Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 August 1895 — Page 2

Ckfifee County graomt M. MoO. 8TOOP8, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG. * - - INDIANA. The state department was informed, ra the 5th, that France desires to make an international arbitration treaty. , ' * Six hundred Spaniards hare enrolled themselves at the consulate in Buenos Ayres for service against the insurgents in Cuba. Failures for the week ended on the 9th were: For the United States 225, against 264 for the corresponding week last year, and for Canada 43, against 54 last year. Miss Ax auk Nicsch arrived in Kansas City, Mo., from Samoa, on the 9th, having traveled 5,000 miles, to marry her lover, Frans L. Harbest, a grocer of Kansas City. • Thirty-three thousand troops will go from Spain to Cuba this month, and 20,000 more will be sent in October if1 they should be necessary to aid in quelling the rebellion there. A contract secured by an Anniston (Ala.1 firm for,iron pipe to be shipped to Yokohama, Japan, nggregatesSO.OOO tons. It is the largest contract for iron for foreign shipment ever secured by an American house. The yield of wheat in England this year is estimated to be 78.4 percent, of the average; in Wales SO, and in Scotland 83.1 per cent., making the entire crop for Great Britain 22 per cent, behind that of last year. It was stated, on the 6th, and with some show Of authority, that the Dnrrant jury had been tampered with, but neither the district attorney nor the chief of police of San Francisco would deny or affirm the story. A congress of deaf and dumb associations was opened in Dublin on the 6th.. Among those in attendance at the opening session was Dr. Thos. Gallaudet, of New York, who represented the United States at the congress. Minister Denby has been instructed by Acting Secretary Adee to secure protection for American Citizens at Panyag, China, a place about40 miles from Foo-Chow, where the American mission is reported to have been looted by the Chinese. It was announced at a meeting of the Chinese cabinet, on the 7th, that the chief minister, Hsu Yung Hi, had been dismissed from office, chiefly owing to his connection with the Rus-so-Chincse loau and the recent FrancoChinese convention. On the Gth the British government instructed the naval commander in Chinese waters toenforee, if necessary, Great Britain’s demands looking to the protection • of British subjects throughout China and the prompt punishment of all who were implicated in the recent massacres. Ax officer of the Spanish cruiser Conde de Venadito is reported to have 6aid that the Spanish navy has instructions not to capture but*-to sink suspicious vessels to avoid trouble with other countries. A customhouse officer of Havana reported, on the 7tli, twelve American vessels missing. Count Gaston Dadhemer, chevalier of the Legion of Honor; member of the French geographical survey, and inventor of the telephone system used by the French government, has leased the historic “Moss Neck” farm near Fredericksburg,Va., and, with his family, will reside there in the future.

Under authority of an act passed by \ the last session of the California legislature, fourteen jurors, two of them as alternates, will be impaneled in the Durrant murder case. The object of this is to present a mistrial or delay in the case of the sickness or other incapacity of one or two of the regular jurors. A dispatch from Arnepol., Austrian Galica, dated the 6th, said: Cholera is raging in the government of Podlolia,^ Russia. The inhabitants re sisted the erection of temporary hospitals for the accommodation of the sufferers from the disease and began rioting, and it was found necessary to call out a body of troops to quell the disturbance. J udqe Howell Edmonds J ackson, associate justice of the* supreme court of the United States, died, on the 8th, at his residence in West Meade, about 6 miles from Nashville, Tenn. He had been in failing health for the past few years, but it is thought that the fatigue incident to his recent trip to Washington to sit in the income-tax cases was the cause of the turning point in his disease. „ Wild and disgraceful scenes attended the attempt of the Italian outlaws at Spring Valley, 111., on the 6th, to carry out their threat to drive from the place all colored persons remaining after the riots of the 4tli. Helpless women, children and invalids were beaten and chased through the streets, and their effects scattered aneb destroyed. The Italian mayor and Italian members of the police force were indifferent spectators of the scene. From tel egrems sent from Telluride, Col., on the 8th, to Mrs. Mary Cummings, at Independence, Ma, was learned that the man known* as .Tames Clark, who was assassinated on itho streets of Telluride, on the 7th, was the original Jim Cummings, the desperado, who began his career of rapine and bloodshed with Quantrell, during the civil war, and afterward became one of the most reckless members of the Jesse James gang of outlaws. It is said that of late, under the name of Clark, he had lived an exemplary life.

