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J ESTABLISHED IPSO. INCORPORATED 1888.
j J. H. ESTILL, President.
HEARING TALES OF HAWAII
Be Senate Committee Again in
Session.
All the Witnesses Before It In Favor
of the Provisional Government and
Annexation— Nothing’ New or Start
ling Brought Out—Blount’s Power
Over the Naval Force May Be Made
An Issue By the Republican Mem
bers.
Washington, Jan. 2.—The second day’s
proceedings of the Senate sub-committee
on foreign relations, now engaged in the
Investigation of the Hawaiian matter un
der the resolution of Senator Morgan,
were begun under conditions quite differ
ent from those that prevailed when the
committee first assembled on Wednesday
of last week. To-day a messenger stood
guard at the outer door of the committee
room, and no one was permitted to enter
who had not been bidden to appear before
the committee. As soon as these gentle
men did appear they were hurried inside
the ante-room and kept there until they
had given their testimony and then dis
missed, with a caution to say absolutely
nothing about their testimony or the ques
tions asked by the committee.
Senator Morgan, the chairman, was
the first committeeman to arrive, but he
was not prompt, and wa3 soon followed
by Mr. Frye, and later on by Mr. Gray,
the special friend of the administration
on the committee. These three senators
comprised the whole sub-committee at
the session to-day. If first impressions
amount to anything, the evidence being
adduced before this sub-committee cer
tainly will have a strong leaning toward
the provisional government, for all that
has been delivered up to this time has
been from the friends of the existing
government of Hawaii.
THURSTON’S SECRETART.
A bout. 15 minutes after 10 o’clock, Mr.
Hastings, secretary of the Hawaiian
leeation and charge d’affaires during the
absence of Minister Thurston, reached
the capitol, accompanied by P. C. Jones
and C. Z. Spaulding, two new witnesses,
whom he desired to present to the com
mittee, and Rev. O. P. Emerson, who
gave his testimony at the last meeting.
It is not at all prooable that the commit
tee will-request Mr. Hastings to give his
testimony, as such a proceeding would be
without precedent, the statements of the
representatives of a foreign government
being always conveyed to this
government through the medi
um of the Secretary of State.
Mr. Emerson’s testimony had, during
the interim since the last meeting of the
committee, been reduced to writing, and
after being asked one or two unim
portant questions, he was requested to
sign his evidence, which he did before
leaving the committee. To-night he
starts for Boston. This will illustrate the
care with which the committee appears
to be handling this subject, for n is un
derstood that each witness will, in addi
tion to being sworn before going on the
stand, be required to subscribe to their
testimony after being written out, under
oath and duly certified.
THE INTRIGUES ON THE ISLANDS.
The testimony of P. C. Jones was of an
important character and gave to the com
mittee, from the standjxiiftt of a friend of
the provisional government, at least a
full and complete history of the intrigues
on the islands and the events that led up
to the deposition of the queen. Mr.
Jones is a resident of Boston and a mem
ber of the firm of Brewer & Cos., which
has a large branch house in Honolulu,
Under the management of Mr. Jones. He
is said to be as largely interested finan
cially in the islands as any American
there, and among his interests, is that
of the purchase and handling
or sugars in larger amounts.
Mr. Jones was minister of finance i in the
so-called Wilcox cabinet, from Novem
ber 18J2, to the following January. He
has always been an annexationist and
W3s a member of the committee of safety
and a member of of the first cabinet, hold-
M portfolio of finance, that now
held by Mr. Damon. He left the islands
lor America last month and came east
. b ' s °bj ect in coming being to
ook afLerisome business af.airs and to do
wuat he could to present from his point
ot view the facts concerning the estate
usnment of the provisional government.
Lrui'y for many years on the
n-wu .1’ aIK * being personally acquainted
“ tbe People. Mr. Jones felt that he
- e to £ lve tb e committee much in
.idTii and especially to throw some
iMtSi 1 ® • up .°n the present and past con
d °“..° f affairs among the people of
inn™? 11 ' “ e . w as before the committee a
in™ ,? me ? n . his examination was search
ti,™ llle c.hsirman and other members of
ali t‘i, o^ muttee expressing a wish to learn
hat was possible touching the matter.
°OL. SPAULDING ON THE STAND,
in* 8 was followed by Col. Spauld
the’<T? ° w ,e nt . t 0 Honolulu shortly after
was a? t' h „ D ? nn F the war Col. Spaulding
whern h l6 j of an Ohio regiment,
s T' ed Wltb distinction. Under
luli. n, ■, Se J war<l he w ‘i ß sent to Hono
rs,? 8 ,, h? Ue l? I ? tee.consul. After the
ness 8 oUlchtl career he entered busi
men nn H 00n , bec ? me oneof the wealthiest
of its s,,Jl e Is , ands an d one of the largest
oßkiai U n? r ?- ante [ s ' He never held any
troublps P ° Sltlon ’ but w hen the recent
one of tv, Came he was elected as
SDaukii,,™. conimi ttee of safety. Col.
