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The Florence daily tribune., 1898-03-28
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Under Sheriff V. S. Simon
spent Sunday at home.
The last meeting of the retiring
council will be held this evening.
There are rumors of an electrical
wedding in the near future-what-
ever that may mean.
Mrs. Celia Voodrey of Denver
was the guest of her mother, Mrs.
Provencha yesterday.
r. P. Davie and V. q. Reed
were in town yesterday looking
over the investment field.
Miss Myrtle G. Steel of Denver
daughter of Col. and Mrs. w. P.
Babbitt spent yesterday in town.
Several complaints have been
made lately of some ruffian who
has been insulting women on the
residence streets. z-ssl
Mrs. A. M. johnson is able to
be around ogain after severe
attack of grippe and pneumonia.
Her little adopted daughter is also
better.
l.. E. Davie, the father of w. H.,
the well known Palace pharmacist,
is in town. He has recently sold
his property in Michigan, and is
contemplating some investments
here.
1t was peculiar and not alto
gether pleasant meteorologically
yesterday, but alternatives of. keen
wind and high sunshine made
exercise in the open air exhilarat-
ing. Many cyclists took spin
to Canon, Cyanide or other
nearby places and there were
several teams on the roads.
The Rev. G. G. Warner repeated
his sermon on John the Baptist
in Florence" last night. At its
close he read platform providing
for tho closing of saloons at legal
hours and the suppression OF
gambling and suggested that
someone might move its adoption
by the Presbyterians, but there
was no response.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-03-28
Classified

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms New
brick house, newly furnished d-Good
location west end Main street on cor
ner-Ellison.
The Florence daily tribune., 1898-03-28
SHOES

Odds great
$780, that that sale
go '$15O
Lad up So sold ss5. close at 100
that sold $4.eo $125 They
must go, avail yourselves of these prices.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31
DRIVEN
 BACK BY
 AFRIDIS British Force Suffers Heavy Loss Near
 Shinkumar. Lieut.-Colonel L Houghton Is Among the
 Slain. Five Officers and Fifteen York shiremen Killed in the
 Combat. MANY OTHERS MISSING. Disastrous Attempt to Turn Back a Party of Natives Driving Band of Cattle.
Disastrous Attempt to Turn Back a Party of Natives Driving
 Band Of Cattle.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CALCUTTA, Jan. 30.-General West macott telegraphs from Camp Nam mani that the Fourth Brigade became engaged in a gorge near Shinkumar yesterday and suffered serious losses. Lieutenant-C Colonel Houghtons, Lieu tenants Sweing, Dowdall, Hughes and Walker, together with fifteen men of the Yorkshire light infantry and three Sikhs. were killed: Major Earle, Lieu tenant Hall, thirty-one men of the Yorkshires and two Sikhs wounded, Major Earle severely; and twelve Yorkshires are missing, including one who was wounded and captured by the enemy.
 It appears that a combined move ment was planned to cut off the retreat of number of Afridis who had been driving their cattle to graze on the Kajurai plain, west of Bara Fort Two columns marched from Ali Musjid and Jamrud to block the way north; a third column from Sara marched west ward over the plain toward the hills; while fourth, consisting of Sikhs, ad- vanced from Mammami with a view of getting to the rear of the Afridis and preventing their escape toward Bara- wiley.
 The first three columns performed their allotted movements without loss, meeting with very few of the enemy. The fourth. under Colonel T. N. Sep pings, left Mammami early Saturday morning. The leading troops reached Shinkumar-Kotila at 10:30 o'clock finding no opposition. Colonel Hough- ton, with the Sikhs, proceeded about a mile to search the caves.
 In h.A r-lx roI @f IA the kotal it was discovered that a company 6f Sill;ls had som how h..n withdrawn from the high ridge on the west, the key of the position, which the enemy forthwith occupied. To re- take this involved heavy losses Lieu tenant Dowdall was killed while charg- ing at the north of the pass. About midday the troops began to return to the camp, the enemy harassing the rear guard and left and causing many casualties. The rear column cleared the pass about o'clock with the as- sistance of General Westmacott. who came up with two guns and 400 rifles on receicing Colonel Sepping's message that the force had become entangled. The retreat was conducted admirably, the officers speaking in the highest terms of the gallantry of the troops
 Colonel Houghton's body has been recovered and search parties have started for the others. The column has been reinforced by 725 men from Bara and Colonel Sturt with fifty in- fantry, two guns and a squadron of cavalry will move to the front.
 The enemy's losses were severe, as they charged within thirty yards of the troops.
 General Sir Power Palmer, who suc- ceeded Sir William Lockhart in com mand, is preparing to make reprisals. Sir William Lockhart will arrive here to-dav
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31
SIX OF THE STORMS
 GANG ARRESTED.
Telling Evidence to Connect Them With the Murder of Mrs.
 Rathburn and Daughter.

