragged him outside, took him a
short distance from the house and gave
him a terrible beating with hone-whips
and switches. His condition is critical.
The alleged offense of Reddick was im
proper attentions to a married woman
o f the neighborhood.
It is stated that C. P. Huntington
has a corps of engineers in the field
making a preliminary survey for a rail
road from Port Alvarado, south of Vera
Crus, to the port of Kalina Cruz on
the Pacific, and that, if he can secure
advantageous routes, he w ill ask the
government for a concession for the
purpose o f operating the line in con
nection with Pacific Mail steamers, do
ing away with the Panuiua route.
The steamer Caranza, from Rotter
dam, is reported lost off Cape Abjoa.
Six members o f the crew were saved
and fifteen are missing.
Police Officer Bratton was badly shot
w hile trying to rapt lire two burglars in
a store in Tacoma. He fierd at one bur-
* l«r, when another, who was watch-
openo<l tire am I »hot Bratton twice
the buck of the head. He w ill prob-
die..
e Chandler, about 11 year« old,
iwned in Portnenf river, in Po-
rlilaho. He threw hi» hat on
and trie« I to get the dog to get
failing in this, he went on the
(nd broke through into deep water,
river wan drugged and the bo«ly
in about an hour.
16 o f the lust official acts of Mayor
of Los Angeles, Cal., w ill be to
his signature to an ordinance
ng expectortationa upon the side-
of public streets, entrances to
buildings or the Amirs of street
a misdemeanor, punishable by
T < *.. or imprisonment, or both.
Hazon o f the secret service at
lington, has issued a circular warn -
against a new counterfeit $10
ai banknote on the Union Na-
bank of Detroit. The note is the
t of the same hand which pro-
the recent counterfeit on the
ml Bank of Commerce of Now
One distinguishable feature is
tin- back of the note is upside
H C c lia Stralnu was killed by her
zer-in-law, Elden Buroker, at
D ixie, eighteen miles west of Walla
Walla.
Miss Ktrahm was visiting the
fam ily, and after the fam ily had re-
tired she went out o f the door, and
upon returning the noise awakened
Huroki-r, who drew a pistol from under
liia pillow and shot Miss Ktrahm. He
mistook her for an enemy, whom he
had heard was intent on doing him
harm.
Japan has a larger carrying trade on
the Paciflo than the United Htatea, and
Am ericans who are near enongh to
watch the shifting scones in this new
and rapidly developing contest for oom-
mem ial supremacy find little matter
fo r pride in present tendenciea This
is the statement of United States Con
sul Bell, o f Sydney, contained in hia
report to the s*.;'e department upon the
opening o f the new Japanese steamship
line between Yokohama and Australia.
Tic- president has extended the civil
servlet- rules so as to include all officers
employes in the federal peniten-
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.,
it is to apply to all such gov-
«m m cn \ in *titu tion * and to all peni-
tsmtiariesApreaftercreated immediately
upon their^establishment. Attorney-
General Hannon is subjecting the re
cent civil service schedule ss affecting
the department o f juatioe to a rigid
aerntiny. The present amendment is
to overcome a defect in the rules pro
mulgated anil futher amendments on
sim ilar lines may be expected.
The New York Herald’s correspond
ent in Managua, Nicaragua, aenda
word that the government is about to
effect a forced loan of $600,000 to puy
debts contracted by the present admin
istration.
The authorities in Jamaica have pro
hibited the importation of cattle from
Colombia. By way o f retaliation it is
suggested that the government should
issue s decree against the importation
o f laborers from Jamaica, many of
in are now at work on the Panama
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OF
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T h e O r d e r s , I t Is B a ld , W i l l V e r y B oon
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New York, Jan. « .— New« ha« been
received by the Cuban junta from
Washington that the Spanish govern
ment has poaitively <letermine«l to re
call Captain-General Weyler.
General Primo de Rivera, it ia «aid,
w ill succeed General Weyler in Cuba.
He ia captain-general in the Spanish
army, and in favor with the Canovaa
government.
Minister Taylor, it ia «aid, informe«!
Secretary Olney several «lays ago that
the authorities at Madri«! were on the
point of relieving General Weyler of his
command in Cuba and of appointing as
his successor Captain-General Rivera.
