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HAWAII AND THE CANAL.
An Important Step Faced by the
Administration.
Government Aid to the Projected
Waterway Through Nicaragua Loom
ing Up—lf It is Given the Posses
sion of the Canal the Hawaiian
Islands Become of Immense Im
portance Prom a Stragetio Stand
point.
Washington, Dec. 34.—The attempt of
the administration to restore Queen
Liliuokalani to the Hawaiian throne
has certainly ceased. No one doubts
longer that Minister Stevens’ machina
tions aided to bring about the revolution
that dragged her from the throne and
resulted in the establishment of the pro
visional government but the efforts of
Mr. Cleveland to make retribution for
Stevens’ abuse of power have failed, first
because the queen was unwilling to ac
cept the conditions of general amnesty
which he imposed for those woo took
part in the revolution; secondly,
because the provisional govern
ment had in the meantime acquired a
strength which prevented its overthrow
exoept at the point of the bayonet, and
thirdly, because the queen recognized
that if restored the same power which
again placed her on the throne should
agree to maintain her there. Manifestly
it was neither the province or the duty of
the United States to undertake to oarry
out this latter condition—once restored,
the duty of this government towards the
queen ended. The United States could not
undertake to uphold and sustain a foreign
monarchy in perpetuity. Queen Lill must
take her chances and this she declined to
do.
Thus President Cleveland spoke in his
last letter of instructions to Minister
Willis. So. too, regarding the use of
force to establish the monarchy, if she
agreed to the condition of amnesty. It
was beyond the constitutional power of
President Cleveland, and be so declared.
In other words the executive branch of
the government was in check. It had
gone to the limit of its authority. Diplo
macy had failed. Mr. Cleveland, there
fore, in his message, turned the matter
over to congress. The democrats gener
ally support the policy of the administra
tion in this matter, and will defend the
justice of Mr. Cleveland's po
sition to the last call
upon the floor of congress, but no one has
suggested that force ought to be resorted
to to restore the statu quo ante bellum.
In short, since the provisional govern
ment has fortified itself since the revolu
tion, and as the queen distinctly refuses to
grant the only condition upon which the
administration could undertake her re
storation, the democrats thiuk the matter
ought to be allowed to rest in its present
position, and that Hawaii should be per
mitted to work out its own salvation.
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.
There are indications which point to a
possible change of poliay on the part of
the administration. Hawaii may become
a necessary part of a great project which
Mr. Cleveland expects to make one of the
most prominent and conspicuous features
of bis last term in the white house. It is
nothing more or less than a determina
tion to push through the Nicaragua
canal with government aid. The canal
company is practically bankrupt and its
promoters have for several years been
trying to induce the government to come
to its rescue. A bill for this purpose was
up in the last congress, but the terms
were too liberal to the stockholders and it
did not pass either house.
No one, however, has ever doubted the
gigantic benefit that would accrue to the
United States if it should complete and
control a waterway across the isthmus of
Darien. The benefits from a financial
point of view, tor the government, would
far surpass those of the Suez canal to
England, besides the untold advantage it
would bring to our carrying trade in
shortening distances for vessels plying
between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts,
and the consequent reductions in over
land freight it would cause by bringing
the railroads into competition with water
transportation. A glance at the follow
ing table will show the immeasurable ad
vantage to the American carrying trade
if the canal were in operation:
From Via Via Distance
New York to Cape Horn. Canal. saved.
Miles. Miles. Miles.
San Francisco 14,840 4.940 9,894
Sitka 16.105 6.20# 9.896
Acapulco 13,011 8,122 9,949
Hong Kong 18,180 11.038 7.052
Melbourne 18.502 10.000 3,602
Hawaiian Islands 14.230 6.388 7, 9 42
Callao 10,689 8.701 6,988 FJ
Guayaquil 11.471 3,053 8,418 Q
New Orleans to—
San Francisco 15,052 4.017 11,065
Acapulco 13,283 2,409 10.374
Liverpool to—
San Francisco 14,690 7.694 6,996
Melbourne 13,332 12,748 6>
Hong Kong 13.030 13,786 4,244
Guayaquil 11,321 5,390 5,431
Whereas the distance is not as short
from Liverpool and other European ports
to Pacific ports as from New York, we
would reap a direct advantage from the
building of the canal of from 3,000 to 6,000
miles.
A COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE.
The House committee on commerce,
pursuant to this plan of Mr. Cleveland,
has reported a resolution to appoint a
joint committee of the House and Senate
to examine and report on the feasibility
of the United States taking charge of the
construction of the canal. The committee
declares that the canal would bring us
into superior and dominating contact with
China, Japan, Australia. New Zealand,
Hawaii, Equador, Bolivia, Peru,
Chile. These states have within
their borders 500,000.000 people with a
commerce of over #1,200,000,(Ml annually,
ever expanding and now in Jthroes of ac
tive multiplication. They need for inte
rior use and development our locomotives,
cars, steel rails, many forms of iron, cot
ton, coal, etc. It is well understood here
that China through its great prime min
ister, Li Hung Chang, and the present
Chinese minister to this country, Yang
Vu, is trying to negotiate anew treaty
with this country that will give us gigantic
trade possibilities, posibilities almost
s great as those contemplated
by the ill-starred Mitkiewicz-Barker Chi
nese concession scheme six years ago.
