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XXIII
ARMENIAN
An Eyewitness Describes a Mas¬
sacre by the Turks,
Moslem Women Cheer the
-Butchers at Tneir Work.
The following description of the
massacre of Armenians by Turks nt
Aiutab is lurnif-hod by an eyewitness
of the occurrence:
“All the west and south part of the
city seemed to be in an uproar jerowds
of people rushing in every direction*
The roofs were covere I with excited
men, women and children. The strange
mingling of cries of fear, anger, and
defiance, with occasional pistol and
gun shots, made up an exhibition of
the most fearful tumult and confu¬
sion.
Already troops were hurrying for¬
ward, and soon u company of some
sixty soldier* Wcro stationed iu front
of tbe American Girl’s Seminary, with
pickets out to cover the approaches to
hospital and college*. From our posi¬
tion we could Bee tbe narrow streets
dtnaely crowded with intensely ex¬
cited people. Now and then a rush
was made upou some house or gate.
There was a rally of defenders on the
roofs, among whom women were fore¬
most, using 6tones, club*, and some¬
times guns and pistols, as best they
could. Sometimes the attack was
beaten off, and the assailant withdrew
to organize a new usstmlt. Borne*
times agate or wall was broken down,
aiid then the noise of conflict subsided
and the work of massacring and
plunder began. Later we saw long
lines of people moving off to their
homes, laden with plunder, and later
still the flames and smoke rising from
the burning houses.
“What we heard was the indescrib¬
able roar of the mob, pierced by the
sharp reports 6f pistols and guns,with
now and then shrieks of agony and
fear,and over all and most horrible of
all the loud, shrill‘zullghat,’ vary like
the cry of our Northern loons, pro¬
longed and sharpened, raised by the
Turkish women crowded on the roofs
and cheering on their men to the at-
ack. The massacre and pillage began
in the markets and iu these parts of
•he city where Christian houses stir-
rounded by Moslems neighbors of-
feped easy points of attack. These
places having been looted, the mob
moved ou toward what are known aB
the Christian quarters. Hero the re¬
sistance became more obstinate. In
two of these the old street gates were
still iu use, by shutting which the dis¬
trict enclosed became a small fortified
community, capable of making a very
strong resistauce to an unorganized
mob. Here the assailants were ar¬
rested and beaten off.
“Under such general conditions the
storm of uiob violence raged without
much abatement till the middle of the
afternoon, when the tumult gradually
subsided, and night at last brought
quiet, except in the vicinity of burn*
teg houses, where the uproar went on
tiJl near midnight.
By morning military arrangements
seemed to have been made, which
gave us hope that order would be re¬
stored. Soldiers were posted nt in¬
tervals around the Christian quarters
of tbe city. Very early in the morn¬
ing of the 17th crowds of villagers
were seen hurrying toward the city
from every direction, evidently eager
to share the plunder of another day
of riot* The soldiers met aud turned
them them back back, and aurt even even beat beat some some of ot
them and chased them off. Thev,
however, soon returned in mere,,sing
numbers, and being joined by friends
from the city, became very turbulent,
A bruit noon through ft field class 1
could be seen an officer, apparently
captain, who rode forward into the
mob and addressed them at some
length. Immediately, without any
show of opposition from any one, the
whole crowd came pell-mell with the
.AiJim-ii so.diersmto inrn ihfi the eitv city. At At IRa the same sstt>a
time much tbe same thiag occurred in
tbe northwest part of tbe city.
“Then fer aa hour chaos was let
loose again and the horrors of the
previous !h. dav were repeated, only that
Christian, were prepared, and be-
mg in a strong position, were gener-
ally able to beat off their assailants
At one point of the line ft defence
' .... s e „ Moslem " V' houses ’ and the
* '
the bravelv aud , heartilv , joined . .
men *
the defence ... tbeu ... neigh .
m vuta ors.
The gallantry of this act was marred,
however, by tbe demand which thev
ur.de the next day for . large aum of
money for this service. These meu
aetuallv demanded and received "' 35
apiece ^ lor this neighborly help. ,
“When rwri it •* u became evident that the
mob could not force their way into
the places held by the besieged, the
•cidiera, perhaps having received new
The Toccoa News.
orders, resumed a show of activity,
fired a few shots into the air, drove
the mob out of the city, and dispersed
them. As nearly as can be judged,
the figures will be about 200 killed
and 400 wounded; nearly all
Christian shops and 250 houses were
pilaged, and a considerable num-
ber of them were burned. ci,. mo
1,000 men who in the first panic took
refuge in khans and mosques are still
held as prisoners, for what purposes
can only be surmised.”
A Remarkable Horse.
“1 had a horse. ” said an old army
man, “that belonged once to the
Seventh Cavalry, but he had the T.C. ’
brand under his mane, so he was out
of service. Inspected and condemned.