BURLINGTON, la, Jan. 30.-Six mem bers of what is known as the Storms gang are now under arrest, charged with complicity in the murder of Mrs. Rath- burn and her daughter. Blood stains were found on the clothing of Storms. the leader. A lad named Peterson to-day told the police he called at the home of the Rathburns several weeks ago and found two men there. One of them he said, asked Mary Rathburn to fix his t.e. and the boy afterward identified the tie found on the body of Mary Rathburn as the one that had been called to his at tention that night. The supposition is that the girl tore the tie from her as- sailant in the struggle for her life Young Peterson also picked out the man Storms from number of prisoners and declared he was the man who wore the tie on the night he called at the Rathburn home. The police also say they have in formation that threats were made by members of the Storms gang against the Rathburns
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31
LAW PROTECTS
 AN ASSASSIN
French Statute of Limitation Gives a Murderer His
 Freedom.
Confesses His Crime, but the AuthOri- ties Are Unable to Have Him
 Punished.

Copyrighted 1898 by James Gordon Bennett.
 PARIS, Jan. 30.-Paris has a new sub feet for conversation. The case is sen- sational both in its criminal and its legal aspects Some weeks ago a woman of light morals called Marie Bigot was mur- dered in her apartment in the Rue Pierre le Grand The aaffir was very mysteri- ous and morbidly interesting, as the post mortem proved that she had been the vic tim of a peculiarly atrocious assault The murderer was searched for high and low. but he could not be discovered.
 Two days ago a police agent named Ro- dot was denounced as being the murderer of Marie Jouin, a woman who was found assassinated in her room in 1883. He was arrested, as certain analogous circum- stances in the two murders led the police to conclude that Rodou must also be the murderer of Marie Bigot- This he stren- uouSly denied. He, however, confesSeS to having murdered Marie Jouin in 1883.
 But here comes a point that has creat- ed a feeling of Stupefactfon in Paris. He cannot be touched for this crime, as the statute of limitations fixes ten years as the period during which a criminal is lia- ble to punishment for murder. It accord ingly steps in and protects him.
 Robots accuSer, 1t appears, was Q vag- abond named Frange. This man in- formed the police that Pierre Rodot, whom he had known from childhood. had boasted of having murdered Marie Jouin francs and a gold watch and chain. He even showed him the watch and chain, and out of the 300 francs repaid him a loan of 30 francs. When confronted by nied his guilt, but M. Cochefort, head of the detective service, being struck by his using the word 'mailloche" (wooden mal- leD, which figures in the evidence taken at the inquiry into the woman Jouin' s murder, made such clever use of it that he elicited a full confession.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31

to the navy from Massachusetts on Janu- ary l, ISIS, and was put on the retired list on April 24 1866, after forty-five years of service. He is now 96 years old and resides in Washington, and his son, Rear Admiral T. O. Selfridge Jr., when re- lieved of the command of the European squadron next month. will return to this country to live. Rear-Admiral Selfridge Jr. will be 62 years old on February 6 and will be retired then.
 Lieutenant-Commande Selfridge was appointed to the Naval Academy as mid- shipman on July 21, 1861. He, is now ex- ecutive officer of the monitor Puritan.
 :, Another officer who will be placed on the retired list on February 1 is Rear Admiral l.. A. Beardslee. He was born In New York and appointed to the academy in 1850. He saw considerable war service as lieutenant and lieutenant commander, and was commissioned com mander in 1869. He received his appoint ment as rear-admiral on May 21, 1885, He has just been detached from duty as president of the Examining and Retiring Board and will make his future home in South Carolina
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31
MURDERER IDENTIFIED
 THROUGH A DREAM.
And Now the New York Police Will Capture the Assassin Upon
 His Arrival

