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VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 6'. T&01 LAMEST ©DIMBQJ)[IJ\TrD®N] ®E AOW MEM ©AIMJEOIjM [MOlUtf, THE INCOME TAX LAW THE SUPREME COURT SAID TO HE A !IE ON QUESTION OF OF CONSTITUTIONALITY. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER A SPHINX! It Does Not Follow That an Extra Session Will Be Necessary if the Tax Should Re Declared Unconsti tutional—The President Would Re gard a Deficiency as a Less Evil Than an Extra Session-« The Chief Justice Holds Fate in IDs Hands. Washington, D. C , April 3 The overshadowing question here is: “What will the Supreme Court do with the income tax ca*e ?” If decided cons titutional, the men with large salaries and large incomes must shell out If unconstitutional, the large number of offi cials employed to arrange and collect it will be like Othello, without occupation. If an extra session is called, all the Democratic officials in the Capital vu 1 lose their positions. And so it is a per sonal and political, as well as a legal ques tion. Tne correspondent of the New York World telegraphs this inter sting story: As the Supreme Court stands to-night Chief Justice Fuller has the fate of the income tax law in his hands. This as sertion is made on the authority of one of the Justices. Four members of the court are said to be in favor of sustain ing the appeal, ani three in favor of up holding the constitutionality of the statoet If Chief Justice Fuller sides with the minor ty there will be a tie, and the law will stand. Justice Fuller has proven a sphinx to his associates, but while he has not indicated how he will record himself it is the belief that he will hold the act to be good law. The absence of Justice Jackson is re sponsible for the delay in reaching a de cision. Chief Justice’ Fuller dislikes to assume the responsibility, for reasons that are obvious. He is a Democrat in politics, and the law was passed by a Democratic Congress and approved by a Democratic President, and he prefers to delay expressing an opinion in the hope that further discussion will bring about a change in the views of one or more of the Justices. Os the four who are said to regard the act as an unoonstitntiora 1 , one at least, it is asserted, takes excep- j tions only to certain features, aud is not disposed to negative the whole law on the question as to whether it is a direct or an indirect tax. It does not follow, even if the law is declared unconstitutional, that an extra session will be deemed necessary. The revenues are steadily gaining on the ex- Gnditures, the deficit for March being j is than a quarter of a million, wiih reasonable prospects that the month of , April may show a surplus. It is not out of reason to believe that the improve ment in business and the consequent steady increase of revenue may produce from now on within a few millions of enough to pay the expenses of the gov ernment. It should be remembered that the Treasury holds an available cash balance, including the gold reserve, of over $187,000,000, and over $98,000,000, exclusive of the gold reserve. There is yet over $20,000,000 to come into the Treasury in gold coin on account of the bond sale, and between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 which will shortly appear in the available cash balance by transfer from the Pacific Railroad sinking fund. With the certainty of a cash balance in excess of $200,000,000, exclusive of income-tax receipts, by the end t of the fiscal year, it is not absurd to suppose that President Cleveland,w'ould prefer to face a temporary deficiency in revenues j rather than run the risk of permanent extravagance at the hands of the new Republican Congress. There are issues which would certainly be thrust to the front by that body were they called to gether this summer, which will be far better postponed until the regular meet ing in December. It is possible—even probable—that the President would regard a deficiency as a less evil than an extra session. IT IS RECEIPTED FOR. So Say* Enrolling Clerk Brown in Re gard to the Mortgage Law. Special to the News and Observer. Oxford, N. G\, April 3. Apropos of the statement of Enrolling Clerk Brown about the assignment act in your to day's issue to the effect that the bill was never in his possession and that his books do not show that he re ceipted for the bill, will say that he stated to me and other citizens of Ox ford that his books showed that the act was receipted for by him and produced a memorandum copied from his book, which read “a bill to be entitled an act to regulate assignments and other con veyances of like nature in North Caro lina.” J. Crawford Biggs WM. L. WILSON SWORN IN. The Cere irnmv Performed by Chief Justice Fuller. Washington, April 3.