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THE BK JJE WEfK
From All Parts of the ; New
World and the Old."
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happening of the Part Week
Culled From the Telegraph Column.
In an ' opinion filed in the supreme
oonrt of Illinois, the Torrens land title
aot is held to be nnoonstitutional.
, Rev. E. L. Benediot shot and fatally
wounded Harry MoWhorter, a promi
nent druggist, of Larrabee, la. The
shooting was in self defense.
' There is a shortage of dry wines in
California, and the manufacturers wish
to advanoe the prioes, but to this the
dealers objeot, for fear of foreign com
petition. ' ', , '
President Zelaya, of Nioaragua, has
issued a decree making lard duty free
from Ootober to April, and flonrand
oorn, whioh are also soarce, are made
free of finty. , v , .s , '
The iountry home at Clover Bend,
Lawrence oonnty, Arkansas, of Miss
Frenoh, authoress and magazine con
tributor, well known as ''Octave
Thanet." was destroyed 1 by fire. A
large and vlauable library was bnrned.
Serious rioting has ooourred at Shot
aput, near Bombay. Five thousand
men looted 1,600 bags of grain. The
polipe fired upon the mob, killing four
men and wounding six. A further
outbreak is feared as Shotaput is one of
the worst famine tracts. 1 J
A St Petersburg dispatch to the
London Times quotes the Kovosti as
saying that towards the close of the
war with Japan, China offered to cede
the island of Formosa to England with
out condition, with a view to excluding
'-the Japanese, but that Lord Bosebery,
then prime minister, promptly declined :
the offer.
' Mrs. Walter M. Castle, of San Fran-;
' oisoo, recently sentenoed in London to
three months' imprisonment without
hard larbor, after having pleaded guilty
to a charge of shop-lifting, has been re
leased from prison on medioal grounds,
by order of the home secretary, Sir
- Matthew White Bidley. ;
' The report that was reoently sent out
from Constantinople that Bixty Arme
nians were massaoerd there early last
week was not exaggerated. On the
contrary, the affair turns out more seri
ous than was at first announced. The
" massaore occurred at the village of
- Everek, where nearly one hundred per
sons were killed and all the Armenian
houses pillaged. , ;
A tramp, while going over the Balti
more & Ohio, near Mitchell, , Ind. ,
found enough dynamite on the track to
blow an engine to pieoes as soon as it
strnok it .He - ran to the nearest
awitoh, tore off a lamp, and returning,
signaled the approaohing express train.
He was shot at by the wreckers and
was , found - unoonsoious by the train-
men..; ,;
In Biohmond, Mo., a mob collected
around the jail and attempted to get
hold of Jesse Winner and Lon Lackey,
charged with the murder of Mrs. Eva
Winner and her two children. Their
evident purpose was to lynch them. A
brother of the murdered woman ad
dressed the mob and pleaded with them
to leave the law take its oonrse. They
aooepted his oounsel and retired.
Samnel S. Tuoker, a painter, met
Dr. James S. Wintermute on the street
in Taooma. and suddenly drew a re
volver, shooting Wintermute through
the body. " Tuoker then turned the re
volver on himself, shooting himself
through the head, blowing his brains
-out ' Wintermute was not killed and
may reoover. : The latter professes not
to know the oause of the shooting.
.. Superintendent Keene who shot Mort
Roderick, the supposed robber, at the
Cariboo mines, was acquitted by the
coroner's jury. t
John B. Barthelman, a sewing-machine
agent shot and killed his divorced
wife in Los Angeles, CaL They quar
reled over the possession of their 8-year-old
daughter.
In Ashland, Ky., Tobe Stanley, a
mine superintendent, was shot and
killed by Ike Barker on his way to the
polls to vote. , Stanley opened hostili
ties by cutting Barker aoross the faoe
with a buggy whip. ' Family troubles
were the cause ' 1 . '"
About twenty fist fights ooourred
near the polls in Lexington, Ky., on
eleotion day. Pistols were drawn in
' half of them. An editor attempted to
assault Colonel Breckenridge, who
drew his pistol. They were separated
before anyone was hurt. '
S. B. Clough, a hotel proprietor of
Minneapolis, Minn. , waB so deter
mined to vote that he rose from his
ik bed to go to the polls. He had
n banned ni Dauoi-ior marxing,
An eLu "toppled over dead
ISllgUU A-t0
nominations J
miuip to fill the offices
but there was hardly enn eleotion day
fill the offices, and tltred the polling
were postponed till pistol at Lewis
Frank Noble, the old jerk, attempted
wars, is mentioned for ccg trjgger three
: - . " '' was caught
i for the deed,
V
Ait Exit Session fit PBnj-W'.
