The weekly avalanche., 1893-01-20


Harrison, and was appointed over the
protest of Senator Vest.
Passenger train No. on the Kan
sas City, ST. Joseph IL ouSncil Bluffs
railway, was held up on tite night of
the nth at Roy's Landing. The train
was signalled and stopped. and while
two bandits took the enginet and fire.
man to the express car and |boted the
safe, others kept up fusiiaI dc of bull
! let's to intimldate the passengers,
About SO, coo was secured.
The annual report of th4 Worlds
| Colum bian COMMISSION has been sub
mltted by President T. W.. Palmer.
Detailed statements of the scope ana
various features of the exposition are
left for the final report to be prepared
| by special committee of theI commits
sion, which will be work lof great
magnitude, practically history Of the
| fair. An estimate Of $4,000 Ito COM
piete the work of the commission, not
including the committee on awards, Is
| made, and congress is asked 20 cause
| its transfer from the funds of the COM
mlttee on awards and board of lady
managers.
The senate finance commit ttee held
! a meeting to consider Secretary Car
isles statement US to the trea Isury diff
| ficultles The committee aH Hthorized
its chairman to Introduce In tn ie senate
the bill favored by the secretary, with
holding however, It's endorse tncnt OF
the plan, and gave out Il statement
that it thought 1t best to rely bn exist
ing law for relief. Its opinI lon was
that The law of 1875 empoweI red the
| secretary to issue bonds necessary to
strengthen the gold reserve Repre-
sentative Bland, however, declares that,
under the present la W, the sdcretary
has not the power.
In regard to the publIshedt state
ment that the ex-queen Of Hawaii had
given up the contest for the throne
| and would sue the United States for
| damages, Samuel Parker, prime minis
ter o. the queen, now in San Francis
co, wired Secretary Gresham denying
these assertions III toto. Both Parker
and W, c. Peterson, the ex-queens at
torney general, state that they saw
Lilioulla lani half an hour before the
| sailing Of the steamer Australia, and
that she was very firm in her deter
mlnaton to maintain her claim TO the
throne. The possibility of her present
ing claim for damages had never even
been mentioned.
Representative w. A. Stone, of
Pennsylvania, introduced bill in con-
gress providing for the inspection of
immigrants by United States cpnsnls.
The biHpSovides that no alien shall be
admitted within the United States un-
I less he shall exhibit to the United
States inspectors a certificate signed by
the United States consul at the place
nearest where such immigrant last re-
sided, setting forth the consul has
made an investigation concerrilg the
y immigrant and that he does notbelong
Il to the class of alien immigrants .ex-
Guided from admission to the United
States under the prov sions OF tlc laws
approved in 1891, relative to khe I'M
portation of immigrants undefeontract
to perform labor.
i The details of the maSEhcre of
4 Capt. Wilson's party by the Natabeles
A in South Africa, have been J.celved
The natives, who were with liing Lo-
bengula at the time of the light, ar
rived at Buluawayo to surrender and
tell the story OF the struggle. Wilson's
lparty consisted of forty Britis troopers
land about hundred natite auxll-
hiaries- They came upon King Loben-
gula, who had a strong force. The
confident spirit of the Mataleles was
thoroughly broken, and intent only on
Aapturing the king, Capt. Wilson,
,Sithout taking preeaution tgainst
ehrprise, dashed forward With his
troops. Lcbengula,. discovering the
smallness of the attacking force and
rhanned a successful rusc. He ordered
The center of his column to retreat be-
| i9re the British advance. while flanl1s
fell away on either side in order to
srlrrender the British. The plan work
ed perfectly. The troopers dashing
retklessly forward soon neft their
native auxiiarles far behind. Then
thk Matabeles in front ma de a stand
anil those in the flanks begin to close
in Captain Wilson discovered his
da,kger and tired to cut his way out to
| io;,k his auxiliar.es, but the YMatabele
nreesed him On every side in over
whAlming numbers. The} troopers
borkes fell beneath them and they were
| finally. compelled to make a life and
I:fe and death stand, fighting from
beb,hnd their dead horses as breast
wo,lks. The ammunition fdr their car
| binee soon gave out, and thfn they mad
! to revsort to their revolvers, land having
no n, ore cartridges for thenh were de-
| fad;yng themselves with their swords
while, the savages pressed closer and
close, and finally with Savage yells
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