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The Forrest City times., 1895-09-27
MOMENTARilY EXPECTING
Challenge from Across the Water to Race for the America's Cup.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 -Ex- Commodore James D. Smith, chairman of the Americas cup committee of the New York Yacht club, said yesterday after noon that he was momentarily expect ing to receive formal challenge for the cup from Charles Day Rose, the English yachtsman who sent the in- formal challenge last week.
 Ex-Commodore Smith said that while he knows nothing officially as yet of the terms of the formal challenge, he thinks the challenger will be eighty nine feet on the water line and cutter rigged.
 The informal challenge, received by cable on Friday, reads as follows: II beg to challenge for the Americas cup next year, the race to be sailed on con ditions satisfactory to the committee.
 [Signedl "CHARLEs ROSE, "99 Hill Street, Berkely Square, Lon-
 don"
The Forrest City times., 1895-09-27
OxFORD-CAMBRIDGE WINS.
Redeeming Their Defeat by the Univer-
 sity of Pennsylvania Eleven.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24.-The Ox- ford-Cambridge cricketers redeemed their defeat by the University of Pennsylvania by beating the gentle men of Philadelphia in the match which began Friday and ended yes- terday afternoon. The Philadelphians scored 243 runs in their first inning and 1Ss in their second-a total of 372. The English made l56 runs in their first inning and when they went in yesterday for their second inning they wanted PIT runs to win. They scored 220 runs with two wickets to spare.
 The heat throughout the match was terrific and was seriously felt by the players of both teams, but more espe- cially by the Englishmen.
The Forrest City times., 1895-09-27
DEEP WATERWAYS.
Meeting of the International Convention
 at Cleveland To-day.

CLEVELAND, O.. Sept. 24-The Inter- national Deep Waterways convention opens here to-day. Between 400 and 500 delegates are expected. including many of the greatest authorities on scientific engineering, statesmanship and commercial enterprise. The open ing will be preceded by a banquet given by the chamber of commerce. The first session will be taken up by the adoption of rules, appointment of committees and the reading of letters. Literary men are much interested in the address of President Rowland to be given tonight. He is the author of The New Empire, a book treating of America.
The Forrest City times., 1895-09-27
A CONNECTICUT TRAGEDY.
Murder and Suicide on the Street at
 standford.

STAMFORD, Conn, Sept. 24-Mack Simpkins, negro, about 30 years of age. murdered Mrs. Henry L. Dudley, also colored, and then committed sui eide on Atlantic street, the main thor oughfare of the city. Simplkins was widower with three children.
 Mrs. Dudley was walking up At lantic street when Simpkins met her. A few words passed between them, when the woman was seen to stagger and fall, with blood gushing from her throat Simpkins watched her mo- mem and as soon as she fell, drew the razor across his own throat, instantly expiring. The woman died half an hour later. No cause Is known .--- he act.
The Forrest City times., 1895-09-27
4 NEW THERMOPYIE

Eight Men Hold It Against Twelve Hun-
 dred. Driving Them Back Again and
 Again Until the Arrival of Reinsorce-
 nnents Which Attack the spanish Col
 umH tn the Rear. Killing sixty and
 Woanding Eighty of Them.
 NEW YORK. Sept 24-The Cuban revolutionary party was in receipt of important news from the seat of war.
 One of the letters received by Tomas Estrada Palma describes a fercely-fought battle, in which the Spanish forces were defeated with great loss A Spaniard who had es- caped from hospital at La Bimenta. near where the battle was fought, had gone to Quantanin and told the Span ish authorities there that Gen. Maceo was sick in the mountains. and had only thirty men with him, which was true.
 On August 30, last, before Gen. Ma eco had quite recovered. he received word that a column of Spanish infan- try, numbering 1000 men, with a com pany of cavalry and two pieces of artillery, were advancing on him. He ordered eight of his men to go for ward and hold the mountain pass of Bacona. firing on every one who ap- preached
 The pass is very narrow, and the rest of Gen Maceos force was behind it. It was the only way to reach Ma eeo's position. and was so commanding that few men stationed there could keep host at bay. Before the Span ish forces arrived Maceo contrived to send word to his brother. Gen. Antonio Maceo. of his peril
 On the morning of the 3lst the Span ards appeared. The Spanish forces gained the path, from which body of men could protect the hospitals, but were driven back again by Cuban colonel named Cebreco and several men. Again the Spaniards gained the pass. but were driven back by Gen. Maceo, with Colonels Cebreco and Minult
 Matters were looking serious for the Cubans. Just then, however, a relief force under Gen. Antonio Maceo ar rived and attacked the Spaniards in the rear. The Spaniards had gained the pass for the last time, but were forced to evacuate it.
 The Spaniards then found them selves attacked front and rear by the men under Generals Jose and Antonio Maceo, and over sixty of them were killed. Besides this, eighty of them were wounded and carried away on stretchers. The Spaniards fled, but were headed off by Gen. Antonio Maceo, while Gen. Jose Maceo at- tackled them in the rear.
 Next day the Spanish forces re- turned and renewed the fight in an open plain named Izuabanana, where they could use their artillery, but were completely routed. This defeat, the rebels said, the Spaniards claimed as a victory. Some of the officers wrote to the Spanish authorities for extra pay, claiming that Maceo had been captured.
The Forrest City times., 1895-09-27
THE NEW CONGRESS.
Poll of Representatives and Senators
 on the Silver Question

