Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 10, Number 46, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 6 February 1889 — Page 2

THE KAPPANEE NEWS. BY G. N. MURRAY. NAPPANEE, : : INDIANA. Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. CONGRESSIONAL. Second Scion. As amendment to tbe Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill Riving to our Ministers abroad the title of "Ambassador” instead ol "Envoy Extraordinary and Ministers’ Plenipotentiary” was adopted in the Senate on the 29th. Senator Sherman spoke at length on the Samoa dlfticulty, maintaining that our rights must be asserted In the House apetltion ol thirteen thousand citiaens ol Utah against the admission ot that Territory as a State was presented. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was passed. A bill to provide tor the better protection ot the tur, seal and salmon fisheries ot Alaska was reported. The Senate resumed consideration of the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriate bill on the SOth ult., the time being occupied in discussing the amendments affecting the Samoan islands. The British extradition treaty was also considered In the House the time was passed in discussing the Oklahoma bill. The House amendments to tbe bill to in crease the pensions ol those who have lost both hands were concurred in on the 31st ult. in the Senate. Alter the passage of a few pri vate bills consideration of the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill was resumed, the pending question being on the amendment referring to Saxos, and the bill was finally passed In ti e House many petitions were presented in fa' or of the Sunday rest bill. The Oklahoma biH was further discussed. The House amendments to the Senate bill for tho admission of South Dakota as a State were non-cone-irred in in the Senate on th Ist. A resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on Foreign Relations to inquire into affairs in ’he Somoan islands, and to report what measures were necessary to protect the interests of American citizens therein. The British extradition treaty was rejected. Adjourned to the Ith —ln the House the conference report on the bill to create the Department of Agriculture was agreed to. The bill making Oklahoma a Territory was passed—yeas, 118: nays, 103. At the evening session twenty-five private pension bills were passed. The Senate was not in session on the 2d..,. In the House the Naval Appropriation bill was passed and the Naturalization b.ll was discussed.

DOMESTIC. Cincinnati’s new Chamber of Commerce building was dedicated on the S'Jtn ult. with appropriate ceremonies. In Aiama County, Tenn., on the 30th ult. a crowd horsewhipped two Mormon elders named Miller and Winters. They were then tarred and feathered and ordered to leave the country on pain of death. Oliver Wendell Holmes on the 30th ult. presented his vast' medical library to the Boston Medical Library Association. Jacob Falk, a wealthy farmer living near Bluff ton, lnd.. suicided on the 30th ult. by shooting. For some time past he had not lived happily with his wife, and she had applied for a divorce. Allie Crowell, a fourteen-year-old girl living ih Bethloham township, lnd., confessed on the 30th ult. to the burning of several dwellings, claiming she was paid one hundred dollars for doing it. She was thought to be insane. It was reported on the 30th ult. that gold and silver had been found in paying quantities in the northern part of lowa County, Wis. It was procured by surface digging and was said to assay from $3.25 to $lO per ton. Advices of the 80th ult. from the Indian Territory were that the United States soldiers who were recently stationed at Oklahoma City had returned to Fort Bill, and that some fifteen families of “boomers” had crossed tho Canadian river and entered Oklahoma and that others were following. Up to the SOth ult. the Federal grand jury at Indianapolis, lnd., had returned one hundred and sixty-one indictments for violation of the election law, and several prominont men had been arrested. Tub Committee on Judiciary in the Maine Senate on the 30th ult. voted to forbid the sale of cigarettes to persons under sixteen years of ago, and to provide a penalty for & minor under sixteen who smokes in a public place. Charles M. Balch apd his wife, of Walnut Springs, Tex., were found dead in bed on the SOth ult., having been shot through the heart. It was thought that Balch killed his wife and then took his own life. The trouble at New Iberia, La., culminated on tbe 30th ult. in the lynching of Jim Rosamond, a negro, by a mob of unknown mep. Governor Nicholls announced his intention to restore order at the point of tho bayonet if necessary. The lumber firm of C. B. Burt & Cos., at Williamsport, Pa., failed on the 30th ult. for sloo,ooft The round-house of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company at Galveston, Tex., was burned on the SOth ult. Loss, SIOO,OOOI The joint resolution for submitting a prohibitory amendment to the people of Pennsylvania was signed by Governor Beaver on the 31st ult. Three deaths from small-pox occurred on the 31st ult. at the Onondaga County poor-house near Syracuse, N. Y., and fourteen persons were down with the disease. The President on the 31st ult appointed Jesse D. Abrahams, of Virginia, to be Comptroller of tho Currency, vice Trenholin, resigned. TnE striking street-car employes of New York made numerous violent demonstrations on the 31st ult, but the companies succedel in running a number of cars. The officers of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company stated at Hartford on the 81st ult that the loss by the recent defalcation of Joseph A. Moore, their Indianapolis agent would not exceed the amount first named—ssoo,ooo. The Arkansas Legislature on the 31st ult passed a bill authorizing the Governor to offer a reward of $5,000 for the arrest and conviction of tbe murderer or murderers of John M. Clayton at Flummerville. The report of the Commissioner of Patents sent to Congress on the 31st ult showed that patents were issued during the year to the number of 20,430, of which 1,536 were to foreign inventors. The Nebraska Legislature on the 31st ult voted to submit the question of prohibition or high license to the people of the State. At Olathe, Kan., Mrs. Lucy Ferguson, seventy-five years old, was on the 31st ult convicted of murdering her husband and the death sentence pronounced. A motion for anew trial was overruled. She is the mother of six children. Twentt thousand mechanics at Pittsburgh, Pa., decided on the 31st ult to withdraw from the Knights of Labor. Thb President transmitted to Congress on the Ist additional correspondence relating to the Samoan affair, which showed that the German Government had exempted foreigners from the operations of martial law and ordered the German Consul to relinquish his command of the administibtion of the islands.

