Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1897 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FIB'. IUARY 28, 1897.

portation. It requires ail carriers subject to the lntert.ite-commerce act to provide agents authoriztd to sell their tickets with certificates cnu makes It a misdc moanor, punishable by a tine, of ii.(" or imprisonment for one year, for any in-rson not duly authorized to sell ticket, it requires carriers to redeem unused tickets and makes the fernery or counterfeiting cf tickets punishable by Imprisonment for two years. A number of other bills were parsed during the day under su" n.-lon of the rules, amon; them the following: To repeal the act granting a rl?ht of way through the 1-V,rt Morgan military reservation to the Birmingham & Mobile Krilro.nl: to grant a right of way through th Fort bpokane military reservation to the St. l'aul. Minneapolis tz Manitoba Railroad: to vacate the Sugar Ioaf reservoir site In Eake county, Colorado, and restore the lands to entry; to require the i-sue of tatc-nts to actual settlors in Florida under the act of Aug. 4. lyi'2. and to establish an additional land o.Hco at Kalispeil. Mont. The Senate amendments to the bill to allow the lottling of distilled spirits in bond were agreed to. During the discussion of the antl-sealp-Ing bill Mr. Terry said the petitions alleged to have been presented in favor of the bill were in favor of a measure denominated by a bill "to protect the public." It should be entitled a bill to strengthen rail road. 4. The bill originated with powerful railroad compirles. Vhn they asked for It gi.-intion In the interest of the public the leopard would change hi spots. Mr. Northway called attention to th fact that the pains and ienaltie of the bill were ,h11 to be. 'imposed on innocent passengers or unauthorized agents. Mr. M.a.un denounced the attempt to rallrsnd tVi" ugh a bill which afftcted the .vf.ole raveling public injuriously. He leci. -rr'f I mt it was such proceedings as these wh?h tended to verify the charge during tee ; At campaign that liepubliean success wvibM riean a "saturnalia of conorate infill tt.ee." Mr. Hepburn, in closing for the bill, said It interfered with no rights which the holder of a ticket hid under his contract. It was a bill to prevent discrimination. A scalper could engage In his business under this bill if he secured an authorization from the railroads. I'nder th present system the brokers made $l,o,t)uO a year. Who paid that? Th public, about whom the opTKsltion was so solicitous. When the vote was about to be taken on the pasyge of th measure Mr. Ellen demanded the reading of the. engrossed copy. A: the till had not been e ngrossed the vote could not be taken. The engrossing clerks at O'iCf v.f ot to work to engross the bill. A joint resolution war. adopted to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious and Infection diseases. It ernpovs red th inspection cf vessels and person from suspected ports and was passed as : precaution aga:nst the introduction of the bubonic pUgUi-. r Whilei an unimportant land bill v.as leing considered the r.Krossing clerk hurried in with an engrossed copy of the anti-ticket broke rage bill. After the engrossed bill had been read Mr. Bailey moved to recommit with instruction. The motion was lost tG to 121. The bill was then placed on Its final passage. On a division the vote stood It! to 11. Mr. Kllett demanded the ayes and noe?. but only thirty-six members sustained the demand, and tue speaker declared the bill passtd. At '.;' the House adjourned. HEPl IIIdCAH TAY.NTEH.

Speech by Senator Huhol, One of the Prof-lllver IlerieKiMle. WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. The Senate turned . to-day from the stirring theme of Cuba to the commonplace appropriation bills, giving the entire day to the postoffi?e bill. There was a somewhat sensational diversion whn Mr. Dubois, of Idaho, made a statement warning hi3 former Republican associates that they could not control the next Senate and that the silver Republicans would never co-operate with thtrn white they clung to the single gold standard. It v.as the first time he has spoken since his recent defeat for re-election after a hot contest. There was added interest in his - statement from the fact that he wr.s one of the conspicuous figures in the bolt from the St. Louhi convention, and this was a direct reference to that event and its political effects. He said the scoldings of members of the appropriation committee, the midnight sessions and the necessity of work on Sunday led him to say that if he wa3 a member of the next Senate he would f renew the fight to strip the appropriations committee of its autocratic power and to distribute tho various appropriation bills. Then he added: "I think the next Senate should divide the appropriation bills. It will bo an elegant time. Nc party will have a majority in this chamber. There is a distinct party her3 now calkd the Silver Republican party. They will not co-operate Villa you (turning and pointing to liepubliean senators). You have not the power to orsranizo tho Senate." iir eIon Who are you referring; to? ii.r. Dubois You will not organize your benate. Mr. Nelson Who are you referring: to .when pointing over here? Mr. Dubois I am referring to the Republicans. - Mr. Nelson What have you against iheui? Mr. Dubois I have this against them, that while saying to us for years "we will .help you make this tight for silver." you came out at sit. Louis us the advocate of the sinclc gold standard, and now you see what you were warned of there; vou lose the coast senators. Just so faat as'the people of that section have an election for senator just so fast will a Republican senator go down. There have been seven senators elected there to take the places of seven Republicans. One Republican comes back of the seven, and just so fast, 1 say to you, as the people there have a chance to express themselves, just so fast will you lose a Repub'iean senator ir. vou cling to the syigle gold standard. You cannot organize tho next Senate, nor can you organize any other Senate. As we said at St. Louis, tne Republican party Is a party which, as a party, has written its last law on the statute tnioks of this country. Jf you get your tarill bill through it wiil not be by Republican votes. You r.ave not enough oi them. You cannot pet them; they do not belong to you. and you will be further from getting them in the Senate after two yearn. Therefore. 