THE SAMOAN TROUBLE. SENSATIONAL CABLE AND OFFICIAL REPORTS. GERMANY TAKING POSSESSION,—SHE WILL MAKE WAR UPON CHIEF MATAAFA, AUCKLAXD, Jan, 8l.—Advices from Samoa state that the German officials have given notice that all vessels ar- riving there will be searched for arti- cles contraband of war. They have suppressed the Samoan Times, Upon thearrival of the steamer Iich- mond she was boarded and searched by the Germans. DeRrLIN, Jan, 31. —It is not expected that German military operations in Sa- moa will commence until suficient re- inforcements are sent to the islands. At present there are at Samoa three German war ships, with an available landing force of 300 men. A passenger on the British steamer Walput, who visited Mataala’s camp, was placed under arrest, but was sub- sequently released, in compliance with a demand of the British Consul, A proclamation has been issued plac- ing the Apla police force under Ger- man control, Mataafa’s followers number GO00. They are strongly entrenched, and other Samoans are rapidly jolning them. BERLIN, Jan, 31.—A ‘‘white book” on the Samoan question will shortly be presented to the Reichstag, The Na- tional Zétung announces that a friendly settlement with America may be ex- pected, based upon Prince Dismark’s proposal for a jolnt discussion, STATEMENT OF COMMANDER LEARY, OF THE UNITED STATES SHIP ADAMS, SAN Fraxcwsco, Cal, Jan. 3lL-— Commander BR. P. Leary, of the Uni- ted States ship Adams, which arrived here from Samoa, via Honolulu, yes- terday, in an interview to-day, said: “There was a great deal of commo- tion when I was at Apla. 1 went down there with all kinds of orders suited to a time of peace, but when war broke out I threw the orders to the wind, They would do in time of peace, but were not applicabis to the condition of affairs tren. When 1 saw Brandeis, the German Minister, leading 500 na- tives in support of Tamasese, I wrote him a letter asking him to desist. I said: *1 am here to protect American citizens and American property, and I will not wait idly by and see you plung- ing the country into trouble, when Lbeir lives and property may be destroyed. If you do not desist I shall take such measures to protect them as I deem the circumstances demand.’ “‘He sent word back that no Ameri- cans nor American properly weuld be molested. In a little while, though, much the same tactics were repeated, There was a meeting of Consuls aboard meeting 1 sald to the Germans: ‘Now, just let the natives fight it out between themselves,” Ob, no, they could not do that, They said they had pro- claimed Tamasese King, and they could pot leave him now to fight alcne. Then I saad 1 would take a hand in this, ‘If you persist in siding Tamasess and fightiog for him,” I will participate, and I pulled the Adams In done my part in the {ray if the Ger- mans bad decided that they must have it. I bad made up wy mind that the Adams could throw shells too. At this they eased down and promised that it should be ‘hands off.’ “Next there were notices posted by the Germans stating that the bridge over the river at Apia and separating all the back country where the natives were, would be taken up, I tore these potices off, 1 sald there should be no demolition of bridges. Then I or- dered my carpenters up the next morn. ing, and meanlime word baving got out all around, scores of natives came to ald in repairing and maintaining the bridge. I also threw some marines ashore to protect it, It is not neces- sary to say that the Dridge was not destroyed. Tie Adams left bdamoa December 7, and was not present during the recent battle between the Germans and Mataata’s forces.” nt uee— A MURDER IN ARKANSAS. JOHN M. CLAYTON SHOT BY AN UN- KNOWN ASSASSIN, LATTLE BOCK, Ark., Jan. 30.