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VOL. VI, NO. l.s» 51
REVISED AGAIN.
The Tariff Bill Presented With
Many More Changes.
MR. CARLISLE’S WISHES.
Some Changes Made In the Bill
in Deference to His Views.
Whisky Let Alone.
Washington, March 20.—Tho tariff
bill, in its latest printed shape and as
changed by the Democratic majority
of the senate finance committee, has
been laid before a full committee.
Among the changes are these; Duty
on collars and cuffs increased from 45
per cent to 55 per cent,ad valorem. The
only additions to the free list aYe horn
strips and tips and cocoanuts. Section
105 which provides that the president
shall notify the • Hawaiian government
of tho intention of this government to
abrogate the treaty of 1675, has been
stricken out.
The clause of the section repealing
that part of the McKinley act providing
for reciprocal treaties has been amended
to read as follows:
That section 8, 15 and 16 of the act,
etc., are hereby repealed and all agree
ments or arrangements made or pro
claimed between the United States and
foreign governments, Under the pro
visions of said sections are hereby abro
gated, of which the president ‘shall give
such notice to the authorities of said
foreign governments as may be required
by the terms of such agreements or ar
rangements.
The most important change in the ad
ministrative features of the bill is the
action of the committee in striking out
the words “highest duty” as found in
the house bill and regulating the rates
of duty on all goods coming in under
the similitude clause and substituting
therefor the words “lowest duty.”
This was the subject of long argu
ment in the full committee, in which
Secretary Carlisle endorsed the provi
sion* of the house bill. The cpipmittee,
therefore, Has made the change, and all
goods unenumerated or coming under
the similitude clause will pay the high
est instead of the lowest rate of duty.
The sugar schedule is as follows:
All sugars, the testing of Which is not
above 80 degrees, 1 cent; from 80 to 90,
1-100 of, a cent for each degree: from
9Q to 98, 2-100 of a cent for estcli degree:
all sugars testing above 98, or above No.
16 Dutch standard in color, 1-8 Os a cent
per pound in addition to the duty on
sugar testing above 98 degrees.
Whisky, iron ore, coal, lead ore and
opium are unchanged.
The following have been 1 adfled to the
free list: Piheapples, baitamiafc,' cocoa
nuts, horn strips and tips. No articles
have been taken from the free list.
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IN THE SENATE.
Voorhepa Reports the Tariff Rill—Repub
liOans Say They Don’t Like Some Parts.
Washington, March 20.—Mr. Voor
hees,chairman of the finance committee,
reported the tariff bill to the senate soon
after the reading of the journal. Mr.
Morrill, one of the Republican members
of the committee, stated that so far as
the Republican members of the commit
tee were concerned, they did not object
to the reporting of the bill, but were op
posed to, the income tax feature in it and
a change from specific to ad valorem du
ties. slr. Voorhees gave notice that he
would call up the bill for consideration
April 2.
At 12:45 Mr. George, of » Mississippi,
proceeded to,address,the senate on the
Hawaiian question.
After some business of a routine na
ture the house went into committee of
the whole on the sundry civil bill.
Plans for Federal Buildings.
Washington, March 20.—An issue
has arisen between Secretary Carlisle
And the American institute of architects
relative to the plans for federal build
ings. Congress passed a law providing
for competition, the object being to in
terest the best architects in the country.
The secretary, however, it is-claimed by
the institute, has ignored this statute
and proposes to continue the old method
of having the plans prepared at tho
treasury department. The institute
claims to be actuated by patriotic mo
tives and the goo-1 of the entire country
as opposed to the political control of the
designing of the great buildings of the
government.
Sent Back the Tennessee Cases.
Washington, March 20.—The suits in
volving the validity and scope of the
general tax law of the state of Tennessee,
which have been pending in the supreme
court of the United States for several
months, have been sent back to the state
courts for disposition, without an ex
pression by the federal bench upon the
merits of the statute. There were three
of the oases.
A Commander to Be Tried.
Washington, March 20.—Commander
Heyerman.is to be tried by court martial
at the Brooklyn navy yajd for suffering
the Kearsarge, through his negligence,
to run upon the reef and be stranded,
and for culpable inefficiency in the per
formance of his duty. I - .
