The National tribune., 1896-03-19
BRIEF ! NEWS

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The sentence Of ex-Inspector McLaughlin,
who WAS convicted Of extortion in receiving
$50 from F. ]. Seagrst while Captain of the
First Precinct, New York City. was affirmed
Friday. Mclaughlin will now have to serve
his sentence Of two years and six months at
Sing Sing.
Boys burned Spanish flag at Smyrna, Dell
| Friday. Quite crowd Of citizens watched the
| cremation, but no attempt was made to inter-
| fere.
| At the Colorado Mining Stock Exchange,
Denver. Friday. there wss q remarkable jump
| in shares of the Blue Jay Mine at Cripple
| Creek. When the market opened the shares
were quoted at 81. and when it closed %. was
being paid. The jump was caused by a reported
| rich strike in of the companys mines
and gave slight boom to the entire market.
The Armenian Relief Association, New York
| City, has received report OF the massacre at
Brink. After plnndering all the houses, the
| Turkish soldiers made systematic search Tor
the inhabitants. All men and boys who would
| not become Mahometans were killed. Most OF
| them were first tortured. The women and
children were loaded up like goods and carried
to the houses of Moslews Nearly 100 men
| were killed, or half of the admit Christian men,
and the others accepted Mahometanism.
The report that Russia has secret treaty
| with China which grants the former extra
| ordinary rights of railway building through
Manchnria had been confirmed.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, EN-
peror William of Germany, and King Hum
bert of Italy will meet at Genoa within few
! days.
The steamer Alameda, which arrived at San
| Francisco last week, brought news of the
safety of the Rio de Janeiro which left San
Francisco nearly six weeks ago.
| Snow fell to the depth of two inches in Mis-
| sissippi last Thursday, and the temperature
was two degrees below the freezing point.
Fruit and vegetables wero injured.
The Anglo German loan of 100000 taels
for China has been issued at "a with interest
| at five per cent. The contract stipuates that
the customs administration is to remain I'M
changed.
Martial law has been declared in Honduras,
because the approach to lis borders of the war
ring factions in Nicaragua threatens to breed
disorder.
The followers of Darlington Booth will here
after be known as Gods American Volunteers.
Commander Booth announced the name of his
new organization Saturday, at a meeting in
New York City. Commissioner Bootb-Iucker,
who has been appointed to command the Saliva
tion Army in this country, will sail for New
York in about three weeks. He will be accom-
panied by his wife, who is Gen. Booths second
daughter.
Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain" in dis
patch from Bombay is reported to be seriously
i'll.
w. s. Broderick. Parliamentary Secretary for
the War Office states that the War Office
knows nothing of English officers Offering their
services to Spain in case of war with the United
States as reported during the rioting in Spain.
DE states that the penalties would be enforced
against any officer, in accordance with the for
eign enlistment act.
United States Minister Terrell has started for
home on leave OF alsence. The Porte has
assured him that Americans will not be moiest-
ell nor their work intertered with during his
absence.
A revolt is reported at Jacmel, Haiti, where
the Government troops said to have been
scattered by tile insurgents.
DIR. Delgado, an American citizen, is said to
have been the victim of gross outrages on the
part of the Spanish soldiery. He was shot
without trial and left for dead along with
number of other men.
In the Austrian Reichsrsth Monday reso-
luton was adopted TO the effect that the Gov
eminent lend active support to efforts which
may be initiated by other Governments with
the object Of fixing the value of gold and silver
by international agreement.
Herbert Booth, the head OF the Salvation
Army in Canada, will give up his command
aud leave the country June !.
The Portuguese Minister of Finance intends
to ask the Cortes for authority to convert the
entire debt of that country.
Thomas A. Edison announces that he has dis
covered fuorescent compound which enables
him to see through planks Of wood by the aid
of the RoentgeD rays.
According to a statement made in La PatIie,
john L. Waller formerly United States Consul
to Tamatave, who was sentenced to 90 years
imprisonment for corresponding with the
Hovas, is still in prison. No order for his re-
lease has as yet been signed, and negotiations
between France and the United States for his
release are yet unfinished.
Gen. Booth, founder of the Salvation Army.
was formally welcomed back to England from
a trip around the world, at mass meeting of
the Salvation Army at the Crystal Palace Lon
don, Monday,