The News and Observer.
VOL. XXXIX. NO. 57.
TTDOE UfcffifflKST ®F AKHT KJMTKI ©MiDQJIM IMOUT.
GEN. IKIftHONE IS DEAD
THE BRAVE TITTLE CONFED
ERATE (SEVERAL PASSES
QUIETLY AWAY.
SKETCH OF HIS EVENTFUL CAREER
At One O’clock Yesterday Afternoon
tien, William Mahone Died—At One
Time lie Held I he Political Destiny
ot Virginia la llis Hand—He Lacked
Only Fwo Montns of Being Seventy
Years Old—He Will be Buried To-
Day at His Old Home at Petersburg.
Washington, Oct. B.—Gen. Mahone
died in his rooms at Chamberlain’s at
one o’clock this afternoon. He had been
at the point of death since midn : ght
last night. All the day before he con
stantly grew weaker, uu il it was known
that recovery was impossible.
A week ago he was suddenly par
alyzed, and since tba’ time had been in
a critical condition.
The end came peacefully and almost
imperceptibly Toe dying mail had lain
unconscious ever since last Sunday morn
ing, taking n > nourishment and showing
no signs of life b-yond faint respiration.
The doctors said yesterday that death
was surely approaching, and at 10
o’clock this morning they told the family
that death would c 'me within tw' hours,
although it proved that the vital spark
lasted an hour beyond that period.
All the members of the family were
about the bedside when the end came,
including Mrs. Mahone, the two sons,
Butler and WiPiam M thone, Jr., Mrs
McGill, a daughter, Mr. I. L Maury, of
Virginia, a n phew and Oapt. Roger ,an
old friend o f the General and present
chairman of the Republican commi tee.
The watchers hat been at the bedside
continuously Kr many hours, and were
prepared.
GEN. WILLIAM MAHONE.
There will be no public funeral at
Washington, as, in accordance with the
wishes of the widow, the remains will
be borne quietly to the General’s old
home at Petersburg, Ya., where the ser
vices and interment will occur. The
departure from here will be made at
4:30 o’clock to-morrow' morning, arriv
ing at Petersburg at 10:30 o’clock. The
services will be held at St. Paul’s Epis
copal Church. The active pall bearers
will be members of Gen. Mahone’s old
command, famous as ‘ Mahone’s
brigade,” the one wh’eh held the
“Crater.” The honorary pall bearers
will be selected from officers of the
same brigade.
The Confederate Veterans’ Union ten
dered their services as a military escort
to the body but it was the family’s wish
to avoid any dispiay. Gen. Mahone had
passed the most of his time in recent
years in this city, living at Chamber
lain’s, where he frequently consulted
with the R< publican leaders from his
native State. He was t< rmerly quite
weal hv, but it is understood that he lost
the larger part of his money and proba
bly left but a small estate.
Sketch of Geo. Mahone.
Gen. William Mahone was bora at
Monroe, Southampton county, Va., De
cember 1, 1826, was educated at the Vir
ginia Military Institute, from which he
graduated in 1847, taught school for two
years and then began the duties of his
profession as a civil engineer as surveyor
on the Oraßge and Alexandria Railroad.