He was a regular old plug, but he was
all I could get to go hunting on, so I
took him- I rode away out into the
plains from the fort, and I saw a
bunch of antelope. Finally, I got
off the horse and dropped the reins
on the ground, expecting the horse to
stand there until I came back. I
started off toward the antelope, and
was sneaking along to get a shot,
when I looked around, and I’ll be
blamed if that brute of a horse
hadn’t started off as tight as he could
lope.
“ ‘Well,’ says I, ‘I guess I’m in for
a six-mile tramp home. I cursed that
horse to myself for a while and then I
went on. Pretty soon I looked up,
and I’m blessed if there wasn’t that
horse over on the other side of that
bnuch of antelope. ‘Well, now,’ says
I, ‘I’d like tokuowwkat he thinks
he’s up to, anyhow.’ Pretty soon he
began to circle around on the other
side, and the antelope saw him and
started toward me. I caught on at
once, and I lay down and waited. The
old horse cut up the most surprising
autics out there, and all the time he
kept working those antelope toward
me. By and by they got in range,
and I got two—good luck it was, too.
Yon see that horse was an old Indian
hunting pony and he had been trained
to do that wav. Well, I went back to
the post, and everybody wanted to
know how it happened I had such
good luck, but I didn’t tell them.
A few days days after I took that
same horse out after prairie chickens.
It was the time of the year when the
chickens w r ere flying, and I was ridiug
along when all of a sudden the critter
stopped short, braced himself up and
waited—for what I didn’t know. But
in a second a couple of chickens flew
up ahead of me, und I was so sur¬
prised I didn’t shoot. ‘Well,’ says I,
‘I’ll be switched. Here’s a horse
that’s not only a hunting horse, but is
a regular pointer dog, too.’ And he
was. I got my gun ready, and the
next time he stopped I was right ou
hand and dropped n bird, Well, no
sooner did he see the bird fall than ho
gallopped right off to where it fell,
and all I had to do was to reach off
and pick it up. He was a great horse,
I tell you, and I got lots of good
huntiug with him. -^Field and Farm.
Told by a Detective.
‘I disgusted . few , days , at .
was a ago
a case I worked up,’’ remarked a de-
teotive.
••A young l»d, .ho .as possessed
of considerable money and a number
of .. jewels . sent . ior . ohe
me. hacl been „
robbed of some diamonds valued at
several hundred dollars- I finally
found all but one pin, r thev having
“
been pawned. I obtained „ a descrip- ,
tion of the man who borrowed money
upon them, ,, , but . t for ^ several , weeks i
could not locate him. When I did his
landlady said that he had left that
morning and was going to Baltimore.
I watched the depot and was soon re*
warded by seeing the man step «ut of
aback. I seized his arm and said,
‘*°u «. arrested.’ -What for?’ he
asked in a tone that showed he was
not muoa surprised, bn- greatly
frightened. ‘That will be explained
station, I repliea. There was
a feminine shriek from tne hack, and,
glancing b * into the hack I saw it was
my lair oueni. • 3 ueea
married and were starting on tneir
wedding trip. I took in the situation
“ ‘ gknCP ,' inl1 ' hen , 1
^ poweriess under the new order ot
1 mi J I 8ee now that you are
not the man I want, and let him go.
Th h b eean to bluster ' and takino
j hjm to uni ) er8Umi
f ' of ... ... , . .
tnew “ !9 t “‘ J § irl t0 P a ?
the expenses of his courtship, and he
quieted . . , down , very suddenly. 3 a , » xkt V
j DC t on Star.
Tne Poet puc. T or r runty. P„r it v ~
Crnmmer-That is tbe poet La.her-
brush. He is a grea t advocate ot
.vnritv! P nT5 ^'
Gilleland—Indeed! I don t re-
member seeing any of bis work. ,
Crammer_You certain! v must. He
writes soap . v advertisements. —Gaioi^o rhiflkv o
Record.
TOCCOA, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1896.
LATEST NEWS
IN BRIEF.
GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS.
Important Happenings, Both Home
and Foreign, Briefly Told.
Southern News Items.
C apt. j F> j olmson> candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Gov¬
ernor in Alabama, has declined to ac¬
cept the challenge from Hon. R. H.
Clarke for a joint discussion.
The grand lodge of Tennessee Ma¬
sons have issued a circular calling on
all members of the order to unite with
them in endeavoring to maintain peace
between this and other nations.
Mr. V. E. McBee has been appoint¬
ed General Superintendent of the rail¬
roads comprising the Seaboard Air
Lsne system, with headquarters at
Portsmouth, Ya.
At a meeting of the executive com¬
mittee of the Woman’s Tennessee Cen¬
tennial board, a resolution was adopt¬
ed under which the wives of all gov¬
ernors in the United States were made
State centennial commissioners.
At New Orleans, La., while a barrel
of tar was being lowered into tbe hold
of the steamship European it slipped
from its fastenings and fell upon Jos¬
eph Seymour. a screwman, breaking
his neck and killing him almost in¬
stantly.
In joint Assembly the General As¬
sembly of South Caro'ina re-elected Y.
