Daily Review, The (Newspaper) - December 21, 1897, Decatur, Illinois THE DAILY REVIEW VOL XIX NO 303 ILLINOIS TUESDAY DECEMBER 21 1897 TEN GENTS A WEEK Celestial Emperor Is Advised to Flee from Pekin BRITIAN WANTS HER SHARE Thinks She Should Be In on the Grand Grab Game MK TOO SAYS JOHN BULL London Deo to the Daily Mail fiom in of implications the latter still high the Chinese court have ad- vised Hie to tho tiom Peking to Nankin It is alsu have been to looking to her placing the the S and under hoi protection of Chinese on here do not conceal their the are intending to ports They discredit the that Britain has lu assume a ale the Kiting valley and West inci An unconfirmed is current that a pill ot the eastern squadron stationed at Wei this It rue this that Croat is winking in Wei pending the payment of the Chinese indemnity newspapers iie much dis- OUT the situation What do we is the ol complaint insist the necessity for ditto action that Franco is action If the of Russia and and Iho seaport follow suit The in a i on the sub- ject says that if a su.imlile fm the lion of bina has begun it is plain that and wiU great to will to have tho as will Franco ami the t States while Brit- ain's aie and more vital than those ol any other nation ing Tito Ue do not to a legitimate of the prises cif nations in the oust hut if acquisitions ate to he made it would be for those i lo understand fur all 1 hat we do not intend to lie left out in the reckoning To put it plainly the of tho Russian Hoot at Port Arthur and of man sailors and soldiers at bay alters the of pow or in those re- gions The British government must re- seive to right of considering how it can be to our advantage If it becomes a question of tion of naval happily are well able to support onr claims and interests Russian must expect to reel a distinct intimation that if she insist upon ing Arthur we will hi liberty to occupy similar position in the China seas CALLED OX C The German and lotion Sunday night during a heavy fug Salutes were exchanged today At Isle of Wight Prince of visited thp last will his to China today il the weather permits WAY TO SON Forged Notes to Pay for His Father's Defense Judge Vincent Admits that He Was the Victim Chicago Doc ad- mits lip forged names to notes amounting to and turned them over to ney William A Vincent and victimized that lawyer to the extent of a thousand dollars Arnold Luetgert is the son of Adolph now on trial charged with murdering his w ife and Vincent was chief counsel for tho sausage maker ing his list trial The lawyer the case when lie realized that he had been deceived and when tho stoiy that he had been an easy victim to young His Expedition into Eastern Cuba Has Been a Failure NO MATCH FOR INSURGENTS Cooped Up and Out Fought He Asks for Aid SWITCH STUCK And C A A Passenger Crashed Into a Freight PANDO CALLS FOU HELP Havana Deo of- was first suggested campaign seems to have become to suppress the details lie finally one ol defense He is not able to make uny ted Unit the young had him of headway against the insurgents led by on notes In spite of the reports and deposited them with him to his published it is known that the sil- fce in the murder case and ot Spanish is desperate silf in the presence of witnesses entirely cut off by tho insurgents t 1 the no reinforcements can be sent there Arnold laughed when it was suggested that trouble might come of it Ho considered it a joke on Vincent lias cabled lo General Blanco asking tor reinforcements He says in of the situation all It is a matter between Vincent and me If he don't holler it is nobody's business 1 did admit to Vincent that I signed er name besides my own to tho notes and am ready to stand by it There is body else in it loo but T am willing o take the blame and stand for the whole thing I ain't and holler won't do him no good Doe Pasha and other liave arrived it Kassala to arrange to lake over the place fiom the Italians Troops not until Thursday Tho town of under the agreement the Italian and Brit ish about to be taken over by the in interest of Egypt iq one of he three lie Soudan lip being and IS NOW AT HOMK Dec ponden of tho Cologne that he from that the of Pirt is connected with a visit of the Daphne a week ago when in spile of the protest of Chinese the Daphne entered the inner alleged in ascertain whether or not he ships were ther China complained nl ho incident lo of ho powers at Pekin far eastern squadron is said to bo at and is shortly expected at Arthur Tho Gazette regards the occupation as merely a con- of the of Germany with in eastern Ana SAYS ITS NOBODY'S BUSINESS SI Petersburg Doe de- clares that the occupation of Port Arthur has nothing political behind it ft must lie n matter of indifference to the powers who are planning