Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 41, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 February 1895 — Page 2

<Ehe|?ikr (Emmtjj fjraorrat X. MoC. 8TOOP8, Editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. A dispatch from Wei-Hai-Wei, dated the 13th, said that the Chinese generdl Tai committed suicide, on the 7th, In a fit of anger at the desertion of some of his inferior officers. The president, on the 15th, appointed Rt. Rev. Henry B. Whipple, D. D., bishop of Minnesota, to be a member of the board of Indian commissfoners, vice, Charles C. Painter, deceased. Thk district court of appeals of Washington declined, on the 15th, to grant an appeal from the decision of the lower court refusing an injunction to prevent tire collection of the income tax- | ^ Gen. James Neii. Methtne, a distinguished Georgian, who was the owner and for many years the manager of “Blind Tom,!’ the famous negro pianist, died at his son’s residence in Washington, on the 13th, aged 91 years. Senator McMillan (rep., Mich.), on the 13th, proposed an amendment to the sundry civil bill, granting to the state of Michigan for use as a state park, the military reservation and building on Mackinac island, Mich. The general executive board of the Knights of Labor in secret session in Philadelphia, on the 14th, decided to retain eminent counsel and combat the bond issue of President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle as unauthorised and illegal. i ■ According to the Berlin newspapers, the German emperor is studying the international laws regarding the protection of private property in naval warfare, and,entertains plans in reference thereto which will be a boon to the civilized world.

On the 12th Herr Libermann Von Sonnenberg, anti-semite member of the German reichstag. challenged Dr. Boeokel, who is a deputy of the same political faith, to fight a duel’ in consequence of some libelous ifemarks made by the latter in the course of an anti-semitic meeting. Congressman Dockery, of Missouri, on the 18th, handed Secretary Carlisle a draft for 8100, forwarded to Mm by a St. Louis banker with a request that it be deposited to the credit of the conscience fund. The banker was acting for a customer whose name was, of course, not disclosed. Mexico’s conditions have been peacefully accepted by Guatemala, who guarantees their fulfillment. The conditions will soon be published officially. Both sides have made concessions. The Guatemalan question is at last amicably settled upon an equitable basis between the two republics. r< Sib Thomas Roe, British member of parliament for Derby, gave notice, on the 14tli, that he would ask the government what information had reached them in reference to the imposition of the death sentence upon W. H. Richard, a British subject, for alleged participation in a revolt in Hawaii. Hon. Isaac P. Gray, of Indiana, American minister to Mexico, arrived in the City of Mexico, on the 14th, on his return from a visit to the United States, unconscious from an attack of pneumonia, from which he died at 7 o’clock the same evening. He was attended by his wife and son Bayard. Mr. Simpson (pop., Kas.) introduced in the house, on the 13th, a bill, providing that the statute of limitations shall not be interposed in any suit brought by any laborer, workman or mechanic in the court of claims against the United States to recover wages claimed to be due him under the eighthour 'law. The final preparations for the wedding of Miss Anna Gould to Count Castell ine, of France, have been completed, The ceremony will be performed quietly at the residence of the late Jay Gould, on March 4, by Rev. Dr. John Paxton, under whose religious auspices the whole Gould family has been brought up.

Tjbe eighty-sixtli anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, the 12th, was observed, this year, with much more than ordinary ceremony. AtAlbany,N. Y., Gov. McKinley; at Chicago, Henry Watterson, and at Bnrlington, Vt., Chauncey M. Depew delivered eloquent orations in memory of the martyr president. In numerous other cities club banquets were held. Mrs. Harriet A. Eskins, whose fatter reigned as king of Guinea, died at Lebanon, Pa., on the 14th, aged 111 yea-s. She leaves two daughters, Frances J. Eskins, of Williamsport, and Mrs. H. A. Baker, of Lebanon, besides forty-four grandchildren, thirtyseven great-grandchildren, eighteen great-great-grandchildren and fourteen great-great-great-grandchildren. M. Marcel Canrobert, son of the late^larshal Canrobert, and M. Hubbard, a member of the French chamber of deputies, fought a duel with swords, on the 13th, and the latter received a deep wound in the chest. The meeting was the outcome of M. Hubbard’s criticisms of Marshal Canrobert in the chamber of deputies during the debate on the proposed grant for a state funeral for tire marshal. The French line steamer La Gascogne, eight days overdue, and for whose safety the gravest fears had been felt, especially by those having friendsaboard,anchoredof Sandy Hook N. J., on the night of the 11th, with her steering gear out of order, but otherwise in good condition. The announcement that she had been sighted off Fire Island, which was telegraphed milever the country, was received with < a hding of Drofound reliftf.

