Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 44, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 March 1895 — Page 2

Chf gilt* (Eountg Ikmortat X. McO. ETOOP8, Editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBUBG. - - - INDIANA. T Mbs. Mouxsbu. Bkadhubst. of New Jersey, was presented to Queen Victoria at a drawingroom held by the latter at Buckingham palace on the 5th. r Mb. Petijtck. American tutor to the children of Li Hung Chang, has been appointed private adviser of the interpreters who will accompany the Chinese peace commission. Oir the 8th the Spanish chamber of deputies adopted a bill granting the government unlimited credit for the purpose of conducting the campaign against the insurgents in Cuba. BankxKs of the City of Mexico are becoming apprehensive of the currency situation in the United States, and several important houses refuse to purchase drafts on New York when not ■Bade expressly payable in {fmd. * The German reichstag, in committee, on the 8th, rejected the paragraphs of the anti-revolution bill imposing a penalty for public attacks upon religion, the monarchy, the marriage* system and the right to hold property. Thbbb are only 100 Japanese soldiers and three small war ships at Wei-Hai-Wei, the main army having pressed forward after the retreating Chinese, and were reported, on the 8th, to have reached a point west of the Liao river. Onb hundred employes of the Cleveland (0.) Ship Building Co. went out on strike on the 5th. The company proposed to pay the old hands 82.37 ^ud new men 82.25 per day. The strike fbr a 82 50 per day rate. The |^Pkers were employed in the boiler\ng department. . iHK Marquis and Marquise de Casiellane, Count Jean de Castellane, Miss (■Tiloyd and servants arrived in Niagara Falls, N. Y., late on the night of the 5th. On the 6th the party went for a long drive, taking in all the points of special interest on both the American and Canadian sides of the river.

The Spanish government has given assurances that American citizen. Jose Maria Aguirse, captured with other •rebels in Cuba, as well as two other Americans among the prisoned, will be tried bj the civil tribunal. All revolutionists who are Spanish subjects will be dealt with according to martial law. It was positively affirmed in Toronto, Ont., oh the 8th, that writs for a general election in Canada would be issued within a week and that the election would be held in ^bout a month. The liberals are confident of carrying the country on their trade policy. They promise to make sweeping tariff reductions. -*- Mbs. Baldikgton Booth, of the salvation Army, was, on the 6th, granted a ministers’ license by Probate Judge Ferris of Cincinnati. The document gives Mrs. Booth a right to officiate at weddings, and is one of the four legal constructions given in favor of the Salvationists in their efforts to be recognized as a religious body. Ik an attempt by two farmers to rob the bank at Adel, la., on the 6th, the cashier and a customer of the bank were dangerously shot by one of the robbers, after which they retreated. They were pursued by a posse of prominent citizens, and one of the robbers was killed and the other and four of the posse were wounded. There were seven cases of diphtheria reported at the Indiana Institute for Feebleminded Youth, at Fort Wayne, on \he_^7th. 'The sufferers had been isolated, and every effort made to prevent' a spread of the fatal epidemic. It was not known how many of the 550 inmates had been exposed, and there was much alarm at the institute. Frederick. E. Sickei.s, the actual inventor of the Corliss engine; of the apparatus for steering steamships by steam now in universal use, and of the , Sickels’ automatic steam cut-off, which revolutionized the steam engines of the world, and which is now an essential part of practically every engine, died suddenly in his office in Kansas City, Mo., on the 8th. The Lawrence county (Pa.) grand jury, on the 5th, returned two true bills against ex-Mayor Alexander Richardson, of New Castle. In one bill there were five counts charging bribery, and the other charged corrupt solicitations. Richardson, it will be remembered, settled an illegal liquor case brought before him as mayor for 8150. After the matter was exposed by a suit to recover the money be resigned his office.

At the opening of the wool sales in London, on the 7th, 10,070 bales were offered. There was a' moderate assortment, mostly of merinos. The attendance was very large, and the competition was remarkably good for an opening sale, being about equally divided between continental buyers and purchases for the home trade. Merinos were generally. 5 per tent, higher and the better qualities fully a half penny higher, but the heavy and wasty wools and cross breeds were, as a rule, unchanged. After the most desperate fighting yet recorded during'the present war in the orient the Japanese army under Gen Nodzu captured New Chwang on the 5th. After entering the eity their progress was stubbornly contested from street.to street, and it was only after thirteen hours’ fighting that the enemy was routed and the city captured. The Chinese lost 1,880 killed and wounded, and great quantities of rifles, ammunition, banners and provisions. The Japanese loss was somewhat above 200 killed and wounded.

