Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 47, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 March 1900 — Page 2

Sir fife* tifrmatg £}m«mt M. MeO. STOOPS, Editor Mid Proprioto* FBTEBSBUBO. i INDL/UNA. Beginning' with next month, 73 additional post offices will adopt the system of rej^istering letters by carriers. The new system then will be in operas ticn in 307 cities. SenatorGockrell, of Missquri, on the 22d, introduced a bill for an exposition at St. Louis in 1903 to commemorate the centennial of the Louisiana purchase. It appropriates $5,000,000 to aid the exposition. For the first time in 30 years the duke of Connadght andc Stratheam, „ commandant of the farces in Ireland, visited Belfast, on the 22d, on a tour of military inspection. He was enthusiastically received. The Marine hospital has receiver! a report from Surgeon Carmichael, at Honolulu, under date of the 15th, in which he says there was only one death from plague in the islands between March 2 and 15. The house committee on public lands, on the 21st, directed a favorable report on a bill allowing a single woman, pwho locates a homestead entry on unplatted lands, to complete the entry after her marriage. The board of pardons of Pennsylvania, on the 21st, granted a pardon to William H. House, former assistant city attorney of Pittsburgh, serving 22 months in the western penitentiary for embezzlement of city funds. Gov.-Gen. Davis is in constant receipt of telegrams from the various towns of Puerto Rico, begging him to use his influence with the United States congress for a speedy settlement of the questions iiqw in controversy.

In anticipation of the probable inrea.se of the capital stock the directors of the Hartford Life Insurance Co. have ordered a dividend of 100 per c*nt. The dividend is wholly from tiie surplus belonging to the stockholders. \ Chief Wilkie of the secret service re c\ rived, on the 22d, a new counterfeit 0 note, which was discovered in Scranton, Pa, ‘ It is almost identical with the counterfeit $10 note which was found last November in large quantities. Up to the hour of closing the department, on the 23d, the bonds offered to the treasury for exchange into the new two-per-cents amounted to $138,001,200, of which $11,359,950 came from individuals or institutions other than national banks. The Philadelphia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, on the 20th, adopted a paper in support of the expansion policy of the present national administraton and a call for volunteers to go to the Phlippines foi evangelical work. {Senator Ross, from the committee on civil service, on the 23d, reported bask the bill extending the civil service to the dependencies of the United States. The bill permits the removal of persons employed, but requires that the reasons be stated in writing “when practicable to do so.” The bill for the" incorporation of the National Red Cross society was favorably acted on, on the 22d-, by the house committee oh foreign affairs, with an amendment providing for an annual account to the secretary of war aud the secretary of the navy and a publication of the account. | - 4- Ihe preliminary examination of Seci, retary of State Caleb Powers, charged with abetting the assassination'of William Goebel, began at Frankfort, Ky., on the 23d, before Judge Moore. Thu courthouse was guarded inside and- put by militia and scores of deputies firmed with Winchester rifles.

Tjfce house committee on pensions . has; practically decided in favor of extei -Sing the pension law of. January 5, 1>93, which increases the pension of Mexican war veterans from eight dollars* to twelve dollars per month, so that it will apply to those pensioned since the date of the act as well as the'^e pensierned up to that time. Rosa Gibbons, aged 70, who for 50 years has served as waitress in the , aristocratic home of the Misses Whitehouse, in Brooklyn Heights, was given a reception by her employers on the semi-centennial of her advent*-into the family, which was attended by many relatives of the family whom she had nurjsed or otherwise attended during her; long se'tvice^ Rosa occupied the place of honor for once. Speaker Henderson of the house oi representatives, on the 21st, named the following committee to consider matters pertaining to the proposed Louisian^ purchase centennial celebration at St; Louis; Messrs. Tawney (Minn.), Steele (Ind.), Sherman (N. Y.), Joy (Md.), Corliss (Mich.), Burke (S. D.j, republicans, and Messrs. Williams (Mi*s.), Bartlett (Ga.) and Otey (Va.), ' dem ocrats. Tie Berlin Kreuz Zeitung, in a re markable article dealing, with the South African war, says: “The war h;is demonstrated the unanimity of feeling among the English. They are all standing together through good and evil report, and ^re compelling the adm iration of the world. It has also ahmvn, in a most amazing way, the strength of the imperialistic idea, hav* ing done much in swelling the colonies into a veritable emote*.”

