Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 April 1895 — Page 6

§?ifce Coutitij gmarrat X. McO, STOOPS, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - j « - INDIANA, Os the lat a treaty of peace was signed in the City of Mexico, he* tween Secretary M arise ai and the minister from Guatemala, thus averting the threatened war. The public debt statement, issued on the 2d, shows a net increase in the debt during Marcli, less cash in the treasury, of $18,320,105. Total cash inr the treasury, $797,287,589. The supreme court of Iowa, in an opinion filed on the 3d. sustained the constitutionality of the state statute for the regulation of the liquor traffic familiarly known as the mulct law. * The president’s family left the White House after luncheon, on the 8d, and took up their residence at Woodley, their suburban home, where they were joined by the president later in the afternoon. Fort Marct is to be reopened. Orders were received from Washington, on the 4th, by Col. Lawton, inspector general of the department of the Colorado, to establish his headquarters at Santa Fe, N. M., on May 1. The carcasses of several bullocks have been washed ashore at Tangier, aqd it is ascertained that they were among the number of cattle shipped on board the missing Spanish war vessel Reina Regente for food purposes. The Newfoundland delegates held their first conference with the Dominion government at Ottawa, Ont., on the 4th. Sir McKenzie Boavell was appointed president of the conference. The business of the meeting was purely formal. The Licking county (O.) building for the insane was burned before daylight on the morning of the 2d. Jenney Jacoby, an insane patient, gave the alarm, thns saving thirty inmates from death. The origin of the fire is not known. On the 5th Italy offered its good offices to bring about a settlement of the differences between Venezuela and France and Belgium, growing out of Xhe expulsion by the former government of the diplomatic corps of the latter countries. Bishop IIubst, Chancellor of the National Methodist university learned, on the 4th, that Rev. \ William Birch, lately a minister In Kokomo, Ind., left 130,000 to tli^ university. The money is to go to the /institution at the death at Mrs. Birch. S^The steamship St. Paul, which failed to move off the ways at Cramps’ Philadelphia ship yard, on March 25, will be launched on the 10th. Miss Frances E. Griscom will christen the vessel, and the ceremonies will be about the same as those arranged for on the previous occasion.

One hundred employes of the Cleveland (O.) Ship Building Co. 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 day rate. The strikers were employed in the boilermaking' department. Shortages approximating 890,000 had, up to the 5th, been found in the mint at Carson, Nev., by Supt. Mason ' of the government assay office, New York, in charge of the investigation. AH the suspected melts had not been examined. The shortage on one melt alone amounted to 832,000. Gen. Martinet de Campos started from Madrid, on the 4th, en route to Cuba., The members of the cabinet and a large number of deputies, senators, generals and other distinguished persons, bade him farewell at the station, the platform of which was packed with an enthusiastic throng. Mr. A. J. Bai.focr, M. P., in an ad- , dress before the British Bimetallic league in London, On the 3d, said that the time was not far distant when men of all parties would agree to introduce into international transactions some medium of exchange less hurtful to industry than the present absurd system. j The trial in London of the marquis of Queensberry for criminal libel of Oscar Wilde came to a sudden end, on the 5th, the marquis being acquitted bn his plea of justification by consent of Wilde’s counsel. On the same day a warrant was issued for the arrest of Wilde, and he spent the night in a cell. Miss Helen Gould is to be invited to be sponsor for the veteran Chickasaw guards, the famous military organization of Memphis, Tenn., in the coming spring drill. This compliment is extended to Miss Gould because her father authorised the society to draw upon him acl libitum during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. On the 5th Secretary Morton revoked the commission given to W. E. Von Johannsen, of California, as honorary representative of the agricultural department abroad, but not on account of the rumors connecting him with al1 ^ged sharp practices in San Franciscc *-and elsewhere, but because the credentials issued by the department had been misused in furthering private ends. The general opinion was expressed it the treasury department, on the 2d, that the rise in the price of silver is speculative rather than real, and that what is real in the movement is to be attributed to the prospects that the Chinese indemnity will be paid in sil▼er, rather than to any belief that the position of silver will be improved by the monetary conference, even should such a conference be held.