NEW ORLEANS. Jan. SO.-Chief of Po- lice Caster telegraphed to-day to the police authorities of New York to arrest Vincenzo Azarello, alias J. Nara, alias Paola Latino, who is aboard the steam ship Creole, and hold him for the murder of Rosario Cusimano here on January 19. Cusimano was a Sicilian, and had consid- erable money. Azarello is his godfather
 and a desperate and dangerous criminal. It is said he murdered nine persons in Sicily, where he was a noted brigand. He persuaded Cusimano, who worked on a sugar plantation. to visit him here, killed the young man for his money, by cutting his throat, packed the body in a trunk and dumped it into Broad-street canal. The police found the body, but were unable to secure Identification until Rocco Cusimano, a brother of the mur- dered man. came forward. He said he had dreamed that Rosario had been murdered, and came to New Orleans from Sarpy to examine the unknown corpse which had been lying in the morgue here for over a week, and which no one could identify. although thousands of Italians had viewed it. He was able to tell enough of the story to cast suspicion on AZarello.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31
MEANS LESS PAY
 FOR THEIR BEETS
Hawaiian Annexation Would Be Disastrous to Nebraska
 Farmers.
Sugar Manufacturers Will Be Com pelled to Cut Rates If the Treaty
 Is Adopted.

Special Dispatch to The Call.
 OMAHA. Jan 30..The manufacturers of beet sugar in Nebraska have a serious quarrel on their hands with the producers of sugar beets in the State. All the con tracts of the company this year have a clause inserted to the effect that if the Hawaiian annexation bill becomes a law the producers of beets shall be paid but 8 50 a ton, otherwise the price paid last year (Si ton) shall prevail. The farmers refuse to sign these contracts, and the Beet Raisers' Association has officially declared that no sugar beets shall be raised in the State this year This means of course. unless the Oxnards, who own the four big factories in the State agree to pay the straight price of $4 ton. The Oxnards have declared that if these con tracts are not accepted, but one of their factories will be operated in the State this year.
 This becomes a serious question in Ne braska for 5000 farmers are engaged in the production of sugar beets. the rev enue from that source alone being over eral thousand other Nebraska families who secure employment in the factories and the incidental industries. The owners of the factories declare that they are willing to do what they can, but that the admission of the Hawaiian sugar free in the ports of the United States will make this difference of % cents to them and they cannot afford to pay the old price for beets.
 The question has caused much discus- sion in the State. as one of the chief in dustries of Nebraska is menaced Farm CTS declare that they cannot afford to raise beets for less than S4 a ton
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31

Tn the House this week This will be the feature of the proceedings. While the full Republican strength in the House cannot be combined against the resolution, no doubt is expressed by tnose who have made it their business to canvass the situation that the ma Jorlty against it will be decisive As soon as the resolution is reported back rom the Ways and Means Committed Whlch may be tomorrow, the Rules Committee will bring in special order Tor its consideration. The time allowed Tor debate is likely to be brief, as the leaders do not believe there is any necessity for protracted debate, and moreover long discussion would measurably decrease the very purpose they have in view-namely, a prompt and decisive negative reply to the Sen ate's declaration. The remainder of the week will be devoted to the appropria- tion bills. The District of Columbia bill Is still under discussion and the Notifications bill is still on the calen dar. The House leaders intend to give appropriation bills the right of way in order to make an early adjournment possible. The moment the appropria- tion bills are out of the way the new rules will be brought in. and after that the contested elections cases and the bankruptcy bill will be brought for ward
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31
STYLES THE POPULIST
 PARTY 4 PLAGUE
Congressman Charles Curtis Speech at Kansas" Day Banquet
 in Topeka.