jCPRBENT TOPICS. TEE HEWS IE BIJET. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. [Second Sos*ina.'| ‘ » the seuite. on the llUi, progress in the considention of the poet office appropriation bill was blocked by a discuss ion arising out of an amendment looking to the sbolttion of the southern fast mail, during which Senator Allen (pop.. Neb.) switched off Into a long speech relative to the elections in Alabama last August. asserting that on account of gross frauds therein perpetrated that state sras deprived of a republican form of government The poet office appropriation bill went over without a vote on the southern fast-maiil service item..... In the house almost the entire oession was devoted to consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, a number of amendments to which were adopted. Bills authorising the coinage of gold and silver at the Denver mint and for a 14,000.000 public building at Chicago wore passed. The diplomatic and consular appropriation bill eras sent to conference. , lx the senate, on the Ifth. all the private pension bills- on the calendar, twenty-six In number, and some half dozen hills of a miscellaneous character were passed. No progress was made with the post office appropriation bill, the question of election frauds In Alabama and direful predictions as to the future of the country “under the curse of gold pooling” being enlarged upon by Messrs. Alien (pop. Neb.) and Stewart (pop. Nev.) .....In the bouse the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was passed, as were a number of bills of minor importance, among the latter being one authorising the restoration to tbe public domain of certain live oak | reservations in Mississippi and Alabama, containing about 75.000 acres, which were origi- j nally set apart for naval purjioscs. Is the senate, on the 13th. Mr. Vilas intro- I duced a bill “to save the people of the United j States $16,170,770,” which proposes the issue of 3-per-cent, gold bonds. Mr. Sherman re-imtro- j duced his bill for the issue of 3-per-cent, gold bonds, and certtflcates of indebtedness payable “in lawful money.” The former was placed on the calendar, while the latter remained on j the table to be called up for discussion ta the j morning hour. Most of the session was spent j in further discussion of thei post office .bill, j upon which, however, no action was taken. | .In the house, whtle the session was principally devoted to cotisiderat ion of district of ! Columbia business, Mr. Van! \£oorhis (N. Y.) introduced a resolution requesting the committee on ways and means to report the testi- ! mony, evidence and statements made bv Secretary Carlisle before the committee regarding the recent bond contract. This was later embodied in the report of the majority of the committee, and a motion was adopted to allow the minority to present their views on the sub

