Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 31, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 April 1895 — Page 2

WEEKLY COURIER,

C. DOAXK, I'ubllnhor. JASPER. . - - INDIANA. Euilk Zola was, on the 1st, elected president of the Paris Societedcs Gens de Lettre. Ox the 1st a treaty of peace was signed in the City of Mexico, between Secretary Mariseal and the minister from Guatemala, thus averting the threatened war. Tue public debt statement, issued on the 2d, shows a net increase in the debt during March, less cash in the treasury, of S1S.3U0.105. Total cash in the treasury, 8797,337,539. A dispatch from Tokio, on the 31st, laid that Koyatna, the young Japanese who shot Li Hung Chang, the Chinese viceroy, had been sentenced to imprisonment for life at hard labor. Thk supreme court of Iowa, in an piniou tiled on the 2d, sustained the constitutionality of the "state statute for the regulation of the liquor traflic familiarly known as the mulct law. The president's family left the "White House after luncheon, on the 2d, and took up their residence at Woodley, their suburban home, where they were joined by the president later in the afternoon. Foht Makcy is to be reopened. Orders were received from Washington, on the' 4th, by Col. Lawton, inspector general of the department of the Colorado, to establish his headquarters at Santa Fe, 2s. M., on May 1. Tue carcasses of several bullocks have been washed ashore at Tangier, and it is ascertained that they were among the number of cattle shipped on board the missing Spanish war vessel Heina Kegente for food purposes. The Newfoundland delegates held their first conference with the Dominion government ut Ottawa, Ont., ou the 4th. Sir McKenzie Howell was appointed president of the conference. The business of the meeting was purely formal. The Licking county (0.) building for the insane was burned before daylight on the morning of the 2d. Jenney Jacoby, an insane patient, gave the alarm, thus saving thirty inmates from death. The origin of the fire is not known. Iiisiior IlcnsT, chancellor of the National Methodist university learned, on the 4th, that Uev. William IHrch, lately a minister in Kokomo, I mi., left S2U.000 to the university. The money is to go to the institution at the deatli of Mrs. Wrch. One uuXDitED employes of the Cleveland (0.) Ship Building Co. went out on strike on the 5th. The company proposed to pay the old hands 82.37 and new men S2.25 per day. The strike was for a 82.50 per day rate. The strikers were employed la the boilermaking department Gen. Martinez de Campos started from Madrid, on the 4th, en route to Cuba. The members of the cabinet and a large number of deputies, senators, generals and other distinguished persons, bade him farewell at the station, the platform of which was packed with an enthusiastic throng. Mit A. J. Balfour, M. P., in an nddress before the British Bimetallic league in London, on the 3d, said that the time was not far distnntwhen men of all parties would agree to introduce into international transactions some medium of exchange less hurtful to industry than the present absurd sys'.em. A dispatch from Shanghai, on the 1st, said it was reported in that city that the conditions of peace imposed hy Japan were that China shall pay 400, 000,000 yen indemnity and cede Formosa and southern Manchuria; Japan to hold guarantees pending the payment of indemnity and the settlement of the boundaries. Miss Helen Gould is to be invited ;o be spousor for the veteran Chickasaw guards, the famous military organization of Memphis, Tenn., in the coining spring drill. This compliment is extended to Miss Gould because her lather authorized the society to draw upon him ad libitum during the yellow fever epidemic of 187S. The general opinion was expressed at the treasury department, on the 2d, that the rise in the price of silver is speculative rather than real, and that what is real in the movement is to be attributed to the prospects that the Chinese indemnity will be paid in silver, rather than to any belief that the position of silver will be improved by the monetary conference, even should such a conference be held. Ox the 3d, there was filed in the United States court in Chicago a suit to recover in the neighborhood öf SI,000,000 from Nelson Morris and Joseph 11. Grcenhut, this being the sum, it is alleged in the bill, the stockholders of the Whisky trust were mulcted of by irregularities In a Mop contract between the trust and Mr. Morris, and in which it is further alleged that President Grcenhut was a profit-sharer to the extent of one-seventh. "William Laveiiv, aged $5, who oaid his home was in the asylum of the Little Sisters of the Poor, loaded down with yards of brass chain, bis coat and hat fairly covered with cheap gew guws, lugged a heavy bag filled with brass castings up the White House portico, on the 1st. and asked if the president was still buying gold for the treasury. He claimed to have a job lot of the precious metal, which he was willing to let go at par. In his pocket he had a lump of glass, for which he wautcd the modest sum of $15,000.000.

CURRENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IX B1IEF,

PERSONAL AND GENERAL A kepokt from Washington, on the 1st, said that the government commission to xaniinc the Nicaragua canal route, for which the sundry civil bill made 820,000 immediately available, is to le sent to Greytown us soon as possible, on a United States war vessel, to emphasize the concern of this government in the enterprise. Five men were killed and five injured, on the 1st, under falling walls caused by an explosion in Loriug & Jones' leather factory in Woburu, Mass. While stepping from one car to another of his train on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad . at Lamont. Pa., on the night of the 81st, the coupling broke, and Brnkcman John Shipley fell between the cars and was ground to pieces. The crew picked his body up and started to town. They had gone but a short distance when Conductor Barger, of the same train, met his death in exactly the same manner. The drivers and conductors of the Anacostia street railway of Washington city, struck, on the 2d, for nn increase in wages. The drivers received SI. 24 a day and the conductors Sl.Ort for about sixteen hours' work. Travel on the line was completely stopped. Two men were arrested in Jersey City, N. J., on the 2d, who, it is alleged, had for nearly two years been robbing the United States Express Co. It is roughly estimated that the amount stolen by them will reach S75.00O. Wm. Steenstuand, the originator of the great cotton corner of 1590, by the collapse of which he failed for over 1,000,000, died in Liverpool on the 2d. The Illinois supreme court, in an opinion fded on the 2d, decided the democratic apportionment of 1S92 to be constitutional. David M. Stone, the venerable exeditor of the New York Journal of Commerce, died at his home in Brooklyn on the 2d. Letteks have been received at the Spanish legation in Washington recently, from ex-confederate soldiers in the south offering their services to assist Spain in suppressing the rebellion in Cuba. The New York Marine Journal has compiled a record of lires in American cotton on shipboard during the season just closed, which extends from October 23 last to March 23. This record shows that forty-five conflagrations have taken place, as contrasted with only eight of any note in the previous seasons. It is probable that this season's losses through Are in cargoes of American cotton will largely exceed a million dollars. The hope of a speedy conclusion of peace between China and Japan is weakened somewhat by the Japanese demand for the cession of a portion of Manchuria, a war indemnity of 700,000.000 yen, and that, pending full payment of this indemnity, Pekin be occupied by the Japanese troops. One HUNDitED pounds of giant powtier exploded in the Ohio mine of the Mescal Mining and Milling Co., at Prescott, Ariz., on the 2d. Five men were working in the drift where the powder was stored. Three men were seriously injured, James Newlin, the foreman of the mine, being the most seriously hurt The Brit'sh steamer Ethelred. while on her way from Boston to Port Antonio, Jamaica, by way of the windward channel, and when off Cape Maysi, Cuba, was fired upon by a Spanish gunboat. The Ethelred stopped and was boarded and examined by ofllcers of the gunboat, after which she proceeded on her voyage. Hon. Wm. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, assumed the office of postmastergeneral on the 3d. The oath of office wns administered by Chief-Justice Melville W. Fuller. Uev. Dil 1'astoufield, a retired Methodist minister of Philadelphia, dropped dead in the post office of that city on the 3d. Cause, heart trouble. While Mrs. Thomas Jones, of New Castle, Col., was preparing her ballot at a polling place, on the 1st, she fainted and fell, striking her head heavily against the iloor. She died in a short thn having ruptured a blood vessel. The removal of young Lieut. Ybarra from command of the Spanish gunboat Conde de Venadito, which fired upon the American steamer Allianca, is regarded in Santingo de Cuba as not being in any way due to the Allianca affair. He was only in command during the temporary absence of the captain. Maj. AxonBW Jackson Hamilton, aged .7, who was major of the Twelfth Kentucky cavalry, and who planned and superintended the famous tunnel escape from Libby prison, in which 120 Union soldiers effected their freedom, was assassinated in Hcedyville, Ky., on the 2d, by Sam Spencer. Fuedkihck W. Ghipki.v, assistant cashier of the Northwestern national bank of Chicago, was, on the 2d, taken into custody at the instance of Bank Examiner John C. McKeon, by a United States deputy marshal, a shortage of SM),OO0 having been discovered in his accounts. It was stated in Washington, on the 3d, that no contest of the will of the late Fred Douglass will occur. Mrs. Douglass will accept the personal estate given her and her dower right of one-third of the profits accruing fro all unincumbered real estate. MA.i.-(ii:x. McCook has prohibited gambling within the limits or in the vicinity of any military reservation in the military departmentof Colorado. Tun mugnllicent steamer Iron Queen was burned to the water's edge, while lying at the lauding at Antiquity, 12 miles nbove Pomeroy, O., on the 3d. The only person who perished was Mrs. Mnttiu Holey, the colored cluimbermaid, who time nnd again helped lady passengers to shore, and finally ventured back once too often in search of property, and, her escape being shut of! by the llnmes, jumped overboard and was drowned.