Subsequently he became successively
the chief engineer of the Fredericks
burg and O.ange Plankroad and chief
engineer of the Norfolk and Petersburg
Railroad. Upm the completion of the
last-mentioned road he was elected pres
ident of the com,,.my, which position he
held at the beginning of the war. Im
mediately on the secession of Virginia
the subject of this sketch was appointed
by the ■‘Virginia Council”clii-f quarter
master of the Virginia forces. This po
sitioo he held for about tea days, when
he resigned and was appointed Lieuten
ant colonel of infantry and as ige-ed to
the command of the post at. Bur well’s
Bay, out bofore be accepted this posi
lion was made Co ouel of the Sixth Vir
ginia Infantry. Some months later
Colonel Mahone was appointed Briga
dier general receiving his commission
from the Confederate States government
and placed in command of the troops
of the Norfolk district of the depart
ment of Norfolk - and so continued
until the evacuation of the department
in May, 1802. From 1861 to 1804 Gen
eral Mahone continued in command of
what was known as Mahone’s Briguds,of
which the .Sixth, Twelfth, Sixteenth and
Forty-first Virginia regiments were al
ways members and which up to some
time in 1862 embraced also tho Third
Alabama Regiment, and after the law
men tioned regiment was transferred to
another brigade had another regiment,
the Sixty-first Virginia, added in its
place. Receiving a disabling wound in
the battle of Second Manassas, he was
not with his command again until just
before the battle of Fredericksburg. Iu
May, 1863, General Mahone was elected j
a member of the State Senate, but did
not tike his seat in this body until J m
uary, 1864, and then only for a f tv
days. When General Lougstreet was
wounded iu the battle of the Wilderness,
on the 6th of May, 1864, Gen. R H
Anderson was placed in command of his
corps and General Mahone in command
of Anderson’s division, which was com
posed of five brigades—General Ma
hone’s (Virginia), Wright’s (Georgia),
Harris’ (Mississippi), Saunders’ (Ala
bama), and Perry’s (Florida). This di
vision General Mahone continued to com
rnand until the surrender at Appomattox
Court House, receiving, a few days after
the “Battle of the Crater,” his commis
sion as Major General, dating from that
famous engagement, July 30,1864. After
the battle of the Wilderness he was ten
dered the appointment of Major General,
with temporary rank, but this he respect
fully declined.
When the war closed General Mahone’s
many brilliant achievements as a mili
tary commander had brought him great
fame His name was fast becoming a
tower of strength. He had to his credit
the battle of the Crater, the battle of
Johnson’s farm, on the 22i of June,
1864, and the dash upon the enemy’s
rear at Aiken’s farm, on the evening of
August 19, 1864, an action in which h
bagged an aggregate of over 5,000 pris
oners and struck the Federal forces tell
ing blows
During the winter of 1864-5 the peo
ple of Petersburg, in recognition of his
great services, presented him with a
sword, the venerable David May making
the presentation speech at Chester, t:e r
which place Mahone’s division was oc
cupying the trenches. Tne war over,
General Mahone again turned his atten
tion to tbe business of railroading, was
elected president of the Southside railroad
and also of the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad, and soon succeeded in con
solidating these two railroads with the
Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, (of
which last mentioned road he had been
president for several years,) and organ
izing the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
Railroad, of which he became president,
which office he held until the road was
sold in 1881. In 1879 he was elected to
a seat in the Senate of the United
States and served as a member ot that
body from March, 1881, to March, 1887.
In 1889 he w as a candidate for Governor
as the Republican nominee, but was
defeated His* wife, Mrs. Otelia B.
Mahone: was a daughter of Dr. But
ler, of Southampton county, and one of
the most prominent citizens of Eastern
Virginia in his day. His children are
Messrs. li. Butler Mahone and William
Mahone, and a daughter, Mrs. W. L.
McGill.
There we’e several .xeasions since the
war when General Mahone was involved
in serious misunderstandings, which
seemed at the time would result in a
duel. The most notable instance of this
kind was wLh Gen. Jubal A. E .rly.
Mahone had prepared a biographical
sketch of his military career foraNorth
ern'publication. In it reference was
made to Early, at which the latter took
umbrage, and he demanded that the ob
jectionable matter should be omitted.
He was emohatie in this demand and
Mahone recalled the publication and de
. troyed all that referred to Early. The
old General never forgot nor forgave
Mahone for this matter.
RECOGNITION FOR CUBA.
No Application Will be Made Until
Congress Assembles.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 8. —Gon-
zales De Quesada, Secretary of the Cu
ban revolutionary party, with head
quarters in New York has been in
Washington recently on private busi
ness. lie did not see Secretary Olney,
nor were any steps taken toward secur
ing the recognition of the Cuban insur
gents as belligerents. Mr. Quesada had
come on to attend the trial of the Cuban
filibusterers at Wilmington, and ex
tended his trip to Washington to see
friends.
