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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
The Commander McCalla Inquiry.

New YORK, March 13.-The third days
session of the McCalla inquiry opened to-
day. The first witness was Lieutenant P.
j. Merbick. He told about men being put
in canvas Jackets and of men being ironed
together. Also an apprentice named
Graham had been confined in double irons
five days. The apprentice was released by
order OF Commander McCalla, and men had
been ironed through some misapprehen-
sion. The men were ironed two and two
and kept on deck under guard of marines
John Dilmore captain of the main top and
coal HEAVIER and others were chained on
deck and covered with a tarpaulin This
was while the ship was at Rouen, France.
In the case of Fireman Sevaleigh, the wit
ness considered the man was confined
justly. AT Cronstadt much liquor was
Struggled aboard and the men became
drunk on duty. A number of the crew
were sent ashore for target practice and
got drunk and threw away their arms. A
seaman named Sutherland attempted to
jump overheard to escape punishment. He
thought the men had TOO much liberty. At
Plymouth liberty was given to thirty men
at o'clock in the morning.
Surgeon q. e. HerndOn was the next
witness. He told of the cutting down of
Walker little before midnight. He went
on deck and was told he had been cut down
by the commander Witness dressed tile
wound on Walkers head. 1t was about an
inch and a half long. The same man be-
came noisy and was given morphine The
same treatment was repeated at 2 o'clock.
Witness did not see a gag in the mouth of
Walker; the wound was not dangerous.
Witness claimed that McCalla treated the
officers and crew with every courtesy. The
sanitary condition n hn CHI
Assistant Paymaster Mudd told Of the
Walker incident and said he dida't think
Walker was very drunk and il was neces-
sary to discipline Walker, and he wa, glad
to see McCalla reduce him TO subm ssion
by cutting him down. Things we're getting
serious and the commander exerIed his
authority at the right time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
Combinations.

WASHINGTON, March 13.-Lieutenant-
Colonel William Smith, to be paymaster-
general with the rank of brigadier-g general :;
George c. Eaton, surveyor general of
Montana; E. F. Ferris, register of the land
office at Bozeman, Mont; j. L. Carein,
receiver of public moneys, Bozeman Mont
Representative Henderson, of Iowa, to-
day reported to the House from the com
mittee on military and MALTA a bill to
improve the efficiency of the MALTA which
the committee has had under consideration
for some time.
Turpie today introduced a bill appro-
priating 100000 for the establishment and
maintenance on the grounds of the United
States arsenal at Indianapolis factory
for making ordnance and ordnance sup
plies for the army
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
Magazine of American History.

The March Magazine of American History
is sparkling number. 1t touches broad
field of information, and it's budget of va
ried and delightful reading is a particularly
valuable addition to both current and his
toric literature. We are favored with a
chapter Celebrating the Birth of William
Bradford" by Thomas Bradford Drew. of
Plymouth, taking US backward to the first
settlement in New England; then we find
some charming personal memories from the
pen OF Hon. Charles X. Tuckerman, writ
ing from Italy on "Sir John Bowering and
American Slavery" We have scholarly
account by w. r. Garrett, A NJ, of the
extraordinary controversy concerning 1.-THE
Northern Boundary of Tennessee;" and
rare entertainment is given in 'sHaw-
thorne's First Printed Article" a clever
sketch by Kate Tannett Woods The de
partments of the month are unusually full
and valuable. Published at 743 Broadway,
New York City.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
The Arkansas Floods

