Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 December 1896 — Page 2

Shtfifet €«mtg fk moftat M. McC. STOOPS. Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG, - - INDIANA. It is said 50,000 soldiers will be needed to put down the Insurrection in the Philippine islands. John Htcart Bliqh, sixth earl of Darnley, died suddenly at his home, Clifton lodge, Athboy, County Meath, Ireland, on the 15th, aged ftS. He sat in the house of lords as Lord Clifton. As A result of the experiments of the board which is investigating battleships steel, nearly the whole amount now in the Newport News (Va.) Ship Building Co.*s yards may be condemned. A dozen students of the Kansas medical college at Topeka, hare notified the Cuban junta in New York that they are ready to take the field at any time as surgeous in the cause of the insurgents. Is the French chamber of deputies, on the l?th. Premier Meline said that he was uuable to extend any hope that a bill for the increase of the sugar bounties would pass at the present session of the chamber. trained nurses of Minneapolis, Minn., hare volunteered to go Cuba, agreeing to pay their own expenses, if some one will arrang® matters so that they can get there. Eighty men have volunteered. At the suggestion of Senator Vest, ©u the 15th, the senate committee ou finance decided to defer until after the holidays consideration of the nomination of David it. 1 raucls, of Missouri, to be secretary of the interior. Mas. Chandler TlTCOMB and Mrs. j Charles Abt»ey«left Nv " York, op the lith^for Canton. D.,as representatives of the Brooklyn Woman's Republican Union league to present a gold vise as h gift from the league to Mrs. .Melvin* ,ley. __ The Madrid El Correo Mililar demands that tie a. Heyler be recalled from Cuba adB replaced by Leu. Marin, lieu. Macias, now i.u conMuaud of the troops in the Canary islauds, succeeding the marquis of Ahuihada, as secoiid in commuud. Two severe shocks of earthquake visited the greater j»art of England aud Wales on the 17th. Over «00 towns aud villages were affected, The cathedral at Hereford was dadjaged somewhat, and Tn the same pfuce a womau dtedTif jfright. tMSKIUl.NO of h sensation wus created lu Washington, ou the lsth, by the action of the senate committee ou foreigu relations in ordering, by a practically unanimous vote, a favoftblc report to the senate of the Cameron resolution recoguixiug the independence of thjs Republic of Cuba. The Loudon Times' Berlin correspondent says that the porte has recalled Satd-Ed-Din l'asha, the porte’s special euroy to Crete, m accordance with the joiut demand of the powers. fcaid-Ed-Diu Pasha was accused of thwarting the reforms in Crete, promised by 1 u'rkey. The L<oudon Daily News has a dispatch from ‘ Berlin w ith reference to rumors of the refusal of importation of Americau petroleum. It says that German oousumers are likely to suffer more by this move than American exporters, Russia alone being scareeiy able to supply llcrmauy.

Ai>vick» from Chile tire that the political situation itk still strained, and that predictions of a revolution are | openly made, utiles* President Erruzuriz agrees to reforms demanded by the j liberals. The chamber of deputies is j •tiff-necked and will not compromise, j while the president is equally deter- j wined. Th* Calcutta Englishman of November 25 «cou tends tnat the home odi- j cials are utterly at, fault iu regard to the dimensions of the famine iu India. ! It *ays that practically every province j is involved, and asserts that such er- I rors at the outset may result iu irretrievable disaster and suffering before j the crisis is over. -——:- Acvouoino to surface iudicatious in Madrid, CapL-Cleu. Weyier will soou I be relieved of his command iu Cuba j The discontent with Weyier is noticeable eveu iu the government organs. j They say that, iusieud of going to 11a- j vaua to receive au unmerited ovatiou, ) he ought to have couliuued military j operations iu the proviueeof Piusrdel Paor. Cuaju.es 11. 111Mx>ji gave the first public exhibition, ou the 15th, of his baseball pitchiug cauuon in the college gymnasium at Princeton, N. J. A canvas backstop was erected in the gymnasium and from the cannon, placed at- pitcher's distance, balls were I discharged, showing the different curves aud rale of speed that can he oblatued. A sKxsAiioXAL scene occurred in the | Italian chamber of deputies, ou the lbth, upou the occasion of the discus- j siou of the allowance to voted for j the uie of the prince of Naples, crown prince oi Italy. A general fight took place, in which many of the deputies were roughly handled. Finally a bill grautiug au annual allowance of l.uuo,- j 000 francs was adopted amid great | cou fusion. --- Oa the 15th the New York board of canvassers completed the canvass of the votes cast in that state at the recant election. On presidential electors the vote was as follows; McKinley, §19,43*; Bryan, 561.3*9; Palmer. 19.2*5; Socialist, 17,6§T; prohibition, M.U52; blank, defective and scattering. 192,0*0. McKinley over Bryan, 20&M9; Jfichiolcr overall. H0.*Mw

