Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 December 1894 — Page 2

€bt§?ike (founts Democrat , M. McC. 8TOOP8, Editor and Proprietor. PETEBSBUEG. - - '** INDIANA. The loss of the missing ship Ivanhce has been substantially confirmed by the finding of one of her life buoys by Indians on the west coast of Vancouver island. The board of stewards of the California Jockey club of San Francisco suspended Lucky Baldwin’s trainer, Wm. Brien, on the 20th, lor suspected crooked work. Advices from Tamata^e say that the address issued by Queen Ranavalo, urging the Hovas to resist the French, had been received by the people with frantic enthusiasm. A bill will be presented in the Alabama legislature forbidding the playing of football in the state, except by qollege teams, and by them only on their own grounds. The regular cabinet meeting, on the 80th, was set aside, as on the three previous cabinet days. The inclemency of the weather, probably, prevented the president from attending.

Newspapers of all the political parties in Berlin eulogise the deceased Princess Bismarck as a true type of the German hausfrau, who only lived for her husband and children, and in no way meddled in politics. 'ipHE London Standard published, on th«j 27th, a dispatch from Tokio stating tha^t the Japanese would next land troops to the eastward of Wei-Hai-Wei, attacking that place from the east and afterward march to Pekin, /■" Orders were issued from the headquarters of the American sugar refinery trust, on the 27th, to shut down completely all the refineries of the company in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and other cities. Fifty thousand operatives will be affected by the closing of these works. On the night of the election some one cut the rope on the United States signal service flag pole, at Murray, la., allowing the Stars and Stripes to fall to the ground. The matter is undergoing a rigid investigation and the guilty parties are to be taught a lesson in respect for the ensign of their country. A meteor, said to have been the size of a balloon, fell to the earth in the * southwestern part of Council Bluffs,la., on the night of the 13th. Just before it struck the earth it exploded, and its fragments were scattered oyer several acres of ground. The pieees will be gathered and sent to the state geologist for analysis. „ The cabinet meeting was postponed for the third time, on the 27th, owing to the absence of the president. His physician said that while the president was much better, his rheumatie foot worried him considerably, and he thought it more prudent to have him remain at Woodley than to go to the _ White House. A dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette of London, on the 30thi from Che-Fo, asserted that terms of peace betweenJapan and China* had been completed through the intervention of the United States government, and that the feeling of security was so strong that many of the foreign ladies were returning to Pekin. Supt. Stump pf the immigration bureau estimates that since October, 1893, the exodus of foreign steerage passengers from the United States has been greater than the number arriving. t)f the 288,020 arriving during the last fiscal year 2,894 were debarred and deported for disabilities under the ’ immigration laws. Galena, 111., is to have a splendid oil painting of Lee’s surrender to Gen. i Grant at Appomattox, by Thomas Nast, the warm friend and ardent admirer of the hero of the scene depicted. It will be the gift to the old town of its former citizen, H. H. Kohlsaat, who has already^ presented his old-time fellow-citizens with a monument to Grant. Ferdinand Ward, whose criminal operations involved the name and fortune of Gen. Grant, has received from Gov. Flower of New York letters restoring him to full rights as a citizen. Mr. Ward will at once institute legal proceedings for the possession of his son, • whom he claims is wrongfully withheld by *n irregularly-appointed guardian.

The second annual meeting of shareholders of the Maritime Sugar trust, known as the Arcadia Sugar Refining Co., was held in Halifax, N. S., cn the 29th, when some startling facts regarding the working of the concern were brought out. The company has a capital of $8,000,000, and the total net profits, as shown by the report, were $7,698 for the past fourteen months. Princess Louise of Schleswig-Hol-stein-Lindenburg-Gluckburg, sister of King Christian of Denmark and aunt of the dowage ^czarina of Russia, the king of Greece and the princess of Wales, died, on the 30th, from the effects of an operation performed on an abscess. She was 74 years old, and was appointed abbess of the convent of Itzehoe, Holstein, in 1860, and died in ,that institution. Paying Teller Sayres of the Shoe and Leather bank of New York said, on the 26th, that there was not the least shadow of doubt that the man who was found drowned at Flushing, N. Y., on the 24th, was Frederick R. Baker, the man who assisted Seeley to rob the hank. He said he had known him for at least eight years, and during that period had paid him money at least three times a week