The policy of the Cubans in seeking
recognition of the United States has been
outlined substantiaily as follows:
“No application will be made to the
executive branch of the government un
til Congress assembles. It is the feeling
that even if executive authorities were
disposed to recognize the Cubans, the
action would involve such grave respon
sibility that the executive branch would
desire to have the co-operation
and support of the Congress. Care
will be taken, also, to see that there
is uniformity in the steps proposed
to Congress. In this way the mistakes
made at the time of the last Cuban up
rising will be avoided. At that time there
were no less than 40 different Cubans
resolutions offered to the House com
mittee on foreign affairs, proposing re
cognition, arbitration and many other
plans, all intended to favor Cuba. In
the end this diversity of proposals pre
vented an agreement on any one course.
Gen. Polovieja Goes to Cuba.
Madrid, Ot. B.—A special dispatch
received here from Ban Sebastian savs it
is thought there that Gen. Polovieja will
be selected to assist Capt, Gen. Martinez
De Campos in the active operations
shortly to be undertaken against the in
surgents of Cuba. Gen. Polovieja has
already seen service in Cuba. He is said
to be a very energetic officer, and brave
even to the degree of rashness.
RALEIGH, N. C.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1895.
ft DAY OF SURPRISES
WITNESSES IN THE DU R RANT
t A>E GIVE DISAPPOINTING
TESTIMONY.
KISS LSftiQMT’S DIAMOND BING
A Young Man Nam ’d Lenahan Testi
fied that on A prll 3 he Tried to Pawn
a Small Ring Similar to the One
Worn bj Blanche Lament at Oppen
heim*s Shop, but that it was ill the
Afternoon Instead of Morning—Stud
ent Dukes’Testimony.
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. B.— After
wandering through a mass of unimpor
tant witnesses tho defense in the Dur
rant case this afternoon summoned to
the stand two of the most important wit
nesses tfmt have been called since the
prosecution closed its case. One of the
witnesses materially aided the defense
from the fact that upon cross-examina
tion he failed to give important testimony
expected by the prosecution. The ex
amination of the other witness had only
just begun when tbe court took recess
until to-morrow morning, but in the
short time the witness was on the stand
he testified to one important fact which
was directly opposed to what the defense
had hoped to establish.
The most important witness of the
day was Charles T. Lenahan, the young
man whom the defense contends was
mistaken for Durrant by the pawn broker
Oppenheim. Lenahan, who does not
bear a striking resemblance to the pris
oner, said on April 3, he attempted to
pawn a small diamond ring, similar to
the one worn by Blanche Lament, at
Oppenheim’s shop
The witness said that lie asked Op
penheim t he same questions and received
the same answers tout Oppenheim
quoted in '’elation to the conversation he
had with the young man whom Oppen
heim testified was Durrant. Then came
the surprises to ihe defense *winch coun
teracted nearly ail of the strength gai >ed
from the witness’ testimony. Lenahan
said he tiled to the ring in the
afternoon, while Oppenheim testified
that Durraut entered his shop in the
morning.
Attorney Duprey was considerably
disconcerted by the statement of the
witness and endeavored to impeach L°n
ahan’s testimony; by reading a letter
written by Lenahan to the attorney for
the defense in which he divulged tbe
fact that he had tried to pawn a small
ring at Oppenheim’s on the same day
Durrant was said to have entered the
place. The court interrupted Duprey,
however, and refused to let him
read only such parts of the letter as
referred to the question at issue. Duprey
then asked that the letter be admitted n
evidence, and at the close of the stru p
gleover this move the court adjourned
for the day.
The court refused to admit the letter
in evidence, as some passages were de
voted to the expression of the writer’s
opinions as to the correctness of Oppen
heim’s testimony. The remainder of the
letter was admitted
After Lenahan surprised the defense
by stating that he tried to pawn the ring
in the afternoon, Attorney Duprey be
came very suspicious of the witness and
asked him several questions intended to
indicate that he had transferred hissyra
pathy from the defense to the prosecu
tion.’ Among other things, Attorney
Duprey asked Lenahan if he had not
been informed by persons known to be in
sympathy with the prosecution. Duprey
also asked him when he had shaved off
the moustache that be wore when he
entered Oppenheim’s shop. lenahan
said he had never worn a moustache in
his life.
