Show TELEGRAM TIDINGS to tb to a ller dd id 11 I l settling IQ in NEW jan 23 A report was current in wall street today to day that general granland grant Gran and tand in half alfa a dozen other gentlemen have completed the purchase ur 11 of the morelos railroad kail road from M the mexican government when asked for information in ill regard to the tile alle alleged ed purchase grant orant eaid said I nm am not now prepared to make as a statement for publication hut but I can promise that before the close of tho the present week everything will bo be rondo made known new york capitalists propose to improve and extend tho the road so as to open up a section of the tile country that is considered ono of the most productive of tho the sugar cotton and tobacco regions of 31 mexico exico it is proposed to offer special inducements to colonists to to settle alona along the line of the road the tile state of morelos has now a population of nearly souls fouls durin aur ing the next ten tell years the mexican government will pay thirty dollars ollir sto to cadi each family who will settle in in morelos as a prenA premium tim to encourage emigration to the state in agypt londo jan 23 A london correspondent to the manchester G guardian ezrd says there is ground for a supposition POs i t on I in s zite of the denial sent by the british embassy at constant constantinople ino that an arrangement has las been m made ide by which in certain co contingencies tin british B and french me men il I of war would occupy the port said and alexandria harbors ROME jan 23 13 general Mcnab brea rca italian ambassador at london has received positive instructions not to alio egyptian policy of england and franco italy ho holds T ds that if armed intervention in egypt becomes inevitable its bould be effected by the turkish troops la in committee NEW YORK jan 22 the tribunes Trib Tri meff bunds washington special say the records and testimony in the tile contested election case of cannon against campbell of utah have been printed ana and chairman calkins says the elections committee will begin the consideration of the case next tuesday Y one ono of the points involved is cannons citizenship according to the evidence of cannons brother they both came to the united states from england in 1842 1942 when the contestant waa was 15 years old five fire years later ho he emigrated to itah and two years later when he lie was 22 years old to california in 1850 according recording to tho the testimony of win farrara farrar a brother mormon cannon was sent by the church aa as a missionary to tile sandwich islands where he lie remained till july 1854 during which time tinie lie tra translated ns the lbook cook of mormon into the hawaiian language cannon claims that on december 1854 lie le became dul duly naturalized as a cil citizen t izen of the uni united lied states State sand and he lie produces a certificate that he lie was so naturalized but the journal of the proceedings of tile court fails to show the fact of such naturalization as the laws of utah require it is therefore contended not only I I that cannons Can nona certificate of naturalization u r is null and void because issued in contradiction of the law but that lie was not entitled in 1854 to a certificate because he lie had lad not continually aall y resided in the united states during the five years that preceded the date of its issue another point which the elections committee will bo be called upon to consider ier is whether a jsn who admits that he lie lives in open ell violation of the law of the unites united states the penalty for which is afine a fine not exceeding I and imprisonment not exceed exceeding I div five years cars a and nd who also admits that lit lie kas has advised and taught others to violate that law is entitled to a seat in Conr congress cannon heard that b hia Is wives were to be summoned to testify in the case and to avoid that lie agreed to almit admit the facts A molly LITTLE RORK ark jan jail 23 A bloody tragedy occurred yesterday afternoon in a negro drinking den ten reau resulting lt ln in the death of john 11 hill ill aged r d 21 at tho tile hands of mollie le leggin it seems the woman enter entered t the 11 salo saloon oll inquired for the proprietor w when ben ti alie ie deceased made some remarks at which she took offense and started at him with a knife ho ile ran around the billiard table tabla three or four times but finding lio lie could not avoid a billiard cue and struck lie lier over rover the head recovering ing g from the blow sho she rushed upon li im with the knife and before he could release himself from her grasp sh she plunged lu d tl the knife into his heart he ile fell lad dead a at t her feet A coroners jury returned a verdict in accordance with the above facts tile murderess was arrested and is now in jail Cl children aidren cremated DEs aloi Es jan 23 21 this mornin morning henry and NN willie illie the three and four year old children of henry and caroline cleer living in the suburbs of east deg des moines were burned to death while I e alone at home the father being at work and the mother gossiping at a neighbors the door was closed so the children could not open it both bodies were burned to an unrecognizable masa and the house and contents completely destroyed since the disaster the father has disappeared he ile has been in the habit ot of drinking |