Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-20
snREwD ROMERO.
He is Playing His Cards Well, and Has
Made Several Points.

he Is IldlIuG his CdfuS w ell anu HAS
Made Several Points.
WASHINGTON February 19.h.-There is
danger of international complications with
our 'sister Republic over the efforts being
made to abolish the ''zoDa libra or free
zone"
A few days since Secretary Window
drew Secretary Bla;ne's attention to the
abuses practiced III the free zone. No at
tention was paid to this communication,
but Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Bstcheller received q private letter from
one of the Under Secrs: aries Of the State
Department, asking him 10 come over and
have private consultation concerning the
matter. This Batchslle1 declined to do
until some atteItion had been paid to the
official communication.
Meanwhile the Reagan bill had gone to
the Senate Commerce Com mittee, which
committee also ssked Secretary Blaine for
information upon the subject, and the
House committee, which had Vandever' s
bill under consideration, also wanted to
know about il, but to all these requests
Secretary Blaine bas remained dumb,
The secret of this Teticence en- the part Of
the State Department is said to lie in the
fact that Minister Romero has obtained the
ear of the delegates to the Psn-American
Congress, and has been diligently filling
then, full Of the idea that the United States
is beginning TO cast longing eyes upon &
slice Of Mexican territory. Romero hoping
thus to gain something substantial for
Mexico from the dele gates. and Secretary
Blaine hesitates to move in the matter, for
fear that such movement may further the
designs of the Mexican Minister
Another thing tha. may precipitate q
implication with Mexico at any time lies
in the solution of the irrigation problem
in the Rio Gran6e valley. U1der existing
arrangements nearly all the water is taken
out OF the river before it reaches the border
to jrrigate lands in New Mexico, and Mex
ican landowners below Ell Paso del Norte
have entered very serious protest with
their Government against this state OF
things.
The matter has not come officially before
the State Department yet, bnt the attention
of Congress has been called to it. and bill
has been introduced providing for the con-
struction of an immense dam TO store the
water at Ell Paso, and the appointment OF
an information Commission to spportion
the supply between the two countries.
Russia Demands Her Coin.
SOFIA, February l9.h.-Russia has de-
TINT pty tlC AArC Au1AA-
ion roubles due on account of Russian oc-
cupation in 1878 and 1879 after the consol-
idation of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumania
by the treaty of Berlin. Russia never
pressed the debt before and Low it is ap-
parently done under a sense of irritation.
Murdered and Robbed.
LIMA (Peru), February 18Th E d. De-
Wis, Manager OF the celebrated IDquisidator
sugar estate on the Ofaya road, was way
laid, robbed and murdered in broad day
light while going from the depot with
money to pay the plantation employees.
He came from Virginia SIX years ago.
Three Boys Drowned.
PoRT Dover (Ontario) February 19th.-
Frank Fai-child Normans Cha6eld and
George Boury, all under Is years of age,
broke through the ice at Little Lake while
skating and were drowned.
Edison Outdone.
BERLIN, February 19th.-Herry Weigert
OF Berlin, a banker, has been given q patent
for the production of electric light without
either dynamos or accumuiators.
Steamer Collision.
LONDON, February 10th The steamer
Higbgaie collided with the ship Foreign
off Lunday Island to-day. A boat with six
of the latters crew is missing.
CoIiiery Explosion in France.
PARIS, February 19ih.-In the explosion
of the colliery near Decise ii is no. known
low many were killed. Thirty four bodies
have been recovered.
Yellow Fever in BraziI.
PARA lBraziD, February 19.h.-Yellow
fever is raging at Cameta. Within six
Seeks over one-third of the population
died.