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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-22

WASHINGTON. Feb. 21-Mn Colson
Rep.. Ky.) introduced in the house a
resolution to investigate Secretary Car
isles action in declining to accept the
Graves bid for bonds. The resolution was
as follows:
Whereas, 1t has been charged by Will
liam Graves, in a statement made by him
and given to the public press, that Hon
John G. Carlisle. the secretary Of the
treasury of the United States, had re-
fused to deliver to said William Graves
S45OO,OOO in bonds of the United States at
115.9391, after having accepted the bid of
the said William Graves therefor at said
figure, although the said William Graves
had rendered the secretary of the treas
ury the amount of said bid for said bonds
in gold at the sub-treasury in the city OF
New York. and that the secretary of the
treasury has awarded said bonds to J. P
Morgan s. Co. for the sum of 100000 less
than the amount bid and rendered by the
said William Graves,
Resolved, That a committee Of five
the speaker of this house to investigate
said charge. and report to this house in
writing the result of said investigation;
that there be and is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the contingent fund
of the house the sum of $4,000, or so much
thereof as may be necessary to pay the
expense of making the investigation
hereby authorized
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CUBAN CHATTER.
Additional Particulars of the En-

Additional Particulars of the En-
gagement ON Tuesday.
HAVANA, Feb. Educational par
ticulars were received today from Jar
srauco, showing that after the engage
ment there on Tuesday, Colonel Her.
nandez pursued the insurgents until
nightfall, when he came upon the main
body under Antonio Maceo at Catalina
The Spanish cavalry dismOunted and
charged three times upon the enemy.
Just before the third attack, the insur-
gents tried to set fire to the town, but
only a few houses on the outskirts
were burned. Fifteen Spanish soldiers
were wounded. The insurgents lost
heavily in killed and wounded
Colonel Nadruga reports that the in
surgents carried away 200 wounded.
Lieutenant Colonel Arminana has
been engaged with the insurgents I'M
der Serafino Sanchez at the Diamente
plantation, in the Santi Spiritus dis
trict, the province of Santa Clara. The
insurgents lost five killed and twenty
wounded. The Spaniards had two men
wounded.
At San Juan de Las Jeras, the prov
ince of Santa Clara, in a skirmish be-
tween the insurgents and troops, three
of the former and one of the latter
were killed.
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BOOTHS RECALL.
II is the Subject of Much Comment
T in New York

NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-Another
member OF the Booth family-commis-
sioner Eva Booth. from the Salvation
steamship Teutonic yesterday Almost
directly after Commissioner Eva's ar
rival a meeting of the international
committee was held. There were pres
ent only Commander and Mrs. Bal
lington Booth. Commissioner Eva
Booth. Commandant Herbert Booth
and Colonel Nicol
Colonel Nicol, in speaking on the OBJ
jects of his mission, said: at is true
that l have been sent here to estimate
the whole depth and scope of popular
feeling that has been aroused by the
recall Of Commander Booth; but l
have also been intrusted with other
duties, which appertain largely to the
practical matters preceding a change
Of command
What is your impression Of the pop
ular sentiment regarding Commander
Booths recall?"
Il find it strongly adverse to the
commanders removal" he answered.
'In fact, the sentiment expressed at
the Carnegie hall meeting is the uni
versal one, There is also no question
as to the regret of the commander of
the necessity of his departure''
Would not this influence the gen
eral to countermand his order?''
Colonel Nicol hesitated and then
said: Yes; if the general saw that
it would prove detrimental to the
local branch of the army to remove
the commander, he would not insist
upon the order"
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In the House.

