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Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-20
ANOTHER REPORT


 OF THE SCHOONER IRENE BEING FIRED
 UPON BY A SPANISH VESSEL.
 NHw YORK March 19. The Herald's $ Key West, Fla. special says: The latest report is 10 the effect that the schooner Ireue was fired upon and dismasted by the Spanish cruiser Infanta Isabel. The news was brought to this city yesterday afternoon by a vessel engaged in tbe cattle trade between this port ana the mainland. The Irene is a small schooner owned in this port by Canary islanders. She has been employed in the fish trade all the winter, but within the past few days returned with party of court officials from Fort Myers, where an important murder trlal had been held. She afterwards sailed to fish ranch at Punta Gorda, where, it is reported, the expedi- ton sailed for Cuba.
 This point has been under surveillance by Spanish cruisers, and the schooner was fol- lowed from here and fired into. This is the report given by the fishermen at the ranch to the vessel which has just arrived. The owner and his family and crew of the Irene live here.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-20
BASEBALL.
A BEAUTIFUL GAlJg.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. March 19.-The reg ular team of the New York Giants defeated the second nine ip a beautiful game this evening. Following is the score:
 Runs-Regulars, 6; second teamT1. Base hits-Regulars, 10; second team, 8. Errors-Regulars, 0; second team, B.. Batteries-Re1 ulars, Meekin, Clark and Farrell; second team, German, Wilson and Krauss -4-. .s
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CONFINED TILL HE WENT BLIND.
 DENVER, Col. March 19.-- Henry Tyson. who committed murder in 1889 and who has been in the solitary cell confinement until to be hanged during the second week in April.
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expedition left this port, although several vessels lately under surveillance have mys- teriously disappeared.
 The revenue steamer Mclean continues cruising aloug the coast, and a strict watch Is kept on all suspicious vessels and also on the movements of persons alleged to be preparing to leave for Cuba. All vessel owners refuse charters, unless the amount raid will cover lhe cost of the vessel.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-20
ANOTHER OCEAN HORROR. The Spanish Warsh;p Reina Re-
 genta Gees to the Bottom WITT sTHREE HUNDRED MEN NcSa Soul of the Entire Crew 70 Thought 10 Have Been sn Saved.
WITT s'rHREE HUNDRED MEN

CAD.Z March i9.---The Spanish govern- msni cruiser Alfonso XII, which has been cruising in the Mediterranean in search of the missing warship Reina Regente, ar rived here this morning. She fouud the Rsina Regente at Bajo Accitunos, near Couil, where she had sunk. Only about IS incLes Of Ter masts were visible above the surface of the water. The Alfonso XII has returned to the scene of the wreck with a company Of divers. The news brought by the Alfonzo XII has created profound feeling of sorrow here.
 From the best information obtainable here at this time it is regarded as probable that all on board the Reina Rsgente were lost. Not single survivor has been re- ported as having arrived at any port, nor has single body been found that could be identified as that of one of the officers or the crew of the lost ship.
 The Alfonso XII is taking divers and div ing appliances for the purpose of recover ing the bodies from the sunken ship aud nlakin an examination of the condition ol the vessel with view to ascertaining the possibility of raising her.
 Unless something further is heard from the Alfonso XII nothing can be definitely known. But all hands were undoubtedly lost. There were over 300 men on board.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-20
A RATHER LOOSE GAME.

SAvANNAH, Ga., March 19.-BrookIyn again proved a winner in the game of base ball between that team and Pittsburg to- day. The game was rather loosely played and was dull and uninteresting. The fielding of both teams was b Id, only one run being earned by both teams. The at- tendance was about 500. Following is tbe score: hits--Pitasburg, '; Brooklyn, g. Errors Pittsbhrg, 8; Brooklyn, 8. Batteries Pittsburg, Hart, Hawley and Mack ;Brook. lyu, Lucid, Stern, Daley and Burrell.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-20
AN ABSOLUTE DEMAND.