Oex. Thomas IIordox, a veteran of the war of the rebellion, died at his Jiome in l'hiludelphia, on the 3d, aged 74 years. He served through the entire four years of the war, and was the hero of innumerable actions, IN the upper house of the Prussia landtag, ou the Sd, Btron von Mas teuffel moved to refer to a special committee Count von Mirbach' proposal to accelerate the settlement of the currency situation by menus of au international agreement. The motion was carried without debate. The widow of Alcxaudcr Dumas died In Paris on the 3d. Mut. I'AUAN Stevens, who, with the late Ward McAllister, was for many years a society leader of New York, died of pneumonia at her home in New York city on the 3d Newton Waltehh, the 19-year-old slayer of George und James Cox, was found hanging to u tree, on the 3d, near Galena, Kns., a short distance from the scene of the atrocious double crime. The Columbian liberty bell was rung in Chicago, at noon of the ikl, in honor of Uev. Samuel Francis Smith, author of "America." Mnyor Hopkins and Supt. Lane of the public schools were in charge of the ceremony. The ringing was done by a committee of school children, representing each state and territory. EnwAiui Mandeville was sentenced to u year in jail by United States Judge Sage ut Cincinnati, on the 3d. Mandeville was postmaster at Springdnle. His salary was inadequate to support him, and he stole money from registered letters. livu vote of 2S to 1, during an exciting session of the congregation of the Presbyterian church at Chaumont, X. Y., on the evening of the 2d, it was decided to nsk llev. William Cleveland, brother of President Cleveland, to tender his resignation of the pastorate. It is reported that politics has been a disturbing element. William Davis, a farmer, nenr Valparaiso, Ind., is in a critical condition as the result of a vicious horse biting off most of his right hand and pulling out the tendons from the wrist. Bloodpoisoning is feared. Isaac A. Miller, a pioneer merchant and president of the Citizens' state bank at Council Bluffs, la., dropped dead of heart disease in the Grand hotel barber shop in that city on the 4th. A little more than a year ago the Globe iron works at Cleveland, O., made a cut of 10 per cent, in wages. On the ad notices were posted in the works announcing a restoration to the old rate. The Spanish steamer Ignacio dc Loyo. conveying 1,000 soldiers to reinforce the government troops in the island of Cuba, arrived at Havana on the 4th. CoMiTiwLi.nn Eckels, on the 4th,

closed up the First national bank of Ravenna, Jseb., and the First national bank of Dublin, Tex. Beutiia Hctinet, aged 17 years, committed suicide, at Milwaukee the morning of the 4th, because her mother slapped her in the face when she returned home about midnight, and refused to tell where she bad been. Joseph J." Willis, chief engineer of the Louisville (Ky.) veneer mills, met a horrible death on the 4th. He was caught in a shaft of a flywheel making 200 revolutions a minute and was dashed against the wall and ceiling of the room until his body was a shapeless mass, almost every bone being broken. LATE NEWS ITEMS. On the 5th Secretary Morton revoked the commission given to W. E. Von Joha tm.se n, of California, as honorary representative of the agricultural department abroad, but not on account of the rumors connecting him with alleged sharp practices in San Francisco and elsewhere, but because the credentials issued by the department had been misused in furthering private ends. Shortages approximating C90.O00 had, up to the 5th. been found in the mint at Carson, Nov., by Supt. Mason of the government assay office, New York, in charge of the investigation. All the suspected melts had not been examined. The shortage on one melt alone amounted to 522,000. The steamship St, Paul, which failed to move off the ways at Cramps' Philadelphia ship yard, on March 25, will be launched on the 10th. Miss Frances E. Briscom will christen the vessel, and the ceremonies will bo about the same as those arranged for on the previous occasion. The trial in London of the mnrquis of Queensberry for criminal libel of Oscar Wlide came to a sudden end, on the 5th, the marquis being acquitted on his plea of justification. On the same day a warrant was issued for the arrest of Wilde, and he spent the night in a cell. O'Bhik.v, the American who shot his companion, Waddle, in Paris, on March 27, con fc.ssed to Judge Franqueville, on the 5th, that ho is really O'Brien, the American buncostcurer. This was the first admission of his identity that the prisoner had made. Tin-; Hamburger Nachrichten says that between March :ll and April' 2 Prince Bismarck received S.H80 telegrams. 