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IS MAKING ACTIVE PRE¬
PARATIONS FOR WAR.
RUSSIA JldKS GREECE TO WITHDRAW ... | ,
i* $
An Intimation That King George Is
Contemplating tho Acceptance of
Demands of the Powers.
Advices of Friday from the east
state that the massing of Turkish
troops and munitions of war on the :
frontier is proceeding with feverish
b “ah' ^
the soldier. on furlough have !
been recalled and eleven batteries of
artillery, a regiment of cavalry and
two battalions of infantry have gone
from Salonika, Monastir and elsewhere
to Elassona. Two additional battal¬
ions have reached Katrina.
The reliefs from Smyana, Brusa,
Trebizonde and elsewhere in Anatolia i
are on their way hero and to the fron- j i
tier, where a total of six divisions will
be formed with headquarters at Elas-
sona.
It is announced in a special from
London that it is learnen there that
King George has intimated his inten¬
tion to accept the demands of the pow¬
ers.
A St. Petersburg special says: “Rus-
sia, through the Russian minister at
Athens, M- K. Onou, has called upon
Greece to withdraw all of her troops
and her fleet from Crete within three
days.
“Tlie foregoing semi-official an¬
nouncement long was accompanied by a
and involved statement of the mo¬
tives actuating Russia, namely:
4 l That to prevent the extension of
the revolution to other portions of the
Turkish empire, imperiling the peace
of Europe, a stop must bo put to the
action of Greece, which is in opposi¬
tion to international law. Before ne-
fore negotiations for a Cretan consti¬
tution can be entered upon, it is
asserted Russia has resolved to restore
order in Crete. Then after tho Greek
evacuation, under the protection of
the powers an autonomous government
will be installed under the suzerainty
of the sultan. In this policy, it is
claimed, Russia is supported by France,
Germany and Austria.
“Throughout the entire italy statement
, neither England nor is mention¬
ed, hut Greece is warned that should
she,hit blind misconception of her own
interest, allow herself to be excited by
seeking friends to persist in her
present attitude under the false idea
that the powers are not united, because
at the outset one or another has not
concurred in Russia’s proposals,
Russia Is resolved to take re¬
prisals, the first step being the block¬
ade of Piraeus. Tho powers consider¬
ed the Greek annexation of Crete out
of the question, and it is asserted in
the consciousness of their absolute
support, Russia will be in a position
to prevent the Cretan question from
imperiling the peace of Europe, even
should any individual power refuse
to accede to the proposed measures.”
LEAGUE MAKES SCHEDULES.
Big Association Regius the Season On
April 2Sd.
The league baseball magnates in
session at Baltimore Friday promul¬
gated the schedule for the current
year.
The season will open on the 22d of
April, except in Boston, where there
will be one preliminary game April
19th, which is a local holiday.
It was determined that the league
should undertake the defense of the
equity suit brought by liusie iu New
Jersey. *
The league decided to give Presi¬
dent Young absolute power in appoint-
ment of official scorers, This feature
will doubtless affect the averages of
some players, as it is intended to stop
the plavr- qualified g of favorites by appointing
men to score the game with-
out fear or favor. I
The champions will have Boston as 1
the attraction for the opening days,
Brooklyn will phtv in Washington and j
New York in Philadelphia.
Tn the west St. Louis will have the
Pittsburg team for the opening. Lou- j
isville will have Cleveland and Cincin-
nati will entertain Chicago.
WAS HYATT OFFERED BRIBE I
North Carolina Senator 3fake* Sensational
ClinriroN Charge* at at Raleigh. Raleigh.
In* A special from Raleigh, N. C., says: !
a special interview State Senator
Hyatt positively declares that Gov-
ernor Russell’s private secretary di-
rect-ly offered him the position of
secretary to the board of agricult-
urc if he would vote for the bill to
annul the lease of the North Carolina j
raihvay.
Hyatt struck the private secretary,
Alexander, and denounced him as a
contemptible coward, and declared he
would rise in the senate and see wheth-
er the governor could with impunity j
offer bribes to legislators, Alexander
denied that any position was offered.