CURRENT TOPICS THE HEWS Dr BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRE&l [Second Seasioo.1 Ur the senate, on the 4th. (closing session of the legislative day of the 2d), the Iasi; message of the president cong:*atulating congress on the conclusion of its labors, was received with outbursts of laughter in chamber and galleries. Little business was done except the formalities of receiving messages from the house requesting the signa ture of the'rice-pres-ident to enrolled bills and the announcing of such signatures. The last two of the appropriation bills were signed by the vice-presi-dent and sent to the president....In the bouse, after a recess from till a. m. until 8 o'clock, the time was spent In disposing of measures of minor importance, and in passing resolutions complimentary to Speaker Crisp, and at the fall of the gavel at 12 in. the Fifty- third congress was declared adjourned without day. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Crawford M. Kkjtdrick and his brother Charles, who have stood high in SL Louis business, circles, and who have had the entree to the best society of the city for twenty years, have suddenly disappeared, leaving an alleged indebtedness of $100,000, with very small assets. They are supposed to have gone to Mexico. Li Hung Chang and anite started for Japan, on the 5:,h, armed with full powers to treat for peace. All of his rivals have been dispersed, and the old diplomat is once more on the top rang of popularity at the Chinese court. John NurrKB, the engineer whose recklessness is be! ieved to have caused the Interoceanic railway disaster in Mexico, by which so many lives were lost, is said to have eluded the Mexican authorities and escaped into Texas. Thk United States supreme court, on the 4th, decided that it is morally and legally justifiable to entrap suspected criminals by means of deco; letters. It was reported in Wall street, New York, on the 5th, that the Union Pacific reorganization committee would dissolve on account of the impossibility of accomplish ing any results until after the next congress convenes. Thk Chinese war-ships captured at Wei-Hai-Wei have arrived at Yokohama, Japan, in charge of Japanese crews. The Japanese government will make every effort to raise and secure as prizes the Chinese warships sunk at Wei-Hai-Wei.

The treasury statement of circulation for February, issued on the 5th, shows a decrease for the month of February of 830,122,958, reducing the aggregate circulation of all kinds of money to SI,574,534,557, a decrease for the year ending March 1 of $116,000,000. The circulation per capita, based on 69,381.000 of population, has been reduced to $22.60. The last measure signed by the president, on the 4th, was the antilottery bill, in which a great deal of interest has been manifested. Prince Alexander Von Hohenloe, youngest son of the. German chancellor, has been betrothed to Princess Emanuella of Salm-Spraurifels. Statistics from the immigration bureau show a falling off of 40 per cent, in arrivals during the past seven months. The president left Washington, on the 5th, on the lighthouse tender Violet for an outing of a week or ten days for duck shootibg in the North. Carolina sounds. News from Havana, on the 6th, stated that the Guantanamo troops had attacked and dispersed the insurgent band under Berez Brooks at Luzo. Several of the band were wounded. The troops captured all their arms, ammunition, etc. The provinces of Puerto Principe, Matanzas, Pinar, Bio and Havana were quiet. South-bound steamers arriving at New Orleans, on the 5th, reported the burning of the little steamer! Laura Banks in the Tennessee ri ver with the loss of several lives, the victims all being negroes, excepting a lad named Knight, the 12-year-old son of the captain of the boat, who was in the boiler room when the fire started and could not escape. A perceptible shock of earthquake was felt at Wytheville, Va., at 9:45 a. m. of the 5th. The disturbance lasted half a minute, and manifested itself by shaking houses and causing windows and furniture to rattle. The city of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, suffered from a $4,000,000 conflagration, on the 6th, and but for the assistance rendered by sailors landed from American and British ships in the harbor, the whole place would doubtless have succumbed to the flames.

