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Indicates daily. ADDITIONAL TRAINS. No, 22. Leaves for Anderson and iiuncie 6:30 a. m. iNo. 25. Arrive from - M " 11:00 2f o. 1. Arrives from Cincinnati at 10:35 a. m. No. 10. 18. 5. 7 and 17 are fast veotlbnled trains wita Warner Sleepers, Buffet, Cafe and Dining cars to and from Cincinnati. Chicago, tit. Louis, Cleve, land. Buffalo, New York, Albany and Boston. The finest trains in America. SPRING TIPS. That the C. II. & D. is tho beat lino to use if yoa contemplate a trip to CINCINNATI, DAYTON, TOLEDO, DETROIT or any point EAST, NORTH or SOUTH. That tho C. II. & D. run Pullman Vestibule Trains between INDIANAPOLIS and CINCINNATI. That tho C. II. & D. run five trains daily between INDIANAPOLIS and CINCINNATI. That four of THESE TRAINS cany PARLOR CARS. That tho C. II. & D. sella 1,000-MILE TICKETS at TWO CENTS per mile food on fourteen different roads. USE THESE TIPS and you will be a WINNER. TICKETS on sale at UNION STATION also at CITY TICKET OFFICE, cornor ILLINOIS STREET and KENTUCKY AVENUE. II. J. RHEIN, General Agent. PALMER PLEADS FOR CREGIER. Tho Illinois Senator Goes to Chicago and Takes a Hand in the Municipal Fight. Chicago, March 0. United States Senator John M. Palmer arrived in Chicago tonight and at once plunged into the fivecornered mayoralty light, advocating, as expected, the cause of DeNVitt C. Cregier, who has been declared by the Democratio central committco the regular Democratio nominee as against ex-Mayor Caiter Harrison. Several marching clubs and bands lorraed a gay. escort for the Senator, who proceeded without " delay to a meeting of Democratio Polish Americans, which he addressed in company with Hon. Peter Kioldbassa, candidate for city treasurer. An audience of two thousand was present and enthusiastically cheered the victor of the recent remarkable senatorial contest at Springfield. The burden of General Palmers speech was that Chicago was being looked to by the party throughout the country for a great Democratic victory. He intimated that harmony now would go far towards Becurina success in a later struggle for the control of tho State. General Palmer subsequently addressed a large meeting of Scandinavian Americans, also in the interest of Mr. Cregier. Stole a March on the Citizens. Ann Arbor. Mich., March 0. The people of Leland and (south Lyon have been trying to keep their branch of the Toledo, Ann Arbor x. Northern Michigan road, owned by James M. Ashley, of Toledo, from being torn up. The people of these two towns gave Si, 000 per mile to the road, but it never paid and the Ashleys wanted to discontinue it, but were fought in the railroad commission. Saturday night the company ordered all the section men to report ior duty on Sunday, aud yesterday had theso men tear up the track aud carry it away. They toro up all but two miles of the track and a delegation of citizens has rushed off to Lansing to try to have it replaced. Japanese Coal for California. CniCAOO, March 0. Losushiro Kawai, engineer-in-chief of large coal mines m Japan, together with his assistant, O. Majima, is registered at the Grand Pacific. "We have come to America to study American methods of mining." said m he today. "We shall go to Pennsylvania and apeud several months there in the coal mines. I also intend visiting San trancisco to see if I cannot establish a market for ur coal there." National Real-EsUte Congress. Birmingham. Ala., March 0. The national real-estate congress met and organized in this city to-day. delegates bring present from several States. 31. 1. X ilcher. of Nashville, Twin., was elected president, and John J. MoDavid, of Birmingham, secretary. The congress is for tho purpoMo of organizing a national real-estate exchange.