The benefits of the Nicaraguan canal to
°ur domestic commerce may be even
greater than to our foreign. To-day the
products of the east seek the great states
of California, Oregon and Washington,
and those of the west the Atlantic ports
through the trans-continental railroads,
subject to a freight charge of from #2O to
*3O per ton, or by steamer, through the
straits of Magellan, at a rate of $lO to sl3
* l °n, or by sail around the Horn. Now,
the time between New York and San
fp)j£ ifcninfl |
Francisco for freight by rail is from
twenty to thirty days, by steamer forty
fijfto fifty days; by sail from 110 to
T.O days. When the canal is completed
the length of the voyage between the
same points by steam will be reduced to
eighteen or twenty days; by sail to thirty
or forty days, with a reduction of about
one-third on freight charges. San Fran
cisco, tho mouth of the Columbia river,
and Puget Sound will be more than
10,000 miles nearer New York than now,
11.000 miles nearer our Gulf Ports; by
water too, where the cost of freight car
riage is about one-fifth of that by raiL
THE SAVING IN CHARGES.
The cost now of freighting lumber
across the continent by rail is practically
prohibitory, while on wheat, wool and
canned goods it approaches confiscation.
A ship loaded with lumber in Oregon and
bound for the ship yards of Maine now
takes for the voyage 130 days and charges
sl3 a thousand freight. By canal she
could make the same voyage in forty or
fifty days and net more money at $8 a
thousand. A steamer could pass over the
same course in twenty days. There
seems no reason to doubt that if the canal
were once opened it would give a tre
mendous impulse to our coastwise trade
and stimulate mightily the growth of the
Pacific states in population and wealth.
The agricultural department in a care
fully prepared report estimates that there
are 35,000,000 acres of timber lands in the
pacific northwest, and that it averages
30,000 feet board measure per acre. Al
lowing 20 per cent for bad land this
means 400,000,000,000 feet. Freight from
Puget Sound to New York or
Liverpool is now from $lO to
sl2 a thousand. Here is a little
calculation of what the canal would do
for this timber: It would shorten the
voyage around the Horn of 130 days to 60
through the canal, and reduce the freight
charge from sl3 to $9 a thousand; or by
steamer through the Straits of Magellan,
of fifty days to twenty, and reduce the
freight charge from sl4 to $lO. Now add
one-half of this saving to the standing
timber and it would increase its value
$600,000,000, six times as much as the es
timated cost of the canal. ♦
In 1801 there was shipped from the Pa
cific coast to Europe and the Atlantic
ports of the union 1,800,000 tons of wheat
and fiour. The canal would reduce the
freight charges on these products at least
$2 a ton, which would add to the profits
of the wheat-growers or shipper $3,600,000
on the year's crop- Similarly, though
not, perhaps, to the same extent, all other
products of the country would be bene
fited, and all the imports from the
Atlantic ports would receive the
benefits of a reduction of trans
portation charges. Within the year
the president of the Chamber of Com
merce of San Francisco has testified that
the lack of such competition with the
transcontinental lines of railway as the
Nicaragua canal would furnish is esti
mated by conservative statistics to cost
the Pacific coast far up in the tens of mil
lions of dollars every year.
CLEVELAND GREATLY INTERESTED.
President Cleveland has become in
tensely interested in this project, believ
ing that the completion of the canal un
der the auspices of the United States,
and its control by the United States
would, taken in conjunction with the new
tariff policy upon which the country is to
enter, mark the inauguration of a bril
liant foreign trade by the United States.
It is universally recognized here that if
the United States is to control the Nicar
aguan canal the Hawaiian Islands imme
diately loom up on our horizon.
They become the strategic point
of the Pacific ocean, commanding
the western entrance to the canal. The
eastern entrance can be commanded from
our gulf ports and the Mole St. Nicholas
and Hawaii would give us the control of
the western coign of vantage. If we are
not to assume a protectorate over the
islands, a coaling station at Pearl River
harbor in perpetuity is an essential; but
above all the independence of the islands,
if we are not to take them, is paramount.
Commanding the western entrance to any
cannal connecting the two great oceans
of the Orient and the Occident, they lie
iu the direct path of the Chinese trade,
if that is to increase in volume.
Queen Lil has deliberately turned the
trust behind her. The duty of the ad
ministration ends if she refuses the con
ditions imposed by President Cleveland.
The question then of accepting the propo
sition of the provisional government, re
jected because of the barrier which the
administration assumed stood in the way
of negotiations with that government,
could then be removed and considered on
its merits, and there is no good reason
for thinking that, in view of
the administration towards the
Nicaraguan canal soon to be made public,
when the provisional government at
Honolulu vindicates its right to rule a
proposition tor annexation or a protecto
rate would be received with favor. It is
therefore, among the possibilities, per
haps, probabilities of the future, that the
Hawaiian Islands will eventually come
into the territory of the United States,
like all other territorial accretions save
alone Alaska, under the auspices of the
Democratic party.
TWO KILLED BY A BOILER.
One Man Blown Into a Tree and the
other Decapitated.