—The Gazette's Mummerville, Ark,, special zives the following details of the mur- ler of John M. Clayton, He was shot in his room at Mrs, oraven’s house, at 9 o'clock last night. D. H. Womack, of Benton, Arkansas, a travelling man, and Al, Nutt were with him. Clayton had been nervous all the evening, and was pacing the floor with his hands in his pockets, He walked towards the window, over which the blind was partially drawn, snd was in the act of sitting down, when a shot was fired through the pane, When a light was brought, it was found that a load of buckshot had iaken efiect in the right side of Clay~ ton’s neck, breaking it. He hada fallen back dead In his chair, and then over apon the floor, There is no clue to the perpetrator of the outrage, but a pistol was found afiderneath the window this morning, which may lead to the discovery of the assassin, No one advances a theory as fel. A great number of people, prin. sipally negroes, are in the little viliage, ut everything is orderly and quiet, A bill was presented In State Senate to-day authorizing the Governor © offer a reward of $5000 for the arrest »f the murderer or murderers of John M. Olayton. It was made the special srder for to-morrow. NEWS OF THE WEEK, Nathaniel Gandy, 18 years ld, was stabbed and instantly killed on the afternoon of the 27th during a quarrel at Broad and Callowhill streets, Puila- delphia, it 1s alleged by Harry Endy, aged 19 years, who was arrested. Den- jamin Baker, aged 30 years, and James Whinney, 25 years, were attacked on the morning of the 27th by a party of men ‘at Sixth and Lehigh avenue, Philadelphia, Both were struck on the head with a brick, knocked down and kicked, Emil G, Doersind was ar- rested and held to wait the result of Baker’s wounds, which are believed to be dangerous. Samuel Wakefield, Jr, colored, shot and killed James W, Trainer, his employer, in New Iberia Parish, Louisiana, on the evening of tht 25th, and was In turn taken from the officers and killed by a mob, -A boller exploded In the saw oii, of BR. H. Perkins, at Poplar Blufl, Missouri, on the evening of the 26th, killing Judge J. R. Stramount, John Cronester and John Moore, and fatally injuring Robert Malcom, Richard H, Perkins and Richard Robins. Six others received slight injuries. Lack of water caused the explosion. The boiler in Harvey's sik mill, in Seran- ton, Pa., exploded on the morning of the 28th, killing the engineer, Nicholas Chislel and injuring a workman named Anderson. All the water in the botler had been exhausted engineer turned on & full stream. hundred and fifty employes are thrown out of work, —Threatening letters {rom White Caps were sent to a number of disreputable houses in Dloomington, lliinois, recent. ly, and on the evening of the 205th, some of the houses were bombarded with eggs. O'Connell and three others, who are now in jail, O'Connell was seen and | { i threatening missives, and on being arrested, confessed, implicating the rest of the gang. Two of the prisoners are old offenders, each having a sus. pended penitentiary sentence hanging over his head. —Jt is reported that several levees, 30 to 40 miles above Shreveport, Louis. iana, gave way on the evening of the 26th, the river submerging a large area of country. Sunny Point levee, Lelow shreveport, has also suceumbed to the force of the current. All lowiands on the Red river not protected by levees are under water. No loss of life or — While a number of pcople were leaving a scheol louse near Williams. burgh, Ohlo, on the evening of the frame work in the in front of the house crowd below, killing Willlam Wc. +r and seriously injuring G. W, Moun: aud Sparr Kidd. —Parks Dled va, living at Holly Missouii, committed suicide 25th. He was engaged and had thrown from the cupola, and fil and on to! the fake place in each case on day. The body aged 24 years, was found in the Sus. quehanna river at Nanticoke, on the 28th. It 1s thought he com. mitted suicide. Ira E. Tabor, a wealthy farmer, near Piattsburg, New York, named Joseph Chaplean, with whom he quarrelled over the poisoning of iw Cows, head with a stake from his sleigh, says he acted 1a self-defence. He —The Rockport and Copnelton ace coommodation train was thrown from the track and turned over, on the 28th, between Lincoln City and Chris- ney, Indiana. There were 56 passen- gers in the coach, and all were shaken up, but none killed. Captain John B, Rife, of Middletown, Penua., was thrown from a carriage in Harrisburg, on the 20th and killed, 1Iis horse be- came frightened and ran away. -There was practically no chavge in the street car strike in New York ard Brooklyn on the 30th ult. The employes of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad Company were notl- fied to report for duty, and that those who did uot report would be considered discharged. In Brooklyn the car horses are growing stiff for want of exercise, Mr. Richardson refuses to meet the Board of Arbitration. The strikers seem anxious to