Show raph EAPH I 1 i I 1 WESTERN gloh tearh LINE rim AMERICAN A 11 E R 10 A N washington 24 representative berry today to day dayi reported from the public publia lands committee a bill to quit swamp land titles in california the full text of which was given in these dispatches last week it was vas placed on the house calendar calendars and berryhill berry berny will endeavor to obtain its passage at the earliest opportunity under a motion to suspend the rules there is much unfavorable comment this evening concerning the number of nominations sent to the senate today to td day for appointment in the arm army stass staff corps several are alleged to 0 be gross instances of favoritism and in total disregard of seniority ty and civil service principles among them are two vilian civilian ei ap point ments to army pay paymaster masterships master ships with rank of major namely A son Bishop of whipple now cashier of a bank at targe fargo pargo dakota and a son of dr comegys Comegy 9 of cincinnati ohio both of these highly desirable appointments it is clai good reason ab should ouid have been given g i iven to some bome two of or the scores of deserving captains or first lieutenants who have performed arduous service in the late war or on the frontier for half their lifetimes lifetime sp and who have practically no other opportunity for promotion representative belford was today recognised recognized by speaker randall and secured the unanimous passage by the house hand of his bill donating a tract of land to thet veteran union association at leadville for hospital and other purposes A number of memorials from the oregon legislature were laid before the senate today to day by the vice pre asking an appropriation at appropriation for specified river and arbor harbor improvements and the construction of military wagon roads in that state favoring the extension of time for the completion of the oregon and california railroad aud and recommending a revocation of the orders withdrawing ng the lands of the malheur indian reservation from sale senator beek beck is preparing a speech in favor of free ships which he will deliver iii in the senate this week he will advocate the policy licy llcy of permitting tin g foreign built bulit ships snips dosall to sail gali tinder under Amei amel american amerlean lean jean registers it Is whispered that this speech may extract some remarks from senator blaine on the same subject as in view of mr blaines jil aines alnes probable appointment to the of state there is a desire to have him state once more em emphatically h ti cally caily what he believes to be the best policy for the restoration of american ocean commerce sen ator beck beek will put some questions that it is supposed mr blaine willbe willing to answer the supreme court gave its decision in casena case ease no samuel kahn appellant vs tim the central smelting Sm elting etting ting company et al 41 aa on appeal from the su supreme pre e court of utah tile the decree is I 1 s reversed rev eased with costs ind and the case remanded with directions to td send to the district di triet court fora a rehearing the parties S to be at liberty to produce deuce new proof the decision was delivered by justice feld feid fjeld the house committee on census agreed today to day to report coxs ap apportionment por tion ment bill with amendments in creasing r the number of representatives from to and striking out the second and third sections of the bill which provides that a representative or re representatives r e natives ta tives from tiny any new states state should ouid be added to this n umber number and also the mode of electing shenew the new basis of apportionment was as follows alabama 8 arkansas Ar kansas kantAs 5 california 6 5 colorado 1 connecticut 41 aj delaware P 1 florida 2 1 georgia georgia 10 10 nii nois 19 indiana 13 iowa 10 kansas 6 kentucky 10 louisiana 6 maine 4 maryland mary land 6 massachusetts 11 michigan Minnesota 10 5 mississippi 7 missouri 14 nebraska 3 nevada 1 new hampshire 2 new jersey 7 new york 32 north worth carolina 9 ohio 20 oregon 1 pennsylvania 27 rhode island 2 0 south carolina 6 tennessee 10 texas exas ekas 10 vermont 2 virginia 10 west vrest virginia vii vil 4 wisconsin 6 the controversy between auditor french and the central pacific this morning intimated the contemplated disposal of certain property in vly of the tle last clause of section ning nine of the thurman act the con troverse tro Versy also relates to the payment of a declared three per cent dividend regarding this portion of the clause auditor french has decided a dividend cannot lawfully be allowed and the matternas matter has with vitee that blon slon passed from his hands to 6 the orations department a ment of justice representations from orom the officers of the central pacific railroad satisfactory to the government are presented auditor french accompanied by solicitor general phillips of the department of justice and assist ant attorney general mccannon for the department of the interior will leave leavo for new york tomorrow to morrow evening with a view to proceeding in the case CHICAGO 24 the tribunes new york special says rufus bufus ha hatch teh says 1 I was in chicago december asand 78 jand conversed ith gentlemen owning a line of telegraph from chicago