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WEST GIVEN A NEW TRIAL. Illinois Supreme Court Remands the Case of the Wrecker of the Chicago Times. CniCAGO, March 0. The case of J. J. West vs. The people of the State of Illinois, m which an opinion was handed down by the Supreme Court at Ottawa, to-day, grows out of a struggle for the possession of the Chicago Times. Several years ago Mr. West and Clinton A. Snowden, then owners of the Mail, an afternoon paper, secured the co-operation of the Huiskamp Bros. Company and other wealthy capitalists of Keokuk, la., and bought the Times from the heirs of its founder, the late Wilber F. Storey. West was installed as manager of the paper on behalf of the syndicate. The company became so largely involved by the extravagant managemeat of West that the lluiskamps and their associates found it necessary to oust Mr. West from the management in order to protect the property. An investigation of the affairs of the company disclosed tho fact that there was an overissue of stock to the extent of several hundred shares. Criminal proceedings were at once instituted against West and the secretary of the company, Graham. West was found guilty and sentenced to five year' imprisonment in the State penitentiary, while Graham was acquitted. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Conrt, which rendered its decision to-day. The judgment of the court below is reversed and the case remanded. The opinion is by the court, and does not enter into the merits of West's guilt or innocenco, but deals exclusively with the lower court's rulings and instructions, and tho indictment, in both of which errors are discovered. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. All central Dakota was visited by a heavy fall of snow ana rain yesterday. Fricke, the noted Pittsburg Anarchist, was taken to the hospital yesterday in a starving condition. At Anson, Tex., Patrick Woodring shot and killed Thomas Lowe. The shooting was the result of trouble over a fence. Ten train-loads of oranges, consisting of sixty cars, were shipped from southern California, on Sunday, for the Eastern market. A pack of hounds chased a fox for a distance of 50 miles through the Cheat mountains, in West Virginia, last week. The run lasted twenty-three hours. Rev. John McGaw Foster, rector of St. John's Episcopal parish, at Bangor, Mo., has been called to Omaha, Neb., at a very high salary. He will go to look over the held. The funeral of Dr. Howard Crosby will occur at the late home of the dead divine, in New York city, this afternoon. The remains will be taken to Woodlawn for interment. Pat Rooney, the comedian, was capiased on a judgment for $200, standing against him at Chicago, and was thereby prevented from appearing on the stage on Saturday night. The health board officials at New York reported six deaths yesterday and eighteen the day before from the grip. This makes ISO in all since the scourge made its last appearance. Bonjamin B. Johnson, of New York, the owner of three houses iu Pearl street and one in John street, has been awarded $15,500 for damages to his property by the erection of elevated roads. Dennis Bnrke, the engineer of tne passenger train which ran into a freight, at Racine, Wis., last Tuesday niuht. causing the loss of two lives, has been arrested on a charge of criminal carelessness. The actress shot and killed in a variety theater in Spokane Falls last Friday night was Mabel DeBaino, and not Nina lieyward, as reported. She was an attractive burlesque performer, and had led a romantic life. A reward of $5,000 has been offered by the directors of Mechanics' and Traders' Bank of New York for evidence sufficient to convict the person who started a madcions rumor for the purpose of injuring the standing of the institution. Sunday night Robert Bartlett, town marshal of Priestville, Ky., being infatuated with the young wife of Dr. Contn, a prominent physician there, shot her through tho breast because she would not elope with him. Mrs. Contri will die. Ma 11 -Carrier Lost la a Snow-Storm. Denver, Cob, March 0. Thomas Clark, a bov sixteen years old, who carries the mail from Oil City to Kongy, Wyo.t is reEorted to have lost his way and has not een heard from fdnce last Sunday. The route is over a tsrrible road. The enow in that section is tive feet deep on the level, and the carrier is supposed to have lost hia way. His father, NY. A. Clark, started to hunt him Friday in the midst of a driving storm and has not been heard fioin. Searching parties are out after them. Yesterday a horse driven by the father was found dead between Ervay and Oil City. Serious apprehensions are felt for both. The storm is raging in that vicinity, and is tho worst in the history of tho country. Canada, to Ilave Another Cardinal. Montreal. March r0.lt is said, upon good authority, that the Roman authorities, taking into consideration Montreal's position in the religious, commercial and political world, are seriously considering the advisability of giving another prince of tho church to the Dominion, ana that Monsignor CharUs Edward Fabre, Archbishop of Montreal, will be made a cardinal Don't feel well," and yet you are not sick enough to consult a doctor. NY' will tell you just what you need. It is Hood's Sarsapsrilla, which will lift you out of that uncertain, uncomfortable, dangerous condition into a state of good health, confidence and cheerfulness.