Otis R. Johnson, the Wisconsin lumberman and capitalist, died in Racine, on the 6th, aged 80 years, leaving an estate estimated as high as $10,000,000. He was a partner of the late Senator Stock bridge, of Michigan; Gen. Russell A. Alger and ex-Senatojr Sawyer, of Wisconsin. He owned millions of dollars’ worth of property in the California redwood country. Hkbb Schmieee, the German governor of New Guinea, committed suicide at Batavia, Jamaica, on the 6th, by shooting with a revolver. He was on his way to his home in Germany. Nobval A. Hawkins, ex-cashier of the Detroit (Mich.) branch of the Standard Oil Co., was found gui lty by a jury, on the 6th, of having embezzled 83,700 of the company’s funds. The defendant admitted taking the money, but claimed that he had invested 83,000 in the hope of increasing his earning capacity and squaring his accounts. It was claimed that he was not a criminal, but a failing debtor. An imperial edict has been issued abolishing the knout in the infliction of punishment in Russia. Hitherto the peasantry have been completely at the mercy of the local judges. The issuance of this edict is due to the fact that statistics were submitted to the czar, which showed that within the last ten years 8,000 persons convicted of petty thefts have died from the effects of the knout. On the 6 th the French government received information by cable from Zanzibar that the French had seized the island of Nossivey, lying south- >*<«♦ of M adagascar/

Os the 7th Public Printer Benedict dismissed 100 employes of the government printing office, the majority of them being compositors. The removals were caused by the adjournment of congress, which made a scarcity of work. Other dismissals will follow as the work of the bureau decreases George L. Shoup was re-elected United States senator from Idaho, on the 7th, on the first ballot. He received the entire Mormon vote. There was great rejoicing in Boise City after the election. Senator Shoup being exceedingly popular in Idaho. - • In the'British house of commons, on the 7th, Mr. Henry Gardner, president of the board of agriculture, promised that the government would make inquiry into the alleged packing of diseased meat in Chicago for export to England. The boiler in Kenney’s .sawmill, located 6 miles east of Hillsdale, Mich., exploded, on the 7th, demolishing the mill and instantly killing A1 Kinney, the proprietor. J f,. At South London, on the 7th, an unemployed plasterer named Taylor, having become despondent from long idleness, murdered his wife and five * children and then killed himself. Asskmblyjjax ItLAKK's bill abolishing capital punishment in New York was lost on final passage, on the 7th,

by a vote of ayes 26, nays 68. A boiler at the B. F. Goodrich company’s mill at Akron, G., exploded, on the 7th, killing John Vance and severely wounding John Somerville. On the 7tl» the directors of the American Sugar Refining Co. declared a quarterly dividend of 3 per een% The Cincinnati, Memphis and New Orleans paeket steamer Longfellow, in tow of the Hercules Carrell, struck a pier of the Chesapeake A Ohio railroad bridge at Cincinnati, just after starting on her south-bound trip, on the 8th, and went to pieces. Most of her passengers and crew were hurried aboard the Carrell and rescued, but after the disaster twelve persons were found to be drowned or missing. The big cordage works of William Wall A Sons, on Bushwick avenue, Williamsburg, N. Y., have entirely shut down, all the employes being discharged. The plant during the last few years has been controled'by the Cordage trust. It gave employment to nearly 1,000 persons. The steamer Rosedale sank in the Wabash river, near New Haven, 111., on the 8th. Onedeck hand was drowned and 5,000 bushels of forn was lost. The seventeen passengers were rescued. i--j At Louisville, Ky., on the 8th, the steamer John K. Speed was blown over the dam at the falls in the Ohio river and considerably damaged. Had she not righted quickly she would have broken to pieces. Police Justice QuiolrT, of Brooklyn, was removed from office, on the 8th, by an order handed down by the special term of the supreme court of New York. It was reported from Paris, on the 8th, that the difficulty between France and San Domingo had been settled. The woman suffrage bill was defeated in the California senate on the 8th. Burt and William Coleman, brothers, aged, respectively, 22 and 16, were shot and killed near Newkirk, Okla., on the 8th,fcby Cyrus Cowan, a contestee for the claim occupied by the two brothers. Cowan gave himself up after the killing.A cyclone passed over north Georgia, on the night of the 8th, which is reported to have caused much damage in many localities.