1 say this is a. good time at the beginning of the next Senate to reorganize tne committee on appropriations." The debate on the postofllce bill was mainly on the question of an investigation Into the cost of carrying the mails on the railroads. It brought out much criticism cf ' the alleged extravagant cnarges lor this mail carriage. A controversy between the K. of L. and the Metropolitan Street-railway Company of the District of Columbia over the discharge of employes aroused a general discussion of labor questions. Mr. Allen endeavored to secure reconsideration of a bill granting extension of the Metropolitan Company's lines, lie asserted that the company had discharged certain employes because they belonged to the K. of Tu He wanted the employes reinstated before the bill should become a law. The discussion became quite icrsonal, .Messrs. Gallingcr and McMillan resenting Mr. Allen's remarks and declaring that the committee had fully investigated the matter. Finally Mr. Alien s motion was tabled, SO to 2i. Mr. Butler gave notice of a motion to reconsider the vote on the passage late last night of the bill for refunding the debt of thrt territories. When tho bill for an international monetary conference came over from the House Mr. Chandler, who was in charge of the bill in the Senate, said he would move Monday to concur in the Mouse amendments. At a o'clock the Senate took a recess until 8. At tho nfght session consideration of the postomce bill was rerumed. The deadlock over the Item relating to the investigation Into mall transportation v.as broken at 11 o'clock. Mr. Chandler and the postottice committee insisted on the mixed commission or nothing, and Mr. Allison, with the prospect of this question imperiling not only the? postoITice. but the other appropriation bills, reluctantly yielded and the whole matter was laid on the table. Mr. Rutler made a motion to strike out the appropriation of JIIKI.UAJ for special mail facilities from New York to New Orleans. Several cf the members were in dress suits and ono of the grave and . reverend senators had been asleep on a lounge In the rear of the chamber for an hour. The galleries were crowded. At 12 o'clock a vote was taken on Senator Butler's motion to strike out the fnst mail subsidy. It was lost. S to 41 and the postOfllco bill was then passed. The sundry civil appropriation bill was t-ken up and an agreement was mad to take a recess from :ISJ to U o'clock Sunday afternoon. ITS WORK IS IJOXR. Venezuelan Uouiidnry Co mm Ism I on Stub in Hi ItM Report to the President. WASHINGTON. Feb. ZT.-The Venezuelan Boundary Commission to-day submitted its report to the President and thus terminated th work which has engaged the attention of Its members for many months. Reappointment tfce entire commission called t the White Hou-e at noon to-day. There v.as Justice Rrewer, Mr. Coudert. Judge Alvey. Andrew I. White and Mr. Oilman, with the secretary cf the commission, Ur.

Malet Rrevost. The President received tho commissioners cordially and spent ha!f an hour In discussing with them the results of their labors, which, while not as conclusive as expected at the beginning cf their work, will be of great value to the arbitrators who will eventually settle the boundary dispute. Considering the extent of the ground covered, the report Is very short. No direct statement as to its nature is obtainable, but it is believed that It tioe; not attempt to stat? the location of the true divisional line between Venezuela and Rrltish Guiana, which was the original object of the commi.-sion. but is a synoptical statement of the ground gone over by the commission up to the time when it was about to undertake to pass upon that important question. It has not yet been decided whether or not the report will be made public, but it seems probable that in the end It will be transmits d to Congress, not cs a matter of light, but for information. Arrangements are already being made for closing iip tho quarters occupied by the commission. To-morrow all but two of the suit of rooms will be surrendered and the effects cf the commission will be sold at auction.

niCYCMIS IX ITALY. Good Market for American Dealers, I Hdcr Certain Condition. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. Any American bicycle maker who seks information as to the best means of Introducing his wares abroad and particularly in Italy cannot do better than consult a report on the subject made to the State Department by Unlted States Consul Johnson at Venice. The consul sajs that while the Italians make a fair bicycle, the people generally prefer foreign wheels and if the American maker ean supply thern in three grades about $.j7.W. $n;.JvT and $113.) each there can be no question that a. good market can be found. Much depends on the method adopted of placing the agencies. On thij point the consul gives some sound advice, as well as noting some Italian easterns that must be respected. He says: "As yet in Italy women have not taken very enthusiastically to bieyeling. but the Interest taken by them is daily increasing, especially among those who aspire to a position in the fashionable world, as It seems to be, quite the proper thing and in excellent 'form for a woman .f a 'smart sot' to be an expert bicyclist. With Italian women in general, there seems to be a strong, deepseated, traditional prejudice against all forms of athh-tic sports, and it will be some time before that prejudice can be done away with, but it is undoubtedly a taet that the bicycle has been a most active i-gent in encouraging them to abandon such prejudices iind to take up athletic sports in the interests of their physical welfare, as well as for their diversion. It may be stated approximately that at present In Italy only j per cent, of the people using bicycles are women." Work of Art Not to Re Free. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Frce art, which was a prominent feature of the Wilson tariff act, will not be perpctuateel In the new tariff bill. The Republican members of the ways and means committee have been giving considerable attention to the subject, and to-day they decided to take paintings and statuary from the free list and to make them dutiable at 2." per cent, ad valorem. The McKinley rate was 1 per cent, ael valorem. It was argued when the subject was discussed during the preparation ot the Wilson act that the admission of the works of foreign artists free would tend to elevate the art standards of the United States and the public taste. According to the representations of American artists, however its effect has been to flood the market with inferior productions by foreign artists. The committee also took bologna sausages from the free llr.t and made them dutiable at 1T per cent, ad valorem. The making of bolognas has recently been successfully undertaken in this country and the makers desire protection to enable them to secure the home market. Fardons and Denials. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The President has pardoned John R. Patterson, sentenced in Texas, in January isr3. to eighteen months imprisonment for fraudulent use of the mail3. lie had denied a pardon to W. J. Foust, sentenced in Texas, to live year3 hard labor and J.W tine and costs, for embezzling money order funds, saying "those who embezzle postal funds intrusted to their keeping must be sternly dealt with. If the Increasing commission of such crimes Is to be checked." A pardon has also been denied, on the same grounds, to W. C Breme-rman. sentenced in Iowa to three years and line, for embezzling postotnee funds. !lr. Rrackct Cain ted. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Thc continental congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution adjourned sine die to-night after a week's deliberations. The close of the final session was marked by a dramatic incident. Mrs. A. G. lirackett, lirst vice president general and presiding officer during the week's sessions, succumbed to the strain which her duties have Imposed upon her and fainted ns she brought her gavel down and doetared the congress adjourned. She was placed in a carriage and taken to her home. Approved ly the PreiIeii t. WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.-Th2 President has approved the following acts: To provide for closing the Pass a l'outre crvasse in the Mississippi river; to authorize the Montgomery. Haynevllle & Camden Railroad Company to bridge the Alabama river; for the improvement of the government reservation at Fort Smith Ark.; to provido for the use and occupation of reservoir sites: granting certain homestead holders in Florida the right to sell storm-felled timber. Irlee of Armor riate to Be? $IOO. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The Senate committee on appropriations has completed consideration of the naval appropriation bill. Among the changes made Is one tixlng. In specific terms, $-100 per ton as the maximum price to be paid for armor plate, and providing that In case the plate cannot be procured at this price the government shall establish a plant and make its own armor. The Senate committee also made provision for three additional torpeelo boats. Said Farewell to (irover. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-A number of the Washington correspondents of the newspapers outside of the capital called upon President Clevelaml to-day to pay their respects and say farewell to the head of the outgoing administration. The President extended a hearty welcome to his callers, each of whom was personally pre. nented to him. and acknowledged in felicitous term3 the greetings of the newspaper men. Torpeelo Dont "anietl TJie FarrnKnt." WASHINGTON, Feb. 27,-Secretary Herbert has christened the new torpedo boat, known as No. 6, the Farragut, after the great war admiral who made his reputation in the popular mind by running the batteries of the Mississippi over torpedoes. He has also Invited the naval committees of the Senate anel the House to take a trip down the Potomac next Monday on the new craft. Cleneral !Vote. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. To-day's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, J213,003,023; gold reserve, $14$,SS2..rCG. Lokcm by Fire. CANTON, O.. Feb. 27. The immense plant of the Middle Rr.inch. Portland and Diamond Cement Company, located at Middle Rranch. ten miles north of Canton, burned this morning. The lire started at tho kilns and the destruction is complete. The plant was owned by Cleveland parties. 7.. P.. Davis being president. It was valued at S2l0.f(i0: partially Insured. One hundred mm are thrown out of cmployement. The works were tunning full time. JACKSON. Mich., Feb. 27. Fire broke out to-night tinder the stage In Hlbbarel's Opera House and burned with terrific force until nothing remained but portions of the exterior walls. Several tlrcmen had narrow escapes from falling timbers. The building w is erected In lvd and cost I10.0X. It was Insured for only $ir,-0. It was leased by C. J. Whitney, of Detroit, and sublet to Waldrcn & Todd, of Jackfon. This city Is now without a theater. AMSTERDAM. N. Y.. Feb. 27.-The Pio-ne-er knitting mill, occupied by Chasa Rrothers. mitten manufacturers, was badly damaged by lire and water to-day. 1iss estimateel at $R0O. The mill gave employment to about a hundred hands and had orders enough on hand to run until September. PITTSnCRG. Feb. 27. The Srhenley Park roller coaster and musltorium. opposite Carnegie Library, was destroyed by tire at 4 o'clock this morning Ross, $ir.(. TORONTO. Feb. 27. Fire In the large dy gcods emporium of W. A. Murray Co.. to-day, did damage to the extent of nearly Jl',uu0. Never, Atchison Globe. We never expect to sp th? day when we can pass a boy with a snowball la his hand, without feeling afraid