SILVER-BRICK CASE IN COURT

Mr. Foster Asked to Show Cause Why It Should Not Be Coined Free of Charge. Ex-Congressman Carter Appointed Commis' eioner of the Land Office An Ex-IIoosier Given PlaceMr. Lemcke Declines. Supreme Court Decision That Saves tho TexasCriininal Code from Overthrow. Row Counterfeit Two-Dollar Silver Certificates May Be Detected Regulations Governing Payment of Sugar Bounties.DEMANDING TREE COINAGE.. The Silver-Brick Case to Be Pnshed Through the Courts to a Final Decision. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March SO. The question as to tho right of a citizen to demand the coinage of silver bullion at the mints of tho United States, without seigniorage, is to be tested in the courts sooner than was at first expected. In tho Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to-day, the original motion in the test case was made, and the court issued an order directing the Secretary of the Treasury to show cause, on Monday next, why a mandamus should not issue to compel him to receive for coinage the silver brick recently offered at tho Philadelphia mint. It is expected that the arguments to follow the motion will be brief, and that the court will promptly decide that the Secretary simply oboyed the law when he declined to accept the bullion for coinage. This will be but the preliminary step, and an adverse decision is as certain to be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States by the petitioner as a favorable decision to him would be by the government. But, in any event, tho case is not likely to reach the court of last resort until the October term, and then, in all probability, it will have to take its regular course, which will delay the linal decision for several years. In the meantime there is not the slightest chance that the Secretary of the Treasury will consent to accept any silver for coinage, except that which may be purchased in the regular business of the department. LAND COMMISSIONER NAMED. Ex-CoDgressman Carter, f Montana, Appointed by tho President Yesterday. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NVasiiington, March SO. The President to-day made the following appointments: Ex-Congressman Thomas II. Carter, o Montana, to be Commissioner of the General Land Office, vice Lewis A. Groff, resigned; James Compton, of Fergus Falls, Minn., surveyor-general of Minnesota, vice John F. Norrish, term expired. In appointing Mr. Carter, of Montana, to be Commissioner of the General Land Office the President has .given more widespread satisfaction than he possibly could have done through the appointment of any other one of the many candidates proposed for the place. Not because there were no others suggested who were equally qualified for the position, but it is doubtful if there was another man in the country, available for the appointment, who was so well and favorably known to all the Congressmen having business with -thv Land Office. Mr. Carter, .during his career in Congress, gave particular attention to matters relating to the land laws of the conntry, and he was looked upon as one of the very best posted men upon such subjects in Congress. He will make an excellent official, and while others who were In the race will naturally be disappointed, they will not fail to join in the general commendation of the wisdom shown by the President in making the selection. An Ex-Uooiler Sac urea a Good Place. Special to the InSianapoUa Journal.' NVasiiington, March 80. This afternoon the Secretary of the Interior made a very important appointment when he selected Samuel H. Elroyd, of Clark, S. D., formerly of Indiana, as the disbursing agent of the government to pay the awards to the Sisseton and NVabpeton Indians for their lands in South Dakota, which were ceded to the United States by a treaty ratified by the last Congress. Elroyd is said to be an exceptionally good man for the place, and as he will have to disburse something like $roo.000 it was important that the department should hare a man for the place upon whom the utmost reliance could be F laced. The settlement of the Sisseton ndian reservation question will add several hundred thousand acres of land to the farms of South Dakota, it is said, and the lands ceded are said to be among the very best in the State. Mr. Nebeker May Succeed Mr. Huston. