Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 December 1898 — Page 2

§?ifee Counts fkmorrat STOOPS. Kdltor mmI Proprietor. PETERSBURG. INDIANA. In his speech st Atlanta. Ga., on the 14th, the president’s reference to the confederate dead was greeted with the wildest applause. Former United States Senator Calvin S. Brice died, on the 15th, at his residence in New York city of pneumonia, after one week’s illness. A mob of women at Grenada, Spain, considering that the discovery of America was the principal cause of Spain’s misfortunes, stoned the statue of Columbus on the 14th.

The entire American peace commission left Paris for the United States, via Havre and Southampton, sailing for New York,* on the 17th, on board the American line steamer St. Louis. A special from Washington says: The navy department will very shortly •end a steamer to Pa go-Pago, with material for the construction of a pier and other improvements for the American coaling station in Samoa. Naval officers believe the battleship Massachusetts, which scraped Diamond reef, must go out of commission, and that practically a new keel and several new frames must be supplied to her before she will be again fit for sea. A special dispatch from East Liverpool, 0„ says: The new tin plate trust has taken possession of all the mills in this section. W.'H. Brandfield, of the Irondale mills, is to manage this district, embracing Ironclad, Lisbon and Newcastle. At the last meeting of the board of governors of MeGill university at Montreal, Ont., LordStrathcona announced his intention of endowing the new Victoria college for women, which he recently built at a cost of $250,000, to the amount of $1,000,000. The Porto Rican cabinet has.decided to secure an efficient American superintendent for the schools of the island. Gen. John Eaton, the wellknown educator, and formerly United 8tates commissioner of education, has been selected and sent for. Certain of the American volunteers who are now at Manila, and who have resolved to settle in the Philippines, have organized the Philippine Development association, for the purpose of promoting various enterprises as •oon as the men are discharged from military service. •

Wm. J. Jones, formerly register of deeds of Lion county, Kas., a prominent cattle man. mysteriously disappeared. on the night of the 14th. and it. is said he mortgaged cattle he did not own to Elmore A Cooper, a’commission' company of Kansas City, and supposedly to other parties. On the 14th. pn motion of John j Sidney Webb, an attorney of Washington, Paul Neuman, of Honolulu, was admitted to practice in the supreme court of the United States. Mr. Neuman is the first of our annexed citiaens to be admitted to practice before the highest tribunal of the land. There Is great irritation in Madrid at the continued refusal of the Filipinos to relense the Spanish prisoners who are said' to exceed 10,000 in number. The insurgents are demanding that Spain pay as a ransom for these prisoners the $20,00(1.000 which she is to receive from the United States. 'The steamship Alameda, from Australia to San Francisco, brought treasure amounting, to $3,510,000. There •were 120 boxesof English sovereigns, $,000 sovereigns in a box, and £4 boxes filled with bullion. The money is to aettle in part the balance of trade between this country and England. John D. Hayes, who served as a Red Cross nurse with the Second United States infantry, under (Jen. Shafter at Santiago, on the 14th shot and killed bis brother, Edward S. Hayes, proprietor of a hotel at Bleecken and McDouglass streets. New York city, who bad accused him of theft of money. The National Civil Service Reform association, in invention at Baltimore, Md.. devoted almost the entire morning, on the 16th. to a discussion of the report of the committee on resolutions which charges the present national administration with a violation flpf the spirit if not the letter of the civil service rules. Gen. Lee's arrival in Havana caused numerous demonstrations, though he sedulously tried to avoid them. He ate luncheon, on the 14th. at the Hotel Trotcha with Generals Wade, Greene, and Clous, and leaving there in the afternoon, passed, with his escort, through Cerro. a suburb of Havana, where the ladies wared American flags, and threw flowers. Gen. Ludlow, the newly appointed k* military governor of the city of Ha- * vana, is busily engaged in drawing np plans for the discharge of the heavy task set for him so that he may •tart for his post in the course of a few days. He will take with him a staff of experts tin sanitary and civil engineering, customs and financial •nd other trained officials. The Denver (Col.) City cable railway •as sold at auction, on the 15th. by order of the United States court under foreclosure of a mortgage for $4,000,#00, the interest on which had been in default since 1S92. H. E. Rogers, as •gent of Frederick P. Olcott, of New York, chairman of the reorganisation committee, secured the property for #600.000, the minimum bid allowed. .