and snpabi 8 an ardent annexationist,
on the island ° f the conditions of things
iairef ls ‘ and ’ m general, but with spec
eaid if 2’° lhe labor Problem, he
United lslands were taken into the
would under its protection, he
If the is?-^j 1111? t 0 take his chances.
country fVU d "Td made P art of this
labor nroh? ' Spau ! dln * said , the “coolie”
that too b with C °? ? easliy he solved, and
<ot SetSstar* 10 the inter '
Rptlw I ® S, E W ‘TH MR. BLOUNT.
pnted thp a nlding and Mr. Jones dis-
Blount 8 a t ? t “ n ' eulf ’ of Commissioner
on the J' 0 feelin ? of the people
took uf “nnexation, and they
relative to 116 wlb him as to the facts
assertj,,™ .'he overthrow of the queen,
Sevens was nit 1 16 0011,11101 of Minister
Atntrh -n? 8 notcensurab le, and that the
serve the „p, p3 ' vore landed only to pre
-I’ropertv nf .ni , and Protect the lives and
They denioJ Vn Americans on the islands.
totl'ie revolution! the,V bad taken any part
again to-mor
-81 which regular meeting day,
Ve .vor ceneraf.S 1 ??' the sur
#f the w it^ ogf 0 g f islands. will be one
eTerai N nf S tn° WER OVEM '
the committepn republio an members of
Sftion to ha*ve th- fixprossed a determi
thcMUesUua of u? B n m “ lttce Pass upon
* or the President's authority
SPbe JHofnina ffctoft,
in delegating his constitutional preroga
tive as commander-in-chief of the army
and navy, which they claim has been
done in the letter of the secretary of the
navy to Admiral Skerrett, placing Com
missioner Blount in command of the
forces under that naval officer.
Whether the missing letters from ex-
Min is ter Stevens and Minister Willis to
the state department, withheld from
the communication sent to congress, have
been supplied to the committee, is not
known, but the indications are that the
committee is still in ignorance of the sub
ject matter of those documents.
BOSTON’S BIG BLAZE.
The Globe Theater in Ruins Before the
Fire Was Put Out.
Boston, Jan. 2.—Four alarms, the first
one at 1:15 this morning, were rung in
rapid succession for the fire in the Globe
theater, on Washington street. It was
said to have started in the coat room on
the north side in the basement. It was
burning vigorously inside when the fire
men arrived, and the flames, reaching the
Interior of the theater itself, had shot up
through and along the balconies and were
bursting through the roof. Several
heavy explosions took place between 1:40
and 2:15 o’clock, whether of gas, calcium
light tanks or of chemicals, said to be
used in the performance of Hanlon’s
“Superba” company, which had been
playing an engagement there, is not
known. The whole theater, basement to
the gallery and flies, from lobby to stage,
was soon afire and doomed. At 3 o'clock
the entire center of the playhouse was
fairly burned out.
ADJOINING BUILDINGS SAVED.
A large 6-story, Buffalo-brick building,
owned by the-Harvard College trustees,
on the northwest corner of Washington
street and Harvard place; the building
occupied by the Bryant & Stratton com
mercial school, on the other side of the
theater, on Washington street, and R. T.
Almy & Co.’s retail clothing house, on the
corner of Washington and Essex streets,
were for a time in imminent danger. The
only oue, however, in which the flames
gained a footing was the 4-story brick
structure adjoining the scenery room of
the theater, formerly occupied as a resi
dence by John Stetson, and which is now
occupied by the Globe Theater cafe, Ham
rock, proprietor, and the club room of the
Massachusetts Yacht Club. The building
was badly damaged by fire and smoke.
The roof of the theater fell in at 1:45
o'clock. The work of the firemen was im
peded for a time by the trolley wires,
which, however, were soon cut.
The loss is roughly estimated at
$850,000. It is estimated that Hanlon
Bros, will lose about $25,000.
SHB SCORNS THE PRESIDENT.
Mrs. Luci Says She Would Go Out
of Her Way to Avoid Him.
Washington, Jan. 2.—Mrs. Luci, the
woman who called at the white house
yesterday to take possession until the
President paid the money she claimed he
owed her, was examined by physicians
to-day and pronounced demented but
harmless. She will probably be sent to
her son, who lives in Camden, N. J.
Mrs. Luci says she did not go to the
white house to see the President. She
scorns the idea of having any communi
cation with him, and says she would walk
block s out of her way to avoid meeting
him.
This was not her first visit to Wash
ington. Mrs. Luci came here last May.
People in her boarding house regarded
her as an eccentric person of no danger
ous propensities. She paid her bills reg
ularly and explained that the money was
furnished by her son.
The Fight for the Central’s Sale.
Washington, Jan. 2.—The Central rail
road case, pending before the supreme
court for its sale, will be heard here be
fore Justice Jackson on Jan. 4. Receiver
Comer’s attorneys will argue to prevent
the sale of the road, and the Farmers’
Loan and Trust Company, holders in
trust of the tripartite bonds, will ask for
the road to be sold.
SOLONS OF KENTUCKY.
Gov. Brown Proposes to Make it Hot
For the Railroads.
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 2.—The general as
sembly was organized for work at noon
to-day. The first business before it came
in the shape of the biennial message from
Gov. Brown. The documentissignificant,
chiefly on account of the bold stand taken
by the governor against the railroads.
