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report of the engagement says that the
rebels were dislodged from their positions
by a brilliant charge with bayonets and
machetes and retired, leaving eighty-six
dead upon the field.
The Spanish loss was one killed and six
wounded. From other sources it is learned
that the rebel losses are exaggerated and
that the losses of the Spanish troops were
much greater than the Government ad-
mits.
party is not stated.
HAVANA, CUBA, April 20.-General
Meiquizo reports that his command has
dispersed parties of rebels near Juaraco,
province of Havana. The rebels lost ten
killed and the troops six wounded. The
gunboat Centinela fired upon party of
rebels who we're attacking boat carrying
supplies at Estoro, near Manzanillo.
Nine men, forming part of the boat s
crew of thirteen, were disabled by the fire
OF the rebels. In a further engagement up
the river between the rebels and the gun
boat five more Spaniards were wounded.
The repel loss is supposed to be heavy.
The trial of Julio Sanguilly. who is said
to have been implicated in the kidnapping
of Fernandez de Castro, a rich planter,
will be held on Thursday before the Su-
preme Court in this city. De Castro
obtained his release by paying ransom
Of $40. 900.
Many fires in the canefelds are re-
ported from the provinces of Havana and
Matanzas. There have been frequent fires
recently in stores in Matanzas. Ineen-
diarism was suspected and an investiga-
ton led to the arrest of the owners of the
stores. The buildings were heavily in
sured, as were also the stocks, and the
men arrested are charged with starting
the fires in order to obtain the insurance
money.
Juan Urralde Martin, who was arrested
in Spain on the charge of being the author
OF the robbery perpetrated on August Bel
mont & Co. Of New York, by means of a
forged draft for $4,000. purporting to be
signed by Hidalgo e. Co., well-known
firm Of this city, is expected to arrive here
on the Spanish mail steamer due on
Friday next. J. FRANK CLARK.
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AN EL0PEMENT AND DEATH.
[. c. jackson of Nebraska Committed
Suicide to Ayoid Kronged
Husbands Vengeance.

FRIEND, NEBR., April 20.-Two weeks
ago l.. G. Jackson, leading business man
os this place, prosperous, and with wife
and family, disappeared. He secured all
the ready money he could, but left his
wife well provided for. Three days later
Mrs. E. w. Davis. wife of another business
man, also disappeared. taking with her
her little daughter, and the supposition
was that she had joined Jackson, though
there was no proof of this.
Davis, the husband, declared he would
hunt the guilty pair and secure possession
of his child. The climax came to-day in 8
tragic way at Salt Lake City, U tab, a private
telegram from that place announcing the
arrival there of Davis, the finding of his
wife and daughter in Jackson's company
and the further fact that Jackson had
committed suicide on being apprehended.
Details of the tradgey have not been
learned. Davis and his wife are on their
way home, and the body of Jackson will
be shipped here for burial. Both families
were prominent social leaders of the town.
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Fate of the Popular Drummer
Learned After a Search
of Months.
TWO SUSPECTS ARRESTED.
Evidence Of a Foul Crime Discovered
by Chance in a Heap of
Ashes.

