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{ f THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1897. FOR THE CAIME OFREGELLU Patriots Guzman and O'n» Shot by Spaniards at Cabanas Fortress. O: Twenty-Three Prisoners Tri:d at Remed os Three Are Con d:-mned to Death. { L:nding of an Extensive Filibrstering Expedition on the Coast of San- tiago Provinc:. HAVANA, Cusa, Feb, »—There is no public news regarding (aptain-General Weyler, and if the officis at the palace have any informdtion resarding his move- ments they refuse to divulge it. In fact, his exact whereabouts is unknown, and some + seems that secrecy to his movements. Spotorno, » prominent autona- ned to Sanctu Spirito yester- reason Antonio Pertori Guzman and Ginsseppe Olna were shot st sunrise this morning at Cabanas fortress for the crime of rebellion. | Twenty-three prisoners have been tried by court-martial at Remedios. Three of them were condemned to death, five were released and the others were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from six years to rrespondent sends the details of an The Four States " Cutra As fixed by the Insuryent Constitution J;o /n‘o 150 20 s+ Boundaries Scale «f Sp=ncsh Provinces. les — —-—DBoundartes| TittEE— of. M ’f%}yeyrsuus’ FOUR STATES CREATED BY THE CUBAN REPUBLIC. With an apparent desire to do away with evervthing pertaining to Spanish rule the revolutionary Government of Cuba divided the territory occupied by the main island from C. with new names September 1895, ement beiween General Melguizo's 1 and a body of rebels at Lu | near Guane, province of Pinar The fighting lasted two hours The Spaniards used artillery. on is made of losses on eith side, though the correspondent states that | zbting was fierce. KINGSTON, Jasarca, has been received nday last of a big filibuste: Jan. here of the su | | | molestation from llm‘ the coast of Santia, The Spanish gunboats which were looking for it, but looked in the wrong place. The convoy was met, however, by a body of Spanish troops that were not locking | for it, and had The Cuban | forces suc in d the troops| 1sh, where a much stronger ¢ of Cubans were lying. The result for the Spanisrds, who lost | ¥ that they were glad 10 retreat | nd aliow the convoy to continue its march ion got into the camp of t further trouble. The sup- ed by this expedition will go | d equipping the army of Garcia ein the big struggle between and Gomez that is coming off | soon. SISl S HATKED AGAINST SPAIN, It Is a0 Bitter Thar cuban Women and | Children 1aks Up Arms. | NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 1.—A Sun spe- | cial from Key West says: Dr. William Donnell and Arthur Thiethil, corre- spondents of two Hamburg newspa- pers, arrived here on Saturday from | . where they have been about two nths traveling all over the siand, They ed from Hamburg about a year ago 10 | make a trip on foot around the world, and | they have been in Cuba in many places to which the war has given an added in- In their opinion the situation is such | tuat ain will be able to carry. on the s long as sne can obtain money | 10 | e troops; thatafter her monetary | resources are exhausted, which 1s likely 1o ocenr very soon, the Spaniards will have | ta abandon the 1sland. | The hatred against Spain is so intense t t only men, but the Cuban won i children are insurgents. The | concentration of the country families in tow red by Weyler, is carriea out with great cruelty. The two correspond- ents have seen many of these poor penple dying from starvation in some interior | towns alter havinz snifered on_their way from the country ail kinds of ill-treatment | from the Spanish soldiery. The depredations committed by the | Spanish troops cannot be described. Words cannot give an exact idea of me‘ criminal extremes to which the Spaniard. go and only eye-witnesses can believe that | human nature is capabie of such mon- | strosities. The Cubans, knowing this, never sur- | render in battle, and when any of ihem falls wounded he will fight in despair on the ground until the last mowent rather than risk the tortures his foes would be sure to inflict upon him. 10 PRUSECUTE FOR PILACY. Harmon Orders Procesdings the Three Friends. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1.