WASHIGTON. Feb. 21-The house in
committee CT the whole today again
refused to follow some OF the Republi-
can leaders in the matter of reducing
the salaries of Indian inspectors from
Sc. 600 to $500. the latter being the
salary in the law for the current year.
1ss terday an appeal was made to the
house in behalf of economy and re-
Trenchment and was defeated Today
the struggle was resumed. The defeat
of the economists today was empha-
sized by the fact that a parliamentary
1rangle of over two hours was re-
quired to demonstrate that their
amendment was in order and that,
having won the first half of their vic
tory in their decision Of the chair. the
house by a vote of 81 to IS refused to
adopt the amendment. In pursuance
Of their policy Of retrenchment, how
ever. Mr.. Cannon raised a point of
order against two provisions, which
changed existing laws, and they went
out Of the bill. Progress today was
very slow, only two of the siXty-one
pages of the Indian bill being disposed
OF.
While Mr. Talbert of South Carolina
and Mr.. Bowers Of California, two
rather hot-headed gentlemen, were
hammering away at each other during
ll4fI LEOS<AEs WIN 4il0SiA AhA9N1AANN9s9 "
voice and a whirlwind of gesticula-
tions. some ardent sport called out,
Go il, FitZ" Amid the laughter
that followed, someone called Time"
and the incident closed.
The house adjourned over Saturday,
except for a night session devoted to
private pension bills.
The evening session was devoted ex-
clusiveIy to the private pension cal
Two hills T1rpTa m SSPd a nd nine
were reported to the house by the COM
rlittee of the whole. with favorable
recommendation. At 1880 the house
adjourned
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-The senate
committee on public lands today de-
cided to favorably report the house
bill extending the time within which
suits may be brought by the govern
ment to annul unauthorized grants of
public lands. The committee made
several verbal amendments to the bill
and also added canal lands to those
which are included in the bill.
The decision of the committee was
preceded by a hearing of representa-
tives of the various interests affected
by the proposed legislation. There was
a proposition before the committee to
include Mexican land grants in the
extension. but Senator White appeared
IN opposition to this scheme, contend
ing that the Mexican grant question
should be settled as soon as possible
in the interest of all concerned and
the amendment was not made.
Ex-senator Henderson was also be-
fore the committee in the interest of
the Burlington road, but he did not
make any special objection to the bill,
The committee has instructed Sena-
tor Dubois, chairman, to press consid-
GRAFTON of the bill next week. The linn
station for these suits expires under
the present law in March and the bill
is to be treated as an emergency meas
ure
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A FEW FIGURES.
They show, However, the Extent of
Armenian Atrocities.

They show, However, the Extent of
Armenian Atrocities.
NEW HAVEN. Conn. Feb. 21.-Rev
DR.. Newman Smythe of Center church
furnishes important news with refer
ence to the Armenian massacres, as
follows:
Letters have been shown me from
persons engaged in relief work among
the ArmenianS which gave the fol-
lowing carefully prepared statistics
concerning the recent massacres by
the Turks under the tolerance of
Christian powers, A. D. 1885. These
statistics are given in detail for the
several villages in Harpoot province.
I give herewith the summaries as fol-
lows:
Killed, 30,601; burned to death, 1,436;
preachers and priests killed, 81; died
from starvation, 2,461;. died unprotec-
ted in the fields, 4.240: died from fear.
$50; wounded. 5000; houses burned,
2S,542; forcible conversions, 1906; wo-