CURRENT TOPICS. THE 1FEWS H BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Two hex were arrested in Jersey City, N. J., on the 3d, who, it is alleged, had for nearly two year* been robbing the Unitud States Ex* press Co. It is roughly estimated that the amount stolen by them will reach 975,000. Wn. Stkkxbtr an n, the originator of the great cotton corner cl 1890, by the collapse of which he failed for over £1,000,000, died in Liverpool on the 2d. Tub Illinois supreme court, in an opinion filed on the 2d, decided the democratic apportionment of 1893 to be constitutional. David M. Stoxe, the venerable exeditor of the New York Journal of Commerce, died at his home in Brooklyn on the 3d. Letters have been received at the Spanish legation in Washington recently, from ex-confetlemte soldiers in the south offering their services to assist Spain in suppressing the rebellion in Cuba. Tub New York Marino Journal bas compiled a record of fires in American cotton on shipboard during the season jus^closed, ^ hiph extends from October 23 last to March 28. This record shows that forty-five conflagrations have taken place, as contrasted with only eight of any note in the previous seasons. It is probable that this season’s losses through fire in cargoes of American cotton will largely exceed a million dollars. Tub hope of a speedy conclusion of peace between China and Japan is weakened somewhat by the Japanese demand for the cession of a portion of Manchuria, a war indemnity of 700,000,000 yen, and that, pending full payment of this Indemnity, Pekin be occupied by the Japanese troops. — One busdbed pounds of giant powder exploded in the Ohio mine of the Mescal Mining and Milling Co., at Prescott, Ariz., on the Hd. Five men were working in the drift where the powder was stored. Three men were seriously injured, James Newlin. the foreman of the mine, being the most seriously hurt. The Brit'sh steamer Ethelred. while on her way from Boston to Port Antonio, Jamaica, by way of the windward channel, and when off Cape Maysi, Cuba, was fired upon by a Spanish gunboat The Ethelred stopped and was boarded and examined by officer^ of the gunboat, after which she proceeded on her voyage. Hon. \Vm. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, assumed the office of postmastergeneral on the 3d. The oath of office was administered by Chief-Justice Melville W. Fuller. Rev. Dr. Pastobfield, a retired Methodist minister of Philadelphia, dropped dead in the post office of that city on the 3d. Cause, heart trouble. While Mrs. Thomas Jones, of New Castle, Col., was preparing her ballot at a polling place, on the 1st, she fainted and fell, striking htr head heavily against the floor. She died in a short time, having ruptured a blood vessel.

The removal of young Lieut. Ybarra from command of the Spanish gunboat Conde de Venadito, which fired upon the American steamer Allinnca, is regarded in Santiago de Cuba as not being in any way due to the Allianca affair. He was only in command during the temporary absence of the captain. It was stated in Washington, on the Sd, that no contest of the will of the late Fred Douglass will occur. Mrs. Douglass will accept the personal estate given her and her dower right of one-third of the profits accruing fro all unincumbered real estate. Maj.-Gkn. McCook lias prohibited gambling within the limits or in the vicinity of any military reservation in the military departmen t of Colorado. The magnificent steamer Iron Queen was burned to the water’s edge, while lying at the landing at Antiquity, 12 miles above Pomeroy, 0., on the 3d. The only person wh<^ perished was Mrs. Mattie Holey, the colored chambermaid, who time and again helped lady passengers to shore, and finally ventured back once too often in search of property, and, her escape being shut off by the ilames, jumped overboard fend was drowned. Maj. Andrew Jackson Hamilton, aged 57, who was major of the Twelfth Kentucky cavalry, and who planned and superintended the famous tunnel escape from Libby prison, in which 120 Union soldiers effected their freedom, was assassinated in Reedyville, Ky., on the 2d, by Sam Spencer. Frederick W.. Griffin, assistant cashier of the North western national bank of Chicago, was, on the 3d, taken into custody at the instance of Bank Examiner John C. McKeon, by a United Stlffbs deputy marshal, a shortage of $50,000 having been discovered in his accounts. Gen. Thomas Hordon, a veteran of the war of the rebellion, died at his home in Philadelphia, on the 3d, aged 74 years. He served through the entire four years of the war, and was the hero of innumerable actions. In the upper house of the Prussian landtag, on the 8d, Baron von Manteuffel moved to refer to a special committee Count von Mirbach’s proposal to accelerate the settlement of the currency situation by means of an international agreement. The motion was carried without debate. The widow' of Alexander Dumas died in Paris on the 3d. Mrs. Paban, Stevens, who, with the late Ward McAllister, was for many years a society leader of New York, died of pneumonia at her home in New York city on the 3d Newton Walters, the 19-year-old slayer of George ami James Cox, was found hanging to s, tree, on the Sd, near Galena, Kas., a short distance from the scene of the atrocious double crime. ' ; .■' JSj,' M _ Comptroller Eckels, on the 4th, closed up the First national bank of Ravenna, Neb., and the First national ban'- of Dublin. Tex.