He asks for the passage of a law empower
ing the railway commissioners of the
state to adjust freight and passenger
rates, and as for the proposed absorption
of the Chesapeake,Ohio and Southwestern
property by the Louisville and Nashville,
the executive announces that he will fight
it to the last ditch. Cheaper coal, re
duced taxes and new management for the
penitentiaries are other reforms he advo
cates.
Mr. Carroll was elected speaker amid
much enthusiasm and all the other Demo
cratic caucus nominees were confirmed
by a strict party vote.
The time for the election of a United
States senator has yet to be agreed upon.
Senator Lindsay is without opposition,
except such feeble resistance as the re
publicans will be able to make.
NEW YORK’S LEGISLATURE.
The Session of 1894 Begun. With an
Election of Officers.
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 2.—The New York
state assembly of 1894 was called to or
der at 11:25 o’clock this morning by
Charles R. Defreest, clerk of the last as
sembly. Bishop Doane offered prayer
and then Mr. Defreest called the roll. A
quorum being present, he declared the
House in session.
Ballots were taken to fill the different
positions for which nominations were
made in the caucus last night, each mem
ber rising in his place and naming his
choice for tho different positions. The
nominees of the republican caucus last
night were duly declared elected from
speaker down to the minor positions. The
first ballot was for speaker. George R.
Malb.yand Speaker Sulzer were put in
nomination by their respective parties.
The vote was: Malby 67, Sulzer 50. Malby
was declared elected.
Carnegie’s Homestead Works Resume.
Homestead, Pa., Jan. 2.—The Homestead
plant of the Carnegie Steel Company re
sumed operations in every department to
day. About 2,500 men were given em
ploymerit. it is understood that the com
pany has orders sufficient to insure op
eration until April.
Orlando B. Potter Drops Dead.
New York, Jan. 2.—Orlando B. Potter,
the well-known New Yorker, dropped
dead to-night at 9:20 o’clock in front of
tho Buckingham hotel.
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1894.
A VICTORY FOR MITCHELL.
The Criminal Court Dodges Construing
the Law.
The Proseouting Attorney Abstained
From Prosecuting the Case on the
Ground That No Information
Against Them Had Been Filed—This
Leaves the Governor Unhampered
by An Adverse Decision-Mitchell
Declines to Agree to a Change in the
Looation of the Fight and Is Accused
of Cowardice in Consequence.
Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 2.—ln the crimi
nal court of record this morning the at
torneys for Corbett and Mitchell ap
peared, and confidently expecting that
Judge Phillips would decide thq case
against them, had their clients in the cir
cuit'court, where arrangements had been
made for a hearing by Judge Call to-mor
row, on motion that writs of habeas
corpus be issued and the men released.
But as soon as the criminal court opened
J. B. Christie, the prosecuting attorney
of the court, arose and said no Informa
tion against Corbett and Mitchell had
been filed with him or with the judge or
clerk, and he saw no reason, therefore,
why they should not be released, and
their bondsmen be relieved of any fur
ther responsibility. The judge so or
dered, and the case was
ended then and there. This is
a triumph for Gov. Mitchell,
and the opponents of the Duval Athletic
Club, for it shoved the case out of the
circuit court, and thus prevented the
rendering of tho favorable decision which
the club had hoped for. It is said that
the governor put the screws on Solicitor
Christie and forced him to this course.
Good lawyers say that the record of the
case in the county court and the binding
over of the accused to the criminal court
was sufficient “information for Attorney
Christie to have prosecuted the case
upon.
AN ATTACK ON MITCHELL.
Charley Mitchell, tho alleged boxing
champion of England, and self-styled
champion of the world, has shown the
white feather, or something that very
much resembles that article despised by
all lovers of the prize ring. Despite his
alleged consuming desire to face Corbett
in the arena, the developments of
to-day seem to indicate that the
Eoglishman is ready to squeeze through
any loophole to escape meeting the cham
pion of America. That, and not the
alleged knockout of the Duval Athletic
Club by Gov. Mitchell in the courts here
this morning, is the real sensation of the
day in sporting circles. It all came about
in this way: After Solicitor Christie,
under coercion from the governor, re
fused to have anything to do with
the test case brought by the athletic
club, by which the promoters of the con
test hoped to have the Florida law relat
ing to prize fights settled, so as to pre
clude the possibility of any interference
on the day set for the fight, the mana
gers of the club began casting about for
ways and means to “pull off” the affair
in spite of the governor and courts.
WON’T SIGN A NEW AGREEMENT.
Accordingly, Manager Bowden, of the
club, sent Harr.v Mason over to St. Au
gustine to see Mitchell and induce him to
sifm amended articles of agreement. The
original articles, at Mitchell’s suggestion,
provided that the fight should occur
“within two miles of the city of Jackson
ville.” The club to-day wishes to change
this clause so as to have it read that the
fight should occur “within the state
of Florida.” The purpose of
the club was that it might
have the freedom to select
any place in the |state for the contest
where it was least likely there would be
interference on the part of the authori
ties. When the situation of affairs was
explained to Mitchell and he was asked
to affix his name to the amended articles
of agreement that worthy flatly refused
to sign. He said that he would never
put his name to the paper unless the site
for the contest was definitely fixed.