LONDON, March 19.-Lord Kimberly, secretary of state for foreign affairs, today personally handed to the Nicaraguan min ister, at the foreign office, the ultimatum reparation for the expulsion from Blue fields of MT. Hatch, the British consular agent. A copy of the document was cabled to the British minister resident at Nicara- qua. Lord Kimberly emphatically de- mands adequate satiefaction from Nicara- qua. In official circles the belief is general that the matter will be amicably settled, and that no demonstration by British squadron will be necessary to enforce the demands of Great Britain.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-20
No OFFICIAL NEVIS.

MADRID, March l9.--The government has not received official information re- garding the report of the finding of the that she has been found sunk in shallow water near the straits of Gibraltar is gem erally discredited by the authorities. All of the Madrid newspapers, however, pub fish the statement that the Alfonso XII discovered the cruiser sunk at Bajo Acie- tunos, with only a small portion of her maBts above water
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-20
THEIR FIRST EFFORT.

MACON, Ga. March 19.-The two teams of the Baltimore baseball club played q fine exhibition game on the Macon grou1ds this afternoon. Robinson captained team No. 1 and Brouthers explained team No. 2. It was the Orioles first game this season, but the boys appeared in good shape, al- stiff from the practice of the past few days. Several hundred spectators saw the game and the general verdict war that the team is even stronger than last season.. Follow ing is the score: A team, 6. Base hits-Robinson team, '; Broutbers team, 15. Errors- Robinson team, 8; Brouthers team, D. Batteries- Robinson team, Hoffer and Robinson; Brouthers team, Esper, Kissinger and w .. Clarke.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-20
NO FURTHER NEWS AS TO THE REPORTED SINKING OF AN

AMERICAN SCHOONER.
 NEw YORK, March 19.-rhe Hersld's Key West, Fla, special says; No further particulars have been learned about the American schooner reported to have been sunk of Puerto del Padre, Cuba, by the here by the Spanish agents as to the cor fecthess of the report, but it is said the vessel was not flying the American flag. The reason advanced for the sipking was that she would not answer signals. Dili- gent inquiry among ship owners fails to show any vessel belonging to this port missing.
 Nothing further has been heard of the lchooner sighted by the Mallory steamer Concho of Tortugas last Friday. It Is be- lieved he mistook the Concho for the btesrner on which the passenger wessto be transferred. The federal authorities and Also the Spsplsh consul express deep inter- tst In the schooner, but do not believe any
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
Wholly Recovered.

''I haven't heard anything about old Wopperjaw lately. He used to have a way of dropping tep-dollar bill in the contribution box every Sunday at church, making a present of a house and lot to newly-married couples of his acquaintance, giving silver dollar to the bootblack whenever he got shine, and sending lotsfof school ma'ams to Europe every simmer at his own expense. Folks saH he was go- ing crazy"
 "Yes, he did seem sort'pfNqueer."
 Did he ever get over it?"
 70 yes He's perfectly sane Spow. He doesn't throw away his moneykny more. He's building monument NI himself in the cemetery that's to cost two hundred and sevcnty-1ve thousand dollars. s."-Chicago Tribune.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06