, ' DEAD IN A TRUNK.
The Victim of a Vile Woman Was an Old
Man. \
London, March 20.—This city has for
a comparatively long time been exempt
from murder, but a sensation has been
caused by the discovery of a crime that
In its details somewhat resembles the
notorious Gouffe murder that occurred
occurred some time ago in Paris. The
scene of the latest London horror was
in Grafton street, In the Soho district,
which is infested with foreigners of tho
lowest classes. It was in the iniijiedi-
THE ROME TRIBUNE
are vicinity or rne notise In wmcnhne
murder was committed that the police
recently raided the anarchists’ clubs. .
An Austrian woman named Marie
Hermann, who is well known to the po
lice as a night prowler, recently rented
a small room in one of the Grafton
street houses. On Thursday night last
, she, in company with an elderly man,
was seen to enter the room. Subse
quently loud quarreling was heard in
I the room by one of the tenants in the
house, but, as wordy wars were of fre
quent occurrence, no attention was paid
to this disturbance.? / ■■ ,
A woman named Hutching, who
lodged with the Hermann woman, found
bloodstains in a sink Friday, and spoke
to the Hermann woman about- them.
The latter passed the matter off lightly,
but on Saturday she changed her lodg
ings, taking better apartments in Mary
lebone street. She took with her a
heavy trunk, asking that it be carefully
handled.
"Meantime the suspicions of the Hutch
ins woman were aroused, because of the
blood stains she found on the sink and
because it became noijed about the
house tlrat the man who went to the
Hermann woman’s room had not been
seen to leave it. ,
The Hutchins woman followed the
Herman woman when she moved, and,
after learning her address, informed the
police that she suspected foul play.
Officers were sent to the house, some
days after, where the Hermann woman
had taken up her residence, and a search
was made of the apartments occupied by
her. The trunk which the woman had
been so careful about was in the room.
The police forced it open and found in
it the body of the missing man. His
head had been battered, evidently with
some blunt instrument, The body pre
sented a frightful appearance, and the
clothing in which it was attired was
drenched with blood. The Hermann
woman was at once taken into custody
on a charge of willful murder.
The body has been recognized as that
of a well to-do ex-jobmastcr named
Stevens. He was 76 years old. It is
believed that the Hermann woman had
an accomplice in committing the mur
der, as Stevens was a muscular man. it
may be, however, that he was killed
while asleep. The prisoner is 43 years
old. She is ugly almost to repulsive
ness. ___
INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS.
Report of the Situation for the Week Juet
Ended.
Chattanooga, March 20.—1 n its re
view of the industrial situation in the
south fpr the week ending March 19,
The Tradesman says: \ '
The southern iron furnaces are find
ing a market for their outputs, and
while the prices are still very low the
iron masters are slowly increasing the
number of plants in active operation,
and report that there is but little accu
mulation of stocks on hand. The coal
producers are steadily at work, but
show no disposition to increase their
production, in view both of existing de
mand and present prices. The textile
industry is prosperous. New mills and
improvements in old ones are reported
from week to week. Lumber men are
having an increased demand, but prices
in many instances do not give a fair
profit. In mercantile business trade is
increasing, and in financial circles a
sufficient supply of money to meet pres
ent demands is reported.
KOSSUTH’S CITIZENSHIP.
It Not Allowed to Return to Hungary
Trouble May Follow.
Budapest, March 20.—The appeal for
:the restoration of Kossuth’s rights as a
Hungarian citizen, which was presented
to the Hungarian reichstag, has been
anxiously discussed by the government,
and by the leaders of the parties, as it is
feared that Kossuth’* death would lead
to a ministerial crisis. No decision has
yet been arrived at, but there is little
doubt that if Kossuth dies without a re
conciliation with the emperor or with
out retraction, there will be serious pop
ular demonstrations.
After a stormy sitting of the Hunga
rian Unterhaus the petition in favor of
restoring Kossuth's right to citizenship
and allowing him to return to Hungary
was shelved until after the Easter vaca
tion, Premier Dr. Wekerle deprecating
haste as likely to incur the danger of re
jection of the appeal.