The Columbian liberty beV. was rung in Chicago. noon of the Sd, in honor of Rev. Samuel Francis Smith, author of “America*” Mayor Hopkins and Supt. Lane of the public schools were in charge of the ceremony. The ringing was done by a committee of school children, representing each state and territory. Edward Maxdetoxe was sentenced to a year in jail by United States Judge Sage at Cincinnati, on the 3d. Mandeville was postmaster at Springdale^ His salary was inadequate to support him, and he stole money from registered letters By a rote of 23 to 1, during an exciting session of the congregation of the Presbyterian church at Chaumont, X. Y.t on the evening of the 2d. it was decided to ask Rev. 'William Cleveland, brother of President Cleveland, to tender his resignation of the pastorate. It is reported that politics has been a disturbing element. William Davis, a farmer, near Valparaiso, Ind., is in a critical condition as the resul t of a vicious horse biting off most of his right hand and pulling out the tendons from the wrist. Bloodpoisoning is feared. Isaac A. Miller,-, a pioneer merchant and president of the Citizens’ state bank at Council Bluffs, la., dropped dead of heart disease in the Grand hotel .barber shop in that city on the 4th. A little more than a year ago the Globe iron works at Cleveland, 0., made a cut. of 10 per cent, in wages. On the 3d notices were posted in the works announcing a restoration to the old rate. Tiie Spanish steamer Ignacio de Lpyo, conveying 1,000 soldiers to reinforce the government troops in the island of Cuba, arrived at Havana on the 4th. Bertha Hptixet, aged 17 years, committed suicide, at Milwaukee the morning of the 4th, because her mother slapped her in the face when she returned home about midnight, and refused to tell where she had been. Joseph J. Willis, chief engineer of the Louisville (Ivy.) veneer mills, met a horrible death on the 4th. He was caught in a shaft of a flywheel making 200 revolutions a minute and was dashed against the wall and ceiling of the room until his body was a shape-* less mass, almost every bone being broken. O’Brien, the Ameri can who shot his companion, Waddle, in Paris, on March 27, confessed to Judge Franqueville, on the 5th, that he is really O’Brien, the American bunco steerer. This was the first admission of his identity that the prisoner had made, < A construction ear on a branch line of the Seeond avenue street railroad in Pittsburgh, Pa., became unmanageable, on the 5th, and jumped the track, killing one man and injuring another. A conscience contribution of $50 from Pittsburgh, Pa., was received at the treasury department, on the 5th, and was placed to the credit of the conscience fund. A. G. McLean, first mayor of Vancouver, B. C., died in that city on the 4th. He« was formerly a resident of Winnipeg, Man. In the British house of commons, on the 5th, the Irish land bill was read a second time without division. In an accident on the Bellaire, Zanesville & Cincinnati railroad at Whigville, O., on the 5th, four persons, including the engineer, were instantly kiled, and the fireman was fatally injured.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The supreme court of Kansas rendered a decision, on the 6th, in which hypnotism is recognized both as a defense and ground for conviction of crime. It was a murder case in which the active agent was acquitted and the man who exercised hypnotic influence over him, although not present when the crime was committed, was found guilty of murder in the first degree. ! ' The statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended the 6th showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, §516,475; loans, decrease, $3,085,800; specie, decrease, $1,107,700; legal tenders, increase, $769,700; deposits, decrease, $3,417,900; circulation, increase, $188,400. The revenue of the Dominion of Canada for March amounted to $3,748,153; a decrease of $1,000,00, as compared with the corresponding month of last year. The total revenue for the past nine months was $24,553,099, as compared with $37,345,845 for the same period last year. One of the biggest shipments ol grain ever taken at the price has been contracted for in Chicago by the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroad. It is said to cover 1,500,000 bushels of wheat, to be delivered at Liverpool at something below ten cents per 100 pounds. 