■ ■ -- ■— CURRENT TOPICS. THE IEW8 g BBIEP. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. In the senate,, on the 13th, Mr. Morrill made a speech In support of the bill authorising the purchase of a site for a supreme court building, which was passed unanimously, Several bills of minor importance were passed, after which much time was given to debate of the Nicaragua canal bill.In the house the District ot Columbia appropriation bill was passed without a single amendment. Senate bill to amend the laws relating to seamen was also passed, all amendments being rejected. In the senate, on the 14th, the Nicaragua ’ canal bill was further considered, and an agreement was reached to take a vote *n ! t he fUrple postponement motion on the 15th. The government's pension policy and the ! bill regarding the registry of foreign-built i vessels wrecked on the American coast, j were briefly considered......In the houses motion to consider the L>odge Immigration bill was defeated by a vote of 103 to 100. A brief but Interesting debate on the rules, .was the only other matter of !m- ! portance considered. In the senate, on the 15th, the urgent ; deficiency appropriation bill, making pro- j vision for the army and navy for the next sllx months, had the right-of-way over all other business, sidetracking the Nicaragua canal bill. After a spirited debate the bill was passed. In the house the pension appropriation bill was passed without a word of criticism, after which the bill to incorporate the International American bank was taken up and an arrangement made, after discussion, for u voteon Its passage on the ICth. The senate was not in session on the i 16th.In the house the bill to Incorporate the International American bank wasdefeatedby a vote of 108 to 14S. The bill to extend the customs and revenue laws of the United States over the Hawaiian islands was passed without opposition. The bill carries with it the civil service laws ) relating to appointments In the customs I and revenue service in Hawaii. PERSONAL AND~GENERAL.

Hon. William J. Bryan arrived in Washington, on the 14th, from Savannah, Ga. He will remain there for sev- ! eral days before proceeding to his j home in Nebraska. Nearly every state and territory in the Union was represented at the second annual convention of the Interstate National Guard association, which opened in Chicago on the 14th. The Fourth regiment is expected to leave winter quartersat Fort Sheridan, 111., for Manila within three weeks. A Norfolk (Va.) dispatch of the j night oi the 14th said that it was re- i ported there that the cruiser Brook-’ lyn was waiting there the arrival of j Gen. Miles from Washington, and ; would convey him to Havana. “Aunt Lucy** Nichols, of New Albany, lnd., has just been granted a pension of $12 per month by special act of congress. Lucy is the only female member of a G. A. R. post in the United States She served through the war with the Twenty-third Indiana, participating In 2S battles. An extra session of the Kansas legislature has been called to meet December 21. The north-bound passenger train of the Gulf road was ditched by a broken rail at a point about three miles south ' of Barela. Col., on the 15th, making a j bad wreck and injuring several pas- j sengers and members of the train crew. \ The presidential party left Atlanta, i Ga., at one o'clock on the morning of J the 16th. for Tuskegee. Ala., over'the Atlanta A- West Point railroad. United States Senator Quay is suf- , fering from an acute attack of indi- ; gestion, but his condition is not con- , sidered serious, and his physician j states there is no cause for alarm. —^ The state supreme court at Madison^ ; Wis.. decided, on the 16th, that Charles^ Polachek. who was arrested on Au-1 gust 10, 1897. on a charge of bribery.' preferred by Alderman Elkert, of Mil- , wnukee. in connection with a garbage deal, will have to stand trial. Col. Charles W. Davis, commander of the Loyal Legion, and one of the bestknown veterans in Chicago, died, on the 16th, from paralysis of the heart. Mr. F. G. Logan, a well-known Chii cago board of trade man, has given | $35,000 to the art institute of that city for the erect ion of a library buildingaa an addition tq the Institute. Upon the shoulders of the 28-yefr

