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About Western news-Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1898-1900 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1900)
1 4 r H y U 4 u r 9 L I I f f H AROUND THE EARTH OCCURRENCES THEREIN FOR A WEEK CAUG HT IN CANADA HEAD OF FRANKLIN CATE RUN DOWN Brought Back to New York by a - Detective and Being Unable to Furnish 12500 Bail Bond Is Languishing in Jail v New York William F filler the head 4t the notorious Franklin syndicate in Brooklyn -which promised lo pay and did pay to many persons 520 per cent on in vestments and fled when the news reached him of his indictment for grand larceny and conspiracy by the Kings County grand jury has been brought back to this city JHehad eluded capture since November Ho was in the custody of dapt Eeynolds formerly of the Brooklyn detective bureau ho lost his place through his failure to prevent Miller from leaving the city Miller was arrested in Canada on clues picked up a few days ago Miller was in good humor He did not seem at all put out of disturbed by being in the hands oi Ihe police or in the slightest fear as to the future Chief D every was very anxious to Und out something of Millers doings since he left the city but Miller positively de- clined to say a word in that direction According to a statement made by Chief of Police Devery Captain Reynolds found Miller in Montreal Reynolds refused to go into details of his search and discovery of Miller He said that several days ago ho was furnished with clues of Millers whereabouts and was instructed by the hief of police to get him if he could In following up the clues Captain Reynolds said he ran across a man who knew Miller The movements of this man he followed until the latter and Miller met Millei took the matter very calmly He looks very seedy his clothing is soiled and he Jacks the air of a man who has made a fortune Miller was taken from police head quarters to Brooklyn and arraigned before Judge Hurd in tho county court He was held in 12500 bail which he was unable to furnish and was then transferred to the Raymond Street jail LAWTON IS AT REST Nation Pays Its JJast Tribute to the Brave Soldier Washington The mortal part of Gen lLawton was buried Feb 9 in the National Cemetery at Arlington Tho services at 4he grave were preceded by those at the -Church of the Covenant where President J M Striker of Hamilton College New York delivered a funeral oration seldom equaled m beauty of expression and in most perfect accord twith the spirit of tho solemn oceuaion that called it forth Never in the history of the capital has there been si more representative gathering of the na tions official life to pay a last tribute to the nations honored dead Nearly all the available regular troops in he country were called out and 3000 men mfantiy cavalry and artillery iol Jowed the flag draped caisson to the grave Every department of the government paid oilteial iribute the president and cabinet representatives of the supreme court con ics army and navy all combined The darkened church was filled to the utmost But these official representatives of the jKiopie were lost in the great crowds that surrounded tho church and lined theUecis itlon whicli the processu i passed Soft Jigjits burned above the chancel where flowers were piled railing high while the casketvvas buried beneath roses lilies and white carnations that overflowed their amrrow resting place and fell in a perfumed avalanche to the floor A guard of cavalrymen from Lawtons own command stood at each end of the catafalque silent and motionless as uni formed statutes and the hush of the silent church was broken only by the soft tread of those who entered with bowed heads to pay a last silent tribute to the brave iildler The Prcsbjlerian burial service was read by Rev Tennis Hamlin pastor of the church The burial service at the grave was read by Chaplain Pierce of Lawtons old command RIOT AT MARTINIQUE Troops Fire on Strikers Killing Nine and Wounding Fourteen Fort de France Martinique A mob of 1200 miners prevented the harvesting of sugar cane for several days The move ment extending troops have been sent in all directions An infantry post of twen r ty five men being attacked fired on the assailants killing nine and wounding fourteen MUTINY CAUSES ALARM Kcvolt of British Soudanese Troops at Khartoum Is Serious London A Cairo special says The mutiny of Soudanese troops at Khartoum has assumed serious proportions and is causing great anxiety Thirteen Lucky Twelve Unlucky Fargo N D At the hearing of the Chinese exclusion casein the United States court Feb 9 twenty five cases were heard and of these thirteen were admitted and twelve ordered deported All