Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1898 — SAGASTA IS HOPEFUL. [ARTICLE]

SAGASTA IS HOPEFUL.

SANGUINE VIEW OF THE CUBAN SITUATION. He Says that Dispatches “Give Un> qualified Promise of ’ Peace Congress’ to Ask Information on Ruiz Case—A Woman’s Desperate Deed. Still Looks for Peace. Senor Sngasta, the Spanish premier, Recording to a special dispatch from Madrid, reported at a late cabinet meeting that all the dispatches received from Cuba gave “unqualified promise of peace. ’ He is said to have added that this was not only the impression in Cuba, but iu the United States as well. At yVashington, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs has agreed to make a favorable report on the resolution of Representative Williams of Mississippi asking the State Department for information on the Ruiz case. The resolution is ns follows: “Resolved, That the Secretary of State be directed, if in his opinion compatible with the public interest, to send to the House the reports made to the department by Consul General Lee, and any other report made to the department by consuls or commercial agents of the United States on the subject of the execution of Col. Ruiz by the Cuban lpilitary. authorities.” There was no division over the resolution, aiid the vote was unanimous in favor of reporting it. Beypml this there was no reference to the Cuban question, except in the reference to the sub-committee of the various Cuban resolutions introduced recently. Killed Her Dover and Herself. Richard J. Halloran, a police officer of the St. Louis force, was fatally shot with his own pistol by Miss Nellie Manion, who then turned the pistol on herself and put a bullet in her brain. The attempted murder and suicide is the result of disappointed love. The shooting followed a quarrel, during which Miss Manion'begged Ilallornn to nlarry her. Ho refused, and she, in mad desperation, began shooting.