enter into some sort of agreement, but Richardson wil not listen to anytldng from any person from a labor organization, le is willing to meet a committee of their old employes. It was reported on the evening of the 30th ult, that the Broad way road had secured 700 men In Philadelphia to be placed on the cars this morning, and soa e are expected to man cars of other companies, —John M, Clayton was shot and killed by an unknown assassin, in his room in Plummerville, Arkansas, on the evening of the 26th ult. A bill was presented in the Arkansas Senate, for the arrest of the murderer or mur- derers. James M. Willlams was shot and killed by Benjamin Skillman, in Albion, Nebraska, on the evening of the 20th ult. Skillman 1s the youngest brother of Iiebecca Skillman, who recently charged Willams and Dr, Fernland, in an Omaha court, with malpractice, — Charles M. and his wile near Walnut jalch bed Poth were shot through the heart. i i | —State Treasurer Hart, of Iennsyl- vania, has issned his report for (he year. The balance 1 the treasury on the 1st of December, 1887, was $2,380, £41,47. The total receipts from all 30th, 1888, were $3,004,00)42; the i i i i i i i treasury on the 1st of December, 1588, of $3,687,035,65. ~Three deaths occurred from small. pox at the Poor House in Onondaga county, New York, on the 30th ult, and 14 persons are down with the dis. nia, is disappearing. Diphtheria has becomes epidemic in Hancock county, Ohlo. The schools in Big Blanchard and Marion townships have been closed, and others will be unless the progress of the disease abates, it is not of a malignant type, and deaths the people, owing to severe The heaviest snow storms this winter, and one to since 1875 occurred the evening of the 20th, was robbed and had her skull fractured by an un- known colored villain, Two men arrested in Indianapolis, Indiana, for passing counterfeit coin. A complete counterfeiter’s outfit was captured in thelr room. Burglars entered the post- the amount of $1000, -Two little boys and an older sister, aged 18 years, named French, were caught in the blizzard, pear Hitch. cock, Dakota, on the 2ith, as they were returning home from school When found the boys were dead and the girl badly frozen and uuconscious, If she survives she will lose the lower or both arms. — With two exceptions, every line of street cars in New York and Brooklyn was tied up on the morning of the 20th, A number of small riots oecur- red during the day, but no persons was dangerously hurt, The strikers at- tacked and beat the new men, bat dis. persed without offering serious resist. ance when the police appeared. Several of the ringleaders were arrested, Some of the companies succeeded In getting cars over their routes with the aid of the police. The strickers de- mand £2.25 for 10 hours’ work in 12 consecutive hours. It Is estimated that over 6000 men are out, At 10 o'clock last night everything was quiet at the car stables, the strikers having departed, In Drooklyn the police afforded the companies po protection out the militia in case of a riot. --At the Licking Rolling Mill, Nowport, Kentucky, on the evening of the 28th, Joseph Hardick and Wil. | to make up the deficiency. = Jowis Moore, an insurance inspec. tor in Philadelphia, was struck and walking on the track. Ile was about 74 years of age. ~Two messenger boys m the employ of the Western Union Telegraph arrested on the 31st ult, for breaking One of the buys confessed his guilt and returned part of the money, but the other denied ull knowledge of the matter, ~A telegram from Quebec says a snow alide on the Levis side of the river has destoyed PP. Conture’s resi. dence, greatly damaged the residences of T. Gagne, Michael Gagne and J, Gorman, and blocked traflic from Rock street to Commercial street. The loss is $10,000, 50th CONGRESS. Second Session, SENATE. In the United States Senate, on the 28th, the Army Nurses’ Pension bill (giving §256 a month pension) was passed. The Diplomatic Appropriation bill was considered, and various amend- ments reported by the Senale commit. tea were agreed to, among them an item of $3000 for a Consul General at Samoa. Mr, Gibson moved to insert “ambassador” instead of the words ‘envoys extraordinary and min- isters plenipotentiary,” as applied to France, Germany, Great Dritain and Russia, After debate, pending action on the amendment, the