Reasons were given in brief why a
change was deemed advisable and a
statement was made a3 to the probable
time when the orders would beprom ul-
gated.
It is leame«! the Madrid government
is «lispleased at the fact that General
Weyler, with about 200,000 troops, has
not put down the Cuban revolt. He
has expended large sums of money,
but so far has made no decided head
way in accomplishing his main object,
that of quelling the insurrection and
restoring peace and good order in Cuba.
His troops have been victorious on oc
casions, but they also have met defeat
and
the
total result, considering
Spain’s outlay in life an«l treasure, is
far from satisfactory.
T«x> much may have been expected of
Weyler; just as the exaction was too
great in the case o f Campos. Still,
the one great requirement, success, has
not been fulfil le«i, and Weyler has con
sequently fallen in official esteem in
Madrid.
COUNTY
Pacific Coast Lumber Trust
a Thing o f the Past.
D IF F IC U L T IE S F R O M
THE S T A R !
Increased Sup ply o f L u m b e r
bility
the
to
K ocks
Keep
on
dp
and
Price*
W hich
It
Ina
W ere
Split.
Seattle, Jan. 6.— The Post-Intelli
gencer says:
The Central Lumber
Company, of California, the most stu
pendous trust ever organized on the Pa
cific coast, is a thing o f the past. N«>
such combine was ever before effected
for the control of a market in this end
o f the world, and inability to maintuin
its organization is what nonsympathiz-
ers predicted at the time o f its concep
tion. The conditions of its agreement
were the stillest ever promulgated, and
were a practical mortgage, bill of sale,
and all-around cinch on the operations
of the m ills and the members of the
trust.
It had a hard row to hoe from the
start, but its plan was the best ever
gotten up on the Pacific coast, inas
much as it controlled every cargo mill
on the coast except three, and at one
time the outlook was rosy indeed. But,
like any business proposition, supply
and demand, keeness o f competition,
man’s cupidity, and necessities, an*I
natural opposition ha«l to be considered,
and the rocks upon which the Central
Lumber Company broke were sharp.
In the first place, the projectors con
fidently believed that thexlemand in
189« would excee«l that o f 1895.
A S N O W - B O U N D TR AIN.
That being the belief, they were con
fident that price-cutting would be im
P a s s e n g e r s o n t h e 8 a u t a F e K o a d D id
possible.
But the demand did not
N ot G o H u n g r y .
come up to expectations, the proportion
Topeka, Kan., Jan. 6.— Passengers of supply and demand being 4 to 1, in
on the Colorado express, westbound, stead of 3 to 1, as compared with eight
on the Santa Fe road, had a trying ex een months ago. The anticipation of
perience in Sunday’s blizzard. At 1:80 enhanced values prior to the formation
o ’clock in the morning, at a poitit fkiH of the company, furthermore caused
miles east of Dodge City, Kan., th<* the piling up of great stocks o f lumbei
train «tuck fast in a deep cut that ha*I in San Francisco, and other California
been tilled with snow, and until noon «listributing points, at low er prices, sc
follow ing not a wheel wras turned.
that when the new list became opera
The passengers were warm and com tive the inevitable resulted.
fortable in the cars, and when, after
No one purchased lumber from the
nearly ten hours’ imprisonment, they mills, but everyone scramble« 1 for the
began clamoring for something to eat, small tra«le in sight in the endeavor tc
the trainmen prove«l equal to the emer get rid of the stock in the yar«ls. Then
gency. In the express car the con came a clash between the retailers an* I
ductor found several crates of eggs and the members of the Central Lumber
several pails of fresh oysters. The ex Company came out second-best. T«i-
pressman ha«l some corn meal and salt day lumber is selling at barely cost in
and pepper, which he had been carry San Francisco.
ing for an emergency. The trainmen
However, during this period the
then turned in with these articles and millmen in Washington, Oregon and
prepared a Sunday dinner, that was British Columbia were simply specta
serve* 1 to the hungry passengers on tors. They could not understand why
piece« of pasteboard, shortly before orders were not coming in, anil why
noon. Six tramps who had been rul their dividends were so small. At the
ing on the brakebeams were calle«l in same time, one m ill in British Colum
and partook of the express messenger’s bia, four in Washington and four in
bounty.