CURRENT TOPICS. TEE HEW8 IE BEIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Seven business houses undone dwelling house were burned at Swayzee, Ind., early on the morning of the 25th. A woman was reported burned to death. A large attendance and impressive ceremonies marked the funeral of Gen. Gibson at Tiffin, O., on the 36th. Owing to the spread of diphtheria throughout the city of Detroit, Mich., the board of health, on the 26th, ordered the cldsing of every public school in the city until the epidemic abate. Nicholas II., czar of Russia, and Princess Alexandra Fedrovna (Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt) were married in St. Petersburg, on the 26th, in accordance with the wishes of the dead czar, who seemed to fear that some political influence might be brought to bear to break the match if it was delayed. On the 27th Gov. Flower of New York issued a notice giving DistrictAttorney Fellows of New York city four days in which to answer the charges tiled against him, on the 26th, by the German-American Reform union of New York city, and to show cause why he should not be removed from office. A violent shock of earthquake, having motions both undulatory and vertical, was felt at Brosica, Italy, on the 27th. The shock was followed by rumbling sounds. Similar shocks were felt at Bologna and Verona. The average duration of shocks was four seconds. John D. Francis, the aged father of ex-Gov. Francis, of Missouri, died suddenly at his home in St. Louis, on the 27th, aged 74. He had apparently been in the enjoyment of the best of health until the day of his death. Princess Bismarck, nee Peuttkamer, died in Varzin, on the 27th, aged 70 years. She was married to Prince Bismarck, July 18, 1847, and was the mother of three children, Marie, Herbert and William. The United States of Colombia has drawn against the Panama Canal Co. of Paris for 1,500,000 francs, on account of the sum which it agreed to pay for an extension of the concession. Nicaragua has passed a rigid law regarding compulsory military service which will embrace both natives and resident foreigners between the ages of 18 and 35. A14. the executive departments of the government closed at 12 m. on the 28th, in order to give the clerks an opportunity**) prepare to observe Thanksgiving day. Rio Janeiro advices state that cholera has appeared among the Chinese coolies in various parts of the states of Rio Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The disease causes death in a few hours, and doctors are uudecided whether it is cholera or a new type of yellow fever. At 8 o’clock on the morning of the 27th the city of Waterbury,tkmn., was shaken from end to end by the explosion of 120 pounds of fulminate of mercury in a powderhouse of the Waterbury Brass Co. John Kelly, aged 46, a powdermaker, who was in the building, was blown to pieces. British Minister Gosiiing has notified Nicaragua that Great Britain refuses to recognize the Nicaraguan government at Bluefields. After an exchange of views, on the 27th, Minister Goshing telegraped to Port Lima for a British war-ship to come at once to Bluefields. It' is reported that the Nicaraguan canal project is at the bottom of the matter, and serious trouble is feared. A ballot was taken in both houses of the Alabama general assembly, on the 27th, for United States senator to succeed John T. Morgan (dem.). Morgan received 38 votes in the senate and 61 in the house; Warren Reese (pop.), of Montgomery, received 9 votes in the senate and 24 in the house. The Security national bank of Grand Island, Neb., closed its doors on the 27th. It is thought not to be so much of a failure as a disagreement between the officers of the bank. It has a capital stock of $200,000. The deposits are said to be $50,000, of which $20,000 are county funds. United States Senator George G. Vest, of Missouri, is largely interested. District Attorney Slaight at Ashland, Wis., has sworn out warrants for | the arrest of J. H. Leasia, chairman of the county board of Ashland county, and E. B. Gordon, town clerk of the town of Morse, charging each of them with the crime forgery upon election returns for county superintendent of schools in the town of Morse. An earthquake at Quito, Ecuador, on the 27th, lasting thirty-seven seconds, did great damage. Pulcan church was

ueauvjcu, auu iuui uviuot vvci taken from the ruins. Many other per* sons were killed or wounded. The government sent aid to the sufferers. The funeral of Anton Gregor Ruben* stein took place in the Alexander Newski church in St. Petersburg on the 28th. Delegates from many musical societies followed the remains of the great pianist and composer from Peterhof to St Petersburg. The police and post office officials of London and Liverpool are closely watching the developments of a revival of Fenian activity in both those cities. The movement is attributed to the American section of the Irish party. Jitoge Isaac Howe, late candidate for governor of South Dakota on the populist ticket, died at his home in Bedfield, on the 28th, after an illness of three weeks. Port Arthur is being reorganized by the Japanese. The people of the vicinity are welcoming their new masters. The entire town of Metamora, near Toledo, 0., was destroyed by fire on the night of the 27 th. The deaths of Sir Charles Newton and Viseount Monok were announced from England on the 29th. Prof. Chas. Newton enriched the British museum with the results of his antiquarian researches. Viscount Monck was gov-ernor-general of Canada in 1861.