old M«*wart At. lirtw has fallen the great responsibilities of managing: bis late father’s $10,000,000 estate. Young | Mr. Price realizes the fact that It is a diffcult task for a novice, but he is : willing to make the attempt. In response to the Vatican’s inquiry on the subject, President McKinley has sent an assurance that the Catholics in Cuba and Philippines will enjoy the same auiple liberty as the Catholics in America. Provisional governments will not be permitted to seize eeeesiasticnl property or despoil convents. The London Daily News, commenting upon recent gun trials at Saiidy Hook, says; “The Americans have only to give their minds to it to become the first artillerists in the world. In fact, an American artillerist on the war path 'deserves the most serious notice of all whom it may concern.” Peed Kebble and Theodore Nassing, wealthy and prominent farmers, who lived a few miles from Nameoki, I1U were run down and instantly killed by the south-bound Chicago & Alton i through passenger train, on the evening of the 16th, while riding together fn a dog cart. Walter N. Koeaev, the Tennessee soldier who on the night of September IS shot and killed a civilian named Henry Hildebrand, was acquitted of the erime by a jury at San Francisco. It was sbohfa that Rosser had bent drugged white drinking in a tow saloon. and was entirely irresponsible for his acts. President McKinley visited the Industrial institute at Tuskegee, Ala, on the 16th, and addressed the assembled students and populace, and, later went to Montgomery, where he addressed the general assembly of the state, in joint session. At both places he was received with enthusiasm. . A Madrid dispatch of the 17th said a report had been received from Havana that Gen. Maximo Gome*, the Oaban patriot leader was dead.

like evidence adduced, at Berlin, as to Frank Knaak’s utterances . against the kaiser is so overwhelming that a heavy sentence is certain.' Knaak is an American citizen who imagined he could talk as freely in Germany as he could in America. Grant G. Gillett, the absconding cattle plunger of Woodbine, Kas., and his attorney, C. B. Troxel, who decamped with him, left the City of Mexico, on the 16th, for Vera Cruz, where they will take a steamer for South America. The arrival of Gen. Lee in Cuba has excited the ignorant Spanish soldiery.' They accuse Lee of having plotted, in connivance with Sigsbee, to charge that the Maine was blown up by Spaniards. In order to avoid a conflict Gen. Lee will probably remain at Marianao until January 1, when the Spaniards will surrender Havana. Clayborne county (Tenn.) physichins are puzzled over the case of Mrs. Julia Spence, 73 years of age, who lives at Lone Mountain. She has just produced four large molars, after be- \ ing toothless 16 years. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The senate was not in session on the j 18th....In the house the bill granting right-of-way through the San Fran- j cisco forest reserve to the Saginaw j Southern railroad of Arizona, was j passed. Mr. Payne, (rep., N. Y.) called j up the bill extending the laws of the j United States relative to commerce, navigation and merchant seamen to ; the Hawaiian islands, but persistent j efforts to amend the bill, causing de- ! lay, the bill was withdrawn. The house then went into committee of the j whole on the Indian appropriation bill, j Michael Emile Kollinger, a native of j Austria, is under arrest in Chicago, charged with the murder of his wife, Theresa, whose charred body was found in a clothes closet of her home, j an£ the police claim they have sufficient evidence to prove that Rollin- ! ger strangled his wife, poured kerosene j over the body and set tire to it. Thomas Jones, living near Greer, 1 W. Ya., attempted to light a fire with j crude oil, on the ISth. An explosion | occurred, wrecking the room, and the J dresses of his twin daughters, aged I six years, ignited. He was too severely berned to assist them, and they were so badly burned that both of them died shortly afterwards. Maj.-Gen, Wesley Merritt, the late commander of the United States military forces in the Philippine islands, from which post he was called to Paris to consult with the American peace commissioners, reached New York city, on the 18th, on board the steamer Luca nia, from Queenstown, with his | bride and party. Senor Montcro Rios and the other members of the Spauish peace commis- j sion, reached Madrid late in the even- j ing of the 18th. They were met by Senor Gamazo leader of the dissenting liberals, and by many other politicians j and high officials. Their arrival was not attended with any special incident. Nearly the whole of the business part of the town of Tifton, Ga.. in the center of the peach belt, was burned, I on the night of the 18th. An oil lamp I in a boarding house exploded, causing ( the .fire. The masonic hall and ten stores were destroyed and a hotel and large lumber mill were damaged. j Former Police Capt. John J. Mount of New York died suddenly ol' heart failure, on the 18th. aged SO. Capt. j Mount was a pointed to the municipal police force in 1S50, became a captain in 1861. and distinguished himself in the draft riits of war times.