An extra session foll&wing irhmo'l
fctely the inauguration of Mr. MoKin
le.r is, in the presiding Opinion in
Washington, certain. No one pro
fesses to brv word from .Mr. McKin
ley direot on trie eubjeot, tut there is
good authority for saying' that M"k
Hanna, during a recent visit in New
York, said enough to give the impres
sion that an extra session is on the Be
pnblioan programme. Senator Quay
believes an extra session is certain.
fir,,rm on Luke Trie.
' Great damage has been done to the
shipping interests on .lake Erie by a
high wind. The canal boat MayBide
Way, while being towed up the river
from Tonawanda, broke her hawser
and was blown on the rocks along
shore. The captain was resoued with a
rope, but his mules were crushed to
death. The boat beoame a total wreok.
An old exoursion steamer was blown
aoross the obannel near Buffalo and
will be a total loss.
BMclde of a Capitalist.
Joseph D. MoDonald. a prominent
and wealthy citizen of Fremont, Neb.,
shot himself, causing almost instant
death. The cauee for the rash act was
mental unbalanoe, the result of finan
cial reverses in mining investments in
Colorado. He was a railroad contractor
and built all of the South Platte
branches of the Northwestern road in
Nebraska on the Elkhorn system, and
was reputed to be worth over $100,000.v
, Of Interest to Miners, 'r ;
A New York attorney has received
a cablegram announcing that the high
ccurt at Pretoria,' South Africa, has de
clared void the; MaoArthur-Forest pat
ents for the cyanide process for the re
covery of gold. This decision was
given in a suit brought by the com
bined gold-mine owners of Johannes
burg and, the Transvaal.-"; The an
nouncement is said to be of great inter
est
to gold
mine owners.
, . Hn, Castle Sentenced to Prison,
Mrs. Walter M. Castle, of San Fran
oisoo, who .was arrested .in - London,
oharged with shoplifting, has had "her
trial. .' She pleaded guilty, and ' was
sentenoed to three months' imprison
ment without labor. , Mr. Castle was
acquitted. . , . -f
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, i . ' - Harper's Magazine.'
An important feature of Harper's
Magazine for several months to come
will:- be Poultney Bigelow's series of
papers on the .'"White Man's Africa,"
treating in - the author's original and
striking way the new oontinent recent
ly opened up to European exploitation.
The first paper, in the . November
number, will give , a novel view of
Jameson's raid from material placed in
the author's hand by an English phy
sician and a Boer official thus present
ing both sides of this remarkable epi
sode. The series is the result of a
journey to South Africa undertaken by
Mr. Bigelow for . Harper's. Magazine,
and is to be; illustrated from photo
graphs specially made for the purpose.
... Thanksgiving Proclamation. ..
The president has issued the follow
ing Thanksgiving proclamation:
"By the President of the United
States: :. , -. ,
; "The people of ' the United Statea
should never be unmindful of the grati
tude they owe to the God of nations
for his watohful ' care, which hat
shielded them from disaster and point
ed out to them the way of peaoe and
happiness. Nor should they ever re
fuse to acknowledge : with , oon trite
hearts their proneness to turn away
from God's teachings and to follow
with sinful pride after their : own de
vices. ,' ' v. '
"To the end that these thoughts
may be quickened, it is fitting that, on
a day especially appointed, we should
join together intapproaohing the throne
of grace with praise and supplioation.
"Therefore, I, Grover Cleveland,
president of the United States, do here
by designate and set apart Thursday,
the 26th day of the present month of
November, to be kept and observed as
a day of thanksgiving and prayer
throughout our land. On that day let
all our people forego their usual work
and occupations and assemble in their
aooustomed places of worship; let them
with one aooord render thanks to the
Buler of the Universe for our preserva
tion as a nation, and our deliverance
from every threatened' danger; for the
peaoe that has dwelt within our boun
daries; for our defense against disease
and pestilenoe during the year that has
passed; for the plenteouu rewards that
have ' followed the labors of our hus
bandmen; and for all the other bless
ings that have been vouchsafed to us.
"And let us, through the mediation
of Him who has taught us how to pray,
implore the forgiveness of onr sins and
a oontinuanoe of heavenly favor.
"Let us not forget on this day of
thanksgiving the needy, and by deeds
of oharity let our offerings of praise be
made more acceptable in the fight ol
the Lord.
