Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 39, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 February 1895 — Page 2

€ht §?ibe (Eouutg genwmt K. MoO. 8TOOP8, Editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. ‘ L-. .... vi-j. '- Th£ senate ratified the Japanese treaty, on the 80th, so modified as to be ternvnable at one year’s notice. Wtogether with the entire Chinese fleet at that place and the island and mainland forts were taken, on the 30$h, by the Japanese. * The Chinese peace $ envoys arrived at Kobe, on the 30th, and proceeded on their way to Hiroshima in company with the American counsellor, Hon. John W. Foster. % 1 Oh the 29th, Mr. Bryan, of Nebraska,, from the ways and means committee, reported t6 the house, with the recommendation that it pass, a, biU placing anti-toxine on the free list. * . Ih the house, on the 28th, Mr. Springer (dem., 111.) introduced a financial bill designedto carry out the xecommendatiops of the president in bis special message to congress.

Isr his will Marshal Canrobert requests that his body be not interred in the Hotel Des Invalids, bpt thah-^it be laid by the side of his wife in the cemetery of Jouy-En-Je, near Versailles. Failures during the week ejnded the 2d, as reported by „ R. G. Dun & Co., were for the United'States, 354, against <170 for the corresponding week of 1894; and for Canada, 54, against 52 last year. The moderate newspapers of Paris approve President E^urfe's message, but the conservative and socialist journals describe it as a colorless document. All of the papers approve the vote on ttye amnesty resolution. The Califordia senate, bn the 31st, adopted a joint resolution urging the delegation in congress from that state to oppose every measure" to debase silver as money, and to advocate and vote for free and unlimite&silver coinage inq the ratio of 16 to 1. Ow the 31st the force of the census office was reduced by the dismissal of fifty clerks, leaving about 200 still em- * ployed, who will be dropped from time * ” to time as the work is completed. The divisions now running are the population and vital statistics. In an article censuring the crew of the steamer Elbe for occupying the steamer's boats to the ^elusion the passengers and especially of the worn*® and children, the Pall Mall Gazette, on the 1st, said: “It is part of a seaman’s fcuty to be drowned in a case of need in trying to save the lives of passengers.” • X * The North German Lloyd steamship Elbe, bound from Bremen for New York, was sunk ill a collision with a small steamer, supposed to be the Cranthie, in the North sea, fifty miles off Lowestoft, England, early on the morning of the 30th. She carried 380 ! souls, only twenty-one of whom are I known to have escaped. Judge Bradley, of the District of Columbia supreme court, rendered a decision, on the 29th, that the pension office had no right to reduce the pension of Judge Long, of the Michigan supreme court, and issued a mandamus on the commissioner of pensions, directing him to restore Judge Long’s pension to the original figure. « Crawford Crosby, well known as “Cherokee Bill,” Bill Cook’s lieuten- ' ant, was captured, on the 80th, by exMarshal Rogers, now a deputy marshal, af the latter’s residence near v Nowata, X T., whither he had been decoyed by the pretence of his sweetheart. In the struggle which took place Rogers was assisted by his wife and a colored man. By the burning of the Deacouness hospital at Cleveland, O., on the 1st, four persons lost their lives. All of the nurses made good their escape save one. When Minnie Baumer was told 9 that the building was on fire and urged to flee for her life she cried: “No; I will not leave my patient. I will die first*” and patient and nurse „ perished together.

Thk oyster shippers of the Great South Bay, N. Y., have been notified by cablegrams from England to stop ail shipments to Europe until further notice. This action on the part of the English dealers is said to be the result of the report that American oysters from certain points contained typhoid germs, owing to the alleged sewage deposit upon oyster beds. < It was Church day at the steel plant at Elyria, 0., on the 30th, and- Congressman Tom L Johnson met the representatives of leading churches, and gave the Methodist, Baptist, Disciple and Lutheran denominations one lot each on the corners of Seneca and Thirteenth streets, and the Congregational ists one at the corner of Pearl and Thirteenth streets. The recipients will erect churches at once. * It was stated in Washingtcn^jan the Slst, that Mexico and Guatemala were progressing satisfactorily toward an ’amicable settlement of their differences, as a result of a conference between Ministers Romero and Arraigo, brought about by Secretary Gresham and his suggestion of mutual concessions. It was understood that Guatemala had practically conceded the main portion of the boundary line as laid down by Mexico, After cruising for hours in search of survivors from the foundered steamer Elbe, the tug Dispatch returned to Lowestoft, on the 31st, and reported that nothing whatever had been seen of either boat or wreckage. The storm was raging more wildly than ever, and it was impossible/that any small boat could have outlived the gale or that its occupants could have survived, the exnosure.

