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AUSTIN WEEKIY STATE
YQU XXVL
AUSTIN. TEXAS THURSDAY MAY 27 1897.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TWELVE PAGES.
SMAM
I TYLER JI TRAGEDY
FIRTHER PARTICULARS OP THE
MOB WORK TOLD DY JONES'
CELL MATE.
STiilJILY PROTESTED HIS INNOCENCE
The Mob Refused to Let Him Have
a LaMt Word With Dr. Warren.
Joncn W'hh Very Culm
and Collected. '
Tyler Tex.; May 24. (Special.) The
tragedy at the Tyler jail early Sunday
morning continues to bo the leuding topic
of conversation.
Additional facts in regard to the mat-
ter have come to light. Jones' cell mate
Dr. Warren says that Bill .Tones re-
peatedly told him that lie was innocent
of the cri'nie of murdering old man Stew-
nit. He reiterated this to Warren as
he mol was breaking into the jail.
'When the crowd gained entrance to
the floor on which Jones wns confined and
bv mistake went to the wrong cell he
called to them that they were nt the
wrong grating if thoy were looking for
Bill Jones and then said: 'I am here
bat boys you are going to kill on inno-
cent man. John as sure as there is a
God in heaven I nm innocent of that
crime; you ought not to kill a man on
the testimony of a mean iguorant ne-
gro.' "The spokesman of the mob. whom
Bill addressed as John replied: 'We
have all the proof we want Bill.'
"Realizing that parleying was useless.
Jones said: 'Well before you kill me
allow me to speak to the doctor one min-
ute just one minute' but whatever Jones
desired to say will never be known lis
just then a Winchester rifle wns poked
through the bars of the cell and n deaf-
ening report followed and Bill Jones re-
ceived his death warrant shot through
the heart. lie sprung to my side and
as he wns sinking down said: 'Doctor
I nm n dead man.' At the second shot
he screamed and after the third shot a
living monn escaped his lips."
Dr. Warren says ns the mob began
to break in Jones was cool and calm;
that he said ho thought the officers ought
to lie able to protect him and then ex-
pressed to him the hope that he (Warren)
would not be hurt by the mob. While
putting on his clothes Jones said in an-
guish: "God forgive me of my little
sins. I am innocent of this." The best
information nt this time is that there
e only about 1UO men in tne moi.
a Relative In Weatherford.
'ontherford-Tex.. May 24. (Special.)
'ill Tnnnn whn trnn tihnt to flcnth hv
f mob in the Tyler .iau annuiiy mormon
JJWI1S U UlUlllL'l UL WIDl HIIHH1H1I ......
of Harrv W. Kutemnn. who is a prom
inent lawyer and well-to-do citizen of
this place. Mr. and Mrs. Kutemnn left
yesterday for the scene of the tragedy.
It Will Fn Through Austin.
Galveston. Tex.. May 24. (Special.)
Col. Uriah Lott is in the city interview-
ing business men upon his proposed new
railroad from San Antonio to Galveston.
The rond will strike out from Seguin and
go to Temple passing through Austin
and Belton.
B'nal B'rlth Grand Lodge.
Waco. Tex.. May 24. (Special.)
Promptly at 10 o'clock this morning Pres-
ident Hanaw called district grand lodge
to order and business commenced with
the snap and energy characteristic of the
Hebrew people. Committees were an-
nounced. '
The committee on the Jewish Widows
and Orphans' Home of New Orleans sub-
mitted a flattering report which was
adopted.
Leo N. Levi of Galveston submitted
resolutions originating' in District Grand
Lodge No. 2 looking to the organization
of a trust company for the maintenance
and management of the Jewish Orplinus'
Asylum nt Cleveland O. the memliers of
the corporation to- lie such persons only
ns may lawfully belong to the board of
trustees elected according to the constitu-
tion nnd laws of the districts Nos. 2 C
and 7. Independent Order of B'nni B'rith.
The suggestion met unanimous approval
nnd was adopted.
GAI DAI H AND ROGERS.
The American Gave the Canadian a
Hard Race Bat Failed to Win.
Orillin Ont.. May 24. In the presence
fully 10.UUU people touay nrastus
i
The Greatest of AH
rHE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO of New York
RICHARD A. M'C URDT PRESIDENT.