—Attor- ney-General Harmon to-day instructed the United States District Attorney at Jacksonville to proceed against the stenmer Three Friends asa pirate. The prosecution witl be against the vessel and not against her officers and crew, in cordance with section 4297 of the Rev. Statutes. The purpose of the Attorney-General in | bringing the prosecution is largely to test | the opinion recently given by Judge | Leccke of the United Staies court at Jack- | sonvilie against the Three Friends. | In discharging her ,officers from cus- | =ody Judge Locke held that there was no | state of war in Cuba and the Three| Friends was not therefore engaged in a political mission. According to the understanding at the Department of Justice this opinion clear- Iy made the Three Friends amenable to prosecution ior piracy, granting the state- ments appearing in the newspapers are true, that she was armed and fired upon a Spanish vessel, for if her mission was non- yolitical she was engaged in an armed attack on or resistance to a friendly state. The prosecution has an addiiional in- t stin the fact that the case will be heard before Judge Locke. No one here, however, believes that the yarns about this unarmored tugboat, carrying a soli- | Hotchkiss gun, attacking a well- | cquiped Spanish gunboat, can be sus- tained by the slightes: fragment of proof, s el THEATED WITH CONTEMPT. Against ed Colonel Barker Insultrd by the Spanish Authoritics. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 2—A Herald special from Key West says: Colonel Walter B. Barker, United States repre- sentative in Sagua la Grande, Cuba, is in- d.grant over an insult offered to him by these divisions an; The nd for the most part entirely different boundaries. e Rio Jobabo, rising near and flowing soutn fnto the Gulf of Guacanayabo. State of Camaguey lies next on the west, its eastern boundary being the same us the western of Oriente. pe Maisi to Cape San Antonio and the adjacent smaller islands and keys, formerly comprised within the six royal provinces, into four new States, This work was one of the first acts of the Constituent Assembl; In all references to affairs of the Government the movements of the armies an troops, in all the reports and dispatches from Cnban sources, names are used, sometimes to the bewilderment of.the reader, who can tind no such divisions and names on the map, or if he can form. any 1dea as to the part of the island in which they lie he 1s still at a loss to define their limits. our new States are called Oriente, Camaguey, Las Villas or Cabanacan and Occidente. stern end of the island and comprises all the territory from Cape Maisi, its extreme point on the east, to Porto Manati, on the northern coast, and on the west to Its limits are the same as those of the Spanish Province of Santiago de Cuba. v, which met at Jimaguaya, The State of Oriente, as its name would indicate, lies in the The Its western boundary begins at the Laguna de Blanca on the coast, just rorth of the town of Moron, and runs south to that place, and thence with the line of the old military trocha to Jucaro on the south coast, leaving both these towns, with Cirgo de Avila, in th was a line ru boundary of the two grand departm is State. ents into which the island is di Camaguey comprises the greater part of the province of Puerto Principe, though the western boundary of the latter ning nearly nerth and south along the Jatibonico del Sur and Jatibonico del Norte, some twenty miles west of the trocha. trocha is the diocesan line, which divides the island into two bishoprics, one with its see at Santiago de Cuba and the other at Havana. Five miles east of the This line is also the led for administrative purposes, the eastern with headquarters at Santiago de Cuba and the western at Havana. This line rans across a low plain, nowhere fifty feet above the ses, and on which there are few, if any, inhabitants, which makes it a very suitable boundary. The State of Las Villas adjoins the province of Santa Clara except the portion west of Colhinas Bay and south of the Rio Gonzalo. from the mouth of the Hannabana River until it reaches the Rio Palma, which it follows to the se: Cinco Villas, so called from the five cities which it included—Sagua la Grande, San Juan de Remedios, Villa Clara, Trinidad and Cienfuegos. Camaguey on the west. set to the district, but it was understood to cover the territory tributary to the five cities above named. The State of Occidente begins at the western boundary of Las Villas and extends west to Cape San Antonio, including a part of the province of Santa Clara. 