The stables of the celebrated Mount Hope farm nehr North Attleboro, Mass., 'were burned on the Slst ulk, -and twenty* five Imported cattle were cremated. The Board of Indian Commissioners in their annual report on the Ist asked that tbe appropriation for educational work among the Indians be increased to $2,000,000 lor tho first year, $3,000,000 for the second and $4,000,000 for the third year. The statement of the publio debt issued on the Ist showed tbe total debt to be $1,083,308,059; cash in Treasury. $64,936,913; debt less cash in the Treasury, sl,121,843,973. Decrease during January, $12,216,283. Decrease since June 80, 1888, $43,738,653. The Graniteville (& C.) Manufacturing Company’s warehouse, containing 2,346 bales of cotton, was burned oh tbe Ist. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $90,000. The coke workers in the Connelsville (Pa.) region struck on the Ist for an increase of wages, about eight thousand men being affected. Six boys, ranging from ten to sixteen years of age, broke through the ice while skating near Paterson, N. J., on the Ist, and three of them were drowned.

The mail packet Bowling Green, plying between Bowling Green and Evansville, Ind., was burned on the Ist near Rockport, KyThe Reading Coal & Iron Company on the Ist shut down all but twenty of its fifty collieries. The business portion of the town of Carbon, Ind., w as destroyed by fire on the Ist. There were 332 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the Ist, against 331 the previous seven days. The Jackson Memorial Association of Lexington. Va., on tho Ist ordered a bronze statue of "Stonewall” Jackson to cost $30,000. It will bo completed in three years. White Cass were on the Ist terrifying the residents of Norfolk, Va. Rcina Victoria, the brood,mare recently sold at auction, bringing $7,500, tho highest price ever paid for a brood mare at public auction, died near Terre Haute, Ind., on the Ist. Mr. G. G. Mandt, editor of the Mount Horeb (Wis.) Sun, a Prohibition paper, was shot and mortally wounded in his own house on the Ist by an unknown miscreant, who made his escape. The Union Academy building at Johnstown, N. Y., was burned on the Ist, causing a loss of $45,000. George Thompson, chief ol the fire department, was instantly killed, and Teddy Smith was fatally huit by the falling falls. It was announced on the Ist that Mrs. Laueque, living near Father Point, Can., had fallen heir to $1,000,000 left by her son who recently died in Illinois, where he had been living under tho name of Lavack. Mrs. Laueque was-the only heir. A tear ago at Lincoln, Neb., a colored man named Warwick had a barber of that city arrested under tho Civil Rights bill for refusing to shavo him. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court, wh ch handed down a decision on the Ist in Warwick’s favor. A fire in Buffalo, N. Y., on the 2d burned over six acres of ground covered by business houses, causing a total loss of nearly $3,000,000. Many firemen were badly injured, and other persons had narrow escapes. The steam tug Two Brothers exploded at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 2d, killing two men and wounding several others. By an accident on the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad on the 2d near Springfield, Mo., three men were instantly killed and five injured, four of them fatally. The big malt-house attached to the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis was burned on the 3d, causing a loss of $200,000. The schooner C. R. Oliver capsized in Chesapeake bay on the 2d, and the entire crew of five men were drowned. George Heidel, a young farmer living near Evansville, Ind., covered himself with a white sheet on the 2d in order to frighten a superstitious negro who lived near him. The negro had an axe in his hands and in his terror literally clove Heidel’s head asunder.

