Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 46, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 March 1895 — Page 2

<S>tu§?iiu County Democrat K. UoO. 8TODP8, Editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - , - INDIANA. Col. Vox Hanxekix wax relieved from bis command in the Chinese army because the officials objected to the placing of military power in the hands of foreigners. Rev. Db. Ttoxt, ri New York, on his way to Greytown, is detained at Colon by a decree of the Nicaraguan government that ministers of religion shall not enter Nicaragua. The credentials of the parties to the peace conference at 8himono6eki were submitted, on the 20th, and found to have been prepared in due form and to opnferfull powers on both sides. Bbio.-Gex. Adam Badeau died suddenly in Bridgewood, N. J., on the night of the 19th. He appeared to be in his usual health and spirits up to the time of his death, which was caused by apoplexy. - The example of Mayor Pingree of Detroit, who last year farmed the vacant lots of that city for the benefit of the poor there, will probably be followed this year in Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Pa. It was reported, on the 22d, that the Japanese were making an attack upon the Pescadore islands, situated between Formosa and the Chinese mainland, and had already taken possession of the largest of the group. The failures in the United States, for the week ended on the 22d, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 278, against 244 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the failures numbered 35, against 50 last year. The Canadian Pacific directors decided, on the 20th, as a measure of retrenchment, to make a 5 per cent, cut in salaries up to 82,000 per year, and above that 10 per cent. All officers, without distinction, will be affected by the cut. There is reason to expect that Belgium will soon remove its prohibition of Canadian cattle, as the results of consular inquiries disproving the existence of disease have been communicated by the British government to the Belgian cabinet Oxe hundred employes Qf the Cleveland (O.) Ship Building Cb. went out on strike on the 5th. The company proposed to pay the old hands 82.37 and new men 82.25 per day. The strike was for a 82.50 per dajr rate. The strikers were employed id the boilermaking department lx the German reichstag, on the 19th, the leaders of the center party informed Herr Von Levetzow, president of that body, that their party would oppose the motion to tender the congratulations of the house to Prince Bismarck on April 1, the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of his birth. Db. R. J. Trippk, a leading physician of Chattanooga, Tenn., has created a sensation in the medical profession by curing, by hypnotic influence, a man who had been bitten by a mad dog. The wound was a week old, and the patient, was in a frenzied condition bordering on madness when the doctor undertook the case.

It was learned, on the sad, tnat tne cause of the remarkably low death rate from diphtheria at the Indiana Institute for Feebleminded Youth at Fort Wayne, is fairly attributable to the use of anti-toxine. Up to that date, out of forty cases, there had been only twelve deaths from the disease—a most remarkable showing. In view of the vast number of residents of Great Britain who derive incomes from the United States, the British foreign office has caused the publication in the Gazette of the terms of the new United States income tax law, accompanied by a notification that the time of declaration under the law has been extended to April 15. The prospect of serious implications which threatens the United States through probable European encroachment on Venezuela and Nicaragua has assumed a phase of such danger to the principle laid down in the Monroe doctrine, that a special cabinet conference was held at the White House, on the 20th, to consider the subject The decoration of the new congressional library in Washington, which is to be, when completed, =thfe finest and most costly building of its kind in the world, will be commenced next summer. Blashfield, Le Farge, Wedder, Carl Gutherz, Edward Simmons, George W. Maynard, William I. Dodge and Kenyon Cox have been commissioned to paint pictures for the building. . It is said of Cornell’s boat crew which goes abroad this spring to compete for the world’s championship in England’s greatest regatta, at Henley, on the Thames, that it is an American university crew, composed entirely of Americans; coached to row a distinctively American stroke, in paper boats made only in America and rigged according to American ideas, and to be carried to and from England on American line steamships. f Advices from Havana, received on the 18th, state that the commander of the Spanish cruiser Conde de Venadito reported that on March 8, while cruising off the eastern coast of the island, he sighted a steamer one mile and a half from the Cuban coast, heading for Maisi point. The cruiser signalled the steamer to stop but without effect. As the steamer proceeded at full speed the cruiser first fired two blank shots, and then two solid .shots. This is undoubtedly the vessel that fired upon the steamer Alliance.