10 the nearest State, as the Ja; revolution is on the top of the the Spanish officials of that place, and it is asserted that he bas written a’ bitter compiaint to Secretary Olney. According to advices several dispatches to him from in reference to important matlers relating to the relations of Spain and the United States reached Sagua la Grande, where they were seizad, opened and read by the Spanish authorities. The Spaniards kept the dispatcnes nearly a week and treated Consul Barker's com- plaints with contempt | THIRTY UNSUCCESSFUL STR1KES. Remarkable Record of a Year's Labor Troubles in Germany. LONDON, E Berlin correspondent telegraphs that the sirike of dock labo ers und others em- ployed in the shipping trade at Hamburg hasended in the complete defeat of the strikers, owing to the lack of funds. Many of the men are now trying to ob- tain work, only to find that their places bave been filled. is result of the great stril as predicted in the dispatches of he United Associated Presses some weeks ag: 1 tis remarkable that of all the thirty strikes that took place in Germany in 1896 not one has been successful, aithou they cost many millions of marks. In February tirere was a great strike in the | ready-made clothes trade, and in March among the textile workmen st Cottbus ana Muihous, Then followed the silers’, shoemakery’, cigar-makers’ and capmak- ers’ strike in Berlin. Next the cutters in the aistrict of Solin- gen went out and were followed by the hands of the factories at Biel, the litho- graphers at Berlin and so on. Altogether about a hundred thousand men were vut during the year, but they all were com- pelled to go back again without attaining their object. - THAT BANGKUK INCIDENT, Rumered Attack on the German Minister Discredired at Berline BERLIN, GEryaxY, Feb. 1.—Dispatches have been received here from Bangkok stating that Herr Kempermann, the Ger- man Minister to Siam, had been attacked in the streets by a Siamese mob, who de- tied the efforts of the police to queil their rioting. An American engineer named Bennett, | the dispatches say, placed himself at the liead of the police and led them againet | the mob, dispersing them, and rescued the Minister. The Berlin semi-official papers are rather skeptical as to the truth of the | dispatch, and assert that the German Min- ister to Siam is absent from Bangok at the | present time. A special cablegram 1o the Herald from Bangkok says: The Government of has ‘apologized to the German Minister for the atteck made upon bim, and the King has conferred a decoration upon | him. Lttt & CANADIAN CATILEMEN FLATED. Looking Forward to « Large Trade Wilh | the Easteyn Mtates. TORONTO, Caxapa, Feb. L.—Canadian cattle-dealers believe that through the fav- orable arrangements made by the Do- minion authorities for the raising of the forty days’ quarantine on Canadian cattle going into the United States they will te able to build up a valuable export trade. It is undersiood the quarantine regulations requiring that ail cattle sent to the United States from Canada shall be quarantined forty days before permis- sion can be obtained to sell them will be abrogated to-day, some $10,000 worth of cattfe brought here the last few days are being held to ship to Buffalo. Canadian dealers sav that New York State buyers prefer Canadian cattle to those they get from the West, and it is be- lieved a large trade will be built up be- tween Canadian points and tne Eastern States. —— Search for a Missing Steamer. ST. JOHNS, N. F., Feb. 1. — The steamer Nimrod sailed at midnight in search of the missing steamer State of Georgla. In connection with its search ilots bhere recall that on the night of anuary 9 distress signals were thrown up by some steamer off this port, but when they went off to seek lier nothing was visible, nor did she pass Cape Roche. They now believe she might hava been the State of Georgia. the Department of State | G.; Feb, 1.—The Standard’s | am | In expectation of this | in the State of Camaguey. COMPTROLLER ECKELS TALKS. Gives His Views on the Financial Prcblem Before the Committee on Banking and Currency. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1.—The exchange of views between Comptroller | Eckels and tbe Banking and Currency Committee was continued to-day. Mr. Eckels expressed the opinion that the | only way to solve the financial problem would be to secure a proper banking bill. In reply toa question regarding bank issues he said that if holders of notes { knew that banks were able to pay ingold they would prefer paper to coin. Busi- ness people also preferred paper to metal- lic money. Proportionate to the amount | of business done the amount of gold was | practically nothing. As the system of clearing-houses was developed the ex- change of gold in the settlemerit of diffi- culties was still further reduced. He said | that Great Britain had nearer reached perfection regarding credit facilities than any other country. America came next, with Germany and France third and tourth. Mr. Newlands of the committee assumed that we would require $950,000,000.in gold to establish the system proposed, and asked Mr. Eckels where he would get the requisite amount. Mr. Eckels