MEMPHIS, March 13.-Meagre details of
the floods in Arkansas have BEEN received
at Batesville. White river rose thirty-two
feet in twenty-four hours and all the lower
part of the town is flooded. The destruction
of property at Black Rock will be heavy.
The water stands SIX feet at the depot. in
hotels and business places. Orders to re
move all cars from the Iron Mountain yards
at Newport have been given. No trains
have reached there since Tuesday. A
special from Little Rock says the news
from the interior towns is that all the
streams are high and large number of
bridges are washed away. No trains have
reached there from Fort Smith since Mon
day and traffic on ali roads is badly de-
layed. Arkansas river is rising rapidly
at Pine Bluff and there is danger that the
governments dykes will be destroyed The
situation between that point and the Mis-
sissippi river is said to be alarming.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
THE CLOSED SEA
Question is Not Being Discussed
at Washington.
BY DELEGATES OF THE POWERS
Interested in Settling the Behring sea Diff
culty-The Pneumatic Dynamite Gun
Trials-The Siberian Outrages.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. /
OTTAWA, March 13.-Your correspondent
learns on the most reliable authority to-day
that the official correspondence between
Great Britain, the United States and Can
adian governments shows that the question
of a closed sea has not and will not enter
into the negotiations now going on at
Washington on the Behring sea difficulty
From information received hero from the
British minister and from Mr. Topper at
Washington, the question of adjudicating
upon the claims for damages of the owners
of British seaiers seized in Behring sea by
the United States cruisers has, up to the
present time, mainly occupied the attention
of the conference. The question of pro-
tecting by some international arrangement
the seal fisheries from absolute depletion,
irrespective of any claim the United States
may have hitherto put forward to exclusive
jurisdiction over these waters, has. as
yet, been only informally considered The
highest approval of such an arrangement
has, however, been received from the
British government which has strongly en-
dorsed the suggestion of the United States
That such protection from wholesale
slaughter is imperative to prevent the total
destruction of the seal fisheries in CARRYING
out which the British government has
agreed to CO. operate. A member of the
cabinet referring to several matters in
dispute between the United States and
Canada, said that as far as the Behring
sea question was concerned, he had little
doubt that satisfactory solution would be
arrived at. He also believed that conses-
sions would be made by both sides of the
Atlantic fishery dispute, and that while
Canada might not secure free admission
into United States market for the sale of
her fishery products, settlement would
likely be reached by way of compromise on
the part of both parties to the negotiations
that would forever remove or dispose of
all cause of irritation between the United
States and Canada as regards the Atlantic
coast fisheries.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
Tehauntepec Ship Railway.

CRY OF MEXICO, via Galveston, March
13.-Mateo Clark has made proposition to
the government to take up Captain Fades
project for Tehauntepec ship railway for
which concession is held by the American
company, which concession, however has
nearly expired by limitation.
Influenza Is raging with great violence
throughout the state of Hildalgo.
1t is reported the police have arrested
four Mexicans on the charge of having cir
culated United States five dollar gold
pieces in Mexico
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14

it is now, half a dozen vested interests
conspire to give the lover of literature
his love first in guise that makes it a bur
den.n
Upon the opening of DIR. Won Dollen-
gers last viii and testament it was found
that the great schOlor had made one of his
nieces his heiress. Small legacies Of
money were left to all his relations, and
his valuable library goes to his much
loved University of Munich.
Mrs. Humphrey Wards new novel, deal
ing with the experiences of a religious
inquirer" who finally Joins the Elsmere
brotherhood, IS ready for the publisher.
A volume on "OHver CROMWELL has
been written by Reginald Palgrave, clerk
of the British House of Commons and is
in publishers hands.
"A Deans "reminiscences is the title of
book of autobiography announced in
London. The author is PigOn, whose
"reminiscences comprise country curacy,
three years in a church in Paris, thirteen
years in London, six at Doncaster, and
thirteen at Halifax.
Mrs. James T. Fields and Miss Sara o.
Jewett are making another "trip together,
being now at St Augustine.
Wilfrid Ward is preparing a new edition
of his 'tOxford Movement" which
will contain new and interesting mat
ter.
A Czech landowner, named Fischer, has
offered the "SvaLabor'' OF Prague Ia club
OF Czech authors the sum of 25;O00 gulden
toward the erection of a Pantheon in the
Wischerad cemetery for men of letters
OF his own nationality.
The Writer (Boston) has in hand the
compilation OF IA Directory of Amerl-
can Writers, Editors, and Publishers
to be published at the earliest possible
day.
William Black is at work upon a new
novel which will begin its serial course
July. The story will be located chiefly
IN London, which incidental excursions to
the United States.
Jules Vernes latest extravaganza deals
with mining speculation at the North
Pole.
The third Issue of 1.-THE Illustrated
Anericdn," contains many features of rare
interest. 1t present picture of Count
Andrassy, the great Hungarian agltator;
realistic scenes taken by their own special
staff photographer at Joliet, Ill, presen
ting many scenes of that habitation known
as the state prison; views of college
Athletics at Yale and Harvard, and the
new method of rowing known as ''tank
practice; pictures of our fleet off Gibral-
tar; life in Brazil; and views taken at that
favorite resort on the Mediterranean
known the world over as Monaco and Monte
Carlo.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
The Waters N ear Memphis.

