Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-07-23

CHICAGO, July 16.-Pursuant to a
call BY many prominent citizens, about
LOCO representative men of the city
met at Mccormick Hall this evening
to consider means for protection
against fire. Resolutions were adopt.
ed demanding the demolition or re-
moval Of all buildings constructed
within the fire limits, in violation OF
tho law of 1871; demanding an exteu-
sion of the fire limits to the city limits
and the prohibition of all wooden
structures within the corporate limits.
A committee of fifteen men from
each division of the city was appoint
ed to present TO the Common Council
through the Mayor, the results of the
deliberations Of the meeting, and also
to urge on the Common Council,
the propriety Of considering carefully
propositions for putting up park in
portion of the burned district, and
making series Of bouievards 300 feet
wide for protection against conflagra-
tons.
Nathan Isaacson, was arrested to-
day charged with firing the building
in which the fire Tuesday night origi.
mated. The examination ELECTED tes-
timony that he had offered one Wolf
son 500 to burn the building and then
attempted it himself, and finally had
boosted that he would have better sue
cess next time. His case was post
poned till Wednesday next
PARIS, July 18--There's complete
crisis in the Ministry. Duke DeBrog-
lie has been seeking to constitute q
Cabinet based on the old majority In
the Assembly, but Il 10 said that It has
failed, and that Duke DeCarzs has
since been entrusted with the task.
New York, July 20.-Mayor Haven
yer short time ago removed the com.
missi0ners Of armories and informed
Governor Dix of his action, giving his
reasons therefor. The Governor has
declined to confirm the action of the
Mayor, and assures him that the rea-
sons assigned for their removal are
sufficient for the continuance Of the
Board, and that tho power OF removal
should be only exercised for grave
causes. ss
The six hundred Mennonites who
landed at Castle Garden ON Friday,
started for the west yesterday from
the Erie depot. Their points of des-
tination were Atchison, Kansas: Elk
hart Indiana, and Yankton, dakota.
A Washington dispatch says gen.
Neman just returned from Cuba, where
he has resided for the last niue months,
states that he does not believe the
Spaniards can hold ont much longer,
for their finances are sadly demoral.
lied. If it was not for the fact that the
people of the United States are made
to contribute the largest proportion
of expenses of the Spanish rule in
Cuba, the war would have been ended
long ago. There are about one hum
dred million of dollars worth Of sugar
exported annually; about eighty mil
lions of this comes to the Uuited
States. A few large houses in New
York and Philadelphia have monopo.
lized the sugar trade, and these
houses advance large sums OF mon.
ey to the sugar planters and
their only security 10 . lien on the
slaves who cultivate sugar plantations.
They have been making these ad.
vances for years, and have come to
have heavy interest directly In slaves,
and are therefore real shareholders. Ii
emancipation was TO be decreed, they
would be heavy losers; hence they are
doing oil they can to crush out the re-
belliOn, the success of which insures
emancipation. Whenever the Captain
General makes IN extraordinary levy
upon the merchants of Cuba, he does
not asoeee small and great alike. lint