The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1885-04-01
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House Of Commons that the total number
OF troops 10 the regular army il now ia,
100, while the volunteer force numbers
zD5, 900 men.
Gen. Wolseley has oroered evacuation Of
Korti. Cases OF typhoid fever, dysentery
and sunstroke are Increasing among the
troops. The heat l. Intense. Troops will
proceed 10 entrencbed lines at Debbeh,
Aaui and Dongola.
The total amount Of appropriations for
the support Of the government during the
next fiscal year is s2l7 ,6s9 243 Tue fol
lowing are the totals OF the respective bills
as they become laws Pension. $50 900 90:
Fortihcations, s726, 900: Consular and ID
plomatic, sl,242 925: Navy, sl5, 90 s36
Post Offices, $50, 100. $3.50; Indiaus, s., 7G7,-
BIZ; Army, s24,ol4,0 52; Legislative, s2l,-
SO. 789; SuDdry Civil, S2G,O79,757; Dis
trict of Columbia. sl.7lG.Gi3; Deficiency,
S4.926, $50; Agricultural, Sjej, $50.
The strike Of the Wabash shop employees
is ended All the strikers went to work
at the old rate of wages. The hospital as
se-sment has pot Yet been decided upon
II is understood that be men were given
assurances they would not be discharged
for partc patton in the strike. The lead
ers of the Knights OF Labor, Who organ
lied the strikers, were escorted 20 the de-
pot by body of strikers. who cheered
Justify as the train moved off.
The convention which was signed BY the
powers concerned, settling the Egyptian
financial question, provides for loan Of
100000 which is internationally guaran-
teed by the six powers. The interest on
the coupon bonds will be reduced TO five
per cent. aud on the British Suez Canal
shares to two and a half per cent The
txiI hlI Htar .ial i
Suez Canal for two years, the management
to be IN charge OF an international board.
Under what is known as The Spauldng
act, allowing certain claims Of postmaster>,
the postoffice department has adjusted and
allowed claims from twenty-nine states aud
territories, aggreeating $l7S,lel. Com
eress provided for the payment of this
amount and the warrants are now being
drawn by the treasury department. Since
Congress adjourned the first schedule of
claims of this class of New York postmas-
ters has been received. or 3,344 applica-
tions filed l,l9l were allowed, making an
aggregate of 1869. Claims of posima>-
tiers from the States of Ohio and North
Carolina will be taken up next.
Senators Frye aud Evarts are the new
republican members of the Senate Com
mttee on Foreign Af.irs. Senator Sher-
uldu IL plQutu because he Is not maze
chairman of the Finance Committee and
refuses to serve on the committee under
Morrill, of Vermont, chairman. Malone
and Evarts are well cared for on the com
mittees. Malone takes Logsns place on
the judiciary. Mr.. Frye is chairman If the
committee on rules, and member of the
committee on commerce. Senator Hale is
a member of the committee on appropra-
tioDs, and also OF the committee on naval
affairs and chairman of census committee.
For the time being the rev 1lution in the
Tilted States Of Colombia appears to have
been suppressed; but nobody can forete
for how long. 1t is much like trying TO
suppress one of their volcanoes. Revolt
ton is the normal condition of the people
of Colombia, and the States are anything
bot Uni ed" The causes aud motives Of
the present outbreak are obscure 1t is
quite possible that the Colombians them
selves do not know what they have been
fighting about. The movement evidently
has no connection with the Barrios affair in
Central America, and its most important
feature to The ou side world is the effect on
the Panama canal undertaking. That en-
terprise must be in continual jeopardy so
long as the government on the isthmus is
so unstable. 1t will never do 20 have the
canal and its traffic completely at the
mercy of every petty schemer who starts
"reyoluti m"