Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 38, Number 8, Jasper, Dubois County, 1 November 1895 — Page 6

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOAXK, l?iibllhor. JASPER. - - - INDIANA. Ex-Sknatoi: Vax Wyck, of Nebraska, died in Washington city, on the 54th, after several days' suffering from the effects of a stroke of paralysis. Tun Ohio Masonic home at Springfield, built at a cost of $150,000, was dedicated, on the 23d, in the presence of 40,000 people, gathered from every part of the state. (brat Britain has ajrain increased her eastern Mediterranean tlect, and Russia has sent her fleet which usually winters at Sebastopol down the Bosporus to watch England and Türke v. The assignment of the State hank of Duluth. Minn., was announced on the 2lst. Charles Stockey, the cashier, had been missing for several days. The Imnk carried deposits aggregating SlOO.000. Sicxoit RoNGHl.the celebrated author and member of the Italian chamber of deputies, died, on the 22d, at Torre del Greconear Naples, where he was ojourniug in the hope of benefiting his health. Tim citizens of Alaska are greatly exercised over the boundary line question, and propose to fight rather than sec what they term the richest portion of the United States annexed to British Columbia. Fourteen persons implicated in the missionary massacre were executed at Foo-Chowon the 21st. The four condemned leaders were taken from KuCheng, on the 22d, to Fco-Chow to be put to death. Tun Russian government has closed a contract with the Carnegie Steel Ca for a large amount of their patent carbonized rcforged armor, the recent tests of which at Washington were so remarkably successful. Ok the 21st Chief-Justice Fuller in the United States supreme court announced the advancement on the calendar for an early hearing of numerous cases mostly appeals in criminal cases, in which the United States is a party. Bands of Bulgarian marauders attacked and destroyed the Turkish village of Catunitza, near Melhick, in Roumanis, on the 23d. The village W3S defended by Turkish soldiers, twenty-three of whom were killed in the fight. It is announced in Colon that early next soring work on an extensive scale will be resumed on the Panama canal. Already s.OOO men have been engaged to work on the excavation at Culebra and to construct extensive wharves thereA Lake Shore ,t Michigan Socthr.BN train left Chicago at ?:29:27 a. m., on the 21th, and arrived at Buffalo, Is. Y., at n::Mh3t a. m. Elapsed time, 8:01:07. Average, including stops, G3. 10 miles per hour. Average, excluding top. 64.05 miles per hoar. This beats the world's record. The Chilian cutter Condor, from Juan Fernandez. island, arrived at Valparaiso, on the 2lst, with the crews of the two missing boats of the American thip Partltia, which was burucd at ea. There were nineteen members of the crew of the lost ship in the boats, and all were saved. All silver coinage, except that of subsidiary coin, has been ordered suspended after November 1 next by Secretary Carlisle. In carrying out this policy the New Orleans mint will be practically closed and dismantled after the date named, and its seventy employes furloughed without pay. Charles D. Rose withdrew his challenge by cable, on the 2Sd. for a yacht race against the Defender in l-'6 for the America'- cup. The reason resigned was that-his challenge was generally construed in yachting circles in England as a rebuke to Lord Dunraven for his course m the Valkyrie-Defender race. Dr. Spaiout, vice-consul of the United States at Georgetown, British Gtriana, now In Washington, is quoted as saying that Venezuela never claimed the land involved In the boun.lErv dispute until gild was found there, and that tha United States will make a mistake if she endeavors to assert the Monroe doctrine In connec tion therewith. In the town of Alders, across the river from New Orleans, tvo hundred and forty houses were uestroyed by fire on the morning of the 20th, cntnd inir a loss of S4(jO.W0. upon which there was but verr little insurance. The fire is smirwM' d to have been started by the keener of a fruit and confection art- str.rr. who would nrobablv have ...... . . been lynched if caught. Tun triangular contest between the Chicatro. Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail road Co., the Sioux City t St. Paul Railroad Co. and the settlers, backed bv the United State, for title to and TWISi- vsion of certain lands in O'Brien and Dickinson countie3, la., was set tied by the supreme court of the United States, on the 21st. in favor of the settlers and the United States. It is said that ia a recent interview, in which Ambassador Bayard was communicating to Lord Salisbury the dispatch from the American state department enforcing in strenuous terms the Monroe doctrine In connection with the Venezuelan dispute, the latter interrupted htm midway with the remark that he need not proceed further, as the British government could not even entertain the arguments put forward, and absolutely declined to recognize such an application cf the Monroe doctrine.