replied that we would get it | from England, France, Germany, or some | otner country ‘that had gold to sell. We could always find countries which hsad | gold ready to exchange for products they needed. The percentage of gold held by Great Britain againstits credits was the smalles: in the world. The surrender of | gold by a country as a rule was purely volun' The trouble here that the gold was taken from the treasury instead of in the usual way in the course of trade. A declaration by the Comptroller that he believed the single gold standard essen- tial to the prosperity of a great nation | nearly precipitated a silver discussion, but the settlement of a question of order to | who was entitled to the floor occupied the remainder of the session, and at 3:10 the committee adjourned to meet again to- morrow morning, when the Comptroller will be asked to discuss the several bills before the committee proposing general changes in the banking system. | =28 | | PUBLIC DEBT srarEmesT. | | How Uncle Sam Mtands Financlally at | the End of January. 1 WASHINGTON, D. C,, Feb. 1.—The | | debt statement issued thisaiternoon shows | a net increase in the public debt, less | cash in the treasury during the month | of January of $15,07 The interest-bearing debt increased $2,120,916. | The non-interest-bearing debt decreased | $140 and cash in the treasury decreased | $12,957,959 22, The balances of the several classes of | | debt on January 31 were: Interest-bearing | debt, $847,866,270; debt on which interest | | had ceased since maturity. $1, ; debt bearing no interest, $374 totel, $1,223.370,737 40. The certificites and treasury notes, off et | by an equal amount of cash’ in the freas- | ury, ontstanding at the end of the month | were §595,975,573, an increase of $15, 16 000. ‘'ne total cash in the treasury was | $858.553,910 21 ! “Iiie gold reserve was $100,000,000; net | cash balance, $115,362.420 7. | In the month there was an increase in | | gold coin and bars of $7.183 total at the close being $182, Of silver there was an 1ucrease of § 764 57. Of the surplus there bank depositories $16,57. $16,15 month. s in National 29 14, aeainst 153 27 at theend of the previous —_— NEBRASKA’S DISTKICT JUDGE, Cleveland Now Nowinates William H, Munger of Fremont. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1.—The President to-day €ent to the Senate the | following nominations: Martin A. Knapp of New York, to be Interstate Commis- sioner of Commerce, reappointment. W. H. Manger of Nebraska, to be United States District Judge for the District of Nebraska. The opposition to the confirmation of William D. McHugh to be District Judge for Nebraska, whose nominatiqg was sent to the Senate December9 I had become s0 determined and the Committee on 1 Judiciary | Genessee County, | ber of that city. | situtional conclusion to hold the case up tuat the had so manifestly reached n’ President to-day withdrew the name of | McHugh and sent.in that of William H. Munger. OMAHA, Ngpr., Feb. L—William H. Munger of Fremont, Nebr., who was to- day nominsted by tbe President United States District Nebraska Distris Judge of the was_born in Bergen, ew York, October 12, 1825. He lived in his native county until January, 1 He was educated in the schools of his natve town and at Brock- port. In January, 1886, he went to Cleve- land, Ohio, and read law with Judge Bar- He was admitted to the bar in 1868, and a month later removed to this State. He settled in Fremont in October of that year and has been engaged ‘0 be | in the practice of law at that place since | the winter of that year. He was a mem- ber and an active participant of tue con- convention of ~Nebraska in 1875. In 1878 he wasin partnership witn Hon, James M. Woolworth of this city, taking full charge of Woolworth’s busi: ness during Woolworth’s absence in irope. Munger married Miss Jennie Cowles at Fremont Marcnh 30, 1871. His wife is a native of Connecticut and a daughter of Samuel Fowier, one of Nebraska's pioneer freighters. | | Mr. Munger is prominent in Masonic | circles. ney and has a host of friends throughout the State. In the last political campaign he was activeas a gold Democrat. The appointment was well received among the legal fraternity in this city. THE TREATY AS AMENDED, Arbitration as Discussed by the Sema- | tors in Executive Seasion. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. ..