LATE NEWS ITEMSr The national convention of the American Protective association opened in Saginaw, Mich., on the 12th, for a three days’ session. The prime object is the consideration of the proposition for the formation of the independent American party, which, it is /.id, will put a presidential ticket in the fiela next year. The statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended on the 9th, showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $5,265,875; loans, increase, $5,125,000; specie, decrease, $2,368,500; legal tenders, decrease, $3,015,100; deposits, decrease, >170,900; circulation, increase, $30,000. Health Officer Wright, of New Haven, Conn., and Dr. J, P. C. Foster, me of the lecturers in the Yale medical school, gave orders, on the 10th, that every student in Yale university hould be vaccinated at once unless he could furnish proof of having been vaccinated within two years. Dr. Frederick Cook, tgip well-known explorer, has come forward with a new plan for accomplishing the conquest of the antarctic region. With a small band of scientists he expects to sail from New York September 1 next and it may be three years before the expedition returns. Fire destroyed the shaft house of the Old Abe mine at White Oaks, N. M., on the 10th, the dames communicating to the shafting in the mine which was r'Uso completely* destroyed. Eight of the nine men at the time in the mine were believed to have been suffocated. News was received, on the 10th, that China had been informed in general terms of the conditions upon which Japan will consent to peace, and that Japan had been notified that China is ready to accept these conditions and to sign a treaty. Pat Scliavan, aged 59, of Fall River, Mass., went to bed with a silver half dollar, a quarter and a nickel in his month, all of which he swallowed during the night and, on, the morning of the 10th, was found by his wife cold in death. A whale about seventy-five feet in length hnd evidently an old settler was killed off Nahant, Mass., on the 9th, by a picked crew of experienced men made up in Nahant for the purpose. The Alice rubber mill at Woonsocket, R. L, of the United States Rubber trust, and the works at Millville, Mass., resumed operations on the 11th. The associated banks of New York city held $32,788,630 in excess of the 25-per-cent, rule on the 9th.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The General Assembly. Indianapolis, Feb SB.—Senate—The sen. Me Wednesday moraine passed the caucus bill repealing the present congressional apportionment uid substituting the new apportionment. This was done under a party vote. The caucus bill a bolishing the board of monument commissioners was passed. The threatened bolt of the caucus by Senators Bethell and Seif la revenue for the reconsideration of the spoils action has died away. They could not secure enough republicans to Tote with them on poll tic a: measures and were frightened out ot their position by the general evidence of displeasure Hoes*—Another temperance bill, applying, however..only to cities not having a special charter, passed the house Wednesday morning. It is' Moore’s bill giving cities the right to license, regulate and restrain all saloons. etc., with power to designate the rooms in which the liquor shall be sold, and to exclude saloons from suburban or residence parts of the cities: also ip prevent screens during any hour of the day. iind to vest in common councils the right to define and abolish wine rooms. The committee of the house appointed to investigate the fraud by which the fee and salary law of' Tl was changed and made unconstitutional reported Wednesday, but could not fix the tlame on any one person. It then reported n re-enactment of the old bill slightly changed. The house passed a bill amending the election law so as to repairs four booths for voting at general elections and also providing a penalty for failure to provide curtains for the booths. A favorable report to place the state library under a library board was concurred in. The age of consent bill was reported hack with amendment in favor of making the age 18. Indianapolis, March l.—Senate—The senate passed a large number of Mils, among theci being Gilford's bill providing for compulsory education. It provides that children must go to shool nt least three months out of the year and if they have no clothing the trustees must provide It and also their books. The caucus bill regulating fees and salaries was passed. The selate also passed the military bill providing for an appropriation of 157,008 for the state militia, an increase of £0,000. Ho van—The house Thursday morning settled down to the appropriation of money. The direct tax bill for the support of the state educational Institutions was passed under suspension of the rules. This bill gives to Indiana State university at Bloomington a tax of onefifteenth of n mill on each <100. and one-twen-tieth each to Purdue university at Lafayette ( and the State Normal at Terre Haute. The tax will give the institutions about 90 per cent, more than the usual amount of appropriation. The house in committee of the whole passed the Appropriation of £91,000 for the Central Hospital for the Insanfe in this city. The Northern Hospital for the Insane at Logansport was given <90,000 for maintenance. . The house passed the caucus bill regulating fees and salaries. The law takes effect as to state officials on January 4,1896. and was made not to affect the county officials who were elected in 1800. and whose terms will soon expire. The bill abolishing the attorney general’s fee for collecting the surplus school fund was passed by the house Thursday evening. It is now ready for the governor. Thursday night the house was in committee of the whole on the appropriation bill, and it was practically adopted as reported by the committee, cutting down the appropriation of two years ago about £00.000. Indianapolis,'' March 2.—Senate—The senate Friday passed the anti-winter racing bill and the bill givigig blacklisted employes the right to recover for actual and exemplary dam