A labor crowd of Davenport business men celebrated Thanksgiving dsy by attending the formal opening of t he completed portion of the Hennepin canal. At 9 a. m. the gates of the sluiceway, alongside the guard lock, a mile and a half above Milan, 111., four and one-half miles from the Mississippi, were opened, and the canal partly filled with water. A. W. Little, who had been on trial for his life in the district court at | Olathe, Kas., for the killing of Lawyer B. G. Johnson in Kansas City, Kas., July 19, 1893, was, on the 29th, found not guilty by the jury, whereupon 'Judge Burris at once said: “Mr. Little, you are discharged.”

Because the United States government makes express stipulation tha1 its contracts for public works shall only be given to United States citizens, it is 'proposed that the Dominion government pass legislation at the next session making it compulsory that all contractors for Canadian public works must be British subjects; this restriction to be operative as long as the United States government discriminates against British contractors. James B. Cleveland, of Onconta, N. Y., committed suicide, on the 29th, by taking morphine. He was distantly related to President Cleveland, and for many years was employed in the treasury department at Washington, and had recently been connected with the New York customhouse. The United States embassies and consulates were generally closed throughou Europe Thanksgiving day. There was no Thanksgiving celebration of any kind in London. The staff of the „United States embassy, however, dined with United States Ambassador Bayard. It was rumored in Odessa, on the 29th, that Grand Duke George, the czarowitz, had died a few days before. No official confirmation of the rumor has been received. Samuel Payne, the negro who some time since murdered Maud Rubel, a young white girl, at Omaha, Neb., was, on the 29th, found guilty of murder in the first degree. The Birmingham (Ala.) cotton compress owned by Inman & Co., was burned on the night of the 29th, together with 690 bajes of cotton. The fire is supposed to have originated from a spark from a locomotive. The loss is $25,000, with partial insurance. The Chicago police arrested, on the 30th, seven members of the “Thieves Protective and Mutual Benefit association,” to which no one is eligible who has not been at least four times under arrest and served at least one term in the penitentiary. Southern Associated Press stockholders, representing forty leading newspapers, have decided, with only one dissenting vote, to ratify an agreement to ally with the United Press. The report of the death of Grand Duke George, the czarowitz 0f Russia, was officially denied on the 80th. Another terrific eruption of the Colima volcano has occurred. The scene, as witnessed from Guadalajara, Mexico, is described as a grand one. It is feared that there was a severe loss of pro perty and probably of life. Thurman Balding, alias “Skeeter,” Jesse Snider and Will Farris, all members of the Cook gang, were sentenced, on the 30th, in the United States court at Fort Smith, Ark. “Skeeter” received thirty years, and Snider and Farris twenty years each. The house of correction at Detroit, Mich., was designated as the place where they must serve their long sentences. LATE NEWS ITEMS The decrease m national bank note circulation during November was $878,493, leaving the aggregate circulation outstanding, on the 30th, at $206,594,110. The circulation based on United States bonds decreased during the month $2,828,005, showing that the banks are withdrawing their bonds almost to the limit—$8,000,000—allowed by law during any one month. According to the report of the New Orleans cotton exeflpige the November total shows tire largest monthly movement of cotton into sight in the history of the trade,the total reaching, in round numbers, 9,159,000 bales, against 1,675,000 last year, 1,483,000 in 1892, and 1,919,000 in 1891, the latter the year of the 9,035,000-bale crop. The weekly statement of the associated banks of New York city, issued on the 1st, showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $13,306,800; loans, increase, $4,450,700; specie, decrease, $19,531,900; legal tenders, increase, $2,591,200; deposit^, decrease, $19,535,600; circulation, increase, $9,600