ASSETS DECEMBER 31st. 1896 J234.744.148.42
SURPLUS DECEMBER 31st. 1896 29733514.70
INSURANCE IN FORCE DEC. 31st 1896 918698338.45
Remember tha best company is the one that does the most good.
THE MUTUAL LIFE IS THAT COMPANY.
It paid its policy holders in 1896 .. $25437569.50
It has paid its policy holders since organization . . . 437005195.29
Texas business for 1896 $6226612.00
In result it challenges the .World.
The largest the safest the best.
A Good Record the best guarantee for the future
Edwin Chamberlain & Co.
THAD C. BELL
District Agent
AUSTIN TEX.
Rogers proved that he is a very fast
sculler at two miles ns he came near de-
feating Jake Gaudaur. The race was
for the championship of America the
Fox challenge cup $500 a side and a
purse presented by Orillia.
Lake Coucliiching wns alive with craft.
A stiff northwest wind prevailed and
made the water very lumpy. The two
men got away on very even termB. Both
stroked very slow on account of unfavora-
ble wind and weather. Both steered in
shore Rogers having the shore position.
Half a mile from the start Gaudaur was
clear from Rogers and crossed his how
to get close to the shore. He continued
to forge ahead and nt the turn a mile
away was about four lengths in advance.
Rogers however had steered a bettor
course anil the champion lost nearly all
of his advantage in going out to his buoy.
The return home was a fine struggle.
Both men were very tired and Gamliuir
said alter the race that he suffered great-
ly from cramps in the forearms caused
by holding his ours in the rough water.
Rogers pulled a very plucky race but
was unable to pass the champion who
won by n length and n half.
Gaudaur said be never rowed a harder
race in his life but he wns satisfied ho
could beat Rogers easily in smooth water.
To Don the Stripes.
Dillas. Tex.. May 24. (Speeinl.)-
United States Marshal R. M. Love left
this evening for Columbus O. with a
butch of federal prisoners. In the bunch
was L. A. Lineceum city marshal of Mid-
lothian Tex. who was convicted more
than a year ago of sending a profane nnd
obscene letter through the mail nnd sen-
tenced to one year and oue day in the
Columbus. O. prison. Lineceum took an
appeal. The upper court wns more than
n year in reaching the case but n few
days ago handed down a decision nflirm-
ing it. Marshal Love has received the
mandate notifying him of the decision and
instructing him to proceed to carry out
the judgment of the court.
SHERMAN MAX KILLED.
He Had But Recently Eloped With
and Mnrrled a Yuiiiik Girl.
Sherman Tex. May 24. (Special.)
R. M. Ends better known as Mart Ends
is dead shot to death at an early hour
this morning in the Indian Territory
about one and one-half miles from Col-
berts station on the Missouri Kansas
and Texas Railway.
Several months since a license wns is-
sued in this city to R. M. Ends and Miss
I'enrl Fotts and an affidavit alleged to
be signed by a relative of the young lady
certified that the groom-elect had the
consent of the parents of the young lady.
In u short time it wns discovered that
it was a runaway marriage nnd it is
alleged the young lady had no relative
by the name given by the nlleged rela-
tive and that instead of having consent-
ed the girl's father was ns mad as a
hornet niid proceeded to institute crim-
inal prosecution. Ends after his mar-
riage before a justice-of the pence nt
Donison. proceeded to the Territory
wns apprehended by the local officers of
Pnnolu county but ns the alleged offense
false swearing wns against the Texas
code he had to be released and left
taking his wife with him. It was some
time before he wns arrested which wns
finally accomplished by deputy marshals
nenr Dougherty I. T. When arrested
he wns found in a small house some miles
from town. There were two women
living there with him.
Shortly nfter Ends had been delivered
to the sheriff of this county the fnther
of I'enrl Potts Joe Potts of the Indian
Territory went to Dnugherty nnd car-
ried' his daughter back homo. Ends wns
still in jail here as was also a young
man by the nnme of Geo. Stone clinrged
with fnlse swenring nnd nlleged to have
represented himself to be a relative of
Miss Potts. After remaining in jail hero
for some time Ends was released on
bond.