Harry Mason urged and expostulated
with the Englishman, telling him that
the change was simply one of precaution
in view of the governor's hostile attitude,
but to no avail. Mitchell absolutely re
fused to sign and Harry Mason returned
to Jacksonville, staggering under a load
of disgust. It should be remembered that
the original articles stipulated that the
fight should occur “within the state of
Florida.” This was changed to “within
two miles of the city of Jacksonville,” at
Mitchell’s suggestion.
ATTRIBUTED TO COWARDICE.
It looks now as if Mitchell never really
desired to go up against the American
champion, and is taking advantage of the
difficulties under which the club is labor
ing, owing to the hostile attitude of the
state authorities, to “crawfish.” The
managers of the athletic club are in a
state of mind to-night, and are ' roasting”
the Englishman in sulphurous style.
Manager Bowden said to-night to
the Southern Associated Press
correspondent that he would go over to
St. Augustine to-morrow, taking along
representatives of tho Press Association
and force Mitchell to sign the amended
ar.icles or brand him to the world as
having shown the white feather.
WHY CHRISTIE GAVE IN.
The second sensation of tho day in
sporting circles was the action of Solici
tor Christie, representing the state, in re
fusing to proceed this morning in the
cases against Corbett and Mitchell. It is
well known that Christie was forced to
this action by Gov. Mitchell, at whose
will he holds office. The governor
charged “collusion" on the part of the
Duval county authorities when the cases
were brought, and it is said that Solicitor
Christie had received an intimation from
the executive that if the cases were not
dropped he (Christie) would lose his offi
cial head. Christie did not have enough
sporting blood to stand the gubernatorial
gaff, and so he dropped the case.
THE CASE THROWN OUT.
Solicitor Christie’s announcement in
court that no information bad been filed
against Corbett and Mitchell meant prac
tically that the case against them had
been nol pressed.
It knocked the pins from under the
club so far as settling the law in relation
to prize fights is concerned. The
club had depended upon this
test case to put the fighters
beyond arrest. Asitisnow the fighters ;
can be arrested at the last moment, and of
course everybody knows that an arrest at
that time means that the fight shall not
take place unless the club ties the hands
of the sheriff so that he can not touch
them.
THE CLUB STILL GAME.
The members of the club, however, in
spite of the falling through of the test
case, are showing no signs of weakening,
and say that if the Englishman can be
induced to sign the amended articles,
they will yet pull off the contest in Flor
ida. Just what the coursfe of the club
will he, no one seems to know. Some say
that their next step is to secure
the arrest of the principals by
some justice of the peace in order to have
the habeas corpus proceedings gotten
before the circuit court. Those proceed
ings, which were to come off to-morrow,
are done with, inasmuch as the princi
pals are out of custody, but the question
is whether a justice of the peace will be
found to go where the county solicitor
fears to tread.
BOWDEN THINKS IT A VICTORY.
Manager Bowden, of tho Duval Ath
letic Club, was found shortly after the
adjourning of the court and informed by
tho Southern Associated Press corre
spondent of what had been done. When
asked what the club’s next action would
be, Mr. Bowden answered that he was
not at all prepared to say, save that it
looked very much as if the officials were
afraid to give the case a fair
test and allow the club to find out
whether or not the contest was within
the law. Continuing Mr. Bowden said:
“The action of the solicitor is a practical
victory for the club. It shows that tho
governor is afraid to let the courts pass
on the law in regard to prize fights. He
knows that the decision of the courts
would be favorable to us, and he wants to
keep the question open so he can inter
fere without running counter to a court,
decision. You may say,” added Bowden,
“that if the Englishman sticks we will
have this fight in Florida. We know that
there is no law against it, and we intend
to go right ahead arranging for the con
test, always provided Mitchell signs the
amended articles.”
THE CLUB NOT*WEAKENING.
When questioned regarding the dis
patch from Chicago, concerning the
weakening of the club and its intention to
sell the right to hold the contest, Manager
Bowden said: “You may simply stato.
and state it as emphatically as you
please, that the club has not weakened,
and does not intend to. As far as our
endeavoring to sell the fight goes, that is
the rankest newspaper poppycock, and
utterly without foundation.
cordett’s manager talks.
William A. Brady, Corbett’s manager,
whon asked what he thought about tho
criminal court business, said “I really
have not thought about it. Of course,
Corbett has come to Florida to meet
Mitchell in a glove contest, and both he
and I are anxious that the match should
como off without a hitch, but we look to
the club and have nothing whatever to do
with its legal matters. Corbett was pre
pared to come up to-morrow, but if there
is no necessity for his presence, why, he
will not be here. It would make
no difference to us if every man, woman
and child said that the match was off.
Unless officially notified to the contrary
by the Duval Athletic Club. Corbett will
train until Jan. 25. and will then be at
the club’s disposal to meet Mitchell at
any place they name.”
The sports say that the Cripple Creek
people mean business, and propose to get
the CorbeU-Mitc.hdU fight if money can
get it.
