Show telegraphic NEWS washington D C may 16 secretary hoke smith has decided the appeal 0 of the state of idaho from the rejection reeo tion of certain landa land claimed by it as a part of an agricultural college grant the total grant was sages several hundred acres of which were rejected by we lund filce ad 88 being in tracts smaller then than acres each the state appealed and the secretary has held that the tracts selected must be of at least sores acres each but that this acres may be made up of parta part of different lerent dif sections that are contiguous to each other and need not b be in ado same section part of toe the lano lanes claimed are therefore given to the state anu anti part rejected reject eu as not meeting this to re quirt ment minneapolis minn may 16 it is in said wat thai president crespo of venez uola uela has evolved a 8 scheme for the ob of a bank of venezuela in which american capital is 0 to o be heavily interested and to which is to be in trusted we llie collection of taxes and duties the bank Js is to have a paid up capital ut of half ball of which la Is to be furnished shed by the be Venezuela no and the rest by minnesota Minne eota men and their eastern backers in new york the bank will have a complete monopoly of the collection of the taxes and duties for we the entire country HAVANA may 16 A special cable gram received heru hero today says sas that on monday last there was severe lighting fighting in the neighborhood of jobito oear near the engagement lasted from 5 in the morning until 6 5 at evening and resulted in a brilliant victory lor for the spanish A detachment of soldiers attacked and ought dougha bravely against 2000 insurgents led by gomez the two mareom rabi and cartagena the th lieutenant colonel who led the she spanish force his soldiers to open fire PA as the abe rebels advanced and ana tell sell furiously upon the troops eventually the be enemy surrounded the spanish troops troop wila a vastly superior luroe force major robles noon whom the command devolved when the lieutenant colonel was shot down succeeded in holding his bis anu repelling the attacks ot of the rebels but bus the spaniards were completely sur rounded and it IL was neo esary omary for a portion of the theooroe thelo force roe tu to cut its way out in ili order to communicate with the base ot of supplies aud and obtain reinforcements major goral garrido at the huau head of 01 ninety mado made a brilliant dash into the tae insurgents als 1 lines and forced his way through the oi of lie age which surrounded the troops shortly after maor major barrido garridos Gar s volunteers had pierced the 1 lines another detachment of apan ish troops under the command ol of captain bruzon made an opportune flank attack upon the rebels the latter iatter were taken by surprise and thrown into confusion the two bodies of troops ben abon nod and made a combined attack upon jhb rebels who were compelled to retire with a lose of dead and wounded major robles nas has gained the crow cross of san fernando for the he brilliant manner in ID which he held beld his hie position against the overwhelming wh wb elming numbers num bere the lew less on the spanish side ade wo was one doctor four officers and eleven soldiers killed billed and thirty wounded NEW YORK udy may 16 senator elkins of west virginia says ay be was wao frequently misquoted on his bis western trip rip as being in favor of free silver 1 believe in bimetallism and in che use of silver in the furthest possible way consistent stent with sound money be addea ad deu 1 I am not for silver to an extent tnt hurtful to the country the government has hag she power to limit the use of metals the republicans of she east and west went must get together on the silver question I 1 believe the silver question will settle itself and waun blawn we come to meet next year at the national convention there will not be any between the east bast and the west washington may 16 the jap anese legation has haa received an official 08 cable ble stating in substance that final and satisfactory awre agreement ement has been reached by japan anil and the european powers on the eastern question it to Is regarded rega rUed as closing the entire subject it 6 is also regarded as am the unofficial statements of russian news papers that russia would claim protectorate toot orate ate over korea HOUGHTON mich may 16 this afternoon there was another big explosion at hancock chemical at dollar bay three miles from here fred was killed the works were blown to pieces SAN FRANCISCO may 17 john carter an ex seaman of H M S Roya royalist listo arrived in this city yesterday on the be steamer australia from honolulu carter come came to hawaii from sydney where the royalist to is now stationed england according to the seaman cok very drastic measures to in the punishment of the natives of the solomon group of islands and villages at the mouth of the river soy boy were can nona ded A landing party was started out from verne an adjacent town and the savages were driven miles into the interior A number were slaughtered for lour four hours soy boy was under fire the trouble and the subsequent bombardment were brought about by the murder ofa ot a mr donald guy last april and the abe later murder of eight inebriated english tars tare who went manore at the island kalayta to enjoy a good time the mouth month alter after guy was murdered a boats crew of me labor brig para was also fired brad upon by she natives two men were wounded the royalist proceeded to now new georgia and there learned that guy bad been surprised by the natives and shot down in cold blood the sloop proceeded up the soy boy river and there found the pas sage blocked the natives had taken take to the bushel busbee the royalist cleared for action and in ton ten minutes litera literally fly blow blew the village of soy boy off the face of 0 the earth the land forces pursued the natives into the interior for several miles but could not force them into open battle the royalist then steamed to MR me layta island bland and anchored ott oft the town ol of altai the guns gun were turned on the village and a quick fire opened two cutters cut lers armed with rapid firing bring guns steamed close to the beach and poured shot into a little bunch of natives that were defending the chief chiefs s palace A number were killed and wounded one after another three villages Til lages were totally destroyed st aL the natives driven to the bush and the he residents of one of the principal chiefs of the Solo solomon tuon group blown to pieces with six aix inch snella the royalist then steamed around the th Island looking for fresh villages to try its gun crews proficiency upon and flimsily finally steamed to Wan awana elaborate preparations were made f for or sea and land attack the natives having assembled in great numbers A steam launch armed with a gatling galling un and two cutters with 7 pound rapid firing rifles were detailed to land a detachment of marines and sailors suddenly the royalist Boy aliet received orders through a british steamer captain to come operations and return to now new zealand the slaughter of the defenseless wua thus averted R I 1 may 17 A two buu a halt balf story wooden tenement house bouse owned by joseph J Lemo lime and occupied by several french lam ISM alies in coventry in that part dart known as jerlow several miles fro from M this city collapsed late this afternoon and three persons were killed and eleven injured it is in thought that two of the latter jatter are ar lacally hurt the building had been raised to permit the building of another story beneat li it the building was shout about fifty feet long with a frontage of twenty feet the lower portion was formerly a store and the owner recently decided to raise it twenty lest feel and use lower stories for tenements ten emente two families in the upper stories did not move out about 4 OJ Clook thin thi afternoon while the men were wor working kiniC at the underpin nig the out warning slid olid oft off time plies piles on which it rested anti and pitched endwise into the street striking the ground with a terrific crash it was split sud aud smashed into a wasi mass of kindling wood from the ruins rose flit cries of the injured and dying aud sad the passersby passers by and others began the work of ot rescue the centerville Cent center erville ville clr department was summoned and rendered valuable assistance let in tearing away time the debris an alarm was rung upon the mill bells and soon thousands had bad gathered at as the scene meanwhile the rescuer re rei were tearing away the mass or of splintered plin beams and boards boarde and soon oame upon abe be body of ft a woman lying in the street under the second floor it was crushed and almost his ble but from the clothing it was identified ae that of mrs mabel guertin Quer tiu a widow who lived jived oo on she second floor A short distance away the body of a child was found the neck was broken ralf half an hour later the body of ass asa aldrich of arctic center was found u is head ad crushed into a pulp mrs joseph Lemo lue wife of the tb owner ol of the building aud aua noah richards a workman were taken itom irom the ruins so badly injured that they will die hall half a dozen others including several children who had been playing were also injured |