At the present time Mir. Gresham has received communications from the am- bassadors setting forth that their posi- tions are absolutely untenable. At their conference, the American diplo- mats agreed upon representation to the state department that in their opin- ion it would be advisable in the inter ests of our national dignity to reduce at once the grade of our foreign estab- lishment to it's former level. This would save each diplomat SIC, GOO year, since minister is saved coach ex- penses and the cost of entertaining other ambassadors. Unfortunately, however, such a proceeding would leave the ambassadors from the five foreign powers in Washington in very un- dignifed position. Their governments would undoubtedly recall them and the entente cordiale would be jeopar- dized.
 It is well known to our state de- partment that MT. Runyon would cer- tainly have succeeded in bringing about satisfactory settlement of the meat exclusion affair in Germany had he been allowed more ample funds. The need of few thousand dollars at 8 critical moment has thus cost one great American industry hundreds of thou sands of dollars B year and thrown many men in the west out of employ ment. And besides that MT. Runyon is about twenty thousand dollars poor CT now than on the day of his appoint ment as ambassador.
 The situation, to sum up, is this: Our ambassadors are slowly running themselves abroad, and they want to come home. One by one they propose to come home, and Mr. Breckenridge wants to come first. But MT. Gresham will make an urgent representation of the difficulty to congress through the president, and the country will then learn whether we shall do without am bassadors or stop making them the laughing stock of Europe.
 DANIEL CLEYERToN.
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ness as a diplomat would be gone. And house rent in fashionable Paris is high. The ambassadorial coach is also ne- cessity and the entertaining must be kept up or the diplomat will loose caste. We're MT. Eustis, for example, to de-, cline an invitation to state function or a minister's entertainment, it would be deemed grave breach of etiquette. Were the offehse repeated the minister would find himself without influence and might even be reported to Wash ington as persona non grata. Having once accepted the courtesies, he is bound to reciprocate them.
 In the holiday and vacation season his post is even more trying. He must. go where the powers go. He is obliged to lease a chateau or at the humblest a villa. There are always American in- terests needing the support of an am- bassador at foreign power. Were the social side of diplomatic life neglected. American interests would be deprived of all protection. A conspicuous in- stance of this is the manner in which American beef and hams were allowed entry into Germany for years in spite of domestic agitation, solely owing to the personal influence of our minister to Berlin.
 The other ambassadors are in an equally sorry plight. MT. Bayard is out, so far, about S25, ,oo0 on his mission. Mir MacVeagh spent S2o,000 in Rome during the first three months of his stay. The money question has reached crisis owing to the recent elevation of our ministers to the capitals of Great Britain. France, Germany, Italy and Russia to the rank of ambassadors. When we had ministers only, the situ- ation was bad enough, but now it has become well-nigh intolerable.
 At the same time our ambassadors have urged their claims with great moderation. It is we'll known to them all that the administration concurs fully ill their view of the matter, but Secre- tary Gresham made personal plea to MT. Bayard to use his influence with his colleagues in Europe to remain pa- tient until the time when their situa- tion can be made known to congress. This Mir. Bayard has already done, for on his arrival in London he sent let ters, which he had previously written in this country and shown to his off, cial superior, in which the hope of amendment of their situation was held out.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06

oi1iCii iO W LII be news to everybody that crisis has been reached in the affairs of the five ambassadors now stationed in Euro pean capitals by the government of the United States.
 Secretary Gresham has intimated to. the president, and this can be stated on the authority of a letter written by the secretary himself, that the position of the ambassadors is such as to war rant immediate action by congress. Should no action be taken by that bodyit is almost certain that Clifton R. Breckenridge, our ambassador to Russia, and Theodore Runyon, who holds the same post in Germany, will resign. There has been circulated statement to the effect that Mr. Breek- enridge has already announced his in- tention of abandoning his post. That statement, however, is premature.
 The whole trouble is the result of the long standing salary grievance. As everybody knows, our ambassadors receive a very inadequate stipend. Their salary is seventeen thousand five hundred dollars year each, but fifty thousand dollars is pronounced barely sufficient to maintain the dignity of the position.
 MT. Runyon in Germany and Mr. Eustis in France, have, even with the exercise of the closest economy, spent twice their respective salaries and more in expenses connected with the posts they fill. These details will sur prise no one. But 1t will be news. to
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
Probing the Mystery of Ether.

Tho bequest of S115, ,o00 which tho late Robert Stanton Avery left in his will to tho Smithsonian institution for lectures and treatises upon and concerning those mechanical laws which govern ethereal mediums" might appear at first blush to be the testamentary whim of very ethe real parsonage. The valuo of this scien tiflc legacy however, may prove incalcula. ble from tho standpoint of Americas po- ,sition in the world of science. The mys- tery of ether-that unknown, hypothetical medium for all the waves of heat, light, sound, magnetism and electricity-lies at the bottom of the secret of nature, and the Avery endowment may yet be the incen. tive to original research which shall take mankind a step nearer to tho sources of world energy and force transmission Philadelphia Record
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
Safe.

It is said that the time which Mozart most willingly employed in composition was the morning, from 6 or clock un- til 10, his hour of rising After this he did no more for the rest of the day unless he had to finish some particular compost ton at a given time.
 Ho worked very irregularly. At times ho could not be drawn from an idea which possessed him. At other times he had a distaste for work
 It once happened that he put off some music which he had engaged to furnish for court concert 50 long that he had not time to write out the part which he him self was to perform.
 The Emperor Joseph, who was peeping everywhere, cast his eyes on the sheet from which Mozart appeared to be playing and was surprised to sec nothing but lines upon it.
 Where's your part2" he inquired cur- ously
 "Here," replied Mozart, with bov', touching his forehead Youth 8 Compal,-
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
FLORENCE HOTEL ARRIVALS.
M. J. WHEELER CO.,, pRoPGIEToRs.