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lUll 11 rJ- X X JX X V U. TEE NEWS III BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Tin: report ttiat King Menelek of Abyssinia had Wen killed by a stroke of lightning wus officially continued on the 21st. Ui' to the 21st nothing had been heard of the tug Petrel, ot ciscoaa, Mich., and her owners had given her 1 up as iosu u umrai iiimu. jier crew ui eight persons were drowned. John Thomas, aged 22, unmarried, employed in one of the mines at Hartshorne, I. T., met with instant death, on the 21st, by leing crushed in a wreck of three loaded nit cars, which had broken loo from the balunce of i tin train and started hai-k ilim-n the I slope. His body was horribly mangled. Heniiv IIkkves. B. C. 1). C. L., the English historian, died at Christ Church. London, on the 21st, aged 52 years. He was for many years editor of the Edinburgh Review. A.4AKEI. Clark JCendkick, I). D.. L.L. D., died at Iiis home in Rochester. N. Y., on the 21st. aged SC For years he was professor of Greek and Latin in the University of Rochester. He published several introductory Greek text books. Miss Frances E. Willah was chosen president of the Woman's Christian Temperance union at the meeting in Baltimore, on the 22d. for the seventeenth consecutive time. Ex-Gov. Olivkr Amks, of Massachusetts, died at his home in North East on, on the 22d, aged 04. The business portion of Alta. Ia., was nearly wiped out by fire, on the 22d. at 2 a. in. The ground in Scotland and the west of England was covered with snow, on the 22d, though the trees were still in full foliage. Smallcox has again broken out in Wheeling, W. Va. Twelve new cases were reported on the 22d, making twenty in all up to that date. A Sr. Petersburg dispatch of the 22d said that Japan had decided to evacuate Corea in order to avoid complications, and in order to enable the government to concentrate its energies upon the subjugation of Formosa. Ex-Senatoh Van Wyck, of Nebraska, suffered a stroke of paralysis in Washington on the 21st As this is the second stroke suiTered by the ex-senator and owing to his advanced age 73 years his physicians hold out but little hope for his recovery. Acting Po stm a ste r- 1 1 ene r a l Jones has issued a fraud order against the Kansas Mutual Coupon Investment Ca, of Kansas City, Kas. An order has also been issued against the Kritish-Amer-ican Loan syndicate, of Chicago, for obtaining money through the mails by false and fraudulent practice.Keek Ckaig, third assistant postmaster-general, in his annual report, for the past fiscal year shows that postal revenues from all sources were S7ti.--s'3,12S, the expenditures being Ssö,700,172, an excess over receipts of $9,07.044. The works of the Crescent Linseed Oil Ca on Goose island. Chicago, were destroyed by fire on the night of the 22d. Loss, SITj.000; fully covered by insurance. One of the falling walls of the building crushed a small cottage occupied by a Polish family. None of the inmates were hurt The steamer City of St. Augustine, Capt Gaskill, which regularly traded lie twee n New York and Jacksonville, Fla., bringing lumber from the latter port, was burned at sea, eighteen miles off Hatteras, on the 22l Nothing is known of the fate of the crew. The queen regent of Spain has conferred on President Diaz of Mexico the grand cross of the Order of Military Merit, in recognition of the special services rendered by him to Spain. The husbands of a dozen of the most prominent women in Bay Shore, L. 1 , arraveu tuemseives m lemaie toggery. the night of the 22d, and prepared ' oyster sapper for their wives in the on an Con-'reiratioral church. for the church' benefit. The cooking- was not of the best, but the affair was a financial sncce.v. In revenue for a supposed wrongful dismissal from the force, an ex-police man of Leipsic fired five shots at Herr j'.rettschnetder, the chief of police, on the 23d, most of which struck him, but his life was saved by a large pocketbook in the breast pocket of his coat which protected his heart I'm: town of Bagwell, Tex.,w.i5 com pletely destroyed bv fire, on tin- night Of tiie 21st. only a lew minuing-s in i:ie outskirts of the place being left stanuing. The loss wili reach S100.0OO. The Queen's hotel, a frame structure at Hamilton, Out, was burned at mid night of the 22d, Anthony Koch, the proprietor, was smotuereu while attempting to