Miss Agnes Citixtnan, aged 4? years, a sister of Col. Cullman, division commissary of the Pennsylvania national guard, and Mrs. Ella Smith, aged 88, a widow, were burned to death in a Philadelphia boardinghouse fire on the 1st- A number of other inmates were rescued by the firemen. The almost complete annihilation by wolves of a party of wedding guests who were returning to their homes from the village of Hidos, Hungary, where the ceremony which they had attended had been performed, was reported on the 1st. j The Portuguese commandant of the (ehimoio Beira railway recently ordered 'the Cape Town (South Africa) police to fire on a party of navvies for disobeying orders. The police loaded, but the commandant alone fired, killing an Englishman. Th^ regular monthly treasury debt Statement shows an excess of expenditures over receipts for the month of November of SS, 156,367, which makes the deficiency for the five months of the present fiscal year $93,510,326. Thr Paris Figaro says: “Only the intervention of European powers wquld compel Japan to lay down her arms or cease the conquest of China; but such intervention is no longer feasible.” On the 1st the associated banks of New York city held $53,320,800 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent. rule.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The superintendent of the Crown Point schools found cigarettes in the pockets of thirty boys in his school, and now proposes to file complaints against every dealer violating the law. A horse belonging to a plumbing firm at Elkhart will stand half a day without being hitched, but makes a canter for the stable the instant the noon or 6 o’clock whistles sound. Thomas France was shot through the head and instantly killed the other day at Clunette, a village in Kosciusko countv. northwest of Wabash. He and

John Harley had returned from hunting, and Harley’s gun was accidentally discharged as they climbed a fence, with the result as stated. The Indianapolis police authorities had difficulty Sunday in enforcing the Sunday liquor law. There were a number of arrests at drunken men, but no saloonkeeper was caught, their places being too carefully guarded. In the afternoon Patrolman Wm. Brady attempted to arrest a drunken man and was set upon by a crowd of hoodlums and chased for several blocks, the prisoner being rescued., Still later the police arrested two of the rescuers, after a short battle with fists and clubs. Charles John sox, of Anderson, while out hunting the other afternoon, let his gun slip. It went off and the load passed through his stomach,disemboweling him. At Shelbyville, while Charles Marion was whittling a board, drawing the knife toward him, the board suddenly split, permitting the knife to be driven with such force that the blade entered the abdomen not far from the region of the heart. He can not recover. Columbia City people are boring for gas. Chicken-pox is raging at Columbia City. There is said to be not a vacant house in Rockville. v Kokomo citizens are raising a fund to secure factories. Terre Haute grain men contemplate erecting^an elevator with a, capacity for 350,000 bushels. In a suit for $50,000 against the Big Four road at Newcastle, the complaint contains over 700,000 words. At Muncie Frank Verne, aged 17, took strychnine and died. Love affair. Lige Clenenger took morphine but was saved. Same cause. Claude McDonald, who was run down and killed by cars at Seymour, was the fourth of the McDonald boys to meet death in that manner. Squire James Cooper, one of the best known stockmen in Southern Indiana, died suddenly at his country home near Shelbyville the other morning. He was but recently married to a young an$ pretty girl, Jennie Perry, who comes In as the only heir to Mr. Cooper's immense fortune. H. B. Kennedy, dry goods, Logansport, assigned. Liabilities, $51,000; assets, $55,000. P. W. Moore, a former owner of the stock, is a preferred creditor to the value of the stock. The residents of Elkhart have been restrained by the court from sawing down trolley poles erected by the street railway company. The eastbound Lake Erie *fe Western passenger train, struck John Toban, a molder, aged 24 years, instantly killing him, near Muncie, He undertook to walk across a long trestle and was caught. Diphtheria is raging to an alarming extent in Hamilton county. Clinton county chicken thieves have opened their winter campaign. A Brownstown young man walks about the streets this weather barefooted. • * A Huntington woman makes a practice of scalding dogs that stray into her yard. George B. Zoellxer, a prominent young pythian, while riding on a street car at Indianapolis, struck his head against a trolley pole, and his skull was fractured. H. O. Huffer, a prominent educator and at present teacher in the Farmland public school, committed suicide. He had been complaining of ill health for several days, and imagined that he was losing his mind. There is a sidewalk war on at Columbia City. There is considerable destitution in Sevmour.

