Show germany will not Reco enne any of suzerainty berlin jan 7 at a special audience which dr W J leyds secretary of state of transvaal had with em aror william tol ay iy his declared thit he would not recognize any claim of suzerainty over the transvaal great britain by the treaty of 1844 claims suzerainty over the transvaal johannesburg jan 7 delayed in transmission mr letty the correspondent of renters telegram company here has been imprisoned upon suspicion of being a spy in the interests of atie british chartered south africa company berlin jan 7 A semiofficial semi official denial was issued this morning of the statement from capetown contained in a dispatch to the times of london that dr W JJ Leyds secretary of state for the transvaal with a secret fund at hia disposal had floated a german colonization company with the intention of introducing german military settlers into the transvaal OBITUARY major jas C post U A new york jan 7 major james clarence post U S A died last evening at the home of his father in law john T he was born in this city and was appointed a cadet at west on july ast 1st 1861 he was graduated in 1865 and appointed a second lieutenant lieuten amt he served in the garrison at little rock ark until 1866 when he was appointed ordnance officer of the department of arkansas and first lieutenant he afterward served in the engineer corps at jefferson barracks and in 1867 was assistant engineer in charge of the improvement of boston harbor he also assisted in the construction st of the defenses of portsmouth harbor N H he was appointed to the rank of major since which time he served at the american Ame legation in london of late years major post waa detailed to the engineering corps in the department of the east he was a member of the university club A diabolical crime cairo jan 6 henry dickson a sneak thief and burglar supposed to belong to louisville but confined in jail here for some time charged with burg ary and grand larceny committed a brutal crime in the county j ail yesterday by cottine a fellow wilson colored across the abdomen through to the spine after wards he cut off a portion of the intestines rolled it in a paper and handed it to assistant jailer irvin when the latter came to the cell craine here is a piece of his entrails his victim cannot live the ause of the diabolical crime ia that several weeks ago a conspiracy was hatched among the prisoners to cut their way out and A part of the plan was to kill jailer al brown the victim wilson beems to have been in the confidence of ahr conspirators but when he was made aware of their murderous intent he refused to be a party to the crime and threatened to inform alie authorities the threat cost him bis life it is thought that the attempt to break jail was to be made last night A quantity of tools were found concealed in the jail the california san francisco jan 6 the question of the california Califor uia railroad commissioners right to fix for the southern pacific company came up again today in ahe united states circuit court about the only point settled so far since the commencement of the litigation is the right of the national government to intervene as creditor of the central paci nc company the linea of which form part or the southern pacific system on saturday the attorneys for the railroad filed an amended complaint and today the attorneys for the commissioners asked that the amended complaint be stricken from the record if the case was to bo proceeded with today if admitted a delav of two weeks was asked on of the commissioners to permit time to consider it judco mckenna declared that there could be no further dalay attorney herrin for the railroad said nothing new had been injected into tha cabe in the amended complaint which was simply a compilation nf the original complaint designed to show the financial condition of the road in california as segregated from that portion of the road outside the elate judge mck nna suggested that the amended complaint bo withdrawn but herrin urged that it be allowed to remain on decord promising to make nu use of it until the defense had ample time to become familiar with its contents the court said if the amendment were not withdrawn he might not have power to throw out but that he certainly could dissolve the injunction granted the plaintiff to prevent the commission from enforcing the reduced freight rates at this i rather pointed hint herrin for the railroad company withdrew the amended complaint and to open the cabo for the railroad by the reading of the original complaint alien the court wag asked to restrain the commission commiE sion from enforcing the reductions which it was claimed acro ruin traffic business of the railroad after concluding the reading of the complaint mr ferriu proceeded to support it by presenting to the court a number of aai davits signed by various of the southern pacific in regard to the business of abo system united staica district attorney Atto iney II 11 S boote then his amended bill of intervention after which attorney general fitzgerald read a lengthy ahi davit from chairman ia hue of tho railroad commission designed to controvert the statements which had been made on behalf of the southern paci be in reference to the condition of its beai jeaa and the effect which the proposed reduction of rates would have |