J. Pope associate justice of the State
Supreme Court for a period of eight
years. Speaker Ira B. Jones, of the
House of Representatives, was elected
an associate justice also for a term of
six years, filling the new place recently
created.
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Northern News Notes.
Lancaster, Pa., reports several cases
of warehouses burned by incendiaries.
The members of the New York cot¬
ton exchange voted in favor of estab¬
lishing a clearing house., by 157 ayes to
56 nays.
Mrs. Edmund Tucker was choked to
death in Yonkers, N. Y., by a tramp
whom she refused to give money. Her
husband was away at the time.
The large boiler in the works of the
Holidaysburg, Pa., Iron and Nail
Company exploded, killing five men
and injuring 25, three of whom
will die.
Harry M. Fow ler, of Boston, has ad¬
mitted that he has forged checks and
otherwise embezzled money to the
amount of $50,000. Many New Eng¬
land banks are losers,
—Judge Payne, of the Circuit Court
of Chicago, created a sensation by the
announcement that he had full proof
that one of the commissioners of Cook
county had accepted a bribe of $300
in connection with a murder case be¬
fore the grand jury.
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Foreign.
It is said that Russia is preparing to
occupy Armenia with her armed forces
iu the spring.
~\Ticnni!*.npn.i* .uisceiuaeoas. . _
An attempt was made to arrest 26 of
tue Cuban finbusterers who had i , es-
caped from the steamer Hawkins, but
the birds had flown.
__ ]So to . the late . t». Bishop , rr
good will successor be Hay-
chosen until 1S98 when
the quadrennial A, session of the Meiho-
dist , Conference . . meets , in . Baltimore. -d
The congressional appointment act
of nf 1 lbJo SO") linn has been been declared declared uneonstitii- i.nconstitu
tional by the State Supreme Couit of
Indiana. The act of 1893 was also de-
dared void $nd the next election will
be held under the old not of 1885.
J
zueh* . is now ready, as she , has ever
been since 1844, to Bubmit the whole
question of boundary without condi-
lions or reservations to impartial and
friendly arbitration.
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liLLtUKapHib IICK8.
Louis . Magnus of Quincy, . Ill., 75
old, was frozen to death in his
room '
Lo okovi Mountain lnn „„ soU
der a court decree. It is said that a
syndicate is securing control of all the
mountain hotel property.
^ Jhe ^iinois Prohibitionist Spr.ngBeld Oonven- on
ril8 .
A big celebration was held over the
0 p eE iug of the Demopolia, Ala., coal
fields.
Barton Peak, of Peoria, HI., was
bound to a tree near Lamar, Mo., by
robbers and remained there three day. J
hAfnrp Deiore helr> neip c-aniA came.
A bill has been introduced for the
location of a National Park on the bat-
U‘'Sda ■* Vicksburg, Miss.
Ex-Minister Scruggs say. ttatth.
Veneruelans are distrustful of Eng-
land s proposal to arbitrate the bound-
ary question.
The latest test vote in the New Jork
Senate showed a majority of ten m
favor of the consolidation of New York
and Brooklyn.
^ Hr. Alfred L. Kennedy, -
a man of
considerable scientific attainments as a
bnrD ? d
to death during a fire in ms room m
«noffice budding iu Phri.delphia
Resolutions nave been introduced
, the Virginia and South Carolina Leg-
ID
islatureti to ask the co-operation of the
various vaiious States oia.ba iu in i.un taking ntps steps to iu n’tce P “; ce
a statue in the old Mali of Represent*-
tives at Washington of Geo. Peabody,
who donated the Peabody fund to
“ ol *fhern ,, schools shortly after the war. ___
THE FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
■ ■„
A Synopsis of the Proceedings of Both
Houses.
THE SEX ATE.
Three speeches were made in the Senate
Tuesday on the House bond bill with th«
free coinage substitute, reported from the
committee on finance, but no action was tak¬
en. memorial Mr. Turpie, the of Indiana, in presenting a
horrors, indulged on subject of the Armenian
in a fierce invective againsl
the Sultan and Mohammedanism, The Mon¬
roe doctrine was discussed by Mr. Thurston.
The debate on the bond bill with its free
coinage substitute followed. At it® conclu¬
death sion, resolutions expressive of regret at the
of Frederick Riemann, late rep resent a-
tive-eleet from Illinois, were presented by
Mr. Palmer, and agreed to
After the usual opening ceremonies in the
Senate on Wednesday, came a concurrent
resolution reported from the committee on
foreign relations requesting the President oi
the United States to vise his good offices with
the government of Spain to have belligerent
rights extended to the Cuban revolution¬
ists. The resolution went to the calendar.
The committee on foreign relations algo re¬
ported back the resolution introduced on
the 21sf instant by Mr. Call, with an amend¬
ment President striking out the sentence requiring the
to demand the immediate release
of Mark E. Rodriguez, Louis Somellan and
his son — American citizeD3 arrested in
Havana. The resolution simply requests
the President to report the facts as to such
arrests. The resolution was placed on the
calendar. Senator Tillman addressed the
jSenate on the bond bill, and after his speech
the Senate adjourned.