seizures of Chinese territory as o which point the Russian squadron chooses its winter citation NKW ITALIAN SUITS Dec the chamber of deputies Marquis Di announced the of n now cabinet and de- bute on the subject opened After upon the of the Colombo former minister of the treasury submitted a resolution of want of confidence in the new government but the chamber rejected it liy a vote of 184 The majority obtained by the government is regarded as a moral de- feat It understood that though dis- appointed Premier Marquis Di will not resign but as all friends of the minuter of foreign affairs Marquis LIKES TO KILL NEGROES n Held for Murder Seems to Have a Mania Deo Curtis a prominent young white mail will bo tiled hero for murder All the point to belief that he has a mania for the of negroes case is one of coincidences Dining the war eral was assassinated by an ex- slave whom tho father of lulled bringing his head to who died after After the war killed two more for no apparent His son has his mania A shoit time ago no provocation he two blacks the BOH of the old general have to the sun ot his father's avenger COTTON GROWERS MEET Attributes Prices to Memphis Tenn Deo can Cotton Growers is in session here At the opening President Lane deluded the annual dross He said that at tho present price cotton growing would only yield thp planter ten cents a day for labor urged restriction of production The usual committee's were then appointed The association ad join nod sine die night after adopting a sot of resolutions one of which is to educate the collon growers to build factories for cotton roar cotton fields so the south may receive the largest returns from each annual crop and that home markets may bo build up for nil other farm ducts Cotton are also requested to reduce the acreage of each year to such a point as will insure a fair av- price to glower MERRY IN CHICAGO lie and His Alleged Accomplice Deny Charge Against Them Chicago Doc 20 Chris Merry charged with the murder of his wife and lames Smith an accomplice of arrived in Chicago today from Princeton Ky whore wore This both men confronted by Joseph whose confession they were arrested Iml they stoutly denied any knowledge of Merry death and were finally placed in jail pending an tion on Tuesday AMERICA AS SANTA GLAUS Our Christmas Presents to Europe Amount to Million and a Half New York Dec mas money order business at the New Yoik this year greatly exceeds that of any previous year The outgoing Eu- ropean mail has practically been closed but the incoming mail from foreign trios has just begun to All for- eign money order business is transacted through the Now York and a great mass of orders has been handled here this week Our presents to by money orders sent during he eighteen days of ber were in orders Thr largest number of orders 73.400 was sent to Great and Ireland representing Dishonest II in Fargo N D Deo The final of J N Hamvay the stockholders agent for the National Bank of Dakota which was headquarters for many tions run in this stale by E ley Mears which has boon under Judge Amidon United States court today was by ho court to show a shortage of Judge Amidon ordered that this sum he repaid once and appointed D 13 Holt United States as receiver to turn as sets to stockholders Hanway was later taken into custody on a criminal charge nnd placed under bonds Han way wan formerly a wholesale turer of dental goods in New York New Const Johns N B A terrible voted against the pale swept tlie island and did immense Ji expected he will tender liia to fishing and j leela WHAT THE SPANISH SUE Washington Dec following cabinet advices were at the ish legation Havana Deo I worthy reports permit us to hat Unix was shot with Friday order of Alexander After ters exchanged between Ruiz and left Havana on Monday o meet not upon an sion but only as a Jt is not known how arrived but the fact is hat that loader ordered the ing of both The ferocity of such an aet and bettor Ihan anything else the faith in autonomy the gents being obliged to resort to terror to prevent lie disbanding of their bands Such is the general opinion and public opinion unanimously qualifies such an act as and unworthy Signed Congosto BLANCO London Dec 20 The of The Blanco reports that linns with several insurgent chiefs are so favorably that he hopes to the im- portant forces which arc willing to cept autonomy Senor Do Lome has cabled ho that the American government expects to command a majority of the house of to check all Series of Collisions and Other on the Ball Pontiac Ilia Dec open switch on the Chicago and Alton railroad was the cause of a collision Sunday afternoon between the St Louis limited passenger due here at p in and a freight train on the side Irack The whoso duly it was