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March SO. Hon. E. H. Nebeker, of Fountain county, Indiana, is seriously mentioned in official circles for the position of United States Treasurer to succeed Mr. J. N. Huston. Mr. J. A. Lemcke, who has been prominently mentioned as the probable successor of Mr. Huston, informed the President today that his health was so bad that he did not desire to be considered in connection with the treasurership any longer, especially as he had arranged to go abroad in TEXAS CRIMINAL LAWS VALID. Decision by the United States Supreme Court In a Noted Case. Washington, March SO. The Supreme Court of the United States to-day refused to grant the application for a writ of habeas corpus in the somewhat celebrated murder case of Dick Duncan vs. McCall, sheriff of Bexar county, State of Texas, in which it was sought to bring into question the validity of the entire penal code of the State of Texas. Drncan was duly indicted, tried and convicted in the State of Texas of the crime of murder and sentenced to be banged. He appealed the case throush all the intermediate courts of the State of Texas, and when the Conrt of Appeals of the Lone Star State decided against him the case was taken to the United States courts, and the decisions still being against him it was brought here. The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief-justice Fuller, affirms the judgment of tho Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Texas, from wnich the last appeal was taken. Duncan's contention was that the penal code of Texas had never boen lawfully enacted in accordance with the requirements of tho State Constitution, and that the code enrolled differed, through errors of tho enrolling clerks, from the code passed by the State Legislature. Had Duncan's contention been sustained it would have resulted in the release of all the prisoners in the State and would have totally upset the State criminal system. The court, in its opinion, says it was alleged in Duncan's benalf that he had been convicted without due process of law, and denied eqnal protection of laws, contrary to tho provisions of the federal Constitution. As the District Court of Texas had jurisdiction over the petition and the ofiense with which he stood charged, it has jurisdiction to determine the applicatory law, and this involved the question whether particular statutes had been enacted in accordance with the requirements of the State Constitution. It is unnecessary to enter upon an examination of the rulings in the d Iff? rent States upon the question whether a statute duly approved and enrolled can be impeached by resort to tho journals of the Legislature, or other

evidence, for the purpose of establishing ffhat items were passed in the manner prexribed by the iitate Constitution. The courts of the United States necessarily adopt the adjudication of the State courts on the Bubjeot, Numerous opinions are cited in support of this doctrine. If the question of the invalidity of the codes was presented to the State courts, it is held that it must be assumed that the court adjudged in favor of their validity and in accordance with the law of the State. NVhen determined, the casa cannot be reviewed by the federal courts, and the result must bo the same if the question has not been raised in the State courts. Tho court says it may remark, in conclusion, that the magnitude of the operation of the objection to these statutes does not fleet the principles by which the result is reached. This is not the case of a system ot laws attacked upon the ground of their invalidity as the product of revolution. Tne State of Texas is in full possession of its faculties as a member of the Union, and its legislative, executive and judicial departments are peacefully operating by the orderly and settled methods prescribed by its fundamental law. NVhether certain statutes have cr have not binding force, it is for the State to determine, and that determination in itself involves no infraction of tho Constitution of the United States, and raises no federal question giving this court jurisdiction. The judgment .of the Circuit Court is accordingly affirmed. The conrt also refused writs of habeas corpus in the cases of James Leeoer and Edward Powell, who were ' also convicted in Texas of tho crime of murder. In confirming judgment of a lower court in New Jersey, in an opiuion by Justice Harlan, the court eays: "NVbile those using tbA public highway are under a duty to Keep out of the way of railroad cars crossing it, and exercise 6uch care as tho circumstances make necessary, the railroad company in moving cars npon its road is bound to exercise like care towards those who are obliged to pass over its tracks. Tho right of the railroad companies to the use of tracks for the movement of engines and cars is no greater in the eye of the law than tho right of an individual to travel over the highway extending across 6uch tracks." THOSE COUNTERFEIT TWOS.