AUGUST—1895. Sun Ion Tie. Wei Tin FA Sal 3 : 8 9 10: 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 : 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 J.fTf^^^t^f^T-RFT+TTrtrrrFil CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IH BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The.stock barn on R. T. McDonald's noted Riverside farm near Fort Wayne, lnd., was burned on the night of the 5th. It was valued at $12,000. The $10,000 California stallion Truman, with a mile record of 2:12, and five colts of Electric King fast stock, valued at $10,000, were burned. Rank Examiner Cowdrt, on the 5th,, closed the Citizens’ State bank at South Sioux City, Neb. Liabilities are about $30,000; assets, $23,000, with affairs in bad condition. This bank was the county depository, and over $8,000 was on deposit. The steamship Topeka arrived at Port Townsend, Wash., on the 5th, having on board the survivors of the crew of the sealing schooner C. G. ] White, which was wrecked on Wood island, Alaska, tearly in the spring, j The party consisted of seven men, all ■ that remains of a crew of twentyseven. In a fight between officers and rioting farm laborers in Argentina, recently, five persons were killed and six wounded. The buildings upon the estate where the riot occurred were entirely destroyed, and all the horses and cattle were burned to death. The total expenditures of the patent office for the last fiscal year were $1,105,557; the balance of receipts over expenditures was $157,391. The total balance of receipts over expenditures now in the treasury to the credit of the patent oflice is $4,556,753. All but one of the thirty-four divisions had their \tork within one month of date, and this one was less than ttvo months behind. At the close of the fiscal year 4,927 applications, were awaiting action. While John J. O’Brien, a drainage canal.foreman, was on his way home, near Lamont, I1L, on the 4 th, he was attacked by two colored men. lie shot Crip Gillet in the leg and threw the other man into the canal, where he sank like lead, and was drowned. On the 6th someone detected among the new decorations of the Pension building in Washington a representation of “The Little Red Schoolhouse” well up on one of the pillars. It is very distinct, and the smoke curls out of the chimney. Objection was made to it, and it is rumored that a high pension office official directed the artist tb efface it He refused to do so. The state department distinctly approves United States Minister Terrill’s demand upon the porte for the punishment of the three Kurds who murdered young Xentz, the bicyclist, who was making a tour of the world.

At a meeting1 of the high court of Foresters at Brighton, England, on the 7th, the American subsidiary executive appealed for the court’s sanction for a new ritual, affirming that the future success of the order iu America depended on the question of a ritual. The sanction was granted. The last dispatches from the Bannock country show that there was no cause for the outcry raised bv the Wyoming settlers against the Indians. The Bannocks have returned quietly to their reservation, and have begun the making of hay, leaving their grievances to the justice of the white man. Mb. Preston, the director of the mint, in explanation of the recent shipment of $10,000,000 in gold bullion from li'ew York to Philadelphia, said that it was the present purpose of the government to coin with reasonable rapidity all of its $60,000,000 stock of gold bullion. The president, according to Mr. Ballou, vice-president of the American Humane association, has reversed the decision of Assistant Secretary Hamlin and has instructed the treasury department to prohibit the importation of matadors, bulls, lances, swords and other bull-fighting paraphernalia into the United States. The report from London that fiir Julian Pauncefote, British ambassador to Washington, is about to succeed Sir Edward Baldwin Malet as ambassador to Berlin is discredited at the state department at Washington. It would be an unusual promotion. In company with her father Miss Elizabeth Flagler appeared before Judge Cole of the criminal court in Washington city, on the 7th, and gave bond for her appearance before the grand jury in September to answer the Charge of killing young Ernest Green, the colored boy whom she shot recently while stealing apples in her father’s yard. It was