CURRENT TOPICS. In the senate, on. the 28th, the president’s special message, urging prompt and effective action by congress for the restoration of confidence and for the prevention of business disaster and universal disturbance, was read' and referred to the committee on finance. House bill to. disapprove the treaty with the Southern Ute Indians was passed. The bankruptcy bill was again taken up and made the unfinished business for toe 29 th.In the house, after the reading of President Cleveland's message. Mr. Springer (dehu.Hl.) presented his new bill to revise the currency and banking systems, which was referred to the committee on banking and currency for examination and report. The bill to repeal the differential duty oienetenth of a cent a pound on sugar Imported from countries paying an export bounty was further considered in committee of the whole. In the senate, on the 29th. a resolution looking to the readjustment of the finances of the country was introduced by Mr. Manderson (rep , Ndb.) and referred to the committee on finance. The bankruptcy bill wass discussed for a couple of hours, and the commercial travelers’ 6H1 (allowing the isshie of 5.000-mile mileage tickets) wsfvpassed...;.«Jn the house, by the decisive vote of 239 to si! the “bill reTHE HEW8 nr

pealing the differential duty; or one-tentn or a cent a pound on .sugars imported from countries paying an export bounty on that article was passed, all amendments to the bill being voted .down indecisive majorities. Ik the senate, on the 30th, Mr. Vest, In presenting resolutions of the St. Louis Merchants' exchange favoring legislation on the lines of the president's recent message, took a firm stand against any such legislation, and in answer to a question aald there was not the slightest possibility of the finance committee agreeing upon any plan: in which opinion he was supported,by Mr. Sherman, who thought the house should take up the question itself and give necessary relief to the country. .In the house a resolution from the committee on rules providing for the consideration of the Reilly Pacific railroad bill was, after acrimonious debate and modification, agreed to by common consent. The agricultural appropriation bill for the year ending June 30, 4®6. wavreported and placed on the calendar. Ik the senate, on the 31st. all .proceedings of any public interest circled ^around the financial situation. A resolution^ of Inquiry previously offered by Mr. Alien (pop, Neb.) as to why United States notes were not paid in silver coin was discussed. Vfhile discussing the district of Columbia appropriation bill.Mr. Gorman (dem.. Md. ) declared that if financial relief were provided in no other wa.y the senate would, ^JtfortM&idnight on March 3, place on an appro^riat&mbill a provision that would save the ooun^Bjrom impending disaster..'....in the house £1*11 was passed "establishing a code of regulations governing the navigation of the great likes and connecting waters; also Senate bill fimng the time of holding courts in North Dakota. The Pacific railroad refunding bill was mien taken up ind debated until the hour of adjournment. * v—% In the senate, oh the 1st. the District of Oollumbta appropriation bill being^inder consideration. Mr. Teller occupied most of the Session by a speech in which he scored Mr. Gorman (Md.X foSJtatjng threatened to annex a financial bill to an appropriation bill to give needed relief to the country, declaring that such action would be vicioud and should be prohibited by the constitutions.-IpI the house, while Mr. Breckinridge (Kh.) was tyytag to secure the floor to speak upon the Hawaiian question, Mr. Heard (Mo./moved the previous question, whereupon he/was attacked bjrthe daughty Kentuckian, amd a fistic encounter was only averted Ufetne interference of members. Both were arrested, and later apologized to the house. Several unimportant bills were passed, and a new currency bill was reported by Mr. Springer from the committee on banking and currency. - ■ [ PERSONAL AND Frances Certain Canrobert, marshal of France, died, on the 28th. He was born it SL Cyr, department of Lot, in 1809, and rose from the ranks to the highest jnilitary rankunder the imperial regime, and was a grand officer of the Legion of Honor. *V It is understood in Paris that M. Gerault Riqhard, M. Henri Rochefort and Count Dillon are among those to whom amnesty will be granted by the new French government. David Hampton, colored, suffered death in the electric chair in the New York state prison* at Sing Sing on the 28th. Hampton’s crime was the murder of Mrs. Annetta Ahrens, a widow 70 yea rs old, in her apartments in West Fifty-fourth street. New York "city, on the night of December SO, 1892. The mayor of Mount Sterling, Ky., was startled, on the night of the'28th, by receiving through reliable sources information stating that a large force of Morgan county iden, armed to the teeth, were on their way to Mount Sterling to avenge the lynching of Blair. \ ' The book-binding and printing establishment of Mayor Samuel Dodsworth of Leavenworth, Kas., was nearty destroyed by fire op the 28th, caused from the heater. Several presses, all the type and a large quantity of paper yvere lost. «v\ Attorney-General Olnet has given an opinion to the secretary of war holding that army apd navy officers come within the scope of the income tax law. ,* The naval programme which has been approved by the British cabinet involves the construction, within the ensuing fiscal year, of four first-class, four second-class and two third-class cruisers, twenty torpedo boats and twenty torpedo destroyers. The California senate, on the 29th, adopted resolution^ denouncing the Reilly funding bill as antagonistic to the interests of California and providing for the pursuit of all indebtedness even to the estates of deceased railroad

