| Show mgt telegraphic NEWS jan 5 the senate baay 0 ebbed ed the house bill abolishing bilig to death oreba penalty la in a large number of casse the measure Is ie in the tire lice of recent state bbate laws lawa abolishing capital and ad applies the same to federal offenses although the change la Is not extended to a total abolition of the death POD penally WIly the present laws jaws which have come down from colonial eimess have a 8 aspect aadot and pre florl be death for of various characters ohara otera the bill passed today reduces the to five viz VIS treason rape murder arderi oa sod nd two wo offenses lenee of applicable to I 1 the army and davy in all other uffe i nees bard labor for life Is buted as the maximum und and aven in cases of murder and rape bard labor may be substituted if the jury notates otates in its verdict without capital punishment the bill providing for free home a 8 eads in n oklahoma for bona boas fide settlers which has bus the right of way as lousiness Lu ainess siness was jail saide aside until tomorrow mr proctor Rop re p vt gave notice hat but ie woula steak seak monday on his alb resolution c extending the presidential term to six aix wears jars aud and fixing the be term 0 01 members of 01 the house of depre enta tives at three year NEW YORK jn J n 1 6 I senator cal via 8 brice at the heal beal of a syndicate of united states capita capitalists liets has ha nearly concluded arrangements fr the establishment lish ment ot of a monopoly of the railroad am telegraph susema ems in ID culna dida ex unit d states slates senator william D washburn Wash buro of minnesota and clarence gary cary a now new york attorney who are now I 1 lu u china as representatives ves ol of and mr bach a pro muter moter formerly living jiving in washington out for some time havi having havig g been in china say only one serious obstacle stands in the way of the success or 01 the work this obstacle is the tion of the russian buisman government which has instructed its representative at pekin to do his hia utmost to force the be chinese government to defer the final signing of the coo tracts the members ol of we he syn bloate how bow ever are that things binge have already gone going too far for the russian p position to serl us y affect them I 1 washington jan athe beating cuthbe on thu wool schedule many armors and manufacturers to the ways way and means committee today john G dark clark of the washington county penn wool growers grower association spoke strongly of the effects the tree iree wool clause of the wilson law which he declared prostrated the business ol of the united states the experiment of free trade had bad been a crime the value of lands land bad decreased and the abe shipment in all parts or we country had been driven irom business Shee asked only a mod moderate erite duty that would enable them hem to continue dinue the busi business nees the democratic members of the committee probed the witness forsake for time lime wheel ler at al asked it the he clothing for workingmen had riot not been cheaper under free wool to which clark replied that most moat or of the cloth ing sold now was shoddy tb the 0 im of shoddy bad iLor Or eased under the law an hour was given to judge wm win lawrence president of the national wool growers Growe ass association to te present the request of that body the state moat oie it was waa an exhaustive review of 01 the wool i austry under different tariff rates during the last halt half a con cen ury dry the wilson law he declared stopped a third of the wool growing busing business bu ainess and closed halt half the mills there had been no adequate protection on wool since 1876 liaw averred that the election of mr bic Kinley had bad been accomplished by the votes vote of the wool growers in halt half a dozen doxen doubtful states who would have v tej for bryan brjan and free silver had bad they not considered protection on 00 wool more important than ban free silver it bit protection was waa not given there would be ft a free sliver silver co agrees two years year hence bence and la in tour four at years ors a tree free stiver silver and congress albo mckenley bill as it came from its ita author had beba moderately protective on wool but the addition of a skirting clause and ad valorem valoree rates made it disastrous under the widson law the number of 0 snoop of the united states bad decies sou three million a year with a les of recording to stati atice unofficial and more accurate flu no proved roved abe loss to abe wool growers grower through the wilson rates to have been mutton which should be raised in this country were being imported import oJ from canada the schedule asked by the libl gro growers alsoc association stion was 12 cents centa a pound on all merino wool 24 cents ou washed and 86 cents on so BO ared australian unwashed wools wool to be considered as washed oa of its superior lightness they said the abe australian bad an advantage over the south american losing comparatively ively little weight in washing the dropping ol of the skirt log clause was wae askea as aa to secure its ita advantages advant agea parts parta of the australian wool imported amounted to only half the fleece to do away with this clause it la Is said would give employment to five thousand men in the country