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Varkm* Sources*! ...- i . Fl^TY-SiXTH CONGRESS^ In the senate, on the Hth, -the legislative, executive and Judicial appropriation bill, carrying mog than $25,000,000, was passed without debate. The measure pievtding for the appointment of a committee to adjudicate and settle claims of the people of the United States growing out of the war with Spain, was also passed without opposition./..In the house the majority refused to concur in the aerate amendments to the Puerto Rican relief bill. Tbe most‘of the session was devoted to District of Columbia business. In the senate, on the 20th, discussion of the Puerto Rican government and tariff j bill was resumed, Mr. Morgan (Ala.) making tho principal argument in favor of retention of both Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and claiming that the Puerto Ricans are citizens of the United States... In the house the committee on military affairs reported back the Sulser resolution of ii auiry with a recommendation that *t lie on the table. The report was accompanied by a communication from Adjt.Gen, Corbin stating that the information in possession of the department in like cases had always been held as confidential. but stating, incidentally, that Great Britain was erecting no -works which threatened our rights. The resolution was laid on the table. The house then entered upon the consideration of the Loud bill to restrict the character of publications entitled to pound rates as second class mail msttei*. In the senate, on the 21st, a resolution of inquiry as to whether the secretary of war had granted concessions for gold mining in the bed of the sea near Cane Nome, was adopted. The additional urgency deficiency bill was passed with one or two other measures of importance. ......In the house nearly the entire session was devoted to the discussion of the Loud bill relating to second class mail matter. A number of speeches were made for and against the bill In the senate, on tbe 22d, almost the entire session was spent in the discussion of the conference report upon the Puerto Rican appropriation bill. The democratic senators criticised the restoration of the house provision covering future collections of revenue. The republicans met this with a proposition to take a vote immediately upon the house Puerto Rican bill. The debate w’as finally terminated by a call for the regular order.In the house, after a three-days’ debate, the Loud bill, relating to second class mail matter, was recommitted by the decisive | vote of 148 to %. * In the senate, on the 23d, the conference report on the Puerto Rican relief bill was adopted try a vote of 35 to 15, practically a strict party expression. No democrat voted for the report, but Mr. Stewart (Nev.) voted with the republicans......In the house, u being private pension bill day, 142 such bills were passed. The conference report on the Puerto Rican relief bill was presented, but iis consideration was postponed until the 2tth.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. M. H. Flint, postal inspector at Los Angeles, Cal., received a telegram, on the 22d, from M. M. Hall, inspector in Arizona, saying that the post office at Nogales had been entered by unknown persons, who secured $1,500 in Mexican money. Montagu White, the Boer agent in this country, called at the state department, on the 22d, and spent some time in conversation with Secretary Hay. It was intimated that the conversation was purely personal in character. Justice Bishoff, of the J\ew York supreme court, on the 22d, appointed J. Hampden Dougherty receiver for D. Appleton & Co., publishers, on the application of Daniel [‘riTcharf, a stockholder. The senate, on the 22d, in executive session, ratified the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, relative to the estates of citizens of one country who die in the other. The ^differences between H. C. Frick and Andrew Carnegie have been settled. This announcement was made officially by the Carnegie Steel Co., limited, on the 22d. The house committee on Indian affairs, on the 22d, reported a bill for the establishment of the Independent Order of Bed Men in the Indian territory. A lone train robber, wearing a mask, held up the south-bound Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs train, four miles south of Hamburg, la., early on the morning of the«23d, robbed the passengers on the sleeper and chair car of $200 in cash and a gold watch, and then made his escape. It is reported from Lorenzo Marquez, Delagoa Bay, that Pretoria is prepared to stand a siege of two years, and that the Boer women, frantic at the reverses to the Boer arms, are entreating to be allowed tp shoot the British or ficers imprisoned at Pretoria. A special correspondent of the London Times at Bloemfontein, telegraphing, on the 22d, says: “Yesterday Mr. Kruger issued a proclamation annexing the Free State to the Transvaal. Mr. Steyn immediately issued a .counter proclamation, declaring the Free