CURRENT TOPICS.1 THE HEWS Df BRIEF. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Seooad Section. T* the senate, on the I5vh. Mr. Morgan (Ala.) ! spoke for more than an hour advocating immediate intervention in behalf of Cuba, using very strong language in urging his point. The ; resolution previously offered by him request- : ing the president to commuuioate papers relating to the condition of affairs in Cuba was agreed to. The pension bill of Nancy G. Alla- j bach was passed over the president's veto, and j the house joint holiday resolution was con- j eurred in_In the house, consideration of the bill to amend the postal law relating to second class matter was begun. The bill to authorize i purchasers of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad j to form a new corporation, with the rights, - privileges and obligations of the old, was j passed. - - la the senate, on the 16th, the resolution to : take up the Diugiey bill for consideration was ] the subject of a very warm discussion between ; several senators, which resulted lit* complete j acquiescence on both sides of the chamber in the fact that the Dingley bill could not possi- j bly be passed at the present session.In | the house nearlv all of a four hours' session j was devoted to consideration, in committee of < the whole, of the army appropriation bill for j the year ending June 3), 18UC. and an amend- | ment cutting off the Hot Springs (Ark-^hospl- ! tal was agreed to. When the oommitiee rose the point of uo quorum wax made and sustained and the house adjourned. In the senate, on the 17th. the bill to amend the immigration laws occupied the attention of the senate during nearly the whole of the session. Among the amendments passed was one providing that the act shall not apply to Cuban refugees during the existing troubles in Cuba. The bill was passed and a conference asked .In the house the usual bills iu furtherance of the tnaug’.ffal were passed, as was the army appropriation blil. the latter with an ; amendment cutting off )he appropriation for the maintenance of the Hot .Springs (Ark.) j hospitals Half a dozen District of Columbia bills were passed, and the legislative, cxecu- j tive and judicial appropriation bill was taken j up in committee of the whole. The senate was not in session on the lHth.... j In the house, it being private bill day. private pension bills, were passed, and the re- I mainder of the afternoon wax occupied in discussing war claim bills, one of which was passed. The report of tbe Conferees extending until ion dnys after the beginning of the next session the limit within which th* joint congressional committee on regulations for the free, use of alcohol in the arts and manufactures might report, was agreed to. An evening session, for the consideration of private pension bills, was heal. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The WashingJUJu Times was purchased, ou the 15th, from C. U. Conn by Stilson Hutchins, lion. John if. Oberly, formerly ludiau commissioner, was placed in charge. The steam sehoouer Edith, Capt. Eduards, with a crew of 30 men aboard, was, on the 15th. uiue days overdue at Tacoma, Wash., from the Halibut banks off Hecate sound, and fears were entertained that some mishap had befallen her owing to the severe stormsy The Freufch coasting steamer’Marie, Fanny wasHost off the island of AKieruey, in the liritish channel, on the 15th, and her crew of 14 men were drowned. - . The lumbermen of the United States met in convention in Cincinnati on the 15th. Fighting is reported west of the trocha iu Piuar del Kio, Cuba, where the insurgents, under Maceo's successor, Uen. Kuis Rivera, have takeu the held against the Spanish forces left there by Gen. W eyler. No details have becu received yet, but 50 wounded soldiers arrived at Havn.ua, on the 15tli, from the neighborhood of Artemisa.