Six men were sentenced at Fort Smith, Ark., on the 2d to hang April 19 for murders committed in the Indian Territory. They are: Malachl Allen, James Mills, Henry W. Miller, William Wocd£/ Steve Bussell and George Brashears. An entire family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. John Olsen and three children, were drowned on the 2d while attempting to cross tho Missouri river in a wagon fifteen miles north of Bismarck, D. T. The ice was thin, owing to the warm weather. Thb exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing-houses in the United States during the week ended on the 2.1 aggregated $1,019,680,389, against $1,019,032,247 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of ISS3 tha increase amounted to 5.9. George Clark, a colored butler in the employ of P. F. -Munger, of Hvde Park, 111., on the 2d murdered Othelia Hylander, a Swedish domestic in the same family, and then took his own life. The refusal of the girl to marry him caused the deed. An earthquake shock was felt at Clarksville, Mo., on the morning of the 2d. It was distinct and rattled things generally, but no damage was reported. Walter Ivers, ten years old, fell from the top of a nine-story building at Denver, Col., on the 2d. He struck tho telephone wires and then rebounded to a horse’s back and was not fatally injured. The new district court-house of Seullyville County, Choctaw Nation, with all the county records, was destroyed by tire on the 2d. It was supposed to be the work of incendiaries. A fire on the 3d at Denver, Col., among business houses, caused a loss of over $150,000. The defalcation of John E. Sullivan, county clerk of Marion County, lnd., was on the 2d placed at $100,030. He had fled to Canada. Natural gas was struck gin a well at Sandy Creek, N. Y., on the 2d, raising tools seven hundred feet The roar from escaping gas could be heard a mile. Thb Commissioner of Pensions advised the Secretary of the Interior on the 2J that there woul 1 be a deficiency in the amount necessary for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year over and above existing appropriations of abont $8,000,000. In Philadelphia on the 2d Otto Kayser shot and killed Anna Klaus, whom he had sought to ruin, out his -wife’s throat, and then took his own life. At Cheyenne, Wy. TANARUS., a Chinaman named Yet Sing had established a wash house over a boiling spring. The slumbering geyser burst forth on the 2d, spouting water over a hundred feet,and the tent in which the Chinamen were sleeping at the time was blown to pieces and the four celestials were killed. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A dispatch of the SOth ult. from Washington states that leading Republicans, after hearing from President-elect Harrison, had decided that an extra sessioh ol Congress could not be avoided, and that tbe date of assembling should not be later than April 1. •