Mrs. Stanford to Sell Pacific Stock.
San Francisco, March 20.—Mrs. Le
land Stanford will, according to The
Chronicle, sell her large holdings in the
Southern Pacific and Pacific Improve
ment companies in order to raise $5,000,-
000 for bequests made by her husband's
will and due May 15, 1895. It was the
policy of Stanford, Crocker and Hun
tington to keep these two great com
panic* a* a close corporation, and the
sale of the fourth interest by Mrs. Stan
ford will, it is eaid, greatly embarrass
Crqcker and Huntington and make har
monica* management very difficult.
No Trouble in P.ru.
j Panama, March 20.—The consuls here
of both Peru and Ecuador deny the ru
mors of revolution in Peru. The consul
of Ecuador. N. R. Orfila, is a relative of
Pierola, whose return to Peru has caused
much anxiety in government circles.
He showed the correspondent a
letter from the ex-president, in which
he wrote that he has no intention of in
terfering with the government of Peru.
A Boy Shot Hi. Father.
Chicago, March 20.—George Haber’s
father and mother quarreled at their
home in Lakeview, and hearing his
mother scream young Haber ran into
the room and shot his father five times,
killing him almost instantly.
; Costa Rica All Torn Up.
San Jcse, March 20.—A number of
sheets have appeared threatening revo
lution. The police are actively sup
pressing i»opular manifestations of dis
content. but an outbreak may occur at
any hour.
ROME. UA,. WEDNESDAY MOkNINQ, MAttCti-1. IBbA
THt WORLD UPHELD.
That Bluefields Incident Is
Viewed in Its True Light,
ENGLISH ARE NOT BLAME D
On the Contrary, the Conduct
of the English Commander
Is Commended.
New Orleans, March 20.—A number
of Americans reached this city ou the
steamer Clinton, bringing news that will
go far towards disabusing the public
mind of the motives imputed totheEng
lish in their.occupation of the Mosquito
reservation.
When the Nicaraguans occupied the
reservation the American and English
residents, fearing trouble, requested
their consuls to appeal for aid, and the
British ship Cleopatra and the American
ship Kearsarge were ordered to the scene.
The Kearsarge left her hull on Roneador
reef while en route.
When the .Cleopatra reached the har
bor an officer was sent ashore, and he
called a meeting of all the foreign con
suls and the prominent citizens of tho
place. They told him that when Gen
eral Carlos A. Lacayo, the Nicaraguan
commissioner, came to the reservation
he immediately began the erection of a
number of large buildings, saying that
the Nicaraguan government intended to
annex the reservation, and levied an im
port tax of 10 per cent, in ' gold on all
foreign imports and an export tax of 8
cents a bunch on bananas.
The consuls asked Captain Howe to
have the hiartial law raised and compel
the Nicaraguans to withdraw, and to
form a provisional government until the
alleged violation of the treaty of Man
agua could be investigated by the Amer
ican, British and Nicaraguan authori
ties.
Captain Howe complied and ordered
Lacayo to withdraw, which the Nica
raguan agreed to do, but said that he
had no way to transport his troops.
Captain Howe agreed to take 120 of them
to Greytown, and the’ others promised
to leave in the morning by river for Bo
ca del Coma.
When the Cleopatra sailed Lieutenant
Colmore was left with 25 marines, with
Gatling guns, at Bluefield' bluffs, seven
miles distant. The evening after the
warship left there was a riot in the
streets between the natives and the Nic
araguan troops, which resulted in two
of the latter being killed. The Ameri
can and British consuls and the Nicara
guan commissioner, the latter fearing
for his troops, sent for Lieutenant Col
more at the Bluffs to come and qnell
the disturbance.
Lieutenant Colmore at once assumed
charge of the police regulations, dis
persed the crowds and closed the sa
loons. This done, he awaited the return
of the Cleopatra.
When Captain Howe returned and
found that the Nicaraguans had failed
to comply he ordered 120 additional
marines ashore, armed with rifles and
Gatling guns. They relieved the Nicara
guans of their arms, consisting of 400
rifles, with 50,000 rounds of ammuni
tion, which were found in the brush in
the rear of the town. They were placed
in the courthouse, where they still re
main.
