Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-17

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 A CREDIT of s1, ,ooo, 900, to be used in suppressing the insurrection in Cuba, was cabled from Madrid to Capt.-Gen. Calleja, in Havana, on the 11th.
 A DESPATCH from Lima, on the f1th, said that the insurgents had defeated the Peruvian troops in a battle near Cabanis, killing 300 government sol diers.
 SECRETARY LAMONT, on the 18th, ap- pointed Cornelius Cadle, Don Carlos Buell and Robert T. Looney commis- sioners to establish national mili- tary park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tenn.
 ON the 10th the Japanese legation at Washington received the following dls- patch confirming the capture of New Chwang: Japanese army captured open port of New Ghwang March 6. All foreigners are safe"
 TIE body of Victor Hugo was, on the 18th, deposited in a sareophagus especially constructed for it in the pantheon at Paris, The only members of the family present were two of Hugo's grandchildren, Leopold Hugo and Paul Merice.
 HARRY T. HAYWARD, convicted at Minneapolis, Minn., of complicity in the murder of Miss Catharine Cling, was, on the 1tth, sentenced by Judge Smith to be hanged, after the expira- tion of three months, on a date to be set by the governor.
 THE women of Alliance, O., held a largely-attended meeting, on the 9th, and nominated an independent ticket for public school board. There was great enthusiasm. At caucus of the populist party, the same evening, the women's ticket was indorsed unan- imously.
 TIE will of Mir. S. M. Burroughs, who died at Monte Carlo on Fe bruary 6. bequeaths a4, GOO to Henry George, the tax reformer Mir, Burroughs was born in Medina, N. Y, and was senior partner in the firm of Burroughs x Welcome, wholesale pharmaceutists, in London.
 ONE HUNDRED employees of the Cleve- land (0) Ship Building Go. went out on strike on the 5th. The company proposed to pay the old hands S2.37 and new men 8. 25 per day. The strike was for S2.50 per day rate. The strikers were employed in the boiler making department.
 OWING to the refusal of the owners of the great manufactories at Pantin and Aubervilliers to aceede to the de- mands of their employees for increased wages, etc, the labor union to which the men belong, on the 18th, ordered the employees of all the match facto- ries in France to cease work.
 Two RIOTS, in which white men were the aggressors, and negroes, as a rule, the victims, occurred in New Orleans on the 18th. Six men were killed and eight seriously and many slightly in jured. Among the dangerously wounded was Purser James A. Bain, of the English steamship Engineer.
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 BECAUSE the operatives had ignored previous decisions of arbitrators, the boot-manufacturing employers of En- gland have refused to consider new overtures for arbitration, and the na- tional federation has notified the op- eratives to stop work on the 18th. The order affects 200, ,000 employees. 
 THE statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended on the 9th, showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $5, 265, 875; loans, increase, s, 125, o00 specie, de crease, S2,36s, 500; legal tenders, de crease, S3,oI5, 100; deposits, decrease, $47o, 900; circulation, increase, s30, 1000.
 THE national convention of the American Protective association opened in Saginaw, Mich, on the 19th, for three days session. The prime object is the consideration of the prop osition for the formation of the inde- pendent American party, which, it is said, will put presidential ticket in the field next year.
 PROF E. STONE WIGeINs, of Ottawa, Ont, speaking of the late lunar eclipse, said: "The moon passed squarely over the earth's shadow, and it was of a dark brown color and distinctly visi- ble during the eclipse. If it had nc atmosphere to distribute the solar rays and as there is no light in space, it would have been as black as ink
 CAPT. CRossMAN of the American mail steamer Allianca, which arrived at Quarantine, N. Y, on the 18th, from Colon. reported that, on the Sth. when his vessel was off the east coast of the island of Cuba, she was fired upon by a brigantine-rigged man-of-war flying the Spanish flag, and chased for 25 miles. when she distanced her pur- suer.
 FREDERICK k. SICKELs. the actual inventor of the Corliss engine; of the apparatus for steering steamships by steam now in universal use, and oi the Siclxels' automatic steam cut-off