Show AT HOME AND ABROAD LONDON nov 11 ad the course of a speech at enfield last evening sir charles dilke the well veil known authority on international politics says that england hau had recently rejected a proposal by the three great powers to partition ching china he also said raid we the alleged recent inspection ot the forts of the Darda Dardanell dardanelles nelles tia by a russian gen eral was by order of we the russian government ern rn ment and that therefore it was possible that russia would regard a british attack on the dardanelles Darda nelles as aa a basus asua belli nov J I 1 rumors of rioting and bloodshed here today arose from an encounter in thee the early ariy morning between one me Mo mckeever keever now out oat on bull bail on a charge of blich highway way robbery and who holds a commission as deputy obe sheriff riff and three special policemen the police went to le a saloon and took home a minor miner who was threatened with a beating because he be would not join the strikers and a conflict of authority arose during which a telephone call cali was waa sent to one of the mines for troops this caused the issuance of an order that troops are not to move hereafter without a written order from the commandant NEW nov 12 A special to the herald irom from caracas Car acae venezuela says details of tile proposed settlement of the boundary dispute between venezuela and great britain through the friendly endly iri intervention of the united states government have reached this olty city and appear to give general satisfaction after careful iri inquiry among the issuing lead log officials official sit it appears that the venezuelan government is disposed to detale the question on the lines indicated in the agreement between the united states and great britain without baggling over minor points the agreement that title shall be deter mined on the occupancy of territory for fifty years la is regarded by prominent venezuelans Venezuela ns as aa a u happy solution of the question que atlon some borne demagogues way may oppose it but the people at large will offer no opposition to this hit basis ol of settlement nov 12 the toung li yamen ramen has leaned issued a secret edict appointing chong cheng taoist director general of railway hallways fall ways and grant log him permission 0 go o construct the HB how canton how lines it also aleo authorizes him ltv borrow buels to be furnished by the tsung toung lt ll yamen from the first loan the north ern to furnish altogether will be required for the construction ot of the lines native material must be employed as aa far as possible on the halkow line but foreign engineers may be engaged it la is rumored that the american syndicate tenders for this work have not been accepted cheda is tb the e head bead of the tole tele raph graph administration in jaina cains and was lately ot of tien tain washington nov 14 general thomas M vincent assistant adjutant general and one of the best beat known military men in the oily city ended his hi career ida we the army today he reached the year and in accordance with the law must be transferred to the retired list of the army he was wag born in ohio and appointed to the military academy from that hat state in july 1849 his first service was with me artillery in the florida hostilities against the seminole Semi Bole indians indiana montgomery ala nov IS 13 The train frein rreta louisville this morn ing on the louisville and nashville iville bound for now new orleans was wrecked four miles from tola this place in a very wild country by train robbers the engineer saw the obstruction on the track too coo late to stop the abe train which went crashing down a beep steep embankment A rail had been torn up and nailed down again three or four inches out of line the train comprising two mail co acnes baggage oar car and two first class coache lea was com completely plemely wrecked the track was torn up fully yard three persons persona were seriously injured jno ino chwatt of atlanta Atlan tb bound for dallas texas and W 0 mog ovey of monroe being most seriously hurt two other passengers pinned under the smoking car were released only after an hours hard work their names could not be ascertained bloodhounds have been set not on the trail of the wreckers suspicion rests on a colored track walker who was captured near the alace lace he claims to have been posted there to watch for train rain wreck ers by the company the damage to is fully LYMAN LYMAM N H nov 14 A terrible double crime WAS committed in this little town herbert A ash a well todo to do farmer and one of the best known men in the abe community shot his bis wife and then banged himself the first intimation of the crime was when the old daughter of mr and mrs ash delivered a note to a brother of ash the note read as follows fol lowe dear brother when you read these lines ella and I 1 will be numbered with the deade dead the body of ash was found lound ha banging loging by a baiter around his bis neck from a beam over the barn door there was a bullet wound to in one arm that showed that he had attempted bis big own life with the revolver which had been the means ot of his bis wife cifes om death there was evidence of a struggle between me hubband burband and wife no reason fur for the deed can be so as