Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-03-15
BREyITlEs.

" W ob- lliS ACCiCbldlCtl lhdh uIcSS'
maker, died in Paris on the 18th.
President Baker, of the Chicago
4 board of trade, has announced that
4 an expert examination of the wheat in
the Chicago elevators will be made.
/ The examination is the result of ru-
mors that much of the wheat in store
here is bad. President Baker does not
4 believe the story is true
/ The South Dakota legislative com
mittee which was investigating the
Taylor defalcation has made its
report The committee declares from
the evidence before it that it is shown
that a conspiracy existed between
certain securities of Taylor and the
defaulter to ..hold up the state and
! compel a settlement.
Paris dispatch: Hanatoux, min
lister of foreign affairs, announces that
| the difficulty between France and San
/ Domingo has been settled through the
| good offices OF the Spanish minister.
The terms of settlement provide for
7; the payment of 200, 900 francs for the
illegal detention of Roimere and
100000 francs for the murder of Cayalli.
French naval officer.
At Cincinnati recently the steamer
Longfellow, of the Cincinnati, Mem
phis and New Orleans Packet line,
crashed against pier of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railway bridge in fog
and sank. Twentv-six cabin passen-
gers were rescued, but half dozen
are known to have been drowned. The
vessel was valued at So, 900, ana car
ried 500 tons of freight.
An Indianapolis dispatch says: The
senate passed the Nicholson temperance
bill, which had already passed the
house No bill in the legislature for
many years has attracted SO much
attention. The chamber was packed
with persons from every part of the
state. 1tprovides stringent regulations
for enforcing the liquor laws, prohibits
screens and curtains. Applications for
license may be defeated by petition Of
the majority of voters any township
A dispatch says: When congress
failed to provide for building an
Hawaiian cable it by no means ended
the question. On the contrary. it
brought forward a project of interna-
tional Importance by which Russia,
France, Japan and Hawaii will join in
an American enterprise for laying a
cable from the United States to Hawaii |
and then TO Japan, with branch ca bles |
to the French islands and extensive
naval stations in the Southern Pacific
The negotiations with these govern
mepts have proceeded quickly but with
such satisfactory results that they are
well along toward completion The
British project of a cable starting from
Vancouver appears to be ended with
the failure of the senate to SO modify
our treaty with Hawaii as to let Brit
ish cable land on Neckar island.
The building occupied by the West
ern Newspaper Union. furnishers of
ready prints" for 200 weekly news
papers, and the Great Western Type
Foundry, at Kansas City, was destroy
ed by fire. Loss, $175,O00
AT Chicago recently Frank YVentel,.
president of the board of directors of
the big Chicago Drainage Canal, was
nominated for mayor by the democratic
Washington Hesinc.
postmaster and editor of the Stats
leitung. was prominently before the
convention, but withdrew in Wenter's
favor
Havana dispatch: Consul General
Williams attributes Spains demands
for his recall 70 his efforts on behalf of
American citizens, Sanguilly, Aguirre,
Canillo and Perazo These men are
now in prison in Cuba, charged with
in the revolution. Under
from Washington Williams
made demand that these men be ac-
corded a civil trial instead of court
martial. The Spanish government was
Inclined to take summary measures.
ind Williams insistance angered them.
II appears the imprisoned men were
arrested while in pursuit of their ordi-
1ary ayocations.