reported in Washington, on the, 7th, that there is a probability of a combination being formed by which the Chinese empire will be dismembered and parceled between Russia, England and France, Germany meanwhile being appeased by concessions in Africa. The war department received a telegram from Gen. Coppinger, on the 7th, dated Jackson’s Hole, stating that he had sent out two more scouting parties. One had returned, leaving three in the field, each in command of an officer. He reported “all quiet and no Indians.” The United States civil-service commission will hold another special examination, on the 28th, to secure eligibies for positions as compositor, pressman, bookbinder, stereotyper and electrotyper in the government print* inur offiea

Tub American pilgrims sojourning in Rome paid a visit to the catacombs ' on the 6th. The announcement, on the ?th, that W illliam H. Crossman & Era, of New ; York, would ship $1,000,000 on the ; steamship Augusta Victoria attracted attention in financial circles, as this sum brought the total shipments ol the firm up to $3,000*000 within two weeks. ThomasMobkret, of Richmond, Ry., was drowned at Virginia Beach, Va., on the 7th, while trying to save his daughter, who went beyond her depth while bathing. The young lady was saved by another gentleman. Capt. Henderson, of the British ship Prince Oscar, who, with sixteen of iiis crew, arrived at Philadelphia, on the 8th. on the British steamer Capac, from Chilian and Peruvian ports, re* ported that on July 13, in lat 9 deg. 30 min. south, and long. 28.30 west, his vessel was sunk by collision with an unknown vessel, which also went to the bottom with all on board. Six of the crew of the Prince Oscar perished. Four men, all of them prominent, were jailed at Kansas City, Mo., on the 8th, charged with robbing the Brookfield (Mo.) post office of $1,000 in 1894. They are W. S. Day, who was assistant postmaster at the time of the robbery; Harry Strode, J. E. Pavely and August Zevery. The returns issued by the London board of trade for July show that the imports increased £3,290,000, and exports increased £2,160,000, as compared with those of J uly last year. The British steamer Argonaut, Capt. McGillivray, from Halifax, July 29, for Port Morant, Jamaica, foundered near Port Morant on the 8th. All on board were saved. The Monongahela blast furnace at McKeesport, Pa., shut down, on the night of the 8th, by reason of a strike of twentj’-four metal carriers. The men demanded an advance of twenty cents and 2 per cent, tonnage in wages per day. Five hundred men are idle at the plant. Repairs on the furnace were started, on the 9th, and work can not be resumed for several days. The South Penn Co.’s No. 1 in the Flat Run field, at Huntington, W. Va., was drilled in, on the 9th, and proved the biggest guslier ever struck in that territory. It is good for 1,200 barrels a day and probably more. The Cross No. 1, of the same company, is good for 800 barrels per day. The post-office department has instructed postmasters that ordinary letters addressed to any foreign country, except Canada and Mexico, must be forwarded whether postage is prepaid or not. All other mailable matter, however, must be prepaid, at least partially. The Pan Iron Mining Co., operating East Vulcan, West Vulcan and Currie mines at Norway, Mich., on the 9th, announced an increase of wages of 10 to 25 percent, to take effect immediately., The Argon Co. also raised wages in the same ratio. The ninety-nine-year lease of the Lindell hotel property in St Louis has been canceled and the property sold outright for S*>32,500. St Louis capitalists are said to be the purchasers. Lady Gunning, a relative.of Earl Spencer, who was recently arrested in London on a charge of forgery, was, on the 9th, committed for trial at the liow-street police court The stores of the members of the Chicago Music Trade association were closed, on the 9th, during the funeral of George F. Root, the song writer.