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Further Panama Canal Revelations.

PARIS. Jan. 5.-M. Baihut, minister of
public works in the cabinet of N. de Frey
cinet in 1885, today was brought before
Franqueville, examining magistrate, to
confront Charles de Lesseps and Marcus
Fontaine. the imprisoned directors of the
Panama Canal Company. After an ex-
animation of two hours, NJ. Raihut was
ordered to appear before Franqueville
again on January 10. Blondsn's arrest
yesterday has been the one topic of dis
cussion today in the Hobbies of the cham
Der. 1t is supposed his evidence yester-
day implicated Baihut and was the direct
cause of the latter's examination today.
Before the parliamentary commission Of
inquiry today the principal witness was
Viscount de Vile Bois- Maeuil. deputy for
Mayenne. He said the expenditure for
the Panama Canal Company in corrupt
ing the press was a tride when compared
with the enormous amount loss through
bogus contracts. He urged the commits
sion to call the principal contractors and
examine them as TO the amounts received
and the work actually done. 'Fhe Comp
toir de Ia Union du Panama, he said. had
been formed expressly to influence depu-
ties and conspicuous men in the provinces
in favor of the lottery loan. The commits
sion appointed q subcommittee Of inquiry
into these charges.
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POACHERS IN DISMAY.
Victoria Court Decides Against
the Oscar and Hattie.
ORDERED TO BE CoNFIscATED.
0ystsrvills Still Fighting for the County
0sat-A Chinook Exhibit st she
Worlds Fair.

VERONA. B. c., Jan. 5.-rspecial.1-
When Chief Justice Sir Matthew Begbie,
In the admiralty court few days ago.
heard the case of the sealing schooner
Oscar and Hattie, seized off Atu for violat-
ing the modus vivendi. he intimated that
though the schooner was in Bering sea
when seized, there was no suggestion even
by the officers of the Mohican that she
had been sealing there, and that it was
likely that the costs would also be imposed
upon the uniucky schooner. 1t was fully
expected that judgment would be upon
the line suggested, and the sealing men at
once expressed dissatisfaction. their claim
being that according to the international
agreement it was no ofense for schooner
to be in the sea. even with an outfit aboard,
If not actually sealing.
Great was the surprise when judgment
was delivered today TO find it strongly
American. censuring the schooner for run
ming into Atu when her supplies were ex-
hausted. and concluding by ordering the
Oscar and Hattie to be conhscated to the
crown. The decision surprised even the
American officers and stupefed the Vic
torIa sealers. who will appeal to the high
est courts of the land Immediately.
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WASHINGTON Cry, Jan. 5.-TSpecial. J.
The friends of the Torrey bankrupt bill
have been busily engaged for some time in
getting up petition to the committee on
rules setting day for that measure. The
prospects are that this committee will
grant the request and Congressman Oates,
who is leading in the matter, says that he
will be satisfied with direct vote. but the
opponents of the measure are consoling
themselves with the knowledge that the
commsttee will, under no circumstances,
introduce a cloture feature in their report,
and therefore they can whip the bill, for
they say they will fight the bill to the
death, even if they have to resort to
filibustering. Their objection to the bill
is that it is all in favor of the creditor and
against the debtor. The bill has about
thirteen grounds on which debtor may
be forced into bankruptcy, and the ten
dency of the whole contemplated legisla-
ton is to force all commercial litigation
into the Federal courts.
The bill will never get through, as the re-
suit of the tightwill probably be compro-
mise, wherein the present harsh features of
the measure will be modified so that it will
give more limit for voluntary bankru ptcy
and less to force debtors into bankruptcy,
and the compromise will doubtless result
in bankrupt Law at the next session.
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THEANTI-OPTION BILL
Villas Denounces 1t as a Step
Toward Capitalization.
BANKRUPTCY BILL SHELVED.
The House Passes the Fertilization Bill
determination OF Pleuro-Pncu-
monia Cost &1,5OO,OOO.