Jacob Knapp, editor ot tho Reading (Pa.) Times, died on the 29th, aged seventy-one years. He was the oldest editor is Pennsylvania. Jambs R. Lambden, tbe celebrated portrait and landscape painter, died suddenly on a train in tbe suburbs of Philadelphia on tbe Slst ult. He was eighty-two years of age. C attain Jotham Bradbcrt, a veteran of the war of 1812, died on the Slst ult. at Farmington, Me., aged ninety-eight years. It was authoritatively announced on the 3d that President Cleveland would return to the State of New York to reside on the expiration of his term of office, and would on March 5 resume tbe practice of law in New York City. FOREIGN. The British ship Sir Walter Raleigh, laden with wool from Sydney, N. S. W., went aground on the SOth ult. near Boulogne, and five of the crew wqre drowned. Archduke Rudolph, the heir apparent to tho throne of Austria, died suddenly on -the SOth ult. of apoplexy at Mierling, near Baden, aged thirty-one years. Advices received at Auckland, New Zealand, on the 39th ult from Samoa announced that the Germans there had begun systematic warfare on the native sympathizers with Mataafa. It was also said that all factions of the Samoans, including the followers of Tamasese, who hod hitherto been favored by the Germans, would unite against the foreign foe. No particulars had been received, but it was be 'lieved the next mail would bring news of serious conflict in the island. J. W. Gale & Cos., wholesale dry-good3 merchants at Toronto, assigned on the 31st ult., with estimated liabilities cf a quarter of a million dollars and small assets. Advices of the 31st ult. from Samoa were that the Germans intended to search all vessels arriving there. They had suppressed a newspaper, imprisoned and subsequently released an English tourist and issued a proclamation placing tho Apia police force tinder German control." Wataafa, the Samoan King, had six thousand followers, and his army vva3 said to be constantly increasing. At Dublin on the 31st ult. John O’Connor and Thomas Condon, members of Parliament for Tipperary, were sentenced to imprisonment for four months for inciting tenants not to pay rent. Rev. Father Cornyn was found dead in his study on the 31st ult. at Strathroy, Ont., with a gunshot wound in his head and the gun by his side. He had been ill, and committed suicide. Advices of the Slst ult. from San Domingo say that continuous rains had entirely destroyed the sugar crop of that country. The residence of Colonel White, Secretary of the American Legation at London, was entered by burglars early on the morning of the 31st ult. and $33,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables were carried off. Editor O’Brien was lodged in jail at Clonmel, Ireland, on the 31st ult. He refused to remove his clothes in order Jo don the prison garb, and tbe warders undressed him by force. His beard was shaven off. The Canadian Parliament was opened at Ottawa on the 31st ult. by GovernorGeneral Stanley. A committee appointed to inquire into the condition of the British navy reported on the 31st ult that the ships, with few exceptions, were unsuitable for modern warefare, and, indeed, wholly deficient. . There was a renewal of the rioting and throwing of stones at Tipperary, Ireland, on the Ist, and nine civilians and thirteen policemen were badly injured. Three thousand seamen and firemen were on strike in Glasgow on the Ist, and only two steamers sailed, being manned by officials. A freight train was precipitated down a mountain side on the Ist near Calgary, N. W. TANARUS., anti seven men were killed. A railway train from Brussels for Namur was thrown from the track while running at a high rate of speed near Groenendael on tho 2d, and fourteen persons were killed and fifty injured, thirteen fatally. It was stated on the 2d that Sir Julian Pauneefote, permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Foreign Office, had teen appointed British Minister to th;- United Starts.

LATEST NEWS. TnE brick wall of Meyer’s building, lately gutted by fire at Omaha, Neb., was blown down on the 4th. wrecking two other buildings, and five men were killed and several others were injured by the falling wall. At Montreal on the 4th the thermometer marked 30 degrees below zero. A heavy gale prevailed all over Nebraska on the 4th, and considerable damage was done in the western part of the State, buildings being unroofed and trees blown down. In the streets of Chicago on the 4th John Dempsey shot and killed Mis3 Maude McLeilan and then killed himself. Jealousy was: the suppose cause. TnERE was a heavy fall of snow in Berlin, Germany, on the 4th, accompanied by a thunder-storm. In the mountain districts heavy and continuous rains had flooded the country. After an idleness of three months the miners in Western Pennsylvania resumed work on the 4th at the old rate. This gave employment to five thousand men. The Supreme Court of the United States adjourned on the 4th until Monday, March 4, at eleven o’clock. The Spanish mail steamer Remus foundered on the 4th off the Island of Billran, one of the Phillippines, and all the passengers were supposed to have been drowned. The statement that Sir Julian Pauncefote had been appointed British Ambassador at Washington was offleiaiiy contradicted in London on the 4th. v ßra collision off Duugeness on the 4th between two English vessels twenty-four persons were drowned. Bath ships foundered. The bank of J. N. Knapp at Marquette, Mich., closed its doors on tbe 4th. The liabilities were estimated at $30,000 to $50,000. By tho breaking out of an old feud on the 4th at Red Bird Creek, Ky., two brothers named Lizemore and a man named Carsmith were killed. In New England and Western New York the thermometer ranged from 30 to 40 degrees below zero on the 4th. Seven blocks of buildings were destroyed by fire at Antwerp,, N. Y./on the 4th, causing a loss of $75,000. A beavt gale which prevailed throughout England and Ireland on the 4th did much damage to property. In the United States Senate on the 4th the bill to declare unlawful trusts and combinations in restraint of trade and production was considered. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was reported. In the House the Senate amendments to the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill were non-con-curred in and a conference ordered. A bill was passed for the allotment of lands in severalty to the Oneida Indians in Wisconsin. At the evening session the bill to divide the Sioux reservation was discussed at length. This involves tho relinquishment of over a million acres.