DUPONT CONTEST ENDS.
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The belated report on the claim of |
Dupont to a seat in the senate from
^rScSTn r '^:r e I
* good
Jn effect tlie senate sees no rea-
son for reopening the subject, although
the majority think a mistake was made
in refusing Dupont his seat in the first
instance. The report is signed by :
Senators Hon:, Pritchard, Chandler,
Gray, Turpie, Pugh and Palmer. i
PETITION FOR PROTECTION.
Rea Inland Cotton Grower* Demand Relief
Through Uongre**.
The special committee of eleven,
composed of gold democrats, silver
democrats, republicans and populists,
appointed by the sea island cotton
growers’ convention recently in session
at Valdosta, Ga., to draw up a peti-
tion to congress for a duty of 5 cents a
pound on Egyptian cotton have fin¬
ished their work. The petition reads
as follows:
“To Hon. Nelson Dingley, Jr.,
Chairman Ways and Means Commit¬
tee, Washington, D. C.: At a conven¬
tion of the sea island cotton growers
of Georgia and Florida, held in the
city of Valdosta, Ga., on the 24th day
of February, 1897, the undersigned
were directed to submit to your hon-
or able body the following reasons why
they ask congress for a specific duty
£ oent8 a P ound on E6 3T tiau «*-
“The importation of this cotton has
increased since 1890 from 10,470 bales
to 69,220 bales, weighing 750 pounds
each, equal to nearly double the num¬
ber of American bales, which average
about 380 pounds each. During the
period nampd the price of sea island
cotton has declined about one-half,
because, as we believe, of the con¬
stantly increasing importation and
consumption in the country of the
Egyptian cotton, which is used to take
the place of all grades of sea island
after a limited amount of the finer
staple is consumed for the finer yarns,
etc.
“This competition has practically
driven the Georgia, Florida and Caro¬
lina sea island cotton growers out of
the market. Unless a duty, say of 5
cents a pound, to cover the difierence
in the cost of production, is imposed
on the foreign article the planters in
the territory named will be driven to
the wall. They cannot resort to the
culture of upland cotton for the reason
that the soil in the sea island cotton
belt, best adapted to the growth of
long staple cotton, is not adapted to
the growth of the upland or short
staple variety.
“If the burden of revenue raising is
put upon Egyptian cotton we believe it
will greatly stimulate a languishing
industry in the territory named above,
for the further reason that our entire
sea island cotton product cau be con¬
sumed in our own country. As it is,
less than half of our product is taken
by our own mills. The balance seeks
a market in foreign countries.
“The duty asked will entail no hard¬
ship on the masses of the people of our
country, because it can be shown (al¬
though we have not the figures at hand)
that the price of those article manu¬
factured from long staple cotton have
not fallen in price correspondingly
with the raw material from which they
are made.”
M’COOK DECLINES PORTFOLIO.
Report That Ho Only WanteU to Be At¬
torney General, Nothing Less.
It was announced in New York City
Friday that Colonel John J. McCook
has positively declined to enter the
cabinet of President McKinley as sec¬
retary of the interior.
The announcement is also made that
while General Stewart L. Woodford is
still a candidate for a cabinet position
with the endorsement of the regular
republican organization, the chances
are that New York will not be rep¬
resented in tho cabinet.
“When Major McKinley first asked
Colonel McCook to become a member
of his cabinet no particular portfolio
was mentioned. A friend of Colonel
McCook raid that he expected that he
would be asked to serve as attorney
general aud this place he would have
accepted.
“But within a day or two the colonel
received a letter asking him to accept
the post of secretary of the interior,
This, it is understood, ho promptly
and positively declined.”
MOTHER KILLED BABY BOY.
Tennessee "Woman Sentenced to Seven
Years in the Penitentiary.
At Newburg,in Lewis county,Tenn.,
Thursday, Mrs. Jane Dabbs was con-
vieted of murdering her two-year-old
son and sentenced to seven years in
the penitentiary.