CURRENT TOPICS THE HEWB DT BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. It is reported in Berlin that Count Herbert Bismarck will succeed Gen. von Werder, shortly to retire, as German embassido” to Rnssitu Joseph R. Herod, of Indiana, was, on the 18th. ^appointed to be secretary of legation of the United States in Ja> . pan. Mbs. Mafia Livermore, of Dayton, O., died of old age on the 19th. Had she lived Until April 27 she would have celebrated her one-hundredth birth* day. The secretary of state was advised, on the 19th, by the diplomatic representatives of the United States in the City of Mexico, that between 700 and 800 negro families had recently arrived from the United States at Hahua1:1a, state of Durango. Mex.. as col* onists, under a federal concession granted to W. R Ellis, an American citizen. According to Commissioner Lochren’s figures, issued on the 20th, pension appropriations are likely to remain at about the present rate for at least three years to come. The treason for the absence of any perceptible decrease is that the falling off, owing to deaths and other causes, is, for the present, about counterbalanced by first payments on new pensions allowed. After 1898. Commissioner 1Lochren thinks, the pension appropriation will rapidly decrease. By an explosion of gas in the Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron C!o.*s miDe No. 5, at Red Canyon, Wyo., on the 20th, some fifty men are believed to have lost their lives. Of the first twentythree bodies recovered many were burned beyond recognation, and no hope was entertained for those still in the pit. There were usually 150 men employed in the mine. A tornado passed over the southwestern portion of the city of Augusta, Ga., on the 20th, doing considerable damage to property. About fifty houses, mostly small ones, were wrecked. End a large, flour mill in the track of the storm was partly blown down. Barry Minks, 82 years old, was committed to the Tombs prison in New York city, on the 20th, on a charge of having stolen 820,000 from the banking firm of Pierpont Morgan <fc Co., while in the employ of the firm. On the 20 th Mr. Preston, director of the mint, confirmed the published reports of a shortage in the mint at Carson, Nev., placing the amount at 3,000 ounces of silver and 3,000 ounces of gold, of a total value of 860,000. The steamer Alfonso XIII. arrived at Guantanamo, Cuba, on the 20th, with two battalions of Spanish infantry,embarked at Barcelona. A. E. Butler, cashier of the Arlington national bank and alderman of Lawrence, Mass., committed suicide by shooting on the 20th. Mr. Butler was taken ill a few weeks ago with grip and had been suffering mentally. He leaves a widow and three small children. Lake navigation was practically opened at the ports of Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., on the 20th, by the tug Record. llv nvnl ncinn r\4 fka 1 arrrA ViIaiv.

ing engine at the Edith furnaces in Allegheny City, Pa., on the 19th, several buildings connected with the plant were demolished, but though the full crew of workmen were engaged at their several duties, not a man was injured. The south-bound vestibuled train on the Southern railway jumped the track, early on the morning of the' 20th, near Jackson, 6a., and was almost completely wrecked. No one was killed, and all the ^ passengers escaped without serious injury. Later adviqes from the disaster, in the Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron Co.’s mine at Red Canyon, Wyo., bn the 20th, place the number of killed at sixty. Of these fifty-one leave widows to mourn their untimely taking off, while the aggregate number of orphans made by the disaster is 250. The serious feeling that was beginning to take possession ofv the public mind at the somewhat complicated condition of our foreign relations, was greatly relieved, on the 21st, by intelligence that the British government had disavowed to Minister Baj’ard any intention of acquiring territory, in violation of the Monroe doctrine, in South America, and that Spain would prefer to accept the Washington view of the Allianca incident rather than risk a rupture of the friendly relations existing with the United States. The indicted New York police officials, Inspector McLaughlin; Captains JJonohoe, Michael J. Murphy, James K. Price and Jacob Seibert; ex-Captains Edward Carpenter, William F. Devery and John Stephenson, and ex-Ward-men Edward Glennon and' Henry W. Schili, appeared, on the 21st, before Justice Ingraham in the court of oyer and terminer for pleading. No demurrers were entered, and all pleaded “not guilty.” The