to close the switch was un- to move it The passenger train was approaching He on tho track and signalled for it The engineer applied the air brakes and reversed his en- gine but it was and the ger wont clashing into the freight The seriously injured J C Blither of Ind man arm broken and badly bruised about tho head and face W Jones injured iniornallv lohn White Bloomington fireman in- jured internally L J Sutton Chicago baggageman slight bruises A 0 Atlanta Ills passenger bruised Miss Minnie Countryman Pontiac senger cut nnd bruised J C was riding between tho baggage oar and the tender The two engines and two freight cars aie total wrecks Damage to oars can easily be repaired The baggage and mails cars were detailed nnd had lo lie left ho baggage being transferred o another car The passenger lain was de- layed about three homs LOCOMOTIVE EXPLODED Ala Doc night on the Real Creek lagging road a tive exploded killing the engineer lorn the fireman Tack Clipper and two trainmen lohn lohnson and Henry Wickery Tho explosion was caused by a defective line TUMBLED OFF BRIDGE INCLINE St Louis Doc piloting a heavy freight train up the bridge incline Sunday an engine of the Railroad association lumped the track and plunged to the ground below Al was instantly ed Engineer 1 II and W 11 Colib of tho cnst side wore badly injured COACH CAUSES WRECK Castle Rock Col Doc half past T o'clock Saturday night a wreck curred at a point two miles north of tie Rock on the Rio Grande road in which thirty-three men were one or wo Suggests Changes and Exceptions in Civil Service LIMIT TENURE OF OFFICE This Would Prevent Infliction of a Civil Pension List notions July next until he slimmer recess in HAS A MISSION Madrid Doc a double loaded article to the effect that the mission in life of Weyler at present is to defend tho army and his in Cuba against insults loged ot have been contained in message and that be will ically protest to the minister of war and the queen regent against these insults NO FOU Til KM Now York Deo of the signed by the officers of the army corps of the Cuban army in the department of Las renewing allegiance lo the Cuban cause and iiitonomy wore in this city today This action by tho in Las Villas department opposition to autonomy cally unanimous among Cuban officers CIVIL INVESTIGATION Washington Dec of Evans today appeared before the senate committee on Civil Service retrenchment which is an investigation into the operation of the civil service system and its tion to the pension foice lie ex- 1 pressed opinion that the law did not accomplish the results its friends insisted did The host men in bis who had come in under the culled spoils They did their duty and expected to hold their positions by so doing EXCEPT EXAMINING BOARDS Pension examining hoards he said ought not to be in the classified service as it was desirable to secure men as bcis of such boards who had wide cal experience and army experience if and such men would not enter mro com petition for places with young men just out college the entire system of appointing was wrong and all of them ought to be under a uniform system of The commissioner believed tho head of In bureau was the tion o pass upon of a clerk and ho ought not to bo hampered in moving a clerk for inefficiency He thought it would be desirable to have a definite tenure of not ten years so thai every year about 10 per cent of new blood could bo infused into the force This do away with ibises resulting from somo clerks in too long J ho commissioner thought some reform have lo be enacted or the try would have inflicted on it a civil pension list Ho believed it was a tc include in the classified service special examiners medical boards chiefs of the divisions and all others receiving exceeding Dec Zertucha who was physician lo the late General An- tonic been appointed mayor of this province At he time the famous Cuban com- mander was killed was charged with leading him and liis parly into a fatal ambush but he issued a statement in which ho tried to show that Macoo met death in battle in the usual way wreck was the result of a collision a southbound passenger and a runaway chair car which started from Castle Hook broken the con- the rest of the train The oar was lint a part of the passenger train but contained about fifty of tho men who had boon employed in the service laying rails on the Rio Granite In two-mile dash it acquired headway and when it collided with the engine of he bound train tho engine forced itself half way tho car smashing tho frame of the car and the seats COLLIDED WITH A FREIGHT Am Doc Southern Pacific engine running at full speed down tho Dragoon mountain oast of Benson came in collision with a double header freight killing Engineer Patterson of tho freight