GEN. LEE CALLED A LIAR

Olll CONSII, GKNEUAl. DEXOI XCIJD DV A SPAMSil OFFICIAL. One-Sided Investigation of the Dentil of Ruiz American Intuited by VeIcr OIney to Sherman. NEW YORK. Feb. 27. The Hera'd's copyright cable dispatch from Havana says: The Marquis de Palmerola rcaele a scandalous personal attack on General Lee Wednesday night In the palace in the presence of several American newspaper correspondent::. The incident arose because the censor refused to pass a dispatch for the correspondents which said that the release of Scott had been demanded because he wa.s both arnskd and kept in prison in defiance cf the law. "Who told you that?" shouted General Palmerola, the secretary of state for the island. "General Lee," replied a correspondent, calmly. "General Lee is a liar, impostor, and rebel," shouted the little marquis, with an oath. General Lee is, of course, too busily engaged in endeavoring to induce our government to protect the lives and property of our fellow-citizens to pay any attention to Pulmerola's outbreak. I give the incident merely to show hov the wind is blowing in the palace-, and to let you see what must be the treatment and position of an ordinary citizen here when our consul general is reviled in such an open manner by one of tho heads of the government. Tho State Department seems to think that with the release of Scott from solitary confinement the incident is closed. Tne department is mistaken. The situation is still the same a elescribed on Wednesday. General Lee leaves Havana at the moaieat when he Is satisiied that the government at Washington will not do its whole duty In preventing the occurrence ot anoiher Ruiz murder. Tne investigation promised by the Spanish government into the manner in wnich Rui came to his death has been begun, but with closed doors and apparently without the slightest attempt to preserve even an outwaru appearance of sham legal proccdure. Lieutenant Colonel Navarro, of tho general stair, lias oeen sent to Guanabacoa to make an investigation, and he spends his time taking refreshments in a cafe with Major Fondevicia, the chief butcher, and the alcaide, Marury, his jackal and scavenger. Mrs. Ruiz was asked by this strange trio, forming the investigating committee, to be ailoweu to disinter Dr. Ruiz's body. She referred them to General Lee, to whom she has delegated lull power to represent her ami to protect such of her interests as have not been destroyed with the dcatn of her husband. The investigating committee eiid not call upon General i-ee lor the necessary permission, but on Tuesday evening they teok the Dody out of the grave ia the cemetery and only returned it on Wednesday nignt. It has not transpired what they old wim it. However, it is Known that tho body was viewed by the leading military surgeons, and they nave doubtless been ordereel to sign an opinion to the effect that Dr. Ruiz committed suicide Of course none of the many witnesses who can testily as to the manner in which Ruiz was murdered will be summoned belore this investigating committee composeel of his murutrers. And even should- they be called they would not dare tell the truth unless our Ueet should be in Havana harbor and cur government be prepared to protect tnem from Spanish barbarity. The amount of indemnity to be demanded by our government for tne wife and children of Dr. Ruiz has not been fixed yet. Dr. Ruiz left his family well nigh penniless. Dr. Rurgess. of the American Marine Hospital service, has made a written report to the consul general of bis examination of the body of Dr. Ruiz and as to what transpired at the autopsy. This document, together with the written statement of the widow of Dr. Ruiz as to tho manner In which her husband's arrest, imprisonment and death took place, has been mailed to the State Department and should reach Washington on Monday. In Guanabacoa it 13 stated that Dr. Ruiz's neck was broken. 1 called Dr. Burgess s attention to this, and he said he could neither affirm nor deny it. A young ladv. a member of one of tho many distinguished families who have property and 'plantations in the eastern end of the island, near Santiago de Cuba, has been arrested and thrown into the Casa de Ilecojidar., or prison for disorderly women, in that piace. The only charge against her is that she was making lint to elress the wounds of the insurgents. The papers in the case are now in the hands of the acting French consul general here, and it is expected that energetic action will be authorized from Paris. olm:y to siikrmas. Letter from tlte Secretary to the Senator on the SanguiUy Case. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. The fact that Senator Sherman has been .tept informed by Secretary of State Olney of tho progress of the negotiations for the release of Julio Sanguilly from prison was intimated during the debate in the Senate this week upon the resolution demanding Sanguilly's immediate release. The resolution was reported to the Senate by Senator Sherman as chairman of the committeo on foreign relations by the unanimous vote of that committee on Wednesday, the 2lth. In the course of the debate on the following day, Senator White, of California, said it was understood that the committee on foreign relations had received notice that Sanguilly was about to be released, but the members of the committee did not confirm Senator White's remarks. That any correspondence on the subject had taken place has not befcrc been definitely known. The first letter from Secretary Olney was received by Senator Sherman on Feb. 17, and was as follows: "Dear Mr. Sherman In reply to your message of to-day about the Sanguilly case I desire to say for your own use and information exclusively, that sineo my report of Feb. 1 certain confidential communications have taken place between this government and the Spanish government which I confidentially expect to result