"Witness my hand and . the seal ol
the United States whioh I have caused!
to be hereto affixed.
I "Done at the City of Washington,
; this 6th day of November, in the yeai
' of our Lord, 1896, and of tie independ
ence of the United States tt merioa,
the 121st
(Seal.) "Grover Cleveland,
"By the President.
"Richard Olney, -. '
j "Seoretary of State."
THE BATTLE IS OVER
Republican National Ticket
Has Been Victorious. .
M'KINLEY AND HO BART CHOSEN
Washington Is For Bryan and Oregon
For MeKInley The Southern
Vote Is Divided.
" With three states yet in 'doubt, it is
known that the Bepublioan national
ticket is eleoted by a majority of nearly
100 in the eleotoral college, and of,
1,000,000 plurality of the popular vote.'
New York, ". Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Massachusetts and Ohio have rolled up
unprecedentedly tremendous majorities,
from 100,000 to 800,000. The rest is
detail, to be settled by complete re
turns. 'I .,-'" . --!.
There are now three states in the
doubtful column Kentucky, Wyoming
and South Dakota. In Kentucky it
will require the official oount to deter
mine the result, owing ' to irregulari
ties. In Wyoming; the uncretainty is
due to the slow returns. The latest re
ports, however, indicate that Bryan
will get two of the three votes. South
Dakota's vote on presidential electors
is tied, and an official count will be re
quired to determine the result Repub
lican managers have closed their office
with the above declaration.
., The Bepublioan candidate is now
sure of 260 electoral votes. The other
states that were considered doubtful
Kansas, North Carolina, Tennessee
and Virginia have gone for Bryan.
His vote is 167, and with Kentucky,
Wyoming and South Dakota would be
. 187. . - -
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I , The Kleotoral College.
' The folllowing table gives the stand
ing of the eleotoral college as far as
returns indicate:
STATES.
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho.
Hlinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire.......
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina.........
North Dakota
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania.
Rhode island
South Carolina
South Dakota-
Tennessee
Texas
Utah -
Vermont..
Virginia
Washington
WestV irglnia.
Wisconsin
Wyoming.
13
12
Totals..
The returns show interesting features
and in some respeots have been a sur
prise to the leaders of both politioal
parties. - The New England states
ha-ve, as was expeoted, given heavy
pluralities for MoKinley, without ex
ception. The Bepublioan tioket was
suooessful in Massachusetts beyond
what was claimed for it by the most
enthusiastic prophet of Bepublioan suc
cess. ' ."-V
. New York and Pennsylvania have
given the . Bepublioan candidate be
tween 275,000 and 285,000 eaoh.
The Virginia electors will, without
question, be for ' Bryan, but they have
been eleoted by a heavily reduoed vote.
The Bepublicans have given Texas up.
Illinois has given MoKinley about
175,000 plurality. In the guberna
torial race vAltgeld has been beaten,
but is 60,000 ahead of the Democratic
national ticket. .
Ohio has given MoKinley 62,488
plurality. .
Returns by counties in Iowa have
been oompleted. The total vote oast
in the state is in excess of 610,000
votes, estimating the Prohibition and
Palmer votes together at only 6000.
Of these votes 286,751 were cast for
MoKinley, and 210,118 for Bryan.
MoKinley's plurality, 67,633. This
is the largest vote ever oast in the
state. . ", ,
In Kentucky the situation is ma
terially changed from early advices.
At first the Bepublioans olaimed the
state by about 16,000, but late returns
show large Democratic gains, and now
the state is olaimed for Bryan, but this
the Bepublioans will not oonoede.
California has given MoKinley a
plurality of 6,000.
Kansas has given Bryan 4,000 plu
rality. With nearly oomplete returns from
Miohigan Pingree'g plurality isyjsti
mated at about 70,000 and MoKinley's
15,000 less. Of the congressional d 'le
gation 12 are Bepublioans and 2 Vu
ionists. i -
NORTHWEST STATES.
. - ' Oregon. .
. Complete returns have been received
from 23 out of the 82 counties in Ore
gon, and the returns from the 10 other
counties are praotically oomplete. The
number of voces reported is 91,642, of
whioh MoKinley has 46,792 and Bryan
44,760, or a plurality of 2,042 for Mo
Kinley. Less than 600 votes remain
to be added to the 94, 642 in order to
give the full number of Votes cast for
MoKinley and Bryan.
The following table shows the vote
by counties: .