IT was slated m nu' ana, ou me mm, that Gen. Weyier had called in some of the troops stationed outside of the city, fearing' an attach: by Gen. Gomez, who was reported t< be moving eastward with a large force, well armed and provisioned. T1 e insurgents had already occupied several small towns held by the Spaniards in the eastern part of the proviuce >f Havana. Alex Salvim, the v, ell-known actor, sou of the celebrated Italian tragedian, Totnasso Salvini, died at Florence, Italy, ou the lt>tb. Fikk in the Western Uniou Telegraph Co.’s building at Evansville Ind., ou the U>th, damaged Frondrach liros., cigar manufacturers, whose factory occupies the top floor of the building, $5,000. The Western Union ulliee was m>t damaged to auy extent. Thk Loudou Globe of the 15th said that iuiporiaut negotiations were proceeding. if uot completed, whereby Great5 lintain w ould derive considerable benefits in the opening up of China, adding that au English syndicate had obtaiued a concession to construct and \nuiutuin a long railroad, which would be a powerful couuter check to Russian designs. It is reported that an expedition from Honduras landed on the south side of the island of Cuba, recently, with large supplies of auimunitionvjuid arms, and that the cargo was safely delivered into the possession of Gen. Rivera. A nXAVT wipdl and rain storm raged along the Atlantic coast on the 15th. At Atlantic City, X. J.. the large Casino building, where the Elks'disaster happened two years ago, collapsed with a crash, carrying with it au untcnar.ted cottage next door. A -dispatch from Cape Town says that Col. Cecil Rhodes’country house was destroyed by fire ou the 15th. It may be presumed that the “couutry house" referred to in the dispatch is the South African palace of the ex-pre-mier of Cape Colony. , ElsaTua.n Hall, one of the largest buildings in connection with the Kuoxville (Teun.) college for colored students, was burned, on the l&th. The building was occupied by female students. all of whom escaped. The loss will reach 525,000, and is said to be insured. Geokoe Wilsojc and John Palmer were arrested in New York city on the 16th. charged with swindling pawnbrokers of that city and Brooklyn to the extent of thousands by means of alleged gold watches and chains presented as pledges. Ox the 17th the federal assembly at Berne, Switzerland, elected Dr. Adolph Deucher president of the Swiss confederation for 1857, and Mr. Frsffy. the present, minister of the interior, vice-president. Mr. Deucher was vicepresident for UN and tor 18*

Frank B. Pfwter, 35 yeartS^f age, » clerk ia the Indian bureau at Wash* ingtou, and son of the late Congress* man Pfister, of Kentucky, committed suicide, on the 16th, by shooting him* self through the right temple. The United States cruisers Newark and Ealeigh arrived at Key West, Fla., on the ISth, after an unsuccessful chase after the-aHeged'iUibuster Three Friends. Marion Hatfield, a relative of the notorious Hatfields of Kentucky and West Virginia, was hanged in Sueedville, Tenn., on the 16th. On the 16th there were 19 steamers due at New York from European ports, nine of which were from two to six days overdue. Maj. McKinley went to Chicago, on the 16th, for a week's visit with friends. The beautiful and costly Casino building, together with the bridge which spanned Four-Mile run, at the main entrance to Schenly park/ Oakland station, Pittsburgh, Pa., were destroyedby fire, on the 17th, at 1:35 a. m. The casino building and contents represented an investment of about 5540.000. Mrs. J. Coleman Bratton, daughter of Mrs. William Astor, was married in St. Columbia's church, London, on the 17th. to Mr. George Haig, a member of the firm of Haig & Haig, whisky merchants. Hermann, the magician, who gave a performance at Rochester, N. Y., on the night of the 16th, at the Lyceum theater, diedunhis private carat Great Valley, N. Y., on the 17th, while eu route to Bradford, Pa. The court-martial of the anarchists arrested for complicity in the receut disturbances at Barcelona was concluded on the 17th. The sentences imposed are kept secret, and anyone divulging theutis to be severely punished. It is believed, however, that 28 of the anarchists have been sentenced to death and 59 others to penal servitude. While repairing the timbering in the shaft of the Yirgioius mine, near Ouray, Col., on the 18th, the cage cv»ptaining the live workmen became detached from the cable and dashed to the bottom of the 1,400 foot shaft, crushing the men into shapeless masses and breaking the cage into thousands of pieces. Each of the victims leases a family. The Virginia court of appeals, on the 18th, issued an order commanding the state election canvassers to award to J. Y’ost, republican candidate, the certificate of election to congress in the-Teuth congressional district. Mail advices from South America bring details of a serious uprising oi Indians in Peru. A terrible battle was fought between the Indians and government troops, on November jl, which proved a veritable slaughter, 500 Indians and .50' soldiers being killed. Information has been received in I Madrid of the intention of Gen. Polavieja, the new governor of the Philippines, to ask the government to send ten additional battalions of troops to the islands. The Madiid La Pas asserts that It has been definitely proved that Japan has landed meu and munitions of wax upon the Philippine islands, and that j the Philippine rebels are commanded by Japanese officers, j It is understood that the Spanish government has abandoned its intention to address a note to the government at Washington concerning that part of President Cleveland's message which refers to Spain and Cuba and ! will ignore the document altogether.