M. J. WHEELER 6 CO.,, PRoPEIEToRs.
 W CAlbertson, Moselle, Miss; G w Gal lagher, Memphis; F L Shaw, Terra Haute, Ind; w D Sims, Astabula, 0; J shannon Ensley City; J B Woodside, Nashville; Baldwin, Montgomery, Ala M Gasser and child, Anniston W H Dunlap, Chattanooga; RV Thomas, York, Pa; W E Rape, Chattanooga; E Gould, A M Irwin, Memphis; Ad c smith Los Vegas, N M; James T Prince, Omaha Neb; A Daugherty, Nashville, Tenn; James E Shelly, Washington, D C; W P Fitzpatrick, iowa; James F Gould , Omaha, Neb; Frank Simmons, Fort Wayne, Ind; Thomas B Warren, Kuox- vile, Tenn; John D Adams, St Joseph, Mo; D B HolloweIl, St Paul, MinnI c A Learnard, Rochester Y,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
PERSONAL.

Capt. ]. NJ. Faulkner of Montgomery was in the city yesterday.
 Hon. Wilson R. Brown of Sheffield was in the city yesterday.
 Miss Lura Brown left yesterday for Bal timore to resume her studies at school.
 Mir. P. D. Watson of Annston came over last night to visit friends and relatives.
 Rev. Dr. o. P. Fitzsimons has returned from visit to his father in east Alabama.
 Banister's French calf Cordovan, patent cali and all imported skins S4.50 at T. c. Kings.
 Mir. I. w. Gasser, mine host of Hote Calhoun at Anniston, was in the city yes terday.
 Mir. Sims Hawley has returned to Anns- ton after spending the holidays with friends in the city.
 Mir. W. F. Aldrich of Aldrich. Ala. is in the city, having just returned from Washington. Messrs. Frank P. 0'Brien and John Me Queen returned yesterday morning from Montgomery.
 Misses Anna Morrow and Mamie Earle will return to Columbus, O., tomorrow to re- -en ter school.
 MT. T. H. Aldrich has returned from Cincinnati, whither he went some time ago to spend the holidays with his family.
 Miss Edith Wheeler, Iafter spending the holidays with her parents at the Florence hotel, has returned to Tuskaloosa to school.
 MT. J. D. Prince, business manager for the Black Patti Concert company, is in the city making arrangements for his com pany.
 Deputy United States Marshal Dave Hughes is in the city, after a successful raid on the 'moonshiners' in Perry county.
 MT. Ben Hill, the clever deputy United States marshal, is in the city for few days, after making successful raid on the moonshiners in the lower part of this county.
 Mai E. l.. Higdon received a telegram from Atlanta yesterday announcing the illness of his sister, who is not expected to live long. He will go over to Atlanta this morning to see her.
 Chinese merchants of San Francisco have
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
A NEW RESORT.

Messrs. J. J. Curran and Syl Daly have opened sample room on Second avenue, two doors from the AaE- Il HERALD office, where they will keep in stock 8 complete line of the finest whiskies, wines, cigars and tobaccos. Both men are well known to the people of Birmingham and request liberal patronage from their friends. If courteous treatment ana. honest dealings will win they will draw liberal trade from their thousands of friends. They are in tn e ring to Stay,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

Dan Brennan, who opened his new place at 1904 Second avenue yesterday afternoon is entitled to all the praise becoming him for the sumptuous manner in which he en tertained his guests. The lunch spread was the finest ever served in the city, and the AGE- HERALD force acknowledges their inde ebtedness to him for bountiful sample of the same. Dan is one of the old stand bys, and knows the tastes of his patrons. The AGE HERALD wishes him success in his new venture, and predicts for him all that deserving man is entitled to.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
The Worlds Fair Tests showed no baking powder so pure or so great In Ieav- ening power as the Royal.
LOUISIANA TO THE RESCUE