Duprey intimated that he would im
peach the testimony of the witness on
this point, by a statement contained in
the letter written by Lenahan to tbe at
torneys for the defense. W. A. Dukes,
a student at Cooper Medical College, w ho
was expected to give strong evidence for
the prosecution, gave disappointing tes
timony. Dukes said that Durrant asked
him if he could not re Member that he at
tended Dr. Cheney’s lecture on the after
noon of April 3d and to that end recalled a
number of incidents said to have taken
place at the time. Although Dukes’
seat in tho lecture room was next to
Durrant’s Dukes could not remember
whether Durrant was there or not, and
told him so. Dukes said it was untrue
as had been reported, that Durrant
asked him as a favor that he would at
tend the lecture. On the contrary
Dukes said that Durrant told him he
wished him to testify only to the facts
as he remembered them.
With one exception the remainder of
the witnesses were called to testify to
the previous good reputation of the de
fendant.
11. F. Marshall, a reporter on a morn
ing paper, testified that on April 14,
Detective Gibson, who discovered
Blanche Lamont’s body in the belfry of
Emanuel Church, told him that he saw
the prints of a number nine shoe
near where the body lay. Dur
rant wears a smaller shoe. In
the ease of Miss Carrie Cunning
ham, a newspaper reported who re
fused to d'gslC’SO tb« source of certain iu
f 'rrn-Hot: \ *<> •} ua’U'V of Mrs
jL »k ’*? te><: !tc.' t'v, Jndiro v rrib'd
ii i* witness was r*ghr in rv o t ■
auawer the question. Miss Cunningham
was, therefore, not punished for con
tempt.
Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 8. The
Hou-e of Deputies to-day decided by 55
to 87 in favor of the term “Bishop Co
adjutor,” instead of Assistant Bishop.
CUP LOST AND WON
THE TROPHY GOES TO CLEVE
LAND AS A RESULT OF YES
TERDAY’S GAME.
SEVENTH INNING DECIDED IT
The Orioles Were Outplayed at
Every Point, and tlie “Goblet”
Went to the Spiders by a Bcore of
5 to 2 Neither Side Scored Until
the Seventh Inning When Cleveland
Made 3 to Baltimore I—Nine Thou
sand People Saw the (tame.
Baltimore, Md., Oct. 8 —The Temple
Cup goes to Cleveland as the result of
to-day’s game, in which the champions
were out-played in every point.
Lp to the seventh inning, however, it
looked as if either side might win, al
though Hoffer suffered rather more than
Young, and the visitors got tho most
men to bases. After this there was
trouble and the home team had all of it.
Young opened the fatal period with a
corking double to center, and Burkett
followed with a single to rigot field.
Then McKean went out; and if Carey,
who had the ball, had thrown it promptly
to second, he would surely have caught
Burkett napping, but he did not, and
there is where the trouble began, for the
next man to the ba s popped up an easy
fly to Kelley in left field, and the side
should have bsen out. It was not though,
by a long shot, for Kelley dropped the
fly, and Childs went to first. Young com
ing home with the first run of the game
Then McAleer added to the distrees of
the occasion by banging the ball out in
Brodie’s bailiwick for a single and Bur
kett came home. More anguish was
cau-ed when Capt. Tebeau hit safely to
right bunging in Childs. Zimmer end
ed the inning and the agony by striking
out, but the mischief had been done and
the “goblet” was the property of the
enemy.
Tbe Orioles made a tally in their half
of the seventh, but the Spiders more than
neutralized it by adding two to their
string in the eighth. lathe last half of
the ninth matters looked critical for a few
minutes, as Young became wild and sent
McGraw and Keeler to base on balls, af
ter which he hit Jennings and the basis
were full. Clarke and Hoffer had been
put out before this however, and the
best the champions could do was
a single run, which McGraw
brought in oa Kelley’s hit. Then
Brodie rapped a little one to young, who
threw it to Tebeau, ’ere Steve’s brogans
could reach bag No. 1 the game was
over, the Temple Cup was lost and won,
and the hearts of the Baltimore roottrs
were as lead within their breasts. Nine
thousand people saw the game.
n. h. e.