WILL, DO BATTLE. Os many Do Urea War Against the Samoans—Th - Latter Combine for Resistance—A : ess age to Congress from the Fresldeo —Bismarck Proposes Another Confer- ace. Aucklaxd, J in. 31.—Advices from Samoa state that he Germans have declared war against Mi laafa. London, Jan. 30.—Advices received confirm the proba’ ility that all of the Samoan factions will u- ite against Germany. A MKS AGE TO CONGRESS. Washington Jan. 31.—The President transmitted to Congress late Wodnesday afternoon a m ssage on Samoan affairs, accompanied l y a number of documents. In bis message ‘.he President says: •To the Congr< us—l had the honor on the 15th inst. to cor municate to your honorable body certain corr sspondence and documents in relation to affair in the Samoan islands, and having since reef ved further dispatches from the Vice-Consul at Apia and the commander of the United States naval vessel Nipsic In those wat rs, I lose no time in laying them -efore you. I also transmit herewith tt e full text ol Instruction from Prince Von Bisn arck to tbe German Minister at this capital, which was communicated on the afternoon of he 28th inst. This appears to be an amplifies ion of prior telegraphic instruction on th< same subject communicated through the sat 10 channel and which, being set forth in the r ate of the 12th inst. of the Secretary of State to Count Von Arco Valley, the German M nister, was duly laid before Congress with my last message in relation to Samoan affairs. It is also proper to inform you that on Mondays the 28th inst., the occasion of the communication of the note of the Prince Chan vellor, the Secretary of State was given to understand by the German Minister that a proposition from his Government to that of the Unit cl States for a conference on the Samoan subject was on its way by mail, having left Berl aon the 20th inst.; so that its arrival here in due course ot mail can be looked for in a very short time. In reply to an inquiry from the Secretary of State whether the proposition referred to was for a renewal of the joint comfeience between tbe United States, Germai y and Great Britain, which was suspended : a July, 1887, or for the consideration of Samotn affairs ab novo. The German Minister s attd his Inability to answer until the propos tioh which left Berlin on the 20th inst. should have been received. I shall hereafter communicate to the Congress all information befor: me in re lation to the Samoan status. Grover Cleveland.” FROM BISMARCK. Under of Berlin, January IS, 1889, Prince Bismarck writes Count Von Arco, the German Minister at Washington, as follows, a copy of which the Count left at the State Department on January 2S: “X have already notified your Excellency that according t a telegraphic communications from Apia on December IS of last year a detachment of German naval forces, which had landed at the request of the Imperial Consul for the protection of the German settlements which were endangered by the conflicts between tbe native parties there, was attacked by armed Samoans belonging to the party of Chief Mataafa. This unprovoked attack is said to have taken place under the leadership of an American named Klein. On this occasion more than fifty German soldiers and officers were killed and wounded. lr. consequence of this we have been transplanted from the territory of mediatorial negotiations by which the Imperial Consul in Apia was trying to reconcile the contending parties and for which he had sought the cooperation of his English and American colleagues into a state of war with the assailants to our regret. We shall carry on the contest which has been forced upon us by Mataafa and his followers with the utmost consideration for English and American interests. Our military measures have in view only the punishment of the murderers of German soldiers and the protection of our countrymen and their property. As they, on then part, are at war with Tamasese.ouv interference will necessarily assume tne character ot assistance to Tamasese. In the endeavor for the just punishment of a murderous crime we hope for the co-operation of the treaty powers in Samoa in friendship (i-ith us, and we ask the Government of the United States to be good enough to furnish the Consuls and the commanders of its ships of war in Samoa with suitable instructions. Our armed forces there are instructed to avoid and to prevent all injury to neutral commerce and property and to adopt measures of reprisal and destruction only against the followers of the party which initiated the contest against onr troeps by a murderous attack. “We shall, of course, abide by tho agreement with America and England with respect to Samoa ami pay due regard under all circumstances to the rights of these powers as established by treaty. “I beg your excellency to bring this com: Bication to Mr. Bayard's knowledge by reading it to him, and to leave a copy with him. if he requests it. Bismarck.” ♦ CINCINNATI’S PET. Dedication of Her Handsome New Chamber of Commerce. Cincinnati, Jan. Si.—The ceremonies attending the dedication of the new Chamber of Commerce were attended by many guests from all parts of the United States. Disappointment was felt at the inability of President-elect Harrison to be present. Promptly at 10:30 a. in. yesterday the members formed in lice and marched to the new building. At 11 o’clock the meeting was called to order by President Mor-