The crime was committed a year
ago.
Mrs. Dabbs killed her boy by crush-
ing his skull with a hatchet. She then
carried his body into the house and
set fire to the building. The house
was destroyed and the baby’s body
burned to a crisp.
PICKS UP SLOWLY.
Dun & Co.. In TUeir Trade Review, Give
Some Encouragement.
R. G. Dun A Co., in their weekly
review of trade, say:
“Genuine improvement in business
does not come with a rush, like the
breaking of a great dam. The growth
for some weeks past has been more en- j
couraging, because in nearly all
lines it has been gradual and <
The rupture of the
steel rail and other combinations in
the iron business has brought out a
vast quantity of trade which had been
held back and has set many thousand
men at work, while the slow but steady
gain in other great industries has giv-
«n employment to many thousands.
ditidends for defunct banks.
■ The comptroller of the currency has
declared dividends m favor of the cred-
itors of insolvent national banks as fol-
1o ^
bauk of Garnett, ? - «*..*»* Kansas,
Twenty-five percent, the First * a-
tional bank of Fort Payne, Ala ;
Five per cent, tue Oregon National
bauk of Portland, Ore.
Five per cent, the Second National
hank of Columbia, lean.
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PRESIDENT-ELECT BOARDS TRAIN
FOR NATIONAL CAPITOL.
HIS PARTING SPEECH TO FRIENDS,
A Short Address, Fall of Patriotic Senti¬
ments—A Great Throng Rids
Him Adieu.
President-elect McKinley left Can¬
ton at 7 o’clock Monday evening for
Washington, thousands of his fellow-
citizens bidding him adieu in showers
of fireworks and illuminants to the ac¬
companiment of hearty cheers.
The citizens, together with business
men, had arranged for a public demon¬
stration to bid farewell to their hon¬
ored and beloved citizen and neighbor.
The local militia joined in the dem¬
onstration and at G:30, headed by the
famous Grand Army band, marched to
the McKinley home. As they counter
inarched Major McKinley, escorting
the coming first lady of the land, ap¬
peared at his front door.
Their appearance was the signal for
cheers. As they walked from the fa¬
mous front porch to the coach in wait¬
ing there was a frantic effort to obtain
a shake of Major McKinley’s hand.
This was impossible, as the pro¬
gramme admitted of not a moment’s
delay. Major McKinley paused but a
few seconds ere he entered the cab, to
raise his hat to the thousands of people
—men, women and children—congre¬
gated there.
This was the signal for another out¬
burst of applause.
All along the route to the depot,
about a mile, the streets were jammed
with people, hundreds coming from
towns adjacent to Canton to bid the
major good-bye.
The space about the station was
packed for squares by people who
struggled ineffectually to get near the
train, which was guarded by three
companies of militia.
As the president-elect and Mrs. Mc¬
Kinley stepped upon the rear platform
of their car the shouts and cheers of
the people again rose. Major McKin¬
ley seated his wife just inside the
door and stepped upon the platform.
The cheering was repeated, but
quickly ceased as the president-elect
raised his hands. His words were:
“My Neighbors and Friends and Fellow
Citizens—On the eve of departure to the seat
of government, soon to assume dudes of an
arduous responsibility, as great as can de¬
volve upon any man, nothing could give me
greater pleasure than tbfar^T'dl greeting
—this evidence of your friendship a^J sym¬
pathy; your good will, and I am sure the
prayers of all the people with whom I have
lived so long and whose confidence and es¬
teem are dearer to me than any other earthly
honors.
“To all of us the future is as a sealed
book; but if I can, by official act of admin¬
istration or utterance, in any degree add to
the prosperity of our beloved country and
to the comfort and well-being of our splen¬
did citizenship, I will devote the best and
most unselfish efforts of my life. (Loud
and continuous applause and cries of “We
know you will, Major.”)
“The assumption of the chief magistracy
is of such gravo importance that partisan¬
ship cannot blind the judgment or accept¬
ance of other considerations, but for the
public good of all to every party and every
section.