MEMPHIS, March 13.-The river is in an alarm.
ing condition, the highest flood level ever 70
corded is already reached from all points south
OF here, and Will likely be attained from Laird
to the gulf. within the next five or six DAYS.
The rainfall for the past three days sums up a
total Of from two 10 three inches over the
country west of the Mississippi to Indian terri.
tory ard south of Ozark range, and from two
to five inches between the Ohio and Cumberland
valleys. An appeal reporter Just returned from
Arkansas City, says the real condition OF that
place has been suppressed. The water from
Sappington creek has flooded the town and sur
rounding country. Hundreds OF hogs and sheep
are drowned and people are in constant fear of
break in the levee in front OF the city, where
the water yesterday was four inches upon the
sand banks on top of the leYee.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14

VINO had carried their money and their in
dustry into thegsouth; whenever he at
tempted to re-estaolish in the south those
reconstructive governments which had
ieft In their train the black mark of spoili-
ton, disgrace and humiliation, there would
De a protest in his own state and
country that would cause him to hesitate
before he carried it out He, Butler, would
not exchange one hour of good order in the
south Tor all the political power that negro
suffrage had given the south. He appealed
to the Senators and people of the north to
believe the southern men when they said
they were far more interested in an
orderly, humane and honest settlement of
the question than the people of the north
could possibly be. Adjourned.
AT meeting of the Dolph investigating
committee today George H. Harris, of the
Washington Star, declined to answer when
asked how he obtained report of the
proceedings of the secret sessions of the
Senate
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
Pacific Railroad Bills.

WASHINGTON, March 13.-The House com
mittee on Pacific railroads further consid-
cred the question as to whether it should
report a single bill providing for the settle
ment of the government Indebtedness of
the Union and Central Poetic (as was done
by the Senate committee), or should report
separate bills. There is marked differ
ence of opinion in the committee on the
question, and this mornings discussion did
not result in an agreement The published
statement that the secretary has invested
the moneys to the credit of the companies
in their first mortgage bonds was also dis
cussed, and resolution ordered to be pre-
sented to the House requesting the score
tary of the treasury to inform the House
whether such wss the cause
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
Rhode Island Republican Nominations.

PROVIDENCE, March 49, The Republican
state convention assembled to-day. The
following candidates for state offices were
unanimously nominated: Governor, Her
bert w; Ladd, Providence; lieutenant gov
ernor, Daniel G. Littlefeld, Pawtucket;
secretary of state, Samuel w. Cross,
westerly: general treasurer, Samuel
Clark, Lincoln; attorney general, Horatio
hogers, Pawtucket. These are the present
lncumoents, except the attorney general,
the Democratic candidate having been
elected last year. The platform endorses
the ballot reform law, congratulates the
people On the success of Rarrison's admin
lstraton, expresses warm admiration of
Speaker Reed for 1.-THE strictly constitu-
tional methods which he adopted to over
come factious and unreasoning opposi-
tiono
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
Report ON the Siberian outrapes.