50,000 letters and 120,000 postal cards, congratulating him upon the occasion of his eightieth birthday anniversary. A coNHTiiifCTioN car on a branch line of the Second avenue street railroad in Pittsburgh, Pa., became unmanageable, on the nth, and jumped the track, killing one man and injuring another. A conscience contribution of 850 from Pittsburgh, Pa., was received at the treasury department, on the 0th, and was placed to the credit of the conscience fund. A. (J. McLean, first mayor of Vancouver, B. C, died in thnt city on the 4th. He was formerly a resident of Winnipeg. I.v the British house of commons, on the 5th, the Irish land bill was read tecond time without division.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. A. J. Pkndai.i. was the other day appointed postmaster at West Franklin, Posey county, vice A. J. Schlaffer, resigned. Indianapolis ministers are prenchIng against Sunday baseball. Gov. Matthews npjKiinted John E. Cass, of Valparaiso, judge of the new superior court of Lake, Porter and La Porte counties. The Sheridan brick works, which recently burned, will be rebuilt nt once, with a capacit of 30,000 a day. The employes of the Kelly ax works, at Alexandria, 200 In number, have gone on a strike because the company prohibited the formation of a union among them. Several houses were blown down in Lawrenceburg, by an explosion of powder in stock. The loss was about 825,000, but no one was hurt B, T. Saii.oiit, near Wabash, has a ewe which, on January, 10 dropped a lamb. On March 2S, two mouths and eighteen days later she gave birth to two lambs, both of them very small, but healthy and frisky. Breeders say they have never known of a parallel case. Kokomo Odd Fellows have decided to erect a 15,000 building the present season. Other business buildings, costing in all about 50,000, will also go up this year. The beech trees throughout Wabash county nre dying. Many of them, farmers say, will not put out leaves this spring, owing to the extreme dry weather. The young trees arc sun'ering more severely than tlte old ones. AP0i.ru Herrmann, a young rann of Brownstown, is the possessor of an old and valuable violin. The instrument is of vcrj' antique make, an inscription in Latin conveying the intelligence that it wns made in the year KU0, by Germonius, an old maker of violins nt that time. The instrument is one of rare tone, and weighs only thirteen ounces. Ilerrmnun contemplates selling it to some collector of rare fiddles. Fire destroyed the largo stock barn belonging to Samuel Haldeman, of Wnkarusa, together with contents and four valuable horses. Loss on barn, 3,500: no insurance. Loss on harness, 81,050; insured for S750 in the Ohio Live Stock and Rockford Mutual. At Shelbyville William Dean played the good samaritan act to a chap named Simms. The latter returned evil for good by stealing $140 from his bencfuctor. Marion Soldiers' home inmates are besieged with grip. Over one hundred vets are hors de combat for a time. A riiANTASCOi'E for photographing objects in motion, has bees invented by C. F. Jenkins, of Richmond. Five hundred head of cattle arc be ing fed by the Columbus starch works for shipping purposes. A Kokomo man, 1). F. Cook, has invented a contrivance on the plan of the "penny-in-the-slot" machines, by which stamps, postal cards, newspapers or anything of the kind may be obtained by inserting a coin. Jay Kkhiueh, aged twenty-eight, who was deserted bv his wife, went to

