Logansport Reporter (Newspaper) - January 21, 1896, Logansport, Indiana LOGANSPORT REPORTER VOL 13 NO 46 TUESDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY 21 1896 TJEN CENTS PEK WEEK BAYARD EXPLAINS 2ioo Weekly Reporters Ambassador to England Tells the House About His Speech SAYS HE WAS INCORRECTLY REPORTED Without Premeditation or Notes and HUB Xo Means of Correcting the He for Fair Tieat munt by tlie House Washington Jan 21 in the house Monday a joint resolution was agreed to authorizing a change of plans for the public building at Bloomington HI The presidents reply to the house resolution calling for the correspond ence in the state to the speeches delivered at Edinburgh Boston England by Am Bayard was delivered by one ofthe presidents secretaries The president transmits u report from the secretary in addition to other papers and says In response to that part of res requests information as to the action taken by the president concerning the speeches therein re ferred to 1 that no action has taken such as is indicated in the cor respondence herewith The secretary of states report after citing the simply presents the cor respondence with Mr Bayard on the subject and says that aside from these communications no action has been taken by the department The first letter is from Mr Bayard to Secretary Olney dated London December 12 in he says he observes from the in England the action of the house of representatives looking to his impeachment and incloses a printed copy of the Edinburgh ad dress Mr Bayard adds Ambassador Bayard In the absence of precise the test of the resolution saia to have Thats how to reach The Country Buyers Put Locals or Displays in the Weekly Reporter committee in the report Monday on the urgent deficiency carries for these courts He Kills attention to the growth of ex penses of more than 300 per cent from 1885 to 1896 Fees for United States commissioners it is in creased for the fiscal year 1890 to for the current year and witness fees from to 500000 PERISHED BY FIRE Theater Burns In Killed St Petersburg Jan dispatch from capital of the gov of that name in South Bussia gives the details of a fire that occurred in causing large loss of life The fire was discovered while aper was going on The specta tors became and made a wild rush for the exits them were knocked down trampled un NOT UNANIMOUS Senate Committee Divide d on the Davis FULL OF THE MAJORITY REPORT II That Any Extension ol For eign Dominion on Thin Continent to der foot and rendered unconscious The building was of wood and the fire Washington Jan Numerous pe titions were presented iu the senate Monday md referred to committees in of the Stone to im migration level of ihe great lakes service pensions the of Cuban the retirement of greenbacks and relating to the Transvaal republic Senator Davis rep from the committee on foreign relations report ed preamble and on the Mon roe doctrine as follows The Monroe Doctrine Resolved bythe senate the ot representatives concurring that President Monroe In his mes eape to congress on December 2 Anno Domini 1823 deemed It proper to assert as a principle In which the rights and Interests oi tlie United States are Involved that the American continents by the free arid In dependent condition which and maintained were thenceforth not to be considered ar subjects for future oni by any European power And whereas President Monroe further declared in that message that the United Many of States would consider any attempt by the Tin allied powers of to extend their of this hemis to any spread with great rapidity Before I all of the people could tne fret the theater was a mass of dangerous to ous peace and safety that with the existing colonies and de flames The scene outside was Those who had relatives and friends in the that declared theater rushed about wildly crying for Ing them help to save them Every effort war made to savs those in the burning build ing hut was so intense that the governments who their independence and maintained It and whose Independence have on great consideration and just prin ciples acknowledged we could not view any or controlling In any v ti ivi Every effort was manner their destiny by In any other as tne the burning build ot an unfriendly adopted by the house and for some time it was impossible to ap ing to anticipate the action of either or j proach the structure Even hadit been approach the efforts to save those inside would have probably been fruitless as they were probably suff before the fire reached them After the ruins had cooled off suffi a search was commenced for the dead Fortynine bodies have al both houses of that in the course of the discussion refer ence was made to the of the respectfully advert to subsections In or der that your attention maybe drawn to the fact that the address In question was delivered before an Institution purely literary and scientific In Its Character and with political which has honored two of my official pred with similar Invitations which In had subjects political In their nature and law of tho hay Ing been treated with No political canvass was pending or approaching In this country when roy ad dress was no interference or anticipation in local or party political con cerns In this country was therefore ble consisted of opinions upon governmental Institutions In moral forces and tenden cles them and the govern mental In the con servation of the freedom of the individual as an essential Integer of human progress of the permanence of civilization The judgments so delivered were formed by careful in their presentation facts and arguments tending to sustain them were advanced When the congress shall have concluded Its action on the subject It is possible that I may desire to submit a further state meanwhile I