estate intact.7 By direction of the war department, fcne squadron of the Fifth cavalry, in the department of Puerto Rico, will be relieved from duty in that department and sent to Jefferson Barracks, Mo. The detachment wall serve as a depot squadron for the Fifth cavalry. The steamship Switzerland which arrived at New York, on the 22d, from' Antwerp, brought nearly 200 Finns, who are said to be the lirs,t of many thousands fleeing from the oppression of the government of Russia. The party willjocate in Minnesota, Iowa and Monfhna. The body of Kelly Brinsfield, who disappeared from Atlanta, Ga., several months ago, was found, on the 22d, under the house formerly occupied by him. Brinsfield, who was a minister’s son, was short several thousand dollars in his accounts with an insurance company. The Carnegie Steel Co., limited, becomes a stock company, with a capital variously estimated at from $200,000,000 to $250,000,000, the famous “ironclad agreement” is wiped out, all litigation between the partners in the Carnegie company in dropped, and H. C. Frick, the former president of the company, virtually secures all he has contended for. J. £. Remnant, conservative, was elected, on the 23d, without opposition, to the seat (Holbora division of Finsbury, London) in the houseof commons, made vacant by the death of Sir Charles Hail, Q. C., conservative.

A Constantinople dispatch ot the 2Sd says there is no truth in the report published In the United States that Osman Pasha, the hero of Plevna, is dead. The famous Turkish general hna be?n side for a week, but his health is improving. Sherman Rogers, a prominent citizen of Buffalo, N.~Y„ died, on the 3d, at the residence of his son, B. Cameron Rogers, the well-known poet, in Santa Barbara. Cal., of cerebral meningitis. It Is reported from Lima that the government of Peru intends to appoint Mr. Alexander Giyland to be Peruvian minister at Washington. Capt. Thomas Wilson, president ol the Central national bank of Cleveland, 0n and a widely-'known vessel owner, died on the 23d. The establishment of an Oceanographic institute at Kiel university ia now placed beyond doubt. Four men were instantly killed and one fatally injured by a boiler explosion in Hickory’s saw mill at Anthony, Ind., on the 23d. LATE NEWS*ITEMS. In the senate, on the 24th, a measure was passed providing for the appointment by the president of a, commission to investigate the trade and commerce of the -orient with a view to the extension of American commerce. The closing hours of the session were devoted to the consideration of resolutions accepting from the state of Indiana a statue of Oliver P. Morton.... In the house, the conference report on the Puerto Rican relief bill was adopted by a vote of 135 to 87. A bill was passed appropriating $10,000 for.-de-signs for a suitable memorial in Washington to Ulysses S. Grant. Notwithstanding that troops recognizing the dual governors were quartered within two squares of each other at Frankfort, Ky., on the 25th, the day was quiet. The republican adjutant general, Collier, and democratic assistant adjutant general, Murray, got together and discussed and mutually agreed upon plans to avoid possibility of any sort of a clash between