ages. House—The house. In committee of the •hole, Friday decided upon the following salaries for state officers: Governor. §5,000 salary, 1600 rent, §1,800 for private secretary; auditor, S 7,500: his deputy. #2,000; treasurer, 66.000: deputy, 12,000; superintendent. $2,500; state librarian. 61.500; reporter supreme court. §4,000: state statistician. §2,000; geologist, §2,500. ‘The house Friday evening passed the bill amending the election.law so as to require four booths, and to provide a penalty fOr failure to inclose booths with curtains. The bill appropriating §40.000 for marking the position of Indiana troops on the Chickamauga battle held was passed. Indianapolis, March 5.— Senate—Substi-' tute Senate Bill 105 was the special order for 10:30 o’clock in the senate Monday morplng. This was the bill introduced by the committee on corporations to take the place of Senator Board’s bill for the control of building and loan associations. The substitute bill provides for the abolition of the expense fund, the taxation of paid-up stock, supervision by the auditor of state, and an itemized statement of receipts and disbursements annually. Adopted. Senator Houghton offered an amendment providing that there should be no examination by the auditor of state except upon the application of three stockholders, and thp amendment was adopted. Senator Valle offered an amendment to appear as section 6. providing a penalty not to exceed 11.000 for the charge of a commission by any officer for procuring a loan for a stockholder. The amendment was adopted. House—The expected veto of the legislative apportionment bill came to the house Monday from the governor's office. The house passed the bill of Senator McGregor r^gulafing the employment of children in factories, and pjovidiag for the appointment of factory insjrectors. The house passed the bill of Senator Shiveley to prevent the padding of school enumerations, and also the bill of Senator Bird, fixing the salaries of the commissioners of Allen county at §1.200 a year. The house also passed the following bills Monday night: Raising the age of consent to 18 years: for the protection of song birds: providing that insane convicts shall be removed from the prisons to the insane asylums. The house defeated the bill to erect Bartholomew county into a separate circuit. The bill of Senator Stuart to exempt homesteads from execution, and also exempting §650 of personal property, was also defeated.

Indianapolis. March a—Senate—The senate Tuesday morning reconsidered the vote by which the Nicholson bill was made the special order for Tuesday afternoon, on request of the temperance committee, who promised that they would report upon it Wednesday morning. The congressional apportionment bill passed the senate. Senator Self, whose district has been sadly mutilated and who kept out ofc the caucus. voted with the democrats against the bill. It has passed both houses. The senate Tuesday afternoon passed the legislative apportionment bill, the congressional apportionment bill and the biM for the reorganization of the benevolent institutions. It passed the legislative apportionment bill over the governor’s veto. The senate committee on fees and salaries has agreed to a recommendation that the salaries of the judges of the supreme court should be io.OGft This is the amount the governor receives and every other- first grade state officer receives more. - House—The house Tuesday morning passed the legislative apportionment bill over the governor's veto, McCaskey's caucus hill amending the election law was passed. This places the republican bill first on the ballot, allows the name of a candidate having the nomination of two parties to appear on the ticket but once, allows each party to have watchers of the count and requires all ballots in dispute for distinguishing marks, mutilations or. if refused to be included in the count, to he preserved for six months as evidence in a contest: it also increases the voting capacity of polling places by adding one booth, making four in alL Valparaiso officials are warring’ on cigarettes. Bartholomew comity had a big fox drive recently. A Terre Haute man has gone insane because he couldn’t get work. Ax anti-Nicholson bill petition is floating around Brazil Bex Musgrave, Terre Haute, who five months ago murderously assaulted his mother with a hat&pt, has been sentenced to two years in prison. Musgrave could give no reason for the attack except that the impulse came upon him and he was not strong enough to resist it. J

