Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-01-22

Blackburn, shot IN temple WITH
revolver, will probably die. Fourteen
farmers entered upon the Tolleston
clubs duck swamp and when ordered
off by the watchmen showed fight, and
the result is as above. The watchmen
arc in Jail.
BREViTiES.
Mark Hanna will soon announce
himself as n candidate for United
States senator. He made this admls'
sion to cX-Congressman Henry Il.
Morey, Of Hamilton, who came to
Cleveland as the accredited representa-
tive of Senator Foraker. II will an
nounce my candidacy said the ma
tional chairman. land believe | am
capable Of winning the fight alone.
We believe that we are entitled to the
place.
Fifteen little girls and boys are
dead rs a result of fire at the Buck
ner Orphan Home, at Dallas, Texas.
and nine others are seriously burned
and crushed. Three of the injured, it
is thought, cannot recover. The fire
completely destroyed the boys DOR
mitory. At first it. was thought that
only five children had been burned to
death. When the ashes had cooled
enough to admit Of search, scores OF
sympathizing. friends and neighbors
begun the task of finding the bodies of
the five whom it was known had per-
ished. The search had hardly been
instituted when the five bodies in the
ashes appeared. The search was con-
tinucd until dawn. when fifteen bodies
had been found.
A recent dispatch from Washington
say: ''The agreement between the
United States and Spain regarding
tue terms to b. granted to the Cuban
Insurgents is practically concluded. 1t
is neither treaty nor Il diplomatic
memorandum. 1t is compact or
agreement between the United States
and Spain upon the terms that Spain
is willing 10 grant the insurgents. 1t
provides for the capitulatlon and par
don of the insurgents, for whom Gen.
eral Gomez is expected to sign the
treaty. Some minor details are to he
arranged and the measure will then
be laid before congress. The provis-
ional draft of the new terms was en-
bodied in a lengthy communication
addressed to Scnor De Lone from Pre-
mier Canovas, and broughtfrom Mad
rid by special messengers. 1t is be-
lievcd Secretary Olncy has been taken
at his word IN his offer to compel the
insurgents to accept autonomy
London dispatch: Lord George Ham,
ilton. secretary OF state for the Indian
department, has just sent to the lord
mayor the statement upon which the
appeal for subscriptions for the relief
of the famine sufferers in India will be
based He says that districts with a
population Of 81. 900, 900 will he suffer
crs from famine until the end of
March. and that it may continue in
some parts until the end of June. In
other districts having 100000 900 of
people the distress may deepen with
famine for shorter or longer period.
while 100000 people in the native
states may be victims of famine. 1t is
estimated that the famine will cost
the Indian treasury at least from
$4,000. 900 to f6.00O:000. The Daily
Nails Bombay correspondent reports
that in all quarters the famine is daily
becoming more severe and widespread.
Heartrcnding scenes are reported from
the interior. At Jubbulpore men and
women reduced to living skeletons are
lying at the road sides. There are
terrible scenes at the burial grounds of
the Mohammetlans. which are much
.overcrowdcd, and where the bodies of
the plague-stricken victims recently
inferred are dug up to make room for
fresh arrivals.
Canton dispatch: President-elect
Mckinley has chosen United States
Senator John Sherman for the Office
of secretary of state. The venerable
but vigorous statesman who was in
the cabinet of President Hayes as sec
rotary of the treasury and has been
distinguished senator since 1861. ex-
cept for his term in the cabinet. made
a special trip from Washington to Can
ton to formally accept the tender of
the first portfolio. After his confer
ence with Major Mckinley, Senator
Sherman announced that he had ac-
cepted the state portfolio
San Francisco dispatch: Advices
from Honolulu via the steamer Mono
wal state that United States Minister
Albert 5. Willis died in that city on
9th, after several months illness The
direct cause of his death was pneu-
monia. which he contracted in San
Francisco early last year.
General Carlos Roloff, secretary of
the so-called Cuban republic, was
arrested in New York by United
States authorities for alleged breach
OF the neutrality act in connection with
q large tilibustering expedition which
left for Cuba on the steamer Woodal
{ last June. ATTIC. spending n night in
jail he was released on bali.