Show TELEGRAPH F rab W N inq uke AME RICAN 31 an important d decision ec islon was rendered by th the french eFrench american claims commission today to day iri in the tiie case cage of joseph napoleon per elle eile clie die archbishop Areli arcil bishop of new orleans against the united states the tim memorial ine morial of the claimants set forth that in 1862 at which time he was a french subject residing in new or ieans jeans the military force of the united states under the command of general 11 butler occupied that city and demolished d property belonging to him to the value of and subjected him h I 1 in to arres t anat anaa an imprisonment for these thebe in juries ho he claims ho he is entitled to damages in with interest tho the united states maintains that ahe the arch bl bishop bishop shop is not entitled tore fore 0 o recover at all as a french subject under the present treaty for the reason v a that he Is now and has been since 1870 a naturalized american citizen following is the decision of the commission 6 perche in his niem orial states lie he was naturalized in tho the united stated in 1870 isto he does not claim to bo be a french citizen without deciding upon other caes caws which may be analogous to this we think the claim of perche must bo be rejected because it does doe snot not como come within the terms of the thib treaty which only provides for claims of french citizens whilo while making this decision we deem it proper for us to express our regret that we wo cannot take j jurisdiction of a case which seems upon its face to be so eul equitable q table tabie signed BARON president 11 A 0 OLDIS coln coin commissioners miss loners the tho present caso case is said to be de do cleive of the whole class of similar cases caseb in which largo amounts of money are involved in the court of claims today to day in the case of abeloe rn co vs the united states in which the plaintiffs had bad previous previously sly siy secured lui ful judgment for against the government for cotton captured dur inc int ohp wr th ho paiit tah cah tat V malera M tiia his ju judgment iha ina ament on account of fraud the case of tb the a pacific mail steamship company united states in which the court had bad given judgment for the tho company for IU both parties appealing and the supreme court having sent back the case with a mandate the court of claims today to day gave judgment for the company for the suit was wag for money due on account of carrying mails the court of claims today to day overruled ru wied the petition btitton of the union pae pad pacific tic railroad company for additional dit ional lonal compensation for carrying mails in postal cars in excess of the fates bates rates now and heretofore paid by government for lor postal car service on this thia and other roads generally the decision leaves the past and present rates of compensation unchanged the circulation of the standard silver dollar has hag practically stopp stopped pd during the fall and early winter there was quite a demand for the purpose of moving crops that demand and stopped when tile the crol crop movement was over since tho the nimet first of january there has been no call for silver all ali dollars coined since remain in the treasury moreover silver in circulation has found its ita way baek back to the vaults the amount outstanding has steadily decreased coinage at the rate of per month goes steadily dily on mrs garfield has been entirely free fice from fever sineo since saturday and is rapidly convalescing the president will soon remove his tits family to the soldiers homo home for the summer at a cabinet meeting tod today to day sly siy the president announced his intention of attending the th e graduating exercises of the naval academy june juno loth and the commencement exercise exerciser a of williams william college july ath ath and ath I 1 the executive committee of the national association of amateur gars oars men has fixed upon september ath and ath over the potomac elver eiver course for the regatta of the association NEW yom YOEK 31 tho the Me telegrams grains graing albany special says A prolonged session is inevitable and balloting may continue to july ath hall breeds are quite as determined as stalwarts stalwart stal stai warts sanda and a compromise seems the only way out the half breeds 6 said conkling platt and arthur would not return here they were afraid A leading state official says these men dont know roscoe conkling Conk Jing lie did not enter tholon the tho contest without a full appreciation of what he be was to meet and did not go into it to be beaten lie he will will win and dont you forget it an assemblyman who sunday with arthur said conkling is in the race and if you knew the points I 1 know you would agree with me his hla election cannot bo be prevented and w th out democrat democratic lic lie aid too tod it is nonsense to talk wk about his bargaining with democrats piat platt t said this mornin ghe gho 0 thought their chances for jor election reelection re more than good and believed they would go back to washington the posts albany special bays says anti antl wont concentrate until Con klings votes met away then probably they may h ve bl 81 votes and elect two candidates alth aith although gugh pugh it la Is yet too early to predict this