Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-03-24

trenChments To Hlake d 9 per EeH6. cut in salaries up to LOGO per year, and above that 10 per cent. All officers, without distinction, will be affected by the cut.
 INTELLIGENCE from Cuba, via Key West, Fla, on the 17th, state that from d few isolated bands of marauders, the rebels have erystallized weil-armed force of 5000 men. All reports of gov ernment victories are declared to be unfounded.
 THERE is reason to expect that Bel gium will soon remove it's prohibition of Canadian cattle, as the results of consular inquiries disproving the ex- istence of disease have been eommuni- cated by the British government to the Belgian cabinet.
 CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, on the 18th, delivered an opinion dismissing the bill in equity brought by the State of of California vs. the Southern Pacific Railroad Co, involving the ownership of the Oakland water front, for want of original jurisdiction.
 ONE HUNDRED employees of the Gleve- land (O) Ship Building Go. went out on strike on the 5th. The company proposed to pay the old hands $2. 37 and new men g. 9 per day. The strike was for S2.50 per day rate. The strikers were employed in the boiler making department.
 TIE weekly statement of the asso- ciated banks of New orl city, issued on the 10th, showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, S5, 1s0, $50; loans, de- crease, $325, ,300; specie, increase, S309,- 000 legal tenders, decrease, ST, DOT, 800; deposits, decrease, 80, 473, GOO; eircula- ton, increase, sis2, 900.
 IN connection with the celebration of Prince Bismarcks birthday anni- versary on April 1, it is proposed that birthday bonfires be lighted in the evening on most of the mountains and high hills of Germany, so as to form, as far as possible, a chain of beacon lights covering the whole country.
 IN the German reichstag, on the 10th, the leaders of the center party in- formed Herr Von Levetzow, president of that body, that their party would oppose the motion to tender the con gratulations of the house to Prince Bismarck on April 1, the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of his birth.
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 IN view of the vast number of resi- dents of Great Britain who derive in- comes from the United States, the British foreign office has caused the publication in the Gazette of the terms of the new United States income tax law, accompanied by notification that the time of declaration under the law has been extended to April l5.
 TIE prospect of serious eomplica- tions which threatens the United States through probable European en- croachment on Venezuela and Nicara- qua has assumed phase of such dan ger to the principle laid down in the Monroe doctrine, that a special cab inet conference was held at the White House, on the goth, to consider the subject.
 THE decoration of the new congress sional library in Washington, which is to be, when completed, the finest and most costly building of it's kind in the world, will be commenced next summer Blashfeld, Le Farge, We'd der, Carl Gutherz, Edward Simmons, George w. Maynard, William I. Dodge and Kenyon Cox have been commis- stoned to paint pictures for the build ing
 SENn-oFFIGIAL newspapers of Rome contain very hattering comments upon the promptitude with which President Cleveland and Secretary Gresham have taken steps to bring to justice the murderers of the Italians in Walsen- berg, Col, and say that Ameriea's con duct in this case has been as honor able to her as it is fattering to Italian national sentiment.
 NEWS was received. on the 17th, of an attack on Puerto, Colombia, by the rebels under Col Castillo. All of the officials of the customhouse were made prisoners. the rebels retreated toward Baraone, where desperate battle last ing four hours was fought. Nearly three-fourths of the town was burned, including the barracks and church, and fifty persons were killed.
 ADvIcEs from Havana, received on the 18th, state that the commander of the Spanish cruiser Condo de Venadito reported that on March s, while cruis- ing off the eastern coast of the island, he sighted steamer one milo and half from the Cuban coast, heading for Maisi point. The cruiser signaned the steamer to stop but without effect. As the steamer proceeded at full speed the cruiser first fired two blank shots, and then two solid shots. This is un- doubtedly the vessel that fired upon the steamer Allianca