ject on tne urn. In tbe senate, on the 14th. the amendment of the committee on appropriations to the post office appropriation bill giving the postmaster general fult discretion as to expenditures was defeated—39 to 17—as was the amendment for a 10-per-cent, reduction of the rates paid to railroads, and Mr. Vilas* proposition that the government shall own and manage the postal cars. The bill went over.In the house the entire day's debate upon the financial question but served to emphasize the fact that no legislation affecting the financial situation is to be expected from the Fifty-third congress. At the close of the debate a vote was taken on the joint resolution authorizing t he issue of 965,000.000 S-per-cent, gold bonds with which to replace the 3^-per-cent. coin lionds negotiated with the Morgan-Belmont syndicate in payment for the purchase of 3,500,000 ounces of gold, which was rejected by the decisive vote of 167 to 120. | In the senate, on the 15th, after further efforts to reduce the compensation of railroad companies for the use of postal cars and for fast mail service, the post office appropriation bill was passed. The agricultural bill was taken up, but not finally acted upon. House bill to abolish the differential on sugar was reported favorably and without amendment and placed on the calendar, with a resolution looking to the re-enactment of the reciprocity and sugar bounty provisions of the McKinley act and the reimposition of a duty on wool.In the house, after the passage of a few pension bills, the naval appropriation bill was taken up. A conference was ordered on the senate amendment to the house joint resolution extending, for- this year only, from March 1 to April 15. the time within which income tax returns may be made. An evening session was held for the consideration of private pension bills. -t PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mr. Thurston^ the Hawaiian minister. received' an official communication from his government, on the 12th, stating that up to January SO the court martial trying the insurrectionists at Honolulu had rendered decisions in twenty-two cases. Sentences of capital punishment had been delivered in sis cases, and of life imprisonment In fifteen cases, in some of which, also, fines were .imposed. On the 12th the pres ident ^approved the act to establish a national military Sat Gettysburg, Pa e Debs jury in Chicago was disced, on the 12th, by reason of Juror Coe’s continued illness, and the case was set for a new trial on the first Monday in May. Nine prisoners escaped from the county jail at Athens^ O., about 4 o’clock on the morning ?of the 11th, by boring a panel out of the inside door of the jail netting. i5ix of the nine are under indictment for felonies. Over sixty jurors and forty odd witnesses have been summoned for Vie trial at Fredericksburg, Va., of Morgan field and Searcy, the Aquia Creek train robbers, which has been set for the 20th. - Rev. L. C. Garland, ex-chancellor of Vanderbilt university, at Nashville, Tenn., and one of the best-known educators in the south, died, on the 12th, aged 85 years. The wife of Tax Collector Sanford, of Concord, Mass., with her attorney, called on ‘ the town treasurer, on the 13th, and paid him $15,000 in cash to cover up the entire amount of her husband's shortage. Senator Manderson, of Nebraska, whose term expires March 4, has been tendered the general attorneyship of the Burlington railway in Nebraska, and has accepted. Three men were killed and several others injured under the walls of a collapsed building at a fire in Lynn, Mass., ont he 13th. b The case of the attoiney-general of Illinois against the Pullman company was ended at Chicago, on the 13th, with the exception of the ‘filing of a printed brief by the attorneys for the company, and Judge Baker took the case under advisemen t. On the 14th the horse of representa- ! tives refused, by a vote of 167 nays to | 120 yeas, to order the Wilson joint resolution, authorizing the issue of $65,000,000 3-per-cent, gold bonds to substitute for the 4-per-cent,, thirty-year coin bonds sold by Secretary Carlisle under contract with the Belmont-Morgau syndicate, to a third reading, and thus disposed of the measure adversely.

A xatvral gas explosion wrecked the city building at El wood, Ind., on the 13th, mad caused several thousand dollars’damage besides seriously injuring three persons. Ox the 13th the mayor of New York officially announced the appointment of William Bookfield as commissioner of public works; Lee Phillips as secretary of the civil service board and its executive officer, and Francis M. Scott, aqueduct commissioner, as corportion counsel, to succeed Win. S. Clark. Sous of the striking glass workers at the Buckeye works at Martin’s Ferry, O., threw a dynamite bomb, loaded with sings, into the office of the plant, on the 14th, wrecking that portion of the building. The works, which gave employment to300 men, will be permanently abandoned. Rev. Fbaxklix Spauldixo, head of the Master Jarvis hall, the fashionable military school for boys in Denver, Col., was arrested, on the 14 th, for cruelly beating two pupils. Spaulding is the son of Bishop Spaulding, under whose immediate control the Jarvis hall is. A dispatch from Shanghai, on the 14th, said that the Japanese troops were reported to have arrived at a point five miles southeast of Che-Foo. Ox the 14th the president signed the bill for a new 94,000,000 post office building at Chicago. Joseph Ei.liott, who had been connected with the New York Herald since it was founded in 1835, died, on the night of the 14th. from pneumonia. He was the first sporting editor of the Herald, and a pioneer in the reporting of sporting news. The Chinese emperor has reconferred upon Li Hung Chang the yellow jacket, the peacock feather and 411 the other honors of which he had been deprived. His majesty has ordered Li Hung Chang to proceed immediately to Pekin, where he will be given an audience by the emperor. Thence he will proceed with all haste to Japan tc arrange terms of peace, s It is reported that Admiral Ting, the Chinese naval commander, and the general commanding the Chinese forces on the island of Liu-Kung-Tao. in the harbor of Wei-Hai-Wei. have