Senate ad journed, In the U. 8, Senate, on the 20ih, the amendments in relation to Bamoa having been reached, Lhe Senate went into executive session for their consid eration. When the doors were re. opened, Mr. Sherman made a speech giving the Bisbory of our connection with the Samoan Islands, our acquire~ 5 i E ESir SHH S:iiss : gi 55E i In the United States Senate on the 30th ult,, the consideration of the Dip- lomatic Appropriation bill was re- sumed, and the amendments relating to the Samoan Islands were discussed by Messrs, Dolph, Morgan and Reagan, At the close of Mr. Reagan's speech the Senate went into executive ses. sion, and, when the doors were re- opened, adjourned. In the United States Benate on the 31st ult,, the credentials of Senator. elect Higgins, of 1lelaware, were pre- sented and filed. The President’s mes. sage in relation to Samoa was read and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, The House amendments to the bill to increase the pensions of those who have lost both hands were concurred in. The consideration of the Diplomatic Appropriation bill was resumed, and the amendments in re- gard to the Samoan Islands wera, after a long debate, agreed to without a di- vision, The amendment raising to the rank of Ambassadors the Mimsters to France, Germany, Great Britain and Russia was lost, and the bill was then passed, After an execullve session, in which the British extradition treaty ate adjourned. HOUSE, of States was leave was given to their bills with the Clerk. dispensed with, of soldiers and sailors who have lost both arms to $100 per month. Senate concurrent resolution for the counting of the electoral votes on Feb- ruary 19th was agreed to. dry Civil bill was considered, pending which the House adjourned. dry Civil bill was passed, from the Commilles on Marine, reported a bill to provide Mr. Dann, Merchant and salmon fishéries of Alaska, | was recominitled, | at any time. Adjourned, { Inthe House on the 30th ult. | Springer moved to go into Commitice {of the Whole to consider th { boma bill, and the motion was agreed |to—134 to 564. Several amendments eo AA S55 IIE Yellow Fever Epidemic Originated, How the At a meeting of the Virginia State Medical Boelety, held at Norfolk recent- ly, Burgeon General Hamilton of the lowing account of the manner in which the now-prevailing epidemic of yellow fever was introduced into this country, the delails of which, ha said, had been secured at a great cost to the Govern ment and which have not as yet been published. Last year the yellow fever appeared in Key West in the family of a restaur- ant keeper by the name of Baker, It appears that a family of Rolios, who had kept a hotel in Havana in various Avenida (Fifth Avenue) Hotel, un- fortunately for Florida, emigrated to Key West, Their household effects under the regulations governing the regular line of steamers, could not be shipped by them, so they shipped these effects, consisting of bedding and vari- | ous articles of furniture, by an irregu- | lar *tramp,” no! now running, called the Cochran, There was no objection officially made at antine, and the articles were landed and stored above ker's restaurant, Baker family died of the fever | thus the fever started, and came epidemic, The Government de “3 ! tion of that secolion of the stat un i 3 Yivser $004 f ‘ 4 4h 1 ! wartd bidding interference with local aut connt that nothing except that, ties, did n | Governor to aid the local board, wl - ia ayy 2 i | established a dispensary and * ‘ expenses of the isou's in relation to soldiers’ bome- i steads, and the bill was reported to the House, The Payson amendment was then agreed to, 114 to 111, and pending further action the House ad- | journed, In the House on the 31st wil, consideratiion of the Oklahoma | was continued. There was much {bate and several amendments { voted upon, but, pending copsidera- ® tion of the mil the House adjourned. the bull de- ——————— PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE ¥ bet BENWATE, i phila, i soldiers’ orphans’ schools to 1885, | for three years, were passed to second | reading. Adjourned. In the Seuate on the 20th nil, a bull | was introduced by Mr, Harlan, provid- ing for the election of a Disirict Super- { intendent of Schools. A bill was passed providing that criminal proseculion { for embezzlement by administrators, | of