tut; troops. Chief Willis L. Moore of the weather service has issued an order prohibiting persons connected with the®, service from smoking cigarettes during office hours, and stating further that those who smoked cigarettes at any time would be mentioned jin the confidential reports which are made quarterly to him bj* chiefs of the several offices and divisions throughout the entire service. Mr. Chin Pom Ye, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, of Corea to this government, Will sail from New York, on the 31st, for Paris, to begin his new duties abroad. He has been transferred to Paris, Vienna and Stt Petersburg, at which capitals he will represent his government in the future, dividing his time between the capitals of those countries. The Stoughton (WIs.). academy was totally destroyed by fire on the 2oth. The institution was run under the auspices of the Norwegian Lutheran synod, and was attended by 112 students from Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and the Dakotas. The pecuniary loss is ncrt heavy, and the academy will, probably be rebuilt. Mail advices received from Colombia. <^h the 24th, report that the revolutionists have been pressing the government force*} and that a large number of political prisoners taken last Week from Panama have been banished to San Andrea. CURRENT~WEWS NOTES, Mrs. McKinley has been confined to her room for two or three days past by an attack of grip. Four men were instantly killed by a boiler explosion at Hickory’s sawmill; at Anthony, Ind., Friday. F. K. Weill, of *BoIivar county, and his 12-:year-old son were drowned in Pearl river, at Jackson, Miss. Mrs. Parinelia Thomas, the oldest person in/ Perry county, Til., died at Tamaroa; Friday, at the age of 90. John Dickson, a wealthy farmer near Bolckow, Mo.', who shot himself February 11 with suicidal intent, died Friday.

Hugo Naegele, a prosperous ami prominent citizen of New Baden, III., in elibrged with killing Edward-Fred-erich, of Mnscoutah. A Boer prisoner, while trying to escape from the inclosure at the Greenpoint (Cape Town) track, Friday, was shot dead by a sentry. Fifty-three thousand dollars have been subscribed by business men of Monticello, Ark.,‘toward putting in a cotton factory to cost $100,000. Eight young men were admitted tn deacon’s orders at the session of the St. Louis conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Kansas City. John Weinman, of the firm of Weinman & Baker, furniture dealers, at Atchison, Kas., was shot in the left arm by k highwayman Friday night. Fred Kinnard, the Kansas City man who attempted suicide in a bathhouse at Perry, Okla., has been adjudged insane and taken to the territorial asylum. * , ‘ Mr. Fitzgerald, of Massachusetts, introduced a resolution in the house directing the postmaster general to exclude the book “Sapho” from the mails. The bursting of an emery wheel at A. I*. Ide & Son’s engine works, at Springfield, 111., resulted in August Fratcher, a machinist, being killed instantly. Ex-Alderman William Lyman,of Chicago, was shot, Friday night, during a political quarrel by ex-Sensitor John R. O’Malley. O'Malley lias been arrested. The situation at Ponce, Puerto Rico, is more serious than it hast been at any time before since the terrible hurricane. In many places the poor arc ■tarring.

ALL OVEB THE STATIC Events In Various-Portions of Iidiana Told by Wire. Tmtktd Barglan. Wabash* Ind., March 23.—Peter A> wine, aged 12, and his brother, Josept, aged eight, were arrested jon a buiglary charge. February *20 Petet robbed the junk shop of Blumberg Ai Tobias, taking $26 worth of goods, ami since then, with his little brother robbed the grocery store of H. Phillip pi, taking cash and goods to tht amount of $20. Peter has confessed and will be sent to the reformatory. Weekly Pay Daya. Terre Haute, Ind., March 23.—The Indiana miners reelected by acclamation President Van Horn, 'Secretary Kennedy and Vice President Thomas Roberts. The scale committee was instructed on the points to be considered with the operators, whom they will meet, and admonished that no consideration was to be given to the prop osition to waive the new Indiana law requiring weekly pay days. Remarkable Record. Columbus, Ind., March 23.—Mr. and Mrs. William Hill, of Hawcreek township, this county, have been \jnaryied 56 years, and are the parents clfnine children. There are 43 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. There has been no deaths in either of &e three generations, neither has there been serious illness. Mr. Hill is 74 years old and his wife 7Q. Exodm Begun. I Kokomo,, Ind., March 23. — The much-talked-of exodus of German farmers has begun, 300 having left for Condd, Grand Forks and Monette, N. D. One hundred and seventy-five will leave March 27 for the same points. It is estimated that 700. all told, will leave for the northwest, as members of this colony, during the spring.