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 24.—News
reached here to-day of a terrible boiler
explosion that occurred late yesterday
afternoon at Whitesburg, on the Tennes
see river.
The immense boiler of Nichols’ big
saw mill exploded, instantly killing En
gineer Benjamin Thomas and Fireman
Amos Banks, and it is said perhaps fat
ally wounding three laborers whose
names have not been ascertained.
Banks was standing at tho boiler head,
and his body was blown into the branches
of a tree, where it was impaled on a
broken limb, fifty feet from the ground.
A flying missile cut off Engineer Thomas’
head.
The others were scalded by escaping
steam.
The cause of the explosion was that the
steam was allowed to exceed the capac
ity of the boiler.
ARTERIES OUT WITH A RAZOR.
A Brother of Congressman Clancy
Xilied in a Saloon.
New York, Dec. 24.—George Clancy, a
younger brother of Congressman
John Clancy, of Brooklyn, was
murdered in a liquor store
at No. 50 Hudston avenue, Brooklyn, to
day, by Tim McDermott. McDermott
slashed Clancy across the legs with a
razor, severing the arteries. Clancy bled
to death in a few hours. McDermott
made his escape and reached New York
but was captured soon after.
St. Petersburg’s Cholera Epidemic.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 24.—Twenty-seven
new cases and 24 deaths from cholera are
reported here.
Gen. Gourko is still seriously ill.
SAVANNAH, GA„ MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1893.
CAPRIVI NOT TO RETIRE.
Count Eulenburg Has Raised a Flag
ot Truce.
He Finally Realized that the Emperor
Would Stick to the Chancellor and
that Further Opposition Would
Probably Jeopardize His Position as
Premier of Prusßia—Crispi’s Return
to Power—Christmas Shopping
Live ly—The Socialists.
Copyright. 1893 by the United Press.
Berlin, Dec. 34.—Since the commercial
treaties with Roumania, Spain and Ser
via were passed, Chancellor von Caprivi
has professed to be tired of his office and
willing to resign immediately after the
passage of the treaty with Russia. The
statement that he has told the lemperorof
his desire to retire is heard daily in
high official circles, but by the public at
large it is taken with a grain of salt. The
conservative agitation against the chan
cellor is more energetic than ever. His
old Prussian associates are especially bit
ter, but no influences on any side have
abated the emperor’s determination to ad
here to his foremost official.
EULENBURG GIVES IN.
Count Botho Zu Eulenburg, the Prus
sian premier, having found his intrigues
thwarted by the emperor’3 confidence or
prejudice, has gone over to the chancel
lor’s side completely in the last few days
and the personal friction between the two
statesmen has ceased, hence Count Eu
lenburg’s circular ordering high Prus
sian officials, whom he tacitly permitted
during the last days ol the
landtag elections to oppose the govern
ment, to stop their obstruction tactics.
It is late in the day for Count Eulenburg
to issue the order. The supreme signifi
cance of the circular lies mainly in the
fact that in it he recognizes the permanence
of.athe chancellor’s position, which l he
sought to undermine. If Count
Eulenburg had acted honestly during
the reichstag and landtag election
there would not not have been in the
reichstag twelve conservatives and free
conservatives, who, although holding
official places, are luke warm to Chancel
lor Caprivi. nor in the landtag some
forty bureaucrats who never even pre
tended allegiance to him. Count Eulen
burg never ventured upon active opposi
tion. His resistance was merely passive,
although it fretted the emperor and
chancellor none the less.
WHY THE COUNT GAVE IN.
It was the defeat of the agrarians in
the Reichstag that caused the Prussian
premier to change his tactics. Instead
of coming in on the crest of a victorious
agrarian wave, ho has found ihimsolf
forced to lie low to save his official head.
It is an open secret that tho chancellor
made an explicit statement at the Prussian
cabinet council last week concerning the
effect of Count Eulenburg’s policy in
hampering imperial affairs. The chan
cellor made this bold stroke to determine
once for all whether the Prussian pre
mier would submit or resign. 11 iff course
yvas jvstified by Count Eulenberg’s hasty
submission. It is the general belief
among officials that the vote of the cabi
net compelled Count Eulenberg to do as
he did.
CAPRIVI’S CHARACTERISTICS.
Although Count Eulenburg has been
thus temporarily disarmed, the conviction
in official circles is that Chancellor Cap
rivi must overcome the special Prussian
opposition to the imperial policy in order
that the imperial machine may work
smoothly. Chancellor Caprivi has not
Prince Bismarck’s masterful qualities to
enable him to override intriguing oppo
nents. He is agreeable person
ally, and * the soul of politeness and
honor, but weak occasionally when it is
necessary for him to enforce his will by
riding rough shod over those plotting
against him. While his disposition
qualifies him well for his association with
the domineering young emperor, it is a
great disadvantage when he is called upon
to deal with his stiff-necked antagonists.
A man more determined, self reliant
and quick-tempered than he would
long since have been at sixes and
sevens with the .emperor. The best in
formed men of all groups, liberally in
clined, while recognizing Chancellor Ca
privi’s yielding disposition, say they
much prefer an emperor with a chancel
lor to a chancellor with an emperor—in
short are better satisfied with the pres
ent relations of emperor and chancellor
than'they would be with any other re
lations possible in the German political
life of t-oday.