rescua his three children. The children were subsequently saved by the firemen. Tun supreme ccurt of Arkansas on the 23d. overruled Chancellor Leatherman of Hot Springs, in the case against James J. Corbett, and declared the prize-fight law of the state valid in r.ll its part. The Spanish cabinet has decided to send the torpedo boats Ariete, Halcon and Azor to Cuba, and also to purchase immediately 1.500 Munscr rilles for tlie use of the Spanish troois in Cuba. A novel international contest in the shape of a revolver shooting match by cable between the crack shots of En gland and America is being projected. A terrmile explosion in the drying room of the Fibcrloid works located at Newburyport, Mass., on the 23d, caused the death of one man and fatal injuries to anotner. Three others were seriously hurt; loss. S-'iO.OOD. On the 2."d the cry of the auctioneer was heard throughout "Ironsides," the home of Mrs. Delta S. Parnell, at Hordentown, N. J., and the house, which was the birthplace of the mother of Charles Stewart Parnell, and which has been her residence for many years, is practically dismantled. Notwithstanding the historic value of M rs. Parncll's effects, they went for a mere SOUL'.

rtKUKW-äKi, the fames pianist, arrived in New York on the I 23d, nn the steamer leuton.e, Two moui; members of Kip Wyatt's baud of desperadoes have answered for t their many deeds of lawlessness. J.m Umbra and Mexican .lohn, licxivane who have been engaged in cattie-stcal-ing and various lawless enterprise, were lynched by enraged cattle men.on the 2Xd, in Oklahomu. From Havana conies the news that it is ih. daily practice of 'he Spanish jaHers to take several prisoners from the forts and prisons and shoot them Each morning the prisoners are placed in line. Ten men are selected for death. Perhaps it is the first teil, perhaps the last ten men, or the middle ten. men The names of the condemned are nut ascertained. They are simply penned up and slaughtered as animals. Feancis IIintox, the Milwaukee iron king, committed suicide in his hotel, in Paris, on the 23d. The dispatch announcing the event did not give the manner or eause. Aktkk a bitter legal struggle lasting three months, the testimony in the trial of Theodore Durrant, for the murder of Blanche Lamont, at San Francisco, was concluded on the 23d, and argument of the case begun. IN the presence of a gathering that filled the edifice Kev. T. De Wilt Talmage was, on the night of the 23d. established as co-pastor of the Presbyterian church of Washington, to which he had recently been called. The high school building at Delta, la., was burned, on the 25d, and nine people were injured. The school building was valued at S5.000. All of the injured will recover. A WiiECK occurred on the Pennsylvania railroad near Newport, Pa., at 2:15 a. m.. on the 24th, in which two persons were killed and several injured. The wreck was caused by a broken axle on an east-bound freight train, which threw several cars in front of a mail train on the west-bound track. The city of Lubin. capital of the government of that name in Russian Poland, was visited, on the 24th, by a hurricane, which resulted in great loss of life and much damage to property. A large number of worshipers were killed and injured by the collapse of the iron roof of the cathedral, Catt. John H. Gaskill and wife and keventeen men comprising the crew of the steamer City of St, Augustine, which was burned at sea. were landed at Itoston, cn the 24th, by the steamer City of Macon, Capt. Lewis, from Savannah. The French transport Canton arrived at Algiers from Madagascar, on the 4th. with a large number of invalid soldiers on board. Sixty-four died on the voyage, fourteen of them after the Canton passed Port Said. The members of the Perry Okla.) school board arc threatened with imprisonment for refusing to admit negro children to the schools established for white children. The republican national convention oflslHiwill be called about June 10. The place of meeting has not been agreed on. but Ciiicago or Pittsburgh, Pa., will be probably selected. Senok Boha, an influential native of the Isthmus of Panama, is pressing his government to recognize the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. The condition of the czaro-vitz of Russia has become very much worse, and he is not now able to proceed to Nice, where a villa has iteen prepared for his occupancy