consider it proper to place before you the address itself In full and the facts connected with Its de livery Spoke Without Premeditation and Kotes Sunday discrepancies Bayard writes obvious In these the two re ports they are such as are usually Incidental under similar circum to the remarks attributed to spoke without premeditation without notes unaware of a reporters have no means except recol lection now somewhat to enable me to correct either report shall not although It is obvious the reporters failed to catch my words In But are and accurate to describe and general remarks vN 1 also enclose herewith two additional copies of the address I made before the Philosophical Edinburgh on November 7la3t If It is gather the port and moaning of my statement It would appear to be necessary that phrases should not be separated from the contest but that all the parts considered In their relation to and as the of taken out A number of persons who were known to have been in the theater are and scarcely any doubt that their bodies will be found later in the ruins JOHN B ALLEY DEAD Millionaire and rector of the Union Pacific Boston Jan B Alley of Lynn Mass died Sunday night from paralysis aged 78 years itr Alley was an in congress ah of Pacific railroad and a pioneer of the old free soil party He began life as an ap prentice in a shoe factory and was worth several million dollars died Mr Alleys political career began in 1S52 election as alderman in Lynn The next year he in the governors council later in the Massa and in 1353 he wasa member of the constitutional conven tion arid freesoil chairman of the state central committee entered congress and served four years He was connected with Oakes Ames in the Union Pacific enterprises It is Denied s Washington Jan flat denial is given at the war department to the from Florida that the state to put the Florida troops in readiness to take the field at a mo ments notice In the first place it is said the president has no constitu tional or lawful authority to make such tlon towards the United States further reiterated In that that It Is im possible that the allied powers should ex tend their political system to any portion of without endangering our peace and And whereas the doctrine and so proclaimed by President Monroe have since been repeatedly asserted by the United States by executive declaration upon occasions and to the particular occasion and exigency caused them to be first announced and have been ever since their promulgation and now are the rightful policy of the United States Therefore be it resolved That the United States of America reaffirms and the doctrine promulgated by President Monroe In his message oT 2 1S23 and declares that It assert and maintain the doctrine and those principles and will regard any infringe ment thereof and particularly any attempt by any European power to take or acquire any new or additional territory on the American continent or any Island ad jacent thereto or any right or sov or dominion in the same In any case or instance as to which the United States shall deem such attempt to bV dangerous to Its safety or by or through force purchase cession occupation pledge colonization protec torate or by control of the easement In any canal or other means of transit across the American Isthmus under unfounded pretension or in cases of alleged boundary disputes or under any other unfounded disposition toward the United States and as an Inter position which it would in any form for the United States to regard with indifference Report Not Unanimous The concurrent resolution Was placed on the calendar Senator Gray dem a member of the commit tee on foreign relations stating that the report waf not an unanimous one The resolution heretofore offered by Senator Sewell rep N 0 placing limitations on the Monroe doctrine and condemning mes Senator Sewell addressed the senate upon it 3he Sewell Senator Sewell talked for a long time In support of his resolution and argued a request nnd in the next place there that Mr Clevelands far is no emergency that would justify the in advance of what was contemplated D v t 41 calling out of the 1200 men who make up the Florida militia Production of Pig Iron Philadelphia Jan bulletin of the American Iron Steel associaI lii the Monroe doctrine and that the effect of it would be the establishment ot a protectorate over Mexico and over each of the South American and Cen tral American states No action was on Senator Sewells resolution tion says The total production of pig but senators Wolcott rep Col and 3ron the United States in 1695 was the dem Va gave notice of their In tho crave ot their j largest in our iron making history intention to address the senate upon it instituted inquiry into what has been said and done by me on the occasion referred to including the circumstances attendant may not be unreasonable for me the hope that In simple publication of the remarks undergoing criticism may accompany the expression of any Judgment they may arrive at In the premises The message was rof erred to the Mr Cannon rep 111 reported the deficiency Calendar On motion of Mr Hull rep la the into committee of the Mr Payne rep N Y in the chair to consider the military academy appropriation The was reported favorably to the house and passed Promotion for Gen Kilos Mr Hardy Ird a resolution looking to the recognition of the serv ices of Maj Gsn Nelson A Miles The resolution revives the grade of lieu tenant general in order that when deemed proper to recognize the dis services of Gen the law reviving the grade to expire on the retirement of Gen Miles At oclock on motion of Mr Cannon adjourned of Tonra Dead Paris Jan 21 Cardinal William Meignan archbishop of Tours Cannon for toward increase in the expense United States courts