CRI9PI’S RETURN TO POWER.
If some foreign dailies were to be be
lieved, there would be little doubt that
Premier Crispi’s reception in the Italian
Chamber of Deputies forebodes both
trouble for the triple alliance and the
failure of the new cabinet. The foreign
office here, however, does not share the
opinions spread in alarmist reports. Of
ficial opinion is that while the present
Italian chamber will be difficult to man
age, the complications were accurately
foreseen and provided for during the pro
tracted negotiations for n ministry.
Premier Crispi is ready to dissolve
the chamber immediately after his first
defeat, trusting to the country to return
deputies who will support his financial
and foreign policy. Nothing has surprised
diplomatists here more than the ignor
ance, or assumed ignorance, of foreign
politicians as regards the fact that the
Crispi cabinet has been considered and
favored Germany as inevitable, while it
has been required by almost every factor
of Italian political life.
THE WINTER MANEUVERS.
The winter maneuvers in Brandenburg
will be postponed until hard frost shall
set in. The emperor wishes to see a series
of displays by soldiers on skates, ice
shoes, ice boats, sledges drawn by horses,
and the like, all to reach a climax in a
grand winter battle.
The approach of Christmas is evident
everywhere in the capital. The Freid
rich Strasse, Unter den Linden, Leip
zieger Strasse and the market places are
thronged. The outcry about the depres
sion of trade and the bard times seems to
be utterly disproved, as never before
have there been such enormous crowds
in the shops and markets. The beer sa
loons. like the shops, were filled to over
flowing yesterday, when everybody in the
city seemed to be out enjoying tho bright,
mild weather. To-day saloons are closed
in the interest of the politico-social move
ment recently inaugurated.
THE SOCIALISTS
The socialists are not convening any
meetings these days and nobody heeds the
doings of tho little groups of anarchists,
or independent socialists, who are ready
to squabble at any time. The interest of
the social democrats centers now upon
the Geneva congress of theoretical social
ists, called by the newspapers the ’‘social
ist students.” Out of 100 delegates to
this congress, about twenty are Germans,
all of them collectiveists. There has
been a discussion on tho proposal of the
French delegate, M. Thiercelue, that the
sole duty of socialists shall be to ally
themselves with the workingmen’s par
ties of all countries and not to formulate
socialist theories and demands.
ANOTHER FIGHT IN BRAZIL.
The Rebels Said to Have Lost 400 Men
at Italjahy.
(Copyright, 1893. by the United Press).
Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 24.—The report of
a bloody battle at Italjahy, state of Santa
Catharina, in which 400 insurgents were
said to have been killed, has no founda
tion in faet. It was discredited generally
from the first, and is now authoritatively
denied. •
savaira’s force.
Washington, Dec. 24. —In response to
his inquiries upon the subject, the Bra
zilian minister of foreign affairs has
cabled Minister Mendonca the facts, so
far as they are known at Rio, regarding
the column of insurgents under Gen. Sa
vaira, which has been variously reported
as marching upon Sao Paqjo und upon
the capital of Santa Catherina, und con
sisting of from 3,000 to 8,000 men.
“The message I have received from my
government.” said Minister Mendonca to
a reporter for the Southern Associated
Press to-night, “is most satisfactory.
That elusive column under Gen. Savaira,
the minister of foreign affairs tells mo,
consists of less than 2,000 men, all cavalry.
They have got no further north than
Santa Catherina, and have so far failed
in their efforts to effect a junction with
the forces of the Melio provisional govern
ment which is established on the island
of Santa Catherina. Gen. Savaira
made an attempt a month or so ago
to reach the insurgents of the island,
but the government forces defeated him
and drove him back to Rio Grande do Sul.
He has now returned with a troop of
cavalry, hut he has not penned the gov
ernment forces as yesterday's telegrams
reported. _ The government of Santa
Catherina has 8,500 regular troops under
his command and Savaira is not likely
to make any serious impression against
them.”
THE SITUATION AT RIO.
“As to the condition of things in Rio,”
continued Minister Mendonca, “the gov
ernment has control of every island in the
bay except Vlllagaignon, Las Cobras,
and one other, which latter is a place of
suburban residence only, and of no value
or importance whatever in a military
sense. It is truo that Gen. Terris, of the
army, was wounded by a shot from am
bush while making a reconoissance upon
Gevemas Island. Tho next day, how
ever, with a sufficient force the island was
taken from the insurgents. The govern
ment is drawing the lines closer and
closer about the insurgents in the harbor,
and expects soon to crush them. This
would have been accomplished ere this,”
explained the minister, “had it not been
that the government is under promise not
to injure foreign merchantmen in the
harbor by the lire from its guns. This,
of course, works to the advantage of the
insurgents.
“The only thing that may be said to se
riously concern the government now is
the Aquidaban, which Admiral Melio has
out to sea. But if those Yankee contri
vances which are on their way to Brazil,
the torpedo and other war vessels, make
a stood report of themselves, we may not
have a merry Christmas but ought to havo
a happy New Year. In a week or ten
days at the farthest I think we shall have
something interesting from there.”
GONE TO GIVE BATTLE.