NEW YORK, Sept 24-The "Sound Money" committee of the chamber of commerce, of which ex-Congressman Joseph C. Hendricks is the head, has made a poll of the next house of repre- sentatives on the money question. It's list records ss members for free silver 2l6 opposed to free silver and 52 whose views are not known. Of the ss put down for free silver 30 are republicans 5l democrats and ' populists.
 According to the same report there will be 43 votes in the senate against free coinage of silver and 39 in favor of it, with in doubt.
The Forrest City times., 1895-09-27
Another spani.h Defeat.

HAVANA, Sept. 24.-A dispatch from Matanzas says Gen. Prat reports from Colon that Capt. Riestra, with force Of thirty-four men, had an encounter on the goth instant with band of 300 rebels at Quema do el Oliveras, in the Sagista district. After sharp fight the troops were compelled to retreat The loss is unknown.
The Forrest City times., 1895-09-27
FIVE DROWNED.
Sundays Record for Lake Michigan at Chi.
 cago.

cago. CHICAGO, Sept. 24 Five persons were drowned while bathing in Lake Michigan Sunday. They were: Robert Becker, 19 years old; body re- covered
 George Engel. II years old. William Elliott, II years old. Oscar Huber, 3l years old; body not recovered.
 Otto Schweiger, 20 years old; body not recovered.
The Forrest City times., 1895-09-27
A PLEA FOR CUBANS,
Chicago Preacher Says the United States
 Should Intercede.

CHICAGO, Sept 24.-Rev. Dr. w. II. Thomas caused somewhat of a sensa- tion Sunday morning by declaring from his pulpit that the time has come for America to say that the oppres- sion of Cnba by Spain must come to an end. There was a large attend ance of the best people in the city, and the speaker was frequently inter- rupted by outbursts of applause.
The Forrest City times., 1895-09-27
A POPULAR VERDICT,

Acquittal of the Alleged Cuban Hilibus- ters by Wilmington, Del, Jury-Great Rejoicing in the Court Room, the Streets and Throughout the City-The Cuban Flag Under the Stars and stripes
The Forrest City times., 1895-09-27
FOR MRS. MAVERICK.
New and Important Evidence to be Sub-
 mitted in Her Behalf

LONDON, Sept. 24.-Baroness De Roque, mother of Mrs. Florence May brick, who is now at Roux, is said to have communicated with her solicitors in regard to new and important evil dence in the MaybricL case, which will be submitted 10 the home secretary, Sir Matthew White Ridley, who has promised to review the case.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01
INDIAN BILL PROVISIONS
The Senate Acts on Several Clauses of
Interest to the West.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-After inef-
fectively batting for nearly two
hours the question of the govern
ment's relation to the education of
Indians, in the Indian appropriation
bill, the senate, in committee of the
whole, adopted these provisions of
interest to the Southwest: For the
support of $50 Indian pupils at $167 per
year each, at the Indian school at
Chilocco, Indian territory, $61, 1,45O. of
which $1,500 goes to the superintend-
ent and 81, 800 for general repairs; for
the support and education of 500 In
dian pupils at Haskell institute, Law
renee, Kan, at $167 each per year,
crease of $500 over the house bill,
goes to the superintendent and 81, 900
for general repairs; to purchase lands
in the Indian territory for the absen-
tee Wyandotte Indians, $4,000, the
secretary Of the interior being au-
thorized to employ R. B. Armstrong
of Kansas City, Kan. to make
the purchase at fee of 5000;
authorizing the sale of the
remnant of the Pottawa tomie reser-
vation in Jackson county, Kan, and
the Kickapoo reservation in Brown
county, Kan, at not less than the APP
praised value, and not less than Sc
per acre, at the Topeka land Office, at
public sale to the highest bidder, the
terms to be one-fourth of the pur-
chase price at the time of sale, and
one-fourth at intervals of year with
interest at per cent; every Kickapoo
child who has not here tofore been al
lotted lands to be allotted eighty
acres.
At 1850 o'clock the senate took up
the provisions authorizing suit to be
instituted to determine the claims q:
Choctaws and Chickasaws to pay-snt
for the Wichita lands Mr.. Call
offered an amendment providing that
the adjudication of the claims should
not be of binding force on congress,
but merely advisory and of ''persua-
sve force.' Mr. Chandler supported
Mr.. Calls proposition and declared
the committees provisions to be a
direct violation Of the agreement, in
stituted for no other apparent pur-
pose than enriching the Choctaws and
Chickasaws The proposition was de-
feated
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01
INDIAN SCHOOL QUESTION.
Senate for Abandonment of Denomi-
national Esta blishments.