WASHINGTON Cry. Jan. SIN the senate
Hill introduced resolution calling on the
secretary Of state for an opinion as to
whether the Chandler immigration sus-
pension bill was in violation of treaties.
1t went over till tomorrow.
Consideration of the anticipation bill was
resumed and Villas, Democrat, made set
speech in opposition TO the bill on the
ground of unconstitutionaity, as it in
vaded the sovereignty of states and was
fragrant advance to Capitalization.
colloquy ensued between Villas and
Washburn, who has charge of the bill, in
the course of which the question was put
to Washburn as to whether he would ac-
cept an amendment that would confine the
operation of the measure to operations
that were absolutely gambling and in
which there IS to be no delivery, but the
Minnesota senator hesitatingly declined
to answer the question atfirmatively, re-
marking he did not believe that any such
restriction would be effective. The bill
went over till Monday next. Tomorrow
and Saturday have been set apart for the
consideration of two bills in relation to
quarantine and immigration.
The senate bill permitting NJ. P. Deadly,
United States Judge for the district OF
Oregon. to resign on or after March next
and thereupon be entitled to draw salary
as Judge during life. was passed.
The senate bill to pay to the assignees or
legal representatives of the late John
Roach. the ship builder, SOS, $50 balance
due on the United States steamer Dolphin,
was also taken up and discussed for over
an hour and finally laid aside without
action.
The senate bill concerning testimony in
criminal cases on proceedings growing out
of the interstate commerce law. on motion
of Wilson of Iowa. was taken from the
calendar and passed. 1t provides that no
person shall be excused from testifying on
the ground that his testimony might tend
to criminate himself.
The senate then, after a short executive
session, adjourned.
Nominations: Duncan C. Ingraham, postmas-
ter at aitsburg, Wash.
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES

terrible gale ragged at Marshaftown, Ia,
Thursday. drifting the snow SO that ell trains
were greatly delayed.
6Mrs. Leonide Burning has sued tho Sharon
and RalstOn estates 10 recover $3.50 900 lost in
the failure of the Bank of California
The Striking Rock Island teIegra.he have
given up, and the strike has been declared Of
BY Past Grand Chief Thurstcu
Robert Lane and Alexander Whte go: from
the postoffice a: Madison. Tenn, registered
letter containing So. They were est upon by
unAnown persons ami murdered Tor =
Thirteen members OF the Ama!gamAted Asso-
citation were placed on trial in ths criminal
court at pittsb4rs Thursday, charged with rio,
during the sympathy strike ct Carnesies mills
last August
The senate commerce committee has amended
the hoUsa bill extending for five years the
period OF time allowed for the completion OF n
Texas deep water hsrbor by reducing tia time
limit 10 two years.
II Is stated that an effort will b made by
leading Democrats to have certain E.pub lean
members of the Maine legislature uuseated
under section of the new ballot law which
forb.!s any candidate - act as al election
Officer.
The boundary question between Costa Rica
and Nicaragua has been reOpened, s,:d there il
prospect o. war between tire counties in con-
sequence. ! body OF Costa Rican so oilers have
tak-n possession OF territory ciaine: oy Nca-
ragua, an u.timatum which the latter country
10 not disposed 10 sgree with. she is preparing
TO defend her rights.
lspt Mcbride and crew Of eight = en- CT the
schooner Edith berwin, wrecked on Smiths
Island shoas. on sunday afternoon, have ar
rived al Baltimore. The crew L, the .igg-
/ ing from O'Clock on sunday evening till 10
o'clock on Monday morning, with sas waves
breaking constantly over them Eugi zee. Hines
| became insane aud threw himself iiy0 the sea
| The Others were half dead when rescued.
James Mas r s. faancier OF New YoEk, is seek
| Ing concessions from the Mexican government
| for the establishment OF extensive breNerles n
| the principal cites o. the reDubl.c. Naser
| states that he has negotiated fog English
Capitalists within the last year for iss purpose
/ OF building breweries at san Francisco. Denver,
| Baltimore, Detroit. Rochester PorI.:aouth, y
| II, and Newark, y. j. These purchases involve
Tie expenditure o. more than s,oo0.Qtsl.
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All sorts OF silver Propositinns

WAsHINGToS City. Jan. 5.-All sorts Of
silver propositions are being talked over
hy members of the house. Bland has been
approached by a dozen members with sug-
CestIons o! ; compromise. 4 return 10 the
Bland act Is the chief compromise PROPOSE
ton suggested 10 him. but Mr.. Bland at
present refuses 10 listen 20 anything less
than the coinage of 81. 900 900 worth Of sill
yer per month, and 10 this the other side,
Of course. VIII not agree.
CuloertSon. Democrat, of Texas, chair
man 81 the judiciary committee. has pre-
pared b.A II the nature of a compromise,
which he VII. introduce in the house Il
requires The coinage aud use rs assets of
tAe accumulated silver bullion now in the
treasury. that the present law be repealed
and the Bland lsw re-enacted.
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In the House.

WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 5-The house
today considered private pension bills
coming over from the last session as un-
finished business.
By unanimous consent the house then
proceeded in committee of the whole to
consideration of the fertilization appro-
priation bill. There was no general de-
bate, and the bill passed without amend
ment. 1t appropriates 81, 1876, 055.
The consideration of private pension
bills was resumed and few measures
passed without opposition because little
attention was paid to them, and as there
was no quorum the house adjourned.
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Gail Hamilton AssaiIs Gladstone FOL
Not Releasing Mira. MAVERICK.

Not Releasing Mrs. Maybrick.
BosToN, Jan. Sin the name of God
arraign you, the head Of the British gov
eminent. for the murder of Florence
Elizabeth Mayhrick. now dying in q con-
Wet prison at Working" So writes Miss
Abigail Dodge, the authoress. known to
the literary world as Gail Hamilton, 10
Right Hon. William E. Gladstone, prime
minister of Great Britain. Miss Dodge
declares that there is no evidence Of the
imprisoned woman's guilt, and shames
the great government for binding the
feeble hands of woman in a living
tomb and demanding more evidence
of her innocence. After reproducing
the British government, and the
home Office in particular, for their
harbarous action. Miss Dodge declares
they are guilty of deliberate murder. Clos
ing, she says: "But if there be God
who makes and notes the ways of this
world. who hears the voice of innocent
blood crying unto him from the ground, it
were better to be young wife and mother
perlshing in Working prison than the
prime minister of the government which
works her torture and her slaughter"
lat last accounts Mrs. Maybriek was in pretty
good health. The evidence of her guilt is said
TO be conclusive. She poisoned her husbandl
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THE FIRE RECORD.
Great Destruction of Property ut Omaha,
Denver and PitasbarE.

OMAHA, Jan. 5.-Fire tonight in the
composing room of the secoifd floor OF the
Onaga Printing Company biildlng COM
inunicated to the binderv On the third
floor and the storage rooms On the fourth
floor. Within two hours the building was
completely Quilted, entailing loss Of $780,
Coo, partly covered by insurance.
DESNER, Jan. 5.-One of the largest fires
that ever occurred in this city started At
i0:45 last night, and at 1 a. m was under
control. The ire started in che oil room
of the +. +. Hallack Paint, o.: and Glass
Company, in the Hallack bliiding, and
soon spread TO adjoining business houses.
The total loss Is estimated at $780,
900, divided as follows: Eaton
Ritchell sc &C.. hardwaee. 25.00o;
Hal!ack Paint, Oil and Glass Co, 800, 900;
Denver Stamping Company. $50 600; West
ern Laundry Company, S10,0ol; +. \. & Z.
HaIlack. on buildings, $lo0.0)0; National
Cracker Company. nominal. The Insur-
ance was about half the above. Many
narrow escapes occurred amo4lg the ire
men, caused by falling walls, which were
blown out by the explosion OF. oil.
PITTsBURG, Jan. 5.-FiTe broke out to-
night in a large brick building occupied
by the Collins Cigar Company, and before
the names cOuIi De SuDUueG tnaI StTuC-
ture was entirely destroyed, together with
three fve-story buildings and resi-
dence on Pennsylvania avenue. The
buildings destroyed were occupied by 2.
DUH 81 Sons, commission merchants; Ca
viii 81 Halock, lamps and fancy imported
goods; Booth d. Flynn, contractors, and
numerous offices. The losses are 1888, 600,
covered by insurance.
keech's immense warehouse and the
Westinghouse machine shops we're on fire
several times, but the good work of the
fire department saved them. At 11:30
o'clock the walls of the Duff building fell
with crash. burying the old Vernon
mansion adjoining. Fortunately the
family had deserted the house before the
walls came down, and as far IS known no
one was injured, but many valuable paint
ings and works of art were destroyed.
ANDERSON, S. c., Jan. 5.-Fonr thousand
bales of cotton on the Richmond l. Dam
vile cotton plantation were burned to-
night. Loss about 500, 900; insured.
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WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 5.-Mr. Cock
rell, OF Missouri. presented petition in
the senate this morning outside of the
usual run Of petitions. Mrs. Ellie G.
Snow, of She'll City. Mo-. represents that
her daughter. Laura Snow, aged 10 wears,
went TO Richfield. Sewer county, Utah,
and became q teacher in a Presbyterian
mission school. She died on October 4,
1889, under circumstances that cast grave
doubt as to the cause of death. Mrs.
Snow says she has been hampered and de-
layed in getting the facts relative to her
daughters death and in recovering the
body. 1t was claimed that death was
caused from typhoid fever. and before she
could return to Missouri and secure proof
that typhoid fever was not contagious she
says the body OF her daughter had reached
such a condition that medical exarnina-
ton could not he made to determine the
cause and manner of her death. Mrs
Snow says this IS not the only Young
woman teacher whose body has been dis
posed of in such a manner as TO leave s,is-
pic;on of foul play. For this reason Mrs.
Snow asks an investigation OF the manner
in which this mission is carried on. a re-
quest in which the citizens OF Shell CITY
ION.
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TACOMA, Jan. 5.-TSpecial. The next
semi-annual meeting OF the state medical
board Will be held at Spokane during the
first week in July. Certificates have been
ordered issued to the following: Henry
J. Rossiter. Buckley; John c. Burup.
Annie Keller Russell. Fl. I. Titus. Park
W. Willis. s. n. prysdaie. Seattle; H. ?.
luhn, spokane; &. ". Thomas. Walla
Wal.a; James keho and f. ii. Van Eaton.
Olympia: +. II. Harrison. Ocosta; WIZ
lam s. Herdman. Westport. J. W Paul,
Fall City. A. II. Wlkens. c. A. Baldwin,
L. NJ. Lauman, d. C. Godfrey, Tacoma,
and Frank LYONS. Athena.
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sKAGIT COUNTY SINGLE MEN.
A Meeting at Mount Vernon OF Promi-
nent Manufacturers.