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. An engine and twenty loaded coal cars on the Ohio Southern railroad went through a bridge over the Paint river, on the 11th, falling 25 feet to the water below, which at that point is 30 feet deep. The engine, fireman and a brake'raan were buried under 400 tons of coal, and it is thought that the remains of four tramps who were stealing a ride are also at the bottom of the river. A discharged American seaman is responsible for the statement that the American steamer James Woodall, which sailed from Baltimore, Md., on July 10, ostensibly for Progresso, Mex., successfully ran the blockade of revenue cutters and war ships and landed 153 men and a quantity of munitions on Cuban shores in the interest of the revolutionists. M. P. Molleh’s organ works at Hagerstown, Md., were completely destroyed by fire on the 10th. The building was a two-story brick, and covered an acre of ground. One hundred reed organs, valued at $80 each, were destroyed. Loss, $30,000; insurance slight. Fifty employes lost their tools. The composition of the new British parliament, which opened on the 12th, is as follows: Conservatives, 338; liberal unionists, 73; liberals, 177; antiParnellites, 70; Parnellites, 12. This gives the government, including liberal unionists, 411 seats, and the opposition 259, a government majority of 152. The associated banks of New York city, in their statement for the week ended the 10th, showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $1,926,400; loans, increase, $1,649,100; specie, increase, $5,700,000; legal tenders, decrease, $2,48S,900; deposits, decrease, $627,200; circulation, increase, $9,800. Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, United States ambassador at London, has accepted the invitation to deliver the an-, nual address to the Edinburgh Philosophical society in November. The invitation to deliver this address is the Highest literary honor in Great Britain. Advices from Havana, on the lltb, stated, on the authority of prominent police officials, that the cause of the Spaniards was weakening. Gen. Campos, who had contemplated a trip to Manzanillo, was too sick to be removed. Several, prominent citizens of Philadelphia have filed a bill in equity to have an injunction issued restraining the city officials from taking the Liberty Bell to the Atlanta exposition

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The residence of Ferdinand Dye, % termer residing nine miles sooth of Richmond,horned the other afternoon. The 11-y ear-old daughter of Mr. Dye was burned to death. A DAUGHTER of Bart Began, of Anderson, was killed in a runaway. The First National bank. Cambridge City, will erect a new building. The puddlers at Terre Haute want a 25-cent increase per ton. James M. Andrews has been made president of the Second National bank, New Albany. A receiver has been requested for the Commercial Club Restaurant Co. at Indianapolis. C. tV. Near, of Marion, has been offered and accepted the state insurance department under Auditor of State Daly. A mad poo ranted through the streets of Kokomo until he was killed by a revolver in the hands of Rev. Ralph J. Smith, pastor of the First Congregational church. The block coal miners are jubilant at Brazil over the victory won by the bituminous miners in Pennsylvania. There is a stipulation in the contract between the block coal operators and miners stating that in case a raise is secured by the miners in Pennsylvania or Ohio the block coal miners will be advanced to seventy cents. A prominent operator said the other morning, that notwithstanding the bituminous miners and block coal miners are in separate organizations, the block coal miners will be greatly benetitted by the victory won by the bituminous men. Mrs. L. A. Fleener was. the other day, appointed postmaster at Fleener, Monroe county, vice I. N. Fleener, resigned. Recently a considerable amount of counterfeit silver money has been put I in circulation in Lake county. Maj. | Carter, of the-secret service, went to I Hammond a few days ago. and a depu- ; ty marshal followed a few' days later. I Peter Hoff ban has been arrested on the charge of making and putting into circulationthe spurious money. Fifteen cans of fruit is what one burglar got at Goshen. Ft. Wayne wants Alien county to | have a new court house. Columbia City wheat will average 35 ! bushels to the acre. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sabbkr, near Richmond, have lived together for 70 years, the oldest married couple in Indiana. Anderson’s post office war has ended by the government accepting Maj. Doxey’s proposition to erect a post office building. The Liberty Oil and Gas Co. has been organized at Lafontaine with a capital stock of SCO.000 for the purpose of developing the oil territory lying east of town.