SSudCo IOT ADanuOnm0nC OF D0nOmt.
national ablishments.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-The senate
devoted itself to business yesterday
and would have compile ted the Indian
appropriation bill had not acrimoni-
GUS discussion arose on the Indian
school question. 1t brought out
wide range Of debate on the separa-
tion of church and state in the
course of which the expressions were
general that the government should
entirely abandon denominational
schools. On a yea and nay vote an
exception was made in the case of the
Indian schools of Hampton, Va, and
Lincoln, Philadelphia, on the ground
that they were not entirely denom-
national. This was regarded as
somewhat of a test, and the abandon
ment failed-veas. 21: nays. 32
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01
THREE LIVES LOST AND FOUR
BLOCKS BURNED.
PEOPLE CAUGHT WITHOUT WARNING,
The Fire Starts in the Early Morning
and Sweeps Away Many Cottages
and Other Structures-Many Peo-
pie Have Narrow Escapes
From Death-Cause of
the Fire is Mystery.

Hot SPRINGS, Ark, Feb. 23.-Three
lives were lost and $75,O 900 worth OF
property destroyed by a fire which
broke out here at o'clock this morn
ing and swept over four blocks Of
buildings.
The dead are;
Mrs Clara Sammons, boarding house
keeper. Hot Springs.
u. w. Wing, Glenn Falls, n y.
Mrs. Maggie Hecox, boarding house
keeper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bronson of Macon
Mo-, were slightly injured in jumping
from the burning buildings.
The fire originated in bakery on
Ouachlta avenue, over which were
furnished rooms. Here Mrs Sam
mon, who kept the rooms, was burned.
The other buildings burned were
the La Clede, loss $6, 900; the Ouach-
ltay loss $4,000; tha Illinois, $4,000; the
Missouri, $4,000; the Oak LEVIN, SIS, 900;
the bloomington, $6, 900; H. M. Hudg-
ms residence, $12, 900; r. L. Williams
three story brick, $4,000; Joplin's
grocery, $4,000; e. Randolph's resi-
dence. $4,000; Leggerwood's bakery,
the Tennessee stables, the West
house, fifteen cottages of a total
value of $4,000. There is very little
insurance, the loss being practically
total
The fire was at the south end of the
gulch in which Hot Springs is located.
and the wind was from the north. AS
result none of the large hotels were
at any time in direct danger The
fire burned both sides Of Ouach ;ta
avenue to Hawthorn, one side of
Hawthorne to Woodbine, and both
sides of Orange to Ouapaw street.
How the. flames started is mys-
terry, but when the fire was discov-
cred it was under strong headway
and made such rapid progress that
the inadequate department could do
little toward stopping it,
In one of the burned structures
people were caught without warning,
but all escaped in their night clothes,
being unable to save any of their
property.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01
TELEGRAPHlc NEWS NOTES.