CURRENT NEWS NOTES. Seven hundred coal miners are on atrike at Lexington, Mo., for increased wages. George Hines, at Louisiana, Mo., was killed by Elton Lane in a quarrel O' er corn. Rev. William Gill, of Brownsville, Tex., is missing, and friends fear for his safety. # Frank Bray, who was on trial at Ozark. Mo., for kilting his father-in-law. was declared insane. \ A Rock Island (111.) mau says he can corroborate the evidence that Thomas Druee was duke of Portland. James Griffin, aged 28, and unmarried, was crushed to death under a falling telephone pole at Bristol. Tenn. Leo Lewis, a negro, of Dallas. Tex., was sentenced to 30 years in the penitentiary for aiding in killing a white boy. The state ‘department has been notified that France will put a duty on cottonseed oil to bar out the American product. Three candidates are being mentioned for the governorship of the Hawaiin islands—S. M. Damon, Harold M. Small anti President Dole. James Nettles, the negro on trial at Si. Louis for the murder of Conductor Mann of the St. Louis A Suburban railroad, was found guilty. Arrangement are being made by Acting Secretary Allen of the navy for the dispateh of more naval vessels of light draft to Cuban waters. An opinion has been given in Canada

“that a marriage ceremony performed t In Canada by a minister resident in the United States is not legal.’* “Bill** Tipton, of Lebanon. 111., the St. Clair county “reformer,” has been arrested on a warrant charging him with keeping his saloon open on Sunday. The official report of Prof. Phillips, consulting engineer of the Missouri state board of health, on the Chicago canal, declares it to be a menace to health. At Richmond. Ky.. Henry Giles was acquitted of the murder of Joe Gatliffe. The mime was committed July 4, two years ago, and this was the third trial. By the death of an uncle. Dr. E. D. Forter, of Memphis, Team, Mrs. Robert Benedict and Thomas Pride, (of Sturgis, Ky„ foil heir to -«.h

WITHIN OUB LIMITS. Hews bj Telegraph from Various Towns hi Indiana. Traits Dcaoueed. Indianapolis, lnd., Dec. IT.—The state tabor commissioners in their annual report to the governor, in speaking of the influence of trusts in this and adjoining states, said in part: “No propositions involving settlements of labor controversies present so great obstacles as those in which trusts are parties to agreements. In every encounter with labor the workingmen, however just their cause, emerge from the conflict the greater sufferers. The opportunities of trusts ia regard to wage reductions are exceptional, and their desires are always equal to their opportunities. They are not trammeled by state laws and they defy federal authority. These unlawful institutions feast to satiety upon despoiled labor, destroy honorable competition, stifle legitimate enterprise. appreciate the price of their products to extortion and levy unjust tribute upon the consumer, all in violation and defiance of the law.” Convict Labor. La Porte. Ind., Dec. IT.—A bill will be introduced at the forthcoming session of the legislature providing for the employment of the convict labor of the state upon the construction of a ship canal at a point between Michigan City and New Buffalo on Lake Michigan to Indianapolis, where the White river would furnish an outlet to the southern waterways. The bill will be fathered by Representative Downey, who says the project is feasible. It is estimated that five years would be required to construct the canal. Downey claims to have received general indorsement of his project, which may provejhe solution of the convict, labor question in this state. Skeleton Fonnd. Anderson, Ind., Dec. IT.—While trying to dig a rabbit out of his hole near Palestine two boys uncovered a cavern in which was the skeleton of a woman. A ring and a bracelet with the monogram “A. E. S.” were also found. It is thought the body is that of Agnes South worth. Many years ago she had a lover of the name of McKenxie. Her parents objected to him and Loth disappeared, and were never beard of again. Some years ago the Southworths sold their homestead and moved west, and it is not known where they are at present.