trials will probably commence on the first Monday in April. The cargoes of two boats loaded with dynamite near Lobith, on the Rhine, exploded on the 19th. The number of killed is stated at twentyfive. A church in the village of Ellen was shattered, and fifty houses collapsed in Emmerich and Keeken. The Turkish government, after considering the matter for a week, decided, on the 21st, to allow the foreign members of the Armenian commission of inquiry to have their own interpreters. In consequence of this decision the various foreign embassies are sending interpreters to Moosh. Secretary Carlyle has appointed Wm. Martin Aiken, )»f Cincinnati, supervising architect of the treasury, to succeed Jeremiah O’Rourke, who resigned some months ago. Despondency over his defeat at the last election is said to have caused the death of Joseph , Jackson, who shot himself at La Porte, Ind., on the 21st. He was a prominent politician and t*vmember of the Indiana legislature i » * v ^-, ;: i -

Representative PoxndkxtbsvoX Warren county, the largest fruit grower in Indiana, says that the peaches are killed, but the small fruits are not affected to any serious extent The apple trees will, probably bear about half a crop. Emperor Wuxi am TIL has ordered, in honor of the memory of his grandfather, Emperor William L, that henceforth pensions shall be paid to all old warriors and officers, surgeons and other officials taking part in the war of 1870 who were wounded or are now in reduced circumstances. The jury at Birmingham, Ala., in the cases of ez-Uni ted States Commissioner W. H. Hunter and ex-Deputy Marshal Sandy White, charged with certifying to fraudulent accounts to the government, returned a verdict, on the 21st, of guilty. The penalty prescribed by law is a fine not exceeding 95,000 and imprisonment not exceeding five years. Col. Lerot 6. Weaves died at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 21st, after an illnees of four months He was the son of Philip Weaver, the settler of Selma, Ala. Col. Weaver at one time was worth nearly 92,000,000, but died a poor man. It is hardly expected that the negotiations for peace between China and Japan will be successful. The army is the dominant power in Japan and the military men are bent upon continuing the campaign. Fresh troops are being hurried forward. The wife of Col. B. F. Crawford, of Mansfield. O., fell in a faint while walking home from an entertainment, on the night of the 21st. and, striking her head on the curbstone, fractured her skull, dying almost instantly. On the 21st Secretary Smith decided the case of J. R Ditter and others against Daniel F. Stiles, involving the town site of Hartman, Okla. The decision is in favor of Stiles, and under it 300 or 400 occupants of the site will .have to obtain their title from him. Ex-Congrkssman Richard Vacx, of Pennsylvania, who bad been ill at his home, "in Philadelphia, with the grip for several days, died on the morning of the 22d, aged 74 years. The Arizona legislature lapsed through limitation jat42 o'clock on the night of the 21st, and adjourned an hour later in great disorder, having failed to pass the appropriation bill. Nearly all territorial institutions and officers are thus left without funds for the coming two years- Authorities agree that the only remedy lies in an extra session, which can only be called by congress next December. Some weeks ago the Gilliland Telephone Co. of Chicago was granted a franchise at St. Joseph, Mich., under which it was to charge $24 a year for the useof telephones in business houses. On the 22d the Bell Telephone Co., which had for years been charging 848 a year, announced a reduction to 918, andstill lower rates were expected to be offered. Peter Heick, who attempted to wreck a limited passenger train on the Nickle Plate railroad near Valparaiso, Ind., pleaded guilty, on the 22d, and was sentenced to a term of seven years’ imprisonment at hard labor. The government of New Zealand has agreed to be represented at the suggested monetary conference. The first batch of heavy side armor for the battle ship Massachusetts lias been completed at the Bethlehem (Pa.) plant, and a typical eighteen-inch haryeyized nickel plate, representing 613 tons of product, was, on the 22d, shipped to Washington for ballastio test.