in Sanguilly's release. Indeed, I am given to understand that a cable from Madrid ordering the release may be expected any moment. The matter is of a somewhat delicate nature and I shall be very sorry to have the present favorable prospects for Sanguilly's release injuriously affected, as they would be verv likely to be by any public discussion of the case in the Senate or elsewhere." On the 21th. the day on which the Sanguilly resolution was reported, the second letter was received by Senator Sherman. The rumor of such a letter was current and it was reported that the committee would withdraw its resolution, but this was not done. The second letter from Mr. Olney, with an inclosure. follows: "Sir Referring to the case of Julio Sanguillv, I am just in receipt of a note from the Spanish minister at this capital, copy of which (in translation) 1 herewith inclose." The inctosure. which is marked "personal and private." is dated "Spanish Legation, Feb. 2-V It follows: '"Mr. Secretary Referring to the confidential note which I had the honor to address you on this date, relative to the American citizen. Sanguilly. I have the honor to inform your excellency, confidentially, that, in order that the benevolent intention of bis Majcstj-. the King of Spain, with regard to that citizen may take effect. It is necessary that he should withdraw the appeal which he has taken against the judgment of the court which condemned him. it is absolutely necessary under the Spanish laws that. In order that his Majesty may exercise- the ri?ht of pardon, the sentence should be final. The minister of the colonies, in obedience to the order of the council of ministers, has telegraphed to Cuba to have the necessary proceedings expedited, in case Sanguilly or his counsel withdraws the appeal taken. When this is done, and when the pardon can be decreed in aecorelar.ee with the law, it will be communicated by cable." PASSPORTS NOT GOOD. Cnptnln CJeneral W'o ler Inmiltn nn American Minister of ilio GoNpel. WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. Representative Stalling, of Alabama, will accompany Her ry W. McDonnell, of Pcint Clear, Ala., who Is part owner of a large plantation near Havana, to the State Department on Monday and aid him in the presentation of his claim for damages against Spain for the destruction of his plantation in Cuba. Mr. McDonnell, who is a minister, arrived hero

yesterday from Havana, where he says he was contemptuously treated by General Weyler anel his claim of American citizenship spurned. He was there early in February to look after his property interests and found the plantation In ruins and the machinery gone or destroyed. On his return to Havana he gave vent to his feelings in frank Amf rican fashion, he says, and was arrested and brought before Weyler. When he displayed his passports and demanded his release. General Weyler took the paper and threw it contemptuously aside, saying it was valueless in Havana. Mr. McDonnell stys General Weyler did not. as reported, stamp the document under foot, nor did the Incident occur in the presence of Consul General Ice. Subsequently, at the request of General Lee. Mr. McDonnell wa3 released an 1 he forthwith hastened to this cits. Mr. Stalling says his constituent is a minister cf the gospel and entitled to absolute credence. So far as he knows, however. McDonnell does not contemplate the filing of a c laim for damages for his temporary arrest, but only for property destroyed. Cleveland Will Be Welcomed. HAVANA, Feb. 27.-La Lucha, In a leading editorial, comments on the proposed trip which, it is reported, Grover Cleveland will make to Cuba, as follows: "Mr. Cleveland will find the island quite changed since he was here six years ago. He will be treated with every consideration due to him for having resolutely opposed all attempts to break off friendly relations between the United States and Spain. His recent acts prove his absolute sincerity In his efforts to bring about the punishment of those who violate the neutrality laws and to put a stop to the saiiing of filibustering expeditions from the United State: ports for Cuba." The Spanish-American Gas Company has refused to .reduce the nrlce.of gas. as requested recently by the eonsum-?rs committee. The consumers will retaliate. An eighteen-year-old girl, charged with having sent a letter to her lover In the rebel camp, has been seized and confined in the jail for men. A dispatch' from Madrid quotes exPremier Sagasta as saying: "The more Americans get the more exacting they will be." RuIz'm Jailers Exonerated. NEW YORK, Feb. 27. A dispatch to the World from Madrid says: Spain's foreign minister, the Duke of Tetuan.-has cabled to the Spanish legation at Washington the contents of a telegram from the Marquis of Ahumada. U. acting captain general at Hanvana, statins; that an official Inquiry shows that no blame attaches to the o facials of the prison, to the other prisoners or to the authorities of Guanabacoa for the death of Dr. Ruiz. The marquis adds that both the Spanish and American physicians have officially certified th-t Huiz's death was due to congestion of the brain and there was no indication of a blow or of illtreatment. All the newspapers except the cautious ministerial organs", arc echoing the extreme Irritation of all classes of the Spanish peorl? and severelv censure the government for advising the" Quee-n to grant Sanguilly lilerty. Several papers believe the incident will leail to the resignation of the Cancvas ministry. Ruiz j Death ".atural." MADRID, Feb. 7. The premier, Scnor Canovas del Castillo, at a Cabinet council to-day, at which the Queen Regent presided, declared that the differences with the United States in regard to the treatment of prisoners was without importance. He added that an impajtial inquiry into the deatn of Dr. Ricardo Ruiz, the American citizen who died re-cently in the prison of Guanabacoa under circumstances which led to the report that he had been beaten to death, showed that the doctor expired from natural causes.