men and girls abducted, $3.50; forcible
marriages, 1851; churches burned, 227;
destitute and starving, 94750.
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hart removed FitzSimmOnS' remaining
raiment and the Australian stood forth
in short thigh trunks of dark blue
with a. belt showing the American
colors. He had on black hose rolled
down upon the top OF his ring shoes.
When a similar office had been per
formed for Maher, he showed up in
black trunks half way to the knees
with a green belt. His hose and
shoes were similar to those of FitZ-
simmons The Australian throughout
the prelininaries had shown the ut
most confidence. Makers lips seemed
parched and he moiStened them with
his tongue and took deep inhalations
as if his mouth and throat were dry
"SHAKE HANDS,
Referee Siler said. The men advanced,
Fitzsimmons with the air OF confidence
still showing plainly; Maher promptly
and with more of a familiar air than
he had yet shown. They retired to
their corners An instant later the
whistle of warning sounded; five sec
onds later the call of time followed.
Up sprang Fitzsimmons, advancing
with his little eyes flashing like balls
of FURNISHED blue. Makers advance
was rapid enough to meet FitZsim-
mons, almost in the middle Of the
24-foot ring. His eyes were circled
from the recent attack of ''alkali eyes,
and seemed staring like a stage make
ND without the deceptive footIight
glare The big fight for the heavy
weight championship was at last
reality.
JUST ONE.
First Round-Fitz led with his left,
Maher backed toward his corner. Fitz
landed with a right and clinch fol-
lowed Maher struck Fitz with his
right hand while they were clinched
and Referee Siler warned him if he did
so again he would give the fight to
F'itzsimmons. After a breakaway Pc
ter landed his left on Fitzsimmon' s
neck. Close infghting followed and
Maher succeeded in landing his left on
F'itzsimmons' upper lip. FitzsimInons
landed with his left and right A
clinch followed. Maher tented and
Fitzsimmons led with his right but it
| fell short. A mix-up followed, in which
Maher landed both right and left on
either side of F'itzsimmons' head.
Maher led with his left and another
clinch followed.
i Fitz seemed a bit bothered and broke
ground on Makers lead. Maher fol-
| lowed him up and led with his left,
when Fitz side-stepped, and, swinging
his right, landed full on the point of
Makers chin. Maher measured his
| length on the floor, his head striking
| against the canvas with great force
He vainly attempted to arise, but could
| not do more than raise his head His
seconds called on him to get up but
he failed to respond and sank back
to the canvas.
HE SMILED.
As .Maher fell to the floor Fitzsim-
mons stepped back. his eyes sparkling
and a smile played around his mouth
He gazed upon his fallen foe for about
! three seconds and then walked over to
4 his corner and sat down. Julian. Nc
/ Coy and Everhart crowded around him
urging him to get UP and fight.
Look out for him. F'itZ,' yelled JUL
/ ian; look out for him.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-A special to
the World from Caracas says:
Congress has been. convened. For
the third time in it's history there was
a quorum on the first day. Jose Valu-
senate and Manuel Modesto Gallegos
speaker of the chamber of deputies.
Their addresses refer to this session as
the most important in the republics
existence.
President Crespo will himself read
his message to both houses in joint
session within a week.
The English built railroad between
Guanta and Barcelona is stopped again.
An accident to machinery is alleged in
explanation but the newspapers are
suspicious, as the running of the road
is under compulsion by the govern
ment
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noRE OF 1T.
Darlington Booth and His Wife Dis
appear.