LATE NEWS ITEMS, Tue senate was not in session on the 19th....In the house Charles Crisp, sou of the late ex-Speaker Crisp, was sworn in as representative from the Third district of Georgia, to fill the vacancy caused by his father's death. Toe bill appropriating S1SJ.OOU to enable the government to make an ex* hibit at the Tennessee eeutenuial exposition at Nashville next .year was passed. Most of the remainder of the day's sessiou was devoted to the consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, without disposing of which the house adjourned. i*. Aki.o and his wife, of Sheffield. O., natives of Finland, were awakened, at three o'clock on the morning of the 191 h, by neighbors shouting that their house was on fire. They escaped in safety, but returned to rescue a grandchild, when the floor gave way and ali three were precipitated into the cellar, where they burned to death. Advices received from Havana, on the 20th, conveyed the startling intelligence that the insurgent army in heavy force had crossed the JuearoMoron trocha. There appears to be no doubt that this is the force commanded by the insurgent commander-in-chief, and that Gomez' long-looked -for otfeusive movement had beguu in earnest. The weekly statement of the New York city associated hanks fur the week ended on the 19th showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, $l,6*s,375; loans, increase, $3,512,500; speeie, increase, 8691,500; legal teuders, iucrease, St*,811.100; deposits, increase, S2.9»4.,.*0tf; circulation, decrease, $44, 200, Gex. Fitzhcgh Lee, United States conaui-geueral to Havana, accompanied by Ills wife and slaughter, took the midnight train from New York, on the 20th, en route for Havana. lie expeeted to spend some days, before sailing, with friends at Ocala, Fla. Five persons were burned to death io their home, 514 Fast Fifty-Eighth street. New York city, on the night of the 20th. The victims were Aaron Goldsmith, 43 years old, and his wife and three children. Goldsmith was a wholesale lienor dealer. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton railroad, in conjunction with the Wabash, has inaugurated a line of Pullman and Wagner reclining chair and aleeping cars between Cincinnati and Hannihal. Mo. The Berliner bank (of Berlin) has decided to increase its capital from 7,500,000 marks to 80,000,000 marks. }

INDIANA STATE* NEWS. Fred Kkitchen berger, aged 13, and George Sturm, aged 15, sons of well to do farmers of Wayne county, late tlie other evening quarrelled. Kruchen* berger stabbed Sturtn in the neck with a penknife severing the jugular vein. The boy was arrested. Mrs. Grace Dolan, the woman who shot and killed Henry „ Jackson, the Negro who tried to enter her home on North Liberty street, Indianapolis, j on December 10, and who was charged j I with murder, had a preliminary ex* j amination in police court the other j j morning. A number of witnesses on j both sides were examined, and it re- j | suited in the discharge of the prisoner, j Dr L. Cobey, of Van Buren, one of | the oldest as well as one of the best J j known physicians in the county, died I the other night He had been a resi- ! | dent of the county since 1839 and was i j a prominent member of the Grant i j County Medical society. William Sutheklin has been ar- | rested at Knox charged with the mur- j ! der of Ed Fetters, his'date partner in j j the horse dealing business. Fetters is j j the man w hose body was found buried I with the carcass of a mule the other I day. Charles W. Fisk, a prominent busi- : ! ness man of Logansport, and formerly j ■ an active democratic politician, died ; the other morning of apoplexy, aged | 54 years. Henry E. Johnson, postmaster at Kappa, Howard county, ■ds dead aged 33. A week ago he went to Kokomo to visit his mother, Mrs. 8. E. Johnson, I i and while there was taken suddenly j | ill, a complication of diseases teruiin- j atihg in death. It has developed that the postmaster at Atlanta, four miles south of Tipton, who was removed from office the