“With this thought uppermost in my
mind, I reluctantly take leave of my friends
and neighbors, cherishing in my heart the
sweetest memories and the tenderest
thoughts of my old home—my homo now,
and I trust my home hereafter, so long as I
live. (Tremendous applause,)
“I thank you and bid you all good-bye.”
RIOT IN KNOXVILLE.
One Man Killed and Another Expected
To Die.
At Knoxville, Tenn., Monday the
Citizens’ Street Railway company com¬
menced tearing up tracks on Depot
street, at an early hour 200 negroes
being put to work. The city police- 1
men arrested the meu and the sheriff
and his deputies proceeded to arrest
the policemen and other offic ials. This
precipitated a riot.
One man was killed and a number
more or less seriously hurt. Of those
hurt one at least, Chief McIntosh, of
the tire department, will likely die.
The fire companies were called out
and dispersed the crowd by throwing
water on them.
FORTUNE FOR SAVANNAH MAN.
1Ie ™ ins a MimoiTDoiiurs a a *
^ dispatch was received at Savan-
na h, Ga., Monday, announcing that
Elton A. Smith, a merchant of that
c jtv, has just won his suit involv-
- n g the right to his father’s estate in i
the highest court in New Jersey, and
that he will now come into about a
balf m iHion dollars worth of property,
Smith’s father disappeared some
vears a rj t > and was not heard from un-
til be was found in New Jersey, where
be married again or was said to have
xnarried. There were many interest-
• features in this connection in the
trial of the cftse
DEAS DIES DANGLING.
Ravishcr of Miss Lawoon Pays Penalty of
His Crime.
Will Deas, colored, convicted of
criminal assault, was hanged at Louis-
ville, Ga., Friday, in the yard of the
Jefferson county jail. The drop fell at ;
1:30 p. m. and he was dead m tw eh e
mi -£ UteS "
Deas made , a full . confession „ He was
convicted at the fall term, 1896, m Jef-
ferson superior coart tor a criminal as-
sault on Miss Ella Lawson.
GOVERNMENT RESTRAINED
From Interfering: With Alleged Filibust¬
ering Steamer Dauntless.
In the United States court at Jack¬
sonville, Fla., Monday, Judge Locke
made an order modifying his previous
order in the Dauntless injunction case.
The court had on Saturday made an
order suspending the enforcement of
of c^tom*I
cutter Boutwell from interfering with
the Dauntless, as the attorneys for the
government held that their appeal
from the decision of the court acted
as a supersedeas.
The order of the court Monday was
to the effect that the appeal did not
act as a supersedeas and that the
injunction was in full force to restrain
the defendants from interfering with
the movements of the vessels. The
only condition required by the court
was that the owner of the Dauntless
should give bond in the sum of $15,-
000 that the boat would not violate
the navigation or neutrality laws.
Some of the grounds for the court’s
decision are given: “In considering
this question the court canuot go
outside the facts as shown in the
sworn bill and affidavits of complain¬
ant and respondent. Other circum¬
stances referred to, or intimated, can
have no weight with the court.
“Apprehensions that the complain¬
ant may violate this law, or suspicions
that he intends so to do, can furnish
no basis for legal action.
“The rights of citizens to enjoy the
use of their own property in a lawful
manner is incontestable, and the pro¬
vision for preventing violations of the
neutrality down laws are plainly laid
in the statues, and can neither
be extended by the courts nor by the
executive officers.
GREEK CONGRESS MEETS.
An Address of Prime Minister Elicits
Great Applause.
After a recess that called forth the
protest of the opposition the boule,
the single parliamentary chamber of
Greece, assembled at Athens Monday.
Nearly all of the members were
present and the gallery of the cham¬
ber was filled with visitors, all eager
to listen to further authoritative state¬
ments of the government’s position in
regard to Crete and the powers.
Prime Minister Delyannis announced
that he had received positive confirma¬
tion that the bombardment of the
Christians’ position by the foreign war¬
ships, was provoked by the Turks.