Counties. McKlnley
Baker .'. K7
Benton 976 ,
Clackamas , 2,666
Clatsop 1,849
Columbia , .. 675
Coos. ., 1,106
Crook. K)
Currv 276
Douglas 1,903
tiilltam 837
Grant 672
Harney. 218
Jackson K 1,376
Josephine 1,100
Klamath S46
Lake 389
Lane 2,221
Lincoln o76
LInri.. 2,064
Malheur 210
Marion 8,020
Morrow 686
Multnomah 11,830
Polk 1,248
Pherman 426
Tillamook 685
Umatilla '. 1,410
Union 1,275
Wallowa 408
Wasco 1,487
Washington 2,085
Yamhill 1.61
Brvan-
, 1,838
730
2,389
. . 1,186
. 600
1,560
596
.268
2,045
472
828
405
2,383
V 1,609
462
' 416
"'' - 2,588
668
2,736
466
2,631
542
6,450
' 1,307
419
.. 626
1,674
2,108
688
1,187
. 1,666
1,665
44,760
Totils
46,792
- Washington.
" The later reports from Washington
indicate that Bryan's plurality will be
near 10,000. ' The Bryan vote was the
strongest in the more thickly populated
portion of the state. The number of
votes thus far reported 77,175 about
equals that of two years ago, so that,
allowing for the increase, there remains
about 10,000 more to bear from.
John B. Bogers, Populist, has been
chosen governor over P. C. Sullivan,
though by a majority probably 2,000
under the electoral ticket.
The , entire fusion ticket has been
suooessful by majorities ranging from
8,000 to 8,000. The legislature is
Populist on joint ballot, though there
"is a possibility that the Bepublioans
may oontrol the senate, as they have 14
hold-overs out of a total of 84 mem
bers of the upper house. ;
The returns from Washington as re
ported for presidential electors appear
in the table below. No returns have
been received from Okanogan and
Skamania counties:
Counties.
Adams
Asotin
Chehalis
Clallam
Clark
Columbia...
eowlitz.."
Douglas
Franklin ...
Garfield
Island
Jefferson
King....,
Kitsap
Kittitas
McKlnley.
...... 160
..... 78 ,
1,586 .
254
1,495 .
436
1,487
68
86
, 478
196
677
6,370
653
616
Bryaa
261
85
1,476
284
1,478
568
1,4.56
121
107
- 636
178
.467
7,568
. ' 562
831
600
.' 1,491
920
641
""'433
6,119
. 250
248
"i'.'iso
6,i24
672
1,864
. 284
1,633
1,750
2,728
. 1,189
43,030
Klickitat...
700
Lewis 1,619
Lincoln 421
Mason 871
Okanogan -
Pacific 859
Pierce 4,525
San Juan 400
Skagit 177
Skamania -
Snohomish 1,497
Spokane 2,706
Stevens 144
Thurston 1,052
Wahkiakum 199
Walla Walla 1,528
Whatcom 1,600
Whitman 1,206
Yakima - 861
Totals..
...34,145
The New Lawmakers.
Washington. At Bepublioan and
Demooratio congressional headquarters
the chairmen have been figuring on the
complexion of the next house. Chair
man Baboook says he has complete re
ports from 193 congressional districts,
whioh have eleoted Bepublicans; that
there are 135 districts that have elect
ed Demoorats and Populists, and 28
districts in which the returns are in
complete. These may all be classed as
doubtful, he says, with the prospects
that the Bepublicans will secure at
least one half of them, whioh would
make a total Bepublioan membership
in the fifty-fifth oongress of 207. He
claims that, under no circumstances,
will the Bepublioan membership fall
below 200.
Senator Faulkner, chairman of the
Demooiatio oommittee, although be
does not oonoede the Bepublioans ' a
majority in the next house, gives them
176, within three of a majority. , V
The Democrats have made gains as
follows: Delaware, 1; Illinois, 1; Mis
souri, 4; New York. 1; total, 11. V
The Bepublioans have gained as fol
lows: Maryland, 8.
The Demo-Populists have gained 1
in Colorado and 1 in Missouri. .
The Next Senate. .
Washington. From returns thus fat
received, the next senate will probably
stand as follows:
Bepublioans, 44
Democrats, 82. - i .
Independents and Populifts, 12. - '
Doubtful, 2. ,
On the currency question, the senate
undoubtedly will have an anti-silver
majority. '
. Bepublicans who bolted the St Louis
tioket and platform are classed as inde
pendents. They are: Teller, Dubois,
Mantle, Cannon.