were from Chicago Mrs Lay Found Not Guilty Chicago MrsLeona J Lay has been found not guilty of assault on Mrs Rose C Wischman The defendant is the vorced wife of Gusfave Wischman and was charged with having shot him and Mrs Wischman on Nov 7 A Naval Deficiency Washington The secretary of the navy has sent congress a deficiency estimate of 83SS00 to meet its increased expenditures incident to the establishment of naval stations outside of the United States A WINTER TORNADO Winter Storm Does Much Damage in Illinois East of St Louis St Louis Mo The town of Collins- ville twelve miles from St Louis on the Vandalia railroad had a narrow escape from destruction by a tornado Feb 8 Nine persons were injured in the immedi ate vicinity some fatally and there was much damago to property Miners who iive on tho outskirts of town lost much by the wind A group oi three fine residen ces was blown to splinters The injured are Paul Quarandhl aged 85 perhaps fatally Otto Odderhole aged 18 serious Sophie Fix aged 12 thought fatally Newton Alderson not serious Theodore Lawrence internally Frank Kobart seriously Son and daughter of Frank Kobart se verely i About 280 a m the storm struck a mile south of Collinsville The first house de molished was that of Frank Kobart He his son and daughter were buried in the debris some time before they were rescued From this place the wind passed a quarter of a mile west of Collinsville and the last trace of it was observed at Hightsville a manufacturing suburb a mile away After the Kobart house a group of three dwellings was lelled They were occupied by John and Paul Marquette and Philip CroBsan and families The occupants es caped injury except John Marquette Beyond the Tandalia track stood a group of large frame houses occupied by the Lawrence Odderhole and Fix fam ilies The storm leveled them nothing being left save a mass of tangled wreckage It was here that Odderhole and Lawrence and the members of the Fix family re ceived their injuries Considerable damage was done in vari ous parts of St Louis and vicinity between 2 and 4 a m by a windstorm reported to have had a velocity of sixty miles an hour of the nature of a tornado Previous to the windstorm a terrific thunderstorm raged for several hours rain falling in torrents WANTS RESTRAINING ORDER Taylors Attorneys Before Federal Court of Appeals Cincinnati Former Gov Bradley and Attorney Mackey of Kentucky attorneys for Gov Taylor appeared before Judge Taft of the federal court of appeals in chambers with a petition for a restraining order against Democratic Gov Beckham the exact terms of which were not made known The judge directed them to fur nish copies of their petition to the defend ants and appear before him Feb 12 Frankfort Kyr Goebel was buried on the 8th inst Thousands of people attend ed the funeral A parade was formed at jl composed of city officials civic socie ties citizens on foot in carriages and on horseback and moved to the cemetery Services had already been held in the par lor of the hotel for the family When the public services commenced at the cemetery fully 7000 people gathered about the grave The ceremonies consisted of prayer singing addresses by several preachers and the eulogy by Senator Blackburn addresses by Gov Beckham ex Gov McCreary Congressman Wheeler Judge W S Pryor and others MURDER AT A THEATRE Occurs in Minnesota Barroom Dur ing Progress of Play Bemidji Minn A cold blooded mur der to all appearances took place at the Olympia theater in this city during the opening performance of the new show house The house was crowded from gallery to pit and the barroom was full of patrons when John J Whipple commonly known as Rus Whipple a saloonkeeper of Solway shot and killed Bennie Moore a lumberjack Both men were -under the influence of liquor and Whipple was quarrelsome to a degree and angered the little fellow until he struck Whipple in the face knocking out one of his teeth Whipple at once pulled a revolver out of his overcoat sidei pocket and shot Moore in the side underneath his right arm causing death t President Gompers in Cuba Havana Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor who arrived here recently from New York was given a reception by Havana workmen at their headquarters Mr Gompers it is said intends to explain to the Cuban workingmon the methods employed by the workingraen of the United States and to aid in obtaining laws looking to the pro tection of the lives of employes the sani tary inspection of workshops and factories and the prohibition of child labor An Entire Family Murdered Victoria B C Word is received of trouble umong the Indians of the upper Liard Seven members of a Scotch-Indian familjT named McTavish were mur dered There was an