Michigan the other day and attempted to bring about a reconciliation. lie was unsuccessful and returned home to Goshen much broken in spirit. The other night a pistol shot was heard in the direction of his home, but no attention was paid to it, and not until next morning was the body found. His clothing had caught fire from the pistol shot and his body was badly burned. The fire was then communicated to the fence, which was burning when found. Over 100 guests who attended a wedding in Brown county, says an exchange, contracted measles from the best man. The case against John Hadders for obstructing the railroad during the strike lust summer, was up for trial the other day in the Sullivan circuit court. The jury, after a brief consultation, returned a verdict for the defendant The trials of the others charged with the same offense will go over until the June term. Geo. Reynolds, a .young man about 20 years old, committed suicide at Worthington, the other morning, by shooting himself through the heart. He left several letters, but gave no reason for the rash act. A sad feature of the case is that the day of his death was to have been Iiis wedding day. I.V a runaway accident nt Peru, a few days ago, Mr. and Mrs. T. Stout and Israel Minnie were dangerously nnd probably fatally injured. The runaway was caused by a dog barking at the horses. The discovery of a rich pool of oil south of Portland, and the opening up of good territory northwest in the lust few days has added new life to the oil business, and has given the Jay county oil field another boom. Forty-five new wells arc being drilled. Prof. W. W. Borden, of Jeffersonville, has received from York, Eng., a set of Audul oil's "Birds of America," consisting of four volumes of paintings and five of text and descriptions. The cost was 51,123, and Prof. Borden claims it to the only set in Indiana. Indianapolis capitalists will incorporate the Franklin foundry and machine works. Floyd county grand jury is investigating the New Albany Banking Co.'s failure. A woman in black is haunting Shelbyville. Orr'h Lake, near Lnporto, widely known us the angler's paradise, ii likely to lose its popularity as a fishing resort, ns it is believed that the black bass nnd smifish died during the winter, caused from the nir being excluded by the thick and long-continued ice. Dr. J. L. W. Yost, a prominent. Southern Indiana physician, dropped dead of heart disease at Mitchell, a few nights ago, nt the bedside of n patient. Puni.s in Clinton township schools, Cass county, have struck on nccount of a disagreement with the teacher. They will not nttend, but the teacher draws her salary just the same.

DUN'S TRADE REVIEW.

A Junrterljr Review r t'ommrrrlMl Irll. urr 'oniaril will Shih Tim Yrur Itrturut Showing H t.'onültloiii ef Krtull Tritiln tu Mmu-Ii Tliroujchout th Country, hikI th IHitrlbutltm f tlood tu fluttl t.'oiiiuuior. New York, April 0. It. G. Dun A Co.'s weekly review of trade, issued today, says: Commercial failures In the first quarter of 1895 numbered ,802. with liabilities of S7.8i:i.(S:i, averaging 812,000 each. There weru also thirtyfive bank failures witli liabilities of 812,1182,537, or about SMO.OOO each. If both were lumped together as in other reports they are the aggregate of liabilities here reported would be 800,490,220, that Is, 813,530,000, or 2S.t per cent, more than is shown lu any other report for the quarter. But Dun's review not only gives commercial and banking failures separately, but shows that of the former 051 were of manufacturing concerns, with liabilities of 820,22:5,l).U, averaging 830,000 each, while a, 107 were of trading concerns with liabilities of 825,970,801, averaging about 85,000 each. The decrease in number of commercial failures, compared with the first quarter of last year, is but 11.7 per cent., while the decrease in liabilities is 810,300,000, or 25.4 per cent. About Ü0 per cent, in manufacturing and 20 per cent, in trading. The instructiveness of the report and its value as an encouragement are largely due to the separation of banking failures, in which the liabilities were $12,032,537, against only 8;,1S2,512 last year. Returns of the highest importance given this