The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-08-29
GENERAL NEWS.


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Fire destroyed the laboratory Of
Johns Hopkins University and badly
damaged the building,
William Strong, ex- associate JUS
tice of the United States Supreme
Court, died at Lake Minnewaska,
New York.
William Melia, aged Z, and Jesse
Melis, aged 8, we're found guilty in
Judge Stewards court, at Rockport,
Indiana, Of horse stealing. They
will be sent to the Reform School at
In Ellensburg, Washington, the
of five men, charged
with lynching Charles and Fred Vim
son week ago, was concluded.
Frank veleblscker, William Kennedy
and Frank Fegel were held for trial
without bail. A motion was made
70, discharge Mike Linder and Robert
Linke. A decision will be given
later.
In the English house Of commons the
first lord of the treasury, Right Hon.
A. J. Balfour, replying to Sir John
Long, Liberal member for Dundee, who
asked if he would advise the govern
ment to invite an international mon
tary conference, said: 81 am always
in favor of an international agree
ment, but I have not the right to
pledge my colleagues, and I do not
believe that an international agree
ment would result from an interna-
tional conference"
The St.James Gazette London) pub
iished scare article asking howGreat
Britain stands with the United States
in the matter of the
Nicaragua canal, and says it will be
well il the Right Hon. George N.
Curzon, under secretary of state for
foreign affairs, is asked to give some
explanation on the subject in the
house of commons. Continuing, the
st. James Gazette remarks: Gas far
as can be seen, we are heading
straight for a crisis, and there will
be either diplomatic deadlock be-
tween the two countries or the En-
glish will surrender important treaty
rights. The deadlock can be avoided
by discreet handling of the facts by
the foreign Office and a surrender
need never occur. Should q situa-
tion be brought about in which the
United States finds it can ignore the
Central American states, then good
By to any hope of retaining, much
ess extending, our commercial hold
Of the republics of the Spanish main,
a market in which we already suffer
from the Americans and Germans"
The Gazette then proceeds to re-
hearse the history of the Nicaraguan
canal, claiming that the accedance
of the United States government to
the request OF the American Canal
Company to guarantee further capi-
ital for it would be an infraction OF
the Bulwer Clayton treaty. The
Gazette then quotes President Cleve-
lands reference to the canal in his
message of 1894, and says: "These
carefully weighed words were de-
signed to create a minimum Of dis
trust in the foreign office, and VIII Z
read in relation to the consisten
moral support given by the United
States to the company's enterprise
and the insistent demand of the peo
pie Of the United States that the
government guarantee the whole
capital, come what may, it is plair
that the ultimate object Is not &c
much the cutting of the canal as the
firm and final establishment Of the
United States authority in Centra
America. With the canal com
pleted wholly by the United state'
the independence of the republic
would be merely normal. 1t is tru'
that English financial assistance wa
sought by the American syndicat,
lest the United States government
ment falter in giving tho guarantee
but these negotiations have col
lapsed, because it is not proposed Il
allow the English capitalists thei
due share OF control, which is suff
cient indication of the exclusive
power the Americans mean t.
exercise on tho isthmus. Th
cardinal point of the whole mat
ter is: Does the government meal
to enforce the Bulwer- Claytol
treaty. II SO, will she join the Uni
ted States guarantee Of the capital
II not what steps have been taken t
secure the neutrality Of the cana
and the equality Of rights and oppor
tunities of British subjectsH 1t
conceivable that events may SO shap
themselves in the near future tina
the United States will be practices