The proceedings of the Senate oa Thurs¬
day were dull and commonplace in contrast
with the excitement which the speech of Mr.
fTiiiman created the day before. Most of th8
morning hour was consumed in a dis¬
cussion upon the joint resolution order¬
ing the purchase and distribution ol
eeeds by the Secretary of Agriculture
(on The which no action was taken).
urgency reported deficiency back appropriation bill
was from the committee ou
appropriations. This bill carries an inorease
over the House bill aggregating $19,50,664.
The only item of reduction is the decrease of
$400 in additional compensation to a clerk in
Senate the Department of Justice. Among the
amendments is one paying Gen.
Matt. W. Ransom, minister to Mexico,
the sum of $2 806.48, that being the
August salary due from July 1st to
28th, which was withheld owing
to the irregularity of his appointment.
T‘ e Senate also gives the Secretary of the
Treasury the 25 temporary expert money
Counters for whioh he asked to enable him to
catch up with the currency business. Mr.
Allen introduced a bill to prohibit the pur¬
chase or use by tbe government of any wares
or raanufaeturt-s made in any penitentiary,
workhouse or other prison by convict labor.
Referred to committee on education and
labor.
The Senate on Friday continued the con¬
sideration of the House bond bill with the
finance committee free coinage substitute.
The end of the long debate on the bill wa3
sighted when a unanimous agreement was
made that after an evening session to be de¬
voted to clearing off belated speeches, a
recess shall be taken till 11 a. ra.. Saturday
and that then, after Mr, Morrill
shall have been beard, the discussion
shall go on under the five minute rule until
2 p. m., when the final vote is to be taken.
The discussion of this bill consumed the
whole day,
The long struggle in the Senate over the
question of the free coinage of sliver ter¬
minated at 3 p. m, Saturday, in victory of
the friends of silver. The great fight was
over the finance committee’s substitute to
the House bond bill. Almost the entire day
was consumed in the consideration of the
bill. Its title was changed so as to make it
read; "To rescore the coinage of silver dol¬
lars and for other purposes.” There was a
oriel executive session and the Senate ad¬
journed.
THE HOUSE.
In the House Monday the army appropri¬
ation bill for the coming fiscal year was re¬
ported. A bill was passed granting right of
Arkansas way through the Choctaw nation to the
& Ch ctaw Railroad Com¬
pany, The Senate free coinage substi¬
tute for the House bond bill was
received and referred, under the rules,
io the committee on ways and means.
A message from the President asking a tea*
sonable appropriation for the families of
tour Italians killed last spring in Colorado
was yef er j<jd to the committee on appropria-
;* !ng on law f’ A so bail as to was permit ofiered national amending banks exist- to
is-
.., J0 curr encv to tne par value of bonds
deposited. banks When currency is issued to the
the Secretary of the Treasury is di-
reeted to redeem and cai cel a corresponding
j, gal mount tenders of legal tenders. Should no le-
tio then be presetted for re<tomp-
md “- cancel the note3 Secretary direct* d to redeem
issued under the Sherman
carr y out t v ie provisions of this bill
-h 3ent e Secretary gold bond, is authorized to issue a 3 per
iold * oceasion payable in 20 years, to be
luces ^ from requires. The bill also re-
1 per cent, to one-fourth of 1 per
lent, the tax on national bank circulation,
The diplomatic and consular appropriation
5SWSS
ternational conference; t
izing marine and author-
officers and soldiers of the army who
are members of the Sons of Veterans to wear
badge of the society on occasions of pub-
the°d£th 2? th^lateSedjrtok
Riemann representative-elect of the eigh-
teenth Illinois district, made by his successor,
Mr. Hadley, of Illinois, the House passed
the usua Resolution of regret and adjourned.
^ resolution called up in the House
Wednesday, Rochester donating G. A. R. condemned cannon to
a amendments extending post, brought out so
many the like
privilege to other Grand Army posts, that
StmmuS ''Se’r'egTlar* °oS« w^
demanded, and the first call of committees
hourTr^^
The consideration of a bill reported
^etory £-£ t M1?n°SnS U ?o BKS
years, was begun, but a vote to order the
§evlloJed l tee*''lack ^uorum^in^he
House and adjournment was taken,
to of^the' 1 Btouse in its 6 two four’s session
Thursdav. The committee on agriculture
reported the agricultural Columbia appropriation bill,
and the District cf appropriation
bm forthe year ending June 80tb, 1897. The
elections committee No. 3, reported its
unanimous finding that David Culberson,
nttyTourS Tex-
£ Cwsrg^from the'eontS the tour* wb™
g of he gave
no ticetotheclerk;andaresolutiontothatef-
feet SSSoSSt'S^ was agreed to. The same committee re-
thal and Crowley, fromthetenthlexasdis-
trict. Friday Mr. Rosenthal will be granted
the privilege oi the floor for auhourtopre-
sent his side of the case. A resolution was re-
ported from the committee on inter-state and
foreign commerce andwas agreed*© asking the
hijn t o investigate the Nicaragua canal.