RaIIfnEfon Booth and His Wife Dis
appear
NEW YORK, Feb. 21-The World
tomorrow viii publish the following:
Ba1lington Booth, commander of the
Salvation army in America, has dis
appeared with his wife, Maud B. Booth.
Their home in Mount Claire, n J., is
deserted. They have not been at head
quarters in this city since Thursday.
Herbert Booth brother of Darlington,
and commander of the army in Can
ada. will take charge of the forces
here today. He offered reward yes
1erday to anyone who would tell him
where Darlington is. The army is STIR
red to great excitement On the steam
shin Teutonic Wednesday night Eza
Booth. q sister, arrived from England.
Herbert Booth was hastily summoned
TO New York by Colonel Nicol, who
came here ostensibly on a mission to
investigate the sentiment of rebellion
in this country against the transfer of
Commander Booth to another sphere
of action He arrived on Thursday and
on that day court Of inquiry was
held by three. with Ballington Booth
before them. The proceedings became
heated There were charges and in
ordinations Ballington Booth was
expected to proceed at once to Eng
land.
7 viii not go" he said.
This is INSTRUMENTATION. replied
Herbert You know what that means
in the army"
yes, know"
1T means dismissal
Then 7 will accept It," replied the
commander.
In the heat Of the argument that fol-
lowed the commander complained Bit
teriy of the injustice of his father re-
moving him arbitrarily from a field
where he had Iabored so long, and in
which he hoped to finish his life
This means a trial by court mar
tial," cried Herbert Booth, springing
TO his feet You have spoken dis
respectfully of your father and your
general. I prefer charges of insubor-
dination and disrespect against you.
move that this court proceed to try
you for the words
Colonel Nicol supported Herbert
Booth. He then made known his full
authority.
4 have authority to dismiss YOU
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game he has so often played before
led on his opponent until he had him
where he wanted him, and then landed
a lightning right swing on the jaw
and it was over.
It was the Identical blow that
knocked out Jim Hall in New Orleans
For the first part of the round Ma
her had the better of it. He led often
and forced the fighting In his eager
ness to get at Fitzsimmons he commit
ted a, palpable foul during a, clinch and
was warned by Referee Siler that its
repetition would cost him the fight
Maher fought we'll, but he was no
match for his red-hedded opponent,
who proved himself today
ONE OF THE CRAFTIEST
men who ever stepped into the ring.
Fitzsimmons is now, by Corbett's &C
ton in presenting the championship to
Maher. the champion of the world, apd
after the fight was over he declared
through Julian. his willingness to de-
fend the championship against any
and all corners.
The train arrived at about 5;3V, Cen
trail time and over a rocky road, WIND
ing about the precipitous cliffs along
the Rio Grande, the crowd wended It's
way to the sandy beach of the river
ring material down to the river bank
last night, after working hard all day
upon a roadway down the bluff A
narrow wooden footbridge had been
put across the swiftly flowing stream
The crowd stumbled over the stony
path and waded ankle deep in the
sand. guided by little Jimmy White, a
boy who came from Toronto to be at
the fight.
THE BATTLE-GROUND
was a sandy fiat upon a big bend in
the Rio Grande river on the Mexican
side. It was just two miles from tine
village of Langtry. In the center OF a
canvas wall about 200 feet in diane
ter the ring was pitched. The board
floor was covered with canvas, over
which resin was spread. At one side
was the frame compartment for the
taking by the kaleidoscope of pictures
of the fight as it proceeded. On the
opposite side of the ring were two
little tents for the principals. Fitz-
simmons was the first to leave the
train. There were following Fftzsim-
mons. Martin Julian, Jack Everhart,
William Mccoy and Jack steiner,
who were in his corner. F'it7Simmons
took the first tent when he entered
the canvas enclosure: Maher took the
second. He was followed from the
train by a crowd, as well as his. sec
onds, bearing his effects. Jim Hall,
Buck Connolly, Peter Lowrle, JACK
Quinn and Peter Burns. Little time
was lost in getting ready. Before ne
dotted his street garb F1tzslmmons
stepped up and took look at the
rin6.
Soon thereafter he came in the ring
wrapped in a striped bathrobe. He
was applauded by 200 voices vocifer-
ousIy. Fitzsimmons sat down in the
corner nearest the steps leading to the
platform A man near him offered
500 even on him. AS Maher climbed
into the ring near the corner he occu-
pied voice nearby offered 500 to
SIS on Fitzsimmons. There were no
takers. George Siler climbed upon the
platform almost at the same time as
Maher With Julian and Hall he ex-
amined the f1ve-ounce gloves. The
gloves were of different makes and
colors, Fitzsimmons being a. light
green and Makers a. dark brown AS
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THE COMMISSION.
1t is Awaiting the Receipt of More
Evidence.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 21-Inasmuch
as the Venezuelan commission at the
conclusion of its last meeting ad-
journed to meet next Friday, there
was no regular meeting today, al
though three of the members-Presi-
dent Brewer and Messrs. Alvey and
Whitehead a conference with Secre-
tary of the Commission Mallet-Pro-
vost to compare notes of the progress
OF the work. The two absent mem
beers. Messrs. Coudert and Gilman,
were also communicated with. At
present the commission is awaiting
the receipt of the evidence which
Great Britain and Venezuela have
promised to submit, and when that is
at hand it is expected that rapid pro-
gress can be made. Meanwhile, how
ever, the time is being employed to the
best advantage in the prosecution of
individual researches by the members
of the commission, and much valuable
data has been thus collected
The persiStency with which the ru-
morS come across the water that our
government has made an agreement
with Great Britain upon a basis of
mild arbitration. at last leads this
idea to be seriously entertained here.
As far as the published correspon-
change of notes between the two gov
ernments since the receipt of Lord
Sahsbury's response in the shape Of
two separate notes. date of November
% last year, to Secretary Olney's note
OF last July. Inquiry fails to show
that date. but there is reason to be-
lieve that either through Mr. Bayard
in London or Sir Julian Pauncefote in
Washington the two governments have
been adroitly sounding each other to
ascertain how any agreement of the
difficulty, which appeared from the
two last notes to be very serious, can
be effected without conveying the i'm
preston that either party has surren-
dered the principles upon which it then
took its stand.
So far it is learned that there is good
reason to hope for a most satisfactory
outcome of the negotiations, probably
in the line Of mixed arbitration and
negotiations suggested by Lord Sails
bury in one Of his speeches in Eng
land, and afterwards enlarged upon by
a member of the staff of one of the
leading British newspapers.
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BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
5arthouakes in south Berlin.