Only by a Magnifying: Glass Can the Bogus Silver Certificates Be Detected. Washington, March SO. Tho secret eervice officers declare the counterfeit two-dollar silver certificate a most dangerous one. Tho vignette of Hancock is as fine as the original, acd the lettering and the lathe work is an exact copy of the treasury note. In fact the only diflerence is too minute to be visible to the naked eye. In the upper left hand and lower right-hand corner of the genuine note is a figure "2," and on its face is engraved in characters so minute that they are not legible except under a magnifying glass the word "two" repeated three times. In tho counterfeit the word "two" is similarly engraved the samo number of times, but in two cases the counterfeiter has made the letters read "owt" But, as intimated, this mistake is not visible without the use of a glass. Tho discovery of tho counterfeit-is not anew thing. Attention was called to it some time ago, and has been called to it at frequent intervals bince it appeared, but the unknown oonnterieiters' watch ,'the secret-service bulletins closely. NVhen a discrepancy was discovered iu a note bearing the check letter 'A" and the signature of C N. Jordan, the counterfeiters chanaed the check letter to "B" and the name to that of Treasurer Hyatt. In this case, however, they left a mark whereby the counterfeit note is more easily identified, for the lower half of the capital J" in Jordan was so eutwined with the border of the note that it could not be erased when the name was blotted oat. But even this line cannot be seen unless attention is attracted to it. Altogether, the counterfeit is fully as dangerous as represented, and the entire circulation of the genuine may have to bo called in. Some years ago a $5 national bank note was so successfully counterfeited that the gennine notes were often refused when they should have been accepted, and finally the entire issue had to be called in. THD BOUNTY ON SUGAR. Regulations That Must Be Compiled With Before the Money Is Paid. Washington, March SO. Tho Commissioner of Internal Revenue has prepared a series of regulations for the enforcement of the provisions of the McKinloy tariff act inregard to the bounty on sugar of domestic production. They prescribe that all producers of sugar who intend to apply for the bounty on sugar produced during the fiscal year ending June SO, 1S92, in order to entitle themselves thereto, must file a notice and make application for license within the year beginning April 1, civing full and detailed information of the machinery, apparatus and capacity of production of the works of the applicant. This notice should be in duplicate, and beiiled with the collector of internal revenue of the proper district, wbo will retain one copy, and forward the other to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. A proper bond must also be executed by evory person or firm intending to manufacture sugarin order thatthey may be entitled to the benefits of the statutes. If the notice and application for license and the bond are in proper form, a license will be issued with the understanding that it be conspicuously displayed in the establishment where the sugar is produced. Such licenses cannot be transferred. Full instructions are given in regard to the books the sugar producers will keep, the manner of making returns, the weighing and inspection of the sugar, the form of application lor bounty, etc. Commissioner Mason says the act makes what is called a permanent annual appropriation, and that the bounty will be paid from year to year out of tho money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, lie says it is not contemplated to establish any new agencies for the payment of the bounty, and that all local business will be transacted through the regular internal revenue collectors. MLNOR MATTERS. Witnesses Testify that Kincald's Life Was Threatened by Ex-Congressman Taulbee. NVasiiington, March SO. Judge Bradley delivered his decision in the Criminal Court to-day in the Kincaid case on the question as to the admissibility of testimony going to show that the deceased had, on various occasions, threatened the life of the defendant. The court held that the evidence was admissible. During the day's testimony there was reference to the publications that gave rise to the trouble between Kincaid and Taulbee. The first publication was made in a paper in this city and referred to a scandalous occurrence alleged to have to have taken place in the model-room of the Patent Office, in which a Kentucky Congressman aud a female clerk figured. Kincaid subsequently ubliahed an account of theaftairin the ouisville paper of which he was correspondent, using Taulbee's name in connection with it. Albert J. Kelly, of Terre Haute, testified that he heard Taulbee make threats agaiust Kincaid shortly after the publication appeared in a Washington paper. Perry S. Heath. William E. Curtis and others testified to tho same effect. Open to