PORTLAND, Or, April 90 After
months of search, in which every peace
officer in Washington and Oregon has
taken part, the mysterious disappearance
of George A. Scott, one of the most popu-
lar travelling men on the Pacific Coast, has
been explained.
It has been found that Scott was the vic.
tim of assassins near Izee. They slew
him, took his valuables and then de-
stroyed by fire the cabin in which the
crime was committed, and the body of the
unfortunate drummer was incinerated.
The discovery of the murder has caused
intense excitement in the vicinity of lee,
and two young men who have been ar
rested on suspicion are the targets at
which the dire maledictions of the neigh.
borhood are directed.
Scott, who had been travelling for the J.
K. Gill Book Company for ten years,
started on what proved to be the last trip
for the firm last autumn. He was heard
from near La Grande in December, and
from that time on all trace of him was
lost. He never remitted money while on
a trip and always carried much of it on
his person, despite the frequent warnings
he had received. Scott was a scrupuIousIy
honest and pure man. Almost a month
ago his firm, with which his accounts
were straight. gave him up as the victim
of murderous highwaymen. This was not
done, though, before the Gill Company
had sent description of the missing man
to every Sheriff in this State and in Wash
ington, none of whom reported that Scott
had been seen by them.
Joseph Keerins and Mark Bailey OF Cam
yon City investigated the premises OF an
isolated sheepherder's cabin in the noun
tains about eight miles beyond lee, which
was burned last fall, and upon digging
into the ashes found small fragments of
human bones, teeth, a matchbox, the
charred leaves of books, buckles and but
tons from a mans clothing. These were
later identified as having belonged to
Scott. In addition, buckles belonging to
a single-set of cart-harness, and small
pieces of cart-spokes were found. Henry
Trowbridge brought the relics to town and
Sheriff Combs and Deputy District Attor-
ney Cozad Immediately started for the
cabin ruins to commence a systematic
search and attempt to ferret out the mys-
terry. AS result they have placed Will
liam Bare and Richard Hinkle under ar
rest. They were brought to the county
seat and jailed. The officials claim that
circumstances are strongly against the
pair, who will be given a preliminary
trial as soon as important witnesses ar
rive. Keerins aud Bailey were first led to
the investigation of the burned cabin by
the finding of one of the hubs of cart
wheel that had been burned, hidden in the
underbrush near the site of the burned
cabin. This was recognized as having be-
longed to cart Scott used when last seen
in that place.
The murdered man was more extern
sively known to Oregon and Washington
farmers than any other person in those
States.
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ARE OPPOSED TO OUEL|AG
Members Of the Reichstag Raise
a Debate on the Ques-
ton.
The Historic Order of Frederick the
the Great Urged as a Proper
Remedy.

BERLIN, GERMANY, April 20.-In the
Reichstag to-day DR.. Bachem, the Cen
trist leader, raised a debate on the Ques-
tion of dueling by calling attention to the
recent duel between Lieutenant Won Ket-
telshodt, an officer attached to the I'm
perial yacht Hohenzollern, and Herr Won
Zenker, a prominent Berlin lawyer, result
ing in the death of the latter. This affair
he said, furnished an instance in which
the injured party, who had no chance
through legal methods of obtaining salts
faction, was driven to the extreme of
having recourse to a duel in which he was
killed, while the man who had offered the
insult which caused the duel got off with
light punishment.
The more recent duel between Lieber-
echt Won Kotze and Baron Won Schraeder
was more difficult matter to deal with
The event, he said. must produce the con-
viction in certain high quarters that re-
form is necessary and must come from
above. Would it not be possible, he
asked, that the Emperor's clear Judgment
might ultimately drive the custom of duel
ing out of the world2 If his Majesty fol-
lowed the example of his grandfather he
would at least restrict the practice. d.
Bachem then recalled this historic order
of Frederick the Great, concerning the dis
missal of officers from the army for taking
the law into their own hands. The organ
iZation of German courts of honor, he
added, left much to be desired, and the
present time was favorable one for re.
form.
DR.. Won Boetticher, Imperial Secretary
of State for the Interior, replied that the
assumption that the authorities had not
done their duty was groundless. He could
not admit that as matter of course. The
law, he said, was applied without distinc-
tion as to the position or vocation of
offenders. The Chancellor, he continued,
had given earnest consideration to the
question as to what measures were pos
sible to insure respect for the law, but he
has not as yet arrived at any decision.
Therefore, communications to the Gov
ernment in regard to the matter were at
present inadvisable.
Herr Rickert, Radio Unionist, ex-
pressed the hope that the Freissinig reso-
luton demanding the suppression of
duelling, which would be offered to.mor-
row, would be adopted. Kotze and
Schraeder, he declared, might have been
watched by the police, the same as social
ist suspects were watched. This method,
he said, would be desirable, inasmuch as
Spain and Belgium were imposing heavy
fines and terms of imprisonment upon
duellists, with the result of greatly re-
stricting the practice.
Herr Schall, Conservative, condemned
the practice of duelling as contrary to
Christian commands.
Herr Bebel, socialist, said that the So
cialists would hold the advantage if this
public scandal continued.
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ROYAL WEDDING AT ooBURG.
Marriage of Princess Alexandra to
Prince Ernest,


Prince Ernest.
COBURG. GERMANY, April 2O-The
marriage of Princess Alex andra, third
daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, and granddaughter of Queen Vic
toria to Prince Ernest, Hereditary Prince
of Misunderstanding, was ce lebrated
to-day. After the civil MARI iage, wit
messed by the Duke of York ana the Grand
Duke Paul of Russia, the bridal procession
marched to the castle church.
The procession was headed by the Duke
of Saxe-Coburg-G g-Gotha and the Empress of
Germany, followed by Emperor William,
the Duchess of SAKE -Coburg. .Gotha. the
Duke of York, the Grand Duchess of
Hesse and Prince Ferdinand of Roumania.
The Duke of xe-Coburg- -Gotha and the
Duchess of York led the bride to the altar.
DR.. Muller, superintendent of the General
Supreme Council, officiated at the cere-
mony, assisted by two court chaplans.
At the conclusion of the ceremony, the
church and other bells were rung and ar
tillery fred. The procession re- formed in
the church, the newly welded couple
Leading, and marched to the throne room,
where the wedding breakfast was served.
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WILL TAKE NO CHANCES.
Cuban Patriots Do Not Take Stock In
Spdin's PromiSes.