nnd smashing ho locomotive nnd many of tho freight ears PUFFERY CAUSED TUTS Pa Dee train HI of loaded cars traveling down the mountain to his city tonight became in consequence of the condition of the tracks and crashed into a freight train standing in front of the passenger station About fifty ears wore completely broken up Fireman Bert Hall and lames Pressel minors were taken from the wreck iof i a carload of poultry was fatally I injured and Turner are jing and arc thought to be under the wreck HOUSK COMMITTEE Washington Doc committee appointed by the house civil service con- ten to draft of the civil service law mot today and went over various bills pending bo- the house Tho commit ice expects to have a measure framed by the time congress meets next month Its bers are opposed lo the present law as including too many offices within its score SUPREME CO CUT Washington Dee United supreme court adjourned for holiday recess today to convene again on tho third of January Before ing tl e chief justice announced ment of cases which had boon set for Tan tho more important of which are the To the 24th of Illinois tax cases Texas anti- trust cases and Kansas cattle quarantine case FAVA WAH Kome Doc Karon Fava has re- ported to the Italian government hat in his opinion war between Spain and he United States cannot be avoided STUELi IN London Dec from Vienna to the Daily Telegraph reports that there hue lieon sanguinary conflicts at several barracks at Prague in the last few days between Czechs and German soldiers men have verely wounded The authorities Czech newspapers that reported the OFFICERS CITIZENS Berlin Dre tunk reports nn unprovoked attack by a party of officers including Lieutenant Chevalier and Lientenant on a number of citizens in the Cafe Rappel at Krems Austria Throe civilians were badly wounded with swords before the police stopped the fray When asked to pay a Lieutenant attacked the waiter with his sword The officers were not arrested Gloucester nir boat Pec The schooner Anne and Mary carrying a crew of thirteen and the schooner lolin E carrying a crew of eighteen have been given up for lost Both Railed on a fishing trip to banks last Octo- ber and not since of Wisconsin Sent Vp Win Dec ler convicted Friday of murder was day sentenced to life Imprisonment at Butler murdered his wife on July 5 at Lisbon WILL FIGHT AGAIN Martin Julian Says Corbett and Fitz BERING SEA CLAIMS Commission of Arbitration Completes Its Work unU Makes Awards Huston Dee a week's con- in Boston Justices Putnam and King commissioners for the United tales and Canada respectively in of Behring sea claims have com- work for the present and itis un- will noon begin preparation of their reports lo their respective ments I The commissioners have gone over Hie disputed claims stop by stop It is un- 1 agreement as to the amount of indemnity claimed has been reached in aH but a few oases and those are likely to be settled without appointment of an umpire which was provided for in Iho convention authorising the commission The amount to be awarded Britain will bo paid within six months time Chicago Ills Dec lo more than manager for Bob staled in an interview Sunday that tjie lanky champion hud changed his mind and will again meet in the prize ring was mittal refusing to confirm or deny story and contenting himself with ing that he has not said that he will light A COSTLY FIRE Mermod Jaccard Jewelry House Completely Gutted Big St Louis Low Will Reach St Louis Dee fire started in the basement of the building occupied by the Mermod Jaccard Jewelry company at the corner of Locust street and way early Sunday morning and in an incredibly short time the building was completely gulled The total loss will reach ed by insurance It is thought the fire started in tho er room Communicating to the room and shooting up the elevator shaft it quickly spread over the building W the engineer and his family lived on the fourth floor They barely escaped with their lives The men dragged them unconscious from their beds and carried them down the fire cape Five minutes later the floors fell Several other tenants in Uio building bad narrow escapes but there no fatalities The Mermod company was one of Uio largest in the world and this being Christmas time carried an im- mense stock One half of tho slock hail been placed in large vaults nnd was saved The with ho building and its fixtures was totally destroyed The Model Clonk company in the east corner of tho building was wiped out sustaining a loss of on which there is an insurance of fourths The Mermod company pied but two floors and the basement of tho structure On the floor was ho repair shops A large amount of tho work had been finished and most of il was saved by tho salvage corps The 001 ps