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the greater portion of Reed Bros.’ packing house in Armourdale, near Kansas City, Mo., on the 24th, in vo. ing a loss of something over SI.00>i.OOO, upon which there was an lsurance of $'750,000. The hog tmiluing, three-story, 75 by 100 feet; five ice houses, 150 by 200, and the storage building, four-story, 200 by 250 feet, and packed from top to bottom with pork, were burned before the progress of the flames w,as checked. During a severe gale in the south of England, on the 24th, three persons in London were killed and three others injured severely by falling walls. A race boat on the Thames was upset and its two occupants drowned, and many isolated cases of death in the storm were reported from the provinces. Several of the ancient and historic trees at Rugby and Oxford were uprooted, three of them being between twenty-seven and thirty feet in circumference. ' All but one member of Hose Company No. 3 lost their lives during the burning of the St. James hotel in Denver Col., on the 23d. The company, ex cepting the captain, was composed of colored men. The accident was caused by the floor upon which they stood giving way and precipitating them into the basement, where they were mangled and suffocate^ While returning to his lodgings in Shimonoseki, Japan, after having attended a conference with Count I to and Viscount Mutsu, Japanese peace plenipotentiaries, Li Hung Chang, the Chinese peace envoy, was shot in the face by a young Japanese who tried to assassinate him. How serious the wound inflicted was could not be learned. The statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended the 23d showed the following changes; Reserve, decrease. $3,452,275; loans, decrease, $4,351,600; specie, decrease, $2,453,200; legal tenders, decrease, $3,361,400; deposits, decrease, $8,449,300; circulation, increase, $70,800. Collis P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific, has been indicted by the United States grand jury in San Francisco, for violating the interstate commerce lav* Frank Stone, who accepted a pass from Mr. Huntington, furnished the necessary evidence. On the 23d the associated banks of New York city held $14,146,500 in excess Of the 25-per-cent. rule. Lord Clarence Edward Pagget died la London on the 23d.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. B. L. Benson, brother of Luther Bern •on, the tempotnee orator, died at hits home in Payette county. Son unknown miscreant burned tl • house and outbuildings of Mrs. Jam cut Caward, at Claysburg. Mtss Am Phelps, Plainfield, won first place in the oratorical contest in the academy at that place. Mbs. Helen Mhxbb committed suicide by drown inf herself in a lake near Valparaiso. Her husband having met with financial reverses is the cause assigned for the act. Quits a sensation was sprung in Crawfordsrille society by Miss Annette Rosebaum, a high school firl of 1? years, entering suit against Fri nk Dunkle, for 910,000 damages for breach of promise. Dunkle is 21. CoNducton Vak Soics, of Csmbri :lpa City, found in his train a complete set of burglar’s tools, packed in a leather case. They were left by two men, < irho left the train at Bluffton. They are supposed to have been the Roanoke bank robbers. An Anderson woman stepped .'on a needle, which has now disappear d in her foot John Van Dolah, a prominent citizen of Dillsboro, committed suici le by shooting himself through the lead. He had been suffering from an & hack of the grip. Madison business men have ljsised the Peach Grove driving park, near that place, and will turn it into a summer resort. Insurance men in the gas belt are investigating the risks on proper!yarn! may put up the rates. The omnibus barns of Holm in <!fc Reeves and the livery stable of Mi ddleton A Simeon, Marion, were destroyed l>y fire, the other morning, involving \ loss of f5,000. Partially insured. Five horses were burned and four sacks of second-class mail, which had been taken by a bus from the early morning trains, were destroyed. - • Sixtt headstones have been received at Evansville for the graves of soldier s of the rebellion. The Indiana, Decatur A Western will build a bridge over the Wabash near Montezuma. The preliminary tidal of four prominent men at Rogerton, resulted in their being held for trial for the brutal whitecapping of a woman 88 years of age and her daughter aged 50. One of the men is a justice of the peace. It Is no trouble at all to find a home for a baby in Logansport. The other night a plump baby boy was left on the doorstep at the home of Frank Hamon, a Vandalia conductor, and since then there have been over seventy women who have called and offered to adopt it. Mr. and Mrs. Hamon, however, are childless themselves and will probably keep the infant. Mrs. Coward and Abram Schwanniger, living in the suburbs of Jeffersonville, have received a Whitecap warning, ordering