Give* ip III* secret. Shelbyville, Ind., March 23.—Two years ago James Strickler was secretly married to Miss Grace Patterson, since which time they have remained with Itheir respective parents. On his deathbed Thursday Strickler divulged the Secret. His father .had threatened to disinherit him' should he marry the girl, who will now inherit a fortune. Saloon Row. Star City, Ind.. March 23.—Charles Lytle attempted to eject Joe Dearmbnd from his salooi\, the latter trying to ruh the place, but in using his revolver his aim was bad. and he shot lira Kelly, his bartender, in the back, ihe bullet lodging under the shoulder blade. Samuel E. Hare was badly beaten by the Dearmond crqwd. Blown Off a Trestle. Bedford, Ind., March 23.—William Lanere, a bridge carpenter, 40 years old, was blown from the top of the Benzel trestle, in the eastern part of 1 he city, on the B. & O. S. W. railway, and is supposed to be fatally hurt. His home is at Mitchell, where he has a family. He fell 64 feet, landing on a bed of rocks. Die* from Trichinosis. Valparaiso, Ind., March 23.—Emma liOhse, aged 17 years, died from trichinosis. This is the second death in the iamily and two others are affected. Jacob Sievers and two sons, who ate’ some of the same meat, and four memtiers of the Hahmann family are very low, and their recovery is doubtful. Wheat Damaged. Kokomo, Ind., March 23.—The wheat fields of this part of the state are reported greatly damaged by the last cold spell. The continue^ freezing and thawing the last ten days, the farmers say, have ruined thousands of acres, all the fields in the country being more :r less damaged. A Kovel Sait. Richmond, Ind., March 23.—Catherine Walch and Bridget Stanton, who for ten years,past have lived near the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, want $2,000 each for damages from smoke, cinders, grease and noise during that time.

Secret for Months. Scottsburg, Ind., March 23.—The marriage Harry Blocher and Miss Hutsell. daughter of Andrew Hutsell, of Paris? Crcc-';nsr, has been announced, after being kept a secret over four months. Suddenly Dies. Evansville, {Ind., March 23.—While eating supper Patrolman George Miller was stricken with apoplexy, and died suddenly. He was one of the best-known officers on the forte. Rioting. Evansville, lnd., March 23.—There has been rioting around the mines at Boonville and several fights. The attempt of Sheriff Hudson to swear in 50 deputy sheriffs was fruitless. After Oil and Gas. Evansville, Ind., March 23.—Pittsburgh parties have leased several hundred acres of land in Pike county, near Petersburg, and will drill—for oil and gas. Best la Years. Linton. Ind., March 23.—The output of coal from the Linton mines last month was 60,000 tons, the best for a February month for many years. Awarded Heavy Damages. Scranton, Pa., March 23.—John T. Martin, of Aston, Pa., in the United States district court, was awarded damages of $55,000 against the Delaware & Hudson Railroad company. The case grew out of permanent ilkjuries received by Mr. Martin in a railroad accident on April 4 last. The company will take an appeal.

«f the Statue or : Illustrious Indianian to the Nation. TO STAND IN TIE NALL OF STATIARY. Senator Fnlrb«nAc* Drew a Glorl Word Plot are of tke Life and Pi lie Service* of Mr. Morton, P*> ] Tribute to HI* Stalale** and alted Pnblte Service*. Washington, March 24.—Durin: the cession of the senate Mr. Fairbanks (ind.) presented a resolution accepting: the statue 6t Oliver P. Merloni from the state of Indiana. He s wke in part as follows: '“The senate of the United Si ales pauses in the consideration of the important routine business of the country to accept a tribute from the .state of Indiana-a Statue of Oliver Perky Morton. “That statue is to stand in yonder venerable hall of representatives, how tenanted by the mute images of the chiefest jewels of the republic. j , The state of Indiana has an a: iple roll of distinguished statesmen svho have served her well; of soldiers .vho won imperishable renown upon the battlefields of their country; of those who have attained high places in the world of letters, but without invid ous discrimination, she makes her pre cent and first contribution to Statuary iiill. “Oliver PerTy Morton was one of ; the commanding figures of the United Slates during the most heroic petfood of! her history. He impressed himself upon his state and nation by the fierce of his commanding genius, arid the history of neither state nor na ion would be complete without the s i pry of his life and work.”