—Hon. Wm. L. Wilson, of West Virginia at 11:15 a. m. to day wan sworn in as Postmaster Gen eral of the United States by Chiel Jus tice Fuller of the United States Supreme Court, and immediately assumed the duties of the office. The ceremony was performed in tbe private office of the Postmaster General, the only witness being Mrs. Fuller, wife of the Chief Justice, aud Miss Bessie Wilson, the young daughter of the new % Postmaster General. The News and Obse~ er THE FARMERS ARE MAD. i New Mortgage Law Convincing Them That Fusion is a Mistake. i Special to the News aud Observer. Lenoir, N. C., April 3. Col. George N. Folk has sold his val uable Yadkin River farm, and moved to Lenoir, and will build a residence here during the summer. Three large store buildings and quite a number of handsome residences will be erected here during the year. Hon. W. H Bower and family have returned to Lenoir, after a stay of some weeks iu Pennsylvania, since the ad journment of Congress. Court is in session, Judge Timberlake presiding. The farmers that have come to town during the past week, to get their usual supply of fertilizers on time, and have had to go home without it, say that they will return to their old party lines for the good of the country and themselves; all agree that the stampede in Novem ber was a mistake. GOES TO JAIL FOR LARCENY. A Well Known Citizen of Buncombe Fails to Give Bond. v Special to the News and Observer. Asheville, N. C., April 3. W. H. Newman, a well known citizen of Avery’s Creek township, this county, has been committed in default of bond on charge of larceny. Efforts are being made to locate The odore Sumner, the nineteen year old son of Frank A. Sumner, a merchant here, who left home last October. Noth ing has been beard of the boy since he left. The Y. M. C. A. here has called W. A. Wells, of Philadelphia, to the general secretaryship. A call has been issued for a meeting here next Thursday to organize a county Farmers’ Alliance. WANTED TO SEE THEM BURIED. The Mother who cut her Children’s Throats Now in Jail. Columbus, Ohio, April 3.— The bodies of the two Williams children, found murdered at the Park Hotel Monday were taken from the Morgue this morn ing and buried in Green I>awn Cemetery. Williams, the father, and Annie, the surviving daughter, were present. The father was deeply affected, but Annie seemed entirely unmoved. Four carriages followed the hearse to the grave, where a few words were said by Rev. J. C. Bright, of the South High Street Congregational Church. The two children were placed in one coffin and buried clasped in each others anus. Mrs. Williams asked to be permitted to attend the funeral hot was refused. She was placed in the county jail this moruiDg. THE CURRENCY SITUATION. Germany Decides in Favor of an Inter national Aereement. Berlin, April 3.— ln the Upper House of the Landtag to-day, Count von Mont euffel moved to refer to a special com mittee, Count von Mierbach’s proposal to accelerate the settlement of the cur rency situation by means of an interna tional agreement. The motion was carried without debate. Mr. Balfour's Prediction. London, April 3. —Mr. A. J. Balfour, M. P., in an address before the bimet allic league to-day, said that the time was not far distant when men of all parties would agree to introduce into in ternational transactions some medium of exchange less hurtful to industry than the present absurd system. THE CONFERENCE CLOSES. lieport of Statistical Society Show's In crease Over Last Year. Washington, April 3.—The tilth annual session of the Baltimore < Confer ence of the M. E. Chuch South closed at noon to-day with the announcement of the assignment of pastors for the en suing jear. Bishop Cranberry read the list. The report of the statistical society was presented at the session to-day. There are 44,873 church members in this conference, an increase of 1,994 over last year. The number of local preachers is 125, being nine more than the year before. Washington district heads the list, with a membership of 7,904 aid twenty preachers. SHAKEN BY EARTHQUAKES. Several Persons Killed and Many In jured in Toscany. Rome, April 3.— Tuscany has been shaken by earthquakes several times this week. At Tredezio a dozen houses collapsed. Several dead bodies have beer romoved from the mins and 8 person* miss ing. At Moutepuleiano, in Central Italy, roofs were shaken down and three build ings were wrecked. Two persons were killed and 10 or 12 injured. The earthquakes have been aceompa nied by heavy rains. The government has sent, a geologist to visit the places where the shocks were most violent. A Deacon Get* Four Years. New York, April 3.