Sherman AVI 11 Protect American. DES MOINES, la., Feb. 27. Major Hoyt Sherman, brother of Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, has just returned from a visit to the latter and says the incoming secretry of state favors immediate action to protect American citizens in Cuba, and criticises the present administration for not doing so. He favors sending a battle ship to Cuba instanter, and thinks It would not provoke war with Spain. American in Peril at Manilla. LONDON, Feb. 27. A special dispatch from Madrid says that among the persons arrested at Manilla yesterday as a result of the uprising there. Is an American. The prisoners will bo court-martiale-d and probably shot. Senor lorote Recalled. HAVANA. Feb. 27.-Fitzhugh Lee, jr., and Senor Luis Morote, the correspondent of Kl Liberal, of Madrid, sail to-day for the United States on loard the Mascotte. Senor Morote has been recalled. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITI ES. The Nottingham cotton mills at Providence, R. I., the cotton mills of the Wauregan Company, the Quinnebaugh Company and the Lockwood Company, of Wauregan and Danielson, Conn., have begun a curtailment of production. The Legislature of New Mexico has passed a bill exempting beet sugar factories, woolen mills, smelters, refining and reduction works from taxation for a period of Jlv'3 years. The Governor will approve the measure end it will become a law. Papers incorporating D. Appleton & Co. were filed at Albany. N. V., yesterday. The eapital is ?2.000.O.i0. which is to be employed in the business of printing and publishing books. There will be no change in the Appleton house consequent on Incorporation. Friends and relatives of Otis Smith, the defaulting cashier of the Georgia Security and Ranking Company, who has been in jail at Atlanta awaiting a preliminary examination for a week past, have arranged a settlement of his shortage and he will be allowed to go free. Alfred Reed, proprietor, and Walter Cristy. political editor of the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, who were recently convicted-' of criminal libel in the cases of State Senators C. L. Ma gee and Wm. Flinn, have been sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and costs each. PADUCA1I, Ky., Feb. 27. A number of houses in tho business portion of WicklifTe, Rallarel county, were destroyed this afternoon by lire, which started In the Watwood Hotel. The hotel and considerable adjacent propertj were burned. No estimate of the loss can be given. Lumber manufacturers in the Pemigcwasset valley. New Hampshire, are operating their mills on full capacity at present In expectation that prices will be higher if a new tariff shall be passed by the next Congress. It is estimated that about 300.000 feet of lumler are being sawed tlaily. Arthur W. Tlatt. alias Edward R. Taylor. who 1 being taken to Kentucky to stand trial on the charge of raurelering Jesse Tyrce, an inmate of the insane asylum at Texington. twelve years ago. arrived at New York from Kngland yesterday. Piatt v.as arrested aLQxfonl, Kngland. last May. The American Train liny. From a Frenchman's book. Here again I pause to express my astonishment to think that I have the audacity to attempt to eiescribe these bewildering Americans even to my own sister. No other people would submit to have this traveldisturber let loose upon them. No downtrodden Armenian but what would slay a Turk, were a Turk allowed to torture him In this fashion: no Chinaman who would not rise and strangle a Japanese conqueror who should attempt to tease him, by the hour, by the mile, by ihe whole journey, in this manner. . These good Americans pay transportation, and then permit themselves to be put In a cage, with a monkey in uniform, who shoves baskets of saIiva-poli?hed apples under their noes, who tumbles cheap literature into their laps, who plays Tantalus to their children with indigestible sweets, anil who yells his nasalized menu In their cars from start to finish of their journey. I repeat, who can understand, who can make comprehensible such a people, to ono who has not seen them at home? Movement of Steamer. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 27. Sailed: Lou's, f.-r New York. St. NEW YORK. Feb. 27. Arrived: Britannic, from Liverpool. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 27. Sailed: Waesland, for Liverpool. HAVRK. Feb. 27. Arrived: La Dretagne, from New York. NAPLES. Feb. 27.-Sailed: Fulda, for New York. Tvto .VI en Frozen to Death. RAWLINS. Wyo., Feb. 27. A searching party which started from here yesterday to look for Thomas Hogg and a half-breed. Iszlel. who had leen m!.jslng since Saturday last, returned yesterday, having found the men fourteen miles from this city. They were lying side by side, where they had both frozen to death. Dr. Stclnitc May Recover. NEW YORK. Feb. 27. Tho New York Staats Zeltung has received a dispatch from Its Berlin correspondent stating that a change for the better has taken place in the condition of Dr. Stelmtz, the chess player, and that his full restoration to

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SCHINNEER IS WINNER

CHAMPION I.OG-DISTACE D1CYCLI2 RIDRR OF THE WORLD. Covered 1.7SS Mile In the Six-Day Content at CMcsko Will Ire Prize Money for I'eliicntlon. CHICAGO. Feb. 27. The closing hours of the world's international six-day and slxr.ight bicycle race were wild with enthusiasm. Fully 20.000 people crowded Tattersail's building. The paddock inclosed by the track was packed and the press stand was overflowing. The cheering of the spectators aroused the remaining contestants to renewed efforts. At 9 o'clock the order was: Schinneer, Miller, Ashingcr, Iawson, the "Terrible Swede," and Hansen, the "Rain Maker," with hardly a foot between them. Hannan, the fireman, had droppeei out of the race at 2:30 p. m., being thrown from hl3 wheel by a trainer attempting to cross the track, after ridlijg 1,4) miles, lacking 120 milea of having enough to secure a prize for his long, weary ride. At 10:03 p. m. Fred Schinneer. of Germany, was declared champion long distance rider of the world, having covered 1.7SS miles and four laps, but lacking 122 miles of coming up with Hale's Madison-square Garden record. Charles Miller, also of Germany, got second place, with Charles Ashlnger third, John Lawson. the "Terrible Swede," fourth, and Anton Hansen fifth. While the physical conelltton of the five riders who finished looked discouraging to the future of six-day racing, the men were not considered In a serious condition. Fred Schinneer, the winner, speaking of his long endurance, says that he (eels strong and in a healthy condition, and with a little sleep and rest he will be able to defend the title be has just "won. He will leave in ten days for an extended trip through the South, visiting New Orleans, La., Rirmingham, Ala., and points in Texas and Old Mexico, and on his return to Chicago will enter college with the money won and will graduate as a mechanical engineer. IIliY, the "no-legged" rider, covered 41 miles, riding le-ss liian an average of eight hours per day. Schinne-er and Miller did not suifer much from saddle soreness, a complaint that has troubled some of the riders very badly. The makers of the saddle which was ridden by loth the leaders were about the happiest people at the finish when they found that their men had experienced so little trouble., lawson was in very bad condition, and was literally raw from chafing. It will be several days before he can walk with any degree of comfort. The final scores follow: Schinneer, 1.7SS miles 4 laps; Miller. 