Buenos Ayres, Dec. 24.—1 tis reported
here that the Brazilian rebel warships
Aquidaban and Repuhlica are bound for
Montevideo, where they will attack
President Peixoto’s fleet which is fitting
out there.
HIGHWAYMEN AT EASTMAN.
A Bookkeeper Held Up—Carpenter
Turned Over to South Carolina.
Eastman, Ga., Dec. 34.—-Mr. Garrett,
the bookkeeper for Shepherd, Ryan &
Cos., was held up and robbed last night.
Two negroes are in jail, charged with the
crime—Richard Morrison and Bob Fain.
Sheriff Rogers, under an order from
Gov. Northen, has turned Thomas Car
penter, who killed a negro here about a
month ago, over to the South Carolina
authorities, who refused to pay him and
Marshal Skelton the reward offered by
Gov. Tillman. Tho officers have been
badly treated.
The sheriff has received from Gov.
Northen a copy of the law making it a
misdemeanor for sheriffs not to try to ar
rest lynchers and prevent mob law.
MOROCCO TO INDEMNIFY SPAIN.
The Troops to Be Held In Andalusia
Until the Amount is Paid.
Madrid, Dec. 24.—The Sultan of Mo
rocco has guaranteed indemnity to Spain
for the encroachment of the Riffs at Mel
illa, by conceding a part of her customs
duties. The newspper organs of the gov
ernment seem to be satisfied with Muley
Araaf’s promises in this matter for his
brother. Preparations are making ready
for the return of the First corps. The
troops will be concentrated in Andalusia
until the amount of the indemnity shall
have been fixed.
RETURN OF THE RANGERS.
They Failed to Find the Revolutionists
They Were in Search Of.
San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 24.—The com
pany of Texas Rangers, who have spent
some time on the upper Rio
Grande borders, scouting for Mexi
can revolutionists, supposed to be
participants in the recent reported
uprisings in Chihuahua, have returned to
their camp at Pecos, Tex. They did not
discover a single revolutionist, and are of
the opinion that the disturbance was
largely of a mythical nature.
SLAIN BY A BLACK THIEF.
A Planter of Mississippi Murdered for
Stopping Stolen Cotton.
Vicksburg, Miss., Dec. 24. Mansel
Mitchell, a planter and merchant of this
county, wasmurdered last night at Ursino
landing, Davis Bend, by Willis Green,
colored. The fact that Mitchell pre
vented Green from shipping a bale of
stolen cotton was the only provocation for
the crime. The murderer escaped.
Lost 90 Men and 7.000 Camols.
Tangier, Dec. 24.—1 tis rejwrted that a
battle between Arabs and Tuaregs has
been fought at Kauar, near Fezzan. The
Tuaregs are said to have lost 90 men and
7,000 camels.
An Earthquake at Bedford.
Bedford, Pa., Dec. 24.—A shock of
earthquake was felt here this afternoon.
In certain parts of the town several
parties rau out of their houses.
FIRE LICIITSJJP VALDOSTA.
Three Stores Burned, at a Loss
ot $20,000.
The Property Fully Insured in Fif
teen Companies—M. M. Caswell and
A. S. Pendlston the Principal Losers.
One of the Stores Used for a Saloon
i and the Others for Furniture, Car
pets and Groceries.
Valdosta, Ga., Dec. 24.—Fire this morn
ing about 2 o’clock totally destroyed the
-story brick building occupied jointly by
M. M. Caswell and A. S. Pendleton, Mr.
Caswoll occupying the first floor as a
saloon and Pendleton tho second for fur
niture and carpets. Neither party saved
any of their stocks, everything being en
tirely burned. The store adjoining tho
burned building, occupied by A. S. Pen
dleton for groceries and furniture, was
also damaged and the stock was badly
damaged hi’ smoke and water. The lire
looked at one time as if it would sweep up
the entire block and several of the
merchants adjacent to the burned build
ing moved out their stocks, sustaining
more or loss loss by removal, among them
Harvey & Harvey, druggists, and W. H.
Briggs & Son, hardware.
The building occupied by Caswoll and
Pendleton was owned by Marion Nelson,
and is almost a total loss.
Several other buildings near the Are.
owned by different parties, were slightly
damaged.
During the progress of the flro one of
the sido walls of the Nelson building fell
over on O. K. Jones, crushing one
of his legs and badly bruising him
about the hoad and body. Mr. Jones
would have been burned to death if one of
the firemen had not seen tho accident and
turned his hose upon him until he could bo
removed. He Is resting easy to-night, and
no serious results are apprehended.
The property burned is estimated at
about $20,000, and is covered by insurance,
distributed among about fifteen different
companies.
The fire, department, aided by the citi
zens, did noble work, and it is due to their
hard work that the loss is not twice as
groat as it is.
The origin of the fire is not known.
FIRE IN A STEAMER’S HOLD.
She Returns to Havana and Other
Vessels go to Her Aid.
Havana, Dec. 24. The American
steamer Seneca, Capt. Stevens, which
sailed from this port yesterday for New
York, returned to-day with her fore
hold on lire. Tho municipal and com
mercial firemen and the crews of the
Neuva Espana and the Spanish mail
steamers Monte Viedo and Cataiuna, are
making efforts to extinguish the flames.