managers. The Steamship Lahn, which sailed from New York for Europe on the 29th, carried S3,562,000 gold. The hearing of the quo warranto suit of the attorney general of Illinois against the Pullman Palace Car Co. for forfeiture of its charter, was .began before Judge Baker, of Chicago, on the 29th. Tiie treasury gold reserve was reduced, on the 30th. by withdrawals at several sub-treasuries to $44,551,832.77. The steamship Majestic, which sailed from New York for Europe, on the SOth, carried $3,400,000 gold. The coroner’s investigation into the terrible explosion at Butte, Mont., on January 15, by which fifty-eight men were killed, was concluded on the 31st. The verdict fixes the responsibility on the Kenyon-Connell Hardware Co. and the Butte Hardware Co., in .whose warehouses the explosion occurred. The members oK the companies are charged with criminal negligence in storing large quantities of "powder within the citv Jiinuts contrary to law.

A max claiming to be the Son of Goa called at the office of Gov. McKinley in Columbus, O., on the 80th. lie had a wild look in his eyes, and when h* stated that he had a grievance that he wanted righted, the attaches were no little alarmed. He was not permitted to see the governor. A DisrATCH received from Hobart Town, Tasmania, on the 30th, said the report of the earl of Jersey, British delegate to the Ottawa inter-colonial conference, had been, laid upon the table by the conference of Australasian premiers sitting at Hobart Town. The charred artjl almost unrecognizable remains of Peter Olsen, a farmer living near the/town of Sterling, N. D., his wife and three children, the oldest a boy of 16, and a hired man named Bathga, were found, dn the ^morning of the SOth, in the rains of ^Olsen's house, which was burned the night before. . *' ) Five armed men robbed the westbound overland, Southern Pacific train ijear Wilcox, Ariz., on the SOth." The express /company’s safe wak blown open with dynamite, which also wrecked the car, andTSlO.OOO In Mexi can silver was taken. Waro McAlistkk. the&well-known society leader of New York, died, oh the night of the Jlst, after V week’s , illness with la grippe. a eV GoU^withdra wals^on the 31st, *reduced the treasury gold ^reserve to 542,861,966, of which $1,920,000 was for export.