epidemic of scurvy last fall and the story was started among the Indians that McTavish caused it by witchcraft A council was held and Mc Tavish was condemned Setting fire to the McTavish home the savages shot the victims as they attempted to escape Roberts Pleads Not Guilty Chicago A special from Salt Lake Utah says Brigham H Roberts who was arrested on his return from Washing ton on a charge of unlawful relations with Dr Maggie Shipp has through his attor ney entered a plea of not guilty at his preliminary hearing before Justice Kroe ger His bond placed at 300 was fur nished promptly Hundreds Stricken by Heat Buenos Ayres Tho terrible heat con tinues There were 267 sunstrokes on Feb 5 and 187 on the 6th The fatal cases show a diminution but numerous bodies are de composing at the cemetery owing to the strike of the grave diggers for higher wages Declare a Dividend New York The directors of the Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey have de clared a dividend of 20 per share payable March 15 Big Boston Failure Boston The clothing firm of Miner Beal Co has assigned Its liabilities are placed at 150000 Sivi w4flUKw9 STAND BY GOVERNMENT Riotous Demonstration in a Peace Meeting at Northampton Northampton Eng The announce ment Henry Labouchere editor of Truth and member of parliament for North ampton would address a peace meeting in the Northampton town hall Wednesday drew a noisy crowd of opponents who swarmed upon the platform and smashed the chairs Mr Labouche es was the signal for renewed attacks The promoters of the meeting were forced off the platform and chairs were hurled into the body of the house amid cries of God save the Qneenl Mr Labouchere was struck in the heaiL but was not seriously injured He man aged to make his exit escorted by the police A number of other persons were hurt altlVjgh not seriously Ultimately the opponents of the peace meeting gained the platform and declared that Northampton had joined York City in repudiating the critics of the government OUR AVAILABLE MILITIA Secretarys Estimate Shows 10343 152 Men Ready for Duty Washington The annual estimate of the secretary of war of the available mili tia strength of the various states shows that 10343152 men are ready for mititary duty and that of this number 750000 reside in Illinois The present national guard of Illinois consists of 438 officers and 6765 privates The total militia force of the United States is given at 106889 Michi gan now has 2808 members of the national guard and could furuish 275000 men in time of need Iowa has 1873 and could furnish 802274 Wisconsin has 2836 and could furnish 872152 while Indiana has 878 and could furnish 500000 LEAVE EMPEROR ON THRONE Dowager Empress of China Afraid to Remove Him Pekin It is generally believed that tho dowager empress will not attempt a formal deposition of the emperor at the present moment though that this was her first in tention there is little room to doubt It is reported from a Chinese source that the dowager intended to carry out her plan during the first day of the new year Everything has been prepared for a coup but at the last mement representations were made to her that such a course prob ably would create serious opposition in the south and this induced her to temporarily abandoned her decision KILL SIX AMERICANS Insurgents Ambush and Capture a Supply Train Manila The insurgents on Feb 5 cap tured a supply train of nine bull carts be tween Orani and Dinalupijan killing a corporal and five privates of Company G Thirty second Infantry The escort con sisted of a sergeant and eleven mounted men The insurgents weakened the sup ports of a bridge over a creek and the first cart went into tlie stream While the es cort was bunched trying to haul the cart out of the water the insurgents fired a volley from the bushes lcilling the six Americans and also two native drivers FITZ CHANGES HIS MIND Ex Champion Announces that He Will Again Enter Ring New York Bob Fitzsimmons will again enter the ring ne announces that he will post this week 5000 He prefers meeting the winner of the Jeifries Corbett fight but if this is impossible he will try to get on a match with Sharkey or McCoy Cuban Colonists Duped New York A score of discouraged colonists who hrd gone to Cuba to seek their fortunes returned Wednesday night on the Munson line steamer Laurenburg They were a unit in expression of gratitude for their safe arrival in what they called Gods county In the group were W E Anderson of Prairie City Iowa R C Blake also of Iowa They said the vicin ity of La Goria has been made by heavy tropical rains into a sea of mud Each has a ten acre tract in the colon- Gilbert Is the High Man Indianapolis Fred Gilbert was tho high man in the