Baltimore, 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 01 -2 9 5
Cleveland, 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0-5 11 3
Batteries: Hoffer and Clarke; Young
and Zimmer. Umpires: Hurst and
Keefe.
IT IS WAlt TO TH E K.MFF.
The Officers'of the Florida Athletic
Club to Be Arrested,
Dallas, Tex , Oct. B —A puzzling
turn was taken by Governor Culberson
and his administration this morning
which created some surprise, not only
at the headquarters of the Florida Ath
letic Club, but among the people gener
ally who heard it. It looks as if the glove
contest affair had reached the war to
the knife stage so far as Gov. Culberson
and Attorney General Cr ne are con
cerned. Attachment papers were received
by Sheriff Cable, from Austin, to be
servtdon W. K. Whreleek, Secretary of
the Florida Athletic Club; W. A. Brady,
Manager of James J. Corbett; Martin
Julian, Manager of Robert Fitzsimmons,
and Joe Vend g. These parties are sum
moned as witnesses before the Travis
county grand jury.
W. A. Brady, accompanied by John
Farrell, arrived in the city on the 9 a m.
Central train, coming from San Antonio.
They at once proceeded to the head
quarters of the Florida Athletic Club
whfsre Mr. Brady met Mayor Walters
and City Attorney Martin, of Hot
Springs, who have been here several
days in consultation with President Dan
Stuart. While Mr. Brady was talking
to the Arkansas men, Sheriff Cable en
tered the club and announced that he had
attachments for W. K. Wheelock. W. A.
Brady, Martin Julian and Joe Vendig.
The latter is the eastern representative
of the Florida Athletic Club. Vendig
and Julian had not at that hour reached
the city. Brady and Wheelock gave
bonds in the sum of flso each for their
appearance. Martin Julian, accompa
nied by Ernest Rober, arrived at 11a. m.
from the south and proceeded to the
Oriental Hotel. The first man to intro
duce himself to Julian was Sheriff Cable.
Julian also gave bond.
Mr. Stuart’s friends say that it is now
clear that the Governor and Attorney
General are not so fiercely after prize
fighters as they are after Dan Stuart,
who, for political and other reaso? s,
they have de'ermined to crush, if there
is sufficient power iu their positions.
The friends of Mr. Stuart say that the
very fact that Stuart is not summoned
before the Travis County Grand
Jury, shows that his testimony
is not desired, but rather testimony
against loro. They claim that Urn
Governor and Attorney General have
trumped up an old musty law which
they hope to make serve their pur
pee It is artie'e 980, title 18, chapter
1, penal code of Texas, which provides
“A conspiracy entered into in this State
for the purpose of committing any felony
in any other of the States or terri-
> 50 PRICE FIVE CENTS,
tories of the United States, or in
any foreign territory shall be pun
ished in the same manner as if the
conspiracy so entered into was to com
mit the offense in this State.” The pen
alty for such conspiracy nnder the Texas
criminal code is: “Confinement, in the
penitentiary for no less than two nor
more than live years.”
The meeting to select the battlefield
will take place some time to morrow.
London Bids for the Fight.
New York, Oct. 8. - Man) hands seem
to be stretched out for the Corbett Fitz
simmons fight. The latest offer of a
purse and guarantee of non-interference
comes from London. A representative
of the Associated Press to-night saw a
cablegram from that city to a well-known
sporting man here, which reads as fol
lows:
“London, Oet. 8.
“Mirror of Life agrees to bring off
Cor lett-Fitzsimmons fight; offers £3,000
and diamond belt, valued at £I,OOO to
fight in England, the principals to select
their own referee. One thousand pounds
will be placed in the hands of Al. Smith
as a guarantee by Mirror of Life that the
fight will take place.”
A copy of this cablegram was tc-night
telegraphed to both Corbett and Fitz
simmons and an early answer from the
pugilists is expected. * It is said that the
National Snorting Club is behind the of
fer of the Mirror of Life.