TO THE SOUTH POLE. Or. Cook** X«w PIu for Accomplishing till* Coaqaent of the Antarctic Kegtan— K cpecta to Start In September Xext fora Tiro Yearn* Crate*—'Taluk* It Not IntP* ealble to Find People Laving There. Ji|*w Yoek, March 11.—*Dr. Frederick Cock, the well-known explorer, has come forward with a new (dan for accomplishing the conquest of the antarctic region. With a small band of scientists he expects to sail from New York September 1 next and it may be three years before the' expedition returns. This project was for the first time publicly announced Saturday evening by the doctor himself In an extended paper read before the geographical section of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Cook has succeeded in enlisting the active support of various scientific bodies and of private individuals as well in his scheme. There is no doubt that the sum necessary to ,fit and send out the expedition—935,000—will be completely subscribed within a short

time. Instead of employ in* a steam whaler. as last year's programme called for. Dr. Cook expects to secure two sailing vessels, sealers, of a boat 100 tons burden apiece. Sealers of this capacity are only 100 feet or so long, but they are staunch craft, fairly rapid sailers and superior for ice work. The provisioning will be for three years, although the intention is to return in twenty-four months. •S The scientific corps will comprise only five persons, including the leader. It will take the vessels three months to sail the 6,000 odd miles from New York to the Gulf of Erebus and Terror. The antarctic summer will be commencing when this rendezvous is reached. If a clear sea presents itself a further southing will be attempted. Otherwise the expedition will disembark. After erecting a substantial wooden house for a headquarters, observations will commence. Later on sledging parties will set out . over the inland ice to explore ad much of the antarctic continent as possible. For the first four months no lamplight will be needed. < ( No special attempt will, for various reasons, be made to hoist the Stars and Stripes to the top of the south pole. Incidentally it may remarked that the antarctic continent comprises an estimated area of 8,000,000 square miles, a sixth of the entire surface of the globe. So far as known the only inhabitants are icebergs, glaciers,' whales, seals, penguins and some other animals. In the course of his remarks Dr. Cook referred to the discovery by Capt. Larsen, of the Dundee sailing fleet, who found on Cape Seymour, in latitude 64 south, about fifty balls, apparently made by human hands, of sand and clay, and perched upon pillars constructed of the same material. “This is the first evidence,” said Dr. Cook, “of human existence in the antarctic. To my mind, human habitation on the antarctic shores is1 not impossible, nor do I deem it by any means improbable to find there an isolated tribe of men, feeding and dressing from the liberal sea farms.” At the conclusion of the address steps were taken to appoint a committee of the section,which will assist Dr. Cook to send out his expedition. Dr. Cook is still a young man, being under SO. In 1891-9$ he was the surgeon and ethnologist of Lieut. Perry’s first expedition to the north. He has gone to the arctic twice since.

CAPTURED A WHALE. An “Old Settler*’ Off the Maaeachuftetts , Count Captured by a Nahant Crew. Boston. March 11.—A whale about seventy-live feet in length and evidently an old settler was killed off Nahant Saturday by a picked crew of experienced men made up in Nahant for the purpose. Saturday’s whaling partjf sighted the monster about a quarter of a mile off shore and proceeding cautiously were able to get near enough to strike him just behind the head with a harpoon. The whale, suddenly stung, threw up his huge tail and disappeared in a whirlpool of green water. To the harpoon was fastened about thirty fathoms of line on the end of which was a stout cask. This was thrown overboard and in a moment it was whisked out of sight by the whale in his efforts to escape. The whale came to the surface about a mile from where he had gone down, swimming round and round, seeming to have the twine wound round him. The hunters layoff and watched his struggles, which made the water

boil. .. After awhile he quieted down so that the whalers were able to pet within ten yards of him and put a charge of slugs and bullets into his head from an old-fashioned flint lock and a duck gun that soon had him floating belly-up and stone dead. The body was then towed to a point near Little Nah,ant beach, from which point it is the intention to tow it as close in shore as possible. The whale is evidently an old one, as he is half covered with seaweed. Deeply imbedded in his back was an ancient harpoon, badly rusted’ but with the inscription “HirsCm K. Swain,” Nantucket, 1853,” still legible. The Nahant whalers are in high glee, as there has been considerable rivalry between them and their Swampscott brothers over the prospective capture of the monster. AN INDEPENDENT yiCKET. Women for School Directors—Indorsed by tb« Populists. Alliance, O., March 11.—The women of Alliance held a largely attended meeting in the Independent church Saturday afternoon and nominated an independent ticket for public school board. Mrs. Anna Waugh, widow, a large real estate owner, was nominated on the first ballot, and Mrs. Julia Hunter on the third ballot. There was great enthusiasm. At a caucus of the populist party the women’s ticket was indorsed unanimously.