Cmba,, Patriots Do Not Take Stock h,
Spdin's Prosnises.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 20.-In the
oral discussions of Cuban affairs which
have taken place between the Spanish
Minister and Secretary Olney during the
past few weeks an informal memorandum
Of some fifty or sixty reform measures,
which, under certain contingencies, the
Spanish Government is willing to accord
to Cuba, is understood to have played an
important part.
These new proposals of reform which
have been informally brought under dis
cussion between the Spanish Minister and
Secretary Olney are broader and more
liberal than the decree of March Is, 1895,
and approach more closely to practical
autonomy, but are accompanied by condi-
tions which apparently render their adop-
tion, or even their consideration, by the
insurgents matter of impossibility.
AS in the case of the ten years. war.
Spain insists as a preliminary negotiation
that the insurgents shall first lay down
their arms, as it is against the dignity of
the Spanish crown to treat with armed
rebels. The Cuban leaders assert that
when they complied with similar
conitions in 1873, in order to Sc
cure the reforms pledged to them
by Martinez Campos the pledges
then made were chiefly left unfulflled and
they emphatically decline to be again de-
ceived in like manner. Consequently the
proffered measure Of reform is likely to
fall to the ground so far as Cuba is con-
cerned, though some similar provisions
NAV probably be rendered to Puerto Rico,
where no rebellion exists. Nothing in the
suggested plan as it now stands holds out
any, prospect of q speedy termination of
this desolating war.
Private adyices received here from
Havana indicate that the hopes which
were at first expressed that the appoint
ment of General F'itzhugh Lee as Consul
General to Havana might open up some
way of adjustment, have died away. 1t
is doubted whether General Lee will be
able to take up his new duties for months
to come. This is the beginning of the
most deadly sickly season in Cuba.
The cares and worries of responsibilities
of the office of Consul-General at Havana
to an unacclimated man of General Lees
portly physique, it is said, would be likely
to bring on an attack of yellow fever, the
chances of recovery from which might be
doubtful. Friends OF General Lee who
have been long residents Of Cuba are said
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ALI the Available Spanish Forces
Kept On Duty Day and
Night.
MAcE0s PATRIOTS HOVER NEAR
And the Chances Are That They Will
Cross the Dead Line When
Convenient.

HAVANA, CUBA, April 20.-General
Weyler has succeeded in accomplishing
what Martinez Campos and other captain
generals have attempted in vain. He has
built trocha across the island and kept it
intact for two weeks. That the present
trocha is formidable even the insurgents
admit, but they profess that it alarms
them not at all.
When Maceo passed through Havana
province to the west and Weyler stationed
1000 men along the twenty-one miles from
Mariel on the north coast to Majana
on the south, he cabled to Madrid an
nouncing that the second man in COM
mand of the rebel forces was penned up in
the western provinces.
After stalking his reputation on the abb
solute impossibility of Maceo's crossing,
he found that detached parties of from
100 to 200 insurgents were getting through
the line at will.
He then brought all the troops from
other parts of the island that could be
spared, leaving towns in the middle
provinces forces barely sufficient for gar.
rison duty and practically suspending
active operations in all but the western
province This concentration raised the
force of troops to %, 900 and gave 5000 more
for use inthe flying columns in conjunc-
ton with those on the line.
The troops were set at work building
forts, digging trenches and erecting barri
cades. The work has been pushed night
and day, and the best trocha Spain has
ever built in Cuba now confronts Maceo.
Through the hilly country, south from
Mariel, redoubts have been built for artil.
lery upon every eminence between GUIANA
jay and Artemisia.
About the middle part Of the line forts
and blockhouses with earthworks be-
tween have been constructed from Maiana
to the south coast, through marshy land
broad ditch, backed by stockade with
blockhouses at intervals. General AeroIus
who is in command of the troops on the
line, says the insurgents cannot cross
without tremendous losses,
The troops are under arms NIGHT and
day, but though they have waited two
weeks Maceo has not attacked the line.
This fact has raised question as to the
line from O military standpoint.
To maintain its strength at all points
leaves only few thousand men who can
be used in aggressive operations. Maceo's s
own forces, with those of Bandera and
Delgado, number about $1,000.
They have been in the hills around Le
chuza, fifteen miles west of the trocha. for
two weeks. They have plenty of provi-
sions and have the whole province of
Pinar del Rio at their backs. They nearly
wiped out of existence the column COM
manded by Lieutenant Colonel Debos.
who attempted to drive them out of the
hills and was driven to the shores of the
Cabanas Bay. Meanwhile the main BODY
of the Spanish troops holds the trocha.
News has been received here that the
Spanish column under command of
Colonel Elola while marching from San
Jose to Valiente, near Cienfuegos, came
upon party of 1000 rebels holding strong
positions and attacked them. The official
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Held for smiths Murder.