Another Utah senator to be elected
to sucoeed Brown will undoudtedly be
independent
1 -ReEnnre of Events in tho
.Northwest.
EVIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH
News Cathered in All the Towns of
Oar Neighboring States Improve
. ment Noted in All Industries Oregon.
The output of the Bandon cannery
is being shipped to Astoria.
The sturgeon catoh this season at
The Dalles has been remarkably good.
The tax levy for Clatsop county this
year will be between 12 and 13 mills.
-Insurance rrien have adjusted most of
the Iosbos caused by the Woodburn fire.
A tannery is being built about 23
miles above Enchanted prairie, in Coos
county, and will Boon be in operation.
. The wreoked steamer Arago had on
board when she went down $653 worth
of property belonging to the Coos bay
creamery.
The telephone line between McEwen
and Sumpter has been oompleted. Now
they will build to Granite and Cracker
Creek, in Baker oounty.
Eleven single-deck carloads of sheep
were shipped from The Dalles one day
last week. Two carloads were for Ta
ooma and the rest for Troutdale, Or. .
MiltoVs apple crop will bring her
in thousands of dollars this fall, for
only in that immediate neighborhood
has anything like a full crop teen ob
tained. '
Mr. Jacobson, who had the conrraot
for ereoting the Bandon lighthouse, has
been awarded the oontract for jetty
work in Marshfield. His bid was 52
cents a ton.
Seven thousand cords of wood havo
been cut for the Virtue Mining Com
pany in Baker county in the course of
the last three months. One hundred
men were employed in getting out the
wood. ' . '.
The obinook salmon continue to run'
in large numbers in Nestuoca bay and
river. It is seldom they run as late
as they have this season. The silver:
side run is very good, and they are
very large. .
Heavy shipments of hops have been
made from the Willamette valley dur
ing the last few weeks, mostly to Eng
land. One firm in Salem shipped
2,000 bales and has large quantities
yet to ship.
Counterfeit coins of the denomina
tions of $1 and 60 cents, have been
passed on .several business men in
Salem within the past lew days. The
dollars bear the date of 1879, and the
half dollars that of 1894.
James Callahan is buying sheep in
Eastern Oregon. He has already
bought 18,000 head and will buy 4,000
more. He buys lambs and yearlings
only and ships them to Montgomery,
111. , where they are then fattened for
the Chioago market The prices re
ceived were from $1 to $1.10 per head.
Washington.
The total value of all sohool prop
erty in Whitman oounty is estimated
at $280,000.
The Northern Pacific railway paid its
Kittitas county taxes, amounting to
about $8,000. . ' .
There has been more travel over the
Wallula ferry this month than there
has been at any time during the year.
The total tax levy in Spokane ooun
ty, as fixed last week by the oounty
commissioners, is 81.8 mills.' The
estimated expenditures for the year
will amount in the aggregate to $188,-
ioo. . '
The Beservation Chief Mining &
Milling Company and the Big Four
Mining & Milling Company, eacn
with $1,000,000 oapital stock, have
been incorporated with heaquarters at
Spokane. -'"
Loggers around Kelso have received
the encouraging news from the North
ern Paoifio Mill Company that from
now on the mill oompany ' will pay
$4. 50 spot cash for logs. This is an
advanoe of $1 per thousand.
John ' C. Smith, ' formerly an en
gineer on the Great Northern railway,
hasbegun an action in Spokane against
that corporation for. the sum of $64,
683, as damages for injuries reoeived
in two accidents alleged to have been
due to the carelessness and negligence
of the defendant corporation. . ,,
A corps of olvil engineers are at
work surveying and staking oijt the
new sidetracks and other improvements
contemplated by the new management
of the Northern Paoifio Coal Company
at Boslvn. A work train with a orew
of about forty men has arrived and the
men have been put to work grading
and preparing for the new sidetracks.
Oakesdale seems to be the leading
potato market, as well as one of the
leading grain markets of the Palouse
oountry. Every day large quantities
of potatoes are sold there, and two firms
have already bought . twenty carloads,
or 600,000 pounds of potatoes, it is
estimated that this is only about two
thirds of what will be brought tq
Oakesdale this fall.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing, Hopkins Co.'s Re-flew of
' v: - Trade.' ', ' .