Air. Fairbanks then with bold md sweeping, but definite and exact lihps, drew a striking word picture of Gbv. Morton. .He pictured bis eajrly life, his struggles for an education, the sacrifices he made to shake his passionate thirst for knowledge, and the powei as a lawyer and judge, which he early attained by reason of his brilliant qualifications. Then he told in vigor, words the stirring story of Morto entrance into political life and of becoming the governor of his* native state, “at the threshold of a miglity crisis." . Mr. Fairbanks then succinctly la ted the part which Gov. Morton to in the civil war, what he did for Ids state and her troops in that critical period, and how he won the love of the soldiers and an imperishable repu tation at the same time. Next he told how the distinguished statesman, already in the grip of a deadly disease, came to Washington as fh senator from Indiana. That he might do Ms duty to his state and to his country, he bid even death defiance. He worked unceasingly that the nation, which had just emerged from* the 'fiery baptism of war, might J>e put on t|ie highway of enduring peaee. This herculean work must be done. He hid no time to parley with-death. “There are colleagues of Mr. Morton in the senate, who remember, (is though it were but yesterday, hciw the senator was borne into this chamber' in his chair, and how he delivered his great speeches seated there.” § Eloquently Mr. Fairbanks told of Mr. Morton's most conspicuous and; illustrious public service—his labors on the electoral commission following the presidential election of 1876. “Stricken by remorseless disease apd rapidly approaching the end of &u illustrious career,” said Mr. Fairbanks, “he yet became a member of the commission, the creation of,which he had antagonized. He had to he lifted into his seat during the sittings of the commission, there remainii Into the long, dreary hours of t night, tireless among the tired, pre iug on where strong men gave wa he presents a pictlire that may well e cite our wonder and challenge opr admiration, and for which history furnishes no example.” “No dishororable act,” continued tin; speaker, “detracts from his fame. His hands were Clean, his integrity incoir ruptible. He was a bold but chivalrous political antagonist, ifor his sense of honor was acute. His political adversaries, at the time of his death, paic tribute to his stainless and exalted purpose. He was regarded and ranked as an intense partisan, and such hi; was. He had an abiding faith in thjt virtue of his party, pud of its beneficence as an instrument in promoting; good government. “The state of Indiana commits tin the keeping of the United States the statue of Oliver Perry Morton, to bo kept and preserved so long as the fa ric of our political institutions shall kepi; and preserved.se long as the fab

> lucreasea Charleston, S. C., March 26.—The York ootton mills of Yorkville, this state, h$ve announced that they will., on next pay-day, take three per cent., from the annual dividend and add 1$. to the wages of the operatives. The Fifteen Years For a Life. Albany, Mo., March 24.—In the circuit court, the jury returned a verdict Friday evening, finding Charles Crawford guilty of murder and giving hiiL 15 years in the penitentiary. Cravfford shot and killed young Silvers, hi Staaberry, last October. j Work of Bank Burglars. Hardy, Neb., Mareh 24.—The Stab bank: of this place was visited by bur glam about 3 a. m. They blew opei the safe .with dynamite and secured $4,000. No trace of the robbers hat secured yet. St