1.764 miles 1 lap; Ashlnger, 1,727 mileo; Lawson, 1,707 miles 1 lap; Hansen, 1.C03 miles 3 laps. Culluisher nu Eany Winner. PITTSBURG, Feb. 27.-In the billiard tournament to-night Gallagher was an easy winner. He played an average game throughout and although Maggioll made some brilliant plays and the highest run of the night, his miserable work in the first part of the game proved too much of a handicap. Score: Gallagher-e. 3, 30. 12. 61. 1. 23. 37. 7. 1, 11, 0. 6, l. 2. 0, 0. 24. IV. 22. 4. HI. 23400. Highest run. 61; averages, 16. 16-21. Maggioll 1. 0. 3, 23, 0, 8, 1. 13, .r. 1, 9. 1, 10. 1. 4. y, 7. 75, 32. 3. IS, S, 424). Highest run, 7j; average, 10 9-23. Tnle OnrKiiien in Peril. NEW HAVEN. Conn., Feb. 27. For the first time in three years the Yale crew has met with an accident. This afternoon Captain Dailey's oarsmen wrecked their barge on the sunken debris of the old Nov Haven & Hartford Railroad bridge in the Quinnipac river. The boat was on the point of sinking when some oystermen at work on the river rescued the Yale oarsmen. The barge, whlrh had just been built for the crew on improved lines, had not been in use a week. The bottom was ripped up for twelvo feet. Anderson Defeated CJIavr. CLEVELAND, Feb. 27. There was a hot finish In the six-day bicycle race here this evening between Tillie Anderson and Lizzie Glaw, the former crossing the tape first by about a wheel s length. Dottie Farnsworth slipped one of the pedals of her wheel and dropped out of the race two laps before the close. The score was as follows: Anderson. 242 miles 8 laps; Claw. 242 miles S laps; Allen. 212 miles 8 laps: Farnsworth, 242 miles 6 laps; Raldwln, 223 miles; Berry, 2u2 miles 1 lap. ' Odd Too Cireat for Itolert. LONDON, Feb. 27.-The billiard, match between Rolcrts and Peall was won by the latter. Tho game was for 24.000 points, spot stroke barred. Kolcrts conceding 12.1) points to I'eall. Roberts's score was 23,00 points. XEW YOKIt RKSIDI-rVCUS. Few Costly Ones Ilehig Dullt Otvinir to Supei'Mt Ition. Letter in Philadelphia Press. Since Cornelius Vanderbilt's costly cltv dwelling upon Fifth avenue, just south of the plaza was completed, no propositions for costly and conspicuous priate mansions have been offered to the architects. There is a reluctance, due in part io a superstition not frankly acknowledged, to spend great ums in building city hor.es or country places. E. C. Renedlct's mlPIondollnr country seat, erected upon the site of Tweed's Americus Clubhouse, Is conspicuous as an exception. There are melaneholy recollections that may in part explain this superstition. On lower Fifth avenue tho costly mansions erected not rrnny years ago for August Helmont and Marshall O. Roberts and Edwards Pierrepont and James Gordon Bennett are deserted and are to be delivered over to traele. The elder Bennett had a beautiful country place at the farther northern point of Manhattan island, but had not many years enjoyment on it. nor did Charles O'Connor, who was his neighbor in this then country retreat, find that he had bought much else there than ill health, which drove him to Nantucket Island to pass his declining years. C. 1. Huntington is said to have a superstition that ill fortune will attend him if ho occupies the granite mansion he built upon Fifth avenue, nearly opposite the Vanderbilt house. Yet it may be that he Is merely calling to mind the experienee of some of his friends. Charles J. Osborn. the broker, built a costly home just out of the city, only to die in It, anel the neighboring mansion of the millionaire, ! lagler. was closed In mourning soon after he occupied it. J. R. Bostwick'g charming place at Mamaroneck was his to enjoy not very long. Aspinwall met with misfortune soon after he built his famous place at Tarrytown, and not long after William Rockefeller enlarged and improved it his son was brought almost to death's door. Fallot F. Shepard died even before the great mansion he was building at Tarrytown was completed, and A. T. Stewart was barely settled in the marble palace which he built on Fifth avenue when death called him. William H. Vanderbilt's first stroke of paralysis came soon after his 'new home on Fifth avenue wa.s completed, and there, a few years later, came with the swiftness of the lightning's stroke the fatal attack. The marble house In which William K. Vanderbilt expected to maintain conspicuous social festivity became of such gloomy association by reason of domestic troubles that he abandoned it, while Cornelius Vanderbilt had been in all only a few months in his new mansion when his active powers were shattered, and so the list could be extended. There is no need to do that to show that Mr. Huntington's fear may be due to a pardonable superstition or that there are other reasons than a reluctance to spend 'money that explains why it la that the building of costly private mansions la the only investment, in real estate from which the greater capitalists seem to shrink. Man In a Aew Hole. Chicago Post. After calmly and critically surveying the work of the mothers' congress at Washington anel studying individual exploits, we must award the palm to Honorary Mother Anthony, of California. Honorary Mother Anthony Is a young man barely twenty-two years of age, but we ere prepared to affirm that he has the worldly wisdom and feminine cur.ring of a woman of forty. Not content ;viih the promulgation of the most admirable theories, Mr. Anthony brought into the congress a live baby, and deitly instructed the wondering ladies in the delightful art of washing "Wootsey-Tootsey" ami putting on his regulation articles of attire bless "is 'ittle 'cart! Now. it has been, claimed for man that he excels woman in every line of human endeavor a position which we are reluctantly compelled to take. Up to the present time wc have