Oregon, not members of the company,
Railroad traffic throughout Kansas ha«l start«*«1 into the cargo trade, and
was considerably delayed on Sun«lay, were cutting the price from fifty cents
but today reports from throughout the to $2 per 1,000, ami were running over
state indicate that the storm is subsid time, while the Central Lumber Com
ing.
pany’ s mills were idle or running only
part of the time. This cause«! hard
DIED A F T E R A B O U T .
feelings toward the company, especially
among the smaller millmen, who were
An
Auburn
M a n H a d K ffu B o x i n g
eompelle«! to operate their plants in or
W h e n Me F e l l O v e r D e a d .
der to meet obligations. On top of
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 6.— A dispatch this came accusations that the larger
to the Post-Intelligencer from Auburn, firms were securing all the trade for
K ing county, says that Ernest B. Funk themselves. Finally one m ill broke its
died suddenly tonight in Goo»lrich’ s agreement w ith the company, ami
saloon. Immediately before his death others followed suit in short order.
he had a friendly boxing bout with a
Stetann’ * M » u s o l« n in .
friend, lasting about live minutes.
New York, Jan. 8.— “ When I die I
Funk ha«l not apparently overexerted
am going to have one o f the finest
himself or received a single blow, and
mausoleums in the country, anil w ill
was taking off the gloves when he fell
make those now in Woodland cemetery
forward on his knees and face. It was
look cheap in comparison, ’ ’ was the re
thought at first that he had fainted,
but physicians were called, and when mark the friends of the late John Stet
they arrive«l they pmonnned him dead. son used to hear from him frequently.
He had Buffered for years from infiam- The idosyncrasies of the famous the
matory rheumatism. Physicians sai«l atrical manager ami financier were so
his death wa*. probably caused from numerous that this announcement never
heart trouble. He was a laborer, and occasioned any special comment.
His project now seems in a fair way
drank but little. It is not known that
to be carried out, and that very soon,
he ha«l any relatives in the state.
as the plans for the mausoleum are now
being considered by the executors of
D e a t h o f C. H . L e w is .
the Stetson estate.
It is to be of
Portland, Or., Jsn. 8. — ( ’ . H. Lewi», granite, and w ill hare ponderous bronze
the best-known of Portland’ s
mer doors. On the panels of these doors
chants, passe«! peacefully away at 2:47 w ill be scenes from the play from
this morning, after an illness o f two which he mode a large part of his for
days, from paralysis.
He was sur- tune, snd in which his w ife captivated
nramled by his fam ily at his death, but the pnblic heart, and showed she was
was nnconacious to the last.
Mr. a charming actress as well as one of
Lewis was stricken with paralysis Sat the most daring bareback riders that
urday afternoon while on his way to ever enter»! a circus ring.
business. He was immediately taken
AU the most effective scenes from
to his home snd given sll the assistance "T h e Crust o f Society,” in which the
that medical skill coulil provide, but late Mrs. Stetson, as Mrs. East lake
gradually sank amt lingered until his Chapel, took the role of the leading
death. His womierfnl vitality was all lady, w ill be faithfully represented.
that held death at bay so long. The
Bnt the most curious thing of all
paralysis at first extended only over w ill be a huge bronze horse sitting on
one side, ami Dr. Holt 0 . Wilson, his its haunches over the entrance to the
nephew snd physician, hoped that the tomb. It w ill be a reproduction of
stroke might he only temporary. But Mrs. Kate Stokes Stetson’ s favort.e
paralysis at Mr. Lew is’ silvanced age trick horse.
almost invariably proves fatal, and the
T .m i l l « s h l n g l . M ill B u rn ed .
ease of Portland’ s greatest merchant
Tacoma, Jan. 6. — The big shingle
proved no exception to the rule.
m ill of the Puget Sound Shingle Com
pany, at Old Tacoma, burn»! late to
A w a r d « « ! t h a C o iu r t
night, cansing loss of over $ 10,000,
Lick
Observatory, Jan. 8. — The which is partly cover»l by insurance.
comet medal o f the Astronomical So The m ill has been under repairs for
ciety of the Pacific has been awarded several days, preparatory to its opera
to Mr. C. D. P en in e, assistant as tion by the new lessee. It hail a daily
tronomer in Lick Observatory, for his capacity of 200,000 shingles. Incen
discovery o f an unexpected comet ou diarism is betiev»] to have been the
November 2, 189«.
cause, though no motive is known.