during the winter. LATE NEWS ITEMS. News from Cuba, received via Key Weit. Fla., on the 2'.th, stated that, on the 21st, Gen. Maceo, who, by forced marches, had reached the province of ( Matanzas. with 3.000 Cubans, entrapped a force of 2.S0O Spanish cavalry intoan ambush, defeating them, after a four,ol.,r;VßSL "ki 1oit ;0? ma k,lleiL hich the Spaniards neth. the forger and embezzler, who abiconded from Memphis. Tenm, with a shortage of 300.000, arrived at Puerto Cortez. Honolulu, on the Royal Mail line steamer Breakwater, from New Orleans, on the 23d, accompanied by his wife. He was under police surveillance. Mns. John L. Walle::, wife of the imprisoned ex-Urited States consul at Tamatave, Madagascar, had an inter view witli Secretary Herbert, on the 25th, but did not call on Secretary 01ney. She will call on Mr. Olney as soon all the papers in behalf of her husband have been classified. Ross C Van Bokkelex, the embezzling teller of the Merchants' Loan and Trust Co., of Chicago, entered a plea of guilty in the criminal court, on the 25th. and was given an indeterminate sentence, and was at once taken to the penitentiary at Joliet Ahout 00 feet of the cast wall of the Elmore Manufacturing Co-'s bicycle factory at Clyde, 0., fell into the street on tlie morning of the 25th. A dozen persons were hurled in the debris. Two were fatally injured and seven others seriously hurt. Rose and May Weston, sisters, of the Fields fc Hanson dramatic company, were found in an unconscious condition, on the 25th, caused by escaping gas, in their room in the Gault house in Chicago. On the 25th the pot office department issued an order against the Brown Chemical Co., of Chieago, denying them the privilege of the mails for violation of the postal rules ami regulations. Reports from Erzerotsm. on the 25th, stated that serious disturbances, accompanied by extensive bloodshed.had occurred at Erzingen, where, it was stated, sixty Armenians had been killed. The navy department has been notified that hereafter no American naval officers will be permitted to take the course at the Greenwich (England) royal school of naval architecture. Lieut.-Gov. Millard of Michhjkn died in Los Angeles, Cal., on the night of the 24th.

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IN 1)1 AX A STATE XEW& The publication in the nowspaross of the fuet ttmt Ian Lizer, of Lincolnvdle, Wat'&sh county, has tue jvnr of handcuffs originally worn by John Brown, the aUdittouist, has brougnt Mr. Dan I.iaer innumerable letters of inquiry from all over tiie country. Many iwrsons. including a director of the Chicago board of trade, wish to buy the relic, but .Mr. Lizer refuses to part with it. The price of new corn will be lower at Wabash this fall than for many years. Heretofore the farmers have been able to feed their corn to stock, but the crop this year H much larger than usual and for the tir&t time in a decade there will be heavy shipments of the cereal from Wabash county. Wabash elevator men expect to pay twenty cents, per bushel. Gi:o::ni: Hartman, aged 10, was killed by a trolley car at Lafayette, a few days ago. His body was frightfully mangled. ScAia.ET fever is raging in Van Buren township, near Shelbyville, and the schools have been suspended for the present TnorsAND of barrels of apples are going to waste in Harrison county for lack of river transportation. The Methodist Church at Oaktown, Knox county, was burned the other evening. Nothing was saved- The congregation will rebuild. Rev. Myron Hartley, for several years minister of the Friends' Church in Wabash, accepted a call to the Friends Church at Plain field and will at once move his family to his new charge. A noibei: of quails have invaded Hartford City, and the inhabitants take it as a good omen. There are also woodcock and jacksnipe in town. The other morning Win. M. Kemp, a Hartford City business man, killed a jacksnipe with a club back of his store room just on the public square. Uncle Billy Pnow, while crossing the railroad on a wagon at Ellettsrille, was struck by the Chicago flyer, the other evening, and badly injured. JosEi'ii Jokdan, a laborer, in attempting to board a moving train at Indianapolis.fell under and was killed, lie was a man of family. Levi A. Hakdestv, of Southport, has celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday. 11c settled in Marion county in 135. The laying- of the gas line by the Chicago Pipe-Line Co.. has been stopped in Grant county by the sheriff. Commission men arc paying farmers but seventy cents a barrel for the finest apples, and lots of corn has been sold at twenty cents. A discovery" has just been made in chemistry which will, it is alleged, work a great change in the develop