CHICAGO, ILL, April 20.-John NJ.
Ryan, walking delegate for the Painters
and Decorators Union and sergeant-at-
arms of the Building Trades Council, was
held to the Grand Jury without bail to-
day by the Coroner's jury as one of the
two men who murdered John L. Smith,
secretary-treasurer of the Patek-Smith
Company, painters and decorators, Satur-
day afternoon at his place of business in
the downtown district by hitting him on
the head with piece of gaspipe.
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to have written to him, strongly dissuad-
ing him from attempting to take up his
duties until the rainy season is over.
TO GRANT GREATER PoWER.
What HiI BE Promised in the Speech
From the Throne.

WWUG HttL 1se PTomtSeu an CNe Dpeech
From the Throne.
PARIS. FRANCE, April 20.-A dispatch
from Madrid to the Temps says that the
speech from the throne to be delivered
IN the Cortes May II will declare the
entire satisfaction of the Spanish with
the attitude of the Government at Wash
ington toward Cuba. The speech will
also announce the intention of the Gov
ernment to grant to Cuba greater
amount of local power in the administra-
tion of affairs on the island, but will not
grant political autonomy nor any revision
of the tariff
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Arbitraru Arresta.

LONDON, Eng, April 2O.-The Chroni-
Gle will tomorrow publish dispatch
from Constantinople, saying that several
arbitrary arrests of foreigners were made
at Galatea on Saturday last.
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Northern Pacitio sec,,r,ti,..

NEW YORK, N. Y, April 2O.-The ]. P.
Morgan Company states that all deposited
securities under the Northern Pacific plan
will be kept alive as long as any vestige of
value remains in them.
New-York tribune., 1896-02-01
A SHAKE-UP IN THE PARKS.
DISMISSALS DECIDED ON BY THE COM
MISSIONERS.

ONE OF THE MEN TO GO Is THE sUPERINTEND-
ENT OF THE ME.;AGERIE. AND HIS DUTIES
ARE TO DEvoLvE on THE DIRECTOR.
At secret meeting held by the Board of
Park Commissioners. Thursday afternoon.
number of employees Of the Department were
discharged Just who suffered is not ye: made
known. 1t is the intention of the Board to
make public the names and the causes for dis
.nssals at the next regular meeting 10 be held
on Monday afternoon. The meeting at which
the shake-up took place held at the office
of s. V. r. Crugcr, tho president OF the Board
a No 1877 Fulton-st. All the discharges and
suspensions made by the Commissioners were
ordered to take effect to-day.
II was learned that one of the most important
dismissals was that Of George r. Burns. the
superintendent of the Menagerie in Central
Park Mr.. Burns received a short letter from
the Board soon after the meeting on Thursday
II simply told him that his services would be
dispensed with after January 81.
A few days ago President Cruger sent word 10
Mr.. Burns that he wished to sec him in mis- pri-
vate office. When he presented himself me
President said that the Board wanted him t. re-
sign. The superintendent asked the reason
Mr.. Cruger answered that the reason was econ
to be abolished Mr.. Burns declined to resign
and was dismissed
Mr. Burns declared last night that the Board
intended to give the duties Of superintendent TO
John W. Smith director of the menagerie, and
that he would bring charges of incompetency
against Mr.. Smith, as he knew nothing about the
care Of animals.
Mr. Burns has been superintendent OF the
menagerie nearly five years. The salary of the
place is $500 a year. and that Of the director
is $1,000
President Cruger Of the Park Board, when
seen last night. said:
The number of men let go by the Board is In
the neighborhood of seventy-flve. cannot give
their names now but can say they are men in
all the departments Of the parks They include
draughtsmen. foremen inspectors. laborcrs and
teamsters. The employees on the new driveway
have been cut down to two engineers and six
assistants where there were upward of thirty
five before. In many cases those let go have
teen informed that they have been temporarily
relieved without pay. Most of the employees in
the parks above the Harlem River have been
discharged. The object Is mainly economy. As
was seen by the report Of the committee Of eX
perts on the Harlem River Driveway. work on
the structure was being neglected and men who
We're doing absolutely no work We're being paid.
Many of the places In the parks above the
Harlem River were found TO be unnecessary.
by our action. We propose 10 prosecute the
work on the driveway as speedily as we ca and
with few possible"
Asked about the discharge Of Superintendent
Burns Colonel Cruger said:
THE idea of economy which has directed us in
other matters has induced us to let Mr.. Burns
go. His ability was not questioned. but we con-
cluded that the place should be abolished
BY this stroke alone We calculate to save 1880
q year"
New-York tribune., 1896-02-01
,rK1NLEY 1s KENTUCKY's CHOICE.