to milwaukee a distance of 89 miles the line cost cot them and they had bad netted inside of one year they gave me detailed figures of the entire cost of construction I 1 brought them to new york and handed them to gould and out of this action grow grew the american union telegraph company and that is why field leiter william heath co and rufus hatch are la in the central construction and american union telegraph companies and not because mr connor president of the central construction company and his friends squeezed bufus rufus in I 1 prepared pra pared a map which was afterwards scaled showing the number of miles mlle poles roles length of wire and estimated cost of construction to duplicate about 80 per cent of the western unions cash eash ca sh receipt receipts to a ve very large extent the american un union Z adopted this pro gramme the estimate was it was afterwards enlarged to and that amount has been paid to the construction co company m panya i As to the statement that has been made to stockholders I 1 dont know how much of it ii has been s spent n t but I 1 was vas assured by one ones of tte the officers some bome three months since that they had on hand the papers here and their washington correspondents are making merry over the aie ate jame and illogical wrath of the enate senate because the chinese treaty was published in advance of its ill being bong given to the record bedord by that august nady bady ais it is said paid byllie by them rn that nothing needed inbusch matters so much as the greatest and earlle earile earliest earlie sf public publicity tyso so that mistakes may be avoided and ther the treaty be made with wide open eyes rather than in in the dark as to what is really wanted if publicity of the burlingame buring ing me treaty had leenas great as that of f the present one the californians would have made their feel ingson the subject known and the mistakes of bf jhb that t treaty would have been avoided about 50 jewish gentlemen met in in Green baums hall yesterday Test erday for the purpose of aiding hiding the colony of israelites which has lips established itself in palestine this colony which is composed of GO 60 families aln ain lies lles ob tamed wined a grant of acres aeres of land between jerusalem and jafek from we the turkish govern government menti several years jears ago avidis and is now engaged in tilling the ground after the fashion of their thein ancestors long centuries ago the colony is cotrich no and societies have been organized maew in new york philadelphia and other cities to aid in its getting a firm fe to the enterprise is one in which every jew feels a very lively interest as nearly every evers one of that remarkable race expect that one oile day the land of india indin 2 will again be occupied by descendants ants of its original owners the meeting yesterday was wass waff to enable israelites of chicago to do something in a practical way forthe for the encouragement coura gement of the colony at the close of the speeches a permanent organization D rg aniz atlon was formed by the elect election 1 on of president 4 michael peabody first vice president 11 greenbaum I 1 treasurer M Oester lecher gere secretary tary A 8 fisher directors trustees and collectors some money was raised on ithe spot and the meeting adjourned one of the boldest and most successful burglaries ever planned and executed in this city 0 O occurred about seven last evening at the office of the south chiea chien chicago 0 iron and wid steel works on ashland avenue near biar thirtieth street bub but was not no t reported by the police tin vin until til two this mom mob morning ing it was then learned that three masked burglars had forced the office door bound the janitor charles brooks and while one of them stood guard over him with a ri pisto pistol the others drilled a hole bola in the safe afef blew open the combination and bidding the watchman watch maii a cheerful good night left taking 1000 in 5 gold pieces and in coin coln together wit with about a in bills billsdon done aone eup aup up in envelopes ready for paying the help heip today to dayd day the above facture facts are re given by brooks but tbt the police regard fegard something g about the affair as sufficiently suspicious to implicate him and have accordingly cording Iyar arrested rested him and his son he told somewhat contradictory stories his unruffled clothing and abd unprepossessing appearance raised doubt of his accuracy and integrity paddy cavanaugh a notorious character was also arrested admiral ammen has banded handed me jle cra cna crapo 0 a letter letier from W J mcalpine an eminent civil engineer gin gln eer of new york city on the ahe sub subject j e ckon of inter anter oceanic transit mr mcalpine who has lately devoted some months to the personal investigation ti and study of the several routes and projects under discussion takes tabes strong grounds in favor of the nicaragua enterprise mr mcalpine regards capt eads project as a visionary esio nary nany and impracticable one and says a land railroad across the mus of tehuantepec techuan tepee would be a valuable adjunct to the proposed nicaragua ship canal commodore who surveyed the pec route in 1870 J is said to be warmly in favor of eads ends project and on tuesday next will make an