NEW ORLEANS, Jap. Ex-Governor Eos ter tonight prepared an appeal to the citi- zons of Louisiana urging them to come to the assistance of the suffering thousands in Nebraska with provisions, clothing and money. The governor met leading citizens today and his appeal is the result of that meeting. There will be a convention on Monday. Capt. Harry Allen of the Busi- ness Mems league is arranging for the transportation of supplies, and it is antic- ipated that the appeal will be liberally re- gDonded to
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
RETIRED FROM POLITICS,

LANSING, Mich, Jan. 5.-Schuyler S.. Olds, one of the defeated candidates for the short term senatorship, received telegram from Chairman Babcock of the republican congressional committee, offering him the chairmanship of that committee. MT, Olds wired his refusal and said he had re- tired from politics for good
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Indjyiduality,

And havo l." she asked in trem bling voice, tho right of suffrage?"
 You have. n
 Are you sure9" she faltered. "Is it really trueP"
 Yes" i. She raised her streaming eyes to heaven. Q At last" sho murmured, 'sat last may be registered as something besides John Jones and wife,
 Then she wept for joy.-Detroit Trib- uuo,
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ON STRIKE.

announce that the ambassadors have held two conferences abroad, one in London and another in Paris, for the purpose of making unanimous repre- sentation to the state department that their usefulness is almost nominal. On his way to St. Petersburg, MT. Breckenridge saw both MT. Runyon and MT. Eustis. Mir. Breckenridge had heard that his expenses in Europe would be very heavy-far more than his salary. AS he is a man of very moderate means he felt the necessity of getting their advice. He expressed his feelings with candor when he was informed of the humil- iating straits to which his fellow dip- lomats were reduced. Then it was that premature rumor of the resignation of the ambassador to Russia was cir culated.
 Meanwhile, however, MT. Thomas F. Bayard, ambassador to the court of St. James, has been in the United States, and one of the express objects of his visits here was to impress upon the state department the manner in which our national dignity is being compro- missed abroad. Nothing leaked out in this connection, however, as it was felt to be injudicious and violation of the ethics of diplomacy to make any rev elation of the ''conjuncture facheuse," to employ the term invented by Met ternich for the condition which, in anyone less exalted than an ambas- sador, is known as hard up. But Mr. Bayard had three conferences with the secretary of state on the subject of ann bassadorial salaries. Mir. Gresham, dur ing these interviews, had opportunity to read letters from MT. Wayne Mac Veagh, Mir. Eustis and Mir. Runyon, all setting forth the fact that their posi- tions were little short of ridiculous. Their own wish had been to resign, but as the demission, to use another diplomatic term, Of all our ambas- sadors at once might create an un- pleasant impression, it was deemed best that the retirements should take place at intervals of a few months.
 AS an illustration of the position in which our ambassadors are placed, the following iJemized statement of Mir. Eustis' expenses Is interesting:
 House rent in Paris, per year ... sl20o0 Ambassadors coach and livery ......... 5000 Diplomatic dinners and entertainments. 30)0 One ball per nnnum m....................., 2000 Entertaining American naval officers... 2000 Attending state department functions. 1000 Oh1ctal presentations. .............. 2000
 Total. .....s.................. s27 OoO
 In reality, however, Mr. Eustis has spent good deal more than twenty seven thousand dollars year since he went to Paris. He is out of pocket about fifty thousand dollars as result of being American ambassador to France It might be observed that Mir. Ersti has chosen a rather expensive hoHs' Hut were he to go out of the e::s ci..ive quarter of Paris his useful
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
DIED.

Richard Johnson. colored, aged 4S, died at 11:05 o'clock last night, apparently without any disease or ailment. His many friends will regret to know of his death. Richard was faithful servant and had many friends in this city.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-06
SERIOUS COLLISION

ROME, Ga., Jan. 5.--A passenger train on the western division of the Central road collided with freight train above here to. day. Several cars were smashed. Three passengers were badly injured, but none fatally.
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MAKING IMPROVEMENTS.

overhauied, new water pipes beipg inserted and new system of electrical appliances being put in place. This hostelry is among the foremost in the south and is pride to Bjrmingham