For the first time in ten years every
coal mine in the Salineville, Ohio, dis
trict is working with full force of
men.
Thursdays statement of the condi-
tlon OF the treasury shows: Available
cash balance, Sl67, ,33l, 1854; gold re-
serve, $6s, 7os, s23.
At Brooklyn fire in the eight-story
building owned by Arbuckle Bros,
and known as the Arbuckle coffee
mills caused $780, 900 damages
A. j. Balfour, the earl of Dunraven,
the marquis of Grant by, Sir Herbert
Maxwell and a number of other
prominent British politicians are
suffering from influenza
The Lawson flag bill orbidding the
display of foreign flags on public
buildings passed the New York SEN
ate after some debate by vote of 20
to 6. 1t now goes to the governor.
IN San Francisco Reuben a. Lloyd,
attorney for Mrs, Hermann Oelrichs
and Miss Virginia Fair, announces
positively that his clients would not
be party to any contest of the will
of their father, the late James G.
Fair. Charles Fair will contest the
will, however
In Judge Fergusons court in New
Orleans. Charles D. Leeper was fined
$500 and sent to the parish prison for
two months for carrying concealed
weapons, with the additional penalty
of one months imprisonment in the
event that the fine is not paid. This
is the heaviest sentence for carrying
a concealed weapon ever imposed in
the criminal court of that city.
The bill submitting to the people
the question of bonding the state for
SO, 900, 900 for canal improvements has
prssed the New York senate, yeas 20,
nays A. 1t now goes to the governor.
John Geiger, a pioneer resident of
Norfolk, Neb., has received notice
from New York city that his brother,
who recently died there, left his en-
tire estate, valued at 81, 100000 to
him.
The president has signed the joint
resolution earnestly recommending
to Great Britain and Venezuela the
presidents suggestion that their
boundary dispute be settled by arbi-
tration
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01
ASK FOR A RECEIVER.
Bill in Equity Filed Against Heirs Of
the Late Senator Plumb

tHe Late Senator Plumb.
WASHINGTON, Feb. ga bill in
equity was fled in the District SUI
preme court yesterday by Arthur E.
Bateman, Douglass Grien and James
A. Garner, assignees, VS.. the widow
and heirs-at-law Of the late Senator
Preston B. Plumb of Kansas. The
case grows out of an agreement to
which the senator is alleged to have
been party, for the construction of
a railroad from Portsmouth to Hicks
ford, Va, (the line which was after
ward extended), to which Plumb be-
came liable for certain obligations to
reimburse Batcman and Grien for
advances made.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01
RAPID CITY, s. D., FRIDAY, MARCH j. 1895.
REFORM EDITORS.
Annual Meeting of the Association in
Kansas City.

Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb 23.-The
fourth annual meeting of the Reform
Press association began this afternoon
in the parlors of the Centropolis
hotel. The association is formed of
the editors of Populist papers in the
United States. Representatives of
$50 papers are at the meeting. A
dozen OF them are women.
Naarly the whole forenoon was
spent in arguing on the advisability
OF establishing Populist news
bureau or a Populist daily newspaper r
in Kansas City. An hour was spent
in deciding whether or not to accept
an invitation from the county court
to attend a flag raising at2 O'Clock.
This brought out hot Catholic A. P.
A. debate. which was finally settled
by committee of three being an
pointed to represent the association
at the flag raising.
w. j. Costigan of the Ottawa, Kas.,
Journal, an. Irish Catholic, jumped to
his feet and said excitedly: 'sWhat's
this? John B. Stone claiming to be
Populist? Didn't the A. p A. ques-
oAOAA OAGCA AAUO OAc ClCCU1Ou .lOl VlllS
judge? I've been informed that this
judge was elected by the A. P. A. 1
don't propose to let this Judge or any
one else of his stripe drag me into a
thing of this kind
While Costigan was speaking sew
eral editors were grasping the backs
OF chairs in front of them ready to
jump to their feet when he sat down.
There was buzz of excitement, and
when he finished several editors be-
gan to talk at once.
Barry Tracy of Dallas Texas,
moved that at 2 o'clock the editors go
in executive session and the motion
carried. At the session an ultimatum
from Chairman Taubeneck was read.
in which he defined his position on
the silver question and agreed to re-
sign the craftsmanship if his views
were not adopted bv the association.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01
B. j. MlLLHOUsE A SUICIDE.
Dies in an Omcer's Arms on Kansas
City Street.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. BIB. j.
Millhouse, employed in Fowler's
packing house committed suicide this
morning by swallowing carbolic acid
on the street. He died in Officer
OGrady's arms. He had followed his
wife and Cash Geers, a young clerk,
all over the country and finally
located them in this city where he
had them arrested. She refused to
leave Geers, and this so preyed on his
mind that he took his own life
Clutched in his hand were a six
ounce bottle of carbolic acid, with
about an ounce of the deadly stuff
remaining in it and the following let
ter, written on a small piece of paper
in pencils
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, Feb %, 1851
have freed her with my life | don't
want to punish her. She don't love
me, but will live with me to keep out
of the pen. Goodby all friends-I
used to have them by the score.
| have a sister living at Fowler's
Row, Kansas City, Kan; have sister
at Thirteenth and Minnesota avenue,
Kansas City, Kan, brother at Wallula,
Kan, and a brother at Salem, Neb.
| would love to be buried at Oak
Grove cemetery, Kansas City, Kan, if
this dose is successful.
Let my lawful wife, living at 141O
Askew avenue, know of this Good
bye: Sarah, this is a broken heart
B. J. MlLLHoUsE.
After the arrest Millhouse called
on his wife and implored ner to re-
turn to him. The woman told him
she did net care fer him, that he
could never share her love and all
that would induce her to live again
with him would be his withdrawal of
the bigamy cases.
Mrs. Geers, as she chooses to call her.
self, was born in Leavenworth, Kan,
thirty-four years ago. She is plain
looking woman and appears to be
atraleast 40 years old. She came to
this city when II years old ana lived
with her father. Isaac Martin.
wagonmaker on Grand avenue. After
her fathers DEATH Sarah Martin
went to live in East Atchison, and
there she met and married Millhouse.
Their union was: not a happy one and
the wife's intimacy with Geers and
abandonment of her husband soon
followed. Geers is smooth faced
young fellow and is at least ten .,ears
younger than the woman.
If the death of her sorrowing hus-
band caused Mrs. Geers any emotion
it was that of intense relief She
seemed to fear that the report of his
suicide was not true.
Il don't believe he committed sui
eide" she said to reporter who called
to see her this morning, to break the
news as gently as possible. 81
know him too we'll to think he would
kill himself as long as he had fifteen
cents in his pocket to bury whisky. l
want to say right here that the
story about my eioping with Geers is
a lie. My husband left me and gave
him SIS to get divorce. l married
Geers as l supposed the divorce had
been granted
+ The death of Millhouse will not
necessarily terminate the criminal
proceedings against his wife and
Geers. She has been bigam;st and
Geers has violated one of the Grim
inal statutes by living with her
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01
Fred Douglass Funeral