Kar I'M tke strwt*. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. IT.—By a divided opinion, three judges concurring and two dissenting, the supreme court has decided that the charter ©f the Citizens’ Street Railroad company will expire in January, 1901, and that the City company, which was chartered four years ago, but which was stopped from using any of the streets by its rival, is entitled to occupy all unoccupied streets immediately and to enter upon all others as soon as the charter of the Citizens’ company expires in 1901. _ Opened BUvultt with Splice*. Kokomo, Ind., Dec. 17.—The officers arrested a stranger here who, on being searched, displayed a lot of suspicions looking tools, consisting of jimmies and chisels formed of railroad spikes. He convulsed the court and spectators by explaining that he carried the spike* for opening the biscuit given him by young ladies of the city. He illustrated by pulling a hard biscuit oat of his pocket and cracking it open with the spike in the same manner as opening oyster shells. He was released. A Family Straadcd. New Albany, Ind., Dec. 17.—Mark McCury, of St. Louis, a mechanic, is stranded here with his wife and three^ small children. McCury and twr of his children are sick. The parents of both Mr. and Mrs. McCury reside in St. Louis. McCury left St. Louis when the war broke out to work at Newport News, Va., on the battleships. Recently he was taken sick, lost his position and was forced to start; home. He pawned all his baggage on the way. A Loac Trolley Line. Anderson, Ind., Dec, 17, — Forbes Holton, a glass manufacturer; M. R. Williams, manager of the Strawboard trust plants, and Crawford Fairbanks have formed a company for the purpose of building an electric railroad from Terre Haute, via Mat toon, UK, to Charleston. The line will be joined to the Indiana system by a line from Indianapolis to Terre Haute, via Greencastle and Brazil. Uaa Supply la Fatltaaf. Terre Haute. Ind.. Dec. 17.—State Geologist Blatchiey, who was here, said that in his personal opinion the supply of natural gas in the Indiana gas belt will not continue sufficient for the manufactories located here for more ihap two or three years. He thinks that within a few years the coal district in western and southwestern Indiana will be the center of Indiana’s manufacturing industry.

D«M«iiliK ^Ttdrnrr. Portland, Ind:, Dec. 17.—At the trial of Albert Musser for the murder of Louisa Stoltz one witness said he had paid Mr*. Stolat $20 gold pieces. Others ; swore they had seen the defendant j spending such money after the murder. Marshall, who was acquitted of j the crime and who is wanted as a witness in this esse, has disappeared. Ttn Plate Plaat ta Start. El wood. Ind.. Dec. IT.—Notice has been issued by the tin plate trust that the big plant here will start in all departments Mondsy. The plants at Middletown. Montpelier and. Atlanta will be moved to El wood and consol:lated with the factory here. * Sertaas Accident. Muncie, Ind.. Dec. 17.—The electric light plant, owned by the city, was damaged to the amount of $3,000 oy an explosion. and Superintendent William Wagner will lose his life as a result of the accident.

An Interview with M. De Blowitz, the Paris Correspondent of the London Times. A PAINFUL MISSION IS FULFILLED. Ike Spaniards Knew They Had to Deal with an Implacable Couqueror—The Americans Hare Acted as •‘Valaqnenres Parrues.” hut Hay Tec Know What It Is to Suffer Defeet. London, Dec. 18.—The following is an extract from the interview between Senor Montero Rios, president of the Spanish peace commission, and M. DeBlowitz, the • Paris correspondent of the London Times, published in that paper. Senor Montero Rios is quoted as wying: , A MISSION FULFILLED. “We have fulfilled here a very painful mission in which it is impossible to dream of looking forward with any satisfaction, but that of doing our duty. We depart without other consolation than the exclamation: "Tout est perdu hors Phonneur.’ (All is lost save honor.) “We knew in advance that we j should have to deal with an implacable conquerer, who would in no way concern himself with any pre-existing International law, but whose sole object was to reap from victory the largest possible advantage. This conception of international law is absolutely new. It is no longer a ease of might against right, but of might without right. As for us, we had only to protect ourselves against the abasement which it was desired to inflict upon us and to prove, if spite of our blunders and mistakes, that we had not compromised the proverbial loyalty tQ, the Castilian fatherland.