week show the condition of retail trade in March throughout the country, and the distribution of goods to final consumers, in comparison witli the samu months in 1S9 1 and 1693, while the returns fully given on other pages cannot be condensed into a single comparison, nnd in view of widclydiirering conditions in different sections and branches, might in thnt form be the less useful, there is gratifying evidence that in most trades and districts marked improvement over 1S91 is realized, though on the whole trade is smaller than In 1803. Everywhere, also, the occurrence of Easter in March last year, but in April thii. year, is found to account fcr much difference in the volume of retail trade, especially in dry goods and millinery; and the severe weather and backwardness of the season also retarded recovery. While the volume of trade, in quantities of goods sold, is, nevertheless, larger than last year, but, on the whole, smaller than in 1S93, the main difference, in comparison with 1S13, is found in the general decline of prices, which makes trade in value smaller, even where it is clearly as large or larger in quantity. Accounts from the chief centers of wholesale trndc are also encouraging. There is not only a hopeful spirit, but real gain In business, though not equally distributed geographically or as to branches of trade. Instructive comparisons of daily averages by months show that all sections have been gaining, but the cast rather more than others. Railroad earnings in March were only 1 percent, larger than last year, and 13 per cent, less than in 1893, which is scarcely better than the report for February or January, but the loss is mainly on granger and southwestern roads, while enstern roads show a handsome gain. The best newt from the industries is that labor troubles have been settled or avoided, Mahoning iron and eastern woolen mills being again in active operation. Next in importance is the demand for many manufactured products, which gives greater reason to hope that recent advances from the bottom may prove successful. Following the rise in coke, there have been this week sales of 2,000.000 tons lake ore at about 13 per cent, advance, and finished products are no longer inactive, Bessemer rising to 810.155, gray forge to 59.25, common bar to 95 cents, structural angles to S1.Ü5, and plates SI per ton. The cotton manufacture, stimulated by the rise in raw cotton, goes on gaining, though cotton has halted. Better demand appears for many qualities, and in some slight advances in prices. Sales of wool reflect the renewed confidence of manufacturers as strikes are out of the way, for (5,075, 100 pounds were sold last week, against 4,018,200 for the same week last year. No rise in prices is seen or expected in view of the heavy sales and receipts of foreign wool. Stocks have made scarcely any advauce, doubt about coal settlements having weakened Jersey Central .'! cents and the closing of Hnvcmcyei and Spreckel' refineries having weakened sugar some. Speculation in products has been dull and sales of cotton have fallen to 70,000 bales, with no change in prices, which are now higher than two weeku ago. Large receipts and unprecedented stocks are certainties for which decrease in ncrcage is only expected. Wheat receipts at the west were smnll last week, hut in March larger than last year, with Atlantic exports about the same. Conflicting accounts give no clear light as yet on the prospect for the next crop. The demand for money is somewhat better, but since April 1 less increase is noted in commercial loans. In Honor of the Sllrrr 'Wedding of King Humbert. Washington. April 0. United States Consul A. II. Johnson, nt Venice, has Informed the departmentof state that the "First of the biennial International exhibitions of art, promoted by ;he city of Venice," will be held beiween the 22d of April and the 22d of October next. During the exhibitions i series of notable fetes, which will in ;lude contests in various athletic iports open to the champions of all naions, will be given. The expositions trc to commemorate the silver wd iinir of the kintr of Italv.