Lnst night about 10 o'clock. Ends wns
shot and killed nenr Pott's residence.
Sheriff Ben Collins of Ponoln county
I. T telephoned Deputy Sheriff Joe Mil-
ton of this city that from the best infor-
mation he (Collins) can get in the case
about 2 or 3 o'clock this morning un-
known parties railed Ends nnd when he
answered killed him. The body was
found in the yard of a tenant place this
morning riddled with bullets. Several
shots had taken effect in the deceased's
head which was also beaten nearly to a
pulp. The burial took place at Colbert's
station grave yard this afternoon. The
scene of the tragedy is about twenty
miles northeast of this city.
Alderman's Son Drowned.
Houston Tex. May 24. (Special.)
This afternoon. Edward the little son
of Alderman W. K. Kohlhoff was acci-
dentallv drowned while in bathing nenr
Riordaii's spring on White Oak bnyou
iu the outer part of the First ward.
The Senly's Will Attend.
Galveston. Tex.. May 24. (Special.)
At a meeting tonight the Senly Rifles
who hnve just been rinstnted in the state
militia decided to attend the state en-
campment nt Sun Antonio in July.
General Agents for Texas
N ANTONIO.
I DEGISI
THE POWER OF THE INTERSTATE
COMMERCE COMMISSION
DEFINED.
THpiEHlME
The liilteil StnteH Supreme Court
Holds That the Commission IU.
No Power to rreserllm- Hates
for Future Control.
Washington May 24. After endering
final decisions in' thirty-six cases and
giving attention to oilier business incident
to the last sitting of the term the United
States supreme court adjourned today
until next October. When the court or
der nuuounced the final adjournment for
the term there were apparently 380 cases
on the docket undisposed of but there
were actually 359 cases twenty-one hav-
ing already beeu urgued and submitted.
This is a smaller number than the rec-
ords of the court have shown for thirty
years. At the conclusion of the term u
year ago there were 533 cases undisposed
of and since then 2S4 have loon added
making a total of S17 contained in the
docket for the year. Of this number
437 hnve been finally disposed of and the
principal labor done in twenty-one others.
Included in the twenty-one cases which
have been argued but iu which no opin-
ions hnve been rendered are several of
considerable importance. Among them
are the Nebraska maximum freight rate
case; the controversy between the Bay-
den Power Brake and the Westinghouse
Air Brake companies ns to the validity
of the hitter's invention; the Alabama
Midland ease involving the validity of
the long nnd short hiiul clnnse of the in-
terstate commerce act; the Southern Pa-
cific land case and two or three import-
ant private land cases.
Justice Shiras rendered the opinion iu
the case of Augustus 1 Shapleigh vs.
the City of San Angelo Tex.
In this case the town of Sun Angelo
sought to avoid the payment of bonds by
disorganizing the corporation and agaiii
organizing under the same mime. The
court however held that the new cor-
poration wns subject to the liabilities of
the old. The decision of the court below
wns reversed.
Interstate Commerce Canes.
Washington. May 24 The United
States supreme court decided two eases
today holding thnt the United States
commerce commission has no power to
prescribe rates on railroads which may
control in the future. The cases were
those of the commission against the Cin-
cinnati and New Orleans Railway com-
pany and the Florida and 'Western com-
pany. The decision of the court is construed
to mean that the interstate commerce
commission has power to pass upon rates
before they are put into effect.
In the New Orleans and Texas case
various roads were concerned nnd the
case wns originnlly instituted by the
freight bureaus of the Chicago and the
Cincinnati chambers of commerce. The
question involved was whether congress
intended to confer1 ii)on the interstate
commission power to fix rates. ' The opin-
ion was rendered by Justice Brewer. The
gist of the opinion is found in the fol-
lowing paragraph:
"Under the interstate commerce act
the commission has no power to prescribe
the tariff of rates which shall control in
the future nnd therefore can not invoke
a judgment in mundnmus from the courts
to enforce any such tariff by it pre-
scribed." Continuing Justice Brewer said:
"Has the commission no functions to
perform in resiiect to matter of rates V"
Replying to his own question he said:
"Unquestionably it has nnd most im-
portant duties in respect to this matter.