—Imme- diately after the Senate convened at noon | to-day Sherman moved an executive ses- sion, stating that 1t would require but a snort time. When the doors were closed he reported the general treaty of arbit tion as amended Saturday by the comm | tee. Tne first of these amendments is made to the first article at the clause: But no question which affects the foreign or domestic poticy of either of the high contract- ing parties or the regulations of either with other state or power, by treaty or other- . shall be subject to aroiiration and this trealy except by special agreement. ‘The second strikes out all reference whereve way umpire where the tribunal fails to agree upon such nmpire. After the rejuri was made Sherman asked that, inasmuch as the text of the convention had been made public, the in- junction of secrecy be removed from the text of the amendments, but Senator Mor- gan objectea and the request was denied. No attempt was made to arrange a time for the consideration of ths open session. S rRE SUPKEME COUKT DECISIONS. State Lows Tawing Express and Tele. graph (ompanies Sustained. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 1.—The Supreme Court to-day by a bare majority- affirmed the validity of the Ohis law regu- lating the taxing of express companies, known as the Nichols law. Justice White, for himself, and Justices Field, Harlan and Brown dissented. - The court a/so sus- tained the Indjana law taxing telegraph companies, which was brought up lor re- view by appeal from the judgment of she Indiana Staie Supreme Court. From this decision . Justices Harlan apd White dis sented. o S Smithaonian Institution Regents Meet. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1L.—The regents of the Smitnsorian Institution met tbis morning and approved thé ap- pointment by the secretary of Richara Rathbun as assistant secretary of the in- stitution. The .board also passed a resolution that a committee of five should be appointed by the chancellor to consider measures for promoting the usefulness of the National museum. This committee was composed- of the Hon. Gardner G. Hubbard, the | Hon. John B. Henderson and.the Hon. William L. Wilson, who are members of the executive committee, together with 8. M. Cullom and the president of the in stitution. oS R 1 To Be Reassigned for Argument. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. L—Chief Justice Fuller to-day announced that the famous maximunm freight rate cases from Nebraska would be reassigned for argu- ment on the first Monday iu Apgil. *it occurs to the Sweden and Nor- | He has been a successful atior- | 1 2 ¢ in the House of Commons owing to ill health. Sir George has been a prominent figure in pclitics for many years and his | rourement wiil be severely felt by tne | Liberal party. From 1868 to 1870 he was a | Lordof the Admiralty and Secretary to the { Amiralty. In May, 1882 he was appointed | Chief Secretary for Ireland, and two years | later was made Chancellor of the Duchy | of Lancashire, with a seat in the Cabinet. | He was first elected to Parliament in 1865, when he was returaed from Tynemouth. | Though a Liberal he opposed the home | rule bill in 1886 and was defeated at the | ensuing general election. Subsequently he changed his belief rezarding home rule for [reland and in. 1887 was elected from | the district he has since represented. | — | WHITE'S SUCCESSOR CHOSEN, { Captain John Sinclair, a Liberal, !enl’ to the House of Commona. DUNDEE, Scorrasp, Feb. 1.—A bye election to fill the vacancy in the House | of Commons caused by tne resignation of | James Martin White (Liberal) was held in Forfarshire to-day. The result of the polling which was an- | nourc-d shows the return of Captain John | Sinclur, Liberal, who received 5423 votes against 4965 cast for the Hon. C. Maute | Ramsey, Unionist—a Liberal majority of | 458, | At the general election Mr. White was | given a majority of He was then op- posed by Mr. Ramsey, the present de- ieated candidate. Ascompared with the votes cast at the general electian, to-day’s volling showed an increase on the part of both Liberals and Conservatives. The | canvass was a pariicularly warm one and the Liberals are congratulating them- selves on being able to retain the seat by an increasad majority. | Captain Sinclair was in Canada when he was_unanimously nominated by the For- | farshire Liveral "Associaticn, but he re- turned to Scotland shortly afterward and | made a warm fight for election. He was actively supported by John Morley, for- merly Chief Secretary ior Ireland. { Captain Sinclair is nonovice in political | life, he having represented Dumbarton- shire in the last Parliament. He servea ! in the Suakin expedition in 1835 and was aide-de-camp to the Earl of Aberdeen when the lattar was Lord Lieutenant of | Ireland. He retired. from the army in | s From 1889 until 1893 he was a member of the London County Coun¢il. He is a rad- ical, favoring nhome-rule, electoral reform, | reform of the