!, The dedication of the ruilman (Umversalist) church, erected at Albion, N. Y., by George M. I*uRman at a cost of S3&000, in memory of) his parents, and also the installation Services of the future pastor. Rev. Charles E. Fhihrer, D. I)., occurred on the 3 let. Rev. Roj'al H. Pullraaq, of Baltimore^ delivered the dedicatory sermon. X , Emil Staxg, the conservative leader qf Norway, and " his cabinet, resigned their offices on. the 31st. A London financial iijrm of high repute received from a New*York house, on the^/Sls^an inquiry whether it would be possible to place in London a large number of 4 or Si per cent. United States bonds. The reply was that such bonds would not be taken unless containing a clearly-defined guarantee of <payinent in gold. j The members of the* Memphis Merchants’ exchange held a meeting, on t^c 1st, and passed resolutions indorsing the president’s message and calling on the Tennessee delegation in congress, regardless of party affiliations, to support a law embodying the president’s ideas. 1)r. Julius Koiil, member of the Illinois state board of health, and Deputy Sheriff Ragland, of Belleville, wpnt to Madison, on the 1st, and closed the racetrack there on account of the prevalence qf smallpox. Secretary Gresuam, on the 1st, received a cablegram from United States Consul-General -Jernigam ' confirming the report of thcnbapturteof the great Chinese stronghold Wei-Hlri-Weiby the Japanese. „ 'i ^ It was reported, dn the 1st, that the Chinese still held the; island of Ling-King-Tau, near WeirHai-Wei, on which" are a number of government workshops defended by strong fort works. The North German Lloyds’ steamer Fulda, from New York. January 23, ran aground while going up the river * Weser. She floated at flood tide and proceeded to her dock. s> . The British steatner Ituni, from Demerara', January $6, for St. Michael and London, struck a rock near St. 1 Michael, qn the 1st, a,nd, upon backing off, foundered in deep water. / LATE NEWS ITEMS.

: In the senate, on the 2d, .the conference reoort on the fortifications appropriation bill was agreed to and a further conference ordered on the item in dispute. Mr. McPherson (dein., N. J.) gave notice that he would, on the 4th, call up his resolution to discharge the ,finance committee from further wonsideratioh of Mr. Sherman's djil't\‘‘to provide for a temporary deficiencv\f revenue.”...In the house, the sCnat^>bill reviving tlie rank of lieutenant gen-ft eral in the army, to be conferred upon! Maj.-Gen. Schofield. Was galled pp-Jmsi passed. The Pacific railroad bill was ; then taken up. ( . j \ The credentials of the Chinese peace envoys at Hiroshima Were found/mpon investigation, to be very imperfect and to leave them absolutely powerless to conduct binding negotiations. The Japanese commission refused at once to continue negotiations and,requested the envoys to leave the coufrtry as soon as possible. A Dispatcu from Che-Poo, on the 3d, said that the Japanese had captured the island of Ling Knng Tau, the last stronghold of the Chinese at Wei-Hai-Wei. The bombardment was terrific and lasted for hours. The Chinese answered it with unusual spirit, but many of their guns w^jre disabled early in the engagement. The Chinese government appropriated $1,000 to the father of Rev. James Wylie, the Scotch missionary who was murdered by Chinese soldiers near the Liaoyang mission early iii the war. The father has instructed the members of the mission to erect a chapel and hospital at Liaoyang to Mr. Wylie’s memory. A dispatch from Chin Kiang, China, on the 2d, said that a small hunting party from the American war shipConcord accidentally shot a native, and was overpowered and carried off by other natives. An armed force was sent to rescue the party, out had not \vet reported when the dispatch was sen t. . \ The weekly statement of the New York associated hanks for the week ended on the 2d showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $9,128,950; loans, increase, $183,800; specie, increase, $379,900; legal tenders, decrease, $12,645,700; deposits decrease, $12,547,400; circulation, increase, $51,000. CftARi.ES II. Manning, the wellkuown pool player, died, on the 3d, at bis home in New York, of grip. He was born at Alton. Ill,, thirty-seven years'ago.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The Cencnl Assembly. DOM abapouia Jml -A- Sebate—At after* bus made Wednesday by tae democrats to reduce the appropriation for the fetate Soldier * home from *100.000 to fTS.000, but without success. Senator (mm backer presented a bill Wednesday to create the Kankakee river commission of five members, whose business it *h«n be to remove obstructions, straighten and otherwise improve the stream so as to make navigation possible. The EveningNows. Tuesday night, used a term in an editorial'to the effect that the legislature is subsidized by the railroads vrtth passes, and no reform in the anti-pas* line could therefore be expected. Mr. AllLsotf presented a resolution asking for an investigation and authorizing the committee on rights and privileges to Investigate the subject The resolution was ^adopted An iintipass bill was introduced-by Mr. Harrise s, of Elkhart \ a HorsE-Bills Introduced: Radical an endmeets to the Evansville city charter: a libel and slander bill ‘modeled after the Minn sota law. It provides that before suits for libc 5 are ‘begun the newspaper or publishes shall lave notice of the same and that after retn« lion has been made the only liability „i for the actual damages sustained. The bill has the indorsement of several editorial organizations of the state, po deal and otherwise. To settle .county seat fig its by removing causes It provides JJtht to ii«'unties having towns or cities larger ths e the county sept, a court may be established I n the larger place for all purposes except ism s*afecting the titleeo real estate. \