The Seneca’s cargo consists mainly of to
bacco. The fire was discovered when the
vessel was seventy-eight miles out, and,
after making vigorous efforts to exlin
?;uish it, the captain resolved, as the risk
ncreased, to return. Three times the
crew intended to abandon the vessel,
owing to the intense heat. The fire is
still burning.
SHOT OUT AN EYE.
A Georgian Puts a Bullet In His Head
With His Own Hand.
Callahan, Fla., Dec. 24.—Last night at
Briceville, a station on the Florida Cen
tral and Peninsular railroad, John Bach
elot, of Folkstou, Ga., came near ending
his life by shooting himself in the right
temple with a revolver. The hall glanced,
passing through the corner of his temple
and literally knocking his right eye out
of his head. Mr. Bachelot was brought
to Callahan on Florida Central and Pe
ninsular train No. 36 this morning. It is
reported that Bachelot had been drinking
for tne past two months, and that he shot
himself with suicidal intent.
AN KANSAS BANK FAILS.
Its Assets not Expected to Bring 60
Cents On the Dollar.
Topeka, Kan., Dec. 24.—State Bank
Commissioner Breidenthal has taken po
session of the bank at Greonsburg, Ki
owa count}’. It is a bad failure. Its as
sets aro said to be $95,000; but only sll,-
000 is cash, the remainer being real estate
and paper, out of which I>o cents on the
dollar will not be realized. The liabil
ities are $68,000, $50,000 of which is due
Kiowa county. The concern was organ
ized in 1886 with a capital of $16,600,
which was immediately invested in n
showy bank building and fixtures, to
gether with $4,000 of the depositors’
money.
CHINAMEN TO BE DEPORTED.
Slxty-flve to Be Escorted from Texas
to San Francisco.
San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 24.—Chieif
Deputy United States Marshal John
Walter will leave here this week for San
Francisco, having iu charge sixty-five
Chinamen sentenced to deportation for
violating the exclusion act. He will be
act ompanied by twenty guards. All of
these offenders have been arrested within
the past three months. Twelve of them
are in jail in San Antonio, nineteen at Del
Rio, and the remaining number at Kagla
Pass and El Paso. The Southern Pacific
railroad receives SBS per head for trans
porting the Chinamen to San Francisdh. *
MORE RIOTING IN SICILY.
Reinforcements Sent to Suppress the
Anti-Tax Demonstrations.
Rome, Dec. 24.—A popular demonstra
tion against tho town authorities was
made yesterday at Leroara di Freddi,
about fifty miles from Palermo, Sicily.
Tho crowd was dispersed by troops. Two
soldiers and several riotors were wounded.
The anti-tax movement has gained fresh
headway in Sicily for the last three days,
and disorder is reported from several
parts of the island. Four battalions of
the regnlar army will start from Naples
for Palermo to-morrmv to help the troops
already on the ground repress the agita
tion.
Madrid’s Bakers Not to Strike.
Madrid, Dec. 24.—The strike planned
by the Journeymen bakers of Madrid has
been postponed, as large supplies of bread
were brought in from the provinces.
Most of the men who quit work yester
day went back to-day. Sixty leaders of
the movement have been arrested.
MITCHELL'S TRIP SOUTH.
He Will Bring His Own Cook and Pro
visions From the North.
New York, Dec. 24.—Charley Mitchell
arrived in town early this morning. At
8 o’clock he met Alexander S. Twcatt,
eastern passenger agent of the Richmond
and Danville railroad, by appointment'
and made all his arrangements for his
Journey to Jacksonville. Mitchell left
this city to-day at 11:80 o’clock a. in. for
Philadelphia, where he will remain until
Tuesday morning, when he will take tho
7:20 o'clock a. in. irain on tho Richmond
and Danville, for Florida, which will ar
rive in Jacksonville at 9 o'clock a. ni.
Wednesday. Mitchell will take his own
cook with ium from Philadelphia, and he
has arranged to havo all tho food he eats
sent on to him from tho Philadelphia
market.
NEVER IN BETTER HEALTH.
Mitchell claims that ho was never in
better health in his life than he is in at
present. Ho will not he accompanied on
this trip by Jim Hall and Steve O’Don
nell, us has been expected, as their theat
rical engagements will detaiu thorn
one week longer. They will leave for
Jacksonville, however, next Saturday
night by the same route. William A.
Brady, who is managing the business for
J. J. Corbett, will leave this city for Flor
ida next Tuesday afternoon.
TO TRAIN ON ANASTASIA ISLAND.
St. Augustine, Fla . Dec. 24.—St, Au
gustine is to get n Christinas gift in the
shape of having Charles Mitchell train on
Anuslusia Island. Tho committee this
evening again visited the islaud, and Mr.
Thompson has decided to use the island
for training grounds, as tho facilities af
forded are pronounced superior to all
other places offered. The hotel capacity
of St. Augustine Is 6,IKK) people over regu
lar visitors. It may be said tho conditions
are guaranteed.
Tne Cass Marina, a hotel on Anastasia
Island, has been given up to Thompson,
and he will begin work to-morrow fitting
it up with all tho paraphernalia neces
sary for training quarters.
A LONG BICYCLE RACE.