ment of oil and gas wells in the Indiana and Onio oil fields. It has been found . . . that the action of hvdro-chloric acid on the limestone formation in this territory is far more powerful than nitroglycerine in opening up the Trenton strata, while it is much less dangerous to handle. The removal of a ton of rock by the application of a ton of acid in the" bottom of a gas or oil well means a great deal for producers and a practical test just . made is aid to demonstrate the efficiency of the new agent An increase of aOO per cent in tho yield of oil and 400 per cent in the production of gas is reported to have followed the use of the acid in certain wells. The acid is said to peculiarly ntlect the Ohio and Indiana limestone formations and is valueless in the sedimentary deposits of the eastern states where oil is found. An incident calculated to emphasize the remarkable drought in Indiana is the shutting down of the Eaton paper mill because of the lack of water. This mill is supplied with water from the Mbsisinewa river. There is a dam above the mill site and the water has teen leaded by the paper company, but the supply is insufiicient and the mill had to shut down cr pump the river dry. Mrs. Achilla Citncoi: has brought suit at Sheibvillc against the Cincin nati, Hamilton and Indianapolis Railway Co. for S10.000 for killing her hus band, Theodore Cregor, while he was a passenger on that railtvay. The complaint alleges that Cregor, November 14. IS03. was on a train which was. crowded and he was required to ride in a caboose; that after a number of passengers had alighted he was requested to pass into another coach, and in doing fo fell between tlie cars and was killed. At liagcrstown, Wayne county, an- ; other gas well has been drilled in by . the local gas company. Its capacity j is aooux. equal 10 wie several oiners drilled there. Vital statistic of Wayne county for the three months show that there were a total of 140 deaths, 103 births C4 marriages and 172 cases of contagious and infectious diseases. Two cases of diphtheria in the fami ly of William llcisinger, north of Mar- ' tinsville. were operated on with antitoxine bv Dr. 11 M. Sweet with very gratifying results. Dipntiierin prevails to an alarming extent in f-omc parts of Morgan county. The schools of Morgantown were closed. Ed Smith, a tough young man of Huntington, was the other morning convicted at Wabash of criminal nsault upon a young girl named Lake, in Wabash, a month ago, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Ft. Way.vk was thronged with visitors for jcveral days to sec the centennial celebration, and pickpockets reaped a harvest Seven of them were caught in the act. No less than twenty pockets were reported "picked" the other morning. Patrick McMahon, an ex-guard at the prison south, who was supposed to have been murderously assaulted the other evening by Geo. Roberts, an escaped convict, nie three days later. McMahou was unable to give a statement as to how he was hurt Lo(ianmout Odd Fellows will forma Mock company to build a 23U.O0O temple that city.

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fjtrt N- from II w.ili iinl Sniiui.i K fflvf.l irr Msiht .Unrl-. -VtttiUMiig !!ii4l!it - Tlut !' of llit lluiilolunt III-iirrr-iiiiUii-lrulli llvr Iitutrtl l'o. ..Inn til llio 11.iiiiI f .mlnr. Ks. ii-t'lt-tl. San Francisco, Oct 25 , (Correspou dencc of tho United Press per steamer Muriposiii: Uonolilv, Oct 17. Near lye very restriction caused by the cholera epidemic has beeu removed by the boanl of health. A few slight precautions arc still continued for a few days longer. The council has appropriated S25,tKH) more for expenses of the pestilence, making SOO.OOJ in alt. This, with the cost of the insurrection, uiaUes nearly 2200,000 extra expense this year, aud somewhat crumps tha public fiances. Henry .Smith, clerk of the supreme court, has been commissioned from Vieturia, B. C, to take testimony in the famous suit of Cranston ami Miller, two men deported last February, from Honolulu to Victoria. Thu suit is sgaiust the steamship