It is charged with the general duty of
inquiring as to the management of the
business of railwnv companies and hns
the right to compel full and complete in-
rormntion as to tne manner in which such
conipnnies nre transacting their business.
And with this information it is eluirired
with the duty of seeing thnt there is no
violation ot the long ami short haul
clnuses: thnt there is no discrimination
between individual shippers nnd thnt
nothing is done by rebate or otherwise
to give preference to one against another;
that no undue preference is given to one
place ngninst nnottier. lint that in a
things thnt equality of right which is
the great purpose of interstate commerce
shall lie secured to shippers.
"It is not to bo supposed thnt congress
would ever authorize an administrative
body to establish rates without inquiring
nnd examination; to evolve as it were
out of its own consciousness' the satis
factory solution of the difficult problem
of just and reasonable rates for all the
various roads of the country. If it had
intended to grant the power to establish
rates it would hnve snid so in unmis-
takable terms. In this connection it must
be borne in mind that the commission is
not limited in its inquiry nnd action as in
cases in wheh a formal complnnt hns
heen made put thnt under section 13.
it mny institute inquiry on its own mo-
tion in the same manner nnd to the same
effect as though complaint hnd been
mnde.
"Attention' is also called to the fact
thnt the lnw grnnts new power even to
hx a maximum or a minimum rate and
the conclusion is drawn that 'as congress
did not give the express power to the
commission it noes not intend to secure
the snme result indirectly by empower-
ing that tribunnl to determine what in
reference to the pnst was reasonable and
just whether as maximum minimum or
absolute and then enable it to obtain
from the courts a momontnry order thnt
in the future railway companies should
follow the rates thus determined and
in the nnst reasonable nnd lust."
The opinion wns rendered on questions
certified by the United States circuit
court of appeals for the Sixth circuit
There was no prepnred opinion in the
Florida case the conclusions being the
snme ns in the alsivo.
Justice Harlan dissented in both cases.
An important decision interpreting the
interstate commerce law was made in
the case of C. S. Wright vs. the United
States from the district court for the
western district of Pennsylvania. The
ense grew out of a competition between
the Panhandle and the Baltimore and
Ohio roads for the boor carrying business
of F. H. Brnening n wholesale beer
dealer of Pittsburg. The rates charged
by both ronds for beer was 15 cents per
hundred between Cincinnati and Pitts-
burg. The Panhandle rond had a side
track nt Bruening's place of business
so that it could unload shipments on his
premises while it cost him 3 1-2 cents
per hundred to haul the goods from the
Baltimore and Ohio station. To secure
the business the Baltimore and Ohio
made arrangement to deliver the goods
to Bruening's warehouse and afterward
Bruenine offered to do the halting him
self for 8 1-2 cents per hundred paying
the railway 15 cents per hundred freight
and presenting a monlhly bill for 3 1-2
cents per hundred weight to the railway
company which wns paid. Henry Wolf
another denier paid the same freight
rates and was also paid for his hauling
the distance being nearly as great ns Mr.
Brnening s goods were huulcd. I'oni-
plaint was mnde that the arrangement
wns in violation of the section of the in-
terstate commerce act prohibiting re-
bates drawbacks etc.. nnd first the cir
cuit court and today the supreme court
sustained this contention.
' The court denied petitions for rehenr-
ing in the case of Sentell vs. the New
Orleans nnd Carrollton Railroad com-
pany. The case was the one in which the
court decided that damages could not be
collected fop killing n dog.
' REMfilOlS.I'rcMlij'terlnn General Assembly.
Entile Lake. Ind.. May 24. The-ses
sions of the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church were opened today
with devotional exercises led bv Elder
Killean Van Rennsselner of New York.
By general consent reference to the pnr-
liimentary tangle ot Saturday regarding
the Presbyterian building was omitted
from the minutes.
The first regular order wns the report
of the board of missions to freed men.
Although no new work was projected.
the board operated two large boarding
schools for girls that were not on the list
lust year one at Anniston Ala. and the
other at West Point Miss.
The second order of the morning wns
the report of the special committee on
home missions appointed last year to
confer with the board in New York in
reference to the methods of work nnd re-
trenchment of the expenses. The report
closed with recommendations "that the
board of home missions be directed so as
to reorganize its methods of administra-
tion the executive work shall be placed
in charge of one secretary."