committed suicide. Chagrin over the repeated reverses of the Chinese forces is supposed to have prompted the twc men to ki}l themselves. Private Patrick V. Fagan, of Troop K, Sixth cavalry, Fort Leavenworth, met with instant death in Leaven worth, Kas., on the 14th, by falling down the Home coal shaft, a distance of 750 feet.* The man had been drinking, and it is not known whether his death is due to accident or suicide. Since making his declaration of absolutism, the czar lias received almost daily nihilist proclamations and threatening letters. It is rumored that a palace official has been arrested for placing in his majesty’s study printed pictures of the assassination of Alexander II. Three men met death recently on a strip of land added to Burt county. Neb., by accretions from the Missouri river, and the murderers cannot be punished, since neither Nebraska noi Iowa claim jurisdiction over the territory. ■' The public-school building of Lamont, la.,was totally destroyed by fire, on the 15th,while school was in session. Alfred Brown, one of the pupils, was fatally injured. An explosion of fire damp occurred in the Queen Louise mine at Sealerize, Austrian Silesia, on the night of the 14th, killing fourteen persons and injuring eight. *

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Ix the senate, on the 16th, President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle were roundly denounced by Messrs. Teller, Wolcott and others for their action in concluding the late bond issue contract with the BelmontrMorgan syndicate. The agricultural bill was taken up, the cattle and meat inspection amendments agreed to, and the bill went over.......In the house general debate pn the naval appropriation bill was closed; the post office appropriation bill was placed in conference, and the general deficiency bill, the last of the appropriation bills, was reported and placed on the calendar. Several, unportant bills were passed, and after an hour spent in eulogies upon the late Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, the house adjourned. t A wreck occurred on the Santa Fe railroad, 5 miles south of Guthrie, Okla., a few minutes before midnight of the 17th, occasioned by a head-on collision on a curve in a cut caused by the engineer of a cattle train disobeying his orders and running on the time of the Galveston express, loaded with Texas excursionists. The engineer of the cattle train was killed and several train men of both crews were injured, some of them fatally. None of the passengers were seriously injured. The statement of the.associated banks of New York city for the week ended the 16th showed the»following changes: Reserve, decrease, 5*252,800; loans, decrease. $1,204,600: specie, decrease. $841,200; legal tender notes, decrease, $41,600; deposits, decrease, $2,520,000; circulation, decrease, $136,400. Judge Pryor, in the New York court of common pleas, refused, on the 16th, to naturalize two Italians because they conld not spe ak English. He announced that foreigners who could not speak the language of the United States need not apply to him for citizenship papers. Edward Harrigax, Jr., the 17-year-old son of the comedian of that name, died, on the 17th, at his father’s residence in New York, of peritonitis. Up to a few days before young liarrigan had been appearing nightly as Granville Bright with his father is “The Major.” Ox the 17th Charles Fair, of San Francisco, received an anonymous letter offering to restore his father’s will, which was stolen some weeks ago, for $15,000. Ox the 16th the associated banks of New York city held $33,513,425 in excess of the 25-per-cent. role.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. ttsuxArous. Feb. ?.—S*kat*»—Wedu**» flay the senate passed a bill reflating the construction of suburban railways, and another regulating the appointment of special justices of the peace A bill eras introduced i« Ute senate to make it unlawful for any one to net as a detective unless a certificate and powers are obtained from the chiefs of police of cities or fromsheriffs. A bill was introduced aimed against the Roby race track. It authorises the governor to ask for a receiver for nay corporations transacting an illegal busiHoCsa—The judiciary committee of the house Wednesday reported favorably a bill investing the governor with power to remove n iiheriff who refuses to use his power to prenerve order. This is a stab at the Roby race true*, as a result of the governor's inability to have his orders against that institution put into effect. The judiciary committee also retorted favorably upon the bill to make it unlawful to discharge an employe because he belongs to a labor union. The election committee reported adversely upon Mr. Moore's bill providing for a separate canvassing board to act while the votes are being cast, so as to expedite the count, but the house refused to concur snd the bill went to the calendar for second reading. The Miller-Bowers election contest eras before the house Wednesday morning. A motion to withdraw the matter from committee and to decide the contest in the house was pending when the house adjourned. Indianapous, Feb. 8.—Senate—A fire in the Denison house, caused an early adjournment of both branches Thursday. Senator Crumpacker introduced a joint resolution calling upon the state librarian to turn over to the Fifteenth Indiana infantry a battle flag presented to it by the women of Laporte county for the regiment’s valor at Stone river. The Veteran'association of the Fifteenth Indiana infantry is to be the custodian of the flag, which must be kept in Indiana. The resolution was adopted and went to the house, where it is thewght it pill die. Hocse—Holloway'y bill amending the Evacsvansville charter was placed upon Its final passage Thursday morning under a suspension of the mles. The original bill had been modified in some of its provisions by the committee on cities and towns, and was passed in its amended form with only six dissenting votes. The rules were also suspended and Representative Remy's bill to tax greenbacks also passed. Representative Leedy introduced a.resoiution to investigate the alleged frauds in the granting of supplies for state benevolent institu