TAXATION IN CUBA. r*l«»iHe Properties Rather Ttuta tk« t» •alar Proeneta Wicnld Pay tno Taxes. Havana, March 26.—Gov.-Gen. Wood has recently had interviews with per ■ona of influence who have strenuously urged the taxation of valuable proper ties, rattier than each bag of sugar as it is manufactured Those who hole this view contend that under the pres ent system, impediments are throw* in the way of production, Idle Instates Should he Taxed, They ]>oint out that many valuable estates have been lying idle and un productive for years, rome even having complete sugar plants. The owuers, who ire rich men, are living in Puri5^ Madrid and other European cities, uu* taxed for their property in Cuba. Gen Wood feels that if these properties are taxed their owners will be forced eithei to sell them or to make them prod uctive. Senor Pierra, a member of the sub committee who drew up the majority report on the electoral commission, discussing the matter Sunday, said: I'o- Seevre Fair Play. “In ovir report we have endeavored to arrange for the elections in such a w%r as to secure fait play for all corn cerned. The plan proposed by the mi* nority report, drawn up by Senoi Tamayo and Gen. Rivera, which sug* gests that the board of registry be elected by suffrage, has the drawback of leaving too mucti power in tha hands of the civil governors. Under the minority scheme the civil govern* ors would nominate election officers in the various provincial districts: these officers, being charged with the conduct of the elections, would choose the electoral boards of three. In this way the civil governors would have too much individual influence in eon* faceting the elections, as all the offiers controlling them would be their nominees.” y:*T'

With regard to this representation o.' minorities Senor Pierra said: Minority Representation. “Although no political parties have been ‘formed, there are _ two well* mnrked political tendencies, the radical and the conservative. Moreover, local1 interests will play a prominent part in the elections. For instance, ia Havana the principal tssue will lie between the workingmen and the land owners. The former are a majority. Nevertheless the committee has arranged so that the land holders will not be left unrepresented. The votes are to be taken according to the ten existing sections into which Havana is now divided. Shouldn’t Marc Unlimited Autonomy “Personally, I feel that the municipalities should not have unlimited autonomy at once, but only in the course of time. At first there should be a strong central control.' There is a great difference between Cuba and the United States. Cubans have been accustomed to look to the central government fer all initiative and also for the support of new enterprises. It would be impossible to change all that in one , day.” Senor Pierra remarks that the committee had chosen judges as registry officers because a judge is or should be above suspicion by virtue of his office, and is also likely to have an inti- , mate knowledge regarding the people of his district.” /. >; ' Still Subject of Comment. The recent interviews between leading autonomists and the members of the senate commission are still the subject of comment. The autonomists assert that the details have not been and will not be published, but the papers keep on printing alleged accounts of what was said. STRANDED AND SHIPWRECKED. The Sorry Crowd Landed at New York, Sunday, from the Steamer Oltnda. New York. March 26.—Among the passengers who arrived, Sunday, on the steamer Olinda, from Cuban ports, •were 30 stranded colonists' from La Gloria and 25 shipwrecked seamen. Twenty of tlie latter are frotn the Norwegian steamer Frcymnes, which was swept ashore by currents on Hog Sty reef, in the Bahnmas, on the night of March 2, and became a total loss as already reported. The crew landed on the reef with provisions, and the chief officer and four seamen put off in a boat to- go to Inagua for assistance. They were picked up by the steamer Admiral Schley and landed at Fortune island. A snail schooner was chartered and sent fcr the crew, who were brought to Fortune island. The shipwrecked men were forwarded to this port by the Norwegian consul. Capt. Throbjomsen. remained at Fortune island to look after the owner's interests. The other five shipwrecked seamen, embarked at Nuevitas. They were from the American schooner Hattie Godfrey, which was lost on Romano reef, while cn the voyage from Baraeoa for Havana. The schooner was a total loss.

The Corean Legation. Washington, March 26.—Mr. Chin Pom Ye, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Corea to this government, Will sail from New York next Saturday for Paris, to begin, his new duties abroad. He has been transferred to Paris, Vienna and St. Petersburg, s,t which capitals he will represent his government In the future. He will call on the president early this week to take final leave and to present Mr. Tam E Ye, secretary of the legation, as charge d'affaires for Corea ad interim.