' £
exi ^ w 0 i the soldier s dea.h proof of his
unexplained absence for seven yews was
passed- Tiie House Friday committee of the
m
whole entered upon the consideration of the
blil Columbia ma kiEg for appropriations the year ending for June tne District 30th 1897. of
Much of the time was : spent to discmsimg
the provision competition reported by the the committee and electric for
opening to gas
lighting of the city 'was of Washington, eacn ex
of which is now. it asserted, practically
provision a monopoly. the Objection was made to the
isting on ground that it changed ex¬
law. and therefore had no place on the
made appropriation bill; such provision should he
in a separate bill. The chairman of
the committee of the whole ruled that
the provision was a change of exist¬
ing law. r.nd it was stricken out.
Before finally disposing of the lighting
schedules of the bill; the committee rose and
the House took a recess until 8 o’clock for
the consideration of private pension bills.
The fallowing were passed earlier in the day:
Authoring the Secretary of the Treasury to
exclude from the operations of the internal
revenue law, except as to the payment of
taxes, brandies made from all fruits, as well
as that made from apples, peaches or grape*
ing as provided the in the present tariff law; chang¬
time of holding District and Circuit
Courts in the northern division of the eastern
district of Tennessee;joi t resolution to perimt
the Society for Christion Endeavor to use
White l ot Just south of the White House,
during its National convention in Washing¬
ton next July: authorizing the Secratary of
the Navy to appoint ex-Naval Cadets Ryan,
Morris and Weils as assistant engineers. The
contested election case of Rosenthal vs.
Crowley, * from the tenth Texas district, was
settled in favor of the sitting member
the (Crowley), upon the elections unanimous report of
committee on No. 3. Mr.
Rosenthal did not avail himself of the
privilege accorded him. of addressing the
House for an hour In his own behalf.
The House spent most of Saturday in the
consideration of the District of Columbia ap¬
committee propriation bill foreign without concluding it. The
on affairs reported favor¬
ably the resolution to ask the President to
send to the House the correspondence with
the German government relative to the re¬
fusal to permit American Insurance compa¬
nies to do business in the Gorman Empire,
and it was agreed to.
WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS,
Susan B. Anthony Again President of tba
National Association.
At the twenty-eighth animal convention
of the National Woman Suffrage Associalion
just held in Washington, „„„ 300 delegates , , at-
2 lSBSl
’1 8 $
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'W? •V
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6USAK B. AVTHOXY.
(Re-elected President of the National Wo¬
man Suffrage Association.)
tended and Susan B. Anthony was unani¬
mously re-elected President for the ensuing
year.
History of the Movement.
Woman suffrage, or rather the agitation
for it, had its birth in 1840, along about the
time two other great American questions,
temperance and anti-slavery, had their
origin. Susan B. Anthony became interested
in the movement and in 1850 gave up her
work as a s -hoot teacher to devote her time
and talents to the struggle for recognition
of her doctrines. Her work in that direction
made her famous. She lectured in nearly
every 8tate in the Union, interested other
women of talent and executive ability in her
cause, and to-day as a result there Is a per¬
fect organization of tbe equal suffragists,
with perfectly organized clubs in every city
of importance in every part of the continent .
Certain States have recognized to a degree
the rights of women to suffrage, as. for in-
stance, Connecticut and New York. The
Legislatures in these States in 1893 passed
laws permitting women to vote for school
officers. The right was used to a limited ex¬
tent, though a Supreme Court Judge decided subse¬
quently elected to New York, that
the act was unconstitutional.
In Ohio and Iowa women are permitted to
vote in schools elections, and to Wyoming
women vote in all contests, even for the
Presidential electors. In Kansas women ex¬
ercise the suffrage largely In municipal elec¬
tions. Women formerly voted in the Ter¬
ritory became of Washington, State and when the Terri¬
tory a the question was de¬
feated by a separate vote of the State
^lectors and the right taken away. Women
also voted in the Territory of Utah until ex¬
cluded by the Edmunds law. But in some
form, mainly as to taxation or the ejection
of school officers, woman suffrage existed to
a limited way in Arizona, Colorado, Dela¬
ware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,
Massachusetts, Nebraska, Michigan, Minnesota, Mon¬
tana, New Hampshire, New Jer¬
sey, North Dakota, Oklahoma. Oregon,
South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Washington
and Wisconsin.
TO SEAT DUPONT, OF DELAWARE.
Senate Committee on Elections Favor His
Contest by a Strict Party Vote.