Uons. o zj Indianapolis. Feb. ft—Senate—The senate Friday received a favorable report upon Boyd's bill to require insurance companies to add the cash accumulations to the capital stock until the amount reaches $!00.000 and making dividends payable before that time unlawful. The joint benevolent committee went to Evansville to investigate the charges against Dr. Thomas, superintendent of the hospital. House—The housed spent the morning discussing the railroad pass question. It came to no conclusion, and the members continue to use the pasteboards. A bill to prohibit prizefighting at Roby was favorably reported. The committee on temperance in the house decided Friday to report favorably on the Nicholson bill, throwing ru strictsons about the saloons at Illegal hours. The vote was 6 to 2, and a minority rep: rt will be ~ made against it. The provisions ; inhibiting chairs and tables in saloons, was stricken out The bill gives the mayor right tq revoke licenses for repeated convictions t<pr violation of the law. Petitions signed by tho: sands and tens of thousands are pouring in upon the legislature for the passage of thebl .l. but the party leaders are against its politic il wisdom. The house referred the anti-pass bill to the committee on railroads, where It wil l sleep the sleep of the just Indianapolis, Feb. 11.—Senate—No session Saturday. House—Bills introduced: To am; nd the act, relating to public offences: to amend the election laws to appropriate (8.250 for the Woman’s prison and Girls' reformatory: to impropriate (15.600 for the purchase of boilers fc the same institution; providing for the conso idation of street railroad and electric light companies:’ to amend the tax law: to define the lei ighteenth and Sixteenth judicial circuits defining certain offenses and their punishment: An anti-pass bill: concernir ■ granting the rights of wav over public highways: to establish a state railroad commiss >n: relating to building and loan associ -tions; to j amend the common school act: oncerning licenses and fixing fees: amend the act defining who are persons of unsound mind; to amend the act under which cities are incorporated: amend the act regulating assessment of properly: to amend the law governing the organization of lean and safety de posit companies. Indianapolis. Feb 1"—Senate -The senate was without a quorum Monda . but that ♦fact; was kept from the record. Se at or Haggard introduced a bill providing icr a survey of the most practicable route for a ship canal from Lake Michigan to the Wabash river, the said canal to drai i in its course the Kankakee river." Tt * . caucus Monday night agreed upon a hill dei taring the present apportionment unconstitui Dual. and indorsed Wishard’s senate bill and Newhouse's house bill making an apportionment. House—MeGemth’s bill authorizing the county commissioners to issue bonds for the completion of the courthouse, of interest chieflyto Blackford county, passed the house under suspension of rules. Senator Cranor's bill provides for compensation of county officers by a system of fees only, and is bound to make a sensation before the session is over, as the party leaders are committed to a salary system and Cranor is said to be champion of the County Officers’ association. Speaker Adams is still ill, and Mr. Merrill remoms in the chair. In the house the age of consent bill was amended and the limit placed at IS by a vote of 61 to 8. The senate favors 16 years, and a compromise is probable. At the afternoon ses-ion. the F. M. Miller-A. J. Bowers contested election case was settled in favor of Mr. Miller, the republican, by a vote.