New Albany capitalists are talking of starting1 a cotton hose factory. Rev. Charles P. Jennings, Shelbyville, well known minister, is dead. Richmond wants another express company. South Bend police will knock out slot machines. Charges of vote-buying are being made at Monticello. Rush county people are divided on the courthouse question. Michael Johns, a prominent farmer residing east of Brazil, was found dead in the woods a short distance from his home, buried beneath a heavy saw log. Mr, Johns left early in the morning to bring the logs into town, and, as he did not return for dinner, hia family became fearful and a search was made. His team was standing by the dead man, being unable to move, as one end of the log blocked the wheels of the wagon. Mr. Johns was 45 years old and leaves a wife and two children. It develops at Indianapolis that H. H, Howard, the insurance swindler, known as Holmes and Mudgett, has been there often. Brazil police are bothered by two young girls who loaf around the depot. The 4-year-old daughter of A. L. Clnp, a barber in Wabash, got hold of a bottle of carbolic acid, and, breaking it on a stone, the fiery liquid flew into her face, burning her terrible. It is feared that her eyesight wiU be lost. The 100th regiment, Indiana volunteer infantry, held its ninth annual reunion in Portland, the other day and night with a large attendance. The address of welcome was delivered by Mayor George W. Bergman, and responded to by CoL B. M. Johnson, of Elkhart.

INTERNAL REVENUE REPORT. Receipts From the Several Soareee Darin* the Last Fiscal Year-States Which Contribute the IartNt Amounts—Number and Class of Special Tax-Payers—Spirits Withdrawn — Disbursements of Sugar Bounties. Washington, Nov. 30.—The annual report of I. S. Miller, commissioner of internal revenue, thows the total receipts from all sources for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1394, to have been 1147,108,449, a decrease for the year of $13,336,540. The following figures show the receipts from the several sources during the last fiscal rear and the increase or decrease as compared with the year next preceding: Spirits. 385.259.252; decrease, 19.461.006. Tobacco. 328.617,896; decrease. 33,271,613. Fermented liquors, $31,414,788; decrease, $1,134.195. s Oleomargarine, 31,723,479; increase, 152,836. Banks and bankers. $2.26; no change. Miscellaneous, $147,166,449; decrease, 313,336.539. The quantities of spirits, etc., on which tax was paid during the last fiscal year, with the Increase or decrease as compared with the fiscal year 1893, are given as follows: Spirits, distilled from apples, peaches and grapes. 1,430,553 gallons; decrease. 256.986. Distilled from other materials, 87,316,834 gallons; decrease, 10,111,514. Fermented liquors, 33,334,783 barrels; decease. 1,219,534. Number of cigars, cheroots and cigarette®, weighing over 3 pounds per 1,000,4,066,917,433; decrease, 747,279,684.