On the day before the Cleopatra left
Bluefields for Colon the com
mander consulted with the Nica
raguan commissioner and the foreign
consuls relative to the formation of a
provisional government, and suggested
that t,wo Americans and two Nicara
guans, with Lacayo.as chairman, form
a committee to organize such govern
ment. At the first meeting the com
mittee failed to agree, as the Nicara
guans had every advantage. The Amer
icans notified Captain Hotfe of this
upon his return, and the citizens again,
through their consuls, suggested that it
would be a better plan to form a provi
sional government composed of two
Americans, two Englishmen, two na
tives and two Nicaraguans, although
they said that the Nicaraguans were not
entitled to representation, because their
interests were purely selfish.
This government has not yet been
formed, as Captain Howe is daily
hoping, for the arrival of an American
warship, now on the way with Commo
dore Benham aboard, so that the trouble
may be settled and a government form
ed, as suggested, with the government
'properly represented. As a testimonial
,of their appreciation of the conduct of
Captain Howe the American citizens of
Biuefields prepared a handsome memo
rial on parchment, beautifully illus
trated, bearing on allegorical picture
showing the United States and England
upholding the world.
MRS. NOBLE DEAD.
Th® Wife of Ex-Secretary of the Interior
John W. Noble.
St. Lovis, March 20.—Mrs. John W.
Noble, wife of ex-President Harrison’s
secretary of the interior, died suddenly
at her home in this city.
The end came to Mrs. Noble while she
was standing in her diningroom chatting
with friends and waiting for Mr. Noble,
who had gone to call her carriage for a
drive. She complained suddenly of diz
ziness. Her maid caught her as she was
falling, and before she could be taken to
a couth she Was dead. The cause was I
organic heart disease, regarding which
she had been warned by eminent special
ists, and of which disease both her par
ents died.
Charge* Again.t a Liquor Dealer.
Lpvjsville, March 20.—Internal rev
enue officials' have seized- the liquor store
of E. D. Carter. He is charged with
rectifying without a license, equalizing
and failing to destroy stamps, violating
the warehouse laws of Kentucky ■' and
misappropriating property of the
National bank by disposing of whisky
for which the bank had the warehouse I
receipts as collateral. 1
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IT IS A LIE.
, Reported Divorce Proceedings
Against Breckinridge,
| HE MADE A CLEAN BREAST
Os His Affair With Miss Pollard
to His Present Wife Befo e
He Married Her.
Washington, March 20.—A1l sorts cf
rumors about the Pollard-Breckinridge
case are in circulation ‘in the corridors
of the Arlington. They were based
largely on reports sent out by the de
fense throngh various press agencies.
But a rumor for which the defense is
not responsible was that a divorce suit
is to be brought by the present Mrs.
Breckinridge on the Pollard testimony.
One of the evening papers here has
printed the Statement repeatedly. It
obtains no credence, however, and Colo
nel Phil Thompson said that it was “a
malicious lie.” The indications are that,
Colonel Breckinride made to Mrs. Wing
a clean breast regarding whatever asso
ciation or acquaintanceship he had with
Miss Pollard before the secret marriage
on April 29, 18&3.
THE SHERIFF LIED.
Governor Waite Sat Up All Night in a
Conference with Miners.
Denver, March 20.—Governor Waite
toldihe committee from Cripple Creek,
at a conference held until 1 o’clock a.
in., that thfc sheriff had lied to him
about the condition of affairs at the
canqp. He was indignant, and told the
committee in a most emphatic way that
the troops would have to come home.
They urged that v ; olence would ensue
and life and property would not be safe
a moment. At length the governor
agreed to withhold a final decision until
later.
Governor Tillman Satisfied.
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Washington, March 20.—Governor
Tillman, of South Carolina, had an
hour’s interview with Commissioner
Miller, of the internal revenue bureau,
at the treasury department. The con
ference was about the recent liquor seiz
-nres by federal officials in South Caro
lina. It developed that there was no
.conflict of authority between the state
authoritses of South Carolina and the
Internal revenue bureau. Governor
Allman left with a perfect understand
ing of the situation, and apparently well
satisfied with the interview.