parochial bourd system of Scotland and of the land laws and an | eicht-hour bill for miners, ete. The resignation of Mr. White, which caused the bye-election, was caused by his being made the defendant in an action for breach of promise, brought against him | by Miss Ellen Grant, the daughter of a Dandee clergyman, which action is now | peading. Immediately after hisresignation in No- vember last Mr. White started for india. It includes that part of Puerto Principe lying between the trocha and the Rio Jatibonico and all of The western boundary is about the same as that of Santa Clara This State about covers that portion of the island known as Las No definite limits were Nearly all of Matanzas, Habana and Pinar del Rio, with the Isle of Pines and the others to the south of its coasts. The other islands and keys along the coast belong iines del Rey on the north and the Jardines de la Keina on the south to Camaguey. The headquarters or seat of government of the erra de Cubitas FIREMEN'S WAGES IN PERIL. The Brotherhood Therefore Opposed to Legisiation Looking to the Reduction of Freights and Fares. PEORIA, TiL., Feb. 1.—F. P. Sargent, grand master of the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Firemen, has retuined from the conference at Little Rock, Ark., and makes the following official statement : *On January 25 at a union meeting he!d in the city of Little Rock, Ark., under the auspices of the Brotherhood of Engineers, Order of Railway Conductors, Brother- hood of Railroad Trainmen, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Order of Rail- road Telegraphers, business of a National interest was considered. ‘“‘Atter a full discussion of the Philips commission bill, the Erdman arbitration bill and the contempt bill, now pending vefore Congress, they were unanimousiy ndorsed, and W. F. Hynes, representative in Washineton of the five great railroad brotherhoods, was wired to present the sentiments of this representative bodv of railway men in the Southwest to the Sen- ators ana Representatives there assem- bled. “The vproposed bill bafore the Legisla- tures of the several States tending toward a rednction of passenger and freight rates was considered a movement that would impair the ravenue of the railroad compa- nies and would inevitably result in a re- | dustion of the wages of railway employes | and it was unanimously agreed that the treaty, nor | | was anything said about debating it in | | bursed to the above-named organizations, through their membership in the several States where these bills are pending, shouid uss their united efforts to prevent the passage of any measure that would tend to cnntail the earnings of the railway companies, thereby endangering the presen: scale of wages paid to employes, and to appeal to the friends of labor, members of the State Legislature, to voie against such meus- | ures. e CONFEDERATE RELIEF BILL. Grant's Terms at Lee's Surrender Claimea to Bo Unfulfilled. NEW YORK, N. Feb. 1.—A Herald special from Washington se: The survivors of the Confederate army who surrendered. with General Lee at Appo- mattox are interested in a bill introduced in the House a few days aeo appropriating $200,000 for their relief. The bill recites that General Grant stipulated that the Confederates should be allowed to retain, supplies. Notwithstanding this the bill states that the United States despoiled the Con ederates of about everything. In order to make goot the losses then sustained the measure directs the appro- priation of the amount named, to be dis- | they bave given proper proof to the quar- | termaster-general of the army. | | Tbe chances of the pas<age of the bill are small. It has been referred to the Committee on Claims ot the House, which will consider the matter, and will proba- bly be unable tc make a ' report upon it at this session. And even if such report be made, the biil will be productive of considerable de- bate, which will kill it. Its author says its object is a worthy one and he susgests that Congress take care of the obligation’ imposed upon the Government by the | terms of its representative, General Grant, | at General Lee’s surrender. i oy i Colomel Foster's Mission. COLON, Cozowpia, Feb. 1.—Colonel M. J. Foster of Louisiana and the party ac- companying him have gone to Panama to make an inquiry into the sanitary meas- ures at that place in connection with the | guarantine at New Orleans against ship- DIng from this port, through which good from Panama past. The impression is that they will find the condition favorable and that there will be a relaxation of the restrictions. The party will return to Port Limon on Wednesday. A Sir Thomas Spencer Welles Dead. LONDON, Exc., Feb. 1.