Indianapolis. Jan. Senate—Tfcr sea.ate had cn unparalleled runolbusinqss'hursday "afternoon. Senator Bakerls bill requiring that street car companies houid furnish motor vestibules fofc their iiiotoE1men during the months from ^ovnmber to April was adopted without ay renting. vote Senator Sellers bill relating to the law of libel, and requiring that,/i :.stda|l •of a reasonable doubt, as at prC^etm isti 4hd for Bowers Republican contes Committee based/ majority upon th plaeedbefore the _ i»|iaV cation may be established on the pi•fy nderance of evidence, was also passed. /A jtiot her bill bearing Seller's name, and legalistnf! sheriffs sales where they were made^withqut appraisement of rents’ and profit} separately, was passed. This effec s sales made lo forty years past. The: bill of.senator gard. for the State Soldiers' Borne = aK/'raTayette. was made the special ordar fq Nx!:>ida morning.. \ , House—The hjrWse furnished an hour of in- ] terest Thursday morning when the committee | on elections made a majority and a minority report upon the findings in the Boweb-Mtller/ contested election case. The majority reported that they found that Bowers, the democratic sitting member, had been elected by ong vote. . the figures being f.SOi' votes , cast 4.903 for Miller, the Tne minority of the eir dissent from the ballots which were rnbers o,f the house. Indianapolis. Jan. 2*'-—Friday morning was spent in the introduction of ,new bins Among ^hose of greater interest was one creating the office of inspector of county offices. The inspector shall visit the various county officers when directed to do so by the attorney general, and shall report upon the amount of receipts, the condition of the records, etc., Bis pay shall be ^2.000 and expenses. except hotel or board bills.’ This was referred. A fee anc salary bill was introduced by Mr. Nicholson, providing for a salary system based on M.OuO for each county officer.and more for each thousand in excess of ten thousand population. During p discussion, Friday morning on the subject of building and loan associations, it was announced that the judiciary commutes has organized a subcommittee for the purpose of investigating the whole subject of these associations. There is a tremendous struggle going on between those opposed to associations which have an expense fund and, those which have not. The matter has begn h >tly argued before the committee on ways and means as well as judiciary. The report of the special committee ought to be nil of interesting reading. A bill was introduced by Mr. Karrip, of Eva isville. appropriating !$25.0t0 for the c mstruction of an institute for deaf at EVansv ile on lands donated by M. J. Bray and his s m. The Miller-Bowers contest went over until Tuesday, whe: special order. There is little will be seated. There will be the republican members of Tuesday night * election c; se it becomes the oubt that Miller , joint jpucus ol ae two houses on Indianapolis, Jan.-628—There was no sessions of either branch of the general assembly Saturday. The senate adjourned Friday " until Monday, hut Jthe house tried to get together Saturday morning. The call cf the roll disclosed the fact that a quorum was not present. and the house adjourned until Monday. Indianapolis. Jan. 29.—senate— senator Thayer died at Warsaw of paralysis Monday morning. Tbe senate mbt at 3 d'elocfc Monday afternoon, and passed appropriate resolutions on the demise of their fellow senator. Senators McManus. Broad, McHugh and McDonald was appointed a committee to attend the iunerai Adjourned. House—The death of Senator Thayer was announced Mpaday and out of respect the house adjourned. Indianapolis. Jan. 30.—Senate—The following bills passed Tuesday: Providing for the re-establishment of lost section corners: requiring non-resident plaintiffs to give: security for costs: legalizing the act3 of the council of Ijebanon. Boone county. Bills introduced: JFor the reorganization of the insane hospitalsoFtshe state: a compulsory education bill requiringinarents to keep their children between the a?b£ of six and fourteen years in school during thp. regular school term, and providing penalties: protecting blacklisted employes: providing for important amendments in the building and loan association act. House—The Miller-Bowers contest case, from the district composed of the counties of dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland, had another inning in the house Tuesday. It came up as unfinished business, and for an hour the house threshed over the old straw that it was thought had been disposed of when the case was up last week. The matter ended with the reference of the whole case back to the committee on elections. The foliowere passed Tuesday: Legalizing the issue of school bonds issued by the town of Shoals: fixing the bond of sinking fund commissioners at #1 O.OjO.