AGAINST MAGEE.
Die Evidence Is Strong That Ho Killed
y Martha Fuller. . ,
’New Y6rk, March 20.—Gfa-cnmstan
tial evidence is arrayed strongly against
lhe story told by Lawyer Joseph T. Ma
gee, in whose office Miss Martha J.
Fuller, the pretty typewriter, was shot,
Magee occupies a cell in the Tombs
now, mid the resn’r of the autopsy held
by Coroner’s Physician Conway tends to
back up the charge ot homicide against
him by the police of the Oak street sta
tion.
Miss Fuller was .-hot at 5:30 p. in.
Saturday. A moment orAwo later. when
some tepants of Nassau Chambers
rushed in they saw her lying in the
agony of death on the floor by her type
writer desk; Magee, the lawyer vrith
whom she had been in the ' office alone
for over an hour, was pacing up and
down the floor excitedly wringing his
hands. He recovered his self-possession
almost immediately, however, and when
a boy from a neighboring office picked
up the revolver which lay alongside the
E rostrate woman Magee sharply chided
im, saying:
“You should have let'that pistol stay
where it was!”
Magee’s account of the shoting was
that Miss Fuller had started to leave the
office, and then asked him to excuse her
a moment and returned to the room in
which his and her desk were located.
He heard the shot, and, rushing in,
found her speechless and dying on the
floor. The prisoner told this story to
Coroner Fitzpatrick. He had nothing to
add. nothing to retract.
But Dr. Conway’s autopsy disclosed
that Miss Fuller was shot in the left
temple. The pistol was held close to
her head. The development of her right
arm and side showed that she was not
left handed. Her left hand was partly
gloved. The glove was drawn over four
fingers, but not the thumb, and lay
clinched in the palm of her hand. The
bullet went straight through her fore
head and came out of her right temple.
REAL ROMANTIC,
I. th* Elie History of Milan and Natalie of
Servia.
Belgrade, March 20.— An act of the
Episcopal synod annulling the decree of
divorce secured several years ago by the
then King of Servia, Milan, I from
Queen Natalie, has just been published.
Milan married Natalie Kechko, the
daughter of a Russian colonel, Oct. 15,
1875. It was a love match. Milan having
been captivated by the attractive Rus
sian girl while he was on a visit to the
czar.
| Their domestic life was unhappy by
reason of Milan's objectionable, not to
say riotous habits, and also because they
differed radically in political views, es
pecially in regard to Servia’s foreign re
lations. After they had lived apart
several years, Natalie spending much of
her time abroad, Milan prevailed upon
the metropolitan, of Belgrade, to pro
nounce a divorce Oct. 24, 1888.
Servia’s troubles seem to multiply
from that time, and Milan found it con
j venient to abdicate the throns Septem
ber. 1891, in favor of his son Alexander,
a mere boy, and quit the country, but
not until he had caused Natalie’s expul
■ sion.
The ex-royal conule , were reconciled 1
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1H fUUI2III LIU ruDUJUU nuuuv o
and it is not impossible that the annull
ing of the divorce is an opening of the
way for them to once more become king
and queen of Servia.
SPRUNG A LEAK.
Th® Missouri River Is Now Said to Be
Dwindling Away.
Atchison, Kan., March 20.—The gov
ernment engineers have made a queer
discovery. They have just completed a
survey of the upper Missouri and as far
down as this point, and in their opinion
the river is rapidly dwindling and in
time will become a small stream. As
they figure it, the volume of water is
fully 20 per cent less than it was in
1878, when similar observations were
taken.
One singular circumstance is that
there is more water in the upper reaches
of the river than in some of the lower.
Thus, at Great Falls, Montana, the vol
ume was found to be 4,796 cubic feet
per second, while 25 miles further down
at Fort Benton, it was but 4,331 cubic
feet. The engineers say that eyeless
fish have been caught along this stretch
i of 25 miles, and the theory is that there
is an opening there into that great sub
terranean body’ of water known as the
South Dakota artesian basin, whose ex
istence has long been asserted.