BOUTS NORWALK NOB WALK con jan JAB 6 rne irne three eo so hooner booner li M bonne bodde whose port destination and owners are unknown was burned to the water edge on loog islona sound bound last night the steamers medea and joon howard lownes put out to the abe wreck the vessel had bad been abandoned and there to is not a trace race of the captain or crew captain L succeeded iu getting a line to the burn log ing vessel and towed her to the bar on Joo kenoe islands where she is still burning it is in possible that a portion or all of the crew lost their lives jives but it I 1 is believed they abandoned the ship at iome bome on ang ii n island RoRER LAKE st john quo jan 6 5 roe five elivea of seven ursuline sisters were lost today in a fire that destroyed the convent our lidy lady lake st john controlled by we Ursu lines 0 a cloistered order the oldest religious bood lu in canada the dead ore are sisters provi jence enoe ursule anne louise antoine do de PAL pa us ua domique anu and paul the family and Ca ristian names are kits bitse Goas elioe st joan jean abrys to os tome miss rose bose Gossell nes st at joan jean win miss emma lestour Le Lo stour ten iena quebec Qute bec miss C garlean Gar nean 84 joys miss hudon herbertville Herbert Herbort ville miss bouille deschambault chambault De miss louise aimard B R berdale ber vale YORK ja 7 aatonio aguaro a member of the abe havana produce exchange arrived here on the steamer orizaba from havana he was a resident of where to recent reports from havana ties were committed by the spanish troops under col fonde veils veila senor aguiao when seen last night said toe reports which reach the united halted states of the state of affairs lo in adans bacca ate far from telling the whole truth col Fonde veila ban baa instituted a reign of terror at that place ri hie 18 name Is ie well known to the america americal Ameri cao press as that of the most bloodthirsty officer ot of gen ii d com command commana mana he to ie a favorite of t 0 captain general been appointed military commander of just jual across the bay from havana fully amiliea have left the town and moved into havana since his hie taking charge people are taken from rom their homes at a night and killed with machetes in the outskirts of the city the world Is ie then made to believe that such buob people were leaving their homes to jin jid j in rebels who swarm tbt neighborhood I 1 know of thirty nine who have thui been dooe done away even bodet SI shocked at s note oue one oi 01 these honest bonest spaniards warned wt m that my name was on a list with more man more kept by Fonde FoDde veila as ae men marked by him for secret exeos tion as ae rebel being a thoroughly neutral man and having good friends among cubans a id ia spaniards alike I 1 managed to obtain my passport for the united states slates 1 I owe my escape from Fonde veila a clutches to my spanish frields for whom I 1 feel the greatest gratitude JI 9 1 RAN BAN francisco jan 7 the ing world has deen set by the ears by the developments in the kennedy Ken mine in grass valley county within the past lew few days at al a perpendicular depth of over 2100 feet a abdy b dy of rich ore fully thirty feet in width hais bao been discovered la in magnitude the ore body will compare favorably with any yet yei lound found and the great depth at which it ties lies explodes a long perished beri shed and heretofore believed infallible tra ditlow of the search hr fir gold on the pacific coast it to is an old theory which bich age has almost into a formula that gold ore disappears after a certain depth has be n attained this is a creed of every old krospic tor ter from the yukon to the panama isthmus the in the kennedy not only topples over we old ume time belief but may lead tu a revolution in mining in this stale stae tor for the deeper the progress lie is made enable to la the kennedy the wider grows the ibe ore body NEW jar jan 7 ane world this morning publishes the following special correspondence from groy grey towns B a the announcement that lord salik balk bury has bee agreed to submit the question of boundary between british guiana and venezuela to arbitration has not been accepted by the british colon letb with altis faction for the further prolongation lon loa gation of cf negotiations is in seriously the investment of foreign capital in development of the colonies that secretary bluey has bee scored as a diplomat in this matter Is readily admitted but lord salisbury is a ae soundly roundly rated fr for having yielded to arbitration upon territory over which the I 1 patch exercise j a jurisdiction that has been by the british since they succeeded to the dutch possession sion anu ani right that lurd lord salisbury lis decision has bad for the time beng being at least a detrimental ou oil investments in the colony of british guia gala a is proved by a steady fall in the values of shares in egold tb mining corn daniea opera t lug within the disputed territory the ibe numerous applications for an extol glon aion ot of time in deci doci eloi aloi a reiga regarding ruing gold mine options and the almost beneral inclination to halt ball in the further development of the gold lu lir aultry still toe the calou lats are satisfied eatie fled that it 9 but a question qu tation ot of time when their heir