also saved a dozen or more Grand- father clocks ranging in value from to each and many old Vienna vases and valuable pieces of pottery Tho silverware melted by ho will lie found under tho debris of fallen There were over forty tenants in tho ing whose losses lange fiom to partially insured Tho firm carried insurance amounting to which if the stock ill UIB vaults is found intact will amply cover the Iocs sustained Tho firm estimated the value of the building at upon which was an insurance of Late Sunday night the burned out firm decided o continue in business nnd today transferred their stock o another store IHG DANVILLE STORK BURNER Danville Ills Dec Rule store of ly was burned this afternoon Losses are KALI CONCERN SCORCHED Co in plumbers machinists and leis supplies was damaged by firo today 1 i SON OF A SENATOR It Is Said He Can Tell All About that FiRlit Washington Doe dog fight in the stables ot Senator Shelby M threatens to into a scandal of dimensions Additional arrests been made and tho will again come up ill tho police court The son of Representative Charles V Cochran of Missouri has been notified n appear and loll what ho knows of the affair Ho is said lo be acquainted with those who were in the stable He de- nies that he was at the fight John A Green is said to be the owner of one of the dogs lie is also said lo have boon tho young man who Alice to witness the light He escaped from the building during the ex- Thomas Green a younger brother made a deposit for his appearance in he police couit Both are sons of John Uroen n retired merchant Tho identity of Alice the well dressed and good looking young man who occupied a sent carriage at the light has not yet been established The residence address shn gave was misleading The j believe the son of a senator ciin clear up mystery and he is being sought A j small colored boy employed in Senator Cullom's stables who might mation of value has mysteriously again Julian's statement was STREET Corporations of Illinois Will Meet and Form an Alliance Chicago Doc many street car companies in Illinois as can bo got into emphatic however to indicate j the scheme are to be united into an that he confidently expects the men to for mutual benefit and to meet again Some day before very long wo will give Corbelt another ho said Xo not now that is certain but before long how long I cannot say Asked if that was not a concession on pro ido for a common offensive and defensive alliance at a mooting to lie bold in this city Jan next The call for the meeting was sent out from and signed by W 11 Patterson president of the street car in that city It was sent tho part of Julian replied to all street car managers in the state it wan not as that idea had been in the mind of Fitr for some time It is announced hat Dan Stuart who managed the Carson City battle will Civil Suits Against Hartley Lincoln Neb Dec state of meet and Julian here this by the attorney general filed week and endeavor to arrange for a n suit today against ing between the big men for next Hartley and bondsmen for This is the amount which Hartley is charged with embezzling from the public school Coal to Meet during tho first two in office Pittsburg Pa Dec one of of similar crs of this district are in session here ar- ranging the preliminaries for a joint ing of miners nnd operators tomorrow to fix the mining scale ofr the next year Tommy Star Buffalo Deo of Nearly every mine in the district is Johannesburg South Africa who hss resented been touted as a second made Ms initial appearance in Jin Scan t ring tonight in what wag to New York Dee Inland one been twenty with Tommy of the family of famouS hotel men died of- Syracuse Heffernan was the easiest today aged 05 He retired from luet life several yean ago out in the third round DOESN'T FAVOR DEER Jack for kau Travel Seattle Wash Doc Dalton the woll known Alaska prospector after whom the Dalton trail is named in an in- speaking of tho proposed relief expedition of the United States ment lo Alaska The proposal to use reindeer teams does not strike me as being tho right thing Horses can bo used to much better tage Instead of reindeer the ment ought to get together a large ber of hardy horses Sufficient food should be taken along to feed them They can do much better work than reindeer I would use sleds for carrying the food for the men and provender for the horses To handle reindeer it would ite necessary to have relay stations a day's journey apart with food for the animals at these stations Mr Dalton in speaking of be- best route by which to take relief said would go over the Chilkoot and then down the likes and the Yukon river over the ice THE WEATHER t Washington Dec for Illinois Tuesday in northerly winds Temperature 7 a m noon S p m 30 midnight 27