target shooting match at the Limited Gun Club McMurchey and Pow ers were tied for second money honors The entire program was at clay birds One of the features of the shoot was a team match race between Neal and Tripp of In diana and Sconce and Cadwallader of Illinois which was won by tho Indiana pair by a score of 46 to 45 Sugar Refneries Closed Philadelphia Under orders from the officials of the the American Sugar Re fining Company the Spreckels refinery here has closed throwing out of employ ment 1000 men It was also announced at McHahns refinery which is a rival of the American Sugar Refining Company that tEe plant will be temporarily closed within a few days Nearly 2000 men are employed at this place Bard is Elected Senator Sacramento Cal The senate and as sembly setting separate Feb 6 formally elected Thomas R Bard of Ventura United States senator to succeed Stephen M White There was not a dissenting Republican ballot against Bard fifty nine voting for him in the assembly and twenty six in the senate Senate and as sembly in joint session on the 7th ratified the election Fire at Rush City Rush City Minn Fire here has de stroyed property valued at about 30000 with less than 10000 insurance as an off set The two story brick structure owned by S C Johnson and welll filled with tenants from top to bottom was censumed The fire started in the center of the first floor but just how no one has been able to discover Thousands III with Grip Berlin The influenza which has spread throughout Germany now numbers 60000 victims in Munich In Berlin every bed in every hospital is occupied and the hos pital physicians hundreds of whom have been stricken with the malady are scarcely able to care for the patients JtTi3aa52KJ32si Vt m WJL - - - Mar 2i rv IBfelfesp STATE OF NEBRASKA S1EWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON DENSED FORM Murderer Savory After Receiving a Life Sentence at Falls City for His Crime Attempts Suicide in His Cell Dick Savory sentenced for life for the murder of a section hand named Thomp son at Humboldt came within a few sec onds of hanging himself in his cell in the Falls City jail after hearing his doom The verdict of murder in the first degree was a surprise to every one not even the county attorney looking for more than a verdict of murder in the second degree Savbry seemed to take his sentence brave ly and was returned to his cell A short time before 3 p m the occupants of the second story of the jail heard some heavy body fall below and gave the alarm When the sheriff unlocked the jail Savory was found on the floor of his cell in an Un conscious condition with blood coming from his mouth and nose The sheriff at once called in Drs Bur chard and Wiser who found that Savory had attempted to take his own life by hanging He was soon resuscitated and is now out of danger Savory had tied a large red handkerchief around his neck and then to the upper part of the iron cage but in his struggling the end tied around his neck became untied thus defeating his purpose If it had held for a minute more life would have been extinct About two years ago Joseph Hollcheek hanged himself in this same place Hollcheek was more successful however not being found until he had been dead over two hours SHOOTS FATHER-IN-LAW Aims the Revolver at Son and Hits His Father T W Barton shot Hezekiah Hively at Waterloo The ball entered the left side of the face close to the nose glanced up ward where it struck a bone and then glanced downward and lodged in the base of the brain Barton came home late at night drunk and began abusing his wife but toward morning they quieted down and the neighbors thought it was merely a drunken quarrel and that it had been settled About 10 oclock in the morning Dave Hively an 18-year-old brother of Mrs Bar ton who lives in tho south end of town with his parents came up after his sisters things and was going to take them to her fathers place when Barton got after him with a razor Young Hivley was carrying a piece of a buggy shaft about two feet long and struck his arm with it The razor struck Bartons face cutting an ugly gash After this Hively went home and apparently thought nothing more about it About noon Barton went to the hard ware store and purchased a revolver and went down to his father-in-laws house as he now says to apologize but in place of doing this he shot at Dave but the bullet missed its mark and struck the father Barton was arrested Carrying a head that has much the ap peal ance of having been used for a foot ball Thomas H Barton who fatally shot his father-in-law Hezekiah Hively at Waterloo was brought lo Omaha and lodged in jail While Barton admits hav ing done the shooting lie contends that he got the worst of