Settlement, Washington, MarchSO. Secretary Noble has sent a telegram to Representative NVilson, of the State of Washington, stating that, upon due consideration of the matter. it is his judgment that tho Cocur d'Alene Indian reservation in Idaho, as described in tho Indian appropriation act, approved M&rrh 3. wan ODeued bv the forrn nf the statute and needs no proclamation or farther action to nccompusn that end. This opinion, however, the Secretary says, is given without any argument made to the rion&rtnient. and it is to be received nith expression of views that may be changed if there is any dispute arising concerning its validity in a contest case. The northern section of this reservation whicn Is open to settlement contains about three hundred thousand acres and may be entered under

the homestead act upon paymtnt of $1.50

per acre, one-half of which is to be paid within two years. Hawaii's Minister Going Borne. Washington, March SO. Ministor Cartar, of Hawaii, expects to leave NVasiiing ton on Thursday for New York, whence he will go West, and, during the summer. visit Honolulu. The Minister called on Secretary Blaine to-day to pay his' respects and to say good-bye. To-night Mr. Carter said that, in communications to his gov ernment, he had called its attention to what the United States is doing wita the South American republics on the subject of more intimate trade relations, and had recommended fuller reciprocity between tho United States and Hawaii. Mr. Carter says the old treaty between the United States and Hawaii has four or five years to run, and that no new treaty has been drafted or negotiated. Afraid of Losing Their Trade. Washington, March SO. The Brazilian newspapers which arrived here in the mails on Saturday contained little else than the discussion of the reciprocity treaty with theUnited States. NVhile the remonstrances to the treaty are very loud and earnest, they come, friends of the treaty assert, almost entirely from English, French and German importers who fear the loss of a large share of their trade to the merchants and manufacturers of the United States. It appears from the papers, however, that the opposition to the treaty is dyinz out so far as the public is concerned. The Brazilian government is prepared to carry the treaty into efi'eot npon the 1st of April, aud the necessary instructions have been issued to all the collectors of customs. International Monetary Conference. Washington, Maroh SO. All the delegates to the T International Monetary Conference were present at the meeting today, except the minister from Peru and the minister from Hawaii. Three different propositions were submitted, varying slightly in detail, and all having direct reference to the object for which the conference was called that is to suggest an inter-American coin that shall be of equal value in all the countries participating, and incidentally to fix a coinage ratio. No decision was reached or indicated when the conference adjourned, to meet again on Wednesday. The Say ward Case. Washington, March SO. The Department of Justice has received tho return of the Alaska District Court to the writ issued by the Supreme Court asking that cause be shown why a writ of prohibition should not issue in the case of the schooner Say ward, libeled for violation of the law forbidding sealing in Behring sea. It will be filed in a short time by Attorney-general Miller or Solicitor-general Taft, and no reason is now known why arguments should not be proceeded with the second Monday in April. General Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, March SO. Private Secretary Halford returned last night from Georgia, where he has been for some days with Mrs. Halford. Ho reports Mrs. Halford's condition of health so much improved that he hopes to see her in NVashington within a few days, possibly next week. H. U. Brown, city editor of the Indianapolis News, is here with Mrs. Brown on his way home from the East. They will make a short stop on their way to Indianapolis at Greensburg. Pa. Ex-State Senator Harkness, of Kokomo, having filed his report and completed his duties as Indian reservation commissioner, left for his home this afternoon. Mrs. Owen continues to improve in health slowly. Out surely. Mr. and Mrs. Owen have both had severe attacks of illness, and both are in an enfeebledcondition of health. As soon as Mrs. Owen is strong enough for travel, probably next week, they will go to Old Point Comfort. Va,, for a few days, and then go to Logansport and on to Mrs. Owen's old home at Logan, la., for a visit and recuperation. Attorney-general Miller will go to Indianapolis in a few days to argue a case in court. The Comptroller of the Currency has approved tho selection of the Union Na tional Bank of Louisville as reserve agent for the People's NationalBank of NYashington, Iud. Capt If. B. Collins, of Frankfort, ia here on pension business. Vice-commander McBeth, of the Indiana G. A. IL. an attache of the Treasury Department, has gone to the