LONDON, March 13.-A Times ST. Petersburg
dispatch says: The report on the Siberian out
RACES is officially compiled but this is shown only
to the privileged. The report shows considerably
disagreement with the accounts published. It's
description and Interpretation OF the facts Of this
case. The correspondent adds: THE adminis-
traitor Of prisons told ne that the American dele
gates would make great mistake if they
attempted to breach the Siberian scandals at
the international prison congress. He said
the programme of the congress would be strictly
adhered to and no reference TO political prison
ers in Siberia or elsewhere Will be permitted"
An official interviewed by the correspondent re-
garding the report on the outrages, practically
admitted the fact that they were as reported,
but he cOntended that Kennon and others ethera-
lied the Nihilist women out Of all recognition In
their books. The struggle with the soldiers was
provoked by the prisoners drawing revolvers
and wounding several OF the soldiers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
The House,

WASHINGTON, March 13-In the House
the bill passed granting the right of way
through the Nez Perces reservation, Idaho.
to the Palouse & Spokane railroad com
pany. The House went into committee of
the whole for further consideration on the
Oklahoma bill.
On motion of Tarsney an amendment
was adopted for the establishment of a
land Office in No-Man's land.
On motion of Holman an amendment
was adopted providing that no person hav-
ing fee simple to 100 acres of land in any
state or territory shall be entitled to enter
the land covered by this act.
The committee rose and reported the bill
to the House with an amendment provid-
ing that section 2139 of the revised stat
uteS prohibiting the introduction of in
toxicating liquor into Indian territory
shall be enforced IN Oklahoma until after
the adjournment of the first session of the
legislature. Agreed to-134 to 1O3 The
bill then passed-160 to %. 1t is a substi-
tute for the Senate bill on the same sub
ject. The bill contains provisions which.
in substance, fix the boundaries of the new
territory to include the Cherokee outlet,
with a proviso that no land which Indians
occupy under treaty or law, shall be in
cluded without their consent, except for
judicial purposes. They extend over the
new territory the constitution and laws
of the United States and the code of
Nebraska without interference with the
local Indian governments acting under
their treaty rights. Seven counties are
established. The county seats shall be
Guthrie, Oklahoma City, Norman, Lisbon
or Kingfisher, Beaver, Saltwater and one
more to be fixed by the secretary of the in
terror. The Cherokee outlet is declared
public land and open to settlement under
the homestead laws, and bona fide settlers
and occupants are given preference in
rights. The sections after 81 are devoted
to the establishment of judicial system
in Indian territory, which shall be divided
into three districts, and courts will be held
at Muscogee and Venita, Otoko and Ara
more and Purcell AdiOnrned
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
The Rio Grande Blockade.

DENVER, March 13. A special from Ala
mosa, Colo, says: The Rio Grande rail
way has $50 more shovelers at work open
ing the snow blockade across the San Juan
range. AT Cumbres, on the east side of the
divide, the snow is reported to be sixty
feet above the tops of the telegraph poles,
and for miles on each side of there it is
from twenty-five to forty feet deep This
is the deepest it has ever been known to be
in this locality. The cold is very severe,
this morning it being % degrees below
zero. This is the third time the pass has
been showed up this winter, and it will
probably be ten days before it is opened
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
OGDEN'S BONDED DEBT.
A Bill to Permit Her to Increase Her Borrow
ing Power Favorably Reported.

WASHINGTON, d. c., March 13.-[Special
telegram to THE HERALD. The House
committee on territories has agreed to re-
port favorably on the bill to authorize the
city of Ogden to increase it's bonded in
debtedness, including all existing liabili-
ties, to per centum of the value of the
taxable property within the corporation, as
ascertained by the last municipal assess
ment, with the amendments substantially
as suggested by Delegate Game. These are
that the act shall be of no effect until the
proposition to increase the Indebtedness of
Ogden shall have been submitted to and
adopted by the lawful voters thereof at an
election for that purpose to be held after
the passage of this act and on such day as
the mayor and city council of Ogden may
appoint; and that the amount and purpose
for which such bonds are to be issued shall
be distinctly stated in the proclamation
calling such election.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
Pneumatic Dynamite Gun Final Test

PHILADELPHIA, March l3.-The final oficia
test of the pneumatic dynamite guns for the
cruiser Vesuvius were made to-day The result
will not be made public until the report reaches
the secretary OF the navy but it is understood it
has been satisfactory. One explosive shell
filed with gun cotton. weighing 200 pounds. was
fired from each gun and in addition
several wooden bombs. The firing
was done over measured mile
and the proiectiles are said 10 have gone
in some instances a third of a mile beyond the
distance. Three different kind of fuses were
used, the first being of the kind to explode the
projectile in five and half seconds after strik-
onds, and the last on touching the water. The
shock from the latter was felt in the CITY of
Chester, four miles distant. The explosion of
each shell was followed by q violent CONJUNCTION
of the water and those who witnessed it say no
vessel could Stand the force shown
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
LITERATURE.