them to leave the place. Jacor Huber, of Indianapolis, a well known merchant, was killed by an electric car. The other day about noon, Elsworth Luckenbill, a 15-year-Old boy of Gosport, went ont hunting, and, not returning at night, the town was alarmed. A search was made throughout the country and the boy was found dead by a barb wire fence, with a large hole in the abdomen, the gun doubtless having been discharged while he was climbing the fence. John Collier, a hard-working hand in William’s saw-mill, four and onehalf miles southeast of Winchester,, met with an accident which cost him his life. He was sawing out buggy stuff, when a piece got caught and .struck him in the stomach. He only lived a short time. At Greenwood Mrs. Sarah Combs took an overdose of digitalis for medi

cine and d)ed. H. R. Whitmer and E. E. Drake, Goshen, have purchased D^xtell, full brother to Axtell, add will put him on the track. South Bend's police court is a good source of revenue. The cops raided two houses the other night and the fines amounted to $261.50. In a saloon brawl in Shelbyville Ed Skotski, a prize-fighter, threw a billiard ball and struck Albert Shutt on the head, fracturing the skull and, it is feared, fataily injuring, him. Skotski is under arrest. A shepherd dog saved two.boys from drowning at Peru. Col. Harrison Daii.ey, a Mexican war veteran, died at Columbus. Mrs. James St a vex s, residing in Tippecanoe county, several miles from 'Lafayette, was choked to death the other morning. Mrs. Stavens was seized with a violent spell of coughing, and in her paroxysms choked to death. >he was thirty-one years old, and leave s a husband and four children. Mrs. Agnes Harrison, 100 yean, of age, died at Jeffersonville. W. D. Sebring, of Portland, has been appointed supervisor of oil inspection for Huntington, Marion, Bluffton, Peru, Hartford City and Portland. At Terre Haute, the jury gave Frank Montrose, the diamond thief who robbed Strange’s jewelry store, six years in the state prison. He offered to plead guilty before the court, but the judge would not give him less than seven years. Montrose was captured at St. Louis. A ten-thousand-dollar damage suit against the Alexandria Gas Co. was brought by Jean Baptiste Griner. Griner charges that his infant son was recovering from lung trouble when the company allowed the gas pipes to freeze. The cold, he says, caused the child’s death. Little Freda Mahl, of Indianapolis, who was so terribly burned in November last, and who was saved by skingrafting, is beginning to gain strength rapidly. Another 250 square inches of skin were contributed by volunteers. Fulton & Finch drilled in a twohundred barrel oil well on the farm of Aaron Worth, near Portland.

CHANCE FOR TROUBLE. A State Department Ctalai that tha Franeh Gutcramcal Hu KxemxUd it* Authority. Washington, March SL—State department officials are'of the opinion that the French government has exceeded its authority in trying John L. Waller, ex-consul of the United States to Madagascar; by military court and sentencing him to twenty years imprisonment for complicity in the uprising of the native Hovaa against French authority. This is, of course, upon the supposition that the dispatches from Mauritius to this effect are correct of which the state department claims1 to have no information. In snch case, this government, following precedent, will protest against the manner of Mr. Waller’s conviction, for onr treaties with all countries, including France. provide that a citizen of the United States, arrested for complicity in insurrection shill bo tried by a civil tsonrt, unless he is captured with arms in his hands, in whieh case he may be tried by courtmartiaL John L. Waller is an educated colored man, who was born in Missouri in slavery and was one of several slaves confiscated by federal troops and sent to Iowa in 1862. He was then 111 years old. He acquired an education, became a lawyer and practiced at Topeba, Kan., up to the time of bin appointment as consul to Tamatave. He was deputy county attorney and a Harrison elector in 1888. His indorsements for the consulship were excellent aud his legal ability and i habits were praised. Waller was appointed to the consulship February 12, 1891, and served until February 28, 11893, when his successor arrived at Tamatave. v HELD UP BY ROBBERS. a Train Robbed by Five Masked Men at Victor, Col. Victor, Col., March 25.