the scrimmage and his general appearance bears out his state ment Ho has half a dozen cuts on his head which is swathed in bandages Both of his eyes are closed and his face is as raw as a piece of beef These injuries Barton says weie inflicted by his and a brother-in-law Dave Hively He also denies that he was drunk and says that the shooting was done in self defense MURDER AND SUICIDE J W Robinson Kills His Wife and Fatally Wounds Himself James Robinson in charge of a bunch of cattle owned by M Humphrey of Rapid City shot his wife three times and then turned the weapon upon himself at Whitman Mrs Robinson died from the 2ffects of her wounds and the physicians report that the husband will surely die Mr and Mrs Robinson were married some three months ago If reports are true the wife had given her husband ause for the jealousy which has culminat ed in this double tragedy Robinson who had been drinking heavily for two or three days previously learned that his wife had taken steps to secure a divorce He drank nearly two beer glasses of whisky bor rowed a revolver and proceeded to the Carpenter Hotel where his wife was stop ping and first sought a reconciliation which was refused Maddened by the action of his wife and crazed by the liquor he had drank he drew his revolver and commenced firing He followed the woman through the house to the front porch where the third and fourth shots felled them side by side AT LINCOLN ON MAY 2 Republicans Will Meet to Name a State Ticket The Republican state central committee has decided on Wednesday May 2 at Lin coln as the time and place for holding the state convention for the selection of na tional delegates and nomination of a state ticket Statistics of Mortgages Labor Commissioner Kent has completed a report showing the number and amount of mortgages filed and canceled during the last half of the year 1899 On July 1 1899 the mortgage indebtedness of Nebraska was 15404732653 This amount decreased 116887157 during the six months leaving 15287845506 as the total mortgage in debtednesson Dec 31 Empties Revolver in Street An unknown man a workman from Ames became well filled with liquor at North Bend and began target practice in Buchtas saloon After firing two shots he went out into the streets and emptied his revolver The marshal landed him in the lock up Solicitors Arrested Rodger Byrnes and George W DeHoven two men representing the Northern Eife Insurance Company of Marshalltown Iowa were arrested ii Alma under in structions from the sheriff of Furnas County for getting money under false pre tenses Attorney Cole Probably Innocent It is generally believed in Culbertson now that Attorney J W Cole had nothing to do with the absence of the ballots that were taken from the office of the elerk of of the county Other arrests jare expected A CONDUCTOR TOOK KODAK Passenger Refused to Pay Twenty Five Cents Extra A W Klug of Pierce purchased a first class ticket at Grand Island and boarded Union Pacific train No 2 which runs nothing but Pullmans The conductor demanded 25 cents extra when the ticket was presented and Klug refused to pay it saying that he bought the ticket for that train supposing it was sufficient and was allowd to take the train without v being toid otherwise He was perVnitted to remain in the car but as he was about to get off the train the Pullman conductor he claims picked up a kodak valued a 8 belonging Klug and kept it in lieu of 25 cents which he failed to collect Klug complained to the county attorney at Columbus who has written for the return of the kodak and if his letter isnt sufficient a warrant will be issued for the arrest of the railroad man TO ARGUE FOR TRUST 3Ir Thurston Engaged as Counsel for Standard Oil Concern The supreme court convened Feb 6 for the only sitting that will be held during February Attorney Frank W McCoy appeared before the court on behalf of the Standard Oil trust with the request that argument on the suit for ouster begun against it by Attorney General Smyth un dei the state anti trust law be deferred for a couple of days in order to enable John M Thurston attorney for the trust and United States senator from Nebraska to be there and argue in behalf of the demur rer which he has filed to the attorney generals petition The request was granted and there will be presented the novel spectacle of a United States senator contending in the supreme court of his own state in the interest of a combination made illegal under both state and federal statutes FOR MORE LIBERAL PENSION Representative Burketts Efforts in Behalf of Stotsenbergs Widow Representative Burkett of this state has filed an elaborate brief with the house committee on pensions in support of the proposition to increase the