The United States Senate Committee on
Privileges and Elections considered the case
of Henry A. Dupont, of Delaware, and theD,
by a strict party vote, ordered a report favor¬
able to the seating cf Mr. Dupont as sueces-
sor to Senator Higgins. Those voting in the
affirmative were Senators Mitchell, of»aregon;
Hoar, Chandler, Burrows and Pritchard,
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COLOXEI. HEXET A. CtTPOXT.
(Elections Committee decided to seat him as
a Delaware Senator.)
and those In the negative Senators(Gray.
Pugh, Turpie and Palmer. Mr. Mitchell
was instructed to prepare the report, which
,iil te submitted io the Senate. Tne mat-
er b QeH led up an l disposed of before
he vote is taken on the Tariff bill. The
Republicans aimounced that Dupont would
cer tainly be seated.
D011V1IH TBEWRIfi
Investigating Committee Finds Val¬
kyrie’s Owner Was Mistaken,
CUP VICTORY FAIRLY WON,
Evidence Proves the Allegations of Frand
A sain st Owners of the Defender io Have
Been "Based Upon a Mistake*'—Com¬
plete Exoneration of the Chaises
Made Against Thera by the Earl. ^
New York, February 8.—The famous
case of Lord Dunraven against O. Ol¬
iver Iselin and the yacht fraternity of this
ountry has been decided, and Dunraven has
ost. The special committee whioh was ap¬
pointed by the New York Yacht Club, at the
request of Mr. Iselin, to probo the charges
which were made by the Earl of Dunraven
in a published statement, and reiterate 1 by
him in a speech before a number of his
countrymen, submitted its report at the spe¬
cial meeting called for that purpose. The
report fender was a complete vindication of the De¬
Every syndicate and a victory for Mr. Iselin.
has point in the great amount of testi¬
mony been carefully considered bv the
committee in its report, and 60 well has
every important feature been treared that It
gives a good idea of the proceedings, even
to those who have not time to read the great
amount of testimony whim* was taken in the
case. The committee consisted of ex-Minis-
ister E. J. Phelps, J. Pierpont Morgan, ex-
Secretary W. C. Whitney, George L. Rives
and Captain A. T. Mahan, of the Navy.
After carefully reviewing tbeevidence pre-
sented in tbe investigation, the report says:
"Upon the a careful consideration of the whole
case, committee are unanimously of the
opinion that the charge made by Lord Dun¬
raven, and which has been the subject oj
this investigation, had its origin in mis¬
take; that it is not only not sustained
by evidence, that all but is completely disproved;
and toe circumstances indicated
by entirely him as giving rise to his suspicions are
and satisfactorily explained. They
deem it therefore, but just to Mr. Iselin an t
the gentlemen concerned with him, as wtll
as the officers and crew of the Defender,
that the committee should express emphati¬
cally their oonviction that nothing whatever
occurred in connection with the race in
question that casts the least suspicion upon
the integrity or propriety of their conduct.
"And the committee are not willing to
doubt that if Lord Dunraven had remained;
throughout the investigation, so as to have
heard all the evidence that was introduced,
he would, of his own motion, have with¬
drawn a charge that was so plainly founded
upon mistake, and that has been so unfor¬
tunate iu the publicity it has attained and
the feeling to which it has given rise.”
On morion the e.ub deferred final action
until February 13. This was done to give
Lord Dunraven time to apologize. Should
be fail to do so it was believed that the club
would expel him.
SALISBURY ON MONROE DOCTRINE.
An Astonishing Speech Made by the Brit¬
ish Premier.
The banquet oljthe Non-Conformist Union¬
ist Association, at the Hotel Metropole, Lon¬
don, was the occasion for an address by the
Marquis of Salisbury, Prime Minister and
Secretary of State tor Foreign Affairs. In
the course of his remarks he said, with ref¬
erence to Venezuela:
"I have been held up as the denouncer of
the Monroe doctrine. As a matter of fact,
although the Mouroe doctrine is no part of
international lav, my despatch to Mr.
Olney, the Secretary of State of the United
States, supported it as a rule distinct of policy in the
strongest and most terms.
But when I stated in that despatch,
and reiterate now that, as a rule of policy,
we are the entire advocates of the Monroe
doctrine, we mean the Monroe doctrine as
President Monroe understood it. (Cheers.)
in that sense you will not find anymore con-
obllga-
tion to protect the Armenians did not re-
quire her to use anv physical that measure what-
ever in their behalf. All could pos-
sibly be expected of her under the terms ot
the treatv was that she should use her
moral influence in support of the pro-,
posed reforms. Great Britain really was
powerless, in spite of all her resonrees, to do
more than had been done. Nobody coud help
the perishing Christians except the Sultan,
:md it was not right to believe that he was a
party to the cruel!ies or fair to expect him to
do anything s in such a short time as two
‘
mouths.
Ont of tlie Common Run.
In battle only one ball out of eighty-flve
takes effect.
On a peace footing the regular army ol
China comprises nearly 400,000.
The railroad mileage in the State of Massa¬
chusetts last year was 2114.4, a decrease
from the previous year of 3.7 miles.