They May Fight in Arkansas.
Little Rock, Ark., Oct. B.— “Youcan
say that I would not convene the legisla
ture in special session to stop it if they
were to fight in the State House yard ”
Governor Clarke used this language
to-day in reference to his probable action
in the event that the Corbett-Fitzsim
mons contest should be advertised to
take place at Hot Springs.
“1 do not really know anything about
it,” he said, “but 1 have heard a great
many rumors about schemes to hold the
contest in Arkansas. It looks, though,
as if they mean to bring it off at Hot
Springs, sure enough. The fact that
Mayor Waters and City Attorney Mar
tin, of Hot Springs, are in Dallas nego
tiating with the managers of the affair,
indicates beyond doubt that Hot Springs
wantss it and they will very likely get it.”
“Personally, I,am opposed to pugilism.
In 1891 the Legislature pissed an act
making prize fighting a felony. I was in
the Legislature at that time and voted
for the bill. But the people were not
satisfied w T itb the law for the next session
repealed it and enacted in its stead a law
reducing the offense to misdemeanor.
That is the law now and it will be en
forced. ”
Prize Fig hit ug Legal in Nevada.
Carson, Oct. B.—Nevada sporting
men, assisted by San Francisco capital,
will make a bid for the Corbett-Fitzsim
mons fight, which will be forwarded inja
day or two. Prize fighting is legalized
in Nevada. It will take place in Car
son. A purse of SIOO,OOO is being raised
for the event.
HOMING PIGEONS AT KITTRELL.
They are Being Trained by the Govern
ment for Use in Time of War.
Special to the News and Observer.
Kittrell, N. C., Oct. 8.
Five baskets of homing pigeons, 250
in all, sent from the war department in
Washington to the express office at this
place, were released, fifty together, at
internals of fifteen minutes, beginning at
6 o’clock Sunday morniDg. These birds
are being trained and taught the lay of
the country so as to be ready to carry
dispatches in case war should occur and
railroad and telegraphic communication
with the capital be cutoff. In this, our
government is following the lead of the
European countries, nearly all of which
are especially heavily armed. France and
Germany set great value on this mode of
communication. There even dogs of
certain intelligent breeds have been
found serviceable as dispatch bearers
and are assiduously trained for that
purpose.
Paris, while invested by the G.rrnan
army in the winter of 1870-71, went for
months without tidings from the outside
world, except such as were brought m
by homing pigeons. Dispatches were
carried out by balloons, as were the
pigeons to be released, as needed. By
an ingenious contrivance very full and
complete communication was thus kept
up. The dispatch was printed, photo
graphed in miniature, rolled and her
metically sealed in a quill and securely
bound to one of the tail feathers of the
pigeon. By this means one biid would
carry in at least as much matter as
would fill a page of the News and Ob
server, and perhaps a great deal more.
Comparatively few birds failed to get
through, although I believe the Germans
made some attempt to stop them with
trained hav.ks of the species yet used iu
some countries where the medieval sport
of hawking still lingers.
A TAR HEEL DIES IN CHILE.
Heyward St. Leger Atkins Went to
South America 15 Years Ago.
Washington, D 0., Oct. B—United
States Consul Merriam at- Iquique,
Chile, has reported to the State depart
ment the death iu that city of Heyward
S-- I/g r Atkins, on September 6. He
w s a native ot North Carolina, and so
Or arts known leaves no relations in the
United States 11 a served in the navy
during the war of. the rebellion About
fifteen *.core rg> he married in Chile
and loaves a widow and one daughter.
Constantinople, Out. B.— lt is re
ported that serious disturbances between
the Armenians and tho Turks have
broken out at Sivss, Van and Bitlis,
three of the leading cities of Armenia.
WAR IN MADAGASCAR
THE FRENCH TROOPS AT LAST
CAPTURE THE ISLAND’S
CAPITAL ClTtf.
GREAT REJOICING IN FRANCE
The Two Countries Have Been Con
tending for More Than Ten Years
Over Madagascar’s Bight to Act In
dependently of the French Resi
dents in Granting Exequaturs to
Foreign Consuls—The War is Now
Practically at an End.