carpenter says Con klinga ironclad will stay b by him robertson IT be surprised ad if an actual election 13 fy Is 13 held before the week is ov ovar r express should the deadlock continue next week the legislature will adjourn the governor says he wont reconvene the legislature but will let the polls settle the dispute commercial tile half brif breeds boastfully claim to be able to elect two senators this week and that they will arrange a plan before thursday they utterly reject the thought of returning conkling although some would have favored him if he would drop platt each halfbreed half breed has his individual candidate which is bad for them they believe the desire to be on the winning g side aide will make them many converts ver ts conklin Con klings 9 Is men say bay they will be able to hold their forces together and that the popular sentiment to so skillfully fully worked up by blaine will turn in the assembly no candidate received a majority and the house then proceeded to vote to fill 1111 the vacancy of platt the vote stood depew 15 kernan 47 platt 21 fol ger gerg 6 lapham 6 cornell 12 crowley 3 evarts 5 morton morion 2 miller 3 i franeis francia 1 pomeroy 23 2 pr 0 2 adi atule t tle wlm the tim chair announced the house having tailed failed to give a it majority foresther for elther either candidate that the fact will be entered on the journal of the house mid and legislative business proceeded NEW new YORK 31 herald berald the public will regret to learn from the news columns this morning that lieutenant commander gorringe flor ringe has declined the position which the mayor tendered him as head of the new street cleaning department the grounds of declination are that if be he assumed the duties he could not discharge them for the simple reason that the law that has been framed at alban albany y is a trick and fraud and that under its provisions clean streets are an impossibility the times nevertheless we must inist inglat that the new now law notwithstanding its 10 imperfections can be employed to give us clean streets at any rate it affords us the only opportunity and the mayor may or is bound to exer exercise eise else nit air his powers of judgment in a filling the office the tze ward poll politicians who are now crowding upon the mayor are backed by tammany hall the times it is reported from washington that evarts dispatches to the state department are in a di discouraging coura in i g tone and that he appears to tavo havo abandoned all hopes of any agreement on tho the main propositions submitted to tile the silver conference it lt must be evident oven even to himself that there ia is no pos possibility slbil of getting an understanding on the absurdly radical propositions brought forward by himself and associates one after another the pleasant predictions indulged in as to theco checo thoy thol coop co op aeration of england and germany have come to grief the unpleasant probability la is that the enterprise into which the hie american government entered with such a light heart will wilt prove liot not only a fiasco but one not wholly free from tho the appearance pe aranco arance of neing ridiculous marlo mario varian aged 36 who keeps a iager lager beer saloon a 1654 sixth avenue was arrested this morning charged with deMera deliberately tely setting betting fire for the sake of the insurance to a house in which a score of persons were living among them a woman sick in childbed the circumstances of the discovery are such as to leave no doubts of the womans guilt the amount of bf insurance for which so many lives were risked was after thoroughly soaking the floor of the basement and a heap of straw and rags collected there with petroleum leum she set nire fire to it the police had warning of the atair affair and wid tile the match had hardly been applied before the woman was arrested the mayor of london mondon ont to day received the following from major Do dewinton winton the governor generals secreta secretary the queen lias lia 3 expressed th through ro ugh his excelled ex excellency cellen celien CY tho the governor G gener ener al a her great sorrow on hearing of the tha deplorable acol accident dent which h as zo recently occurred at Lond london dil dri and de do sires siros to express her lier deep sympathy with tile the bereaved families signed mete weve A desver DENVER 31 at tins evening ning ja L stickney kney y a mining man entered the tho boarding house oil on the tile corner of and stout S tout streets while the boarders were seated at table dulled a revolver and opened fire on AT T campau reale renie reni real estate agent two shots struck campau causing instant leathand deat hand anellier imp imn ti er pierced mrs devereaux Bev dev ereaux through the heart beart it is said campau has lias for some time had improper relations with mrs stickney kney but buteas was dhawn on by her for blackmailing purposes and that two months ago he was compelled at the point of a dagger by stick ney to sign notes amounting to 10 that lie he paid several and then refused and could not be compelled to phy pay the remainder because no considerations were stated in the notes since then stickney kney has several times threatened campus Cam paus S life the shooting of mrs devereaux was accidental the murderer Is in jail on thursday the