UUS1UC5Q lUvU of Richmond are now engaged in organizing a co-operative insurance company for mutual protection along insurance lines. Insurance will be given at cost, and it is estimated that it can be given as low as fifty cents on the thousand. The insurance jvill be principally for residences and household goods, and no hazardous risks will be taken, nor will any policy be issued for more than $-.000. The projectors say that they are tired of paving such big insurance rates, which keep many people from carrying any insurance at all. It is these people they expect to join them. John Eggerts and Jackson Borders, of Chesterton, may die of rattlesnake bites. Old soldiers at Indianapolis are talking about a co-operative store there for their own benefit. Judge Francis T. Hord, of the Ninth judicial circuit, has concluded to have taken and framed the pictures of all the judges who have ever served as such in Bartholomew couhtj*. To this end he has examined the county records and will go back to the first judges, who were elected in 1822. Ren. J. Neal, of Richmond, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday anniversary, has an interesting history. He is one of the many victims in this state of a delusive family inheritance. Mr. Neal at one time contemplated suit i in the supreme court for the recovery of 5,760 acres of land in central and eastern Texas, which belonged to his father, but out of which the son was defrauded. The Miami Indians, near Peru, are being paid the $99.49 due each of them by the government. Eighteen prisoners are confined in the Knox county jail. A tribe of Modern Woodmen is being formed at Bridgeton. Robert Marshall, sent to prison from South Bend in 1691 for stealing a horse and buggy while drunk, has been released, and will be married to his sweetheart, who has remained true t« him during his confinement. Fire damaged the works of the' Jenney Electric Light Co., Logansport. Loss $6,000. Insured. Switzerland county is overrun by petty thieves. Warsaw is going to have a lecture on theosophy. Two precocious inmates tried to burn the ^orphans’ home at Shelbyville. The Clara Shanks murder case, near Eloomingdale, is still a mystery. Corn is a glut on the market at Vincennes at 35 cents a bushel. The Indiana estate prison south at Jeffersonville, for the first time in twenty-five years, is in control of republicans. Warden Patten retired a few days ago. Geo. Givens, aged 23 years, son of William Givens, of North Salem, dropped dead in the bar room of the Famous hotel, as is thought from an overdose of chloral. *s a bottle half full of the drug was found on his person by the coroner. The C. T. Henchman Wholesale Confectioner, Richmond, failed the other day. The amount of the liabilities is said to be about $15,000, but the assc t« ace unknown.

STRANGER THAN FICTION. Tbt Story of » Gold Huiftrr and the Wife He.Left Behind him—Two Families end a Divided Btutf. Cincixxati, Aug. IS.—Early in 1S94 a man named Joseph Green died at Courtland, near Sacramento, Cal. Since then relatives and heirs, aided by lawyers, have been busy unravel* ing the secret of his life, and it has been accomplished. It is a story that covers many years and has ramifications in many states. Joseph Green caine west from New York in 1850 with his wife and settled in Cincinnati. It was at the time of the gold fever, and he made up his mind to go to California. 'A short time after his departure a daughter was born, and with this child Mrs. Green lived in this city, expecting to hear from her husband and to receive money to take herself and child to California. But no word came to her, and she did not hear of him again, except a rumor that he was dead. Years went by, and Mrs. Green, who thoughtdierself a widow, was wooed and wed by Matthew Wolmersmidt. a contracting carpenter. By him she had five children, two of which are living. The second husband was abusive, and after he was reported killed bv the collapse of a bridge which he was building for the government across a southern river in 1803, she, fehring his return, resumed the name of lffer former husband, and the children bj* the secbnd husband were so known. Thirty years passed and Wolmersraidt never returned. One of his sons ! removed to northern Ohio, and is now • living at Yoder, and his mother lives with him and is known as Mrs. John Green. The other Wolmersmidt boy j went west, and is known in Ivausns j City, Mo., as John Green. Thedaugli- j ter, who was born soon after Joseph J Green left Cincinnati for California. ■ married \Y, H. Kennedy, and is, or l was, up to ^ few months ago, living ; in Falls City, Neb.. though iu 1894 her.I husband was encaged in some buSi- j ness in Seattle. Wash. Whether Joseph Green, after leav- j ing Cincinnati, kept himself advised of j the whereabouts of his wife, and : heard of h£r second marriage, is not j known, but about that time he entered into martial relations with a woman j in California, and by her had two children. She died, but the children were living at the time of his death ol apoplexy at the age of 70. lie left an estate of 8350.000 hnd a will in which he bequeathed 88,000 to his daughter, Mrs. Kennedy, of whose marriage he had learned, though he supposed her to be living in this city. It was the attempt to locate her here and the necessary inquiry that led to the discovery of the first lawful wife, Mrs. Joseph Green, now of Yoder, O. Lawyers went to work on the case; the daughter was located at the place named, and representatives of the estate were communicated with. San Francisco lawyers took a hand, in connection with *a .Cincinnati firm, and a few weeks ago a compromise was effected, which was satisfactory tc tlie \yidow, the terms of which are kept a family secret, and which, sc far as knowm here, are not of record in the California courts.