The committee nsked to Ik1 continued
and instructed "to consider the best
methods of promoting harmony and co
operation between the board of home mis-
sions and Presbyteries and synods desir
ing to support nnd control their own
work and to report to the next assem
bly."
Rending of the report occupied the ro-
niniuder of the morning hour and discus-
sion wns made n special order for Tues-
day nt 4 o'clock.
At the afternoon session on motion of.
John Wannamaker the following was or-
dered to be sent to Queen Victoria:
J. lus day being the seventy-eighth an-
niversary of the birth and sixtieth anni-
versary of the coronation of her most gra-
cious -majesty. Queen Victoria whose
reign lias lasted longer than any other
monarch in the lnst thousand years this
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church in the United States of America
deems it fitting and does hereby send most
cordial Christian greetings to both the il-
lustrious Christian sovereign nnd the sub-
jects of her gentle generous and righte-
ous rule over the destinies of the empire
upon which the sun never sets."
The regular order of the nfternnon was
the report of the board of education. The
total receipts were $78(157 expenditures
$78.(114.
The remainder of the session was given
up to debate on the report on the Pres-
byterian building in New York which
went over us unfinished business.
Southern Presbyterians.
Charlotte. N. C May 24.-The pulpits
of Charlotte and surrounding country
were occupied Sunday by ministers at-
tending the assembly. Splendid sermons
were the order of the day. At the First
Presbyterian church in the afternoon the
drummer's memorial window to the Rev.
Dr. Preston was unveiled in the presence
of a great crowd.
Mr. W. W. Watt presided nnd Revs.
A. J. Howerton and Stngg made ad-
dresses. The window represents "The
Vision of St. John the Beloved."
This morning the standing committees
on publication presented a long report
which wns docketed. After a short re-
cess the assembly heard the Rev. Dr. G.
B. Strickel redeliver an address on cate-
chetical instruction.
The Westminster celebration Is sustain-
ing the profound interest awakened ut
first.
This afternoon the assembly visited
Davidson college about twenty miles
from here.
The order for tonight was the continu-
ance of the observance of the Westmin-
ster celebration. The address was made
by Rev. Dr. T. Adlock of the Union The-
oliiL'icnl Kcniinni-v nt r vini.;.
"Colored Evangelization" is the order
for tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow afternoon the next place of
meeting will be decided. New Orleans
mm iucuiuouu nave eacn made a claim
Manor Mention.
Manor Tex.. May 24. (Snoeiall On
receipt of a telephone niessuge from the
city marshal of Taylor and hearing of u
suspicious character in the vicinity Con-
stable Puckett started out to catch a
horse thief Saturday evening. Other
parties jumped the game when he was
about 100 yurds away and the thief who
nnu a goou norse outran tne posse but
was so closely pursued that he after-
wards abandoned the horse which to-
geiner wim a nne saddle bad been
stolen from Taylor. Constable Puckett
will return thein to the owner but. is
grieving ut not rounding in the thief as
well.
Guy Bret Kaney the little daughter
of W. B. Raney met with whnt was at
first thought to bo a serious accident this
morning. Her horse fell with her and
it was ut first thought her leg was broken
but this proved not to be the case and
with the exception of severe bruises she
is not thought to be injured.
Nice showers fell yesterday which
were not sufficient to retard cotton chop-
ping which is being rapidly pushed.
There are some reiwrts of cotton lice
but taken as a whole the corn and cotton
crops nre both very promising.
Vunghiin Btoh.'s new gin is fast being
completed and will be ready for the com-
ing season's crop. They are darning up
the creek to insure plenty of water for all
purposes. As they have a large horse
fiower they are investigating the practica-
lity of furnishing the town with electric
lights.
D. R. Stewart of the Cnlcasien Lumber
company is erecting a nice modern resi
dence.
SPAIN'S MINISIER1M CRISIS
A NEW CABINET SEEMS LIKELY TO
RESULT PREMIER CANOVA9
. ALU DES
10 1 "Mil Of
During n Speech Iu the Clinniher of
Denuded The Liberal Are Firm
A mil list the Duke of Tetuan
He-Entering the Cabinet.