WASHINGTON. Feb. "a Arrange
ments for the funeral of Frederick
Douglass are almost complete and
they contemplate the interment of
the body in Mount Hope cemetery,
Rochester, N. Y, early next week.
probably on Tuesday, but this has not
yet been definitely settled.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01
Solons Come to Blows,

DENVER, Col, Feb. 23.- Senators
George Peas of Park county and
David A. Mills of Eagle county, both
Populists, came to blows during the
session of the senate to-day, and Mills
struck Peas on the head with paper
weight, inficting serious injury.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01
A ] leasure Party In a wreck.

ST. CLOUD, Mimi, Feb. 23.-In re-
turning from dance at Waite park
early this morning an omnibus con-
tanning twenty-five men and women
was overturned mile from the city
and stove ignited the curtains and
straw. Several persons were badly
injured, Mrs James Heath being
tranpled upon and badly hurt, Mrs.
Joseph PETERS sustaining a severe
scalp wound. Mrs. Chester Waite be-
ing internally injured and Owen
Hines, the local manager of the
Northwestern telephone exchange
burned in numb Der of places.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01

Ward McAllister's Total Property Worth
Only Ten Thousand Dollars.

Only Ten Thousand Dollars.
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.-Louise Nc
Allister, daughter of the late Ward
McAllister, has applied for letters of
administration before Surrogate Fitz-
gerald. The deceased, according to
the petition, left the widow, Sarah
McAllister, the petitioner, Louise Nc
Allister, and two sons, Ward Nc
Allister, jr, and Hayward H. Nc
Allister, as survivors.
No real estate was left, and the
personal property does not exceed
the sum of $4,000. Edward Lauter-
bach represented Ward McAllister,
jr., and Anderson, Rowland e Muir
ray appeared for the petitioner.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01
New Mexico Democr.,. - 80,

SANTA F'E, N. NJ, Feb. s3.-The
legislative council has confirmed all
Governor Thornton's nomin ations and
Tor the first time in thirty years ali
the territorial offices are filed by
Democrats.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01
Russia Up to Mischief.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 25.-The Rus.
sian squadron in the Mediterranean
mas been ordered to join the squadron
IN the Pacific ocean. Admiral Alex
lseH has been appointed to the aug
mented Pacific SQUADRON.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-03-01
How Times Uave Chanpad.

RALEIGH, N. c., Feb. 23.-The house
OF representatives yesterday resolved
to adjourn out of respect to the mem
ory OF Frederick Douglass. AS it re-
fused to adjourn on Lees birthday
this action causes great indignation.