argument in its favor before the house committee cincinnati 0 0 A bompane company of capitalists is about to organize to lease ease the tho cincinnati southern R R the plan is to have a capital of to lease the road for 99 years renewable forever paying out of the first profits four per cent on the cites investment of if there is an excess of the net earnings it shall be divided between the stockholders and city pro rata until the portion rea reaches ches 7 per cent on when the surplus shall be divided equally it Is proposed if this is accomplished to form a combination or pooling arrangement ran gement with the Kentucky central chesapeake arnd arid ohio and erlanger lines iines from chattanooga DENVER 24 i los vegas egas N mi MJ on saturday and sunday apaches in the vicinity of san ban marcial marciai killed 15 persons and wounded several nine wine are reported missing probably killed J al robinson nj mining engineer of the Atchi atchison sony sons topeka and santa ye jfe railroad is reported missing two others of his party were killed capt jack craw fords gords mining camp is reported attacked and three men bien killed the apaches headed north weal west companies of troops and citizens citizen sot of ban San Marcial bre are in m pursuit the band numbers from from 40 to 60 SAN BAN FRANCISCO 23 shw shanghai angha advices to december 30 are rec received elVed as follows latest intelligence from Peking states that general tso the lif has halted on his way to th the capital somewhere in the province of then si where he will remain until after the chinese new year yeke the nug rug russians and chinese each think that spring must bring a clini climax tEx the frost has stopped the transportation of Chinese troops northward the british steamer bombay owned by chinese loaded with cotton was burned on the yingtse od ori christmas thi this is the vessel that sank the american war vessel onelda within a few miles of yokohama in 1869 YOKOHAMA jan jans S the mikado f accompanied by the princess of the blood and many high officers of the government laid baid a state visit to the duke of genoa on board boari his frigate oia ola on january ath and partook of dinner ner rear admiral Stack elbery bory remains in the harbor with fourman four foun men of war under his command A native paper states that the chinese envoy at tokio has received orders to return to china and it is intimated that his recall has some connection with the settlement of the riu biti kiu affia affair ir which is still in an unsatisfactory condition as far as china js concerned just 12 months from the datlof date of the order given for the construction of the first division 23 miles of railroad inteso In in yeso the northern island ot japan has haq been opened to trammie traffic la and runs trains daily at a profit the line is from Ot aruna a harbor on th the west ewest coast and wa Sap hap paro ro the capit alto the Perona lebal fields the cost was per mile which includes rolling stock motive power and machinery for terminal repair shops the english line formerly built be W tokio and yokohama cost nearly per mile and took five years to complete 18 miles the greatly en encouraged dra gedat at the prospect of th the e american system of rapid transportation this is the farst american railroad in aria and has been constructed ted under the direction bof joseph U crawford a pennsyl whose assistants are american Ameri camm DENv DENVER Ep col 23 several Sever aldays days ago the grand canyon coal coid company struck oil at a depth of 1445 feet near nean canyon city boring had to be stopped until pumps could be put in on account of gas the well now yields five to eight barrels per day itis thought by boring deeper it will greatly increase in volume NEW ORLEANS 24 the steamer van lV Yan anderer derer brings news of great excitement cit ement at british honduras over the sho bho shooting oling by order of president Bar nar rias at guatemala of a jesuit rev H gillette of blize under the laws of guatemala jesuits have been banished and any baught caught in that republic are invariably executed father gillette guatemala for his health immediately upon his hib hi arrival at livingston fc ivingston he was arrested heavily ironed and sent to guatemala city where he be was tried and sentenced and executed on the accident occurred at puerto cortez A train consisting of two passenger coaches mail and baggage cars jumped the trac track khevent seventy Y four fou r were killed CAIRO calbo CA iro ino I 1 ilia ils lis 24 the steamboat alnie ainie silver reports that an insane man came aboard n ard ot at memphis and when a hundred milea miles up the river went to the hurricane deck and an fired at a negro pilot burnha burnham in opened the windows of the pilot house when the fellow follow ored fired at him then the man was seen to be insane and be he bounded into the pilot house and killed the clerk laurel blake captain silver and the pilot then grappled with him a pistol ball being sent into the captains hand band the maniac was then knocked down with a poker and guarded until the boat reached new madrid when helas he was turned over to the authorities 24 the ballot for senator stood bailey balley 1 11 taylor 32 muse 45 rose bose 2 bright 4 neal 1 maynard 22 marks 1 on the ballot taylor democrat received |