The National tribune., 1896-05-21
BRIEF NEWS

years in the penitentiary and pay fine o.
$4,000, just twice the sum he embezzled.
1t has been stated at Madrid. on authority
considered reliable that Spain will send 10000
men to Cuba In September, instead of 90, 000 a
at first decided upon.
Valuable property, known rs the San Migue
estate, within q few miles OF Havana, VA
burned by the insurgents last week. The los
is not under 100000.
Ex-Police Capt. Michael Shannon, of Buffalo
found guilty of the murder of Police Serg'
Timothy Csntlin. has been sentenced to i'm
prisOnment for life in Auburn Prison.
Forest fires ragged over Michigan, Wisconsin
Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. ant
New York last week, causing immense damage
Gov. Morton has signed the Greater New
York Bill.
The General NJ. f. Conference Mt Cleveland
retired Bishops Bowman and Foster. 1--WE
new Bishops will be elected.
Capt Gen. Weyler, of Cuba. issued a procla
nation requiring farmers to turn over all thei
corn to the Government officers, who, at the
various military centers, will buy at the
market price.
DR.. Salmon, the oldest Mason in the world
died at London last week.
The German Reichstag by vote of 159 To
ITO has fixed the export bounty on sugar at q
marks per hundred kilos; the Government
proposal was four marks per hundred kilos.
The rumor that Gen. Weyler intends to re-
| sign has been denied by Senior Tomas Castel-
lano, Minister for the Colonies.
John d. Hart, Capt John OBrien. Mate Ed
ward Murphy, and Col. Emilio Nunez, who
were recently arrested in Philadelphia for vio-
lating the neutrality act. in connection with
the first trip of the steamship Bermuda to Cuba,
appeared before Judge Benedict in the criminal
part of the United States Circuit Court at New
York last week, and werc released on $4,000
bond each. The cases will not be tried until
the United States Supreme Court decides the
appeal in the Horsa case.
A jury in Court OF Common Pleas No. at
Philadelphia has rendered verdict for 81, 225. 10
in favor of Terrence V. Powderly, ex-General
Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, in
his suit against the Order for unpaid salary,
amounting to $3,SlS.1l and interest.
Scott Jackson. whose sensational trial at
Newport, KY, has for weeks been attracting
attention throughout the country, was last
Thursday convicted of the murder of Pearl
Bryan. Seven prisoners escaped from the New
port jail Saturday night, but Jackson refused
to join in the escape, fearing he would be shot
on sight.
Ex Senator Temple Houston, son of the first
President of the Texas Republic, has been
acquitted of the murder Of John Jennings in a
duel in saloon at Woodward, Okla, last Fall.
The British liberals are greatly dissatisfied
because the Irish members of Parliament have
voted with the Government the education
bill.
The German clergy is aroused because En-
peror William has declared that they should
refrain from politics.
Much excitement was occasoned in England
last week by tho report that the Russian Steam
Navigation Co., a company subsidized by the
Russian Government, had, through an Amer
lean named J. Smith. seized the foreshore at
Chefoo China. The British and German Min
listers al Pekin have protested.
The report comes from Havana that Col.
Henrque Segueras, iB command of the Spanish
column, fell into an ambush during an attack
on the famous PIateres camp of the insurgents,
and according to his own report lost one officer
and four men killed aud one officer and 81
men wounded. He reports 80 insurgents
killed.
Spanish authoritiA ~ that the insurgents
using explosiv-.,r Tets contrary to the
international usages OF warfare. United States
military authorities say that no such bullets
are manufactured in this country, aud dis
credit the Spanish statements.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain in dispatch
to President Kruger repudiates oil behalf of
tho British Government any sympathy with
Cecil Rhodes or others who may hereafter be
proven TO have been connected with the Jane
son raid.
Over 120 people were killed and 100 more or
less seriously injured by cyclone which
struck Sherman. Tex. Friday afternoon; and
the western end of the city was practically
r-ir al out 1,.au ~ ,ha,,t
A message written by DR.. Chauncey Depew
was transmitted over the lines OF the Postal
Telegraph Cable Co. from New York via
Chicago, Los Angeles. San Francisco. Van
couver, Winnipeg. and Canso to London and
back via Boston TO New York on Saturday
last TO demonstrate the rapidty of the modern
telegraphic service Edward ID. Adams Presi-
dent of the new Cataract General Electric Co.,
sent the message, and Thomas A. Edison, the
great inventor. received the message when it
came back. The time required was lust four
minutes. Tho portion of tho circuit between
New York and Buffalo was supplied with cleo
trcity generated by the Cataract General
Electric Co.
The fetes which precedo and follow tho
coronation of the Gar and Czarine began at
Moscow Monday, aud will last until June Z,
when the royal party will return to st. Peters
burg
All fines laid upon tho Cuban press were re-
United Sunday in honor of the 10th anniversary
of the birth Of Alfonso XIII, King of SPAIN
Herr Otto Camphausen, formerly Prussian
Minister of Finance aud Vice President of the
Ministry of State, is dead. He was born in
1912. and as Minister of Finance in 1870 had to
meet the necessities Of the situation caused by
the war between Prussia and France His
services upon that occasion were highly APP
preciated.
The Transvaal authorities seem to be inclined
to substitute heavy fines for the sentences of
imprisonment imposed upon the members of
the johannesburg Reform Committee though |
no official announcement has yet been made.
Emperor William has appointed the Empress
Of Russia to be Honorary Colonel of the Second
Dragon Guards, which regiment will hereafter |
be termed the Empress Alexandria's Dragons.
Complaint has been made by foreign CON-
mercial houses at Havana that prohibition of |
the export of leaf tobacco from Cuba will seri- |
ously injurs trade.
Army Correspondence Memorial.
The north pier of tho Army tCorres pondents' |
on the summit of South Mountain, |