signed as an the marital le to lations of ash and his wife were supposed to be of the he happiest LONDON nov 14 copyrighted 1896 by the associated eressy prof D Q G elliott Et llott leader of aba field columbian museum at the chicago Chio affo exposition with mr C E adeby head taxidermist of the museum left southampton by the st louis on their return to A america after a most success ful expedition into Soma liland wb ither they went la in march last for the pur pose of mating making a natural history collection tor for the museum asked as to the results of the expedition professor elliott said amid 1 11 I have a very large collection chiefly of large mam mammals mammele mile probably the most complete ever brought out of any country by one party no lose less than 58 oases cases and barrels were shipped direct from aden to chicago where they will arrive lat at the end of november I 1 obtained moreover over specimens of birds flab bob infects and reptiles SAN SAM FRANCISCO nov 16 laden bacigalupi a totally blind boy boi says flays be ORO can me eee objects by the use of the cathode rays suon is 18 the be statement mide by dr waverly dark clark a local physician young Bacigalupi la father conducts conduct a phonograph and kin lisi ament here and amono the attract lions of the place is ia an xray X ray ampara tue the boy in company with dr clark visited ibis fathers father aa place and in tun fun asked to go into the xray X ray room and ascertain if he cluid see anything the boy has hag been totally blind for fourteen years but bat BB as soon boon as he put the fluoroscope to his eyes he exclaimed that he be could me bee he was able to distinguish different objects but without we the use nee of the xray X ray was as aa blind as ever dr dark clark jn in SI speaking peaking of the matter said bald wat that there was waa probably a film over we the boy boys in eyes eye which was impenetrable by ordinary light but chien WM was pierced by the powerful power tul X rays CHICAGO nov 16 A tribune special from jacksonville pla fla says ay cipher dispa tones just received report a fierce battle in progress reea to in pinar del rio it Is ie believed maeso and weyler have met the reports report of fire arms have been almost incessantly heard for or several hours boure no details of the engagement are given other than the statement that a most decisive engagement la being waned waged the last definite news new of captain general weyler located him at within a few miles of mateos where the battle to id raging the dispatch adde add insurgent forces are well located in the hills billa and are pouting pouring a hot fire are into the spanish troops which have repeatedly been driven back in attempts to capture the cuban strong hold the insurgents have the advantage of positions tiona belne being at a great elevation but the spaniards spaniard are making a most moat desperate attack from a distance it looks as aa it if several towns are in flames the sky is ia lighted up by the constad fire of the artillery whether or not maceo himself la Is directing the insurgents tactics cannot at this hie time b be learned consul general lee has haa acquitted the administration with these avia and tile the president Pre aident simply Is i awaiting events and will shape his course by the developments develop mente it is the be hope of weyler that mat he will be able to so sore a decided victory before the assembling of congress december ath spain fears adverse action by that body and urges general wey or to demonstrate his bis ability to crush the rebellion within two weeks it possible in view of the fact that spain la fit now making an almost supreme effort to subdue her insurgent colony and that a crisis apparently to Is at hand the president will delay writing that hat part u of his forthcoming message on be cuban situation until the last moment before the meeting of congress the position the administration will take with reference to cuba in this message will be largely determined by the news received before december jtb should this be faver favorable to the success of the spanish army it is probable the president would continue to pursue his hie policy of noninterference non interference should it be distinctly fato favorable rable to the insurgent cause especially pec lally should weyler wayler be defeated mr cleveland it is in believed woula no longer hesitate to recommend recognition of their rights as belligerents or some other action equally undesirable to spain what action would follow a simple negative result of the campaign that to la a fruitless chase after the insurgents by weyler to is lose lees clear probably the administrations course would be influenced lu in some measure by the representations spain will make as aa to the policy it would pur sue and the instructions given the new captain general in the event general weyler should ha ba summoned home general fitzhugh fitzbugh lee consul god gen eral to cuba called at the state department today and was with secretary olney hall hail an hour As tar for as aa could be learned there was no special significance ance in the visit beyond a discua slon ion ot of the general situation the consul general had not called at the white while house up to noon and hardly is expected to go there today mr cleveland is engaged