Warrimoo, but the Hawaiian government is the responsible defetiiluiiu They claim SCO,001 1 da mages each. The case of V. V. Ash ford is assuming an interesting phase. Ash fowl was eonvicieu inst t eüruary oi misprision of treason, but was soon after pardoned on condition of exile, being in ill-health. The British govern: incut, on reviewitig the evidence at his trial, expressed the opinion that he was convicted on insuthcteut testi mouv, the chief witness against him being an accomplice, Sam Nowlen, tho military leader of the insurgents and corroborative testimoag being slender. A new feature in his case has now arisen by the government having secured the fullest testimony as to Ashford's complicity from a person in the closest intimacy with him. As Her Britannic Majesty's Commissioner Hawes has only just been informed of this, particulars cannot now be obtained. The United States cruiser Olympia lies in the outer roadstead. Tlie United States gunboat Bennington lies near the Olympia. All are well on both ships. Trouble Kxprctcd on the Ittanit of Xaulwa. San Francisco, Oct. -.'.. (Correspondence of the United Press, per steumei Mariposa): Ai'i.v, Oct 9. There is likely to be some trouble with a high chief of the. island of Naniwa. A half-caste Ger- i iban inherited . from his father, lately deceased, the whole of this small island, on which the latter had effected numerous improvements during his thirtvodd years of occupancy. but had not se cured a cood title. The .supreme court, on investigation, awarded tlie I j am to ''a':ln on payment of a certain ..... . . I... .... , auiu iu kilt; utiiitu?. The court title has been issued tc Laban, Jr., but the high chief claiming the islund defies the court and threatens the life of Luban if he should venture to return to Naniwa ! It remains to be seen whether or not German man-of-war Falke will as&ist Lauan to take possession. I mere is a scarcity or com here at the present time. EX-SENATOR VAN WYCK Dir from tbe L'ffrrtii of a Stroke of I'm. rMlynla. Washington, Oct 2.' Ex-United . States Senator Charles II. Van Wyck, ' who. Mondav afternoon last, suffered I a severe stroke of paralysis at his ( I quarters in me l oriianu noiei oi uns city, died about ; o'clock yes lent ay ' afternoon. The attack in M-jiulny 'last was altogether without provo- : j cation and happened while the ex- I . senator apparently was feeling in tin- j utually good health. Medical assist- i ance was immediately available, there being' a physician at the hotel at the j I time, and he, with little delay, diag- . I nosed the ease as paralysis, and ad- j vised the summoning of Mr. Van ' . Wvck's family physician, Dr. W. W. S 1 Johnston. Dr. Johnston found, after examina- ; tion, that the patient's entire left side was paralyzed and there was nc I ground for giving hope of his recovery. Mrs. Van Wyck and their I daughter, assisted by a nurse, were , constantly in attendance upon him. There will be no services here over th ic body of the late ex-Senator Van ' WvcIl The remains were taken to j Milford, Pa., last night at 10 o'clock for j intermtjnt, where th ree of his children , arc buricii. ANTI-TOXINE DENOUNCED. Another liiiportnnt .Mittler l'ciii Willen tltf Doctor DUncrre. Chicago, Oct. 21. Dr William II. Cook, of this city, who has spent forty years in tlie pursuit and practice oi his profession, has prepared for dis tribution among the physicians oi ' tl,u clly a tp1Iet 5 which he i lenouueeil the use of the anti-tox-luiiii-iiv iui uiiitiii;i in insanity and scores the commissioner ! of health of Chicago for permitting j the department physicians to use the ; fccrnm. He says that horse serum produces blood poisoning aud that doc tors are fools to inject it into human blood. The doctor declares that some persons are so susceptible to the fad that it kills them, and says the "fad" will disappear in a year. THE SEAT OF THE PAPACY. Humors of Its l'rnpoanl Removal to Avignon, France, Hevlvett. Rome, Oct. 2.1. Rumors of the contemplated transfer of the seat of the papacy to Avignon, France, have been revived, but are not credited here. Politicians will recall the story of a plan formulated by the cardinals In 1675 to hold the conclave to elect a new pope outside of Italy, whereupon SIgilor Crispi declared that once the anlinals and the pops weut out of . It... , ,vv K u1 ' nvuiu .uwjr ti n i,iin...imi..nl .-..1.1 ;.,n the vaticiti.