Cigarettes, weighing not over 8 pounds per 1,000, 8,183,573,700; increase, 0.881.000. Cigarettes, weighing over 3 pounds per 1,000, 208,370; increase. 908,370. Snuff, 11,(£7,009 pounds: decrease 385,809. Chewing and smoking tobacco, 335,451,805 pounds; decrease, 10,047,944. Oleomargarine, 06,499,900 pounds; increase, 1,306,135. - Of the receipts by states, Illinois is at the head of the list with 130,943,333, Kentucky next with 334,308,030, New York next with $18,923,111, Ohio with $12,454,898, Pennsylvania with $12,151,190. The cost of collecting the internal revenue during the last year was $3,975,906, or 2.70 per cent, of the collections. The total number of Chinese registration certificates applied for under the act of November 3,1893, was 100,811, at a cost up to June 30,1894, of $42,899. VIOLATIONS OF LAW. The estimated expenses of the internal revenue service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, are given as $4,859,870. The report shows the work of the bureau is in excellent condition, both in the office of the commissioner and in the field. Two thousand two hundred and seventy-nine violations of internal revenue* laws have been reported by the bureau agents during the year; 632 persons were arrested; property to the value of $246,191 was reported for seizure and $40,271 for assessment for underpaid taxes and penalties. Of the 1.016 illicit stills seized, 908 were destroyed and 108 removed, an increase for the year of 210. In each of the Georgia and the Fifth North Carolina districts 231 stills were destroyed. 'yhe actual number and class of special taxpayers in the United States on June 30, 1894, is given as follows: Retail liquor dealers, 215,419; rectifiers, 1,494; wholesale liquor dealers, 4,565; manufacturers of stills. 26; brewers, 1,805; retail dealers in malt liquors, 12,618; wholesale dealers in malt liquors. 5,515; manufacturers of oleomargarine, 21; retail dealers in oleomargarine. 7,400; wholesale dealers in oleomargarine, 217. Total, 249.137, which is a decrease for the fiscal year of 1.456. The number of distilleries operated during the year was 5,148. Of this number 1.541 were for grain, twelve for molasses and 3,593 for fruit. The quantity of grain used for the production cf spirits during the year was 19,716.818 bushels, a decrease of 9,313,391 bushels. The yield of spirits from each bushel of grain was 4.42 gallons, as against 4.24 gallons for 1892 and 4.35 for 1893. The repprt shows the nuiftber of cattle fed at grain distilleries during the year was 02,123; hogs. 25,534. - The kinds and quantities of spirits produced and deposited in distilling warehouses during the year is shown in gallons as follows: Bourbon whisky, 15.518,349: rye whisky. 10,026,544; alcohol, 10.570,070; rum, 1,864.595; gin. 1,287,977; highwines, 126,580; pure ncwtral or cologne spirits, 35,377,115: miscellaneous. 14,434,336. SPIRITS WITHDRAWN. The amounts of the leading kinds of spirits withdrawn from warehouses during the year are given in gallons as follows: Bourbon whisky, 29,782,978: rye, 9.512,038; alcohol, 10,304,426; cologne spirits, 31,474.235; miscellaneous, 13,474,235. Total, 87,087,613 The amount of distilled spirits withdrawn for export during the, year 1894 was 6,114,417 gallons, as against 3,762,231 exported in 1893. The amount of spirts in warehouses on June 30, 1894, was 137,903,078 gallons. During the fiscal year, ended June 30, 1894, 6,349 licenses were issued to domestic sugar producers intending to claim bounty on their product, and $12,100,208, net, after deducting refundments, were disbursed by this office, in payment of approved bounty claims. During the*> fiscal years ended June 30,1892, and June 30, 1893, $7,342,077 and $9,373,130, respectively, were disbursed as bounty on sugar, making, with last year’s bounty, a total disbursement of $28,817,415, exclusive of administrative expense incurred in executing the bounty law.

SUGAR BOUNTY. The following shows the amount of the various kinds of sugar returned, bounty paid (cents omitted), etc., during the fiscal year 1894: Cane sugar officially returned, 611.158,922; net bounty paid, $11,114,599; claims involved. 3*246. Beet sugar officially returned, 45.191.296; net bounty paid, $825,174; claims involved sixtytwo. Sorghum sugar officially returned, 1,304,325; net bounty paid, $17,312; claims involved, ten. Maple sugar officially returned, 7,663,608; net bounty paid, $116,121; claims involved. 4,628. Total sugar officially returned, 665.236,151; net bounty paid, $12,100,208; claims involved, 7,946. Official returns and bounty •claims on hand show that the following amounts of bounty on sugar produced during the existence of the bounty law were unpaid at the time of the repeal of this law, on August 28, 1891 (cents omitted); On maple sugar, $122,732; beet sugar, $86,782; sane sugar, $31,232; sorghum sugar, $436. Total, $241,182. SOLD AT A SACRIFICE. A Relic of Kansas City’s Boom Days Under the Hammer. '! Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 1.—The Auditorium theater, formerly known as the Warder Grand, and built during Kansas City’s boom days at a cost of $350,000, was sold at a o’clock yesterday afternoon under foreclosure of mortgage to the National Bank of Commerce for $75,000. W, A. Wilson, oue of the directors of the hank, said that negotiations were pending with David Henderson, of Chicago, for the purchase of the house. Several persons had wanted to lease the property, hut the hank had not considered any of these, as it did not wish to encumber itself with a lease, hut wanted to sell the property outright. Wanted In Texas. New York, Dec. 1.—Sheriff Saxton received communications yesterday from Sheriff Burke, of Lennon county, Texas, dated November 25, that on that date he mailed requisition papers to Gov. Flower for John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler, John D. Archibald, Benjamin Browster, Henry S. Rogers and Wesley H. Tilford, of this city, and saying: “When yon receive* the governor’s warrant please execute at once, and wire me if I will come at once. These officials were indicted in Texas for viola* lion of Texas land trust laws-’*

