The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-01-19


100000 Francs. sron she Psuama
0e.--Baihst's CShvisties Likely.
PARIs. JAa. 10 There was profound
relief M republican circles Saturday
over tho statement Of Charles de- Les
seps implicNting Arthur Meyer, editor
Of the Gaulois, ss having received 100, ooe
francs from the Panama Co. This at last
bring. the royalists into the dragnet,
and shows what ths friends Of tho re.
public have claimed from the beginning
Of the scandal, that republican officials
and Journalists did NOT have monopoly
Of Panama corruption.
The fact that four Boalaagist depu.
ties are ssid - bs put under streng sus.
picion By evidence before NJ. Eranque.
vile II also considered - strengthening
the cause OF the republic. By showing
the hypocrisy Of those who ssssn 10 In
the pretended Interest of better gov.
ernmsnt
The governmsnt has alse boea con.
siderably strengthened by the speech oi
Chancellor Won Csprivi en the army bill.
This has, In Q large degree, diverted At
tention from Panama affairs, aud
aroused deeper interest in the foreign
concerns of France - in the necessity
OF Frenchmen standing toge ther against
their enemies abroad. The situatioa
to-day is therefore improved, and Al
though the Figaro publnhes . sensa,
tional article, signed by the editor-in.
chief. III. Maynard, urging Carnot in
interests of the republic to resign, very
little is heard OF adverse criticism upon
the president
The Figaro's attempt to arouse pub
lie feeling against Carnot has fallen
| fiat. and men who vehomently de-
nounced the president Friday were
comparatively moderats Saturday. II
is generally believed that the worst Is
known regarding Panama, and that no
Developments adverse TO Carn6t are pos
sible. The discredit thrown on the
Gaulois has aided greatly in relieving
N. Carnot IL will be remembered that
the stan of that paper was active in
endeavoring, before the Panama eom-
mission of the chamber, TO connect n.
Carnots name with the Panama cor
ruption, but when eornersd had de-
elined, on alleged professional grounds,
70 give authority for statements made.
AAA- AA iAAo SCA Va SOknnCECS &Ae1 AoSne
Is also paid TO be vindiaated from ,hs
charge that he had shared n the
Panama bribery. When frst accused,
N. Roche had answered in . nannsr
that made most favorable imprsssion
in the ohsmbsr He \ man of rather
short stature. and Of slight dslieats
frame. but Ais whole appearance wore
an air ef determination and energy,
and he vss fAirly successful
in mastering HIS snotiou, - in
clear and arn tones he declared
that he oo~ld not imagine what nachi-
nation Or dsnunciatioH had reduced
him 70 this position. or with what
enemy he had 10 deal; but he could de-
clare that his conscience was perfectly
at case He would give an emphatic
contradiction to all she charges brought
against him, adding that thesc accasa-
tions were AL the more absurd. seeing
that he had not voted on the Pauslna
bill
Tho denial then given by N. Roche has
been verified to the Aatisfaction Of Nagis-
trate Franqueville. who finds that the
initials ~. r. made by the late Baron
Rsinach on the counterfoil Of check,
do not apply to Roche, who will, there
tore. be released from accusation of
completely in the Panama corruption
It had been alleged on the strength Of
these initials that N. Roche had re-
esived 20.oes francs from M. Reiuach.
The evidence against others who have
been accused is said to be ne stronger
than that against N. Roche.
The evidence agsinst ex-Ainistsr Of
Public Works Baihvt coatinaes, ac-
cording to report. to grow stronger
Baihnt. says the Steele, admitted shat
he had received 455. coo francs for sup
porting the Panama lottery bill. Bsi-
hut, is is said, will make no defease to
the charges against him. He is deserted
by nearly all his friends, although his
wife adheres to him with pathetic dexp-
tion. There seems disposition to lay
upon Baihut tho chief responsibility
for the disRracs and loss to the repu bile
resulting from the Panama lottery biI,
and the prosecution of the ex-minister
will be vigorously pushed.
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Fifty Psrsoss Killed.
LONDON. Jan. ia dispatch to the
Central News from St. Paul de Loandx
saws. "A train aro al nth E,,ran.ano