5 A dispatch from Nishni-Novgorod, Russia, says that a half-built hotel collapsed in that city on the 6thc^ Thirty workingmen were carried flown with the walls and killed. The government architect who had charge of the work , shot himself dead with a revolver. Mr. J. Oust, M. P., editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, of London, after an audienoe with the sultan of Turkey, has been in vited by his majesty to proceed to %ssoun as a special, independent commissioner to investigate the alleged outrages in Armenia. United States Consul Theodore M. Stephen, at Annaberg, Germany, reports that the agrarian press of that country, in prosecution of its war upon American products, is now raising the cry: “Beware of American cracked oats.” The Roman courts have pronounced a decree of separation in favor of Princess Colonna, daughter of the American millionaire Mackay, who is also given the custody of her children. The associated banks of New York city held $13,929,935 in excess of the 25-per-cent. rule on the 6th.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. A. J. Pend a ix was the other day appointed postmaster at West Franklin, Posey eotnty, rice A- *. Schlaffer, resigned. Indianapolis ministers are preaching- against Sunday basebalL Gov. Matthews appointed John E. Cass, of Valparaiso, judge of the new superior court of Lake, Porter and La Porte counties. The Sheridan brick works, which recently burned, will be rebuilt at once, with a capacity of 30,000 a. day. The employes of the Kelly ax works, at Alexandria, 200 in number, hare gone on a strike because the company prohibited the formation of a union among them. Several houses were blown down in Lawrenceburg, by an explosion of powder in stock. The loss was about 923,000, but no one was hurt, R. T. Sailort, near Wabash, hits a ewe which, on January, 10 dropped a lamb. On March 28. two months and e ighteen days later she gave birth to two lambs, both of them very small, but healthy and frisky. Breeders say they hare never known of a parallel case. Kokomo Odd Fellows have decided to erect a 915,000 building the present season. Other business buildings, costing in all about $50,000, will also go up this year. The beech trees throughout Wabash county are dying. Many of them, farmers say, will not put out leaves this spring, owing to the extreme dry weather. The young trees are suffering more severely than the old ones. Adolph Herrmann, a young man of Brownstown, is the possessor of an old and valuable violin. The instrument is of very antique make, an inscription in' Latin conveying the intelligence that it was made in the year 161(5, by Germonius, an old maker of violins at that (time. The instrument is one of rare . tone, and weighs only thirteen ounces. Herrmann contemplates selling it to some collector of rare fiddles. Fire destroyed the large stock barn belonging to Samuel Haldeman, of Wakarusa, together with contents and. four valuable horses. Loss on barn, $3,506: no insurance. Loss on harness. $1,650; insured for $750 in the Ohio Live Stock and Rockford Mutual. At Shelbyville William Dean played the good Samaritan act to a chap named Simms. The latter returned evil for good by stealing $140 from his benefactor. Marion Soldiers’ home inmates are besieged with grip Over one hundred vets are hors de combat for a time. A phantascope for photographing objects in motion, has been mvented by C. F. Jenkins, of Richmond. Five hundred head of cattle are being fed by the Columbus starch works for shipping purposes.

