Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-06-19
TERsE NEWS.

| A Washington dispatch says: United
States Viee-Consul knight, at Cape
Town, South Africa; reported by cable
| to the state department that the inn
| prisoned reform leaders, John a. Ham
mond, Colonel Rhodes, George Farrar
and j. w. Leonard, have been released.
| The leaders were fined $125,O0 each,
and the sentence Of Punishment was
| committed.
| Montgomery, w. Va, dispatch: The
| west-bound express on the Chesapeake
& Ohio railroad was held up between
Cotton Hill and Kanawa Falls by three
men, who, after short fight with the
train crew, made their escape without
securing any booty. Jack Maynard,
&. NJ. Martin and George F. Stringer
were subsequently arrested near the
scene of the attack and are in Jail.
| The steamer Bermuda left Phil
| adelphia with another cargo of arms
and ammunition for the Cuban insur-
| gents. The expedition consists of fifty
men, among them being several ply
| sicians, who carry with them full
supply of medicines and surgical in
struments. Stored away in the hold
of the vessel are 1000 Manser rifles,
| four Hotchkiss guns and large num-
| Der of machetes.
! A dispatch from Havana says: Dis
| patches from Madrid say that the
bankers of Paris and Amsterdam have
| declined to advance any further loans
| to Spain before next November. A
cable to the World from Madrid says:
The greatest concern and curiosity are
shown in Spain. especially in the
political and military circles of Madrid,
| for intelligence of the moveme hts of
| Consul General Lee. All the papers
comment on his cordial relation with
General Weyler, his wary and cautious
replies to the Spanish reporters and
his prudent remarks on the relations
between Spain and the United States
The conrt-martial trying General
Barrateiri, at Massowah, Abyssinia,
found him not guilty of the charges
| preferred against him. General Bar
rateiri was commander of the Italian
forces employed in Abyssinia.
He was in personal command of the
army when in March last the Abyssin-
ians inflicted crushing defeat on the
Italians He was tried before court
martial for crimes coming under the
| provisions of articles "a and SO of the
military penal code, of having, on
March last, attacked the Abyssinians
| from inexcusable motives under cir
cumstances rendering defeat inevitable
and of having abandoned the chief
command of the troops from half past
| 12 on March / until o'clock on March
8, thereby failing to give the orders
required for lessening the consequences
of the defeat.
The British cruiser Bonaventure,
flagship of the East Indian squadron,
lost seventy men by sunstroke on the
voyage from Colombo to mbicherry
At Champaign, Ill, recently Sheriff
| Cannon arrested all the trustees of the
University of Illinois, except Governor
| Altgeld, State Superintendent Inglis
and Mrs. Flower, on an indictment
charging them with violating the state
| flag law. They were taken before
Judge Wright in the circuit court and
0. Cunningham, of Urbana. signed
their appearance bonds in the sum OF
5000 each.
London dispatch: The Westminster
Gazette says that Lord Salisbury has
summoned meeting of the leaders OF
1 the ministerial party for the purpose
Of discussing its position. The meet
ing was called, the Gazette asserts, In
consequence of the discomfort of many
1 members of the house of commons over
the mismanagement of the legislative
| programme of the government.
1t is said that valuable documents
strongly corEoborative of the British
case in the Venezuelan boundary
dispute have been discovered in the,
vatican.
EDWARD F. JOHNSON,
YEICIAN -laND SURGEON, Des
III, a 81 IL.