Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-09-18
TERSE NEWS.

! Sixteen Greek officers have been
| condemned to death for taking part
in the Cretan rebellion, and number
/ Of others are under trial
/! A recent dispatch from Madrid says
that the Spanish government has
resolved to proceed encrgetically With
| measures for the suppression of the
risings in Philippine Islands and Cuba.
| The members of the revolutionary
iunta in Madrid, who have been proved
| to be in correspondence with the
rebels and with refugees in Florida
and New York, have been sent for
| trial before Il summary court martial.
They include noted lawyers and two
! wealthy merchants.
| Corbett and Fitzsimmons, at their
in New York city, agreed to fight
to finish for $4,000 side. Each
man posted 5000. but as it is against
! the law to sign articles for II prize
fight in New York, it was decided to
meet in Jersey City, where the articles
will be duly signed. George Silcr was
selected as referee and Al Smith as
temporary stakeholder. 1t was
decided that the fight must take place
within sixty days after Corbett's fight
with Sharkey, or before March LIST,
next
A Cairo dispatch says Dispatches
Just received from the front say the
North Staifordshirc regiment, number
ing about 900, has arrived at Koshch
camp, the southcrnmost fortified post
on the Nile, and will be pushed for
ward to Absarratt. The Third brigade
reached Absarratt safely and the main
body of cavalry is arriving there.
Cavalry scouts report the DerviShes
still in view south of Duglo, but the
enemy retreats at the slightest sign of
! a forward movement. Anglo Egyptian
scouts, feeling the way for the advance
guard, are steadily pushing on to
| kasbar, fourteen miles further south,
which will be the next place occupied.
Information has reached this coun
try that the steamer Three Friends,
which left Jacksonville recently, has
again been successful in landing an
expedition in Cuba, in spite of the
watchfuincss of the Spanish war yes
sells which constantly patrol the coast
The expedition landed precisely where
! the Spanish navy department excrts
the greatest vigilance, on the coast Of
Pinardel Rio province. The cargo is
said to consist of 1000 rifles, 100000
cartridges. a pneumatic dynamite gun,
1000 pounds Of dynamite, 1000 mach
cites, medical stores and clothing. 1t
now attack the trocha in Pinar del Rio
ms soon as Gomez moves from the cast
upon Havana.
Zanzibar dispatch: The belief is
prevalent that Germany does not in
tend to acquiesce in the action. taken
by the British government through
| Rear Admiral Rawson in appointing
! Hammond Bin Mohammed Ben Said
! sultan Of Zanzibar. Said Khalid. the
| alleged usurper, has been at the Ger
man consulate ever since the fall Of
! the palace. August 81 and in spite OF
! the request of the British consul for
( his surrender, there has been no dis
/ position manifested on the part of the
!. German officials to give him up. 1t is
/ now said that it is the intention Of
| the German authorities to reinstatc
| Said Khalid to the throne from which
! he was dcposed by force of British
arms These rumors have caused
great enthusiasm in Zanzibar There
is a feeling that Germany is not acting
IN a friendly spirit, and is seeking to
make an issue with Great Britain.
In response to a note of the powers.
! the sultan has now ordered an trade to
be published commanding a summary
cessation of the expulsion of the Ar
| n,enians
At Louisville few days ago Palmer
and Buclncr were formally notified of
dent and vice-prcsident, respectively,
by the sound money" democrats.
On the 18th letters were sent to
Messrs. Bryan and Watson formally
notifying them of their nomination
for the presidency and presidency
respectively, by the peoples party.
In race between John L. Gentry
and Star Pointer at Glen Falls, n. Y.
John II. Gentry Cquallcd the worlds
pacing record, made by Robert J. at
Terra IIaute two years ago, going the
mile in 2:Ol y.
Al Armenian bomb factory has been
discovered by the police, in Constan
tinoplc located, it is said under
meath the Armenian church near the
Kassim Pasha cemetery. From the
factory a long tunnel had been cx-
cavatcd in tie direction of govern
mcnt pow der magazine, the intention
obviously having been to undermine
the magazine and blow it up.