—Florence and Cripple Creek railroad train No. 6, leaving Victor at 9:50 p. m. yesterday, wis held up by five masked robbers jujit outside the city limits. The robbers stopped the train by getting on the engine and pulling revolvers on Engineer Pope. « The robbers then went through the .mail and express car, but found nothing valuable. The mail and express matter was not molested. The robbers then compelled the express messenger to take the lead and going through the coaches, held up several passengers, taking two or three gold watches and 'some money. No one was injured. The train was delayed about thirty minutes The railroad and express companies offer a ns ward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the robbers. It seems that two of the thieves boarded the train at Victor. One entered the sleeper and commenced immediately to wake up the passengers, relieving them of their money and watches, seuring $500 in money, including the Pullman car conductor’s receipts. The other robber got on to the ublind baggage” at Victor and climbed over the tender of the engine, lioldiug the engineer and fireman up and compelling them to stop the train at a poiift one aud one-half miles south of Victor, where four or five other robbers were in waiting. The latter party commenced work on the mail and express ca rs and soon had them open. The robbers were dressed in miners’ clothes, slouch bats and wore masks. They were jovial in their treatment of the trainmen, but hurried through with their work, enforcing their commands with a ready display of firearms. After the robbery, the engineer started the train back to Victor, but the robbers objected, and commanded the engineer to pull out south, which he did. All officials of surrounding towns were notified by the trainmen of the ro bbery at the first station. .

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. LI Hone Chant; Wounded by a Young; Jap. anese at ShimouoBftki. London, March 25.—The Central News correspondent in Tokio says that an attempt was made to assassinate Li ■ Ilung Chant; in a street of Shimouoseki yesterday afternoon. Li was returning from the peace conference, in which he conducts negotiations in behalf of the Chinese mission, and was accompanied by several of his suite. When he was a short distance from his apartments, a young Japanese ran up to him and fired a pistol in his face. The young man was seized and disarmed at, once by the police. At the stationhouse he gave his name as Koyama and his age as 21. According to the short report received in Tokio, Li’s wound is not dangerous. HOSE CON PAN YWIPED OUT. All But Oue of Its Member* Lose Their Lives at a Hotel Fire. Denver, Col., March 24.—All but one member of Hose Company No. 3- lost their lives at the St. James hotel fire last night. The company, excepting the captain, was composed of colored men. The dead are: j _ Harold W. Hartwell, captain. F. S. Erawley, lieutenant, Richard Dandridge. Stephen Mar tip. In company with four other firemen they were groping about in the blinding smoke in the rotunda of the hotel v^hen the tile and cement floor gave way, precipitating them into the basement, where the four unfortunates were mangled and suffocated. SWEPT 8Y A , STORM. Great Loss cl Life and Property in the South of London. London, March 24.—A severe gale has swept the south of England this afternoon and evening. Many houses have been unroofed. In London three persons; were killed 1 and three others injured severely by falling walls. A racfe boat’ bn ' the Thames wps upset and1 its two occupants were clrowned. Several of the ancient and historic trees at Rugby and Oxford have been uprooted

Y BRITAIN'S DEMANDS Vgwa KltuacM Merit Vary (inn Co—II i —tiaoootk* rwtol Ik* CaiudM—• —Oar BlxkU licdtr Um tUytoa-Bmlmr Trmty If ra4, Pn—tlug • V*ry 8«rt. ^sui Inlsr—t&x thu ■ ■laM—toMni Washing to s, March 35. —There is absolute authority lor the statement, notwithstanding' guarded and technical denials, that Great Britain’s demand upon Nicaragua is of such a character as to merit eery grave consideration on the part of the government of the United States. Inspection of the text of Great Britain’s demand, a copy of which was brought to Washington by Minister Barrios, theapeeu|l agent sent to London by Nicaragua, discloses the tfact that the conditions imposed upon this feeble and impecunious republic are harsh in the extreme. I Ureat Britain demands £15,000 (875,000) “smart money” to be paid down beforcfApril 16 next, for the affront to the British crown implied in the alleged wrongful expulsion of the British proconsul, Hatch, from Bluetielda. This is an imperative demand. There is no suggestion of arbitration or loophole offered for compromise or delay. C Next, Great Britain insists that the claims of Hatch and other British