Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-05-03
BREVITIEs.

4 BEENIIiES.
Judge Andrews, in the New Yorl
| supreme court, decided that George j
| Gould must pay taxes on the assessment
! of $1O,ooo,Ooo levied by the TIA,
| commissioners.
The largest movement of new set
400 Dunkards orGerman Baptists taker
from Indiana to the Red River Valley
of North Dakota the first week in April
by the Great Northern railway
Upon the landing of the British
troops the Nicaraguans left Corintc
and the government declared Corinto a
closed port. The authorities went tc
San Juan del Sur, cutting the wires
connecting the cable port with Corinto
leaving the British forces no way OF
communicating to the home govern
ment except by boat to the cable
station,
Charles Beale, one of the largest
sugar growers in Cuba, has arrived
in Boston and says he has been
in the regions where the insurgents
are. He declares the revolution to be
the greatest struggle the island has
ever known, and that, notwithstand-
ing all reports to the contrary, the
rebel troops are everywhere gaining
the upper hand. They have, accord
ing to Beale, the moral as well as the
financial support of all the large cane
growers.
Rockford, H., dispatch: The grand
jury has returned three indictments
against Schweinfurth, the pretended
Messiah, charging him with living in
open adultery and fornication with
Mary Weldon, Isabel Tuttle and
Marguerite Weldon, all inmates of his
heaven" The women We're also
indicted on the same charge. Scnweln-
furth gave bonds for his appearance.
The indictment gives general sat-
isfaction.
Washington dispatch: The attitude
of the United States on the eastern
war trouble has been made clear to the
various parties interested In brief it
is that the unvarying policy of this
country is not to form alliances which
may involve it in complications with
the countries of Europe or Asia. 1t is
reassertion of the policy of isolation,
except in so far as this country may be
able to exert kindly or advisory
influence toward the adjustment of
trouble involving eastern nations.
Advices from Constantinople say two
English newspaper correspondents re-
Gently arrived at Trebisonde from
Constantinople with full passports to
go on to Erzoum. The officials at
Trebisonde refused to allow them to
continue their journey. The English
consul demanded permission for them
to go and if permission was refused an
indemnity of thirty Turkish lires (S132)
for each traveller The authorities
telegraphed to Constantinople and the
roply came back: PAY the money,
but do not permit the men to go on
The position taken by the president
in the Nicaraguan and Great Britain
controversy is that the dispute is one
entirely between Great Britain and
Nicaragua, and the United States has
no call to interfere unless there should
be committed acts injurious to Amer
lean interests in Nicaragua, or there
should be shown disposition by Great
Britain to acquire Nicarag guam territory
On each of these points a favorable
assurance has been had from Great
Britain, and it is said all that can now
be done is to wait the course of events.
The textile situation in Olneyville
r. L., reached crisis when 300
weavers employed by the Providence
and National worsted mills struck,
and more than 1000 other operatives
were obliged to cease work as both
mills at once shut down. The princi-
comprise the biggest plant in Olney-
vile, is Chas. Fletcher, a leading
member of the Rock Island Manufac-
turing Club, which organization re-
Gently agreed to close their mills at
the first sign of a strike in any, mill.
About 5000 operatives will be affected
by such a step. The cause OF the
strike this afternoon is the alleged in
PRODUCTION of non-union men into the
weaving rooms Of both mills, with the
request that the union weavers teach
them to weave.
Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana, in an
interview with a Washington CORE
spondent, declared himself in favor of
the full restoration of silver to it's place
previous to 1873. He said he will not
desert silver and will not leave the
democratic party.
Ex-Speaker Crisp has declared him
self in favor of the free coinage of
silver. He believes the democrats
should nominate western man with
military record for president and says
the party should not nominate Mr..
Cleveland for a third term; that no
man should have third term.
BY the bursting Of monster reser-
voir near Epinal, France, one hundred
lives were lost and $40, 600, 600 worth of
property was destroyed.
w. Ulmer started from Button, Ind.
to the Montpelier oil fields with 72O
quarts of nitroglycerine in wagon.
Two miles out the wagon upset, caus-
ing an explosion, winch made a hole