other ; day by a post office inspector, who ! found a shortage in his accounts ! amounting to 8800, was a severe loser on the election. ' { I Agents of the Cuban junta are actively at work in northern Indiana mustering recruits for service in the ; insurgent army. The statement is made that within the last ten days a company of 100 young men h^d been secretly recruited in northerblndiana. The Cuban junta has established j several recruitiug offices in this state 1 and an effort will be made to take at least 1.000 men from Indiana to light for Cuban independence. The central l recruiting office was opened in Indian* apolis recently with Dr. F. 1 Wright in | charge. The other offices are at Evans* | ville* Terre Haute. Fort Wayne, Koko« j mo and Anderson. Dr. Wright tells the men who call upon him that the ‘ junta advances the money to take the men to Cuba and furnishes them arms. The pay for cavalry and infantry troops is 822 a month, and for artillery service $27 a month. Each man is to be credited with three months* pay in j advance, out of which his expenses uni til he reaches the seat of war will be i paid. j Taylor Dety, the candy dealer at 267 Massachusetts avi^ue, who came ( to Indianapolis from Cincinnati five weeks ago, and who took laudanum the other night, died. Ikam Stoi t, a pioneer of Orange county, was buried the other day, aged 88. He was born in Orange count}*, .North Carolina, in 180S, and came to Orange county, this state, nine years j later. He was the head of a large and { influential family, there being six chilI dren, 46 grandchildren and 23 greaO grandchildren. His sons, John T. and Amos Stout, are well-known merchants ! and bankers in Paoli. John T. Stout i was a delegate to the SL Louis conven* I tion. Hon. S. P. Sheerln and S. T. »Mc* I Connell have been selected to repre- ' sent Logansport and its commercial club in the Indianapolis convention of January 12.

at toiumDus oamuei isceKsiaux nas | sued Tunis Nading for $400 damages ; for attempted bribery. It is another suit growing out of the many‘election cases of last November. Ox January 1 the chief office of ti e Irondale Iron and Steel Co. of Middletown, will be removed to Richmond, and G. A. Laughlin, who has charge of the office, will go with it. Richmond capital is interested in the plant. Attorneys for the Central Trust Co., of New York, and James Murdock, of Lafayette. Hied a bill of complaint the I other morning with the^ clerk of the federal court at Indianapolis, asking for the appointment of a receiver for the Louisville, New Albany * Chicago \Monon) railway and the foreclosure 6f mortgages held by the complainj ants. | The Dubois county Farmers* Institute held a profitable two days’session. ; E. M. C. Hobbs, pi Washington county, j and T. E. Bowles, of Hamilton county, were the instructors. In the reorgan- ! isation Samuel H. Stewart, of Ireland, and Sebastian Anderson, chairman of j the republican county central committee, of Ireland, were re-elected presi- | dent and secretary respectively. The county ’ commissioners overstepped an established precedent and ; granted Maurice Fesser the privilege of operating a pool and billiard table in his saloon, at Bluffton, and Fred Baldwin a lunch counter privilege, thus inaugurating a wide open policy for that city, in direct opposition to the wishes of a majority of its citizens. The board is being severely censured. HXX'RT Trora. of Mflchell, was sentenced to four years in the pen for stealing. Johs Hctchinsos. 15 years old. son of David* Hutchinson, a farmer residing near Windfall, while out hunting, had his left hand blown off by the gun exploding. The arm was amputated below the elbow. Tax Columbus Handle Co. has been fighting the trust for some time. The trust threatened to build and operate another factory in that city in order to force the Columbus company into the combine. Ground was broken for the work, but nothing farther has been done. Gxo. Haro, a prominent stock buyer, of Wayne county, was cleared of a charge of embezzlement.