The Six Days’ Ride on Wheels Begun
at Midnight.
Now York, Dec. 25, 3a. m.—A little af
ter midnight there was a burst of music
in Madison Square garden which made
the walls of the big building vibrate and
the floor to tremble. This was the begin
ning of tho programme,in the six day in
ternational bicycle rncs. The race will
be one of champions, and each one of
thorn lias declared that the race is his.
The arrangements for tho race are con
sidered to bo by far the best over planned
for a like ovent in tho garden. The track
is ten laps to the mile instead of nine, ss
heretofore, and the contestants, who have
been practicing on it for the past few
days, are unanimous in saying it is supe
rior to any they have ever ridden on.
THE STARTERS.
The list of starters, as marked on the
large scoring board before tho raco
started, was as follows:
William Martin, champion of the world,
with-* record of 1,466 miles.
C. W. Ashinger, 72-hour champion.
Albert Schock, ex-champion of the
world.
Frank Alberts, Frank Fuller and Daw
son Frouvvalt, holder of the twenty-five
mile road record of one hour and seven
teen minutes.
Peter Golden, long distance pedestrian.
Edward Reading. A. S. Weixell, John
Barton, Frederick Forester, of Germany;
Albert Hosiner, H. E. Bartholo
mew, Frank Waller, C. Greer,
P. Berio, J. F. Starbuck, of
Marion, la.; George Van Emberg, the
"boy wonder.” The last named is the
youngest on the list, being only 19 year#
old. Besides the big race, there will be
others very much shorter, but probably
moro exciting. These will be the sprint
contests.
F. P. Priat has been selected as referee
of the race, and his assistant is P. K.
Powers.
At exactly midnight the men were at
the posts. The signal to start was given
and C. W. Ashinger wont ahead of his
competitors. He, led in the first lap.
closely followed by William Martin ana
Frank Albert, while the others came In a
bunch right behind him.
HIGH SCHOOL EXERCISES.
Some of the Bright Ones Who Won
Honor Places.
Oliver, Ga., Dec. 23.—The Oliver High
School closed its sessional exercises last
night. This school is the pride of Oliver.
Among the students who distinguished
themselves aro Madison L. Clifton, who
sj>oke fluently in behulf of Napoleon
Bonaparte and William D. Morgan, who
spoke eulogistieally of the character and
deeds of'Julius Caesar. Among the young
ladies who particularly distinguished
themselves are Miss Nonie McNeill, the
daughter of Mr. M. D. McNeill, Miss Ma
mie Lauier, who read an essay of merit.
She is the daughter of Dr. A. B. Lauier.
Miss Estelle Clifton read a beautiful
essay upou the character and death of
Napoleon She is the daughter of
A. L. Clifton. Among the others who
bore a conspicuous part in the examina
tion were I-ee Clifton, Wright Brinson,
Victor A. Mingledorff, Emmett Bennett,
Gussie 1-auier, Mamie McGeachy,
Emma Hall, Miss Porter, Jessie Bevill,
George Ash, Shelton Hunter, John Ken
nedy, Ralph and Morton Jones and quite
a number of others.
This county is in a feverish heat over
an election for ordinary, to be held on
Jau. 9.
SPAIN’S ANARCHISTS.
The Police Claim to Have Unraveled
the Whole Conspiracy.
Barcelona, Dec. 24.—A printer named
Sivepol, 22 years of age, has been ar
rested for implication in the dynamite
outrages, and has confessed that he made
the molds in which the bombs used re
cently with such disastrous effect were
cast.
The prefect of police declares that he
has now sufficient material on hand to
unravel the entire anarchist conspiracy,
which ho says extends to the principal
European centers and to America. The
remarks of a child 8 years old have led to
the most important discoveries.
Closing School Exercises,
Eden, Ga., Dec. 28. —Last night Prof. J.
S. McDowell gave a concert to a large
and appreciative audience at the closing
exercises of the Eden school. The enter
tainment was interspersed with recita
tions, tableaux, dialogues and quartettes.
The latter was represented by Louis Na
poleon and Happy Nero, who had an ex
perience of many “bouts.”
Capt. Harman Heidt has a carload of
Le Conte pear trees, which are being
planted upon his farm.
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A MEMORIAL FOR PEACE.
A Movement in Favor ot Interna
tional Arbitration.
The World's Columbian Exposition
Memorial Presented to President
Cleveland—lt Bears the Autograph
Signatures of the Commissioners
From Forty Different Nations Which
Participated in the Exposition.
Washington, Dec. 24.—The World’s Co
lumbian Exposition memorial for inter
national arbitration has been presented
to Secretary Gresham and President
Cleveland by William E. Blackstone, of
Chicago, honorable commissioner of tho
World’s Columbian commission. It is a
remarkable document, having the auto
graph signatures of the commissioners
from some forty different nations which
participated in the exposition, including
Sir Richard Webster, of England,
George 11. It. Cock burn, of
Canada, Enriouo Dupuy de Ix>me, of
Spain, Admiral Maurity, of Brazil, Dr,
Anton Von Palitreheshx Palmfrost, of
Austria. T. Hokky Bey, of Turkey, N.