The 4-year-old child of Mrs. Hattie Jones, at Marion, was reaching for one of its playthings on the mantel above a grate, when its clothes took fire, and it was fatally burned. A diphtheria epidemic prevails near Middleburg. Eli Yajuan, of Xappanee, while driving/ a^ong the public highway, was struck‘and killed by a falling roe, felled by a woodcutter. Muxcie claims -2,000 population on the strength of the new city directory. Lebanon is all wrought up over high insurance rates, and a citizens* mutual company is talked of. “The Printer" is the name of a small daily in Evansville, published by those thrown out of work by the strike on the Courier. Alexander Cook, the alleged Michigan City smallpox patient, is dead. A Xappanee hardware merchant has been hrrested for selling a revolver to a minor. < A fine opera house will be built at Marion. Richmond has dedicated her $40,000 masonic temple. Two young fellows created a panic in the Free Methodist church, Clay city, the otlu r night, by challenging the minister to fight. They were arrested. ! Over 1,700 pieces of real estate in Brown county are advertise! for sale foivdelh.Quent taxes.

AFTER THE WRECK. Tfc* OHm« ud Vrmw of Ih* CnthU Rw-pcaded-Th* Elbe’s Ofilccr* Urnoanrrd for Th«-lr SdCihacM &n > Utter UUrci»-*u mt the Rl|htt of Pa»«pn ;cri In Their Core —No Hope of Other Survivor*. Loxdox, Feb. S.—It is understood that the officers and crew of the Crathie were examined yesterday by the British consul in Rotterdam. They will lea$e the ship and return forthwith to Aberdeen. Vevera. Hoffmann nnd Schlepp! denied emphatically thftt the Crethic remained signalling' for nearly two hours near the scene 6f the collision. They say that if she’had done so she could have fared many lives. Hoffman, whoyfras anjong the first to reayh the Elbe’s deck after the collision. did ^not see the .Crathie answer the^Elbe's signals. He noticed a small steamer, apparently the one that bad struck the Elbe, steaming away. As regards the behavior of the Elbe's crew, Hoffmann says:* ’‘^seized a lifebelt as soon’ as 1 got on deck, but a sailor demanded it,'saying that ^belonged to the crew. I gave it up with, the ^ remark: ‘Well, I hope you will’ save yourself.’ but he did not. The crew did tKei^best to keep the passen-. gers out of the boats.” t,.