—The dea'h is announced at Antibes, France, of Sir Thomas Spencer Welles, a distinguished English_ physician and _surgeon. Sir several claimants when | Mr. Whiteis a member of the firm of J. F., White & Co. of New York. — Has Educated Public Opinion. LONDON, ExG., Feb. 1. — The Timrs, | commenting to-morrow upon the changes made in the Anglo-American arbitration treaty by the Senate Committee on For- | eign Relations, will say it regrets that | the convention has been altered to an ex- | tent which seems to reduce it to an empty form. It adds that even if the Sen- | atedoes not ratify the treaty in its original form. the good work is not entireiy lost, for it has éducated public opinion in both countries, and even, to some extent, in all | countries. s | — | Zady Somerset Undrrgoes an Operation. LONDON, Exc., Feb. 1. —The Times will to-morrow announce that Lady Henry | Somerset has undergone an operation. This treatment by physicians was made necessary by the recent carriage accident | in which Lady Somerset was injured. Her present condition is pronounced | favorable, but it is anncunced by the | doctors that prolonged rest is imperative. | % O i An Unwarranted English Stur. | LONDON, E Feb. L—The Daily | News, commenting upon statements | cabled from New York, will say to-mor- | row that the United States Senators are trying to kill the Anglo-American treaty indirectly, because the public sentiment | of America is in favor of the measure. bbb iy Ravages of the Plague. LONDON, ExG., Feb, .—A dispaten to | the Daily Mail from Bombay says that two more of the Europeans have died in | the hospital of the plague. The piague | bas appeared among the convicts in the | house of correction. el Death of Martini, the Rifla Inventor. BERNE, Swrrzerraxp, Feb. 1. — M. | Martini, the inventor of the rifle bearing his name, died to-day at Frauenfeld, Thurgau, twenty-one miles from Zurich. | Frank H. | & | A few days after the 1st of Februar: | suicide. WOOTTON LIVES, SAY THESE MEN Defense of Forger Sanders Begins in Fresno’s Court. Witnesses Claim They Saw the Alleged Victim After His @ Disappearance. Evidence Intrcduced to Prove the Previous Good Character of the Accused. FRESNO, Ca Feb. . 1.—Attorney Short made the opening statement for the defense this morning in the trial of W. A. Sanders, who is alleged to have forged the name of Wil- liam Wootton to a $1400 draft. The prosecution had announced the close of its case after placing a few witnesses on the stand. Mr. Snort’s statement was briel. He said that he expected to prove that Wootton had been seen after his disap- pearance from his ranch on February 1 4. Two witnesses had met him in San Francisco. The attorney also expected to show that the grounds were insufficient to assume that the signatures to tbe draft and the deeds were forgeries. The defense then placed several wit- nesses on the stand. They had known | Professor Sanders for many years and attested to his good reputation before he became involved in the Wootton mystery. The testimony of A. L. Stetson at the last trial was read to tne jury. Mr. Stetson commitied suicide in San Francisco a few months ago. He was under the impression when he testified that he had seen Wootton in San Kran- cisco in February after his alleged disap- pearance. Charles H. Chambers was called to the stand and said he believed he had seen Wootton in San Francisco. after February 1. N. W. Moodey, at present County Tax Collector and formerly Postmaster in this city, testified as an expert on hand- writing. He did not believe that the signatures to the draft and the deeds were forgeries. He | was not very positive, however, and had not given the papers close study. The testimony of Frank House, Post- master at Fernando, a small place twenty miles this side of Los Angeles, which e gave at the last trial, was read to the jury. 1894, he had been handed a letter to mail by & trainman passing through the pla This was the missive received by Rohloff, the employe at Wootton’s ranch, purporting to have been signed by Woot- ton. The prosecution claims that Sanders went southward to mail the letter in order to allay the anxiety of Rohloff regarding the whereabouts of his employer. Grass Valley Miner Stricken. GRASS VALLEY, CaL., Feb. 1.—While on his way to work at the Empire mine ; this morning Miner Thomas W. Mitchell was stricken with paralysis. He fell on the trail near the W. Y. O. D. mine. Passers-by found the prosirate form and gave the alarm. The man was uncc scious and his left side was completely paralyzed. The doctors say he may re- cover. S bk Attempted Suicide Near Tulare. 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