Of 40 to «. Ikdiakapolis. Feb. IS —Senate—Bills were introduced in the senate Tuesday as follows: By McLean, for the relief of four township trustees of Vigo county, who lost an aggregate of f’.OOO by the failure of Beach's bank: by Shively, to abolish the fee of 12 per cent, whic h the law gives the attorney-general for collecting the excess of school revenues i* the ha mils of local school officers: by Duncau. to provide a system for free libraries in towns and townships. Senator Lafollctte introduced a resolution providing for an investigation of the Indiana Schoolbook Co. This corporation sells the state all its books, and according to the statement of the late exauditor of state. James Rice, the democratic leader who knew the inside workings of the concern, no money has ever been paid in dividends for the reason that the profits are so large that a safer way to prevent the public gaining knowledge of the corporation's business is to divide the earnings in salaries. Horse—No business of importance transacted. Thu entire force ef deputy United States marshals from Indianapolis are busy now bringing1 in persons from all over the state who are under indictment by the federal grand jury for violating the internal revenue laws. Joseph Robinson, brother of CoL Williams Robinson, appellate judge, fell TO feet at Anderson and was perhaps: fatally injured. He was on an elevator shaft on the third floor of a furniture store when he slipped. Iarri.E Jennie Cramer, of Ft. Wayne, is paralyzed from the effect of swallowing several atrophine pills. • The Mishawaka postoffice has so increased its business that itis entitled to a seeond-class position. - Albert Gall, state treasurer, retired. after turning over his accounts to hiis successor, Fred J. Schulz, of Evansville The books balanced to the cent

HEROISM REWARDED. A Bt»w Uwgiwr ItoeM Alwort Certain Dntlk, Despite Bis Mother’* Ko treaties, to Sore o Moo Lathed In the Klnln( of o Wroth, Who Prove*** Bo Hi* Dorn Brother, Soppoeed to Hove Boon Dead. Nxmr York, Feb. 17. —The Sun this morning publishes the following under s London dote: Lomxj.n. Feb 16.—A thrilling story of Gei-man heroism ut sea which goes far to offset some of the reports regarding the loss of the Elbe, comes from Schleswig-Holstein.Oue stormy morning last week a fishing village was awakened by a gunshot off the coast. Hastening to the beach the people saw a ship wrecked on a reef a mile nway. The crew were in the rigging. A lifeboat - was run oat. butHarro, the leader of the crew. was absent. Eight men, however, rowed to the wreck. The crew were got into the lifeboat, with the exception of one who was lashed high upon a mast. He was half frozen, and as the storm was increasing and the lifeboat overloaded, it was decided that he could not be taken off. AVhen the lifeboat returned to the shore. Harro had arrived. He asked whether everyone had been saved, and was told that one remained. ‘T win fetch him,” said Harro. “will you go with me?” 1 The men refused, saying that it was impossible. j “Then 1 will go alone,” sAid Harro, and sprank into the lifeboat. Just at this moment his mother came running down, and begged him not to venture out, reminding that both his father and his brother had been drowned. Uwae was his youngest brother, and as he had not been heard from for years he was supposed to be dead. “For love of me,” Harm's mother begged, “don’t go."’ ‘ ; “But the man on the mast.” exclaimed Harro. “Are you sure he has no mother to mour n his loss?” Harro’s mother said no more, ami he and four men set out for the wreck,«which was quite under water. The waves were so furious that it was difficult to approach. At last the lifeboat reached it ami Ilarro climbed the mast and fetched the half-frozen man down. He was laid in the bottom of the boat and Harro bent over him and remained so until the boat was so near the shore that his voice could be heard. Then he waved his cap and shouted: “Tell my mother we have saved Uwae.”