Portland, Or., Nov. 11. Wheat has
reaohed a very high point since our last
letter, whioh was only natural and to
be expected after so rapid a deoline,
and the situation grows stronger daily
and all the best authorities in the grain
trade throughout the world predict con
tinued enhancement, in 'values of farm
produots and say America holds the key
to the situation. ' Exports are enormous
and ocean freight room cannot be se
cured at, any pricrf. ' Tramp steamers
from all,o6rnersof the. world have been
attracted t$ oip.f' shores. ' On the Great
Lakes there, is a. blockade of grain-laden
vessels at.-sevra,l.f ports, and trunk
line railroads a? well as those through
out the Northwest, a'rer unable to supply,
half of the demapad.Jor cars. There is
every rOHgec't pf,' another advance that
will oarry prioes fa? beyond anything
we have yet seen, and we hope pur
friends "will take advantage of the
breaks-to buy wheat and make some
money . ? , ' " ,
Thesupply and demand exhibit of
the world arguea as strongly as ever
for a- higher range of values, but these
conditions neither warrant blind en- -tbusiasm
nor license riotous specula
tion. Pyramid builders will deal
gently with wheat, if they are wise;
for, just as Egypt owns and repents the
monumental folly of her ancients, so
must the prodigious builders of these
times put on sackcloth, and ashes if
they insist upon ignoring the law of.
commercial prudence. The immense
surplus of wheat that for several years
past menaced values, and aided specu
lators in raiding the markets, has
vanished.' Wheat is once more worth
what the acutal buyer will pay for it.
Weneed not expect that importers
will (huy a year's supplies within thlr
space of a week or two. Even though
every bushel that can be brought for
ward from the field of production may
find ''ready market before we harvest
another Crop, it does not follow that
suoh demand will be thrust upon us :
wholesale as it were.
These, being facts it were well to
proceed cautiously. ' Violent specula
tive fluries must be short lived and
should not be allowed to control the
movements of the millers and owners
of grain.
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A HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.
Another American Citizen Maltreated, -,
by Weyler's Soldiers.
Key . West, Fla. Nov. 1 1. Advices
received from Havana last night per
steamer Olivette give details of an out
rage on an American citizen and the
butchery of nineteen non-combatant
Cubans, including four women, by
Spanish soldiers. The massacre oo-
curred last Thursday near the town of
San Francisco de las Layas, Havana
provinoe.
bA detaohment of Spanish soldiers
surprised six ; insurgents, who, how
ever, made their escape, which angered
the Spanish and they began to raid the
houses in the neighborhood, alleging
that the inhabitants were in sympathy
with the rebels. They went to the
sugar estae of Frederiok L. Crayoroft,
who oame here from Indiana about
three years ago. Some of the soldiers
entered the house, and two of them
seized Mrs. Craycroft and assaulted
her. The husband ' in desperation .
rushed to his wife's aid, but was struck
down by a sword in the hands of an
officer. Two terrible gashes were
made in his neok and bis right arm
was nearly severed. The Spaniards
looted the house, took $860 in oash and
then raided other houses on the estate.
They burned ' eight buildings and shot
nineteen inmates, four of whom were
women. . . "' '- ' 'J
Craycroft, when he had recovered
sufficiently, wrote to Vice-Consul
Springer at Havana. , It is understood
that the vioe-cousul cabled an account
of the outrage to Seoretary Olney.
The Spanish authorities are greatly
disturbed in Havana because several
thousand insurgents from Gomez's,
army have entered Matanzas province;
So serious does Weyler oonsider the
situation that he has withdrawn 6,000
troops from . Pinar del Bio and des
patched them into Matanzas to stay
the advance.
i During the seige and subsequent oap
ture of Guayamara City by the insur
gents, the Spaniards lost 260 killed and
wounded. Three hundred and seventy
Spaniadrs surrendered to Garcia, com
manding the besieging force. Garoia
sent word to General Castelanos that
they would be exchanged for Cubans
held by the Spaniards.
The Flood of Gold. :
New York, Nov. 11. The banks
are . contemplating the resumption of
specie payments whioh they suspended
in February, 1892, by refusing to sup
ply gold for export and for payment of
government dues. That aotion threw
the burden of supplying gold Upon the
treasury, and eventually forced the is
sue of bonds by the government, which
aroused bo muoh complaint Since the
election the metal has been coming into
the banks in such a flood that they see
their way clear to what can be termed
a resumption of specie payments. By
this action of the banks gold will be
put into circulation, and no occasion
whatever will exist for ; hoarding it.
They will also resume the task of sup-'
plying gold for export and thns relieve
the treasury of a great strain, v
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