A Kokomo man, D. F. Cook, has in* rented a contrivance on the *plan of the “penny-in-the-slot” machines, by which stamps, postal cards, newspapers or anything of the kind may be obtained by inserting a coin. Jay Iveukies, aged twenty-eight, who was deserted by his wife, went to Michigan the other day and attempted to bring about a reconciliation. He was unsuccessful and returned home to Goshen much broken in spirit. The other night a pistol shot was heard iD the direction of his home, but no attention was paid' to it, and not until next morning was the body found. His clothing had caught fire from the pistol shot and his body was badly burned. The fire was then communicated to the fence, which was burning when found. Over 100 guests who attended a wedding in Brown county, says an exchange, contracted measles from the best man. The case against John Badders for obstructing the railroad during the strike last summer, was up for trial the other day in the Sullivan circuit court. The jury, after a brief consultation, returned a verdict for the defendant. The trials of the others charged with the same offense will go over until the June term. Geo. Reynolds, a -young man about 20 years old, committed suicide at Worthington, the other morning, by shooting himself through the heart. He left several letters, but gave no5 reason for the rash act. A sad feature of the case is that the day of his death was to have been his wedding day. -: In a runaway accident at Peru, a few days ago, Mr. and Mrs. T. Stout and Israel Minnie were dangerously and probably fatally injured. The runaway was caused by a dog barking at the horses. The discovery of a rich pool of oil south of Portland, and the opening up of good territory northwest in the last few days has added new life to the oil business, and has given the Jay county oil field another boom. Forty-five new wells are being drilled. Prof. W. W. Borden, of Jeffersonville, has received from York, Eng., a set of Audul on's “Birds of America,” consisting of four volumes of paintings and five of text and descriptions. The cost was .$1,123, and Prof. Borden claims it to the only set in Indiana. Indianapolis capitalists will incorporate the Franklin foundry and machine works. r Floyd county grand fiiry is investigating the .New Albany Banking Co.’s failure. A woman in black is haunting Shiilbyville. Orb's Lake, near Laporte, widely known as the angler’s paradise, is likely to lose its popularity as a fishing resort, as it is believed that the black bass and sunfish died during the winter, caused from the air being excluded by the thick and long-continued ice. Dr. J. L. W. Yost, a prominent Southern Indiana physician, dropped dead of heart disease at Mitchell, a few nights ago, at the l>edside of a patient. Pupils in Clinton township schools, Cass county, have struck on account of a disagreement with the teacher. They will not attend, bnt the teacher draws her sabiry just the same.

THE YAWNING GUUF Between Government Receipt* end Ex* pendUnres Far OuUtrlppta** the EtU* BMtf*, with Little Fraepeet of n Chang* for the Better Daring the Finest Yesr— Factor* Coo tH bat Inc to the Iuereseed Expenditures. Washixgtox, April 8.—From the last daily statement issued by the treasury 'department it appears that the ex* | penditures for the current fiscal year I to date of 280 days hare exceeded the receipts by $42,299,490, the totals standing: Expenditures, $2S4,3U2,osS; receipts, $242,093,195. These figures, which embody more than threefourths of the fiscal year, show that the receipts are running at the rate of $805,000 a day, and the expenditures are at the rate of $1,013,000 a day. If the same ratio obtains for the balance of the fiscal year, the ac- ! counts will stand: Expenditures, $370,475,009; receipts, $315,725,000. This would leave an excess of expenditures ! over receipts of $35,000,000. The exi penditures are pared down to the lowest limit of economy consistent with fixed appropriations made by law and are likely to be increased rather than diminished. The increases in this fiscal year hare arisen, from two principle sources, namely: Appropriations by the last congress made immediately available and the quarterly interest payments on the $165,000,000 of United States bonds issued Within fourteen months to protect and strengthen the treasury gold reserve. So far this month expenditures on the “civil and iniscellanous account,” the account that carries the principal items made immediately available by congress, are $300 in excess of the corresponding period last month. It is therefore to, increased receipts that the treasury must turn to bring the treasury receipts and expenditures close together and bear out the estimates laid before congress, which claimed at the end of the fiscal year the deficit, which is now 842,000,000, would then be only 820,000,000. Import statistics yesterday made public by the bureau of statistics hold out a hope that the increased revenues from Sugar duties may come up to the estimates. Indications of a general revival