COLORADO'S BID
Relative to the reports that the contost
was liable to take place in Colorado, Mr.
Brady said: “It is true that I have re
ceived telegrams from Colorado, as I have
from many other parts of tho country,
making offers for the contest. The
one I received from Cripple Creek or
Durango was signed by both the
mayor of the city and sheriff of the
county and guaranteed $40,000, but to this
as to the others the answer was the same,
that we are bound by our contract, and as
long as that is in force Corbett is entirely
at the disposal of the Duval Athletic
Club.”
THE MAYOR’S VETO OVERRIDDEN.
Another sensation of the day was the
“Monkey and Parrot” time in the Jack
sonville city council to-night over the
ordinance which was passed some time
ago, permitting contests with live
ounce gloves. Mayor Fletcher
sent it back with a veto mes
sage in which he denounced the
ordinance as an attempt to legitimatize
“brutal and degrading prizefights.” The
mayor said that the phase “glove con
tests” was mere a euphemism for an in
human exhibition, and those who passed
the ordinance knew It. The mayor’s
strong language stirred up the support
ers of the ordinance, and they replied in
no polite terms. The ordinance was
finally passed over the veto, only three
couneilmen voting to sustain the mayor.
There is a story current thrt, if the
club can induce Charley Mitchell to
sign the amended articles, they have a
place in view in Florida, where the fight
can be pulled off despite the governor.
At present the Englishman seems to
hold the key to the situation.
NORTH CAROLINA’S MASONS.
The Grand Lodge To-Day Begins Its
Annual Session.
Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 2.—The grand
lodge of Masons of North Carolina met here
to-night. Peculiar interest is attached
to this meeting as it is the first time tbe
grand lodge ever met outside of the capi
tal of the state. It comes hero this year
on account of the celebration of ‘ the
hundredth anniversary of St. Johns
lodge of this city, which takes place this
week.
Addresses of welcome and responses, a
small amount of committee work and re
ports are the only features to-night. The
regular business sessions begin to-morrow.
A WATCH COMPANY HARD UP.
Sureties Upon *60,000 of Its Obliga
tions Secure a Receivership.
Columbus, 0., Jan. 2.—Last evening the
Columbus Watch Company's property
was placed in the hands of Philip H.
Bruck, as receiver, upon application of
C. T. Pfaff and Louis Liudenberg, who
say they are sureties upon about $60,000
of obligations the company must soon
meet, and it has no funds to meet them
with. The total assets of the concern are
about $400,000. The liabilities are $250,-
000.
MINISTERS KNOCK OUT A BALL.
They Raise *I.OOO as the Result of An
Offer to Abandon It.
Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 2.—There is
great excitement in social and church cir
cles. A charity ball has been arranged
for to-morrow night. Some ministers de
nounced it. The ball committee proposed
to one of the ministers to abandon the
ball and pay SI,OOO to charity if he would
raise a similar amount. The ministers
combined this morning and raised the
money before 10 o’clock.
Three Killed by An Explosion.
Boston. Jan. 2.—Three were killed and
several injured by the premature ex
plosion of a blast at Townserfd and Wash
ington streets in the Koxbury district this
morning.
TOWNS FIRED BY RIOTERS
A Third of Campo Bello, in Sicily. Laid
in Ashes.
The Prisoners Released By the Mob
During: the Progress of the Fire—All
the Fublio Buildings Except the
Town Hall, and Many Private Dwell
ings Burned—Half a Dosen Build
ings Burned st Salemi.
Home, Jau. 2.—Dispatches received
from Sicily to-day show that the anti-tax
movement has made groat progress in the
province of Trapani.
Several days ago, the discontent in
Campo Bello, a town of 6,000 inhabitants
near Trapani city, had become so threat
ening that the town council passed a res
olution abolishing the wheat octroi. As
a protest against this action the millers
refused to reduce the price of flour, and
the bakers announced an increase in the
price of bread.
A MOB ON THE MARCH.
When these measures became known
yesterday morning, about 1,000 men and
fifty or more women of the working class
gathered from the town and the surround
ing country and began marching through
the streets. The police who tried to dis
perse them were put to flight. The riot
ex’s set fire to all the public buildings ex
cept the town hall. From these build
ings the fire spread to private houses.
While a large district was in flames the
mob left the owners and officials alono to
fight the fire, marched to the prison and
took it by storm. All the prisoners wore
liberated.
The’soldiers, who had been confined in
their barracks, were driven out by the
fire and then turned their attention to
saving the rest of the town. They were
very forbearing and did not fire or use
their bayonots upon the mob.
A THIRD OF THE TOWN IN RUINS.
Nearly a third of the town is now in
ruins. Many families that were burned
out walked the streets all last night. The
whole town looks as if it had suffered
from a bombardment. Among the build
ings destroyed were every mill and every
miller’s house in the place.
At Salomi, a town of 15.000 inhabitants,
in the same district with Campo Bello,
tires were started by anti-tax rioters
shortly before dark yesterday, and a
half dozen buildings were burning by 9
o’clock.
FIRES IN OTHER TOWNS.