London, Jan. 8. — Advices from Blan-
tyre, a mission town in British Sonth
Africa, annonnees that the British
force, sent last month against the An-
goni Zulns. under Chief Chiknsi, who
hail in-ailed Southwest Nyasaaland and
burn»! the British station besides
masaacreing the inhabitants of a num
ber of villages, has routed the Angonis
w ith heavy losaea. after some sharp
fighting. Chief Chikuaki was capture«I
amt hanged. Five men of the British
force were wounded,
Baltimore, Jsn. 6. — Richard Corne
lius, cashier, and for forty-two yean
connect«! with the National Farmers’
and Plantera’ bank, of which En*ch
Pratt was president up to the time of
his death, was discovered to be short
in hi* accounts a bunt $80.000 today.
About 10 o ’clock Mr. Cornelius was
notified of the discovery, and left the
bank. A t 1:1& this afternoon his dead
body was found in the duck pond at
Druid Hill Park. He committed ssi-
Oide by drowning.
THE
H ATCELBT.
ARTICLES
A
SIGNED.
Two
P l l i i l i n a o n a H a , A f r a f i i t«» M e e t C o r
b e t t oil M a r c h 17.
New York, Jan. « .— The only hitch
which now seems possible to prevent
the meeting of Corbett and Fitzsim
mons w ill be the failure o f Stuart tc
secure a place where they may settle
the long-talked-of contest.
On De
cember 7, James J. Corbett affixed hi>
singature to the articles of agreement.
This afternoon, Fitzsimmons, aocom
panied by his manager, met Dan Stuart
at Jersey City, and Fitzsimmons signed
his name underneath Corbett’s on the
articles.
As to the side bet, Fitzsnnnons said
he would put up from $5,000 to $10,000.
There was very little quibbling and it
looked as if all parties concerned were
in earnest about wishing to decide whe
is to be the recognized heavy-weight
champion of the world.
The articles call for a purse o f $15,-
000 to be given to the winner, and each
of the principals to post $2,500 in thi
hands of a stakeholder to guarantee an
appearance in the ring, the one failing
to live up to this agreemet to forfeit tc
the other and Stuart.
As a guarantee
of good faith, Stuart agrees to post
$5,000 with a stakeholder, to be divid
ed between Corbett and Fitzsimmons,
if he (Stuart) fails to carry out the
provisions incorporated in the agree
ment. Stuart further agrees to post
the remainder o f the purse, $ 10,000, in
the hands o f a stakeholder, thirty days
prior to the date of the contest, and
that the said $ 10,000 w ill be forfeited
by him to Corebtt and Fitzsimmons, ii
Stuart fails to bring off the contest on
March 17. Five-ounce gloves are t*
be used.
George Siler, o f Chicago, is agreed
upon as referee, and Fitzsimmons de
cided that Al Smith o f New York,
was satisfactory as stakeholder ffn
him. Stuart refused to say where he
expected to bring the m ill off, but the
articles called for him to notify the
pugilists of the place one month prior
to the date of the contest.
Fitzsimmons’ right hand was band
aged from the effects o f his fight with
Sharkey, when he received an injury
to one of his knuckles in delivering a
blow.
Julian, his manager, would
not s a j where <*r when Fitzsimmons
would go into training, as he had not
yet made arrangements.
A
N e g r ics
FIENDISH
PLOT.
C o u f « ss t o
an A t t e m p t
W re ck an E x press Train .
Cuban Expedition Came to
Grief Off Florida Coast.
E L EV EN O F THE C R E W
V o ..e l
S pru n g
Bur
The
A fte r
a
t-aala
L e u v iu s
Pum p.
W o u ld
M ISSING
C r u ..ln g
th o
J u c k .o n r lllo —
Sat
W ork .
Jacksonville, Jan. 5.— The steamer
Commodore, which oleared from this
port for Cienfugos, Cuba, on Thursday,
with a cargo of small arma and ammu
nition, foundered off New* Smyrna at
an early hour this morning. Twenty-
eight men were on board tho steamer,
and bo far as known seventeen were
saved. One boat was washed ashore
empty, and another landed with twelve
men. Another boat landed later with
the captain and four others. Another
boat is still missing. The steamer is
reported to have sunk about twenty
milea out to sea.