ilie west bound stage stagecoach coach on barlow sander sons bons line was robbed while passing through a canyon four miles west of poncha springs by four unmasked men after securing and in drafts besides a number of or gold watches and other valuable jewelry the coach was allowed to proceed about 10 the same gang entered a store at pon clia cha springs and compelled everybody present pre cent rent to hold up their hand hands and the proprietor to turn over the contents of the safe amounting to about they then departed the leader of the band was lecog nihed bet act charloa AJ JAson Ioann A farmar deputy sheriff of conejos county the remainder are supposed to be members of a band of cattle thieves thieve who wilo have llave been operating around farmington for months past GALVESTON 31 lewa jewa waco special A fearful hali hall hailstorm storm visited bouth couth McClennan nuan and the north part of belt county on Sat saturday night eight 1 A number of farm houses were tore torn down one lady was wag killed and two men were badly hurt near crawford several haus houses es were unroofed dallas special A V violent I 1 f wind storm swept avei over oven the city last night rain fell in torrents flooding all the streams trinity river is ri ing rapidly and is expected to flowitt flow its banks mews mems specials report wind rain and hail hall storms in various portions of the state in many instances totally destroying the fruit and seriously injuring the corn cotton and wheat crops taylor special A hurricane visited taylor on saturday evening lasting forty minutes no lives ilves were lost mr 13 ax N trains house was blown down two families sustained serious injuries the christian church was blown from its foundation the catholic church and odd fellows follows hall were totally wrecked nearly all baang barns and outhouses out houses were demolished scarcely a house in town escaped damage fences were blown down and trees uprooted for miles around ST LOUIS 31 A 9 movement is being set on foot by leading members of tile the merchants and other business men of the city to hold a conven convention tion sometime during the coming autumn for the purpose of discussing the material interests of the mississippi valley to which leading bon congressmen and other representative men of the west khall be invited quite a number of prominent gentlemen of this thia city embracing both leading political parties have organized what is to be known as tile the civil service reform assoria tion on the plan of similar societies in the east and will elect officers in a 0 few days BUFFALO 31 the tho presbyterian general assembly after considerable debate adopted tho report of the judicial committee in the case of H P peck of I 1 oregon who appealed from the synod of columbian Colum bias action in dropping the investigation of d a charge of immorality against him the committee found in the records of the tho synod no ea clear elear bedr account of what was done and they therefore sustained the action of peck PiTTS buro Buno 29 20 dr phi lip chairman of the american Amer icah section sei set tion of the biblo revision committee addressed a large largo audience here hero today to day on tho the jr revised testament after briefly reviewing the different dif dlf lerent translations made from time to time the speaker I 1 said that for 40 years there ther 0 lias has been a growing demand for a new translation Be beautus astus borsuch for fon a revision are two first changes in language and eo second progress in biblical scholarship every living language changes from time to time certain words have chan chau changed ged their meaning to tile direct opposite for merly menly expressed archag sueh such as prevent used in tile the sense of precede chieti iet let for hinder carriage for baggage by and by for forthwith the most moat important reason however is the growth of knowledge the 47 men who made king james translation had none of them been in palestine and knew little of biblical geography and they were thus liable to make mis takes and did make many sinco since egypt lias has given up her treasures treasurer semi explored palestine been traversed babylon and Nine ninevah vali risen from the grave to testify to the tile truth of the bible and tender their manuscripts and to an explanation of some of its ras pas passages sages older manuscripts since disco discovered ered have been used sed qed in the tho present revision antl and many actual errors rectified strain at a gnat lias has been changed to strain out a gnat and a great many such typographical errors corrected the two iwo words in the original both translated hell heil ell eil in king james version are hades meaning tile the abode of souls after death and Geh enna euna meaning the abode of the damned in the revision has been corrected so 60 also has the tho distinction between devir devit and demon been brought out the division into chapters first made by a roman catholic cardinal in century and that into verses first made by a paris publishing house in the 1 oth have been done away with and the text divided according acco wll wiz ing to sense ense italicized passages when th they ey were unnecessary and weakening the true sense have been discarded THE ALBANY attraction i 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