He denounced the bombardment as
savage, impious and unjust, He said
that the blockade of Crete by the pow¬
ers was inexplicable from the point of
international law.
In conclusion, M. Delyannis said:
“\Ve are a small nation and cannot
prevent such acts, but we protest
against them with the force of a great
nation. We know that all great peoples
are with us.”
The prime minister was cheered
again and again as he took his seat.
REX IS WELCOMED.
Marrli Gras Carnival Inaugurated At New
Orleans With Pompous Ceremonies.
The mardi gras carnival opened at
New Orleans Monday with great eclat.
Rex, the king of the carnival, arrived
by river about 3 o’clock in the after¬
noon at the foot of Canal street, and
was accorded a right royal welcome
from Vne several thousands assembled,
His bodyguard, consisting of all
the military organizations of the city,
with a full detachment cf police and
assisted by all the marines from the
United States men-of-war and the reg¬
ulars from Jackson barracks, moved
in a grand procession to the city hall,
where the mayor and city officials
were in waiting.
Arriving at the city hall, his royal
highness was welcomed by Mayor
Flower and the keys of the city de¬
livered over to him. For the next
forty-eight hours Rex had supreme
control of the Crescent City.
THE THREE FRIENDS CASE.
United States Supreme Court- Orders the
Vessel Held.
A "Washington special says: The
United States supreme court has re-
versed the decision of the district court
of Florida in the Three Friends case,
sustaining the contention of the gov-
eminent.
The court was also ordered to resume
custody of the steamer,
The court holds that there is war in
Cuba and that the carrying of arms
and ammunition to the island directly
or indirectly is a direct violation of
the neutrality laws
TIIE LEE CORRESPONDENCE
AsLaid Before the Senate Confirms story
of Threatened Resignation.
The correspondmce of the depart-
meat of state with Consul General
Lee at Havana in the case of Charles
Scott, an American citizen, which was
laid before the senate Monday night,
confirms the published story that Gen-
eral Lee threatened to resign unless !
the department supported his demand
that Scott be released from solitary
confinement.
The telegrams sent to the depart-
ment by General Lee only are trans-
mitted, the department’s end of the
interchange being omitted.
CHARGES OF MURRAY GO OVER.
South Carolina Election Cates Will be
Considered in Next Congress.
No action will be taken by this con-
^ upon an investigation of the
Carolina elections. Thecom-
^ house which has been
ccms jq er j n g the memorials presented
^^led Congressman Murray, colored,
Friday to reC ommend to the
bouge ^ the question be reported to
^ uext c<)n g ress f or it s consideration,
IHHIiMl Bill VETOED.
PRESIDENT RETURNS THE MEAS¬
URE WITHOUT HIS SIGNATURE.
EVERY SECTION OF BILL ATTACKED
The Principal Objection Is To tlie Educa¬
tional Clause—Declares the Measure a
Radical Departure From Our Policy.
President Cleveland sent to the
house Tuesday a message vetoing
the immigration bill, entitled, “An
act to amend the immigration
laws of the United States,” upon tlie
general ground that its provisions are
and unnecessarily harsh and oppressive,
its defects in construction would
cause vexation and its operation would
result in harm to our citizens.
The message is the longest of the
kind that President Cleveland has
written. He takes up the different
provisions of the bill in detail, finds
objections to each of them and refutes
the arguments that have been advanced,
from time to time by the advocates of
the bill. He gives greater space to ob¬
jections to the educat'Jnal clause than
to any other part of it He says:
“In my opinion it is infinitely more
safe to admit a hundred thousand im-
migrants who, though unable to read
and write, seek among us only a home
and opportunity to work than to
admit one of those unruly agitators
and enemies of governmental control
who cannot only read and write,
but delights in arousing, by inflam¬
matory speech, the illiterate and
peacefully inclined to discontent
and tumult. Violence and disorder
do not originate with illiterate la¬
borers. They are rather the victims
of educated agitators. The ability to
read and write as required in this bill
in and of itself afford, in my opinion,
a misleading test of contented indus¬
try and supplies unsatisfactory evi¬
dence of desirable citizenship or a
proper appreciation of the benefits of
our institutions. If any particular ele¬
ment of our illiterate immigration is to
be feared, for other causes than illiter-
a cy, these causes should be dealt with
daily instead of making illiteracy the
pretext for exclusion to the detriment
of other illiterate immigrants against
whom the real cause of complaint can¬
not be alleged.”