— John Emison, one time a deacon in a Brooklyn church, who pleaded guilty to grand larceny in the first degree, was sentenced to Sing Sing for four years to day. Emison stole $54,000 from the Iri*h linen house of Fenten, Connor & Co,, of Belfast, and lost it all. He was the book-keeper of the firm and had the confidence of his employers. RALEIGH, N. C.. THURSDAY. APRIL 4, 1895. TOOK FIFTY THOUSAND ASSISTANT UASIIIER OF THE NORTH VVESTERV N ATIONAL BANK UNDER ARREST. HOW IT WAS DISCOVERED. Disastrous Speculation was the Cause of the Uufortunate Man’s Downfall-- Began his Stealings AVith Other Banks and Then Took a Package of $50,- 000 in Currency to Cover his Losses— Had Always Lived an Exemplary and Apparently Honest Life. Chicago, April 3,—Frederick W. Grif fin, assistant cashier of the Noithwestern National Bank of this city was yesterday afternoon taken into custody at the in stance of bank examiner John C. Mc- Keon, by a United States Deputy Mar shal. A shortage of #50,000 was discovered in his accounts during an examination of the bank books made by McKeon last week, Griffin has been in theservice of the bank for 20 years. The officers of the bank decline to talk about the shortage further than to ac knowledge the main facts. Story of his Crime. Assistant cashier Frederick W. Griffin of the Northwestern National Bank, walked into the vault where the money is kept Saturday morning and took there from a package containing $50,000 in currency. Another employe saw him come out and noticed he was ill at ease. After thinkiug the matter over all night the employe went to Vice-President Hum mer's residence Sunday morning and re lated what he had seen. On being ques tioned about the occurrence, Griffin made a full confession although there was at that time not a particle of evid ence against him beyond the suspicions of his fellow clerk. Bank Examiner O'Keefe was called in and an investigation showed the books bad been tampered with so as to cover the amount missing, the peculations ex tending over a period of six months. Griffin took the money in a vain en deavor to conceal his crime from the bank officials. He secured a draft from another Chicago bank with the $50,000 abstracted and placed the draft to the credit of the United States National Bulk of Omaha. This bank, as the Omaha correspondent of the Northwest ern, had originally SBO,OOO to its credit in the Chicago institution. Commencing his stealings with the accounts of other banks, Griffin finally mulcted this one alone. His system was to put in false tickets for telegraphic transfers of money. When the Omaha bank at last called for a settlement he saw the ease was hopeless and required a desperate remedy, forgetting that while his plan made the Omaha account all straig t, it left the Chicago institu tions cash short to the amount taken. Unfortunate speculation in stock was the cause of his downfall. Aside from these the life he led was an exemplary one. He had the entire confidence of the officers and did not even give a bond when he took the position. He is 38 years old, has a wife and two children. He was arrested last night and has been in the custody of the marshal ever since. At 3 o’clock this afternoon he was brought before Commissioner Hum phreys who placed him under $1,500 bond’ until to-morrow. Griffin recently resigned the presiden cy of the Ashland Club. He was prom inent in North side society circle* and declares that he will live down his dis grace. The bank officials will be as len ient as possible. His father lives in Florida. AUlv ER STE AMER BI RNED. Ail But One of the Passengers Rescued From Flame and Water. Pittsburg, Pa., April 3, —The Pitts burg and Cincinnati Packet Company's steamer, Iron Queen, was burned this morning at Racine, Ohio, on the Ohio river. „ She was lying at the wharf taking on freight when the fire broke out in the eDgiue room. Cupt. Thomas P. Calhoun ordered that the passengers be aroused. All were gotten off the boat in safety with the exception of the chambermaid, Mrs Martha Moseley, of Cincinnati, who became frightened and jumped into the water and was drowned. Her body has not yet been recovered. In three minutes from the time of the first alarm the boat was iu flames trom bow to stern, aud in about fifteen min utes was a total ruin. The vessel burned to the water line, the stern resting in thirty feet of water, in which posi tion the boat now lies. There was on the steamer fifteen Pittsburg passengers and a crew of sev enty people. A MURDERER LYNCHED. Found Swinging from a Limb and Riddled With Bullets. Jacksonville, Fla., April 3.— The body of the negro William Rawls, who w'as taken from the guards at Newnans ville last night, was found this morning swinging from a limb and riddled with bullets. Rawls was lynched for the murder on March 27th of H. B. Kaul, a prominent merchant of Newnansville. The murder was for the purpose of robbery. A coroner’s jury is now investigating the lynching of Rawls. The negro’s father wits legally hanged four years ago for a similar crime. RESULT IN THE W INDY CITY. Last November’s Landslide Much Aug *mented in Tne*day’s Election. Chicago, April 3 —The political land slide of last November in this city was augmented in yesterday’s election. The returns show au almost clean sweep for the Republicans. George B Swift for mayor was elected by 40,930 plurality over Frank Wenter, Democrat, and the other candidates on the Re publican ticket received substantially the same plurality, with the exception of West, for city attorney, who ran 20,000 