pension of Mrs J M Stotsenberg to 100 a month The senate has already passed a bill providing for a pension of 50 a month which the friends of the late colonel of the First Ne braska are trying earnestly to Increase to the figure given Mr Burkett in his brief gives extracts out of the reports of Gens Otis and Hale in reference to Col Stotsen bergs heroic death and presents a strong argument in behalf of a liberal pension for the widow Child Fatally Burned James Davey the 9-months-old twin son of Mr and Mrs Peter Davey of Te cumseh died the result of being accident ally burned The mother stepped out of the house a moment leaving the babies on the floor in charge of an older child The latter presumably stepped on a match and gnited the clothing of little James Be fore the mother could be warned and re turn to the house and smother the flames the childs back and head were frightfully burned and so great a surface of its skin destroyed that it was impossible to save its life Poyntcr on Kentucky Situation In response to a query from a New York paper Gov Poynter has wired his opinion of the Kentucky situation The says the use of armed soldiery to prevent the law ful assembly of the legally elected repre sentatives of the people in a legislative ca pacity certainly is utterly at variance with all the principles upon which a republic is founded lie says the conditions in that state lgive us a bad reputation as a nation Tells How He Escaped Dick Savary who broke jail at Falls City last November and was later captured in Omaha and afterwards found guilty of murder in the first degree confesses that he hid the keys he used in his escape in a crack in the cell floor He implicates a jailmate named William Cox in the jail breaking Cox was up for highway rob bery and was acquitted Board Rescinds Order The state board of transportation re scinded its order compelling the mainte nance of carload rates on live stock and in lieu of the acceptance of the 100 pound rate adopted an order reducing the rate on hogs 5 per cent and on cattle 10 per cent Slot Machines Abolished The mayor of Madison has issued an order to take effect at once removing all slot machines from places of business in the city Nebraska Short Notes The new Union Pacific depot at David City has been completed It is located on Fifth Street near the business part of the city and is the most commodious depot in the city The case of the state against Roy Camp bell charged with breaking into the store of C Y Musser at Steele City was con cluded by the jury returning a verdict of acquittal Rev F Schnittgen who has been as sistant pastor of the Catholic Church at West Point has been appointed by Bishop Scannell to the vacant pastorate at Con stance Cedar County William Nichol living south of Pawnee City has sued John T Crampton a farmer of the same locality for 8000 damages alleging that Crampton publicly and ma liciously accused him of an unnatural crime William Battles was tried at Nebraska City on the charge of criminal assault and found guilty by a jury Battles is a young negro He was tried once before during this term of court for the same offense but the jury disagree As Hugh Piatt was escorting two young women to their homes in Grand Island some one threw a heavy club at the party inning one oi me women causing ner to faint Piatt fired a revolver at a fleeing figure but missed the mark The real estate mortgage record for Otoe County for the montn of January shows a reduction of 708199 in this class of in debtedness An order has been issued discontinuing the postoffice at Lapeer Cheyenne County Mail will be sent from Camp Clark At the annual meeting of the Blue River Park Association a committee was ap pointed with power lo negotiate a sale of the park and summer resort at McCool to the village board The citizens of the town are in favor of buying the park The state board of transportation has given orders to the different railroad lines for a reduction of 30 per cent- in corn carrying rates The order holds good of course for Nebraska alone and will not it is asserted be antagonized by the raik roads JUIHJU4 j JWwmifcHim j PEACE PACT IS MADE KENTUCKY POLITICAL LEADER REACH AN AGREEMENT Acting Governor Tajlor Abdicates in Favor of Beckham on Condition that a Ne w Election Statute Be Enacted Republicans Make Concession The peace conference held at the Gale House in Louisville Monday night b tween seven representatives of the Re publican party and seven representative of the Democratic party resulted in th unanimous signing of an agreement em bodying seven specific propositions for th settlement of the party differences which have brought about two State govern ments in Kentucky Thi3 agreement Sfl in substance as