blaime ule to the entire gold bearing area north and west of the Esq esquibe the right bank of the amatura river will be fully established retaining to the the valuable properties oa the bielma and bahama rivers and their es ea As aa to the cuyuni the evidences of dutch occupation are still visible and we the documentary proof ot of british jurisdiction irom from the time oi of lement la Is considered here bare as complete the government has hag had bad a specialist searching the alu dutch records in the archives of british quiana and two duys duye ago a discovery was maue made which in the absence ol of exact data defining the limits of the be dutch is regarded here as ae wee asive evidence that bat the british rom their earliest occupation of guiana jurisdiction over the entire northwest territory up to anu beyond the amatura Am Arn aoura acura there la in no documentary evl eVI Jenot Jonce to show ebow that the british government not only claimed the territory and as ae fumed admed a protectorate over the abe indian tribes but that the I 1 badian adian chief made periodical returns to the british gov rn mout among the documents dis die covered la Is the census return or of 1817 sent seat in by the respective chiefs on the moraga moruga wain harlas barima maraud and cajun the population is enumerated in the returns and the number of men in each tribe capable of taking up arms Is in carefully de tailed HAVEN conn jan 6 abe tug mary Ann anstrom new the schooner hooner Bc M L bonnell shortly after 9 last night in the vicinity of greenwich the schooner bouner so appear ej to be all right with sails set and side lights burning at that time there were no do signs of fire Over overhauling bauling her ber the mary anno captain discovered fire on atle schooner art aft kit he waited to see rockets sent up but no were given approaching the vesel ves el he be suddenly detected two baste pulling across the bow la io a stealthy manner aboard the boats beala wets odesta and other goods evidently the be effect s of the captain and crew he balled the boats baste and asked it if help was wae needed the reply he be received was a warning by an aab don DOBI pa go near her she ebe is loaded with cartridges and oil 32 the skipper of the schooner alien by name boarded the mary ann while his crew stuck to the boats cap WL R gets gers proffered captain allen alien his bis assistance but was I 1 altermed mat the crew w uld ula stand by until the vessel was gone and then make for the norwalk light the story of skipper allen alien vi 1 to the she effect that the mate bad it ft lamp in the cabin when the bottom suddenly fell out and abe oil scattered upon the flior and ignited allen alien gave no reason for leaving bit bt vessel without making an to bave ave her bar except to say that owing to her cargo it was dangerous to remain longer aboard allen alien alleged that a part of his big cargo was stored under under the cabin and captain thinks that a pecolar pe becu cular aar place to stow such a cargo LONDON jan 12 the chronicle aya raya r in ao an editorial we announce tha morning the event ot of the diat century 10 and follows follow this with he preamble and the text of fifteen articles of the general arbitration treaty signed yesterday rJay at washington between the united states and great britain thu the second article provides that chat all pecuniary claims not J irig an aig aggregate regate or of sterling and which shall oot not involve a deter wi nin atlon nation of territorial claims shall be decided by an arbitration tribunal to ue oe constituted as provided in ID the third irti article cle the third article provides that aftab of the high contracting panties 1 shall nominate as an arbiter a jurist of national repute and these two within two months shall select an n umpire u if t they fail in this his we the umpire shall be appointed by agreement between the members of the supreme court of the united states and the jud olal cial committee of the privy council of great britain BrIt SID each nominating body by a manty mj nty it they fall fail to agree within months the umpire shall be selected in accordance with article 10 namely by the kirg of sweden rhe umpire shall preside over toe tri bunal and the award of the majority majori tj shall be final article 4 provides that all pecuniary sterling or of involving treaty rights but not territorial claims shall be decided by the tribunal in accordance with article 6 5 article 5 provides for the submission Pub mission of the foregoing to the tribunal where the awards it if unanimous shall be final but it if not unanimous either of the contracting parties may within six months month from the date ol of the be a review ther thereof eor arbe matter shall then be submitted to a tribunal of five entirely resh fresh jurists each side aide selecting two and the four thus ibus chosen selecting an umpire within three months in the event of a a failure the umpire shall be chosen la in accordance with article 8 or falling that by klog king oscar of sw sweden eden the award of a majority ot of the tribunal shall be float final article 6 provides that territorial shall be submitted to a tribunal of six three of w whom bow to the provisions of article 8 shall be judges ot of the 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