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Such a book would have a tremendous sale, not only throuRh reason of its apparent usefulness, but because of the pride of man in the Rlory of sex. It is getting to be impossible to down us men. Brains will tell. HER VIEWS OX CHAM) OPERA. Clara. Louise IvcIIokk Criticises lixtravajcancc of Mnnncemciit. New Y'ork Mail and Express. Clara Louise Kellogg, or. more properly, Mrs. Carl Strakoseh, is making her uuai winter visit to New York. Mr. and Mrs. Strakoseh have a beautiful country place at New Hartford, Conn. a charming. vida in a picturesque siot. Here they reside nearly all of the year, enjoying rest and quiet after a professional career that for each was singularly eventful. The public is familiar with the history of the great singer. Her husband. Mr. Strakoseh, was no less active as an operatic manager than wits Clara Lku1so Kellopg as a finger, retiring only, a3 he himself expressed it, "when operatic management was no longer a matter of managing a company, but a question of how much money could be borrowed." For fourteen years the singer made her home at the Clarendon, so, for old associations' sake, that quiet hotel is invariably the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Strakoseh when they are In New York. They came to the city about Jan. 20, and will remain several weeks. Mrs. Strakoseh was asked by a Mail and Express reporter to give her impressions of the grand opera season. "I do not feel that 1 am qualiiied to discuss the grand opera, as 1 have been in the city such a short time," she said. "I am interested in the effort which Mr. Grau is making, and I hoie he may be able to continue another season to give New York the treat which is now afforded at the Metropolitan Opera House. Certainly, after the experiences of the last few years, when this city has had the best there is in the way of opera, it would be a great loss to be deprived of it." The subject of the outlook for a grand opera season 'another year naturally brought up the question of salaries paid to singers, and in answer to several questions sho said: "There is a difference between the sytdem now in vogue and that which formerly obtained. For a great many year3 singers in this country have received large salaries for their services, but It used to be the custom to give large compensation to those singers who drew the people and brought in the money. Now everybody connected with the grand opera, gets a large salary, and the expenses are enormous whether tho people come to hear or not. I think the present extravagant system harmful in that it makes operatic production a precarious undertaking, involving great financial responsibilities. When such men as Mr. Abbey, who brought the greatest stars to this country, are rendered absolutely penniless as tin, result of the expensive methods of conducting the opera at the present day. It looks a.i if there might be difficulty in always tinding some one to take the necessary risk. For it is a fact that as things are now pomebody has got to lose money. So I think the extraordinarily high prices paid are not a good thing for the opera itself. Of course. Nil?son and Campanini and some others used to get big pay. but you must renember that they always drew big audiences. Formerly the opera was self-supporting. There were no millionaire backers for operatic managers, and the managers themselves were able to make money, and now they nre not." Mrs. Strakoseh thinks thre Is another interesting problem involved in the question as to the future of grand opera. "Some one asked me the other day why The Harbcr of Seville' was no longt-r heard. The reason is that the people would not go to hear it. The fad for Wagner opeias is still on. I wonder if the people who go to hear the Wagner opera that is. the people outside of the real musicians really enjoy it? Three operas popular with Amer

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Office Honrs 0 n. m. to H p. m. , Sundays IO a. m. to 1'2 m. ican audiences are 'Carmen,' 'Faust and. Romeo et Juliette they always draw ic big house. There is nothing new, and after awhile the people must tire of all this, and then what? Of course, there mut l a reaction from the Wagnerian opera, and when that comes there may come with it a taste for lighter grand opera. I hit 1 do not know what the future holds in store' Jloston as Seen li ft Prrnrluimn. From America and the Americans. Boston reached a certain level, soelalljr and intellectually, before any of her rivals, but she seems to have stayed there: hence to-day the foreigner is confronted with t hn population of a city, in the social and literary short jacket and knickerbockers of a country town. The leaders of thought and action and fashion nre no longer to be met with in Eoston. The great houses socially are conducted by in three or four prln- v cipal cases men and women who are a. grandfatherles.s as their friends in New York. The entertainments of the more ambitious social set lack brilliancy, lerHUS there is u dearth of variety in the guests. Poor Mr. McAllister' h famous "Four Hundred" is cut down to fourscore here. ant as the very essence of society i. to be exclusive, exclusiveness here necessarily results in entertainments of the ghastly character of church sociables, only with more gliding. 1 attended four dinners, nt which th smallest number of guests was twelve, tho largest twenty-six or twenty-eight. At all four were my host and hostess, and at all four was one man. and at three two men, who seemed to be Invited to cvciy dinner in Boston. " Not that It was not agreeable to meet these same people everywhere, but In what other capital which assumes ruch importance is there such a dearth of mclal variety? 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Her owners appealed, and It was contended on their behalf that she could not reasonably 1k considered as a sailing vessel, because a Vessel could only Ik? a sailing vessel when it could comply with the ni'.es laid down for sailing vessels, such ns talking lo iirt and starboard. JJesldes. If she were h salllntr vessel, she would have to carry sidelights, and a canal barge with Mtlizhl wa a thing unheard of. The court did not think it necessary to decide this Miut, lecau.o the appellant's barge, having a motive power of two knots, could b kept out of th way by porting, and dismissed ihe app.il with costs. The Judges added that when the question of what was a sailing ship camo to be decided it would have to be v ry carefully considered, as there were a number of important points to be determined. One Happy Moment. Philadelphia North American. "I was happy Just ence In my life." Marie Burroughs once said. 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