the trustees, The resolution proposing {the poll tax passed second reading. | Adjourned, Prohibitory amendment to a popular vole was passed by a vole of 53 to 2. The House joint resolution for a com- mittee to inspect the harbor of Phila. delphi In conjunction with committees lature, was agreed to. Adjourued. In the Senate on the 3lst bills were introduced by Mr, Watson making | election days legal Delamater, *‘for the incorporation. | purpose of saving department purposes, and by Mr, McCreary, to reimburses counties for expenses State taxes, A communication was | received from the Governor announce. amendment resolution. Bills were re- ported favorably for the renewal of provident institutions and savings sions of the National Agricultural Ex. periment Stations law; for the main making Saturday afiernoon and Labor Day legal holidays, HOUSE, In the House on the 20th, the Sup- plemental Revenue bill was reported and ordered to be printed, Mr. Fow's Architectual Competition bill, and Mr, Campbeli’s Foreign Labor 25 Cents Tax bill were reported nagatively, Bills were introduced by Mr. Fow to regu- late the running of motor street cars, and by Mr. Krebs to lucorporate city passenger railway companies and to provide for the support of fire salvage corps and apparatus, The Soldiers’ Appointment bill was considered and amended. Adjourned. Inthe House on the 30th ult. the Supplemental Revenue bill was repor- ted in order to be printed. A number of new bills were introduced. The bill to regulate the practice of veter- inary medicine was in- definitely. The anti-poll amend. ment was passed to third reading. Adjourned, In the House, on the 31st ult, the A riation bill was intro duced referred. The Senate amendment to the bill regulating terms of Councilmen, eto, in wards was agreed to and the bill sent to the Governor. Bills were reported favorably for the protection of the Dela ; for hs, Ha | rda Bay and over- an £3 mrpose the ’ bi ul 11 fom tipy td R gh i made {requent surreptitic West Wo 4 oF € here epidemic, ased in the infected city and used ! - to Tampa, It} | the whoie family { the first taken sick, | not publicly known to have beea out {the town, a known, The Government were simply i8s now by y comfort to the wishes of the Governor to ad the Hillsborough County Board of Health. ¢ measures taken the | the disease w undertaken by the Fiorida State Protective Association, an organization consisting of one repre- sentative from each County Board of Health, under the presidency of Dr, King Wyley, of Sandford, In Decem- ber the association raised the quaran- | tine azainst Tampa. The County Board of Health asserted that the disease had | disappeared, but, unfortunately, the disease had not been stamped out, and although the cases of fever lingered all { winter in Tampa, its existence there | was bitterly denied. From Tampa the a8 that the fever was at Jacksonville as early as February. Dr. Guleras, of the Marine Hospital Service, an expert, i tof the cases of “society” fever, of which there were over thirty reported | in Jacksonville in that month, had the | well-marked clinical history of yellow Nine of these casesdied. Dr. Polls treated cases In Bay street in Juve, and there were probably cases continuously until the formal announce- { ment was made, He said that so-call- { ed 1solated cases had been reported at | fever, | Jacksonville after the case in Bay street { bad been treated in June by Dr, Potts, but that the local authorities denied the presence of an epidemic and placed a guard around each case, This state of things existed until August 16th, when the spread of the disease in Jack. sonville became fo greai, cases spring- ing up in varus poiuls in the city, that could not be traced to any of the so-called isolated cases, that the au thorities had to declare the disease epi- demic, Dr, Hamilton said that the disease bad been introduced in Decatur, Ala., by a man who had gone from Jackson. ville while all of the cases in that city bad been reported under guard, His ticket bad been from some point outs side of the infected cily, and conse- Yuently he was not denied admittance, doctor said the fever had been in- troduced into Gainesville and Fernan- dina by bass ball ers, who had ed a game of in Jacksonville ore the epidemic nature of the dis ease had been declared, and then re- turned to