MISFORTUNE HAS GRANDEUR. “Misfortune also has gTandeur. The Americans hare acted as ‘Vainqueures parvues* (Up start conqilerers.) They do not yet know the misfortune of defeat, but there are things which the most fortunate nations can , not escape later on—when they, too, will hare had reverses—when they will have become homogenous and are no longer obliged to satisfy the exigencies of political parties, they, too, will form, like all othejr nations with a past, a code of international rights and duties and be less inflexible towards those who have suffered defeat. They will better understand that a strict observance of conditions agreed to, even in the thick of a fight, is a guarantee and a protection for*all concerned, for the conquerer as well as the vanquished.” IRRITATED THE TURKS. th* Grand Dak* Nicholas Unveils a Monument to the Russian Soldier* Who Fell at Gala tana. Constantinople, Dec. 19.—The Russian Grand Duke Nicholas, who arrived here on Friday on board a Russian steamer, unveiled, yesterday, at Galatana, near San Steffano. where, on March 3, 1878, was signed the treaty of peace that terminated the Russo-Turk-ish war, a monument to the Russian soldiers who fell in that conflict. The unveiling was accompanied with much ceremony and a military parade, at which representatives of all the Balkan states were present. Early in the day a requiem was held at the Russian chapel there in memory of the dead. The Turkish newspapers are excessively irritated at these ceremonies, which recall great disasters to the Turkish arms. At the reception at the palace Saturday the grand duke handed the sultan the czar’s autograph letter, and informed his majesty that Emperor Nicolas had delegated him (the grand duke) to draw closer the ties of friendship binding the two countries. Decorations and presents were exchanged. BRAINS AS A FORCE. A Bridge Weighing Two Hundred nad Fifteen Tom Moved by Natural fores*. Milwaukee, Dec. 19.—A remarkable feat of bridge-moving was accomplished yesterday by the Chicago A Northwestern Railway Co., under direction of J. S. Robinson, division superintendent of the engineers of that road. The bridge was a single traek draw weighing 215 tons, and was moved a distance of 250 feet to a new foundation in the quick time of two hours and 57 minutes. The structure was floated on two scows, one on either side of the center which were sunk with 90.000 gallons of water. With the scows in proper position, the water was pumped put, and the bridge gradually lifted from its foundations and towed to its new resting place by two tugs. The bridge had rendered service since 1880, and it is still in good condition, being removed to make way for a double track structure of the latest pattern.

Th» Colvlll* R«Mmttea Gold Belt. Spokane, Wash., Dec. 17.—There la great excitement here over repeated rich strikes in Republic Camp on the Colville reservation. It is now demonstrated that the gold belt is at least •even miles long and three miles wide and that in that area rich ore chutes are being dicorered almost daily. Hatband and Wife Killed. Xeenah, Wis., Dec. IT.—Junes Christensen and wife, while crossing the Northwestern tracks, were strode by a train and killed. They leave a