Momnnnn was greatly emumereu -oy the loss of his wife and child. __ “I was" bom among Indians out west/.’ he said yesterday afternoon. **I liav$ gone through rough times with my family there. it. is all over with them, and, they have been -sacrificed by the carelessness of these men. I do npt value my own life now; I ban^hink on^y of my loss.” Mr. jHoffwann's description of the final settling ot the ship was vivid., ‘‘Teppld see her sinking rapidly as we pu tied away in, the small, boa a Heir ifoow went^teadily into Um. air - The deck grew steeper, ardyTcovJUd see the poor wretchesab >ard her climbing and crawlftig toward thejprpw, until suddenly all were engulfed.” Vevern said: “There1 was a lot of green hands in charge of the=lifeboats. They were so excited they filletk^pne boat, and then dumped all the occupants into the wfeteat—9be crew wymr boat were very reluetanJtto admit Miss llueclcer. Hoffmann and I dragged her in without any aid from the seamen.” Vevera and Hoffmann also attack Third Officer Stollherg and First Engineer Xnessel. They say that! both acted selfishly after the rer cue, and that Stollberg made no effort to command the boat, but gave the whole,responsibility to the steerage passenger Hoethen, who had been book on a French steamer. They speak highly of Boethen’s coolness and skill, and give him the whole credit fot managing the boat. * The company has booked Verera and Schlegel to sail on the/steamship Umbria to-day, and both will start this morning for Liverpool. Each has received 815 from the company, as they lost* everything with the ship. Many more smacks arrived at Lowestoft late yesterday afterpoon and last evening.,. They brought no news. The skipper of the smack Competitor, which returned last night, reported that he saw Thursday what he thought was a .mail bag and tried .to catch it with a boat hook. He missed it, and knowing nothing of the collision did not try for it again. • ' - Handbills distributed in Lowestoft saj that Consul Bradbeer will puy£5Q for the body of Walter Schnell, one o% the Elite’s first cabin passengers. The Shipwrecked Mariners’ society has sent a barometer to Skipper Wright, of the Wild Flower and £10 to his men, and the mayor of Lowestoft has opened a fund for their benefit. '^A ^lispatch from Vienna says that among the Elbe’s passengers were the Gutmann brothers, directors of a steam mill company in Kunchan, Hungary. The Gutmans had fled to escape arrest for forgery, by which they defrauded the company and the peasant shareholders of 3Q0.000 florins. They are said to have given asspmed names at the steamship office.

MONTHLY DEBT STATEMENT. A IImt; Net Increase In the Public Debt— A Turn in the Tide. l| WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The debt statement Issued yesterday afternoonshowsf a net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury during January, of $13,542,573.3a The interest-bearing debt increased $5,153,580; the non-interest-bearing debt decreased $314,172.50, and the cash in the treasury^ecreased $8,734,275.80. * . The balances of the several classes of debt at the close of January 31 were: Interest-bearing debt $684,323,710; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,792,690.26; debt bearing no interest, $882,'738,173.92; total, $1,069,049,573.18. The certificates and treasury notes offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury outstanding at the end of the month were: $578,777,914, a decrease of $11,356,190. The total ca h in the treasury was $761,470,332.77. The gold reserve was $44,705,057. Xet cash balance, $09,897,837.19. {J In the month there was a decrease in gold coin and bars of $42,252,577.78. the total at the close being $97,353,an increase of 776.27. Of silver there was $3,051,928.05. Of the surplus there was in national bank depositories $16,156,715.33, against $16,197,719.43 at the end of the preceding month. , DEATH OF HON. N. H. DAWSON. He was • Brother-ia-Law of President Lincoln.. • Montgomeuy. Ala., Feb. 2,—Hon. N. H. Dawson died at his home in Selma at an early hour yesterday morning. Ilev~was commissioner of education under Mr. Cleveland's first administration. Ue was born in Charleston, S. G., and is a descendant of Paul Hamilton, secretary of the navy in 1S12, and also of several early colonial governors of South Carolina. He was a' brother* in-law of President Lincoln, their wives being sisters

. THE WAS IN THE EAST, A Partjr of Amerlrxn Sailor* CBpt«r»d bf Chiucw-ChtnMe Kfoco Eovojr* Olwral* Ilml-TheObj-ct* the W*r Not yet llo* allxed—The fr'lghtia? at Hel-Uai-We»— The Inland of Uu*-K»as-TtB Capture#! by the Jap*. Losdos, Feb. 4.—The Central New* has this dispatch from Shanghai: “A Chin K»*ng dispatch, dated February 3, say& that a small bunting party from the American war ship Concord accidently shot a native on Friday and was overpowered and carried off by other natives. An armed, force was sent to Rescue the party. Nothing further was known of the affair when the dispatch left Chin. Kiang.” The Cbc-Foo correspondent of the Central News says that the firing at Wei-llai-Wef continues. The Japanese have not captured the Chinese deet or the island of Ling-Kung-Ta<L