GREAT BRITAIN'S CLAIM

4Klnit Xli'iirMicua Will Not I.rad that rotvt-r In Mtkn Territorial Krprlli, Ilrr ColniiUI I'omfmIoh llclug Alrrwily Imtk Kiiougk to Matlifjr Ilrr Only Wunt l'roHt-r Indemnity for (irott In. dlRiiltU'a Kuffnred. w Wasuinuton, April 0. The announce ment is made that Great llritain will not seek, in her present controversy with Nicaragua, to acquire any part of the hitter's territory. The importauce of this declaration, of which Secretary Uresham was advised Thursday, lies in the fact that the belief has existed here for several weeks that buck of Great Britain's claim for damages against Nicaragua lay her purpose of taking forcible possession of .ertain of Nicaragua's territory. It has been suggested that Great Britain, In driving a hard bargain with Nicarugua, until her demands were satisfied, would occupy such parts of her coast as would not only give her a foothold there, but would be a menace to the Xicuruguau canal when built. Minister Bayard has been in constant communication with the state department for several months with reference to the troubles between Great liritniu aud Nicaragua on the one luuid and Great Britain and Venezuela on the other hand. No dispatches in regurd to Venezuela have been received, however, for several weeks. It is authoritatively known that the British minister of foreign aiTalrs has, within the past forty-eight hours, informed Mr. Bayard thnt Great Britain does not desire au inch of Nicaraguan territory; that her colonial possessions are already sufficiently large to satisfy her ambition, and that what she desires of Nicaragua is that a proper indemnity shall be paid to British I'mconsul Hatch and other of her majesty's subjects who were driven nut of Bltteilelds during the troubles in the Mosquito reservation last autumn. Assurances have also been given that while Great Britain will show an earnest determination to collect that indemnity, there is little, if any, probability that Greytown will 1 bombarded bj- a British fleet in the event that Nicaragua shall be slow in complying with Great Britain's request. That one or more British vessels will be sent to Greytown there is little doubt, but that any overt action will follow their arrival at that point is. not expected. A SHOCKING DISCOVERY. The Itixljr of u .Mnu Whit Sulrlded About. ChrUt miti Found In an Utiorruplcd Riiiiin. St. Paul, Min., April 0. A shocking discovery was made yesterday in an upper room of the old hotel at La (irescom. On the lower iloor live Mrs. Charles Zink and her seven children. For three months she had been living with the belief that her husband hud deserted her; but it now develops that not only was he a dead man and she a widow all this time, but that she had been iu the same house with his lifeless body ever since he disappeared. The lust seen of Zink was on December 24 last, when he left the house, saying he was going out to look for work. Nobody saw him return, and nothing was heard of him. The second-story of the house where Mrs. Zink resides is untcnated, and D. Cameron, who owns it, went there to open the upper rooms. One of the doors was locked. Procuring a key he tried to open it, but a weight on the other side prevented. Through the crack he saw the arm of a man. and securing some assistance, forced open the door. There on the Iloor lay the body of Zink. The cord around his neck told the story. Be had fastened one end of the rope to the doorknob and then sank down as far as it would let him, and was strangled. This evidently happened about Christmas, when he disappeared. MERE GUESS WORK Nobody Know How the Court St iniN on tli Inemiii-Tax OucKt Ion. Washington, April 5. All sorts of wild aud unsupported rumors have been circulated to-day as to how the supreme court stands upon the Incomf tax question. Nearly every member of the court is mentioned as having individually called on the president and assured him first one way and then the contrary. As a matter of fact no members of the court bus seen the president since the case was taken under advisement, and the judges are keeping- their own counsel, ns becomes the dignity of their high office. Kvery statement as to how they stand upon the question involved must therefore be mere guesswork. A BIG SHORTAGE Found In the Caro Mint Uj Supt. Maton. Caiihon, Ncv., April 0. Shortages approximating SOO.OOO have already been found in the mint by Supt. Mason of the government assay office, New York, who is here in charge of the investigation. All the suspected melts have not been examined, and the secret-service ugents under control of Agent Grant, of Chicago, will probably make some Importnnt arrests soon. The shortage on one melt alone amounted to $'J2,000. It purported to contain 2,20'J ounces of metal, half silver and hni; gold, but it had only forty ounces of gold. THE VICTIMS Of tlio Kiplonlon nt tin- riiilioriiicii'n KscliitiiKC, In N'nv OrlrttiiN, Nkw Ow.kans, April .The following is a corrected list of thosu who lost their lives yesterday morning hy the explosion of gunpowder nt the Fishermen's exchange, near, the French market: C J. Selnthe, proprietor of the Fishermen's exchange. Mrs. Selathe, his wife. Child of Mr. nnd Mrs. Selathe. Mrs. O. Edwards, a. shrimp gatherer. Felix IlVuard, barkeeper.