HERE’S A STATE OF THINGS; American Crateers Idle While America** Citizens are la pander in China—The Naval Authorite* Charjctued. Washington, Dec. 3.—The report* that Minister Denby had appealed for help in a cablegram to the department' of state is now confirmed, but the dispatch, instead of coming Friday, was received, as stated in these dispatches, several days ago. It was last, Monday that Secretary Gresham learned from the American minister that protection was required, and the navy department immediately cabled to Admiral Carpenter, directing him to deliver a draft of fifty marines to the Monocacy at Tien-Tsin. As the old Monocacy could not furnish accommodations for such an increase to her crew, it is fc be presumed that the men were to be landed. %

Admiral Carpenter, however, must: j have failed to receive the order, forearly in the morning of the 27th a. cablegram was received from him announcing the departure of the Baltimore for Nagasaki, were her arrival' * was reported two days later. To say that the authorities of the navy department are very much chagrined over Admiral Carpenter’s action in this matter only mildly expresses the state of feeling. While it is well known here that, no foreigner is safe on Chinese territory to-day, the flagship is? leisurely coaling at the pleasant port of Nagasaki, and the second important ship of the the fleet, the Charleston, has been over a month at Chemulpo, Corea, where there is not a vestige of danger to American interests, 'the strong Japanese force there maintaining the best of order. It is known that some sharp messages have been sent to the admiral in the past few days, and that he has been directed t*> send the Charleston at once to the Chinese coast. It isalso understood, though in the present, irritated condition it is impossible to confirm it, that Minister Denby was authorized several days ago to transfer the legation to Tien-Tsin. . A PLEA FOR FREE SHIPS The Burden of the Report of the Commissioner of Navigation. Washington, Dec. 3.—The annual report of the commissioner of navigation is mainly an argument for; free ships, based on maritime facts of the United States and other nations. Only six American steamships, including the New York and Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and only seven the Pacific last year, while from New York and Philadelphia alone thirty-three steamships, mainly new steel vessels, owned by Americans, crossed regularly to >, Europe under foreign flags. American enterprise, he says, is a century in ad- . . vance of the law, for Americans own ' more steamships forbidden by the registry law to wear American colors than they own steamships in foreign trade under the Stars and Stripes. The admission of such vessels to American registry is desirable to enhance our maritime rank. The report reviews government aid to shipping by Great Britain, France, Italy and other nations, showing that only 3 per cent, of the British merchant marine receives any governmentcompensation and giving statistics concerning other countries. Discriminating flag taxes have been * abandoned by maritime nations, as * they invite retaliation which nullifies any prospective benefits. Cost of construction and of operation are examined with full figures on comparative wages, and foreign and state taxes are compared. Amendments to the net tonnage and tonnage tax laws, the abolition of registry bonds, and an extension of the power of the secretary of the treasury to mitigate or refund penalties on sailing vessels are recommended. -* * r, A LONG TALK. £ Satisfactory Test of Erickson's Long-Dis-tance Telephone Transmitter. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 3.—Between Birmingham, Ala., and Memphis today, was made the first test in this country of the long-distance telephone transmitter patented by Erickson, of Svv^en. The distance of this test is 285 miles. The test was made over the Commercial Cable Co.’s wires under un-favorable-weather conditions, and were conducted by Albert Klein, loeal man—V ager of the Postal Telegraph Co, The test was perfectly satisfactory, the voice coming more distinctly over this distance than it usually is transmitted by local service. By an arrangement of instruments in the office, a circuit, representing the resistance of 1.500' miles of wire was formed and the result was equally satisfactory, and additional distance apparently makingno difference.

THE MARCH ON PEKIN Uaj be Abandoned—Five Hundred Japanese Captured and Probably Killed. London, Dec. 3.—The Che-Foo correspondent of the Central News says: “The prevalent impression is that the Japanese will abandon the march on; Pekin. Part of the Japanese fleet has been seen in the gulf off Wei-Hai-Wei. but it has made no attack. It is re* ported that an army of 250,000 Chinese expect to intercept the Japanese on their march toward New Chwang. The Chinese surrounded a detachment of §00 Japanese in a town recently and captured them. Probably all tier captires were killed.” NATIONAL BANKS. Fleam Showing the Amount of National! • Bank Circulation. Washington, Dec. 3.—The decrease in national bank note circulation during November was $878,49S, leaving the aggregate circulation stand on November 80 at $306,594,110. The- circulation based on United Stal bonds decreased during the month $'-,838,005, showing that the banks are withdrawing their bonds almost to the limit allowed by law during any one month, which limit of reduced national banknote circulation is §3,000,0u&