Chlam r«M« Eatoti Discredited. London. Feb. 4s—The Central News correspondent in Hiroshima telegraphs '• under yesterday's date: Premier Cbunt-ftOand Viscount Matsu, minister of foreign affairs, had a second interview with^China’s peace envoys ( Saturday afternoon. .The main object^ of the meeting was to exchange credentials. The ministers .fotind the credentials of the envoyS"to be very imperfect and to leave them, absolutely powerless to conduct binding negotiations., They refused at once to continue negotiations and requested the envoys to leave the country’as soon as possible. The envoys will sail to-morrow op the steamship Owarimaru for Nagasaki, where they will await the arrival of the mail steamship for China They will be accompanied until they depart by^the..inspector general of poli«nrntF several assistant inspectors, who will prevertt any hostile demonstration oh the part of the people. „» 8. « - , The parliamentary resolution to approve all expenditures;' regardless of amount and date, is prefaced with 'the declaration that the objeetsof the war : have not been realized yet. The Central News correspondent in ~ WeLHai-Wei telegraphs, under date of February 1, via Talian Wan: “The Chinese war ships were much damaged in yesterday’s tight. After the Paiehiyaso forts capitulated, the Jgpane^e turned the captured guns against the Chinese war ships, hitting them repeatedly and forcing them to change' their position. _/ “A violent snowstornrio the afternoon of January 31 compelled, the Japanese fleet to remain inactive and thus frustrated the Japanese plan to, bring on a general naval engagement. The Japanese still hold the entrance to the harbor, 't > A Central News dispatch sent from Hai Chong on Friday"says that Viceroy Liu ]£ung Ti has arrived at Nt^v Chwang and will assume supreme command of the Chinese operations in Manchuria. Gen. Nodzu, tWJapanwe commander, expects to be attacked tomorrow or Tuesday., His spies report that there are^ about 50.W0 Chinese troops in, t,he neighborhood of Yeng Kow and New Chwang. . s • __-1. - The Last Stronghold of the Chinese at Wei Captured. London, Feb. 4.—A dispatch sent yesterday by the Central News Correspondent in Che-Foo says that the Japanese have captured the island of Ling Rung Tau, the feist stronghold of the Chinese ^at Wei-Hai-Wei. » The bombardment was terrific and lasted^for hours. The Chinese answered it with unusual spirit, but many of their guns were disabled early iu the engagement. Towards the close of the bombardment six Japanese ships landed marines, who captured the batteries. The fighting was severe, and many were killed and wounded on each side. As this dispatch is sent the two fleets are hotly engaged. ,._ Say They %ere Tricked by ^ meat. PARM^Feb. 4.-—The Paris edition of the Ht^ffd will publish a disprfteh to the following effect'concerning the reception of the Chinese peace envoys: j.' “The Chinese envoys declare that they were ignorant that their creden--tials were defective and their govern tiient plhyed a trick. It assured them that it had bestowed on them full powers, yet the documents did .not state the subject of the negotiations, and the envoys would have been compelled to refer everything to Pekin. Premier ltd remarked that China ’could not be very desirous of peace, to say nothing of the slight on Japan. »The latter would be willing to re-open Negotiations, however, when an embassy with full powers should be sent. V ■ Their Govern

Will be Applied to »tioort 1'urpose. Losdox, Feb. 4.—The Chinese government appropriated 51,000. to the father of Rev. James Wylie, the Scotch missionary who was murdered by Chinese soldiers near the Liaovang mission early in, Jthe war. The father has instructed the members of the mission to erect a chapel and hospital at Liaoyang to Mr. Wylie's memory. Important Xe«r» from Hawaii Expected. Sax Francisco. Feb. 4.—Hawaiian Consul-General Wilder expresses the opinion that tvlien the next steamer from Honolulu arrives there will be some very important news and that it will.be learned that the royalists have beep? taught a salutary lesson. The next steamh^ is the Australia, due on Wednesday. - _ A Pullman Strike Case Reaches the United States Supreme Court. Washington, Feb. 4.—The Pullman strike of last summer has reached the supreme court from the Pacific coast. W. II. Clune, A. T. Johnson and Isaac Riss were convicted in the United States Qonrt for the district of California for obstructing the passage of the United States mail over the Southern Pacific railroad at Los Angeles on the 28th day of June, and sentenced to pay a fine of one dollar each and to be imprisoned eighteen months. They appealed to the supreme court of the United States.