follows 1 That if the General Assembly In joint session shall adopt a resolution ratifying their recent action adopting the contest rfr ports seating Goebel and Beckham the cob testees WS Taylor and John Marshal shall submit -without further protest 2 That all parties shall unite la an effort to bring about such a modification of thM election law as will provldo for non partisan election boards and insure free and fair elections o That the conditions shall remain fc status quo until Monday Jhe General As sembly meeting and adjourning from day t day until that time r r 4 That nothing shall be done to- hlnda or prevent a Joint session of the- GeneraSj Assembly for taking action on the tion resolution t 5 That tht State Contest Board shall met and adjoun from day to day until Tnefldafj without taking any actiou on the- con testa aBBBBBBaBF S GOV J C W BECKnAM Who Succeeds Goebel as Executive or tho Bla J Grass State for minor State ofllces This nostDonemen is suggested in order that the action of th General Assembly on the ratincatlon resolu tion may be taken first 6 That the State troops shall be removed from the State capital at once though with all necessary precaution for the public safe ty This matter Is to be under the direction of Gen Dan Lindsay of Frankfort 7 That the Republican officials and offi cers of the State guard shall have immunity from charges of treason usurpation court martial or any other such offenses The agreement was signed by the fol lowing Republicans John Marshall Judge John W Barr Gen Dan Lindsay T L Edelen Dr T H Banter David V Falrleigh and T C Ballard - Democrats J C S Blackburn J C W Beckham Sam J Shackelford Urey Wood son James B McCreary Phil Thompson and Robert J Breckenrldge The news of the agreement was receir ed with great relief in Frankfort Tho strain of the previous ten dayB had beea great and any lessening of tension wa most welcome SETTLE BIG CANAL QUESTION Agreement Between Great Britain and America Beached Another step in the construction of the Nicaraguan canal was taken Monday when Lord Pauncefote and Secretary Hay signed a treaty revoking that portion of the Clayton Bulwer convention which prohibits the Government of the United States from constructing a waterway across the isthmus The agreement pro vides in substance as follows The United States is granted the right to build and control exclusively the waterway joining the Atlantic and Pacific and the provia ion of the Clayton Bulwer treaty provid ing for joint control is annulled Neu trality of the canal is pledged by both oij the signatory parties both in times o peace and war The great maritime dons will be asked to pledge themselves to the preservance of the canals- neutral ity The present agreement was reached practically a year ago when it seemed certain that the private corporations that had concessions for the canal would bo compelled to relinquish the enterprise and leave the work to be done by the Govern ment It was not however formulated until a few days ago since the pending bills were reported from the Senate and House committees Great Britain yields its claims under the Clayton Bulwer treaty provided the United States will guarantee the neutrality and the protec tion of traffic upon the canal Here are a few interesting facts about the Nicaraguan canal concerning which the British American treaty was signed at the State Department The figure are gathered from various official reports and from private sources of informatioaii Total cost of canal estimated 12300OO0Wr Money already spent by Marl- t time Canal Company 51S642S Total distance from ocean to ocean 164 mllea Length of proposed ditch 2T mlle Length of natural waterway 142 miles Proposed width of canal 80O f eec Proposed depth of canal SOfeete Quantity of earth to be excavated and dredged 132781270 cubic ydi Excavation proper 29907996 cubic y da Highest elevation of canal from level of sea UOfeeti Distance saved for ships going from coast to coast 8000 miles Time saved at war ship Ore gons rate of sailing 42 days Increase in ocean traffic since 18S1 16000000 tonsp Distance from New York 2000 raileafe Distance from San Francisco 2700 mllesr Distance from Philippine Islands 9000 mlIeV Distance from Honolulu 4210 miles Time required for construction six jzzdt - Trade and Industry y Last years sales of German toys Ia Great Britain amounted to over 950O tir 000 J Viennas street railway system coat 40000000 and it is estimated that itft will pay for itself in ten yeara The corporation of West Ham Bng v land will spend 8450000 for workint T mens dwellings and lodging houses if The report of- the Wisconsin Stat- road commissioner shows that nearly 35 000 men are employed on raihraya hrtV State s - I