Lexington Ky. Jan. 81 (SpeciaD.-A stan corre-
sponden. OF "The Lexington Leader" tonight COM
yleted a poll of the Republican members OF the
Kentucky Legislature to their preference Tor
Renubl,can nominee for President at st. Louis. All
except three members who were out OF the city
vera soza and their almost unanimous preference
IS for William Mckinley, jr or course. the heh-
tuckans will vote for Governor Bradley should he
he n Candidate which present Is exceedingly
doubtful but at heart they are all Mckinley men
A great. many Of the members are anxious Tor
Governor Bradley 70 be a candidate FOR Nlce-fresi-
dent as they believe that ne and Mckinley would
make the strongest combination that could be put
ou, Samuel ]. Roberts. Editor Of The Leader
who was McKinley's private secretary In signed
article tonight says there u a growing sentiment
In the North among Republicans that they ought
70 20 sol'h Of Mason and DiXOn's line for their
Wee Presidential candidate and he thinks Governor
Bradley would add great strength to the Natiohss'
ticket in the South. He says Governor Bradleys
chances for the Presidential nomination are as one
in a thcIsand hut h believes he could be nomi>
mated for Nice-President and feels certain that
NcK,ne, Will sweep Kentucky.
New-York tribune., 1896-02-01
YALE NOT TO ENTER.

THE -coRNERED ROWING RACE TO TAKE
PLACE on JUNE 20
A meeting Of the committee in charge OF the
proposed four-corEcred rowing race between Ifar-
sylN ana was held at the University Club last night
There is no chance that Val" viii enter a crew and
while the conference last night lasted several hours
little actual york accomplished. outside of
agreeing the date for the regatta. which viii he
Friday. June g. rctv cen and y. M tho wind ard
weat theT conditions bclnE fgvOrNllc
The cole aes represented follows. Guy
Richards. chairman Columbia: X &. watson. Ilar-
ward. Thomas L"ath. University O! Penn ylvona.
and Professor -, :. W intc. Cornell. The three
course cons.sor.G were hose At Pout hEcc .slc.
Saratoga and Springfield. The offer from Pough-
kcepsi" TO prONlfic lighthouses. rinways and
floats and 10 police The course bu; nothl1 was said
about agreeing to proride quarters Tor The crews.
d done last year. Toni hkccpsc age also
to provide an observation train with accommoda
tions for 3.GJi pee pie
Ex-Jrdcc Henry Hilton and others are anxious
have the race tale place at SaratcGn The people
OF that summer resort. say that they Will agree 10
any reasonable proposition to hay" the race take
place there. The committee mas tecn in corrc-
spondcncc with those in Springfield who want the
there. nut no direct cncr Nds lccn made yet
Harvard Is said TO favor Springi, hi, while Cornell
Columbia and Pennsylvania satisfied with
Poughkecpsic Ftnnsvlyfnia would, Of course.
rather have the race take place on the Schuylkil.
bat thc Qua:crs realize that they Will not bc able
to carry that point and they are content TO vote
for Poughkecpsic.
Nothing WA done regarding the freshman race,
and this matter viii be settled at meeting to he
held later. II g. uncertain At present whether Yale
Will enter a crew in tho freshmen race or not