Nye Will Leave the Plat for
Chicago, March 20.—Mr. Edgar W.
Nye, the humorist, better known as
“Bill” Nye, has decided to stop lec
turing. He said: “The fact is, I can
not keep up my writing and lecturing.
The work is too hard, and then my fam
ily, for whom I toil, are anxious to see
more of me. I shall close my platform
career in a few weeks and go home in
th'e mountains of North Carolina in
time to gather my strawberry crop on
my. model farm. I call it a model farm
because it costs me three times as much
to run it as I get out of it, and I under
stand from competent agricultural
sources that is what constitutes a model
farm.” .
Women Mob » Street Car.
Scranton, Pa.; March 20.—A couple
of electric car men have received a hust
ling which they will not soon forget. A
car struck and slightly injured two play
ing children, whereupon a mob, mostly of
women, pounced upon Conductor Foy
and Motorman Burke, and would have
seriously hurt the former had not a
priest happened along in the nick of
time and driven off the infuriated wo
men by the free application of his cane,
A dozen warrants have been issued for
the arrest of the assailants.
D E MOOR ATS~OR GA NIZ E.
The Washington Contingent Getting in
Line for Work.
Washington, March 20.—A meeting
of the clubs from the various executive
departments has been held here for the
purpose of forming an Interstate Demo
cratic association to co-operate with the
national and state Democratic organiza
tions toward the success of the party in
coming campaigns.
Twenty-ope states were represented in
the meeting. A constitution and by
laws were adopted and the following of
ficers were elected: President, R. F.
Gray, of Louisiana; vice president, D.
M. Bandage, of Missouri; secretary, W.
B. McDaniel, of New York; treasurer,
H. T J. Drake, sergeant-at-arms, R. E.
Hardwick, of Virginia.
Resolutions were then adopted. The
preamble calls attention to the approach
of the congressional elections, the re
cent deflections from the Democratic
ranks and the determination of the clubs
in the departments to give such aid that
will issue in Democratic triumphs. The
resolutions are as follows:
Resolved, That we, Democrats from va
rious states, deem it wise and expedient
that we form ourselves into a deliberative
organization with a view to aiding tho
Democrats of our districts in the election
of congressmen, that the party may con
tinue in control of the house.
Ih conclusion the ' resolutions, were as
follows:
We cordially indorse the administration
of President Cleveland, as we believe the
people of all parties are convinced that his
official conduct has been marked by great
courage and honesty, and we agree with
him in his efforts to secure a genuine and
permanent reform in every branch and
every department of public service.
HELP IS AT HAND.
Sandow, the Modern Sampson, Figures in
a New York Court.
New York, March 20.—Sandow, the
strong man, figured in the case of Wil
liam C. Nichols, who was arraigned in
Jefferson Market court by his wife Isa
bella, on the charge of abandonment.
Nichols now lives at Westfield, Con
necticut. He used to be»prominent
provision dealer in Brooklyn, where the
couple lived until September, 1892, when
Mrs. Nichols says she had to leave her
husband on account of his abuse of her.
Nichols went to Westfield, and his
wife opened a boardinghouse. Sandow
h'as been boarding there since his ar
rival in America last December. Nichols
was discharged. His wife asked what
protection she - would have, and the jus
tice told her to get some help to have
the husband, thrown out if he annoyed
her. As Sandow lives in the house, and
the husband is jealous of him, Nichols’s
grim smile was amusing.
STORM SUFFERERS.
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Many Texans Were Ruined by the Recent
Cyclone—Help Wanted.
Dallas, March 20. The storms
which swept over northern Texas Sun
day and Monday night were unparalleled
in severity. The death roll will reach
20. The injured are over 100. At
Emory, the county seat of Rains county,
the cyclone knocked the town neatly out
of existence. Many other towns visited
are badly damaged. Mayor Berry has
called on Dallas citizens for contribu
tions to relieve the sufferers, m;. v ot
' whom are mined, and mourn tho loss of
' members of their families,
PRICE MVE CENTS.
STILL MISSING?
So Far the Search for John An
derson’s Body
HAS PROVED FRUITLESS.
The Work Will Be Carried On
Day and Night Until the.
Body is Recovered.
