Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-04-04
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FLIPPiN, KY.

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WELLINGTON, New leland, March 26
IA terrible explosion of fire damp has
taken place in a mine at Brunnerton,
five persons were killed outright, and
eixty more are entombed with no hopes
OF being rescued.
WASHINGTON, March 25-The Spanish
government has officially disclsimed res
possibility for the fiery views expressed
in the columns of the Madrid pewspa-
per, Ell Epoca. demanding that the Unit
&c States cease talk about the Cuban
instruction. or else declare war at once
upon Spain. The government felt that
i; might be harmful, because it was in
timated that the article was inspired by
it.
| According to cablegram received at
the Spanish legation yesterday, the
Spanish forces have captured all of the
archieves OF the lnsurgent government
WASHINGTON, March 26-At the open
ing of the house today Hestwole, repub-
licap, from Minnesota, introduced the
following resolution, which was refer
red:
Whereas, in lieu of the present inabil-
ity of the banking and currency system,
it is desirable that congress shall have
| the aid of such recommendations as a
non-psrtisen commission Of experts
| might be able to offer.
Resolved, that the president is here
by authorized to appoint nine citizena,
eminent in trade, political economy and
banking, to act with the comptroller of
the currency as euch commission, and
such commission shall report it's con-
illusions to congress.
WASHINGTON, March 26-The treasury
department has instructed the New
York sub treasury TO raise the premium
on gold bars from 1-16 to 3-16 per cent
The departments purpose is to do what
can be done legtimately to prevent
further exports of gold.
PHILADELPHIA, March 26-Another
theory regarding Annie McGrath's death
is to the effect that the girl, being en-
gagged to be married to a young mau
whose name Is not yet known, attempted
to sever relations with Samuel r. Lang
don, and that the latter threatened to
reveal their intimacy il che did SO, and
she fearing such disclosure attempted
to kill him and then commit suicide.
This proposition is borne out 10y
statements made by Miss Addie Grit
fifths,a friend of Annie who was with her
the day before her death. She then
told Miss GriffIths that Langdon IVES to
meet her that night Saturday adding
"I'll tell him when see him that wont
keep his company any mere" On the
same occasion Annie complained Of the
toothache. MISE Griffiths went with
her to the drug store and asked for some
chloroform.
WASHINGTON, March 26-Mavroyeni
Bey, Turkish minister, said this after
noon that he had not received any word
from bis government that be was to be
recalled, as stated in a Constantirople
dispatch, and expressed the opinion that
the story is untrue.
HURON, S. d. March 25-There was
large attendance today at the repub-
lican state convention to select deleG-
Rtes to st. Louis. A. b. Conns was
selected chairman. While the money
question has brought out diversified ex-
pressions it has been decided to refer
that subject to the national republican
convention. The conventions seems
strongly in favor OF Mckinley.
BosToN, March 25-The STANDARD to-
morrow will publish letter from Oapt-
ain g. 8. B. Valeros, member of the
personal staff OF General Maxine
Gomez, in the Cuban patriot army.
The letter was written to Mr.. r. n
johnson of New Haven, Conn, with
whom Captain Vsleros became intimate
while at Yale college. The letter says
in part:
at has bsen most terrible expert
ence through which / have passed
during the last thirty days-blood,
blood, blood aud blood again-every-
where. No less than six Of our head
quarters mess have gone to their eternal
rest since my last to you-Rll killed with
their faces to the foe.
1--WE have marched and countermarch-
ed over 400 miles of territory the past
two months and have met the enemy
thirty-one different times, twenty-eight
OF which we have been successful. The
severest OF these was on the railroad
from Havana to Matanzas, in Havana
province, about nineteen miles from the
capital, the battle OF Moro del Roy. The
enemy left twenty-nine killed and fifty
one wounded on the field, nine OF whom
we're officers. General Gomez lost
thirteen killed and thity-one wounded.
The Spanish newspaper, impartial,
published in Havans, gave the rebel
losses as upwards Of three hundred, and
[ presume dispatches reaching the
states are exaggerated fully as greatly
SACRAMENTO, March 27-H. e. Brown
is serving life sentence for q murder
committed in Mendocino county while
Brown was leader of gang OF thieves.
A petition for his pardon hiss been pres
ented to Governor Budd, who declares
that Brown should be hanged. He was
convicted of murder in the fret degree
and sentenced to death. The supreme
court reversed this decision. The supe-
flor court for a second time sentenced
Brown to be hanged, but Governor Per-
kius committed the sentence to life im-
prleonment. Budd Gays Perkins COM
mutation is illegal and that the supreme
court should resentesce him to be
hanged.
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