State encampment at Lafayette on a twenty da3's' leave. In answer to an inquiry at Providence Hospital thit morning it was stated that Bishop Ryan, who has been seriously ill, rested comfortably last night and Is feeling better to-day. The postoffice at Milford, 111., will bo raised to the third or, presidential class on April 1. The President has granted a pardon in the case of Nicholas H. Groesbeck, convicted of adultery in Utah and sentenced Oct. 17, 1800, to eighteen months imprisonment. Secretary Blaine was at tho Department of State this morning for the first timo in two weeks. Ho has recovered from his indisposition and looks very well. NO LONGER SOCKLESS JERRT. Farmer Simpson Now Stops at Slx-Dollar-a-Day Hotels Short Political Talk. New York, March SO. An evening paper says that Congressman Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, the noted Farmer's Alliance orator, was at the Windsor Hotel to-day. He occupied a six-dollar-a-day room, and seemed to be perfectly at home in the hotel where millionaires stop. This dialogue took place between Mr. Simpson and a reporter "Some of the Republican papers in Now Hampshire say Senator Chandler invited you to speak in that State. Did he?'' 'I have never heard anything about it. I spoke there nnder the auspices of the Farmers' Alliance. It is rather queer that I should be accused of being in with the Republicans in the North. Now, in the South the Democrats declare the Farmers' Alliance is in with the Republicans, and in the North the Republicans declare we are nothing but Democrats. And between the two we go ahead, gathering strength, and in 1892 both parties will see what we are and whether we can paddleour own canoe," "Do you expect to run a candidate of your own for President!" "I think so, but can't say yet. Nxt year some time we will have a big conference and decide what we shall do. It looks to me as if we shall be able to pat a candidate into the field and win." "You are accussd of helping to elect Senator Palmer. Did yon lend him any aid!" "Well, I went by Springfield, and I am not sorry that Mr. Palmer is elected Senator. NY'hy should I not want to see him elected Senator! NVe waut to hold tho balance of power in the Senate and n the House, and, naturally. I did not wish to s ;e a Republican elected, because it would lessen our chances in the Senate," "How do you expect to have the balancn of power in the Senate by the election of Senator Palmer!" "Easy enough, lie is a Democrat and will vote against protection and agaiust tho Republicans on every vital issue. Well, with Petter and Kyle and the several silver Senators from the West, the Allianco expects to repeal the present tariff. That is our aim, and I don't think wo can fail." Mr. Simpson said Chicago had taller buildings than New York, some of them being twenty stories high. This is his first visit to New York, and he intends to .ee the city thoroughly. His address will not be the "Windsor Hotel after to-dsy, but in care of Henry George.

MARY GOORKHAS MASSACRED

Nearly 500 Mercilessly Butchered by Treacherous Hostiles at llanipur. Seven British Officers and the Commissioner of Assam Supposed to Hays Also Fallen Victims to the Cruel Tribesmen of India, Three Hnndred Natives of tho Comorro Islands Slain by Their Fellows. Russia Beginning to Show Her Rand in tho Bulgarian Conspiracy Bait chefTs Murder Fart of the Plot Flurry in Germany. GOORKHAS SLAUGHTERED. Nearly SOO Native British Troops Killed la Battle in India Seven Officers Missing. Calcutta, March SO. A dispatch from Manipur, province of Assam, brings news of a disaster to a force of native troops there. It seems that Mr. James W. Quinton, the Chief Commissioner of Assam, has recently been investigating some serious troubles which have occurred among tho native chiefs. As a result of his investigation the Chief Commissioner was holding a durbar or conference with the notabilities of Assam, with the view of arresting one of the prominent chiefs who had been instrumental in deposing the rajah. Tho Chief Commishioner, whilo pursuing inquiries as to tho disputes between tho chiefs, occupied a camp which was garrisoned by a strong force of Goorkhas native infantry in the British service. Suddenly this camp was attacked by a number of hostile tribes, led by their chiefs. A two days' battle, during which some desperate fighting took place, followed the onslaught of the tribesmen. The Goorkhas fought most determinedly against hoavy odds, and, according to the report, 470 of tho Goorkhas were killed. Seven of the British officers who accompanied the Chief Commissioner, and that othcial himself, are reported to be missing. The news of the massacre was broupht to Kokima, on the Assam frontier, by two Goorkhas, who arrived there yesterday. They say that the massacre originated in a feud between the Rajah of Manipur and a leading tribal chief. The Raj&n was deposed, and he appealed to the Viceroy. Mr. Quinton was sent to settle the trouble, and started from the