in commercial prosperity are also pointed to as promising equally satisfactory results from other sources of revenue. The question us to what amount of money will or will not be derived from the income law seems to be the only important doubtful factor left in 'the treasury calculations, aud this can only be solved when the supreme court makes public its decision in an authoritative way. This will probably be done to-day, but it is by no means an absolute certainty that the decision will then he rendered. On other occasions when purported abstracts of supreme court decisions have been published in advance of their rendition the court has withheld the announcement cd its conclusions for several weeks. I# it was not for the fact that great public inconvenience would result from speh a line of procedure, it might be regarded as extremely probaable that the justices would pursue a similar course in this case. The treasury has now a total working capital of 8187,000,000, with S1S,000,000 still owing from the bond syndicate. Treasury officials therefore think that the treasury will not become embarrassed, even if no revenue from the income tax is derived, and that it will not be necessary to issue any more bonds before congress will assemble next December and provide revenue from other sources.

THE PRESIDENT IN A QUANDARY Whether to Open or Not to Open the Yankton Sioux Reservation. Washington, April 6.—There is a possibility of some delay in the opening of th6 Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota for settlement. The president has had a draft of a proclamation before him for approval for same time, but does not seem inclined to pass upon it, possibly because of the numerous protests that have been received at the interior department relative to the opening' of the lands. Another matter that may cause delay is the fact that a number o: squatters are now on the lands and it may require the use of force to eject them. The people of the state are anxious for the opening^ and inquiries by letr te r and telegrams are received asking for information. OFF FOR NICARAGUA. TIM Coast-Defense C raiser Monterey Ex Route for Corinto. Washington, April 8.—The coastdefense vessel Monterey is expected to proceed down the Pacific coast to Corinto, Nicaragua, at the rate of eight knots per hour, although she may be pushed as rapidly as ten knots on portions of the cruise. On her acceptance trial, for four hours, she ran at the rate of 18.6 knots, but her coal would soon give out at such a rate. She will travel: 200 knots per day and she would reach San Diego, 451 miles from San Francisco, in two days and a half. Stopping there two days for coal, she should reach Acapulco, 1,493 miles further, in about a week, and after .two days for coal at that point ought to arrive at Corinto, 800 miles beyond, four days later, or a total of about fifteen days from the time she left San Francisco. A FARCICAL SENTENCE. Brom Cruelty and Immorality Not a Serious Offense in the German State. Berlin, April 8.—The case of Herr Leisle, who, as chancellor of the Cameroons. was guilty of gross cruelty and immorality in his relations with native women, was decided Saturday on appeal. The disciplinary court ordered merely that Leisle be transferred to another post and pay the costs of his trial. The higher court has annulled this judgment and has decreed that Leisle be suspended with half pay for three years. - - ' , , , ' v

PROMPTLY DENIED. «M» Kmine or «*• Wounded nt Chwnux ft Chine** Calumny - Why the Armistice «>• Violated. Loxdox, April A—The Central X«w* correspondent in Tokio says that the. stories about the killing of the winded at the battle of Tien-Chwang. emanated . exclusively from Chinese sources. The Japanese maintain that the wounded were treated by them with the customary humanity. A dispatch was sent from Hiroshima. > to Lieut.-Gen. Nodzn, commander of 7 the Japanese troops in Manchuria, briefly stating the accusations and. requesting an examination, lie tele- 4 graphed back that the stories were base calumnies. Letters written by three reporters, from headquarters,of three divisions, in Manchuria support this denial in. every respect. Lieut.-Gem. Nodzu reported front Hai Cheng on April 4 that Gen. Yi had sent him a message to the effect that, the Chinese commanders knew nothing of the conclusion of an armistice. Moreover, the governor of Liao Yang answered the notice of the armisticewith an insolent letter denying that . he had been informed of the arrangement. When Li Hnng Chang was told of the replies sent by Yi and the governor, he expressed deep regret. It is. supposed that telegraphic communication with the Chinese forces has. been interrupted. Mounted couriers could not have got from Fokin to Gen. Yi's headquarters in less than five days, and-, although sent, they probably had not arrived when the Japanese messengers went Into the Chinese camp. ‘ 4 The Tartar soldiers, moreover, are utterly ignorant of the civilized cnstoins of war and have no under- ^ standing for a trace.