ciucinnatPs new chamber of commerce. risen. The oration was delivered by General Edward F. Noyes, followed by Mayor Smith, who made a speech of welcome to tho representatives of other commercial bodies. The banquet was spread in the evening. Over 500 guests sat down to it. The new building stands at the corner of Fourth and Vino streets. It is built of gray granite. The site occupies ICO feet on Fourth street by 150 to Bfker street. -The cost of the building is $625,09). Counting the site at its value tho whole property is estimated to be worth $1,000,000. Tho exchange hall is on the second floor and is 50 feet high and 136x06 feet, exclusive of the lobby, which is 33x23 feet. Shct Through the Heart. Walnut $ things, Tex., Jan. 31.— Charles M. Balch and his wife were tound'dead in bed Tuesdf y morning, both being shot through tho hearty and a revolver lying between the bodies. It is supposed that Balch shot his wife and then killed himself, but nc cause is assigned for the act. They had been married but a few months. ■ IJacle Sam unU Corea. Washington, Jan. 31.—The President has sent to Congress correspondence that took place in 1884 between the United States and Corea at the time the agree, ment with the Ccrean Government was arrived at between the Un ted States* German}' r nd France

GROWING INTERESTING. she Germans to Begin Active Hostilities In Samoa—Secretary Bayard Officially Notified Martial Law In Apia The Senate Agrees to the Samoan Appropriation. Auckland, Feb. I.—Advices from Samoa state that the German officials have given notice that ail vessels arriving there will be searched for articles contraband of war. They have suppressed the Samoa Times. A passenger on the British steamer, IVainui, who visited Mataafa’s camp, was placed under arrest but was subsequently released in compliance with a demand of the British Consul. A proclamation has been issued placing the Apia police force under German control Mataafa’s followers number 6,000. They are strongly entrenched and other Samoans are rapidly joining them. Upon the arrival of the steamer Richmond she was boarded and searched by the Germans. Berlin, Feb. I.—lt is not expected that German military operations in Samoa will commence until sufficient reinforcements are sent to the islands. At present there are at Samoa three German war ships with an available landing force of 300 men. “White Book” on the Samoan question will shortly be presented to the Reichstag. The Nat.onal Zeitung announces that a friendly settlement with America may be expected, based upon Prince Bismarck’s proposal for a joint discussion. San Francisco, Feb. 1. The Samoa Times, which, according to an Auckland cablegram, has been suppressed by the Germans, was published at Apia by an English subject named Cusack, and its contents on the recent happenings, though apparently fair to all parties, have reflected rather disadvantogeousl.v on tho German operations. This probably accounts for the suppression of tho paper. In its account of tho recent battle the Times stated that the natives did not fire until the Germans had fired a number of shots. A correspondent at Apia says that on the night of December 17 a number of sailors from the German man-of-war Glga went ashore and searched for Cusack, who escaped by taking refuge in the British Consulate. The Pacific coast papers generally call upon Congress to take decisive action for the protection of American commercial interests in tho South Pacific. It is pointed out that though Samoa is unimportant in itself, a strong station at Pago Pago would protect trade in the whole South Pacific reg ion. San Francisco, Feb. L— It is stated here that the Union iron works have received orders from Secretary Whitney' to have the new cruiser Charleston ready for sea within twenty days, if possible, no matter what the ext ra cost may be.