nent Manufacturers.
MoUYr VERNON. Jan. 5.-tSpecial.l-
meeting of the shingle men was held at
Woolley yesterday for the purpose OF Or
ganizing the Skagit County Shingle Manu-
facturers' Association. Twelve mills were
represented, as follows:
Burlington Manufacturing Company, by Lar
son & Luddington.
r. l. Fox & Co, OF Burlington. by T l. Fox.
H. l. Edwards d Co., Of Hamilton. by Ii. l.
Edwards
Jarvis, Metcaf & Lewis, of Mount Vernon, by
b. III. Jarvis
Mount Vernon shingle & Lumber Company,
By William Dale aud q. t. Brand
James Shears & Co., Of Mount Vernon, by
James Shears.
skaglt River Lumber Company, of woollcy, by
j. 81. Hightower.
Cedar Lumber and shingle Company, of Wool
ley, by r. A. Woolley.
Avon Shinge and Lumber Company. by 7. z.
FIagg
Moore & Butler, of Mount Vernon, by B. N.
Jarvis, proxy.
Lyman Mill Company, OF Lyman, by its presi.
dent
Several other mills in the county, which
were not represented at the meeting, it is
said, will join the association. The object
of the organization is TO act in coniunc-
ton with and be subservient to the state
association. Thus all the mills which
enter the county association become men,
bers Of the state association. z. A. Wool
ley, of Woolley, was elected president of
the new organization and G. L. Brand
secretary. In speaking of the meeting the
secretary said: "There was a universal
expression on the part of those present in
favor of maintaining state and county
organization and strictly holding to asso-
citation prices"
A committee consisting of @. Larson, of
Burlington, G. Z. Brand, of Fairhayen,
and J. NJ. Hightower, of Woolley, was APP
pointed to draft a resolution and by-laws
and rules to govern the association, and
to recommend q suitable person to send
East to effect the sale of the county's
products.
Among the shingle mill men to address
the meeting was J. s. Munday, of Fair
haven. He made an appeal in favor OF
thorough organization and harmony of
action by the shingle manufacturers of the
county. The next meeting of the associa-
tion will be held at Burlington on January
Is, ut which time the committee on by
laws will report and she organization will
be perfected.
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CITY o. NrXyC0. Jan. 5--A number Of
arrests have been made IN connection with
dcfa cations III the state e Pueblo. The
Amount involved 5 ROW known - excee!
10000.
Two wayfarers, man ani wife, were
attacked Resi- Ja.a;,aco recently by eight
men. who killed the husband aut brataHv
assaulted the woman. subsequently tie
raaitas were overtaaen by soldiers and \
bloody acht cnsnei, in which SIX Of The
to.iaer were killed outright and the other
tWo mcrtai.v WOUNDED and captured.
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DIR. Minkler Held for Granddaughter.