A San Francisco (Cal.) the man other bougat day, and a tur¬
key raised in Oregon on
dressing it found 89 worth of gold in its
craw.
Amadeo Chaves, million of New of Mexico, land to Armenian offers to
give half a acres
refugees, if they will live upon and culti¬
vate it.
Thirty-two European Kings and Princes
have borne the name of Albert. It is of An¬
glo-Saxon derivation, and meao3 "all
bright.”
A Vermont hunter the other before day shot a
pan ridge out of a tree, but he could
pick it up a hidden fox grabbed it ana made
his escape.
An engineer on tbs Midland Railway, Eng¬
land. was recentlv blown off his engine by
the wind while going at full speed. He
landed unhurt, and walked to the next sta¬
tion to report.
Singing clubs of seven Nationalities, all
residents of Chicago, he da competitive sing¬
ing match therethe other night. There were
Swedes, GermanE, Welsh, Swiss, Norwegians,
Poles and Americans.
James Newman and wife, old residents of
Dakota County. Minnesota, coal went to seep in
a close room, where a fire was burning
in a stove. Betore morning they were both
asphyxiated by the gas.
"Arizona Charley” asked a friend to shoot
a snowball off his head at Hot Springs, Ark.,
other day The friend’s hand was not as
steady as usual, the and Charley is laid up with
a bad wound in forehead.-
Docs It Mean 3Iore Trouble.
The Montreal Star's special London cable
Lord Salisbury and Right Hon. Mr.
have been considering the re-
of the inquiries into records here
on behalf of British Columbia, which
that the United States has no right un-
the Anglo-Russiar. treaty of 1825 to three
acres of land opposite Prince of
Island on the Pacific coast, which is
high strategic and commercial value, and
the United States has usurped since
Alaska. The records of the dispatches
Bagot to Lord Canningshow that Clarence
and not Portland Inlet is the correct
It is suggested that the Canadian
of the Alaskan boundary commis¬
have been misled into assuming the
of the United States’ assumption.
NO. 15.
FREE SILVER BILL WINS.
The United States Senate Passes the
Substitute for the Bond Bill.
THE TEXT OF THE MEASURE,
There Was a Sharp Debato Before the Vote
—Gorman Tried to Side-Track th» Sub¬
stitute, but Free Coln»~o Had the Ma¬
jority-Bill Sent to the House o:' Rep¬
resentatives for Concurrence.
TT*SHrf<3TOS, D. C.. February 4—The
long struggle in the United States Senate
over the question of the frea coinace of sil¬
ver terminated at S p. ir>. Saturday in a vic¬
tory of the friends of silver. The great fight
was over the Finance Committee’s substitute
to the House Bond bill. At 2 o’clock the dis¬
cussion was closed, in accordance with the
unanimous consent arrived at, and the effect
of that agreement was to exclude from con¬
sideration ihe numerous amendments of
which notice had been given from time to
time since the reporting of the bill.
Much dismnoi ntment a nd bad feel i ng arose
from this <x n luston, which seemed to take by
surprise the Senators who offered or favored
those amendments. Trior to that point of
time, however, Mr. Morrill (Ren.. Yt.)
had offered an amendment reserving to
the Government the seignorage on the sil¬
by ver coined, and ihe Senate bad rejected it
a vote of 33 yeas to 44 nays. Mr. Gor¬
man (Dem., Md.) ba t also, after a short
sneneb. mov’d to lav the substitute on
the table, and that moiiou was defeated—
yeas, 34; nays. 48. Then the concluding
votes were taken, the free silver substitute
being adopted by a vote of 43 to 34, an ! the
bill, thus amended, pa*?.e l bv a vote of 4'2 to
Mr. Mills ohamwl from yea to niy and
this was the only difference from thedotailed
vote on Mr. Gorman’s early motion to lay on
the table.
The vote in detail, according to parties, Is
as fellows;
TOIL MEE COINAGE,
Penn.; Republicans—Brown, Utah; Cam-won,
Cannon. Utah; Carter, Mon.: Chirk,
Wvo.: Mantle, Mon.:Mitehell, Ore.; Perkins,
Cal,; Brine hard. N. C.; Pettigrew. S. Dak.;
Warren. Shoup, I Wvo,; ’aho; Wilson, Squire, Wash.; Teller, Col.;
Wash.
B<*rry, Democrats—Bacon, Blanchard,La.: Ga.; Bate". Tonn,;
Ark.; Cal'. Fla.; Chil¬
ton, M Tex.;Croswell,Mo.; Harris,Tenn.; Daniel, Ya.; George,
Pascoe, S3.; Irby, S. C.: .Tone 3 , Ark.;
Turpie.Ind.: Fla.; Pugh. Ala.; R’ach. N. Dak.;
hall, Mis?.; Wbite, Vest, Mo.; Cal. Yoorhees,Ind.; Walt¬
Jona=>, Populists—Allen, Nev.; Kyle, M>ss.; Butler, Pefler. N. Kan.; C.;
S. Dak.;
Stewart, Nev.; Tillman, 8 C.