HAVANA SUBURBS EVACUATED*! 8mm ot Them SMtouty. Havana, Dec. 19.—The Spanish eraonation commissioners informed theAmerican commissioners last evening that the Havana suburbs Cerro and lesus del Monte had been evacuated. “Lone tie* Cub**!- «Dwth to Spetor The suburb of Cerro was evacuated Saturday., American ami Cuban dags were displayed from the houses on the Calzada del Cerro. and crowds rushed through the streets shouting: “Viva Cuba Libre.” About half-past five o'clock Saturday evening a crowd of Cubans of lower class passed a barracks of engineers on the Infanta avenue, shouting: “Long live Cuba,’* and “Death to Spain,” and firing shots into the air in celebration of the evacuation of Cerro. The Ouartt wee Doubled—Wounded with lain*. The engineers did not fire, but theguard was doubled. The crowd then passed on from the Calzada del Mont© to the Calzada del Cerro, stopping the street cars and compelling passengers to shout “Vivi Cuba Libre.” Aiflbng the demonstrators were a number of butchers, who carried pistols and kniTes. Jose Gancedo and his cousin* Theodore Huertis, who were on the cars, were wounded with knives. Gancedo died yesterday and Huertis will probably die. Fired on the Engineers—Wounded on Both Side*. Later the crowd met some engineers at the Esquina de Tejas, and fired upon them, seriously wounding one. Th© engineers returned the fire, wounding a street car conductor, a civilian, Isadcro BaZols and John Leonard, a colored man. The rioting continued, many shots being fired in front of the Caso de Socorro, where the wounded were assisted. Fired on tho Troop* unit Were Disperse* by Them.

Spanish soldiers were ordered to the scene and arrived about nine o'clock. While marching through they were fired upon by men concealed behind pillars. One Spanish private fell wounded, and the battalion fired into i the air to scare the rioters. On resuming their march they were again fired upon and another man was hit. The Spaniards then fired and dispersed the rioters. Among the wounded was a colored woman, and it is also reported that there were several others. The rioting caused great alarm in Cerro and along the Calzada del Monte, where all houses have kept closed doors since Saturday night. RETURNED TO MADRID. the Spanish P«M« Commissioners R*» Mired Without Demonstration -Bittsr * Reproaches from the Press. Madrid, Dec. 19.—Senor Montero Rios and the other members of the Spanish peace commission, reached Madrid late Saturday evening. They were met by Senor Gamazo, leader of the dissenting liberals, and by many other politicians and high officials. Their arrival was not attended with any sp ^.al incident. Last evening the queen regent received Senor Montero Rios in audience. The newspapers assert that Saturday’s council of ministers, agreed that the cabinet should not appear again before parliament, and it is believed that Senor Sagasta will submit the resignation of the cabinet to the queen regent after the council to-day. \ El Liberal, in a very outspoken article, declares that both the liberal and conservative parties must disappear, “as they represent the annihilation of the Sfianish prestige abroad, the failure of the country’s finances and the loss of the colonial empire.” El Globo says that Senor Sagasta withdrew from the cabinet council yesterday, as he was slightly 1 indisposed. The editor of a Carlist newspaper published in this city has been arrested at Leon, capital of the northern province of that name, while in the course of a tour through that part of the kingdom. Important documents were found upon his person. COL. CARLOS GARCIA. The Sou of t*o Late lien. Gordo Arrive* la this Country to Ttdt HI* Mother. New York, Dec. 19.—CoL Carlos Garcia, eldest son of the late Gen. Garcia, arrived here yesterday on the Ward line steamer Santiago. He was greeted at the pier by a number of Cubans. Col. Garcia was in command of a division of the army in Santiago province at the time of his father’s death. He will stay in this city for a day or two, and will then go to W'ashington and later to Thomasville, pa., to visit hia mother. “My father’s death,” he said, “has been a great blow. I do not know what my plans are while in this country.” When asked ajxmt the present conditions in Cuba, he said: “You must pardon me, but I can aaj nothing on that subject now. Everything, however, is going nicely.”

FATAL COASTING ACCIDENT. One Mu Killed a»<t Eleven Persons InJtred, Two Hsrionaly. by the Co»lopss of » Mod. Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 19.—As a result of a coasting accident at Turtle Creek, eight miles from Pittsburgh, Joseph West, aged SO, is dead and 11 others injured, two seriously. The sled collapsed at the bottom .of a steep hill and hurled the party with great fores in every direction. The two seriously injured are W. B. Madey, both legs broken, and Jieeuh Conner.