bayard talks. Washington, Feb. I.—Secretary Bayard said Thursday evening that he had received a dispatch from Consul Blackloek at Samoa confirming the press dispatches that war had teen declared against Mataafa and that martial law had been proclaimed by the German Consul at Apia. He did not knew whether the state of martial law referred to included all of Samoa or only Apia Reference was made to the criticism of the Department of State, and the Secretary said: "• I would like the gentlemen who have been criticising every thing done by the State Department to sho\i' one instance in which I have broken the law or permitted it to he v dated. Ido not know of such an instance. There has been a great deal of misrepresentation and in t me my countrymen w.U see that the State Department has done every thing that could be done.” The Secretary said that Senator Sherman's statement that no American had been injured at Samoa was correct. He had yet to learn that any American had been injured or any of their rights as defined by law and treaty taken away. The Secretary added: •• Our policy has been fixed and steady in the direction of preservation of American rights. The German Government has constantly given assurances that Germany would not violate any American rights. The department can not stop the fighting in Samoa; wo can not prevent rival commercial companies quarreling and fighting. It is not for us to try and give every country a stable government.” It is understood that Consul-General Sewall will leave for Samoa at ouee. The Post prints the following: "A pr.vuto cablegram received at Washington last night announces, lhat the German Government has ordered a military attache named Lieutenant Eckardstein to report hero at once to the German Minister. His business, it is announced, is to investigate and report to the War Department every thing of interest concerning tho American army and navy, fortifications, equipment, etc.” Washington, Feb. I.—A dispatch was received at the Navy Department to-day from Captain Mullen, commanding the Jiipsic at Apia, Samoa, which stated that the German Government, through its Consul there, had issued a proclamation declaring martial law in Samoa. The first news of the climax reached in Samoa was conveyed to the Senators yesterday, while engaged in discussion of the Samoan question, by the United Press. A cable message from London received over the United Press wires was sent down to Senator Cockrell, who was presiding. He called Senator Sherman to read it, and then Senator Gray. Senator Or y took the message down to Senator Reagan, and it was on the representations contained in. it that the Texas Senator withdrew liih amendment to tho Samoan clause in Ulo Consular and Diplomatic bill. If this had not been done the bill would likely not have been disposed of. ADOPTED BY THE SENATE. Washington, Feb. I.—The Senate yesterday adopted without division the amendments to the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill reported by the Committee on Foreign Relation? appropriating $500,000 to protect the interests of the United States in Samoa anti SIOO,OOO to construct and maintain a coaling station in the harbor of Pago Pago, tho money to be immediately available. m • The Dead Crown Prince. Vienna, Feb. 1.— I Tbe funeral of Archduke Rudolph will probably take place Wednesday, and will be private. An autopsy was held on the body, which showed that death was caused by sudden paralysis of the heart, brought on by attacks of acute rheumatism. The remains were afterward embalmed. The period of national mourning will be three months. Vienna. Feb. I.—lt is officially decided that the Archduke Charles Louis, brother of the Emperor, is the heir apparent.

Ten Thousand Machtuery-Conslruclors to Form ail Independent Body. Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb I.—The machineryconstructing National District Assembly 198, Knights of Labor; have decided to withdraw from the Knights in a body and form an Independent Order of MachineryConstructors. They formerly numbered 20,000. At present they number .10,000. The reason for leaving is that the general officers of tho Kuidfhts of Labor refused or neglected 'to change the charter in order that the various branches of the machineconstructors could be admitted. Death or a Veteran of 1813. Farmington, Me.. Feb. I.—Captain Jotham Bradbury, a veteran of 1812, died Thursday, aged.9B years.

ASSASSINATED. Cowardly Murder of John M. Clayton by] an Unknown Assassin at lMommervlllo*: Ark—Political Enemies Accused of the Deed. Plummerville, Ark., Jan.-31.—The following details of the murder of John M. Clayton at this place Tuesday have been obtained: Mr. Clayton occupied a room at Mrs. McCraven’s. In an adjoining chamber were W. H. Womack, of Bonton, and a man named Alnutt. Clayton was uervous that night and spent several hours pacing the floor. Ho finally wearied of this and went over to the window to sit down. As he did so a shot was fired at him through the window. Womack and Alnutt heard the shot, and rushing out found Clayton lying on tho floor in the agonies of death. He was picked up and placed on the bed and. expired in a few moments. Pine Bluff, Ark., Jan. 31.— This place was thr.wn into a fever of excitement upon receipt of the news of the murder of Mr. Clayton. The scene at tue victim’s home when the news was conveyed to tho stricken family was a most touching one. A public meeting was held at the courthouse Wednesday afternoon. Thero was an immense attendance. After the adoption of appropriate resolutions a committee was appointed to request business houses to close and to have the church bells tolled when the remains arrived this morning and when the funeral takes place. A committee of twelve citizens was also appointed to go to Little Rock and act as an escort to the remains. Damascus Com mandery No. 8, Knights Templar, also sends an escort. The court-hpuso is draped in mourning and flags are flying at half-mast. The funeral will take placo Friday afternoon. Prominent Democrats. referring '* to the outrage, say tho only way to reinstate tho State in the good graces of the North is to catch the cowardly assassins and punish them summar.ly. An inquest was held Wednesday on tha remaius. Mr. Womack and Mr. Alnutt told the circumstances of the shooting, and a verdict in accordance with the facts was returned. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 31. —The remains of John M. Clayton were brought to this city "Wednesday night, and were met at two depot by the Knights Templar Commandery and a vast concourse ol people and escAted to the qonomandery asylum, where they will lie in state till to-day ,to be taken to Pine Blnff for interment. The fatal wound is a very ugly one A charge of fifteen buckshot entered the right side of the head, tearing a hole in which a man could run his fist. Seven balls passed clear through, making a hole on the left sido an inch and a half in diameotr. The neck was broken, all the arteries from the brain to the heart severed, and death was almost instantaneous.