TRIPLE LYNCHING. Three Kentucky Prisoners Blindly Murdered by a Mob. On* of Them Shot Down la Bis Cell* the Others Taken 10 a Tree and Hanged— The Belief General That One of th* Men was Not Deserving of Death. Russellville, Ky., Dec. 19.—A bloodthirsty, armed mob of men from Ijogan county, half of whom came frqgn Adairville, came to this town hfter midnight yesterday morning and Willed three prisoners who were in jail waiting for trial on the charges of murder and conspiracy. Arch Proctor, who murdered Aaron and “Doc” Crafton at Adairville, October 24, was taken from the jail with his father. Dink Proctor, charged with conspiracy in the Crafton case, and both men were hanged to the same tree just outside the town. Bill Proctor, a half-brother of Diuk, and credited with being a real desperado, who had terrorized the Adairville district for a score of years, was riddled with bullets iu his cell, defying the mob to take him out alive and cursing them with his last breath. The man -hunters were pitiless and well organized. They refused to allow Arch Proctor to see his mother, who was sleeping in a neighboring hotel, before being deprived of life. The jailer pleaded with the mob not to lynch the meu and then made a special plea for Dink Proctor, who had | always been a quiet citizen, the Craf- ! tou murderers being the first trouble } he had, been mixed up in. But the | only answer of the lenders was “Dead men tell no tales.” The Adairville mob came into town about a hundred strong ami attacked !. the jail at 1:30 o’clock. The door of ! the main entrauee soou gave way uu- j der tiieir onslaught. The keeper of • the jail was forced, on the peril of his j life, to deliver the keys to the Proctor I cells to the mob’s leaders. The victims had been apprised of the comiug of the lynchers' and their intentions, none ox the three being iu bed at the time their cells were opened. They faced au excited, cursing mass of j armed, meu, each one of whom was eager to lend a hand in giving the prisoners short shrift. Bill Proctor, who was a powerful man, showed his desperate character when brought to bay. lie swore no one should take him from his cell alive aud no oue cared to eugage him j in a test of physical streugtli, so oue | of the mob gave the signal for the j ’murderer to be killed where he stood by shooting him with a pistol. A charge of buckshot entered the desperado’s body the next second aud he fell. As he lay on the floor writhing In pain, a volley of lead from pistols was tired into the wretched man. When he seemed to be dead a man entered the cell aud placing a pistol barrel at Proctor’s head pulled the trigger to make sure that the most feared aud murderous mau of Logau county was no more. Theu the mob turned their faces aud weapons toward the eells of Diuk Proctor and his sou Arch. They were taken from their cells without resist- I auce, the jailer’s pleas were unheeded j and the hands of the victims bound. j By this lime there were fully 200 men j iu the mob, aud no attempt was made to interfere with their lyachiug plaus. The prisoners were taken to a threeiimbed cedar tree on the Nashville road. The extra limb was intended for Bill Proctor, and on the other two limbs were strung father and son, without giving either any time for speeches, confessions or prayers.

A FRIGHTFUL DEATH Overtak«i Five Men Working la a Colo- j ratio Mine. Ouray, Col.. Dec. 19.—A frightful accident occurred in the Virgin ius mine, ; near here, yesterday morning, by j which five men were instantly killed, j The uufortuuate men were at work repairing the timbering. They were working from the cage, having it raised aud lowered as they progressed j with their work. Just what caused ; the accident is not positively known, i The men Were several hundred feet be- 1 low the shaft house at the time their j last sigual was giveu for the move- | meutof the cage. The engiueer, in an- j swering the sigual, waa horrified to find the cable had become slu^'k. h There was nothing to obstruct the , descent of the cage, and it fell with : lightning rapidity to the bottom of the shaft, which is 1,400 feet deep, and was broken into thousands of pieces, the men being crushed into shapeas&s masses iu the wrecked cage, their ; bodies beiug terribly mangled. The dead men were well known in Ouray aud all leave families. WRECKING TRAIN WRECKED While on the Way to Clear Another Wreck—A Tramp Killed and Three Men Mart. Lkdiajiapolm, Ind., Dec. 19.— At h:3C a. m. a wreck occurred at the crossing of the Wabash and Mooor roads at Delphi, Ind. A wrecking train was ivurried out over the latter road from ! Monon, aud while runuing at a high | rate of speed uear Uurnsey, five miles south of Monon,,- a flat car of the wrecking train jumped the track and the entire train went into a ditch. One man was instantly killed and several were injured. Among the injured is Trainmaster McCaunou, of the Monon road. 5 PHILIPPINE REBELS * laid te be Led by Japanese Officers—Mere Troops Called For. Madrid, Dec. 19.—La Pas asserts that it has been definitely proved that Japan bye lauded men and munitions of war upon the Philippine islands, and that the Philippine rebels ara commanded by Japanese officers. Information lias been received her* of the intention of Gen. Polavisja, the new .governor qf the Philippines, db a*V the government to send tec additional battalions of troops te tbs Philippines.