these cities, A ———— The Age of the Camera. Less than fifty ysars ago there waa not a photographic camera in the world; to-day there are 15,000 photographic es- tablishments, to say nothing of the He is the best diviner of dreams who 8 tau ht by his understanding. i —— eg A —————— Ice can be produced by artncial pro | cess but coal cannot, The mild winter keeps the coal bills down, and the ice machines may prevent the ice bills | next Summer from going too high, De | cheerful and take tne weather as it COCs, mimi SNA AEN 055 Cuicaco and St, Paul have a train service that is a little ahead of anyihing yet provided inthis section of the coun try. Vestibuled trains, lighted by elec- tricity and steam heated, oc to be about perfection, A—— A —— Tre dreary business of raising good money to throw after bad mu the "an. ama Canal enterprise goes on in Paris, So much money has already been ex- pended that somehow the work will probably be completed, but there secins to be very little hope that the original investors will get any return, ————————— A RATHER stiange affliction happen- ed to a Missoula couple who were sleigh riding, The young man’s right ear and the lady’s left ear were frosted, while the other two were not cold at all, Why all four ears were not frosted isa problems which bas been submitted to the high school class in physiology. a : ” es pe——— AS 17 was a borse that stepped on an light wire in New York and | was instantly killed, no inquest will be the Coroner, but ought to inyestigate such accidents and keep agitating the subject of the re. rous wires from electric held by somebody ¥ val oof such dane 1 IVAL OL BUCH Gangs ae | ro il success is attained, -> p> Tie two en trees cut down in | Lunenburg, Mass., a few days ago, ype than a century old, Accord- useils papers, “they were John on the 1780, could Were mo i y Massact Lileh The catalogue The huiland fittings copper bringing ht about XL "t £50 re than ’ - * i ¥ ng a total md Nani b Tie wheat fields have an unusually fine and healthy Jock for this season of the year, and have not as yet suffered for the want covering. jeld } wheat of snow ho fields look stands § and healthy looking and appears oted, The only danger now is +4 green, the ty ier gong well 1 thawing without any snow. Un. season should prove vgry uo- 1 the season the pros beat crop next sum- { al 1 less Lhe favorable laler Ii pects for a good w mer are very good indeed. ———————— | Tue successful issue of the last trial | tnp of the new naval vessel Vesuvius establishes the fact that we have the fastest war ship in the world. In one | part of her course recently she came | within a small fraction of making 23 { knots per hour, If the Vesuvius excels | in the other purposes for which she is | intended as she does inthe matter of | speed she will be a wonderfully valuable possession. With her pneumatic gun, | if everything works well, she can destroy | other vessels, irrespective of size or | armor, at will, Tire Princess of Wales has set the | fashion for a new boot which is intend. ! ed for rough country walking and is inpervious to any amount of damp. It is very high, buttoning nearly op to the | knee, of black leather, with an inne: | lining of stout water-proof tweed be- tween the leather and the kid lining. The sole is about half an inch thick, { It has already been nlroduced at | Tuxedo, where it is found a great com- fort in walking and tramping abowt in the snow surrounding the tobogzan glide, Prorie who live on Stale sireel Chicago, declare that a ghost patrols that district at midnight every night, The spectre is described as being dressed in white flowing garments and as walk. ing on all fours, Conductorsand drivers of the street cars on Forty-first street are greatly alarmed. Two of them have refused to take thelr cars out, Hyde Park policemen have seen the appari tion and pursued it, firing their revel. vers as they ran. When the spook reaches Grand Boulevard it suddenly disappears, ReporTeED “Finns” or VaLUABLY Ones, — People in and about Woodbury, in western Connecticut, are stirred wp over the discovery of traces of valuable ores and ofl in that locality. the ton, Interspersed with (iis ms siiver which pays about 25 ounces to the ton while there are also streak indications A AIS. r In the enteway 10 insanite. %
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