Fires were set by rioters in several
smaller towns also, and in the early even
ing the whole district %eemed ablaze.
The troops, although provoked by the
rioters repeatedly in Salemi, did not fire.
Several rioters were arrested after a
struggle. A private was shot in the
cheek and a captain In the stomach.
FIVE RIOTERS KILLED.
At Pietra Persia, a town of 11,000 in
habitants, near Caltanisetta, an anti-tax
mob set fire to three public buildings
and tried to get at the rest, but was pre
vented by troops who had been called out
to protect them. The rioters made such
determined uttucks on the military in
their efforts to reach the buildings that
eventually the order to fire was given.
Five persons were killed and many were
wounded by the first volley. The second
volley, fired over the heads of the rioters,
was followed quickly by the dissolution
of the mob.
THREE KILLED AT MARINEO.
The town council at Marineo. near
Palermo, abolished the wheat octroi on
Saturday, but the millers ami bakers,
like thoso in Campo Bello, refused to re
duce their prices. The people rose yes
terday and tried to destroy the town
buildings, but were driven off by the
troops after several stubborn fights, in
which three rioters were killed and sev
eral more were wounded. Troops contin
ued to guard the houses of the millers and
bakers and the public buildings through
out the night.
The communal councillors of Syracuse
have taken steps to quiet the populace by
lowering the wheat tax. The announce
ment of this policy yesterday morning
was received with joy throughout tho
city, and the governor was received with
tremendous enthusiasm when he entered
the theater last night.
READ TO THE CABINET.
The digpatchesfrom Trapani giving de
tails of the rioters in Cam po Belle arrived
during a cabinet council this morning.
They were read first by Premier Crispi,
who at once communicated them to his
colleagues. All the ministers pronounced
the situation in Sicily to be graver than
at any previous period of tho anti-tax
agitation. Several ministers expressed
the opinion that the communal councils,
whose administration had caused the
disorder, ought to be dissolved by tho
government. The appeal of the military
commander of the islands to the patriot
ism of the people is considered in the
ministry, as well as among the people at
large, to be proof of the desperate condi
tion of Sicilian affairs.
DEPUTIES GOING TO THE ISLAND.
Several Sicilian deputies, who have
great influence with the people of their
districts have started for the island to
help in the work of pacification. Pre
mier Crispi. expected until this evening
to go, but the alarming reports received
in the last dispatches caused him to
change his plans. He will not visit Sicily
for the present, as he deem his presence
in Rome as indispensable.
A mass meeting of all classes at
Palermo last evening appointed a deputa
tion to report formally to the government
what reforms were most needed in Sicily,
as the government was but ill informed
by the officials representing it on the
island.
MANY REPORTED KILLED.
Rome, Jan. 8,8 a. m.—Five leading news
papers, in their latest editions, contain
serious news from Sicily, and the Osserv
atore Romana says that many have been
killed, both among the troops and the peo
ple.
The Tribuna says: “It is absurd to de
lude ourselves. No government can hold
terms with disorder. Repression having
become a necessity, it will retard the
dawn of those reforms which we ail in
voke, but which will never be brought by
fires lighted by a furious crowd.”
A TAX COLLECTOR EXECUTED.
London. Jan. 2.—A dispatch from Rome
to the Central News says: “The peasants
in a village in the province of Trapani,
seized a tax collector this morning and
arraigned him before a mock tribunal.
They convicted him of oppression and
ordered that he be shot, the community
applauding. The sentence was executed.
Troops have been sent to the village.”
Bishop McNierney Dead.
, Albany, N. Y., Jan. 2.—Bishop McNier
ney, the well known Catholic prelate,
died here to-night at 8:45 o’clock.
BRITISH SHIPS AT RIO.
Gladstone Says They Have Been as
Well Guarded as Any Others.
London, Jan. 2.—ln reply to s question
asked in the House of Commons to-day
by Arthur Forwood, who is a prominent
ship owner, Mr. Gladstone said that dur
ing the operations at Rio Janeiro, tho
government had been in constant com
munication with the British minister to
Brazil and the senior officer of the British
fleet at Rio. British ships had received
from the British representatives
the same protection that had
been accorded the ships of
other nations by the representatives of
the several powers. The Brazilian in
surgents were not recognized as belliger
ents by Great Britain, and the govern
ment could not undertake to any way in
terfere with tlie quarrel iu progress in
Brazil. Mr. Gladstone concluded by de
claring that he was surprised that such a
question as had been put by Mr. Forwood
should have been asked.
DE GAMA’S NEW MANIFESTO.
(Copyright 1801, by the United Press.)
Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 2. —Admiral
de Gama, commander of the insurgent
fleet in the harbor, published yesterday a
manifesto which was intended to counter
act the effect of his celebrated declara
tion of a month ago in favor of the mon
archy. His declaration has
weakened tho cause of tho
insurgents greatly in the last threo
or four weeks, and has alienated from Ad
mirals Mello and de Gama several officers,
who, before its appcarauce, had been
their trusted friends and allies. Among
the people at large its effects have been
still more unfavorable to the insurgent
cause. Consequently, in his manifesto
yesterday, Admiral de Gama assorted
that his former declaration was not a
monarchist document. This declaration,as
well as other papers attributed to him, he
said in the manifesto of yesterday, had
been altered and printed in falsified
copies.