Sanrataka, of Japan, Prof. Dr. Sheppen,
of Germany, Chun Qua Kee, of China,
ulso the commissioners from tho different
states and territories of the United
States. The directors and officials of the
exposition, many of the chairmen and
speakers of the congressesrof the world’s
congress auxiliary, including Cardinal
Gibbons, Monsignor Satolli. Joseph Cook,
Mr. Moody, Rev. Alexander Mackay-
Smith, William E. Dodge, Dr. Philip
Hhaff, Bishop Merrim, LftdjT
Somerset, and Tkidy Abidoen:
also tho editors of tho principal
daily papers of New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington: also ex-Prest
dent Benjamin Harrison, Secretary Mor
ton, Controller Eckels. Chief Justice
Fuller, Secretary Carlislo, Postmaster
General Hlssell, Secretary Herbert,of the
navy, anil Daniel A. Lament, secretary of
war; Senators John T. Morgan, John
Sherman, William P. Frye; and several
of the most prominent business men of tho
country, John l). Rockefeller, J. Pierponti
Morgan, Jesse Sellgmun, George M. Pull
man, George Gould, Cornelius Vanderbilt
and others.
Tho President and Secretary expressed
their approval of the object sought hy tho
memorialists, the President mentioning
that the same sentiment had been incor
porated in his recent message.
TEXT OP THE MEMORIAL.
The following Is tho text of the me
morial :
To the Governments of tho World: The un
dersigned citizens of many countries, ga'h
ered at the World’s Columbian Exposition, la
Chicago, in the United States of America,
recognizing the advantage, accruing to theno
nations which havo pursued the policy of arbi
trating International disputes, and desiring
that ilka benefit* may in the future be en
joyed liy all nations, and deeming this
a fitting opportunity, do hereby join
tn this memorial to all our vari
ous governments praying that they will
unitedly agree, by mutual treaties, to submit
for settlement by arbitration all such Inter
national questions us shall fall of satisfac
tory solution hy the ordinary peaceful nego
tiations. und for this the petitioners will ever
pray.
It Is requested that a copy of this memorial
shall be prescateil to each of the government*
of the world.
As soou as tho requisite fac-simile copies
shall have been prepared it will be trans
mitted by Secretary Gresham to tha
vurious governments of the world.
TALLAHASSEE TOPICS.
Personal and Other Newe from tha
Capital of Florida.
Tallahassee, Fla., Dec. 24.— The tracla
of the Currabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia
railroad has been completed from this
city to Carrabelle. The equipment is en
route to Tallahassee, and the new lina
will he open for business when It arrives.
The hands were paid over $7,000.
Governor Mitchell and wife are at
Tampa for the holidays.
Mrs. L. S. Peck, of Jacksonville; Mrs.
Julius Magath, of Oxford, Ga.; Misses
Wllmer Trammell and Ruby Wilson, of
Chattahoochee, aro here to spend Christ
mas with friends.
Mr. Thomas Costa has been appointed
watchman at tho United States court
house.
Mrs. E. P. Kammorer, of New York, id
hore for the winter.
Mr. S. S. Leonard, contractor on tho
public building, has gone to Pensacola fob
the holidays.
Mrs. Barbour Walker has returned
from a visit to Ocala.
Rev. C. F. Blackburne, of Rockiedge,
George A. Beard of Fernandina, Prof.
T. J. Mcßeath, of Aucilla und Will Hop
kins, of Ocala, will spend the holidays
here.
The Leon hotel will open Christmas
day.
Judge R. B. Hilton, who was stricken
with paralysis some days since, is still
very low.
The governor has made the following
civil appointments: W. 11. Smith, of
Archer and (Jus Eitzen, of Pensacola, to
he notaries public for the state at large.
NOMINATED BY ONE MAJORITY.
A Fall Municipal Ticket in the Field
at Waycrose.
Waycross, Ga., DcC. 24.— At a mass
meeting Friday night the following wers
nominated for aldermen: Andrew J. Mil
ler, First ward; George Pollard, Second
ward; G. M. Archer, Third ward; D. A.
McGee, Fourth ward, and Stephen S,
Miller, Fifth ward.
Tho names of Arthur M. Knight and F.
C. Folks were presented for the nomina
tion for mayor. L. Johnson, S. W. Hitch,
H. P. Brewer, Dr. Redding, J. S. Will
iams and J. E. Butler were mentioned for
the nomination for members of the board
of education. The nomination for mayor
and of members of the board of educa
tion were made by ballot. Only regis
tered voters were allowed to vote. lir.
Frank C. h oiks was nominated for mayor
and L. Johnson, H. P. Brewer and S. W.
Hltch'for board of education. Folks was
nominated by one majority.
Killed By an Accidental Shot.
Americas, Ga., Dec. 24.—This afternoon
Robt. Mclntosh, a young white man em
ployed on the Sam railroad,
was setting in a passenger coach at
the depot in this city, handling a Win
chester rifle. Its accidental discharge
sent a bullet through the heart of Charles
Starks, a negro mun standing hy. By
standers declare the tragedy purely ac
cidental.
Bandits Make a Haul.
Coffeyvllle, Kas., Dec. 24.— A passenger
train on the Missouri Pacific railroad
was held up by eight bandits to-night.
The mail and express cars and passengers
were robbed.