behind his ti« ket. He still has a safe plurality of 19,249. The city of Chicagoi> divided, for tax ing purposes i:.to seven districts, krown as “towns.” In all these the Republican candidates were elected by unprecedent ed pluralities. Twenty-two members of the Common Council were elected. Os these eighteen are Republicans, or independents of Re publican tendencies, two are Democrats and one is an independent Democrat, With a few exceptions the members of the boodle gang who were up for re election were defeated. There] were several surprises in the aldermanic results. Iu the first ward Michael Kenna, better known as “Hincky Dink,” was beaten byGleasou, (Rep.), a gentleman of almost equal notoriety. In the 19ih ward ex - Congress man Frank Lawler, who has been a candidate for al most anything in sight during the last three years, ran as an independent Democrat and won over the Republican and the regular Democratic candidates by a small plurality. In the 21st John McGillen, leader of the Democratic forces in the Council, was defeated by 1,000 plurality. His defeat is attributed to his unsatisfactory record on the so-called boodle ordinances. The 39 h ward returns to the Council “Buck” McCarthy, theex-bo<Mle county commissioner, who narrowly escaped a penitentiary sentence when Van Pelt, Wrenn and others went to Joliet, aud McGarigle made his fa mous trip to Canada by the bath-tub route eight years ago. McCarthy is a Republican. * With the exceptions noted, most of the successful candidates for the council are new in politics. It was a bad day for the “gang.’’ The vote on the proposition to adopt a civil service system applying to all mu nicipal employes, including the firemen and the police, was comparatively light, only 160,000 votes being cast on the question. The proposition won, how ever, by a majority of 40,000, despite the opposition of the machine politicians of both parties and tbe ill-concealed en mity of the police. The civil service rules do not go into operation for 90 days, and although Mr. Swift ison record as favoring the system, it is expected that a number of changes will be made in the various departments before the law becomes active. Alexander Ross is slated to succeed Chief of Police Brennan; Matt Benner may be Fire Chief Sweney’s successor, and the other higher officers of both de partments will probably be reduced or dropped altogether. The rank and file will not likely be interfered with. TO STUDY THE CANAL. The President Names Three Engineer* to Investigate the Route. Washington, April 3. — The President has selected under a provision of tbe Sundry Civil Appropriation bill the fol lowing persons as a board to investigate and report upon the feasibility, perma nency and expense of the Nicaraguan canal over the route proffered by the construction company: From the army, Major William Ludlow, corps of engin eers; from tbe na\y, Commander M. T. Endicott, 0. E., from the civil life Alf. Noble, of Chicago, member of the Amer ican Society of Civil Engineers Major Ludlow was born in New York and appointed from that State as a first lieutenant of engineers in June, 1864. Little more than a month later he was brevetted a captain for gallant service iu the defence of Alt ona Pass, and be fore the end of the year he was breveted a Major for gallant service in the Geor gia campaign, and in March, 1865, he received another brevet for gallantry in the C iroiioas, and was made Major iu 1882. Col. Ludlow served as the engineer member cf the board of commissioners for the District of Columbia. He is at present light bouse inspector for the De troit light house district. A few years ago he got into difficulty with the light house board over a question as to the advisability of placing certain lights in the St. Mary’s River and a court of iu quiry to determine whether Major Lud low should be tried by court martial re suited. The board was vindicated in the question of discipline but Maj Ludlow was not court mavtialled. Mr. Endicott, whose rank of comman der is relative and not actual was ap pointed a civil engineer in the navy from New Jersey iu July 1874. He stands second on the list of civil service. The U. 8. S., Monterey, having finish ed her turning trials near San Francisco went to tbe Mare Island Navy Yard to day to receive her final supplies for a long cruise. She is expected to start South before the end of this week and to remain in foreign waters six or eight months. Her orders are to proceed along the Pacific coast reporting frequently to the department as far as Callao, Peru unless otherwise directed. She will touch first at San Diego, aud will remain iu Nicara guan waters while the government engi neers are examiug the canal route. Baltimore, April 3 —The Democratic State Conventton will be held in this city on July 31st. SATTERFIELDS SAY CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE GIVES HIS EXPLANATION OF THE BILL. WHAT SAYS THE ENROLLING CLERK Mr. Satterfield Now Dispute* ihe Clear Stat< ment