headquarters, at Shillong, escorted by the Forty-second and Fortyfourth Goorkha Infantry. After crossing the frontier, Mr. (Quinton summoned tho chiefs to a durbar at Manipur for the purpose of arresting the rebellious chiefs, f ho tribesmen, pretending to obey the summons, mustered in foroo, and, at midnight on the day before the day on which the durbar was to be held, suddenly attacked the camp of Commissioner Cuinton, which lay between Kohima and Manipur. The attempt to surprise the camp fai!ed, and the tribesmen were driven back. They returned, however, and kept up the attack and siege, night and day. for forty-eight hours. Finally the ammunition ct the Goorkhas gave out, and Commissioner Quinton was obliged to give the order: "Sauve qui peut." During the fight at the camp sconts were sent out to try and communicate with Shillong, but they never returned. The Manipur natives cut the telegraph wires and killed the messengers. Fugitives raporS that a general massacro followed the taking of the camp. There is reason for believing that the estimate that 470 were) killed, is incorrect. One acoount of the affair reports that Commissioner Qainton and his atari were made prisoners. Another account says that CoL 8kene, the commander. Commissioner Quinton, with his son and daughter. Capt. Boileati and six officers, were killed. 1 he natives refused to give them quarter. The rebellious tribes are famous forrunningcruelty and bravery. Immediately nponreceiving the news of the disaster the Viceroy, at Simla, summoned a council. Two native regiments stationed in Assam havo already been dispatched to Manipur. Tne Third Bengal Infantry will start for tho scene to-morrow. The Viceroy of India has Abandoned his tour and has started for Simla. Five regiments and a mounted battery have been ordered to Manipur. All the London dailies comment npon tho gravity of the Manipur rebellion and the necessity of strong measures to retrieve British prestige. Some of the papers think that Commissioner Quinton's force was inadequate and that he committed a blander in underrating the strength of tho enemy. SOO Comorro Islanders Massacred. London, March 30. News has come to this city from Zanzibar of an outbreak in the Comorro islands in tho Mozambique channel, about 50 miles northwest of tho Madagascar coast. On the Island of Anjouan the natives, after tho death of Sultan Abdullah, supplied emissaries with arms, wbo overran the country, maasacring three hundred people and carryingdestruction far and wide. The war vessels of the French squadron, now in the Indian ocean, have been directed to proceed to the island and put down the insurrection. The Comorro islands are nnder French promotion, but aro nominally ruled by Arab princes. MORE NVAU RUMORS. Russia's Hand in the Ilulgarian Conspiracy Preparing to Rack Up a Protest. London, March SO. Dispatches from Sofia say that Prince Ferdinand's legal commission from the Porte as Governor of Roumclia expires on April 5, when Turkey can reluso to renominate him, although the Porto is not likely to interfere with him while M. Stambulorf is Premier. This fact probably explains the attempt on the latter's life, as his death would have enabled Russia to interfere and would have placed Prince Ferdinand in a predicament. It is now rumored that M Mutkurofl, tho brother-in-law of M. StambulofT, who died recently, committed suicide because he was involved in the plot Premier StambulotT, speaking of the murder of Minister Baltcbeff, said: "I happened to step back or should have inevitably been shot. No oatside advice or pressure will induce mo to show the slightest clemency or dissuade mo from exterminating all implicated in tho crime. I had known of the existence of tho plot for some time. One man actually confessed to me that he had lain in wait ior Prince Ferdinand, but that bis courage gave out aud he failed to fire the fatal shot." The Cologne Gazette, corumeutinff npon the murder of M. Baltchefi. says: "Tho importance cf the Baltchell' murder is enhanced by the coincidence that the new agitation In Bulgaria hss been traced to the Russians, mud the fact that papers sent to the French Foreign Oliice declare that the mandate which the Constantinople conference granted to Prince Alexander, the deposed ruler of Bulgaria, cannot be continued to Prince Ferdinand, the present ruler of that country." It is reported that a note has beu issued by M. Do Uiers, the Russian Secretary of State for Fcrtign All airs, which indicates that it is the intention of Russia to intervene in the Balkans. This circumstance, says the Cologne Gazette, combined with the demonstrative massing of Russian troops on the Austrian frontier, is looked npon as a sigu of the approach of critical days in eastern Europa. The Peather Lloyd, discussing the same situation of afiairs, says: "We stand at the beginning of another great movement upon the part of Russia, which will probably open with a protest against the reappointment of Prince Ferdinand as Governor