THE WAR IN THE EAST. The Chinese Salcldeu—Chinese Forces Re. • poised with Heavy Losses—Terms of Surrender at Wei-Hal-Wei. Londox, Feb. 18.—The Central News correspondent in Wei-Hai-Wei says in a dispatch dated February 13 and delayed in transmission: “AdmiraPittfaccepted yesterday Admiral Tint’s proposal "for the surrender of the Chinese fleet. He requested the officer who conducted the negotiations for Ting to open the military port of Wei-Hai-Wei and return this morning to arrange the details for the capitulation. The officer came back early fo-day and informed Admiral Ito that Admiral Ting. Commodore Liu and lien. Chang had committed suicide. Admiral John McClure was the officer upon whom had devolved the duty of negotiating for the surrender. Admiral lto then sent a letter to McClure'as to the arrangements for the capitulation.” . The Central News correspondent in Tokio telegraphs under Saturday’s date: “Gen. Nodzu reports that to-day the Chinese forces under Generals Htu, Chang and Yihi were concentrated at Hai Chen from the Laio Yang. New Chwang and Yinkas roads. They attacked the city, but after suffering heavy losses, were repulsed. The Japanese losses were small.” From Port Arthur the Central Newa has this dispatch: “A detachment of Japanese cavalry occupied Ning Hai Chu on the morning of the 12th, without encountering opposition. Natives say that on the 9th the Chinese force at Hiinhcaton was divided into two parts. The larger one fled toward Fu Chai Shan, and the smaller one to Yen Tan. “On February 14, in the afternoon, Marshal Oyama reported on the state of affairs at Wei-Hai-Wei. He said that a proposal had been tendered to the Japanese flagship Matsnma to surrender the war ships and the remaining forts and their armament at Wei-Hai-Wei provided the. foreigners of the military force be released under a guarantee obtain**! from an admiral

of a neutral power- !;xhe Japanese ae* cepted all the conditions excepting1 the one concerning1 the guarantee and the agreement was concluded. “Marshal Ojama, confirms the former report of the suicides of Admiral Ting, Commodore Liu and Gen. Chang. AIL three left letters addressed to the flagship. The garrison of Liu Kung Tao was conducted beyond the Japanese line and was set free. The Chinese seamen will be treated in the same manner. The foreigners who werecapturedwilL.be taken to some more distant point and will be released there. Ihn«e Boys Cremated ic Their Burning Detroit, Mich., Feb. 18.—The home of Eli Sjeymonr, at Lewiston, was burned Saturday night. The three children, all boys, whore ages ranged trom 4 to 10, were cremated. Mr. and Mrsu Seymour were a dance when the fire occurred. OFF W4TH THEIR HEADS, The Chinese Emperor Orders Wholesale nerapiUtion of Ofllccr*. Losdox, Feb. 17.—A dispatch to the Central News says that ex-Got. Wang of Yunnan has leen appointed to relieve Li Hang Chang, as viceroy of Pe-Chi-Li in the latter’s absence as peace commissioner to Japan. The emperor has ordered the governor of Shan-Tung to behead all the eity officials and military and naval officers connected with the defense of Wai-Hai-Wei without reporting to the throne.