attacked Chairman Cannon of the amounting to 9446308 gross tons I Wednesday and Thursday against 6657388 tons in 1894 The 1 progress was made upon the house production in 1895 was 243605 tons bin with the free coinage more than in 1890 when our largest reported from the committee on previous production was attained finance Senator Jones dem who has charge 5f it gave as a reason for not pushing that sev oral senators who desired to speak upon was lound dead in bed at his place at not yet prepared and wanted Ul ucu uu j Tours Monday moving more tune to get their speeches ready Senator Hill dem N Y hinted In 1817 and Springfield In the States court Monday W S Har peri of Bast St Louis was a ver dict for defamation of character for against John Scullin a promi nent and wealthy citizen of St Louis Harper sued for Holiday Washington Jan to make Lincolns birthday February 12 a legal holiday was introduced by Representa tive William Alden Smith of Michigan In the house Monday Sle N Y Jan Helen has sent a check for WO college to found a schol ion tor Economy WO to tu her in the lie oab kills a wrea he will Tall break year a bone before the end of tlie that the vote was bade until after the election of the two senators from Utah Senator to provide for proper disposition of the of deceased members of the senate and house of representatives who die at the capital the sessions of congress was then taken up Objections to some of rbe provisions of the were sug gested by Senators Platt rep BRITAIN IS INVITED ti Evidence to trio Jan Vene commission lias gov ol Great Britain to submit to it all of the in possession to further the ol i he commission to be repre il bi attorneys and all of this 1he that such representation and shall not be deemed an abandonment of any rights or heretofore assumed It has done this in thut the pro of the commission may not be to be that the truth may appear anri that tune may be saved in the inquiry with which the commis sion is charged The invitation goes in tlie shape ola letter to Secretary Olney who has made response saying that he Las trans mitted a of the commissions views to the two governments con cerned These facts after the the commission Monday although the letter was drawn up and pent to the secretary of state at its last meeting Wednesday January 15 It cannot be said is 51 a from both parties to the boundary contro although the courteous terms in which the suggestion is touched and the widu latitude of reservation per mitted each party leads to the natural hope that the invitation will be ac Mondays place for the first time in the new quarters of fie commission in the Baltimore Sun build ing on F street The first business was the election of officers and first of was who has earned a high reputation at the New York bar and also in Washington Mr was named as secre tary of the commission be in daily attendance the commission of Ithaca N Y was selected as one of the stenographers 10 will be employed and Walter of the District of Columbia was appointed a messenger A few other appointments will be made here after as the need for further help ap pears HEAVY FAILURE Hal Va rep dem W and Hawley The referred Toledo p Jan Eugene V Debs on Monday night asserted would retire from the tJ and will enter field of journalism aa he hadre offers New from to his own He accept the offer of Chicago pa per Smith Stoughton Mens Shoemakers Forced to Hake an Jan Smith and ton manufacturers of mens shoes as signed Monday afternoon to Charles W 1iefield and Charles H with liabilities exceeding 5300000 The firm is composed of F Smith of Brook line and J EM ot Whit man Mass and has been in existence j years It had a at Whit mnn headquarters and wholesale es at 77 Bedford street this city and en retail stores in Chicago St Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Cleve land Louisville and Milwaukee The firm in the past has done a business but of Lite Las been unfortunate and competition and high price of leather have curtailed profits until it ran be hind rapidly The heaviest creditors are banks and leather merchants V CRUSHED BY A BIG TREE A Pennsylvania Farmer Are Fatally Hurt Pa Jan 21 Daniel Sheets a prominent farmer Mills was instantly killed his two little children and seven 3 ears fatally hurt John Ehodes se injured and Mrs Sheets badly bruised in an accident on Chestnut ridge night The party was returning home from church in a sled While ascending the Laurel hill a large tree fell across the sled in which they were sitting A the tree passed entirely through Mr Sheets The chil dren were crushed ina terrible manner and Baiter had his back broken Baker and the children will not recover Ehodes was badly hurt but there are chances for his life Mrs Sheets es caped serious injury Funeral of Hon Frank Lawlor Chicago Jan 21 The funeral of iron Frank Lawler Monday was accompanied by the largest popu lar and official demonstration of a civic character since the funeral of Carter Harrison Thousands carce to the humble family home and to the church on foot and in carriages at least 20000 people assembling on the streets In the funeral cortege were SOO carriages being loaded Avith floral offerings City policemen firemen letter carriers grand army veterans civic officials al dermen past and present secret so nnd the Marching also remains and the mourning family to the church and cemetery Venezuela Boycott England Caracas Venezuela Jan 21 The presa ami people of Venezuela have de clared commercial war against Eng land The newspapers publish daily this notice in display type To the People Whoever buys English prod increases the power of Great Brit ain For two months from January 15 the press dally ol Venezuelan and foreign merchants any manner with England or her colonies Death from a Catue Wis