Early yesterday morning Sheriff Jake
Moore and a large party of men went
down the Coosa on the Resaca to renew
the search for John Anderson’s body.
A reward of S6OO has been offered’, SIOO
to go to the one who finds the body;
00 to be divided among the party who
have been so tireless and persistent in
the search.
A large flat was made, and drags at
tached to it, and allowed to float
down the stream, numbers of small
obats aiding in the dragging, thus cov
ering all the territory.
The work was carried out systemati
cally throughout the day but .without
avail.
Dick Dempsey came back to Rome
late in the afternoon for supplies, but
returned at once. He says that several
others are camping out at Horseleg
shoals, and do not propose to stop work
night or day unitl the remains are re
covered. j '
The general imresspion is that the
search will be fruitless until the’- body
rises to the surface.
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A Costly Victory in Nicaragua.
Managua, March 20. —Colonel Moran
engaged and defeated a small band, of
rebels four leagues from Granada. Vic
tory was dearly won, however, foi; Coj
onel Moran and two of his officers Were
killed and 19 of his men were Wound
ed. There are still three bands of rebels
out. 1
Honduras Getting Settled. '
Tegucigalpa, March 20. Another
detachment of the Nicaraguan troops
has left for home: Bonilla’s ajipbfntees
have taken possession of the posts as
signed to them. The official journal
congratulates the people on the re-estab
lishment of peace.
Stanjti By the Governor.,
Lansing, Mich., March 20.—The su
preme court, in a decision in the case es
Governor Rich vs. State Treasurer Ham
bitzer, Secretary of State Jochitu
Land Commissioner Berry, sustains
Governor Rich’s action in removing
these officials from office.
Weather Forecast.
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W ashington, March 20.—Forecast till
Bp. m. Wednesday. For North Caro
lina and South Carolina—Generally
fair, southeasterly winds. Georgia—
Threatening weather, with light show
ers today or tonight in extreme north
east portion, Southeasterly winds.' East
ern Florida- Fair, southeasterly winds.
Western Florida and Alabama—Show
ers today or tonight, fair Wednesday,
slightly cooler in extreme eastern por
tions, southeast winds. Mississippi—
Rain today and in northern portion to
night, fair Wednesday, southerly winds,
becoming westerly.
A Freaehcr In Trouble.
Knoxville, March 20.—A well known
Cambellite preacher of this city named
Rev. I. Matthews was tried before
• ’Squire McClanahan on a charge of
criminal assault upon Mrs. J. Cheatham.
The magistrate deemed the evidence
sufficient to hold him for the next term
of court. He gave bond.
me r rents not X4trge ituougn.
London, March 20.—The annual re
port of the Cunard Steamship company
shows a profit for 1893 of $) ,000,450.
Business was unsatisfactory throughout
the year, the receipts from second class
passengers alone showing an increase.
Freight traffic was without profit, and
the coal strike caused an increase in the
company’s expenditures.
Thinks He Is the Emperor.
Niagara Falls, March 20.—John
McGovern, customs officer for several,
years on the Canadian side of the Sus
pension bridge, has turned crazy, and
caused great excitement among visiting
sightseers by declaring himself to be the
Gerpian emperor, and demanding that
everybody pay him homage.
New York, March 20.—Application
was made to Judge O'Brien, of the su
preme court, for a writ of habeas corpus
In the case of John Y. McKane. Judge
O’Brien reserved his decision. -■ i
Found a Bomb in a Theater.
Rome, March 20.—During a perform- ,
ance in a theater at Lucca, in the prov- '
ince of that name, a gentleman, upon
entering his box, found in the doorway |
a bomb with a lighted fuse. He seized i
the burning fuse, and by crushing it in
his hand, put out the fire. The bomb
was turned over to the police authori
ties who had its contents analyzed; It <
was found to contain, togei her with |
gunpowder, nails,.bullets, bijs o,f irou, i
etc., a quantity of pieriu acid. 4
During Friday night a Miss Fleming, ’
who was traveling on a second-class I
ticket from Chicago to Clarksburg, W. I
Va., jumped from a train near Mo;i ■!
Vernon, 0., and was killed.
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