on his annual message and low few callers see him washington nov 16 it is learned on authority wat that the spanish govern ment hail baa given general weyler to understand that he must push operations against the insurgents aggressively and vigorously rigorously junices be soon achieves a decisive victory over the cubans it is believed he will be recalled weyler it to is understood to is aware of the alternative and we present campaign in pinar del rio bio is expected to result in an engagement that will put a new aspect on the abe cuban cuba n situation one way or the other weyler wayler has ban all the troops be can use there are over spanish soldiers sol diere in cuba and the force under the captain general in the present operations is over mola meo maceo against whom he be to is now dow operating has bho under him it is estimated estimate ds about men spain having fulfilled all that weyler wishes as to troops expects results nov 16 in anticipation n of a statement from the imperial chancellor prince Hoben lohe on the out subject J sot of the revelations made by prince bismarck his organ the hamburger regarding regard log the secret treaty which between betwee ti rusais and germany from 1884 to 1890 there was a large attendance in the reichstag today among those present ent were count herbert bismarck the son SOD of the ex ei chancellor who it was rumo rumored reds was to take active part in the debate and defend his lather father against this the attacks attack count von the centrist leader introduced an interpellation notice of which was given on wednesday last jast in brief the question was did a secret convention between russia and germany exist up to 1890 and if so why was it riot not prolonged finally have the recent disclosures had any influence upon the dreiband Drei bund and with we other powen in reply prince Hohen lobe said in reference to the be negotiations be tween russia and germany from 1887 to 1890 it was agreed at the time that absolute secrecy should be observed therefore for the moment I 1 am not in a position to te give official information concerning the result of these theme negotiations As regards regarda the tendency of the german policy towards ruo rausia sta since 1890 it is in equally impossible to give an exhaustive reply as long as that obligation continues and I 1 leave it to the foreign secretary who took part in the deliberations to aay what can be said in that respect As to the effects effect the recent tiong have had upon the position of germany in the drel bund and her relations with other european powers I 1 am glad to be able to declare the cloud of distrust which at the first moment was observable among some classes of the population of these countries has again disappeared and our rel relations ationo with our allies are marked now as before by absolute mutual confidence in the same way our relations with russia never for a moment ceased to be good and friendly washington nov 16 the united states supreme court has rendered RD an opinion sustaining the constitutionality of the wright irrigation law jaw of 0 california band and overruling the decision of the united states circuit court coun ot of california district which was against the law laws lawle le validity the case in which the opinion was rendered wee was that of the fall brook irrigation company vs ve maria Marls king bradley it has attracted widespread interest throughout the rocky booky moun twin fin and coast regions because of its importance to the material interests of the entire arid belt and in central west and east the suit gained prom indence through the fact that tx ex Prea president luent harrlson harrison was eno of the counsel who argued the case before the supreme Courtw Court whose hoBe decision has i been awaited lor for months having been pending for a considerable part of the preceding term of court justice peckham delivered the courts decision today he departed irom from the custom of the justices in that he be did not read the opinion on which the court based its conclusion but simply announced that it had decided to uphold the law jaw there were two oases cases before the Sup supreme lerne court the constitutionality ot of the wright jaw permitting california to be divided into irrigation districts and the property in the districts taxed tor for we construction st of irrigation one oi of the suits involved the fall brook irrigation district and the other the modesti district the same point were raised in both but the fall fail brook case was wag appe appealed alou from the be decision ot of the federal circuit court while the modesti case was brought up from the california state supreme court in the federal court the decision was against the he wright law jaw while in ID the state court the law was sustained decision will apply to both suits the importance of the decision is not confined to be state of california but affects the irrigation interests of the semiarid semi arid regions malone many states of which have adopted aid he law the case also involved the broad constitutional question of the right of taxation and taking private property without due process of law jaw most of the irrigation districts have made large bond are affected by the decision the fall brook case was brought be fore the federal courts |