The president does not find merit in
any feature of the bill, and character¬
izes it as a whole as a radical depart¬
ure from our national policy relating
to immigration.
SMITH WAS INDICTED.
Though His Embezzlement "Was Compro¬
mised The Law Is After Him.
Otis O. Smith has been indicted by
the Fulton county grand jury at At¬
lanta for the embezzlement of $2,250
of the funds of the Georgia Security
and Banking Company.
The indictment charges that on the
20th day of February, 1897, “Otis O.
Smith, cashier of the Georgia Security
and Banking company, did embezzle,
steal, secrete and fraudulently take
and carry away a large sum of money,
to-wit, $2,250, as funds of said bank.”
A bench warrant w r ill be issued on
the indictment at once, and Sheriff
Nelms will make an effort to appre-
hend Smith, who, no doubt, is beyond
the limits of the state,
GEORGIA LUMBER TO EUROPE.
First Shipment of a Great Quantity From
Near Savannah.
The Southern Lumber Company has
made contracts for the shipment of one
million feet of Georgia pine lumber
through adjacent ports to European
points, most of which are on the con¬
tinent.
The shipments of lumber will be
made by tramp steamers and will be
among the first that have been made
in this manner in such quantities from
the south.
COLLECTOR FOUND SHORT.
Richard Cabell Used Uncle Sam’s 3Ioney
In Speculation.
Richard H. Cabell, United States in¬
ternal revenue collector at Salt Lake,
Utah, has been discovered short in his
accounts with the government to the
extent of over $10,000.
He has been removed from office,
and as soon as the exact amount of the
defalcation is known, his bondsmen
will be required to make it good.
A SYMPATHETIC STRIKE.
Skilled Workmen Take Up “Helpers ”
Cause and Walk Out.
Four hundred skilled workmen in
the Globe Ship-building Company’s
yards at Cleveland, O., Tuesday went
out on a sympathy strike. Monday 300
helpers struck and they induced the
skilled workmen to aid them,
T’he only men left in the big yards
now are the caulkers. The only de-
rnand made by the skilled workmen is
that the company accept the terms of
settlement offered by the helpers,
These terms include a year s con-
tract for a minimum of $1.50 per day;
the reinstatement of all union men
discharged without cause and an agree-
ment to hire no more non-union men.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS RESUMED
Venezuela Appoints Dr. Joan Pietrie
Minister to Great Britain.
Secretary Olney received ifhe follow ¬
ing dispatch from our minister at Car¬
acas Tuesday afternoon:
“Venezuela has appointed as minis¬
ter to England Dr. Juan Pietrie, who
is nowin Europe as Venezuela^ min¬
ister to Germany and Spain.”
This act is a practical resumption of
diplomatic relations between Great
Britain and Venezuela.
ARRIVE AT WASHINGTON.
McKinley ami Hobart Reach the Scene of
Action, and Ready for the Oath.
Without any ostentatious display,
President-elect McKinley was met on
his arrival at Washington by members
of the inauguration committee amt
was escorted to his quarters at the
Ebbitt.
He kept closely to those quarters
during the day —none but a few chosen
leaders having access to him.
Soon after the arrival at the Ebbitt,
Mr. and Mrs. McKinley were • figura¬
tively snowed under by slips of white
pasteboard, but they received intimate
friends only. General Alger was
among the callers.
The suite of the president-elect and
his party was fairly overflowing with
flowers, much to the delight of Mrs.