THROUGH A BRIDGE. Seven Men Go Down to Death Under a Tratu of Coal Cara. Springfield, 0., Aug. 13.—The Ohio Southern railroad had one of the worst wrecks in its history yesterday afternoon about 2:30 o’clock at Paint 'river, forty miles sou tli of here. At this point there is a two-span bridge over the river. A west-bound coal train of thirty-five cars struck the bridge, which lias been considered perfectly safe. The structure gave way in both spans and the engine dropped twentyfive feet iqto the water below, which at this point »is about thirty feet deep. The coal cars followed the engine until twenty had piled up in the river. The remainder of the train had by this time become checked and remained on the track. Engineer Clint Radcliffe. Fireman Martin Houser and Br&lceman William H incox, who were all in the cab at the time the bridge collapsed, went down without a moment’s warning with the iron monster and were drowned. They are at present buried in the river under about 400 tons of coat. They all lived here. The remainder of the train crew escaped. In connection with the sad catastrophe it is reported that four tramps, who were stealing a ride, went down to death with the train. This can not be substantiated until the debris in the river is examined, but seems to be only too true. A wrecking train from here is now on the scene doing what it can. Late last evening it was learned that the cause of the wreck was that the bridge had caught fire and had half burned in two at the time the engine struck it. The three drowned men who were in the cab, saw the smoke, but thought nothing of it, consequently no move was made to stop. The body of the engineer has been found pinned in the cab. but cannot be released. All efforts to find the other unfortunate men have been unsuccessful. „ It will probably be several days before they can be exhumed, The engineer and fireman were single, while the brakeman was married and leaves a wife and two children. AMERICAN FRUIT. Proving a Dangerous Rival to the Fruit Industry of Italy. Washington, Aug. 12.—Wm. H. Seymour, United States consul at Italy, writes to the state department that the fruit raising industry of- the United States seriously threatens that of Italy. Between 1,000;000 and 1,500,000 quintals of the 5,000,000 quintals exported go to the United States. The increasing production of oranges and lemons in the United States, however, removes the hope of increasing exportation to this country

Story of on m Smou Ol»chare#<t' BLOCKADE. from the W*hm»*!!~Men and Mnultlone Landed ta Cab*— Blew t'p a Railroad and Captured a Village and Four Hundred Spaniards—ura. Campos Sick and the Spanish Cause Weakening. Baltimore, Mil., Ang. ’ll,— An American seaman is responsible for the statement that the American steamer James Woodall, which sailed from this - j port on July lb, ostensibly for Pro* 1 gresso, Mex,, successfully ran the blockade of revenue cutters and war ships and landed men and munitions on Cuban shores in the interest of the- i revolutionists. Seven seamen, members of the crew of the Woodall, were discharged in New Orleans a few days ago and ar* rived in Baltimore yesterday. One of these men stated that the Woodall landed 15S men and a large quantity of dynamite, rifles and revolvers near Havana. Cuba.-- which were taken, aboard off Florida. His statement is as follows: ( The steamer burned bard doal on her run down the American coast, making it impossible for a Spanish man-of-war to see her smoke at any distance. The crew ivas informed that the steamer was to take a lot of plantation laborers from Florida to* Mexico: but it soon developed tbat two of the crew shipped in Baltimore as common seamen were Generals Roloff and Sinchex. of the Cuban rev- ; olutlohists. While near Cuban waters and steaming ahead with no lights visible, a Spanish man-of-war crossed our bows, going toward, another vessel whose lights we saw in the distance. Had we, been five minutes" earlier, or had our lights been showing, the Spaniard would have caught us. Instead of going tc Progresso, the steamer anchored during the .night at Panqnery, which is not far from ' Key West,,off tin? southern extremity * of Florida. There was nothfng at Panquery but one solitary house. We took aboard from the house in the ship’s boats and from a schooner which hail sailed from, Key West and came alongside the, Woodall 153 men. The ammunition brought aboard amounted to OOP pounds of dynamite, GOO Rem- , ington rifles, 200 six-chambered revolvers. 