Madrid May 24. The political situa-
tion here seems to be as follows:
The government not wishing to yield to
the opposition by resigning will appear
before the cortes but if the liberals do
not attend the sessions n ministerial crisis
will result. Under the circumstances the
relent ion of the present cabinet does not
seem possible. The liberals who consider
the formation of a Sagastn cabinet in-
evitable within a few days have aban-
doned all ideit of agreeing upon 'he for-
mation of u working minority.
The projected duel betweeu the sons of
the Duke of Tetuan the minister of for-
eign affairs and Professor Comas the
liberal senator whose ears were boxed
by the Duke on Friday last in the lobby
of tin senate has beeu abandoned the
dispute having been amicably settled.
The Heraldo of this city says it learns
that high persons have asked Marshal
Martinez do Cnuipos the former captain
general ot Hum to come to .Madrid..
SPEECH OF PREMIER CANOVAS.
Absence of the Liberals From the
Senate Chumber.
Madrid. May 24. In the senate tonight.
in reply to a conservative senator-who
asked why the liberals were nlwciit. Senor
Canovas del Castillo the premier said:
'In the opinion of the government the
matter which the liberals plead ns an
excuse for their absence from the senate
is nn incident purely of character which
lias already heen urruiigetl. l he govern-
ment respects the opinion of the lils-rnl
minority but rejects their theory of the
incident and their demands for the resig-
nation of the minister of foreign affairs
as contrary to the constitution of parlia-
ment. 'Formerly I governed in the nbsence
of n minority but under the present cir-
sumstniices the responsibility belongs to
nil parties. It is impossible to face the
negotiations now on foot without serious
detriment if we change the foreign min
ister.
The Marquis of Persnlos on tsdialf of
the diffident conservatives declared thnt
under the circumstances they felt com
pelled to absent themselves until the lib-
erals hud received satisfaction.
Ia the chamber of deputies the premier
repented the statement he hnd made in
the senute adding that he regretted the
nbsence of the lilicruls beennse it prevent-
ed Senor Sngnsta Trom defending himself
acaiust certain accusations arising out of
nn erroneous interpretation of one of his
speeches.
Senor Canovas referred to the bad Im-
pression which had been produced in this
way at Washington where it seemed to
be supposed thnt the sale of Cuba was
a possible thing.
"Spain" snid Senor Canovas "Is not
n nation of mere-hunts capable of selling
its honor."
Senor Francisco Siveln leader of the
dissident conservatives in the chamber
who quarrelled with Senor Cnnovas in
1 K!l1 nver tho exneillencv of reforming
the municipal abuses in Madrid accused
the Duke of Tetuan of a grave error
which could not be righted by a few elo-
quent words.
He snid the foreign minister ought to
expiate his offense by resigning. In the
course of his speech he described the ac-
tion of the United States senate in recog-
nizing Hie belligerency of the Cuban in-
surgents as a "great iniquity" and char-
acterized the diplomatic conduct of the
government ns altogether blumeworthy
adding an expression of his doubt as to
the intelligence of Senor Canovas in re-
taining the Duke of Tetuan under the
circumstances.
After the session of the cortes the dissl-
conservntives held a meeting and decided
to ask the president of tho chamber to
enter into negotiations with Sagasta with
u view of inducing the liberals to attend
the cortes. i
RUIZ INVESTIGATION.
The Committee I Proceeding to Fry
Into Affair.
Havana May 24. It. U expected the
Ruiz investigation committed the Con-gosto-Lee
commission as the Spanish of-
ficial censor culls it will reconvene nt
Gnunnbacoa tomorrow.
United States Consul Brice of Matan-
zas who came here on Snturduy in re-
sponse to the request of Consul General
IiOO returned there yesterday . accom-
panied by (Sen. Lee Mr. Calhoun and
Mr. Fishbnck.
Mr. Calhoun intends taking various
trips into the interior during the coming
week. Cnpt. Gen. Weyler is at Placetus.
A VIOLENT SCENE
In the Australian Relchsrath Ink
Stand L'aed for Arguments.
London May 25. The Standard corres-
pondent nt Vienna says:
The obstruction which hns character-
ized the proceedings in the reichsrnth
during the lnst few weeks culminated to-
day in an unprecedented scene. The pres-
ident became so much excited in anticipa-
tion of trouble thut he fainted before the
session opened and the vice president hnd
to take the chair.