A pistol found just outside Mrs. McCraven's yard is the only clew to the perpetrators. It is a Smith & Wesson, fortyfour caliber, blue barrel, latest improved, new, loaded full and had never been fired. Men came back Tuesday night at 2 o’clock and prowled around the house trying to find it, but tho men Inside were unarmed and were afraid to venture out, knowing it meant certain death. Tho assassins wore heavy arctic overshoes, which they pulled off as soon as they got outside of the yard. The people of Plummerville are horror-stricken and mystified and feel outraged, too, on account of the cowardly assassination, and openly declare they will hang the assassins if caught. A bill was introduced in the Senate yesterday to authorize the Governor to offer $5,000 reward for the capture of the as. sassiu. Indianapolis, lnd., Jan. 31. —Louis Alt--heimer, the next-door neighbor and bosom friend of John M. Clayton, who was murdered in Piummerville, Ark., heard early Wednesday morning, while here in the interest of Powell Clayton, bf the murder of his friend. He gives an interesting account of Clu.vtoD and of tho high esteem in which he was held by Democrats as well as Republicans of A. kansas. Mr. Clayton was a member of the law firm of Hemminway, Austin & Clayton, of Pine Bluff, his partners both being prominent Democrats. Ho was educated for the pulpit, as was his opponent in the late Congressional contest, Clifton R Breckinridge, the son of Vice-President John C. Breckinridge. The murdered man was in moderate circumstances. He leaves a family of five children, ttvo of whom are grown daughters. When Mr. Altheimer called upon General Harrison the latter had already heard of Clayton’s assassination. General Harrison was profoundly affected at the news. A CROWN PRINCE DEAD. Rndolph. the Heir Apparent to the Austrian Throne, Pusses Away Suddenly from a Stroke of Apoplexy. Vienea, Jan. 31.—Archduke Rudolph.the Austrian Crown Prince and heir apparent to the throne, died suddenly at Mierling, near Baden, where he had gone on a shooting excursion with Prince Philip of Coburg, Count Hoyos and other guests. Wheu Prince Rudolph’s valet entered his royal master’s chamber Wednesday morning the Prince was lying in a natural position in bed, apparently asleep Althougu it was past Prince Rudolph’s usual hout for arising, the valet quietly with drew, returning in about half an hour. On re-entering the Prince’s Cham ber the valet was struck by an unusual paleness in his master’s face, and on step ping close to the bed was horrified to fin! that the Crown Prince was dead. He si once alarmed the household and physicians were summoned. An examination satisfied the medical men'that his Imperial Highness had died of apoploxy of the heart. Dispatches from all the European capitals announce that the news of the Crown Prince’s death caused a profound sensation. Telegrams of condolence have been received from the Queen of Belgium, the mother of the Crowi Princess, Queea Victoria, the Prince of Wales, Secretary Bayard for President Cleveland and President Carnot. (The Archduke Rudolph Francis Charles Joseph. Crown Prince Imaerial ot Austria, Crown Prince Royal ol Hungary and Bohemia, was born August 21, 1858. Fe was the son an'! second child of the Empe: or Francis Joseph and the Empress Elizabeth of Austria. Archduke Rudolph was married o Princess StnShanle Clotilde Louise Marie Cnarlotte. second aughter of King Leopold 11. of the Belgian.-, on May 10, 1881, in Vienna. They had om child. Archduchess Maria Valeria, born April 22, 1883. Prince Rudolph and bis wife did net live happily, and some time ago Princess Stephanie left him and went to Switzerland, where she Is now sojourning.]

Terrible Deed of an Aged Scoundrel D * New Orleans. New Orleans, Jan. 81.—Etrenne Dechamps, aged 00, took Juliette and Lamaccc Dietz, aged respectively 13 and t years, out walking an-, subsequently tc bis room. He told tho g.rls to lie down os his bed. Juliette complied, but Lamace ran away and reported tho occurrence to her father. Deschamps asked Juliette to smell his handkerchief, which was evidently saturated with chloroform WheD the father with an officer arrived, Juliette was found defid and the man dying. He can not recover. He had chloroformed himself after assaulting tile unconscious girl. He was an old friend of the Diets family and a well-known dentist.