He had not declared for the monarchy,
but had intended merely to ask the people
of Brazil what form of republican govern
ment they wanted. Other interpretations
of his declaration had not been made in
good faitb.
This last manifesto has fallon flat. The
friends of tho republic regard it as a
passing maneuvre to win support to the
insurgents’ cause. While not gaining for
the insurrection any new republican
friends tho manifesto has disgusted many
of its former supporters, as the monar
chists are thoroughly disgusted with
de Gama’s backdown.
It is quiet and orderly here at present.
There is no shooting in progress.
BP AIN’ 8 AN AROHIBTS.
The Two Who Tried to Blow Up the
Parliament Buildings Sentenced.
Madrid, Jan. 2.—Juan Marie del Boche
and Manuel Ferreira, anarchists who
plotted to blow up the parliamentary
buildings in April, 1892, and the alleged
police agent whom the police disavow,
were found guilty to-day and wore con
demned to seven years, penal servitude
each. Their trial began ou Deo, 27.
THE LYCEUM EXPLOSION j
Santiago Salvador, an anarchist, who
was arrested to-day in Sarragosa, con
tends that he was the sole author and ex
ecutor of the plot to blow up the Lyceum
theater and kill most of the audience.
He says that he, alone, and unaided, in
any way, made the bombs and threw
them, not from the gallery,
but from the pit. He escaped In the
fmnic, he asserts, hid twenty days
ii a house near the principal cemetery in
Barcelona and then went to Toruel, Ara
gon, where be publicly told the story of
his deed. Everybody regarded him us tn
sane, he says, and did not hood his words.
After repeated examinations by the
police, Salvador reiterates this story as
he first told it.
BANK OF ENGLAND SOANDALB.
A Crisis Predicted Unless Thera la a
Change in Its Methods.
London, Jan. 2.—The Investor's Review
publishes an alarmist article on the Bank
of England, in which it makes a some
what severe attack on the governor and
court of the bank. It predicts that un
less a change is make in the bank’s meth
ods of business a financial crisis will be
brought about, compared with which,
the recent Baring failure will be as of
small importance.
The article attacks the bank
with reference to its discount
business. It says that after years of ob
servation the conclusion hus been reached
that the bank does not abide by the rate
of discount fixed by the court, and there
by sustains, at times, some bad losses.
In support of this contention the paper
points out the manner in which the bank
was entangled in the Murrietta failure.
The article more than hints that the
secret facts in connection with the man
agement of the bank are worse than any
yet made public.
MIGUEL’S SCHEME GIVEN UP.
Its Abandonment Will Reduoe the
Budget 40,000,000 Marks.
London, Jan. 2.— A dispatch to the
News from Berlin says: Asa result of the
conference of the emperor with Chancel
lor von Uaprivi, Dr. Miquel, minister of
finances, and Gen. Kchellendorff, minis
ter of war, Dr. Miquel's financial
reform scheme has been partly
abandoned. Dr. Miquel will postpone
the reorganization of the Matrlcular
contribution system, and 40,000,000 marks
less will have to bo raised. This will
enaDle the government to reduce the pro
posed taxes, especially on tobacco and
wine, which releases Chancellor von
Caprivl from his difficult position in re
gard to the conservatives.
Cholera In a Seminary.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 2.—Cholera haa
broken out among the students boarding
at Nicholas seminary. Yesterday the
girls attending the seminary were dis
missed and sent to their homes.
PLUNGER WALTON ASSIGNS.
He Gives Preferences Amounting
to *200,000.
New York, Jan. 2.—F. P. Walton,
known as “Plunger” Walton, assigned
to-day to his brother, Charles Walton.
He gave preferences amounting to $200,-
000. He has been running the Grand
hotel on Broadway.
The preferred creditors named are
Peter A. B. VVidener, Charles E. Warbur
ton, Thomas Dolan, Allen K. Rorke, John
Betz. Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit
Company of Philadelphia, B. S. Curtis, of
Cape May, N. J., Stafford A Whittaker,
Park A Tllford, A. A. Robert A Sons,
estate of George Kemp, the John Sim
mons Company, and Hugh Getty of this
city.
1 DAILY, $lO A YEAH, I
S CENTS A COPY. >
I WEEKLY, $1 25 A YEAR. \
INCOMES MUST PAY A TAX
The Committee Fixes It at 2 Pet
Cent, on All Over $4,000,
An Additional Tax of 10 Cents
a Gallon on Whisky and 3 Cents
a Paok on Playing Cards De
cided On—The Vote In the Com
mittee Stood Six to Five.
Washington, Jan. 3.—A 2 per cent, tax
on incomes above $4,000; an additional
tax of 10 cents a gallon on whiskey and a
tax of 2 cents a pack on playing cards was
the decision reached by the democratio
members of the ways and means commit
tee to-day.
This conclusion was not unexpected, in
asmuch as tho committee have been
known for some time to be evenly di
vided on the proposition to tax incomes,
with Representative Turner, of Georgia*
occupying the only position of doubt.