For hours tho members of the opposition
had recourse to every parliamentary de-
vice for obstructing business and finally
when these were exhausted they over-
turned the desks smashed ink stands
flung books in the faces of the speakers
indulged in coarse invectives nnd finully
came to blows in a general riot.
Greeee Place Herelf Ont of It.
Athens May 24.-The Creek govern-
ment as a reply to the notification sent
bv Edhem Pashn. commander of the
n'...iiuH in ThnnHiilv. that he is em
powered to negotiate the terms of peace
with Greece direct inrormeu iue nuiim-
ters of the powers here that ns Greece
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Sign of the Aermotor.
has already confided her Interests to the
powers there is no reason why she should
negotiate directly with Turkey.
Suspect Sinister Motive.
London. May 24. The Athens corres-
pondent of the Times says:
The intentions of the sultan nre greatly
distrusted here nnd it is believed he is
avoiding negotiations for pence through
the powers because he wants Edlu-m
Pasha to march to Athens
Expulsion Decree Suspended.
Constantinople Mny 24. The decree of
(he Turkish government calling for the
ltl. f .11 I2.ul.-a fi.mil lm Dttn.
man empire which was to have gone into
etleet today has noon suspeuiied in view
of the peace negotiations.
To Pardon Irish Political Prisoners.
Dublin. Mnv 24. It is lM-lieved to be'
certain that many perhaps nil Irish po-
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James Fi' Harris Larry Hamlin rnd
Joe Mullott will lie pardoned early in
June in commemoration of the sixtieth
year of the reign of Queen Victoria.
THE VON TAl'SCH TRIAL.
Sensational German Political Case.
The Emperor' Malady.
Berlin. Mny 24. The trial of Ilerr von
Tnusch the former commissioner of tho
secret political police who was arrested
on December 8 last nt the close of tho
sensational Luetzow-Leckers trial during
which the imperinl chuncollur Prince Hot
honlohe the minister for foreign affairs
Baron Marschal von Biebersteln. and the
Gorman ambassador to Austria Count
Phillip von Sulenbnrg were among the
witnesses commenced today and will
probnbly last a week. Among the wit-
nesses summoned are Bnron Mnrschal von
Biebersteln County Phillip Eulenburg
ex-Minister von Koeller'nnd Gen. Bron-
snrt von Schellendorf Police President
Wlndheim Herr Bebel the soclullst lead-
er nnd about fifty newspnper men be-
sides a number of ofilciuls belonging to
the different ministries.
At the opening of the trial the presi-
dent of the court cautioned Baron von
Luetzow not to depart from the actual
truth in the testimony which he might be
called iijiou to give against von Tnusch.
The former chief of the secret police
was then examined. He mnde u state-
ment relative to the employment of voa
T.uetzow nnd a newsnaner man named'
Schumann by the secret political police
nnd assured the court that he (Von
Tauschi had never caused political Inter
ests to be served by Its agents. Schu-
man. or Gorman is said to nave oeen
much more guilty than Baron von Luet-
zow. Schumann escnned from Berlin
just In time to avoid arrest. He was
cnarged in conjunction witn naron von
Luetzow with having signed fictitious
names to receipts for money given them
to brilw newspaper writers or editors or
swUinlinate employes of the government
to furish secretly information of every
kind wanted in the alleged campaign to
discredit the existing cabinet.
Von Luetzow during his examination
testified that he received Instructions to
publish reports about the cur troubles of
tho emperor.
The witness wns nsked If Von Uauscn
assigned these troubles to nn alleged mal-
ady. He replied:
"Certainly; Von Tausch said the mala-
dy lind a enncerous busis was Inherited
from his futher and thut the disease con-
siderably affected his majesty's health."
Lobby In a Bad Corner.
London Mny 24. The Stundurd under-
stands thut Mr. Lnbouchere will with-
draw the charge he mode In Truth and
before iue South African parliamentary
committee against Rutherford Harris the
tifiliintn nf f'fx-il Rhodes nnd leiidlmf
spirit iu the British South Africa Char-
tered company the stock brokers upon
whom Mr. Lnbouchere relied for pioof
having refused to testify.
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