The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-02-15
NEWS ITEMS.

In the wreck of the Austrian bark
Mattea for Pensacola, at Palermo, be-
fore reported, the captain and six of
:he crew were drowned.
Steamers City of Seattle and Noyo
have sailed from Seattle, Wash, for
Alaska. The City of Seattle carried
600 passengers and the Noyo 200.
Senior Juan L. Cuestas, the president
of Uruguay ad interim, has exc
cuted his threatened coup d'etat and
has issued a decree dissOlving the as
sembly.
The house committee on Indian af-
fairs has reported favorably a bill to
ratify the agreement with the Co.
manche, Kiowa and Apache Indians in
Oklahoma
Arrangements have been made to
transport the remaining detachment of
government relief expedition on the
steamer Lucille, which sails from Seat
tie next Sunday.
The official confirmation of the as
sasSinatiOn of President Barrios came
Thursday to the state department in a
cable from United States Minister Hun
ter at Guatemala City.
According to a special dispatch from
Paris the Chinese government has
agreed to pay an indemnity of "a, 600 to
M. LyandOt, the Frenchman kidnapped
by TOnquin pirates in 1895.
The Alaska Commercial Co. will start
a steamer from San Francisco in about
a week for Unalaska. This steamer,
the Bertha, will carry mail which will
reach Dutch island about March l.
The Union Beet Sugar Co. has let
contract for a $500, 600 beet sugar fac
tory to be located near Santa Maria,
Cal. 1t will be connected by rail with
the Southern Pacific near Gaudaloupe
The torpedo boat Cushing sailed from
Key West for Havana Tuesday even
ing. Adm. Sicard, who was given
leave of absence several days ago, will
resume command Saturday of the
feet
At NOwata, Kas., John Wilson, city
marshal, in attempting to arrest a man
named Dwyer, a whisky peddler, has
been shot by Dwyer. The marshal in
turn shot Dwyer. Both died within Is
minutes.
State Senator Robert j. Handy, who
has been prominent as the leader of
the AddickS' faction of the republican
party in Delaware, died suddenly
Thursday morning at his home in HOl-
ly Oak, Del.
The board of control of the Joint
Traffic association met in New York
Friday and adopted a resolution con-
tinuing the west-bound rail and lake
rates of 81 cents on firSt-class freight
to Chicago for one year.
Justice Sanford, of the United States
court at Tacoma, Wash, has granted
an injunction restraining the treas
urer of Lewis county from selling
Northern Pacific railroad lands for de-
inquent taxes of 1891.
A special to the New York Herald
from Buenos Ayres says that advices
from Rio Janeiro are to the effect that,
Japan has made an offer to Brazil to
purchase warships now in course of
construction in Europe
The queen regent is much concerned,
it is said in court circles, over the I'M
expected De LONE incident. Premier
Sagasta, Colonial Minister Moret and
other members of the cabinet, were as
tonished and much displeased, with the
minister
Alexis ClaremOnt, who carried Uncle
Sans mail on foot from Green Bav,
Wis, to Chicago &C years ago, is dead,
aged 81. He repeated the trip during
the Worlds fair. He was born in st.
Ignace and served in the Black Hawk
war in 1892.
Among the passengers on the steam.
ship MaripOsa, from Australian ports.
were so stalwart miners, who are. on
their way to the Alaskan gold fields.
They stated that at least 5000 people
would leave Australia for the gold
fields during the next few months.
The Washington correspondent of
the London Daily News says: iPresi-
ident Mckinley is resolved that Spain
shall have no vestige of an excuse to
pick aquarrel with the United States.
and Spain can diSown Senior De Lome;s
ntterance without. the slightest loss of
dignity.
At Topeka, .Kas., Judge Hazen, in
the state district court, in a decision
JNoO CNs iI1O1OS UlldO d bicycle is
tool and essential to a mans profession
or occupation, and that as such is ex.
exempt from execution. A citizens BIZ
cycle had been levied upon to collect
Judgment.
On account of increased Klondike
business the Canadian Pacific Tele-
graph Co. has decided to lay an addi-
tiOnal cable between Vancouver and
Victoria, British Columbia. The COM
pany is also stringing another heavy
copper wire between Montreal and
Vancouver.
The first of "a series,Of skating con-
tests between Joseph Donoghue,
the Canadian champion, and VIM.
Let's, of New Jersey, was skated
Thursday night at the Ice Palace. Phil
adelphia. The distance was one mile
and Donoghne won in three minutes,
As seconds.
According TO an official dispatch re-
ceived by Laza Arriaga, the Guatemal-
an minister at II o'clock Friday night,
there is no foundation for the raDor+