The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-16
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKLES.
THE LATEST NEWS FROM ALI,
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now at the PHILIPPINE Islands, as Captain
General of Cuba.
KEY WEST, April 15.-Advices from
Havana state that it is semi-of LILY re
ported that Aguero penetrated the rich
jurisdiction of Colon, receiving every
where on the road accessions Of men and
horses. He had burnt various planta-
tiOns where help was denied. The in
sUrrection will increase if the troops are
unable to capture the party. Some of
the papers accuse the military authOri-
ties with utter ignorance and indiffer-
ence.
WASHINGTON, April 14.-The Navy
Department has been informed that a
rumor prevails at st. Johns, n F., that
the Greedy party had been rescued from
a mass Of floating ice by the crew of a
whaling schooner. In a communication
on the subject the United States Consul
at st. Johns says the report is not be-
ieved there. He adds, however. that he
will promptly advise Of whatever infor-
nation may be received on the subject
CINCINNATI, April 14.-Coroner Mus
croft has begun an inquest on the vic
TINS of the late riot, and has selected
thirteen of the dead, intending to let the
examination of these cases cover the
entire number SO far nothing has been
elected beyond the Identification of the
dead bodies. 1t is said the Coroner will
not make a searching investigation,
leaving that to be done by the special
grand jury, which began its duties this
morning, after being charged by Judge
Avery to make an inquiry into the late
riot, the burning of the courthouse and
charges Of corruption in connection with
the jury that tried William Berner.
The testimony before the grand jury was
given in private, and all were sworn to
secrecy.
Mr.. Byron, the dramatist, is dead.
The Fall River operatives strike is
losing ground every day This is the
eleventh week.
Pogge, the German African explorer.
died at st. Paul de Loando March 18th.
The Swiss Federal Council has directed
that the Salvation Army be protected
from outrage.
Judge Perry, who was recently APP
pointed Chief Justice of Wyoming Terri
tory, died of paralysis in New York
Monday night.
The Ohio Legislature has adjourned
until next January. 1t appointed COM
mittee to investigate the election frauds
in Cincinnati.
The schooner Clara w EIwell, ashore
near Fort Macon, n. c., will prove a to-
tai loss. The crew and twenty tons of
ice were saved.
The Railroad Commission of Missis-
sippi has been restrained from interfer-
fering with Natchez, Jackson and Co
lumbus Railroad.
LIE Gaulois says the spe is preparing
a strong cyclical letter against the order
of Free Masons and other secret socie-
ties.
AT Nationalists meeting in Middle
ton, Ireland, a resolution was adopted
declaring that home rule alone could
give peace to Ireland.
The great exodus of French Canadians
from Canada to New England still con-
tinues. Numbers are emigrating to Tur-
lie Mountain, Dakota.
Eighty thousand rations have been
sent by the Government authorities at
New Orleans to the flood sufferers in
Tensas, Catahoula, Concordia and Frank
lin parishes.
The Governor-GeneraI Of Cuba has
telegraphed to the Spanish Consul at
Washington that Agueros party num-
bers only eighteen or twenty. and that
the troops are in hot pursuit.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary
have reported adversely Senator Barard's
Mitchelrs and Lapham's bills for the re-
lief of the Supreme Court 1t submitted
the bill of David Davis, passed last year.
The usual Easter review of the English
volunteer forces was changed Monday
into series of manoeuvres. Thirty
three thousand volunteers took part with
the regulars at Portsmouth, Aldershot
Shearness and Dover.
Acircular, signed by Generals Hunt,
Newton, Rosecrans, LOngstreet, Fair
child and J. H. Stine, has been sent to
ex-officers and soldiers of the Fifth army
corps, inviting them to visit on the 18th
instant the battlefelds of Fredericks-
burg, Charlottesville and Wilderness.
At a meeting of the Nationalists at
Ennis, Ireland, Sunday, Mr.. Kenney.
NJ P, said he had attended the meeting
TO show that the rights of free speech
could not be suppressed because Mr.. Big
gar had called Earl Spencer, Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland, "a drunken horse
breaker and other names equally true.