The Commodore struck twice while
crossing the bar at the mouth of the
river, and had been leaking almost
from the Btart. Major Ricardo D el
gado, one of the orew, arrived here this
evening from New Smyrna, aooom-
panied by eleven other survivors, all
of the latter being Cubans. Major Del
gado was met at the train by J. A.
Huay, the Florida representative of
the Cuban junta, to whom he told the
story of the wreck.
Delgado reported that he was
awakened about midnight Friday by
the report that the steamer was leak
ing. The pumps would not work, and
the men Bet at work to bail the steam
er ont. This proved ineffectual, and
soon the engineer reported that it was
impossible to go further, as the water
had put out the fires under the boilers.
The Commodore was then twenty
miles out to sea and was running to
ward Mosquito inlet light. The boats
were lowered and Delgado and eleven
others got into one boat and pulled
away. The sea was rough. It was
8:30 A. M., and everything was dark.
Delgado was of thé impression that the
other boats were lowered at the same
time, but was not certain. He knew
nothing about the sinking of the steam
er, or whether any others were saved.
t*
St. Louis, .Tan. 6.— A Republic
special from Birmingham, Ala., .says:
Four of the five trainwreckers in jail
here today confessed to the formation
of a fiendish plot to wreck and rob the
Southern railw ay’s fast express from
Washington,
at McComb’ s trestle,
twelve miles east of the city, on the
night of December 19, and this con
fession leads to the belief that the same
gang removed the rail which wrecked
the Birmingham mineral train at Ca-
haba river bridge, causing the death of
tw uity-six people and injuring eleven
others, on December 27, al hnigh
those under arrest are as yet silent a.«
to the wreck.
Last week five negroes, Andrew
Feagan, Tom Ingram, Tom Parker,
Emanuel Billings and Rome Scales,
were arrested by deputy sheriffs and
railroad detectives, it is said, on a con
fession of one of the number. A ll were
miners at the Henry Ellen mine, near
McComb’ s trestle.
Today, all but
Feagan confessed. Parker, who did
most of the talking, says Feagan was
the leader of the plot; that he proposed
the wrecking of the trains one night at
a dance, as a good scheme by which to
get Christmas morfey, and that the five
agreed to engage in the work, with the
understanding that those who failed to
stand to the agreement would be killed
by the others.
When the time came for action, all
weakened but Feagan and Parker.
They went to McComb’s trestle, ninety
feet high, by night, and entered upon
the work of drawing spikes and remov
ing bolts from the rails. The plan was
to club to death and shoot those pas
sengers who were not killed by the
crash when the train fell to the ravine.
Not until the second night was the
death trap ready. They waited by a
campfire in the ravine below. The
fast express came, but Engineer Hawes
saw that a rail was out of place and
managed to stop his train, only, how
ever, after every wheel had left the
track. Seeing their plot had failed.
Parker says he and Feagan Aed,
mounted on a mule.
Here the confessions end, but as the
Cahaba wreck was like McComb’s at
tempted wreck in every detail, except
that it was successful, even to the ex
tent of sacrificing twenty-six lives and
the wounded and dead being robbed
by the wreckers, it is regarded a«
w ell nigh certain that the same gang
committed both deeds, and further de
velopments are expected very soon.
D * * d . to S e t t lo r ..
Tacoma. Jan. 8.— Tho new Northern
Pacific railway management is issuing
' Iee«ls to settlers for lands pnrehas»! of
the lute Paul Schnlze, general land
agent, where they can show receipts
for money paid, bnt of which Schnlie
defrauded the company. Sixty cases
are involved aggregating $160,000.
The purcashers were afraid their pay
ment* would not
be
recognised.
8chul»e eommitted suicide in this city
a year and a half ago.
A ttitude o f K uropesn P ow er..
London, Jan. 5.— The Spectator, in
an article on the position of the United
States and Europe as affected by the
Caban question, after remarking that
the Washington government had an
nnpleassut experience in the attitude
of the Enropean powers, proceeds to ex
plain the reason for the European an
tagonism to the United States, and
points ont that the great financiers of
Paris, who bold Spanish bonds, are
alarmed at the possibility that Spain,
after fighting to the bitter end, might
he compelled to suspend payment, and
consequently they are urging the
French government to intervene be
tween Washington and Madrid.