Made by Smith, ofStanly, and Tries to Put the Burden of Proof on the Enrolling Clerk’s Office--Like Rats, the Reformers Leave the Sink ing Ship--There is “Something Rot fen in Denmark.” House Bill 1018, introduced by It. L. Smith, Republican, of StaDly county on the 20th day of February, 1895, (a bill entitled an act to regulate assignments ) was on the day of its introduction re ferred to the Committee on Finance, and on the next day reported to the House favorably, w ith amendment. This bill remained on the calendar till Friday, i March, the Bth, when it was made, by motion of Mr. Smith, special order for 8:30 p. m. that day. It was preceeded j by another special order—a school bill ! which delayed its consideration. It was ; again called up at tbe evening session of j March the 12th, and on motion of Mr. Ix-e, of Haywood, was tabled by a large majority of the House. The same was promptly stamped “tabled’’ in large type letters by myself. There were a great number of other bills tabled at this ses ; sion. There were also many bills ! passed their several readings and ordered | enrolled. It was my habit to handle 1 the bills personally when passed upou | favorably and unfavorably, and to con j vey them to my clerks in my office to separate and distribute and place them iu their proper departments. Bills stamped “Enrolled,” to*the Enrolling Clerk; those stamped “Tabled,” placed in the “Table” box kept for that pur pose; bills passed second reading, placed upon the third reading calendar, etc. Mr. R. L Smith, in a letter to the News and Observer of the 30th of March, states that the next day after this bill was tabled he met the principal clerk of : the House on his way to the Enrolling Clerk’s office with a number of bills and stopped and showed him the bills aud among them he found the bill referred to, 1018, and he (Smith) told him that bill was tabled the day before and had never been to the Senate, and says he ; examined the bill and found no mark or j stamp on it except it had passed the first reading, and the clerk remarked that he would go back and see about it. Smith 1 intimated that unless the journal showed as he said the same had been doctored, and intimates fraud on the part of the clerk. In the News and Observer of April 3rd he contradicts the first state ment by saying the next day after the tabling of this bill “1 met Mr. Satter field, principal clerk of the House, be tween the Speaker’s desk and the Speak- j er’s room with a number of bills in his ! hand. He stopped me and said he had j j one of my bills and asked to let him see ! it. I then asked him what he was go- j | ing to do with it. He remarked that he i was going to have them enrolled. 1 j then semarked to him that the bill had 1 been tabled the night before. Mr. Smith says in one breath I met Mr. Sat terfield going to t:-.a enrolling clerk's of fice, and the next I met him going to the Speaker's room—one being on the floor of Commons Hall, the other a dis tance off, to wit, in the Capitol. Now I deny Mr. Smith’s assertions and give the j facts in the case. On the night of the 12th of March, in evening session, I 1 met Mr. Smith at the Speaker’s office door, in which I had three cleiks dis tributing aud arranging bills and placing them on the calendar. Mr: Smith was standing near the doer and had to move so that I could pass. He asked me what had become of his bills. I told him 1 thought 1 had one of them in the batch of bills in my hand, in which there were a great mauy tabled, together with bills that had pas od their several readings and ordered enrolled. He remarked that one of them had just been tabled. I told him that we were in. a rush, but would attend to his bids promptly arid place thorn where they justly belonged in that batch of bills was H. B. 1018, above referred toon which was stamped ns before stated with was large type, (tabled Match 12 h. 1895). This bill was promptly placed after entering upon the Calendar (tabled) in the Table box kept for that purpose, and has been there every minute since its death in the House on the 12th of March, where it will ever sleep as a dead bill. After the adjournment of the Legislature I carefully seperaed the tabled and other bills not passed and placed them in a neat paper box, marked on the outside what the b x contained, accessible and easily found at any moment. When Mr. Smith met me at the door, H. B. 1018 had stamped upon its back in large let ters, tabled. It is false that I told Mr. Smith that I was going to the Enrolling Clerk’s office to have it enrolled. It is false that any bill was ever stamped through the House by myself or auy clerk without a vote of the House. It is false that bills or bill was lost in the House pending session 1895. It is un equivocally false that this bill 1018 as considered by the House was taken out by auy persou aud allowed to be en rolled. My book of receipts from the enrolling clerk does not show- that he ; received the bill. My calender shows it ! a dead