JoelC handler Harris is to succeed Henry
W.. Grady as editor of the Atlanta (Ga.)
Constitution.
Scribner & Welword have been appoin-
ted agents for the sale in the United States
of the Baedeker guide books.
Ledbury, England, near which town
Elizabeth Barrett Browning lived as a
girl, is about to erect clock-tower to her
memory.
Mr.. w. D. Howells says: mo book too
heavy to hold in one hand has any right to
exist, to the exclusion of the same work in
the ideal form; and we would have that
form the original shape of publication !;
those who want books to furnish their
libraries, not their minds, might wait. AS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
Pennsylvania-Manitoba Talk.

PHILADELPHIA, March 13.-The Pennsyl-
vania railroad officials deny the stories
published this morning connecting that
road with the purchase of western and
southern roads. They believe. however.
the Louisville & Nashville has bought the
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road
The statement that the Pennsylvania is
likely to acquire the Manitoba road is said
by the officials to be without foundation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
Rev. Mr.. Mansell,s Case.

PITTsBURG, March 13-In the sensational
trial of Rev. DR.. Mansell, of the Methodist Epis
copal church OF McKeesport for lying and de
famation of character, a scene was created to.
day when the counsel of the reverend gentleman
refused to go on with the case. He stated he
had handed Mansel a letter which was to be
offered againt him and that gentleman had
thrown it in the fire. The case has now gone to
the committee in charge.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
Transvaal Matters.

LONDON, March 13.-Advices from John.
nasburg, in the Transvaal, state that the
three persons arrested for taking part in the
demonstration against the government dur
ing which the flag of the republic was
hauled down by the mob, have been taken
taken to Pretoria, charged with treason.
There is intense excitement throughout the
republic. A reform association has been
former
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14

JuNY: or Only one Girls Story. A story of the
society crust-upper and under. BY T. G. De
Leon. Mobile Ala: The Gossip Printing
company. Price 80 cents
Mr.. De Leon has written several enter
tanning novels, among them the "Creole
and Puritan" which had quite run: But
this one surpasses any of his previous pro-
auctions in cleverness of plot, thrilling sit
uations and general interest. The author
has portrayed several types of character as
developed in this country, both in the upper
and the lower walks of life.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
Corwith & Co.'S Failure.

CHICAGO, March 13.-The financial troubles
of Corwith s. Co., resulting from disas-
trous attempt to run corner in lead in
1855, came up in the superior court to day.
The Union National bank and other cred
itors filed bill asking for record for the
estate of the late Nathan Corwith, alleging
that in fraud of their rights Corwith trans
ferred 100000 worth of real estate to one
Clarence u. Birdseye
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14

New YORK, March 13.-The Times says
the purchase of the Burlington & Northern
is not in reality by the Burlington &
Quincy, which, with the Pennsylvania lines
and those of the Burlington & Northern
and Manitoba, wants only an extension of
500 miles westward by the Manitoba to
make continuous line from ocean to ocean
under one close alliance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14

WABASH, Ind, March lbs. H. Harri-
man, the pedestrian, has completed ar
engagements for walk to the Pacific coast
on wager of $1,000. He will start from
Wabash April 10, accompanied by two
guards or horSemen. Hartman will be
obliged to average forty five miles day to
win
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-14
Dynamite Explosion at Brooklyn waterwork:

New YORK, March l3.-An explosion Of
dynamite occurred at Brooklyn water
works at Rockville Centre this morning.
Several were killed and number injured.
1t occurred at 3 40 am, the dynamite be-
ing used for blowing up tree stumps on the
line of extension of the Brooklyn aqueduct.
Two laborcrs were blown to pieces, two
others fatally injured.