Total for free coinage, 42.
AGAIKST FHEE COINAGE.
Burrows. Republicans—AllisOn, Mg. Chandler, la.; H.; Baker, Kan.;
; N. Davis, Minn.;
Elkins. W. Ya.; Frye, Me.; Gallinger, N. H.;
Mass.; Gear, la.; Hale, M*\; Hawley, Conn.; Hoar,
lan. Mich.; Lodge, Morrill, Mass .t McBride, Nelson. Ore.; McMil¬ Piatt,
Yt.: Minn.;
Neb.; Conn.; Proctor, Vt.: 3herman, O.; Thurston,
Wetmore. R. I.
Va.; Democrats—Caffery, Gibson. La.: Faulkner. DcL; W.
Hill. Md.; Gorman. ML; Gray, Mills,
N. Y.; Lindsay, Ky.: Martin. Ya.;
Tex.; Mitchell, Wts.; Murohy, N. Y.; Palmer,
Ill.; Yilas, Wis.
Total against free coinage, 35.
Pairs—First name against tree silver—Aid-
rich with Hnnsbrougb, Brice with Wolcott,
Cullom with Blackburn, Quay with Morgan.
Sewell with Gordon, Smith with Dubois. It
is Claimed that if Gordon ha i been present
and voted the free silver majority would have
been two less, or five instead of seven.
The bid was sent to the House of Repre¬
sentatives, where, if tbe substitute bo non-
concurred in, a conference committee, rep¬
resenting the two Houses, will be appointed
to go through the lorin of trying to bring
about an agreement.
BUILDINGS FOR THI CONVENTIONS.
Democrats Select Chicago Coligsenra, Re¬
publicans the Exposition Building.
It was *«*** ^ the Halloa. D.«-
cratic Convention in the Cousseum, m Chi-
cago, Ill. The Republican Convention will
b ”° held la the Exposition 1 Building, in St.
Louis, Mo.
A despatch from Chicago says: Toe sup¬ ,
committee of the National Demoera ic Corn-
mittee decided that the Cohssenm w-m.i be
the best P l aee in Cfor th<
holding of the National Demoera.io Con-
vention, and arrangements for its comple-
tion will, therefore be hurried up. the con-
factors being under bonds of 854.000 to
comp ete it by May 1 next. Some month?
,Rgo, 'had reached during the a storm, first the structure, almost which
story and was
ready for the roof, was blown down, and
since then little or nothing has been done to
.rebuild it.
i A St. Louis telegram states: It has boon
Iflnaily tional decided to hold the Republican Na¬
Convention in the Exposition Build¬
ing. The northern portion of the building
will be remodeled at an expense of about
A30.000 and will insure a satisfactory ball foi
convention purposes. The hall vill be
I bo unded on three sines by St. Charles, Thir¬
teenth and Fourteenth streets, thus
.securing proper light ana ventilation.
Some of the local committee were in favor
of erecting a wigwam, but at a meering of
the Business Men s League this was decided
impracticable, as the time is too short to
which to build a sa isfactory structure.
Mi’^or Mention.
The Homeopathic Society of Chicago bn
passed r'-solutions denouncing tl nnti-
toxine treatment dangerous of diphtheria, the claiming tuat
its use is the mortality. to patients, a no nos
increased
Sturgeon fishing is unusually good in th-
Columbia River this season, and sa ne pretty
big fishes have been caught in tin )a-t wee*
or two. One sturgeon weighing 425 prani-
wa 3 caught near the town of the Daih r.
Although there is more wa’.er than usual
this year, the Volga is growing so shadow a3
to be uuuavigable. Shipping has entirety
Stopped between Iver an i Rybinsk aud
nearly stopped between the latter place and
Nijm Novgorod.
There is a scheme under way in Cleveland,
Qj,i 0 d to run motoeycies for passenger traffic
t u ro E h various streets, wita regular tune
g^^yOuies. Tbe first instalment of earr.ag ?
^ ordered, and it is expectea Huy tee
SV stem will be to regular operation by next
j U n e ,
The spread of enthusiasm over the game
of go It mav be estimated from the fact lhai
there are over 200 golf clubs in the United
State« There is a nest of them in the im¬
mediate neighborhood of New York City, at
least twenty-five betog counted within
short radius.
^^JvSelun ckfifornia uist ye.u
amounted to 1556 square mi.es. /n Ar zona
the lands of the Government tt ere 514 .-quaru
m , ies. The figures for Utah are 325 s ,uar ■
while in Nevada only 13i square miles
were taken up.
Unusual Bravery of a Boy.
A special from San Antonia, Tex., says;
Two tramps held up n boy in charge of the
Arkansas Pass Railway station office at
Karnes City, 40 miles south of this city, and
demanded of him the combination of the
=afe, with a hav pistol at his help head. He refuse^
«td stood at until came. The State
police now ifter tke ^rampf,