TOPEKA, Jan. S0.-Kansas day, the an- niversary of the admission of the Sun flower commonwealth into the Union was oberved by representative Republicans of the State here last night at a banquet given under the auspices of the Kansas Day Club. Fully 300 persons were pres ent. w. Y. Morgan of the Hutchison News, as retiring president, made the annual address. delivering "a strong ap- peal for party fealty. Congressman Charles Curtis, in replying to the toast Kansas" took occasion to condemn the State administration of the Populist party. He said:
 As sure as we are here tonight, the time has come in Kansas for all who love our State to suspend their dissensions. unite in common cause and thus r.d the State of the worst plague that has ever infected 1.-the Populist party.''
 Governor A. r. Riddle spoke on "A Talk to the Boys" and urged the neces- sity of united Republican party. J. R. Burton of Abilene spoke of ''Party Obii- gauons," and made a plea for partisan politics.
 ''Of all the corrupting influences that have ever appeared in American politics. nothing" he said, lis so vicious as that of fusion; nothing so tends to break down principle and to encourage a strug- gle. simply for place and power as does fusion"
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31
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LONDON, Jan. 31.--A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Shanghai says se- cret dispatch has been issued by the Tsung-Li-Yamen to certain high off, cials informing them that Russia warned China that if Kiaochau were granted to Germany Russia would de- mand either Talien-Wan or Port Ar thur. According to the same dispatch 1t is asserted at Shanghai on good au- thority that China consents to have Russians at the head of her customs and railways.
 At the present moment, says the Daily Mails correspondent. there are 10000 Russian troops in Talien- Wan and Port Arthur. Russian agents have been sent to Tfen-Tsin (the port of Pc king), and to Japan to purchase coal and food, 5000 bags of which have been bought at Tien-Tsin.
 The Daily Mall this morning says 1t learns from a source hitherto accu- rate" that China is inclined to make the best possible bargain with Russia. whose diplomacy appears to have tri- umphed at Picking, England having re- solved not to force a conflict by further opposing Russia's claims at Port Ar thur, and in the Liao-Tung Peninsula Japan. says the Daily Mails authority has been thrown into a state of con- sternation by the British backdown, and has adopted a more friendly atti- tude toward Russia.
 This statement, however, the Daily Mail admits, is incredible and prob ably a bluff with a view of forcing England to take decided steps," The Daily Mail counsels its readers not to be alarmed.
 BERLIN, Jan 31.-Newspaper com ment here is all on the text of Eng lands inglorious retreat, as indicated by the announcement of the Beriiner Tageblatt that Russia and England have arrived at an agreement whereby England has consented to drop her de- mand for the opening of Talien- Wan as free port. and Russia valves fur ther opposition to British control of the Chinese seacoast ports.
 The North German Gazette publishes a Foreign Office announcement that all applications to settle or open business at Kiaochau are premature the regu- lations regarding the news here being incomplete.
 The National Gazette learns that Turkey has given Russia permission to send the Black Sea fleet through the Dardanelles.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31
At the Same Time AlludeS to the Bravery of Hebrews
 in Battle.
REPLY OF L'AUTORITE.
It States That, Financially, France Is at the Mercy of the Men of
 Dreyfus' Feith.
Copyright. 1898. by James Gordon Bennett.

PARIS, Jan. 30.-Paul de Cassagnac's paper, L'Autorite, contributes to the Dreyfus controversy to-day. This con- tribution is a letter he has received. The writer Is an officer of high rank in the army. He is an Israelite and loy- ally gives his name. The writer first of all says he is a Jew, and that conse- quently In writing to NJ. de Cassagnac he is dealing with an avowed enemy.
 "Dreyfus is a miserable wretch" he continues. "Reinach, Arton and others are simply highwaymen, but Is our community the only one that counts such creatures among its numbers? |? Would it not be possible, with this sort of general argument, to condemn any other religious, cooperative or ethno- logical group? Even for the Jew there Is something to be said. I would re- mind you that one of the first officers to enter the breach at Malakoff was Captain See, a Jew. 1 would remind you that the last pareilelS were only traced under the deadly fire of the Rus sians. thanks to the coolness and fer tile resources of another Israelite of en- gineers, Commandant Hinsten. I would remind you that in this same campaign one of the chiefs of the medical service in that midst of cholera and typhus was Dr. Michel Levy, and have you read what General Ducrot, who was anything but a Philo-Semite, says In his Defense de Paris about Command ant Franchetti, killed by his side, and about Commandant Cahen, and in our last colonial campaigns, do you know that three Jewish officers fell Tn the Dahomey and Tonquin wars?"
 This fairly summarizes the letter.
 Paul de Cassagnac replies to it in equal good faith. Right and justice" he says, know no distinction. It would not be worth while abolishing slavery in Africa if it were to be established in France, but how does the Jew recom- pense those who have received him when driven out of Germany and Rus sia? They are everywhere. They are masters of the French treasury. In one morning on the Bourse they could provoke the bankruptcy of the country Here is a national danger. The coun- try is at their mercy. It is easy for me to recognize that there are excellent and patriotic and estimable Jews. The Jews have created Palestine in France, and soon they will try to ex- pei Christians. and the entire nation Is animated with a breeding hatred for the race that has provoked the Panama scandal and has attacked our military institutions"
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31
CAPTURE OF
 4 THIEVINC
 FUGITIVE Moses ROsenstock in the Custody of the
 Police. Charged With Elm bezzle- ment by His Father
 in-Law. Squandered Money of the Firm of David Wilson & Son,
 Baltimore.
CAREER OF DISSIPATION
Stole More Than Seventy Five Thou. sand Dollars, and Was Chased
 by Detectives for a Year
Special Dispatch l. The Call.