subjects for damages alleged to have been sustained shall be submitted to a mixed commission of three—oue to be appointed by Nicaragua, one by Great Britain and the third to be selected by them, but “not to be. a citizen of any. American republic.” This stipulation, as originally given V out by tbe Nicaraguan representatives, was “not to be a citizen of the United States.” This statement gave opportunity for a technical denial on the part of the British representatives, who said that no such undiplomatic and insulting discrimination hau been made against the United States. But, that Mexico, Chili, Venezuela, Brazil and other American republics are included with the United States in the embargo, does not render the fact that the United States is deliberately shut out from participation in a matter of » this great importance to the integrity of the American continent any less serious. Our interests iu Nicaragua, especially in regard to the problem of a trans-isthmian caual, are so great that "the presentation of excessive demands,; impossible of immediate compliance, « to be followed perhaps by the seizure of territory as a guarantee of payment, have brought the United States face to face with a complication which, taken in connection with the Vene- - zuelan boundary question, assumes importance of the first magnitude. The immediate question that may confront the administration relates to i the extent to which Great Britain shall go in enforcing the prompt payment of ‘this money, knowing that Nicaragua can spare no such sum from its treasury, which, like those of most of the La tin* American nations, barely suffices to meet current expenses. It remains to be learned whether Nicaragua can make the pecuniary apology required or give any satisfactory assurance of its future payment. Little doubt is expressed that Great Britain will seize something as security in case of a default, and nnder the terms of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty the United States will have a right to know in advance just what Great Britain proposes to Uo. » , No such serious international problem has been presented to a recent administration as the present one. Discussing the matter last* evening, a leading official said: “Great Britain’s exclusion of the United States from participating in the proposed arbitration is a distinct • and explicit recognition of the identity of interests of the United States and Nicaragua and of the influence of the United States on this continent, as well as a confession of Great Britain’s weakness among American republics. It is a statement in black and white 11 that England fears the influence of the United States over Central and South American governments and their inhabitants. The refusal to permit any umn in America - to have ’ the casting vote of a judicial tribunal involving only the small question of damages to a few mischief-making advisers of a miserable tribe of half-breed Indians, Y is a clear statement that Great Britain considers our national relations with Nicaragua as differing only constructively and in degree from our relations with one of our own states, and that in her dealings with the little republic she could no more than expect us to feel the deepest concern. “I may be wrong in my anticipations” said this official, “but I believe if the United States should demand an explanation from Great Britain of those words in its ultimatum, excluding ^ > American citizens, the reply would be that Great Britain desired to have a thoroughly impartial tribunal and that the question at issue was one distinctly between Great Britain and the American republics.”

Death of Po<«tm»Kter l>alttm of the lloaeo of kepreatutatlna Washington, March 25. —Lycurgus Dalton, postmaster of the house of representatives. died last night 9:45 o'clock at his residence in this city of bronchial trouble. Mr. Dalton was a native of Bedford, I ml., and a prominent democrat in politics, aud has held the oiliee of postmaster of the house through several administrations. He had been in bad health for some time. Mr. Dalton leaves a family, JOHN WFAHH Dying as the Result of an Assault by a Drunken Hoarder. Camdej*, X. J., March 24.—As the result of a quarrel over Mrs. McFarr last night, John McFarr, the husband, is dying at the Cooper hospital and Robert Baird, a boarder, is in jail. McFarr returned home after a day spent in bunting for work and found Baird and Mrs. McFarr in the parlor drunk. He told them to leave the house and went up stairs. He soon came down and was attacked by Baird with a botcher knife. McFarr can live but a few hoSra.