The committee met at the treasury de
partment this afternoon at 4 o’clock, de
termined to settle the question of an its
come tax before adjournment.
TO YIELD $80,000,000.
It was represented by such of the gen
tlemen as favored the proposition that a
general income tax would yield the
government an annual revenue
of $30,000,000, that, makiug the ex
emptions 14,000, would limit the tax
to a class amply able to afford it, and that
in view of the largo doficit that will be
caused by the reduction in customs duties
there was no alternative but to adopt it.
Some of tho gentlemen who opposed the
tax argued at length that the political
effect would be fatal to the Democratio
party and that it would bo better to limit
the tax to corjiorations only and raise the
additional revenue necessary from other
sources.
Mr. Coekran, of New York, insisted
that an income tax ought to be laid upon
all incomes, whether large or small, and
that any other course was unwise and un
democratic in that it did not fall on all
alike.
THS VOTE 6 TO 8.
When Chairman Wilson put the propo
sition to a vote six of the eleven represen
tatives present voted aye. These were
Messrs. McMillan, Bynum, Tareuey,
Whiting, Bryan and Turner and it wm
carried. The tax applies to the net earn
ings of corporations as well as to private
incomes. It does not, however, apply to
inheritances, although that suggestion
was one of the earliest advanced When
the matter first came up for considera
tion in the committee a month ago.
THE TAX ON WHISKY.
The additional tax of 10 cents a gallon
on whisky includes whisky now in bond.
With a view to make the tax fait as
lightly as possible upon the owners of this
whisky, it was decided to extend tho
bonded period to eight year*. It is now
three years. It was derided that the al
lowance for “outage” shall be limited to
six years. The term “outage" is techni
cally used to express the liquor that U
dost by evaporation and other causes after
its manufacture.
The large revenue arising from the in
'come tax caused the committee to recede
from the tax of 6 cents a pack on playing
cards and reduce It to 2 cents, the more
especially as it wus felt that that maxi
mum tax would prove an embarrassment
to the manufaoturers.
The tax of $1 60 per thousand on cigar
ettes upon which the committee agreed
several weeks ago, was allowed to stand.
TO BE OFFERED AS AN AMENDMENT.
Mr. Wilson, chairman of tbe ways and
means committee, will not present these
revenue features, agreed upon to-day,
formally to the House. He will announce
to-morrow the conclusions reached by the
committee, and will offer the items as an
amendment to the tariff bill when tho
latter comes before tho House. Mr. Wil
son will call up the tariff bill at the con
clusion of tbe morning hour on Wednes
day, and will make a short speech in ex
planation.
Tho chairman is so exhausted with th
labor wliioh the preparation of the bill
has imposed upon him that he is in no
condition of body or mind, as he expressed
it to-uight. to debate the subject. He is
unwilling that the discussion should be
delayed, however, and it is for that rea
son that he will bring it up to-morrow
with a view of disposing of it as quickly
as possible.
WANTS A VOTE ON JAN. 17.
While there is no disposition on the
part of either Mr. Wilson or the demo
cratic majority to prevent the republi
cans from debating the matter fully, it
is the chairman's intention to reach a
vote on tbe bill on Jan. 17. Deducting
Sundays, this will leave the bill before
the House thirteen legislative days.
It Is Mr. Wilson's intention to limit gen
eral debate to five days. The remainder
of the time will be occupied in consider
ing the measure under the five-minute
rule. Night sessions will be held in order
that members who desire may have an
opportunity to speak, but unless tbe pres
ent programme is changed all debate will
be closed on Jan. 17.
At the conclusion of Mr. Wilson’s re
marks to-morrow, Mr. Burrows, of
Michigan, one of the leading republican
members of the committee, will speak in
opposition to tbe bill.
A STREET RAIL WAT HASS UF.
Reorganisation or a Receivership m
Necessity With the Corporation.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 2.—The Atlanta Con
solidated Street Railway Company, own
ing nearly all the valuable franchises of
tbe city. Is in a financial strait that will
more than probably push the property to
tbe wall. A default on the January in
terest on $1,833,000 of bonds has been de
clared, and the bondholders and stock
holders testified that the acceptance of a
plan of reorganization ia tho
only hope of saving the company from a
receivership. Tho bonds are held mostly
by eastern parties, for whom the Old
Colony Trust Company of Boston is trus
tee. They bear 6 per cent, interest.
Under the reorganization plan offered it
Is proposed to give the bondholders 8 per
cent, for 1894 and 1395. and then 5 per
cent. Eighty per cent, of the bondholders
have agreed to the plan, but
90 per cent, is req aired to make it ef
fective. President Hurt believes that the
other 10 per cent, will be secured. The
Consolidated is now running at a loss of
S2OO per day. and has been doing a loosing
business for months past, owing to the
general stagnation of business, which has
shut off revenue because of the suspension
of many manufacturing industries.
Florida’s Methodist Conference.
Jacksonville, Fls., Jan. 2.—The B’lorida
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church south, meets in Palstka. Fla., to
morrow. Bishop Atticus G. Haygood, of
Georgia, will preside. The election of
delegates to the general conference is tka
most important matter to come up.