Jan A peculiar death occurred in Salem Sunday Sat afternoon Bryant BIoss the son of County Superintendent Bloss had his tooth extracted The started and every effort Compare our Woolen Garments and Prices with the most favorable you can find in Logansport or any where else You will thus prove is best to trade at our store If quality is a consideration with you there is a double reason for buying here If style is wanted there is reason If you want the latest novelties and colorings in suitings you can get them at Carl W Keller 31 1 Market St MAY SOPS ACT Be cognition of the Cuban Insur gents Said to Ba Imminent PROCLAMATION ABOUT TO BE ISSUED It Is Said That the President Contem plates Such Action Owing to a Belief That Spain IsT Sell Cuba to England Nashville Jan man Benton McMillin reached the city Monday night from Washington and in an interview with him concerning Cu ban affairs he said he had good grounds for the statement that Presi dent Cleveland in a few days will bend i message to congress Cubans as belligerents Mr McMillin says he us satisfied this will be done rumors connecting Bugland with tlie purchase of Cuba are bringing matters to a crisis Mr McMillin spoke with eness in regard to the early of the revolutionists Have Support ot Congress Washington crisis has been reached in the Cuban war Kec of the belligerency of the pa triot army by the United States is immi nent President Cleveland is said to have prepared a proclamation which may be issued in the immediate future The president it is said will issue a proclamation immediately Authori ties agree that the executive and not congress should take the initiative Congress vill support the president heartily Senor Palma Cuban party in the United States says Om case it complete The president and congress will recognize the insur gent cause Senor Palma tbat it is not necessary that the insurgents should hold a port but that as a matter of fact Gen Gomez has taken half u dozen ports in the last week leaving the Spanish army penned up Belligerency can be recognized when insurgents have established themselves on a basis of apparent by military establishments able to compete with the armies the parent country and have established a form of government In Sympathy with the Cause Washington Jan senate on foreign relations charged with the investigation of the Cuban situation of which Senators Sherman Morgan and Lodge are the members on Monday morning dis cussed the matter referred to them for an hour and a half It can be said that these are a unit in their opinion as to what certain ditions should be done They are each of the recognition of the in as belligerents but they have been unable to convince themselves that the time has come for such a reso lution or that the insurgents have ac that which will justify the United States in taking such steps It is believed however that this sub committee will report material prog ress when the full committee meets Wednesday If they are confronted with the convincing fact that the in have not done that which jus the passage of a resolution by congress asking the president to grant the recognition asked the committee probably do the next best thing and order a favorable report on a reso lution declaring the sympathy of this government with those in rebellion against the Spanish government and expressing the strong hope that they may ultimately triumph FIVE CHILDREN DROWNED They Break Through the Ico on a Elver Playing Ottawa 0 Jim the en tire population Of Cuba Putnam coun ty was Monday dragging Blanchard river fot the bodies of five children a girl and four boys drowned Sunday afternoon Three children of John Shuman and two children of George were the MORE SPAIN Sixteen Soon to Start Under Two Madrid Jan 21 The organs protest against assertion of Marshal Campos that he ta the victim of political intrigue recall is due to his w a general and not to political sure of 16 at Gens Barges and mada willbe l Hazelton Pa Jan 21 The Valley passenger train from barre in charge of Engineer Michael Lonzer and Conductor George was precipitated mine near this place Monday night wedged between the gage car and the ground and crushed to death The fireman Fred crick Meyers escaped with a lacerated scalp Several injured y but all were able to walk to city Guilty Omaha Oan C appeared before Judge Fawcett Monday v and changed not guilty the charge of E Chap pie to guilty of The county attorney consented to changed plea which was accepted Ty the court and an order entered accord ingly The defendant was sent back jail to await senten ce which will later in Wants to Be Senator Manchester N H Jan 21 t as a candidate f or sea ate to succeed Senator term expires in 1897 The election take place at next years session of legislature TEE Grain Provisions JEVC CHICAGO Jan SL moderate demand and firm t 20 clears sea ends low grades A straights i fVa 2M bakers low grades A i Red Dog Rye and higher May July i V No 2 No Yellow January Q May July September i trading and higher x t May July firmer On track and free on No 3 No 3 No Xl No 2 White small KOL 2 lor 2 for No 3 January 2 f May steady 40c 7 air demand Poor thin Mod same batter ct Plump good to choice Bp to MESS active request scarce at 1060 for cash Tor January i SO for May moderate and fair Prices higher at 76 lor 55 lor January for May and in good dairies 10g17c packing stock LIVE 4j Geese per the basis of lor NEW YOKE and western 2 red fairly active strong May 67 June 67 3160 S easier May 2 dull bid 24i4c western Steady Unchanged Nominal IOM liberal supply tied creamery 16Q22c Fair changed i J Uve Stock to best iSO and mini cowa and bulls J 16 attempted to rescue the girl and heavy p drowned hipping U gpu to He was Highest of all in Leavening U S GoVt Report ABSOLUTELY POME A