Port Louis, Island of Maritius, Oct.
B.—Advices received here to-day from
the Island of Madagascar announce that
the French expeditionary force, which
has been advanciug upon the capital for
many weeks, has captured Antanana
rivo on September 27. The prime min
ister and the eourt, it is added, fled to
Amobistra, The news was brought to
the coast by couriers from Natomaudry
on September 30th.
Dispatches received from Tamatave
say that Faralatra was bombarded by
the French on October 3, and that it was
attacked by assault on tbe following day.
Paris Rejoices Over the Victory.
Paris, Oct 8. —A dispatch received
here from Port Louis, Island of Mauritius,
announcing the capture of Antananarivo
by French troops, caused great relief to
the government as it has been recognized
for some time past that the defeat of tho
French troops meant a chaoge of minis
try. The news quickly spread through
out the city, causing great excitement
and much rejoicing.
France and Madagascar have b en at
logger heads for more than ten years,
chiefly over the right of the government
of Madagascar to act independently of the
French residents in granting exequaturs
to foreign consular agents and consuls.
According to the French, by tbe treaty
of December, 1885, the French residents
and a military guard of French troops
were to reside at the capital and control
the foreign relations of Madagascar,
making the island, to all intents
and purposes, a French pn
The Government of Madagascar has all
along denied that the treaty gave France
the right she claimed, holding that Le
Myre de Vilers, the French diplomatic
agent in 1887, entered into an engage
ment with Madagascar, on behalf of
France to the effect that the exequateurs
of consuls and consular agents should be
given in the future as in the past by
Madagascar and that the later treaty
did not change the situation.
Roughly speaking this question is
based on the dispute which led to the dis
turbances during which the representa
tives of France were insulted by the
populace and slighted by the government
of Madagascar; in addition, a
number of Frenchmen were as
sassinated. In September 1894
matters finally reached such a state
that M. Le Myre De Vilers was sent to
Madagascar with an ultimatum from the
French government, insisting, in sub
stance, that France should control the
foreign relations of Madagascar. The
ultimatum was delivered to the Prime
Minister, Ramilairivony, who is also the
husband of the Queen Ranavalons 11.
After several days of deliberation, the
prime minister rejected the ultimatum,
saying that Madagascar would only sub
mit to superior force. M De Vilers and
all the French agents thereupon re
turned to Tamatave and France began
making preparations to bring the Hovas,
the predominant tribe of the island, to
terms. In November last, the French
Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Hona
tux, asked for a credit of 65,000,000
francs and 15,000 men for an expedition
to Madagascar, and his request was
promptly granted.
The expedition, which was planned by
Gen. Borgnis Gesbordes, left France in
January under command of General
Duchesne. The insalubrity of the cli
mate has proved a more dangerous foe
to the invaders than the natives, and the
capture of the Malagassy capitol has
been accomplished at great cost of life
and health.
AMERICAN RAILWAY UNION.
Lodges are Being Organized iu the
Large Cities of the South.
Atlanta, Oct. B.—lt develops hare
that the American Railway Union is
making a quiet but vigorous campaign
in the Bouth.
J. M. Welton, of Baltimore, is now in
Atlanta and reports that he is making a
tour of this section, organizing lodges of
the American Railway Union in many of
the largest cities where there are a num
ber of railroad employes. He says he is
here by order of President Debs and
expects to place the organization on a
firm basis before he again returns North.
Last night a meeting was held here at
which there was a large assemblage of
railroad men interested in the organi
zation of a local branch of the union
and before it adjourned there were
nearly 100 names enrolled on the mem
bership books. Welter will leave to
morrow night for Mobile, New Orleans
and other points in the South.
1,322 Persons Paid Income Tuxes.
Washington, D. O, Oct. 8. —Tho
records of the Treasury Department
show that 1,322 persons paid income
taxes, aggregating $77,130, before the
adverse decision of the Supreme Court
as to its constitutionality was rendered.
Os the whole number 709 have applied
for and been refunded the amounts paid,
aggregating $48,545.