letter and as far as the House clerks are coueerued their skirts art clear, and 1 have all the evidence and PRICE FIVE CENTS. any statements made by persons or news papers to the contrary are false. By this 1 stand and am responsible personally for the saying. Very respectfully, S. P. Satterfield, CTk House Hep., Session 1895. BASEBALL IN THE SOUTH. Charleston Sees Her Last League Gttni* for the Season. Charleston, 8. C., April 3. ton saw her last National League game for this season at the ball park to day. It was hotly contested and all around was the best of the exhibition games played here. Score: Pittsburg, Washingti n, 3- 6—o Batteries: Colcolough and Sugden; Mercer, Mulaiky and McGuire. Philadelphia G; Petersburg 3. Petersburg, Ya., April 3.—The ball season of 1895 in Petersburg opened to day with an exciting game between the Philadelphia aid tie Petersburgg. Cranks were out in full force. Score Philadelphia 6, Petersburg 3. Batter ies—Baldwin ard Grady; Foreman. Thcmas, Packard and Ha}den. Brooklyn League Team. Augusta, April 3.— The last ball team of the Brookly League team drew a fair sized crowd to tbe park. The game was maiked by brilliant fieldirg and some hardhitting. The team leaves to mor row morning fer Atlanta, where they will play three fames. Score : Regulars 33024102 x—l 6 Colts 8 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 o—s Batteries—Oppenheimcr and Daly, Kennedy and Grim. Norfolk II; Lancaster O. Norfolk, April B.—This morning when the Norfolk colts read the adverse criticism of the local press on their poor playing, they went into win to-aay’s game, and as a result they succeeded in shutting Lancaster out by a score of 7 to oin a very pretty played game. Set ley was in the box for the home team, and pitched a splendid game, and shut them out without a single hit. The vis- I itors put up a good fielding game with only one error. On Friday and Saturday the Wash ington League team will play the Nor folks. Score: Norfolk 11; Lancaster 0. Batteries : Setley and Tenley; West and Arthur. | SYMPATHIZE WITH REBELS. Inhabitant* ol Havana Ready to Em brace the Revolutionary C'aii-e. New York, Aprils.—A passer geron the steamer Vigilancia. which arrived from Havana this morning, reports that at Manzanille where he had been stay ing, the sympathy of the inhabitants was all with the insurgents aud if the latter would approach the city and make a demonstration, the whole town would probably readily embrace the revolution ary cause. There were frequent skirmishes tween the insn’gents and the Spanish troops, but the former were too crafty |to risk a decisive battle as yet. Their cause is apparently gaining strength j daily. About ten days aso it was reported at Manzuilla that the insurgent forces were about to invest the town, and for a time there was great excitement, bnt j the rumor was soon traced to unreliable sources aud the town again became quiet. An Insurgent Boat Stranded. Havana, April 3.—The Governor of Santiago Province reports that the gun boat Yndia, w hile cruising along tbe coast came upou a foreign fishing smack stranded on the beach at Dubua a short distance west of Baracoa. The captain of the smack was dead. Two sailors were captured and taken aboard the Yndia. They reported they had landed 21 Insurgents. There had been trouble, they said, be tween the insurgents and captain be cause he had refused to land them at the point designated by them. When the captain re'used to yield they killed him and threw his body overboard. After landing the insurgents met a small column of Spanish troops. The skirmish was almost bloodless. The insurgents were put to flight without having lost a man, killed or wounded. One of them was captured in hiding au hour after the skirmish, bat the rest are in the moun tains. The prisoner would give little infor mation. He is said to have admitted, however, that Maceo aud Combret, the insurgent leaders, are with the fugitive band. Several companies of troops are pursuing the 21 men but had not got within shooting distance of them at the time of the Governor’s despatch. Apart from these events the district around Baracoa is quiet. Col. Saliedo, who is in charge of the military operations round Holguin, re ports that he attacked and dispersed a party of insurgents at Martillo, near San Andres. The arrival of reiuforeements for the regular troops in Santiago has restored confidence throughout the Province. A British Vessel Fired Upou. Kingston, Jamaica, April B.—The British steamship Ethelred from Boston has arrived at Port Antonia, Jamaica. Capt. Hopkins, who commands her, says that w hen she was off Cape Mays! a Spanish gunboat bore down upon her. She hoisted the British flag and the gun boat tired a shot across the Ethelred’s bow. She hove to and the gunboat steamed around without exchanging sig nals. She then steamed away and the Ethelred proceeded on her voyage. Maceo’s band of insurgents has landed in Cuba.
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