THE WAR IN THE EAST. Die Japanese, Attar Taktac Kln-Kao, Mar* Forward and Captor* the City of T*»Chantai—After Stubborn Flighting tk« Chinese Break mad Ran, Leaving Two Thousand Bond and Wounded on the Field—Japanese bam Slight. London, March 11.—The Central News correspondent in Tokio quotes this dispatch which was seat from Y in-Kao or New Chwang on March 7: i “The first division reports that the fort south and west of Yin-Kao on the left bank of the river, has been taken to the last ditch and redoubt. Two soldiers were blown up by the explosion of a mine in the Chinese line of defense. The Liao river is still frozen." Saturday Gen. Nodzu reported that his army, with the aid of the first division, had attacked the Chinese at Tenchantai that morning. The Japanese advanced from three directions, one force coming from the east, one from the northeast and the third from the northwest. A hot artillery fire was opened at T a. m. and under its cover the three bodies of troops stormed the town shortly before, 10:3Qi The Chinese numbered 10,000 or more. At first they fought stubbornly, but eventually they broke and rfin, throwing down their arms and making no effort to save standards or baggage. Most of the Chinese fled to the northwest Although the Japanese loss was but 100 killed, the Chinese left more than 3,000 dead and dying in and around the town. All the enemy’s war material was captured. The town caught fire during the fight, and before night was burned to the ground. Gen. Nodzu has been promoted to the rank of marshal. The empress of Japan will start for Hiroshima to-day to inspect all the military and Bed Cross hospitals. The Central News correspondent in Shanghai says that the Chinese are making preparations to. defend Formosa against the expected landing of the Japanese. The Capture of New Chwang Confirmed. Washington, March 11,—The Japanese legation has received the following dispatch confirming the capture of New Chwang: “Japanese army captured open port of New Chwang March A All the foreigners are safe.” WHITE-WINGED PEACE May Soon Supercede the Sanguinary Scenes Being Enacted in China. Tokio, March 10.—China has been ^formed in general terms of the conditions upon which Japan will consent to peace. Japan has been notified that China is ready to accept these conditions and to sign a treaty. The correspondence, by means of which this agreement was arrived at, \vas earned on through the United States ministers to the two countries. Minister Edwin Dun at Tokio, and Min* is ter Charles Denby at Pekin.

THE NEGRO EXODUS. Alabama Fields Left to Care foT Themselves—Homeaeekers from North era- States. > Eutaw, Ala., March 11%—Within about forty days 500 negroes have emigrated from Greene county to Mexico and several hundred, are now awaiting arrival of trains to take them away. They are sacrificing their mules, horses, cattle, etc., to enable them to go, and renters are leaving plantations they have leased for this year. Owing to the late-date other renters cannot be obtained to make the crop. This means much loss to the landowners and to the railroads, as the corn and cotton will not be grown to freight away. Much excitement exists here among landowners over the negro exodus, but it is probable that a great deal of the land will be taken by emigrants from Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and other states, and about sixty homeseekers, from Tippecanoe count}*, Ind., are shortly coming to Eutaw to select and purchase plantations for their future homes. Owing to the excited condition of the white people it is not probable that further efforts will be made by the railroad' people or by the paid immigrant agents to induce the negroes to emigrat e to , Mexico.

ATTEMPTED TRAIN WRECKING. TUm Piled on the Track in Front of n Fast Express. Valparaiso, Ind., March 11.—Saturday night, just before midnight, the east-bound fast express on the New York, Chicago & St. Louis railroad struck a pile of ties oa the track about. fire miles west of this city. The engineer saw the obstruction too late to> stop, and the engine struck it with, such force as to kpock part of them, from the track and push the other 200 yards before the train could be stopped. The passengers were thrown frcrrr their seats, but none seriously injured. The engine had to be raised with jacksbefore the ties could be removed from under it. It is supposed to be the work of trains robbers, as numerous tracks were found around that point. This point is an ideal place for train, robbers, being in a deep cut aud away from any telegraph station. Twc well-dressed strangers were seen loitering in the country near there Saturday afternoon, and are supposed to have been implicated with local talent. AN INDEPENDENT PARTY To bo Formed, by the National Convention) of the American Protective Association. Saginaw, Mich., March li.—The national convention of the Americana Protective association opens to-mor-row for a three days’ session. The; prime object is the consideration of theproposition for the formation of theindpendent American party. State President Beatty says. “We feel onrselves strong enough now to form a party. We cannot tell what the platform of the party wil’ be until; it is framed-**