NEW YORK, Jan. 3O.-Moses Rosen- stock was arraigned in the Center street Police Court to-day on the com plaint of his father-in-law, David Wifi son of Baltimore, as a fugitive from justice. He was held pending the ar rival of reQuisitiOn papers from Balti- more. Rosenstock was arrested last night.
 MT. Wilson, the complainant, Is the senior member of the millionaire furni- ture manufacturing firm of David Wilson & Son, Baltimore. Thirteen years ago. according to the story told by MT. Wilfson in court to-day, Rosen- stock was compelled, through his gambling debts and entanglements to leave Germany. He came to this coun- try and after a short residence in Bal timore married MT. Wilson's oldest daughter, despite her fathers opposi- tion. Soon after that Rosenstock was given an important position with his father-in-law's firm, but after paying attention to business for a few months Rosenstock again plunged deeper than ever into dissipation. One day came the refusal of one of the firms largest customers to pay a bill of over $20, ,00O which it claimed, according to Mr. Wilson, had been paid to Rosenstock months before. When confronted with the evidence RoSenstock denied that he had received the money, but the matter was settled for a time by Rosenstocks accepting few hundred dollars and leaving town. He left his wife and five children behind. An expert was put at work on his books and MT. Wilfson states discovered that Rosenstock was $50, 900 short in his accounts. This was in 1896.
 His dissipation in Baltimore" said MT. Wilfson in court to-day, had all ready cost me oNer $75000 and when I found he had been robbing me besides I determined to punish him severely if he could be found"
 For a year and more detectives secured the country for Rosenstock He went. they learned, to Philadelphia, and after being in the employ of a firm there for a few months disappeared, having defaultcd in a small sum. Later he went to Pittsburg, and, according to the story, did practically the same thing over again.
 Rosenstock had nothing to say when arraigned to-day and greeted his fa- ther-in-law with downcast eyes. He showed little emotion when told by MT. Wilson that during the two years he had been absent two of his children had died. After he was remanded to the Tombs Rosenstock said he would prepare a statement showing the amount of money he had taken from MT. Wilson.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31
After a Large Contract.

OGDEN. Jan. 30.-Charles G. Moore of the boiler making firm of Charles G. Moore & Son of San Francisco left for the contract for $50,0O0 worth of boilers for the new half-million dollar sugar plant, which will be built here this spring The contract is not yet let and MT. Clark representing the Moore company, re- mains here.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31
Ironworkers May Strike.

BELLAIRE, O., Jan. 3O.--It is thought that a big strike may be looked for at the Wheeling Iron and Steel Company's S works at Benwood. w. Va. The company last week gave it's employees notice of a reduction of from 10 to 30 per cent in wages after February l. The employees at the plate mill went out on strike last Monday. This afternoon the mill men met and rejected the proposed new scale. A strike affecting 500 men is probable.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31
Secretary AIger Improves.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 3O-Secretary AL gers condition tonight is reported bet ter. The fever which has been high during the past few days has subsided apparently stronger. He is not yet well enough to be moved so that his depart ure for the South is a matter of con lecture. He will not leave for at least a week.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-31
Poisoned Her Sister.

WOODSTOCK, N. B., Jan. 30.-Mrs. Canavan, of the parish of Kent, becoming jealous of her sister, Minnie Tucker, pur- chased strychnine, steeped it in a decoc- tion of tea, and gave it to her sister, who drank it, became i'll and died. The Coro- ner'S jury accused Mrs. Canavan of mur- der, and she has been arrested