DISOBEYED ORDERS, And Paid th« Penalty w wants Ufa-A Ota. utrou Wreek ua the Hants r« Caaeed by a Collision on a Carve la a Cat B»tv«e* aa CxprmM and a Cattle Train—Many Per— mum Injured, Swine Patalty. Guthrik, Okla., Feb. IS.—One of the- ' most disastrous wrecks the Santa Fe has had for years took place tire tnilessouth of the city a few minutes before midnight Saturday night. The south-bound Galveston express left here a few moments late, heavily loaded with Texas excursionists, and. at 11:43 was roundingna sharp curve in a deep cut in a bend of Cottonwood river. Passenger Engineer Frey saw a shower of sparks thrown into the. air across the bluff near the other end jof the curve. He realized in an instant the sparks were from the smokestack of another engine, and reversing his engine, he leaped oat. into the darkness against the side of the cat. calling to his fireman to jump also, but before the latter could reply the north-bound extra came around the curve at the rate of forty miles aa hour and the two engines came together with a terrible crash, and were buried into each Other one-third their lengths. A dozen freight cars were piled into one great heap, anid the baggage, express and mail cars of the passenger train were completely tejeseoppd and demolished all in a moment. The scene was an a wful one. Added to the terrific noise was the escape ofr steam and the bellowing and plunging of hundreds of cattle, injured ormaddened by the’smell-.of blood, completely drowning the groans of the injured and the cries of thebadly-frighi-- *. ened passengers. The passenger coaches remained onthe track, but many of the gigantie Texas steers breaking loose from the wreckage would plunge madly in the darkness making it .dangerous for any one to venture out in the night to assist injured trainmen. lturied beneath the engines and crushed to death was Freight Engineer Charles Uppleby, of Topeka.,and lyingbeside his engine terribly burned and. * scalded was Passenger Fireman Pat, Condon, of Arkansas City, Kas.^ who was picked up for dead, but after several hours revived. He cannot live. A. Hahn, the freight fireman, has. his legs crushed and will die; James Morman, freight conductor, arms, brokenf Edward Kitchen, passengerconductor, hand mashed and body badly bruised; Express Messenger R. D. Beagle, of Kansas City, badlycrushed; Baggageman George Neville*, scalded; Harry Trower, of the Kansas City stock yards, badly eut about, head; Bridgeraen John English and H. A. Sprovv, bodies lacerated; Mail Clerk Hutchins, head badly cut. Three or four other trainmen were

badly bruised. Many passengers were badly braised and cut by broken glass, but none fatally injured. Justice'll. W. Scott, of the supreme court, was badly bruised*, as was Seuator Seott and Representatives Brown* Willing and Sutton. Seventy head of cattle were killed.' and many injured. The traek will not be clear for hours yet. and theloss to the railroad company will exceed $50,000. The stock train had been ordered to stop at Seward, three miles, -couth of the wreck, to pass the passenger. Why it did not wait will never be known, for Engineer lippleby who received the orders and had them in his pocket was instantlykilled. * KILUEIT^AT a crossing. An Kxpress Train Demolishes a Street Car —One Passenger Killed. Pittsbubgh, Pa., Feb. 18.—At 8:10o'clock last evening the Cumberland express on the - Baltimore & Ohio railroad, bound for Pittsburgh, collided with a Second-avenue eleetrie car at a crossing near Rankin station. There were eight passengers on the eleetrie car. . . Just as the car approached the crossing the trolley jumped from the wire. The momentum carried the car over the east-bound track, but it stopped with the rear end directly on the westbound track. While Conductor Median was replacing the trolley he saw the express approaching and called to the passengers to jump. All got out of the car safely, bnt Annie Kosack. a Slav woman, aged 18, became bewildered.raa directly up the track and was struck and instantly billed bjr the express* She had just landed from Hungary, and in a few- moments would have been, with her waiting parents at Braddock. None of the other .occupants ot the eleetrie car were injured.

ELEVEN DAYS OVERDUE, And the Steamer City of Sfc. Aafnstlne W111 Probably Never Keacli Port. New York, Feb. 17.—The steamer City of St Augustine, which sailed from Jacksonville, February 2, for this port, is now eleven days overdue, and there is very little chance of her1 ever being1 heard from again. The ship Constance, which arrived from Dunkirk to-day, reports that oa> February 11, when 220 miles southeast, of Sandy Hook, she passed through, large quantities of new pitch pine lumber, railroad ties and square timber, covering the surface of the sea fopmiles. The length of time the City of St. Augustine is overdue, and the fact, that her cago was identical with the material reported afloat in sueh larger quantities, goes far to strengthen the theory that the missing steamer has- . foundered. ‘ TOADYING AMERICANS Warned that They Caanot be Preseated ah the German Court. Berlin, Feb. 18. — Ambassador Runyon and Mrs. Runyon will be at homefrom 3 to 5 o’clock on Washington’s, birthday. The embassy has received recently numerous applications from. American visitors for presentation at. court. Mr. Runyon has answered that, - it is quite impossible to grant theserequests.. He is anxious to have this understood so as to prevent the disappointment of persons coming to Berlinto be introduced to the emoeror.