CONDITIONS OF PEACE Proposed by Japan by Which All Marltli Nations Will be Benefited. London. April 6.—The Central News, correspondent in Shanghai states that the conditions of peace proposed byJapan, in addition to the independence of Corea, the war indemnity and the cession of Formosa and the Liao-Tung-province, including Port Arthur,. Japan requires, he says, that China shall allow the' unhampered importation of machinery into her territory, and the establishing and management of manufactures by foreigners. She mast pledge herself, moreover, toopen to the vessels of all nations the Yang-Tse-Kiahg river as far as Chung King Foo; the Sieng Kiangas far as Siang-Tip-Kien; the Canton river as far as Ouchoo Foo, the Yusung river and the canal as far as Soo Choo to the north and HangChu Foo to the south. China must remove permanently the Wusung bar and provide means to maintain and prove constantly a depth of water sufficient for large vessels, and the* cities of Chang King Fob, Oucho Foo, Soo Choo Foo, Hang Chu Foo and others to be hereafter agreed upon must be opened up to foreign, commerce. Japan emphasises the fact that shedoes not desire for herself commercial advantages that are not extended to* the other treaty powers. Saw Their Dauger bat Coaid Not Avert It, London, April 8.—The Central News correspondent in Tokio says that Lord. Li has been appointed envoy, with fnit powers, to Japan, and has formally accepted the mission. The Tien-Tsin correspondent tellsof the discovery of a secret memorial, dated 1882, in which many high Chinese officials had recorded their unanimous opinion that China should undertake the conquest of Japan, since the progress of western civilization among: the Japanese was threatening the welfare of the Chinese people. A FORGIVING GIRL tocures the Pardoa of the Man arhoTriedl to Murder Her and Will Wed Him. Lowell, Mass., April 8.—Henry P. Entwistle, a young machinist, sentenced in 1892 to fifteen years’ ia prison for shooting Maria Clegg with, intent to kill, has been pardoned through the efforts of the girl and wilt marry her. He and Maria had beenfriends for several months and finally became engaged. The father of thegirl broke the engagement because he thought that the young man was not industrious enough to support, a wife. 57 Entwistle was unwilling to give up> the girl, and on the afternoon of October 6, 1891, went into the Massachusetts* mill, where she was employed as. a weaver, ostensibly to see a friend. When the bells rang at 5 o’clock he joined the hundreds of operatives who* were going from their work. He had reached the streeet when he saw thegirl he loved in front of him. Drawinga revolver, he shot at her fonr times, the last shot taking effect in herlungs. Later he surrendered himself, and after a sensational trial was sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment. The girl recovered after a long illness. Daring the past months the. girl that Entwistle tried to kill visitedhim every two weeks. The efforts for his pardon were made quietly. Chief of Police Davis signed the petition at. the request of the girl. A marriage license has been taken out. It is understood that the young people are to* sail at oncfe for England,, i i! ITALY IN AFRICA, tiea. Baratieri‘8 Plans Approved by Premier CrlspL Rome, April 8.—Gen. Bara tier i, the commander of the Italian forces im eastern Africa, insists upon the permanent occupation of Adowa, which, he entered a few days ago, as well as other towns in the Tigre section. He says the Italians cannot secure themselves by any other means in their African possessions. Premier Crispi approves of B.irs,tieri’s plan, despite the financial burden which it will entail.