PRESIDENT Cft? CZAR? Royal Prerogatives Claimed for Ciur thtft Executive—Ho Can Utterly I«iioro ConUrea*, and Kefuse lo be Governed by Ita Acts, Bat May Himself Brins About a Foreign War—Precedents Established. W ASuiN'GTOJf, Dec. 21,—There i» every reason to believe that Secretary Oiney’s declaration that recognition is. exclusively an executive function was not made until after that caution and thorough deliberation which characterized his couduet of the negotiations with Lord Salisbury over the Venezuelan controversy §ud other important official matters which have called for Jus decisions since he entered Prescient Cleveland’s cabiuet as attorney gfeneral nearly four years, ago It is well known in the highest official circles, especially in the cabinet, that questions of presidential prerogatives were forced upon him by his colleagues among the executive’s advisers at thekmtset of this administration in connection with the perplexities that arose in the Hawaiian affair when the executive $vas placed in direct antagonism with congress. The paramount ^missiou of Commissioner Blouut to Houolulu was understood to have been undertaken with the attorney-general's full indorsement aud all the subsequent aets of a the administration.with regard to the mid-ocean republic were said to have had his approval if, indeed, they had not been inaugurated at his suggestion. . „ lu his official capacity Mr. Olney was intimately associated with the president in the steps which were taken to suppress the great railroad riots by the use of federal troops and throughout his occupancy of the department of justice be. was constantly^ called upon to declare the limitations of executive power under the eoustitutiou. . The sharp demarcation of congressional aud executive functions with respect to purely international mutters was presented to him as the legal adviser of the president upou the adoption of the Hoar Turkish resolutions, and at that time it was understood that such instructions to the president by congress, whether iu the form of concurrent or joiut resolutions, did not require compliance. The president neither signediior disapproved the resolutions, nor did he transmit them tfb the Ottoman porte. The Cuban resolutions were similarly ignored, though at the time of their adoption it was generally understood that Secretary Oiuey had reached the conclusions, that their effect was exclusively advisory, however mandatory their lauguuge might be. It is pointed out by state department officials that congress has never beeu continued by the supreme court iu its assertion of any powers not expressly given to it by the constitution, lu the event of the reeoguitiou of either the belligerency or ^independence of Cuba, tbe tirst result, it is heid, would be the appearance of an accredited miuister or other emissary of thai island. The contention & that, - under the constitution, the president is the sole judge as to whether such emissary shall be received. Precisely this emergency has arisen in the past few weeks.. The greater republic of Central America has come into existence and itsraecredited minister, Mr. Kedugney, has beeu iu Washington a fortnight. He has not been received by the president nor has the American charge’at Managua, Nicaragua, been authorized to formally reeoguize the new arrangement.

me proiucub aiw luua time in recognizing the provisional government of il&vvaii and also lue Dolegovernment. Frequently prompt recognition of ' a foreign government has taken place without any thought of the possible approval or disapproval of congress, notably when President Harrison acted on the practical termination of the Chilian revolution. The same- was also the ease upon the establishment of the present republic of France and the republic of Brazil. Another recent case of the exercise of the... president's authority in receiving and dealing with foreign ministers was the dismissal of Sir Lionel SackviUe-VVest, the British minister. \\ hile this caused no disruption of bur relations with England, it is held that it showed the president's power to act altogether without consulting cougress aud it was an instance of an executive action which might have led to war. In this connection it is also pointed out that while congress can alone declare war, it is clearly within the power of the president, by his owu action, to bring about a war, which, if declared by an opponent, would create a conditiou he would be compelled to meet until congress couid assemble aud act, especially if hostilities were provoked on our coast. STARTLING INTELLIGENCE. Gomes and Hie Insurgent Army Cross the Jucaro-Murou Troche. New York. Dec. 21.—A special dispatch Ao the Herald from Jacksonville, Fla., says: Advices received here last night from Havana convey the startling intelligence that the insurgent army in heavy force had crossed the Jucaro-Moron troeha. There ap.pears to be no doubt that this is the force command*^!* by the insurgent commander-iu-ctiief, and that Goiuez’ loug-looked-for offen*<vb movement has begun in earnest. THE FAST HORSES. ■, .. Forest Boy, 2:16ft, has been sent toEurope. Idol Wilkes now h<m two pacers in the 2:10 lisL _ ** Chan, 2:l?ft, was sold at auction lately for $165. An offer of $5,000 has been refused for Guinette. Wilburfa, 2:21, by Wilton, has been sold for export to Germany. Two sons of Nelson, 2:09, are now, numbered among the sires of speed. John Reamer is going to sell Minnie R, 2:14ft. and all the rest of his horses. '.v .:r - ---^.--7'': : . - ^" I-:',- ' -