McKinley, who expressed her appre¬
ciation of the floral tributes. Major
McKinley, who had been somewhat de¬
pressed Monday over the prospects for
good weather inauguration day on ac¬
count Canton, of the disagreeable condition in
became cheerful because of
the bright sunshine which greeted his
arrival at the capitol.
The special train bearing Vice Pres-
ident-elect Hobart and party arrived
at the Baltimore and Ohio station at
3:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.
There wore no special demonstra¬
tions attending Mr. Hobart’s recep¬
tion. Governor Griggs and staff ac¬
companied the parly and were the
first to alight from the train. Tho
party were met by the district recep¬
tion committee.
The vice president’s appearance was
the signal for an outburst of enthusi¬
asm from the little party fortunate
enough to get through the gates. A
like demonstration met them as they
came from the building and started
for the Arlington hotel.
LIGHT ON RUIZ AFFAIR.
Only an Abstract of tlie Case is Furnish¬
ed by 31 r. Olney.
Secretary Olney Tuesday responded
to the senate resolution calling for the
correspondence in the Ruiz case by
sending an abstract of the matter, de¬
clining to send the full correspond¬
ence, on the ground that it would not
seem to be “in the public interest.”
The abstract furnished by the state
department shows that Ricardo Ruiz
was a native born Cuban and came to
this country during the progress of
the Cuban insurrection which termina¬
ted in 1878. He received his final
papers as a naturalized citizen in Jan¬
uary, 1880, i:i Philadelphia. Imme¬
diately after lie returned to Cuba, en¬
tered upon the practice of dentistry,
married and reared a family and has
resided there permanently and contin¬
uously ever since.
He was arrested February 4th an (\
thrown into prison on the charge of
participation in the capture and rob¬
bery of a railroad train. His arrest
was reported to this government by
telegraph on the same day, and until
tlie 17th nothing more was heard of
the case by the department, which as¬
sumed that it was being attended to
by the Consulate in the regular course;
that at the end of seventy-two hours
the prisoner would either be put com-
municado, or if not that a proper de¬
mand for such relief would be made,
and that if such demand were made
and were not successful, the depart¬
ment would at once be notified.
No measures of the sort ivere taken,
however, though the prisoner remain¬
ed incommunicado, and on the 17th
the consulate reported to the depart¬
ment that Ruiz had been found dead
in his cell under circumstances which
led to a demand for an immediate in*
vestigation.
PAYMASTER ABSCONDS.
Lieutenant Corwine, of tlie Navy, Discov¬
ered to lie a Defaulter.
Paymaster John Corwine, U. S. N.,
stationed at Newport, R. I., has ab¬
sconded, taking his checkbook with
him. This statement is made on tho
authority of the navy department.
Tuesday afternoon Paymaster Cor¬
wine cashed a check for $5,000 and
then left Newport. An investigation
of his accounts shows that he is be¬
tween $5,000 and $10,000 short, ex¬
clusive of the amount of the check
above mentioned.
The accounts of the paymaster came
under suspicion recently, and Pay
Director Casper Sehenck, general in¬
spector of the pay corps, was sent to
Newport to investigate. His inquiry
shows a shortage between the amounts
given.
FOR MILITARY PURPOSES.
Secretary of War Defines Defense of Inside
ltoute to Key West.
By authority of the president, tho
secretary of war has set apart for mili¬
tary purposes in connection with the
defense of the inside route to Key
West and the general defense of the
coast in that section and proclaimed
military reservations:
Part" of Virginia key (unreserved),
Dade county, Florida.
All the unsurveyed land on Key
West, Monroe county, Florida.
These reservations have been select¬
ed by army and navy officers on account
of their great strategical value in time
of war.
DON’T TV ANT REITFELD.
Nineteen Members Of Iilabo Legislature
Protest Against Him.
A protest against the seating of
"William Heitfeld, as senator from the
state of Idaho, signed by nineteen
members of the legislature of that
state, was laid before the senate at
Washington Tuesday by the vice pres¬
ident.
The the* principal ground of the protest
is alleged illegal unseating of two
members of the legislature.