Emperor W illiam , it is said, ap
proves of this, for apart from his
dreams of oolonia1 expansion, which
oonld best be gratified in Brazil, he is
not fond of American diplomacy.
The Italian government, according
to the Spectator, w ill support Spain,
“ ow ing to the Italians in the United
States having been treated aa if they
were red Indians.”
The Speotator adds that the Austrian
emperor w ill support Germany in
maintaining the independence of Spain
by weighty fam ily reasons, not wishing
to see .the queen regent, who is an
Anatrian archduchess, and her son,
driven ont of Madrid by a popular re
volt, follow ing the lose of Cabs.
The dreibund, therefore, and France,
the Speotator says, are ready to counsel
President Cleveland to be moderate and
"a v oid threats which Spain could not
tolerate, and which might lead to a
widespread maritime w ar.”
The Spectator continues:
“ The United States oonld conquer
any American state, and might, if they
exerted themBelves, defeat a single Eu
ropean power; but they cannot defeat
all Europe combined, even if England,
from reasona o f kinship, remained
neutral. The fact is patent that the
United States w ill not be allowed to
order Spain out of her colony without
remonstrance from Continental Europe,
which might be followed by the action
o f the combined fleets of the five powers
snd the landing of srmiea in Cuba and
the French West Indies.”
SALOON
RIOT.
P o l i c e m e n N e u r lv K i l l e d
D o l u s T h u ir D u t y .
Grand Rapids, Jan. 4.— Two
lioeinen were pounded half to deal
a crowd today, and two of their >«
ants were shot. The trouble wal^
result of a crusade, which the p
have been waging against salo
keepers, who have been violating
law.
Today Patrolmen Viergiver and \
rington found the aaloon of Somi
& Treadwell doing a thriving backj
business. As the officers enterec
air waa filled with clubs, bottles
glasses. Officer Viergiver was s’
on the head and felled with i I
He waa drawing bia revolver as hi J
and aa he fell he pulled the tri^
Several shots were fired froinA
crowd and Harrington managed tip
bis revolver ont n’id pulled it uia
Treadwell, who waa p e n d in g 'tkl
the head with a bottle. The uVU
ment Harrington went to the floor,
great crowd had gathered in front
the saloon, and the excitement was
tense. One officer outside guarded a
door and sent for the patrol wagon, f
squad of eighteen policemen respcnuiei
with orders to arrest every one in tl
place, bnt most of the crowd had nia:
aged to slip away.
Officer 'Viergive had an arm brok
in two places, a finger broken, his n
dislocated Mild an awful gash across
scalp. His ^njnries are not necessari
fatal.
Officer Harrington was
with broken \ glass. He has a
scalp wound sand serious bodii^
juries.
Treadw ell was shot in
right lung. Aip examination lat/
■light showed thkv he is suffering i
hemorrhages. He lh not lik e iy i
oover.
T h e N i c a r a g u a Canrt.i.
Washington, Jan. 4.— One
main objects of the formation o f a wN
Greater Kepnhlio of Central Ameriq
is said to be the completion of the Nio-
aragua canal. Senor Roderiguez, re
cently recognized as the diplom at»
representative of the new oountry ii
•’'e United States, is said to be charged
Wi h the duly of interesting this gov-
eg .ment in the enterprise.
This aid to the project comes at
time when it is needed. The support
ers of the measure on both sides at the
capital have hopes that the great peti
tion sent to Speaker Reed, asking that
time be given for discussion of the bill
after the funding measure is disposed
of, w ill be heeded, and at least two
days so allowed.
There are enough friends of the plan
on the senate side to bring it up
there is any hope of getting in a few
hours while the funding debate is un
in the npper house.
Train* W r e c k e d b y R o b b e r s .
Austin, Tex., Jan. 4.—.An interna
tional & Great Northern freight tra il
was wrecked four milea south o f here
this morning, presumably by trainrob-
bers lying in wait for the passenger
train.
A brakeman, Fred Joynson,
was killed, and Engineer Smith seri
ously injnred. A switch was left open
and rocks piled on the track.
Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 4 .— Fireman
Alexander Overby a n ! Engineer John
Rotertscn were seriously injnred in a
wreck early this morning on the Ra
leigh & Augusta division of the Sea
board Air Line, just east of here. A
rail had been diaplaoed by train-
wreckers. BloodbonndB have been put
upon the trail.
Ne w Y o r k M a i l R o b b e r y «
New York, Jan. 4.— The postoffice
inspectors have arrested W illiam H.
Post, aged 22, a raailwagon driver, on
a charge of mail robbery. A quantity
of incoming mail from the West was
stolen on December 20. Many rifled
packages were found on December 22
in the water off Brighton beach. The
keys to the mail poaches are said to
have been found on Post, and small
articles, probably Christmas presents,
in his room. Post denies robbing the
mails. It is believed he threw the
rifled letters into North river from the
ferryboat He has been held in $5,000
bail.
G o t H a lf o f t h e l u t e r e s t .
Washington, Jan. 4.— The Crow-
Creek-Sionx delegation of Sonth Dakota
Indiana have not gained their an
nounced object, of securing a per capita
cash oayment of $187,000 leas about
$1,8000 f«ir expenses, now to their
credit in the treasury, bnt they have
secured a payment of about $4 or $5
per capita, representing half o f the ac
crued interest on the money.
P »l«l I n t e r e s t W i t h C o f f e e .
A 7*a . . a n g e r T r iu n W r e c k .
Des Moines. Jan. 4.— A passenger
train on the Keoknk * Western, south-
bound, was wrecked this morning two
miles sonth of Norwalk, injuring sev
eral pasengers and one perhaps fatally.
It was a heavy train, loaded with
teachers geing home from the state as
sociation. The ground under the track
waa softened by rain so that the rails
spread. One coach and baggage-car
were turned npaide down, and others
tipped over. Several passengers were
bruised. Eugene Chapman, a son of
Dr. R. U. Chapman, of Des Moines,
was seriously cut in the left temple
and may die. Conductor Ed Cavanaogh
waa so severely hurt. A relief train
was sent from Dee Moines to bring the
injured to Des Moines.
T h e y H ud T r o u b le ., T o o .
St. Paul. Jan. 6.— Aa a direct result
Chicago, Jan.
5 — Because their
o f the closing of the Bank of Minnesota
parents thought them too young to
two weeks ago, which created new dis
marry, N ellie Uren, 10 years old,
trust among depositors and started runs
and Obbie Heath, one year younger,
on a number o f city banks tSat were
decided to onmmit suicide. The girl
reputed not to be ss strong aa the de
killed herself by drinking oarbolio
positors wished, three St. Panl hanks,
acid, bnt the nerve of the youth failed
the Germania, the Alienism.t and life
him at the last minute, and he stood by
West Side, none of them national in*
and watched bia sweeheart die.
stitntion*. all cloaady associated, cloeed
their doors today, one being in t h e , Trade competition in Chios go has be-
hand* of the state bank examiner and oome so tremendous that coffins ara
the others making assignments.
■ow offered at actual cost.
Hamburg, Jan. 4.— There was an
important sale here yesterday of 24,000
bags o f Brazilian coffee on board
steamers now in this harbor.
The
coffee is believed to he a consignment
of the Brazilian government, in lieu o f
bills to pay interest on the Brazilian
debt. The coffee waa consigned to the
Rothschilds, of London, who sold it
here.
R i i .a l u '. H o ld S t a n d a r d S c h a m a .
St. Petersburg, Jan. 4.— Most au
thoritative qnartera deny that M. De
W it t a gold-standard project has been
abandoned, as was reported from here
It w ill be discussed at the oouncil of
the emperor in March, after the statu
tea of the bank have undergone the
necessary revision to bring them into
harmony with the statement.
A Cut In Wag*».
Waltham, Maas, Jan. 4 — A gen
eral cut in wage# in the iron foundry of
Davis * Faruum, of this city, w ent
into effect today The out range, from
1 , 0 16 cent, and affects over 500 men.
Th* fact that the Urge foundries in
Pennsylvania and the West have com-
to do Uiair own small work,
_ menoed
,
making it impossible for this Ann to
compete, la given aa the cause.
Jzpan has forty-ooe cities o f ove*
10,000 inhabitants.
I -okesm
1,000.
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