CHEHALIs. Jan. 5.-[Special. THE pre-
liminary hearing in the Minkler and Guile
murder case was completed this morning
without the introduction of testimony for
the defense. At the conclusion of the
arguments Justice Pickens stated that
while the evidence was plain that the
operation on Old man Wright was unskill-
full and bungling and had doubtless caused
death, still the intention Of the defendants
To take life was not shown. He did not
think the evidence warranted holding for
murder. and therefore bound them over to
appear in the superior court 10 answer a
charge of manslaughter. Bonds were
fixed at s., 000. None have yet furnished
suretios. and Guile and Mrs. Mccormick
probably will not. DR.. Minkler says he
will be out of iail tomorrow.
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Elephant Zip Swallowed a Chain.

BARABoo, Wis, Jan. 5-An autopsy re-
ma-kable in itself and with surprising re-
suits was held today on the body of the
mammoth elephant Zip. that died few
days ago. Although long of tractable dis
position, Zip for three days preceding the
demise was in state of continuous frenzy
When cutting open the elephants stomach
the knife encountered resistance, and work
disclosed the presence of an iros chain four
feet long weighing ninety pounds. This
explains the elephants death and the
mysterious disappearance Of a chain on
the occasion of Zip's recent rarapage.
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Shot at a Hawk, Killed a Farmer.

MopEsro, Cal. Jan. 5.-The mystery
surrounding the killing of Lafayette
Steele at his ranch while plowing on
Tuesday afternoon has probably been
cleared up. AT the inquest Frank Rey-
nolds, neighboring farmer. testified tina,
at about the time of the killing he had
fired at a hawk IN a tree. q distance of
half mile, with Winchester and missed
his mark. The bullet in Steele's heart and
the one from the rifle correspond in every
particular. No arrest will probably be
made.
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PORT TOWNSEND. Jan. Especial. Tho
mayor today signed n contract with the
Mount Olympus Water Company for the
use of water by the city for n term of
twenty years. Under the agreement the
water company Is 10 construct $500, 900
water plant, piping pure mountain water
from the Olympics. which will give the
city the use OF the finest water on the
Sound. Construction of the works is to
begin Immediately. \ deed was filed to-
day in the auditors office whereby the
water company acquires property on the
highest point in the city for tie coustruc-
ton Of "a reservoir.
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VANCOUVER, b. c., Jan. 5.-fSpecial. l.
In the supreme court this afternoon Mr..
Justice Bole raked the Vancouver bar fore
and att. accusing them of ungentlemanly,
discourteous and unprofessional conduct,
and declared his intention of never sitting
in Vancouver again. He said that Mr.
Justice McCreight had been made the VIC
tim of political maneuvering, out that
they might never expect TO make polit-
zeal tool out of him. The scene has no
parallel IN the history OF the Canadian bar
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The Oregon Agricultural College.

SALEM, Or, Jan. 5.-[Special.l The BIZ
ennial report of the president of the board
of regents of the state agricultural college
has been filed with the governor. There
was total enrolment during the year of
255, l6l males and ninety-four females. In
1891 the enrolment was POS. The mum Der
of free scholarships to which the state is
entitled is 12l, and the number used sew
enty-four. The president of the college
recommends an appropriation of $50 coo
Cor new buildings, etc.
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The Little Rock Prison Deaths.

LITTLE Rock, Jan. 5.-There were no
new cases of sickness in the penitentiary
today, and there are now no more than
the usual number of cases in the hospital.
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 5-Surgeon-
General Wyman has received report from
Surgeon Williams, sent to Little Rock,
Ark. to investigate the disease in the con.
Wet camp there. After describing the
filthy condition of the camp and the sur
roundings, he gives the opinion that the
deaths there are due either to poison or to
contaminated water. due to overcrowding,
probably the latter
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Wyoming Cattlemen Trial.

CHEYENNE, Jan. 5.-The case Of the
Johnson county cattlemen came up this
morning promptly at 9 O'Clock. Judge
Scott instructed the clerk to en- ter an order
that all the prisoners appear in court
without firearms, and that the order shall
apply TO witnesses and spectators. The
sheriff was directed to see that order be
strictly enforced. The case was then
taken up. At the adjournment of the
court no jury had been obtained, and it
will probably be several days before one is
secured. 1t looks as though there are not
sufficient people in the county to select a
Jury from