The National tribune., 1896-06-04

! Evallna Bliss. that she might secure possession
| of her property, is attracting much attention In
| New York City. The prosecution last week
gained very important point when 1t sue
| ceedcd in getting the dying statement OF Mrs.
| Bliss before the jury, which was to the elect
that someone had poisoned her who would be
greatly benefited by her DEATH
Committees of tobacco manufacturers in Ha-
vana have protested TO Gen. Weyler against
any suspension of his proclamation prohibiting
the expectation of tobacco, representing TO him
that such expectation if continued will close
the factories of the island.
An engagement at Cangas, near Madruga, be-
tween 500 Spanish troops, partly cavalry, aud
200 insurgents, according to Spanish reports
resulted in the defeat of the Cubans with great
loss Several Spanish officers and soldiers were
wounded.
Bombs placed in the railroad tracks between
Jucaro and Cardenas last week resulted in the
blowing up of freight train and the wound
| ing of % soldiers and six employees of the rail-
| road.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies has been
asked 10 grant authority TO prosecute Gen.
| Baratier who had command of the troops at
AdOwa, where the Italian arms met with the
worst defeat ever sustained IN modern times
| by civilized army in battle with bsrbarians.
The charges against Baratieri are that he at
| tackled the Abyssinians under conditions where
victory was impossible and from inexcusabls
motives; also. that he abandoned the army two
days, when his presence was Of the utmost im-
portance.
The loss Of the schooner Lincoln. with 30
passengers. mostly gold seekers. aboard in
Alaskan waters, was reported at San Francisco
! last week by the schooner Albion.
| Earthquakes occurred in Costa Rico last
week.
Fresh massacres are reported to have oc-
Cured in Crete. and many Christians and
Mussemans are believed to have been killed.
Savannah Customhouse officials are keeping
close watch on the steamer Yigilant, which
! is fitting out in that llarbor under the preteKt
of taking a Boston party on a pleasure excur-
| sion. Tho steamer is one year old. very fast,
and it is thought will be used a fiji bnster.
Capt. Napier's column is reported to have
! had sharp fight with the Natabele, killing
200 and wounding many more.
Judge Hoyt II. Wheeler, in the United States
District Court, New York, has held tina, the
| Joint Traffic Association does not come within
| the inhibition of the Interstate Commerce law,
nor within the scope of the Antitrust law of
1890, and dismissed the equity suit of the
! United States against the = association.
DIR. Richardson, of the American School of
Archaeology. who recently discovered the site
| of the ancient Crock city of Eretria and other
| important relics, has found the remains of an
ancient theater and a key to the topography of
| the Cornth of olden times.
At banqnct in London on Saturday even.
ing, rendered to Consul General Collins by the
| Consuls Of the United Kingdom, Henry Wat
terson, OF Louisville. made a sensational speech.
Count Mutsu Mnnemitsu, Japanese Minister
| of Foreign Affairs, has resigned, owing to i'll
health. Inouye ki, Minister of Education
will act as Minister Of Foreign Affairs ad in
term.
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson has applied to the
Havana authorities for permission TO visit the
camp of the insurgent leader, Gen. Antonio
bIaceo.
Abdulah pasha, the new Governor OF Crete,
at the head of an Imperial force, has relieved
the beleaguered garrison Of Vamos.
The French Government has decided to pro.
claim the Island of Madagascar to be a French
colony.
Tornadoes and heavy transforms destroyed
life and property in Iowa and Michigan last
week. The killed will exceed 200. aud proba-
bly, twice that number were more or less in
jured
AT Victoria, B. c.. an electric car fell through
a bridge. 1t is believed over 100 persons were
killed 81 were found.
The ceremony of crovning the Car and
Czarina At Moscow was the occasion of one of
the most brilliant royal displays ever seen in
Europe. The weather was fine. Tho Gar
issued manifesto RENTING arrears of taxa.
ton, reducing the land tax, and quashirg all
petty convictions. Exiled criminals had n
third OF their sentences RENTED, and life sem
fences were committed to 20 years. Mr.. Breck-
inridge. United States Ambassador gave n dim
ner aud solree TO distinguished Americans in
Moscow.
Barney Barnato has visited Pretoria and
seen President Kruger in behalf of the Reform
prisoners. urging that the heavy punishment
which they have already undergone had vim
dcated the law. 1t is understood that the
Boer President assured Barnato that he was
doing everything in his power TO secure the
release of the condemned men.
Judge Helm, at Newport KY, has refused
Scott Jackson the murderer Of Pearl Bryan.
new trial. Jackson will hang in August
The Cuban Junta, with Headquarters at New
York City, has issued a warning against all
persons soliciting aid for Cuba, excepting only
the Army Sanitary Corps.
Alphonso Cutaira, jr., was convicted in Phila.
| delphia, last Friday, of the murder of Johanna
| Logue, the wife of Jimmy" Logue, the noto-
| rious burglar The crime occurred in Febru-
airy, 1919. l>ORuc jeIt MS WIG III New
| York, she returning to Philadelphia, while he
| went to Boston. She disappeared. In October.
| 1898. the skeleton of woman was found in
the house occupied by Cutsra and the Logues,
and Cutaira indicted for murder The
| husband was a witness against the prisoner.
To secure possession of s., 600 in bonds was the
object of the murder.
| dispatch TO the Paris Temps, apparently
old from Pretoria, says that John Hays Ham
mond has been paroled and has gone to johann
nesburg. where his wife is ILL.,
The work Of the sanitary officers in Cairo in
inspecting cholera-infected quarters led to q
riot Monday.
Parliament reassembled Monday after the
| Whitsuntide recess. In the House of Commons
Mr.. George n. Curzon denied the existence of
any correspondence with Germany on the SUBJ
ject of the Soudan.
The Premier, Senior Canovas del Castillo, has
denied the rumor that Gen. Weyler has re-
signed.
An article appearing in the Nineteenth Century
written by Seymour Ford, Private Secretary to
Henry Brougham Loeb, when the latter was
British Commissioner to South Africa, has