Earthquakes in south Berlin.
Everything points to the great strike
in Berlin being continued.
Senator Squire's bin for coast forti.
flcations approDriates. $1,000, 900.
DR.. Franz Gerau, the leading social
list in the United States is dead.
In recent storms in the Black sea
seventeen steamers, eighteen sailing
vessels and a hundred lives were lost.
Among the state regents of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
chosen yesterday was Mrs. Clarence E.
Allen, of Utah.
The indiana Democratic state cen
trail committee yesterday fixed upon
June "A as the date for holding the
state convention in Indianapolis.
The entire family of Jacob jacob
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AGAIN IN III.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 21.-Mrs.
Mary A. Davidson was again in the
superior court today to answer to the
charge of having extorted $500 from
Rev. C. o. Brown. The court overruled
a motion to dismiss the information
against the defendant. The contention
of the defense that the information
admitted Mrs Davidson to be Browns
agent, was declared by the court to be
an assumption entirely unwarranted.
Mrs. Davidson then pleaded not gull
ty. Her trial was peremptorily set for
March % and a motion for a reduction
of bail was taken under consideration.
Mrs Davidson was then taken back
to the county jail.
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Wilson's Statement.

WASHINGTON. Feb. a.-Postmaster-
General Wilson today made public an
exhaustive statement showing the re-
ceipts of gold and paper representative OF
gold at all first and second class post
Offices per month and estimating the an
nual receipts of gold in all the offices OF
the United States on basis Of their gross
receipts for the year 1895 The total
amount of gold received per annum from
all first and second class offices is given
as $4,0S5,97 and per month sS40 AS
The gross receipts of all classes Of
money from all offices in the various
states per ann1lm aggregates $75,990 706,
and the gold receipts are estimated at
s., IL, $50.
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IMMIGRATION LAWS.
House Committee to Take Evidence
on Their Administration.

House Committee to Take Evidence
on Their Administration.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-At Ellis
island, in New York harbor, the i'm
migration committee of the house will
take evidence bearing on the admins
tration of existing immigration laws.
The committee went to New York last
night. 1t is composed of Congressman
Bartholdt of Missouri, chairman; Con-
gressmen Danford of Ohio, Acheson of
Pennsylvania. Tracewell Of Indiana,
Howell of New York Barney of Wis
consin. Mdhany of New York, Wilson
of South Carolina, Bendrick of Ken
lucky and Buck of Louisiana. 1t is
expected the committee will witness
on Saturday the landing of two ship
loads of immigrants. A general con-
sultation on the subject of immisra-
ton and the class of immigrants will
be had with the government inspec-
tors at Ellis island with a view to
learning more about the workings of
the existing laws. 1t is generally con-
coded that if any immigration law is
passed by the present congress, it will
be the Lodge bill, now pending before
the senate, which provides for a strict
educational test, in addition to the
restrictions of present laws.
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from Office" he said. 6 and to appoint
your successor. I demand of you all
the property of the army in America
in your name. You are dismissed from
office"
Then Ballington Booth rose to his
feet.
Let it mean dismissal" he said, I
will never stand it,
After receiving notice of dismissal he
and his wife spent the evening pack
ing up their personal belongings. The
keys were turned over soon after
wards.
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BuYING LIP TICKETS.

CHICAGO, Feb. 21.-Chairman Cald-
well of the Western Passenger assooia-
ton has little army of detectives out
IN the market buying UP all the tickets
issued by the association roads they can
find in the hands of brokers' All the
tickets he buys must, under the agree
ment be redeemed by the roads issuing
them at full tariff rates. He is daily
presenting large bundles for redemption
TIE new agreement is proving the most
effective in the maintenance of rates
that has ever been in operation in west
ern territory.
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TT WAS ROUGH.

MIDDLETowN, Conn. Feb 21.-
The toughest and most obstinate hand
to hand encounter that was ever
known at Wesleyan university took
place between the sophomores and
freshmen tonight About 200 students
fought nearly two hours. Six men
were carried off the campus uncon-
scious or exhausted It was all over
the firing of the customary salute to
WASHINGTON S birthday.