VICTOUIOUS CUBANS. Urll. Miirro In Vinte llio I'rovlnco ail M,. t:nu im mill ItitIVjit it I. a rue SpiiiUti I'nri'i', Willed Voluntarily Mitr-litN Into Trail, fioin Hindi "fliey Kutnstt Tottr Hour Lulrr, l.i'iilu;; SOU .Men IJt-;n ull Ilm I ii 1.1. New Voru, Oct. 27. Tho Times prints the following dispatch from Key West: News received hero to-day states that Gen. Maceo hus by forced marches reuched the provuico of Mntanzas, and that last Monday, with :s,0R) Cubans, he engaged a cuvulry force of 2,s(K) Spaniards in the San Juan valley. Early in the morning the Insurgent outposts brought newsof the approach of thu Spanish cavalry. Gen. Maceo at once placed his army in position to receive the enemy. A hollow square was foriueil and a force of 1,000 men placed in ambush. The Spanish forces, unaware of the presence of the enemy, marched into the trap of death, and were only apprised of their perilous position when the iusurgents opened fire upon them. The Spaniards made a urave fight, but, owing to the thickness of tlie for

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j icy, were greany iianUicapped. After , a struggle of four hours the Spanish 1 troop, were forced to retreat leavuir soa nuju llc:id on lh(J ficUL ' ' The msurgonts secured all the arms and ammunition of the Spaniards. I T,,it' b"l 's the most iniDortaut light since the breaking out of the revolu tion. The Cubau colony here is wild with joy. Private advices confirm tiie report of the landing of an expedition in Cuba tinder the leadership of Col. Carillo. The expedition was landed at Boco del Toro, October 21, and consisted of forty-eight men, seventeen pieces of artillery and two Gatling guns. This is a part of the expedition which was recently seized at Wilmington. IMPORTANT IF TRUE, Hut Nut at All I.tlcrly to be Strlctlr Au thentic Washinoton, Oct 27. Senor Dupuy J yesterday received the followiug ca blegram from Sancti Spiritus: 'Marshal Martinez Campos has just arrived after a magnificent march at the head of a small column from Ciego de Avila, through the center and j stronghold of the insurgents district : to Sancti Spiritus. "Being unable to cross the river Zaza, which was overflowed, he was obliged to camp for two days, sleeping on the ground like a common soldier. "The rebels fired at the column in the mountains, but took to llight at the first shot of the troops. "The fact of the conuuander-iii-chief being able to go with a small coiiimn through this district has jjiven great hopes of the outcome of the military operations. "Everything is ready for the advance as soon as the weather is completely settled." Sancti Spiritus is about ISO miles from Havana. Senor Dupuy de Lome attaches great importance to this news as indicating inactivity on the part oi the rebels totally at variance with the reports emanating from American sources. ENGLAND ALARMED. IVar Willi i:nlr. Wnnlil lit- I.rn t)i :rou 'ih:n tu Allow llvr to Crt u l'lrm lirlp on t'tilim. London, Oct. SC. The Pall Mull Gazette prints a long article commenting upon the dispatch published in the Times from its Hong Kong correspondent, staling that a treaty was recently concluded between Rit!sij and China. by the terms nl which Russia obtains the right ol anchorage for her licet at Port Ari thur, the right to construct ami i operate railways and other advantafl'os j of great commercial value. The Gazette assumes that this practically I means that Russia has annexed China, i if the conclusion of the treaty is a fact. Japan, t the paper says, will certain! refute to leave Port Arthur, and En gland will oppose it to the death. The treaty also means the presence of Russian warships off Vancouver and Sydney, and England must act vigoronslj and immediately, both by means ol diplomacy and by getting her lleet ready lor sea. The Globe, in an article on the samt subject, says: "Neither England, the United States, Japan or Germany will sanction a partition of China which would virtually render the Pacific ocean a Franco-Russian lake and seal tl.o markets China against their commerce. The St. James Gazette says: "It is obvious that if Russia has squeezed China into such an agreement w must intervene. War with Russia, with all its risks and possibilities, would be less disastrous than to allow her without striking a blow to get such a grip on China." REAR ENDED. ImUl Collision on tlm Ittiltltmire rot. nine Itultrowil. Baltimore, Md., Oct 27. A collision occurred yesterday morning on the Baltimore fc Potomac railroad, at Bowie station, midway between Haiti more and Washington. Engine 113 moving north from Washington with a stock train backed In or the "Y" tit Bowie to allow an exprest ! train to pass, when a work train on tin "Pope's Creek" line ran into the real I if (III. train A. i.illS. n lirOVer "I I - ------ - - ---- t Fort Springs, was instantly killed.