The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-04
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CHARLESTON, w. Va, May 2.-The
sheriff of Mason county, at Point Pleas
ant W. Va, telegraphed here this morn
ing for cartridges, as there is a prospect
of mob for lynching James Kirby, who
killed a man at Clifton and who was
fined 800 and imprisoned thirty days.
The people are infuriated over the verdict
in the case.
New YORK, May "A despatch from
President Scrymser, of the Mexican Tele-
graph Company, who is now in the City
of Mexico, says the dispatches via Lare-
do, indicating that there is a probability
of a revolution in Mexico, are gross eX-
aggerati0ns, and there is no sign Of revO-
luton in the City of Mexico. Scarcely a
day passes on which rumOrs, which are
entirely unfounded, do not come up from
the interior of Mexico to the American
border, and some Of them, unfortunate
Iy, are sent to the papers. These rumors
are skillfully contrived, and it is frequent
ly difficult to separate the truth from the
fiction in them
William McHugh was hung at Cincin-
natl, Ohio, Friday for wife murder.
Enoch Brown, colored was hung at
Halifax conrt house, N. c., Friday for
wife murder.
The tug Jacob Brandon was partially
burned at Charleston, S. c., Friday morn
ing; loss, $12, 900.
The business failures for last week
were 149 in the United States and 80 in
Canada, as compared with 168 in the
United States and 81 in Canada the
previous week, a decrease of 10.
A cyclone struck Del Rio, Texas,
Thursday night and swept away church
and number of cabins, and damaged
many buildings. Five persons were in
jured, and one, Charles Schnack, was
killed; loss, $4,000.
BADEAU'S CHARGE.
WASHINGTON, May 2.-Mr. Foster,
Minister to Spain, returned to Washing
ton to-day from a visit to his home in In
diana. His attention being called to the
charges of General Badeau, late Consul
General at Havana, against the Stat
Department, he stated thai 50 far as the
related to the recent commercial agre
ment negotiated at Madrid for the W.
India trade, General Badeau was enti
Iy unsustained by the facts. The latt
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ifestly improper and i'll considered that
in six weeks after it was signed it had to
be abandoned and a new one concluded. "
The facts are that the original agree-
ment signed January 2d, last, provided
that its stipulations should 90 into effect
March 1st, and it was expected that sdch
of its articles as required the approval Of
the Spanish Cortes would obtain approval
before that date But within two weeks
after the SIGNING of the agreement the
cabinet crisis occurred at Madrid, a new
ministry was called to power and the
COrtes dissolved. This made it impossible
to obtain the action of the COrtes before
the 1st of March, and by mutual consent
a new agreement was substituted pro-
viding foi putting into operation at the
time named the articles which the two
governments already possessed the power
to carry out, and for submitting to the
Cortes, when convened, those which the
new ministry deemed required the au-
thorization of that body. The new agree
ment is substantially the same as the
original one.
General Badeau's allegations that the
President had transgressed his powers in
carrying out the agreement, which he
says is in fact a treaty, is made, Foster
says, with potent ignorance of the Con
gressiOnal statute which cOnfers upon
the Executive full power to suspend the
10 per cent. extra duty on Spanish car
goes, which is all that has been done on
the part of the United States.
The general is equally at fault, hesays.
in regard to the effects OF the agreement.
The loss, in place of sc, 800, 600, as he al
leges, is virtually nothing at most. moi
exceeding $25, 900, while we obsain re-
duction in the tariffs of Cuba and Porto
Rico, averaging at least 80 per cent. on
all American products, aad securing the
abolition of the odious discriminating
flag system, a point for which our gov
ernment has been contending with Spair
for more than fifty years. 1t is not
claimed that the agreement is all that Is
needed in respect to the Cuban trade
but it is a great step in the right direction
Mr.. Foster declined to notice the Othe1
charges against the departn ent, as ht
had no official knowledge of the facts in
volved.