200 cutlasses and 253,000 rounds of ammunition. T}ie men came from New York having left that city for Florida about the time the Woodal+^eft Baltimore. Capt. O. Hudson seemed afrai4 to . , land on Cuban soil, and ran Ills vessel back and forth along the island for ten days until the water in fifteen barrels gave out For a fresii supply be touched at a small island off the Mexican coast, and during the day yve lay there were photographed for the information of the Spaniards. After this Capt. Hudson steamed direct for Cuba and dropped, anchor about 11 o’clock at night>at a village forty-five miles from Havana- Disembarking began immediately and all ^ had been landed by 4 a. m., when the . Woodall steamed away in the dark— ' ness for Progresso. It was learned aboard the steamer later that the 153 men who had been landed blew up a railroad and captured the village and 400 Spaniards. The steamer James. Woodall was about the 1st of July by Capt. John M. Hudson, of New York. Before leaving this port Capt. Hudson said he was going direct to Progresso, Mex. The Woodall was intended, he declared, for use along the coasts of * Mexico and Honduras for the collection of coffee and other products from the shallow water ports where steamers of any draft can’t go. The hailing port of the vessel, he said, would hereafter be New York, instead of Baltimore, because he was he managing owner and lived in the former city. purchased from .It i more parties

jcu. vi»tupu« 9ICK auu tnn v»u*o ui inr „ Spinlardi W«skMln(. Key West, Fla., Aug-. 11.—The Herald of this city publishes a dispatch dated Havana, August 10, stating that Martinez Campos left Havana yesterday on board the Villa Verde for Man-, zanillo. Passengers by the Mascotte state that the steamer Villa Verde was in the harbor of Havana atf 12 o’clock yesterday, and that Martinez Campos is too sick to move. Prominent police officials in Havana state * that the cause of the Spaniards isweakening. Two Insignificant Engagements. Santiago he Cuba, Aug. 11.—On. Thursday last a rebel band fired into a detachment of Spanish troops on the Homelio estate in the Guantanamodistrict, wounding two of the soldiers. Gen. Barro’s column has had an engage me nt with insurgents at Majaguabo, killing two of the rebels and capturing a quantity of arms. Thegovernment loss was 700. The Proposed Four-I>»y Transatlantic - Steamship Service. Philadelphia, Aug. 13.--The probability of a four-day steamship service ? to Europe ever being realized is not given much consideration by the shipbuilders in Philadelphia. It is rumored that plans and designs for this» marine wonder are almost completed in this city, but the,, work must have been done with great secreey. as nobody seems to know anything about it. Charles H. Craig, president of theCramp Ca, says that the four-day steamship may be a possibility, but its realization seems a long distance off. THOMAS B. TURLEY. Will be Urged for th« Vacant SupremeCourt Seat. ..... Memphis. Tenn., Aug. 12.—It is* quite likely that the bar of this city will vigorously urge upon President.. Cleveland the appointment of Thomas; B. Turley, of this city, to succeed the = late Associate Justice Howell E. Jackson. A strong movement to that endi has already set in. Mr. Turley is lawyer of pre-eminent ability, the.leader of the Tennessee bar. He. was the former law partner of Senator* Harris