Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 April 1895 — Page 6

Ill -—-- M --- Chc^ikfCoimtii democrat -| X. Mod. 8TCOP8, Editor nd Proprietor. PETEKSBUBG. - -.! - INDIANA. .iTfl-J-....—,-r, The Chinese indemnity to Japan ia to be paid in silver in five yearly in* itallments. Acting Secretary Hamlin decided, on the 18th. that the sale of stamp albums containing fac-simile stamps is illegal. The Paris Figaro of the 15th publishes a report that Dr. Nansen, the Norwegian Arctic explorer, has found the North pole, ami that it is situated on a chain of mountains. The Japanese legation at Washington was, on the 18th, officially notified from the foreign office at Tokio that a treaty of peace between China and Japan had been signed at Shimonoseki on the 17th. , The colored people of the District of Columbia celebrated the anniversary of the abolition of involuntary servitude in the south, on the 16th, by n street parade and public exercises in Washington. The fifth international convention of the Young Women’s Christian Association of the United; States and British provinces, opened iD Pittsburgh, ' Pa., on the 18th, about 250 delegates being in attendance. The London Globe, op the 16th, as serted that Great Britain would refuse to aceept the answer of the Nicaraguan government to the British ultimatum, and would take immediate steps- to enforce her demands. The assembly concurrent resolutior submitting to a vote of the people a proposed constitatianol amendment providing for woman suffrage was passed by the New York senate on the 18th—yeas, 20; nays, 1. Minister Yang Yu, the Chinese representative in the United States, received official advices from Shimonoseki, Japan, on the 16th, informing, him that the protocols of peace between China and Japan had been signed.

Interviewed in Chicago, on the 18th, Vice-President Stevenson refused tc talk on political matters, and would not define his position on the silver issue, or answer general questions with regard to the white metal as a political factor in 1S96. ---i- * . Mrs, Mart Brown, a monogamian pensioner, died, on the 16th, at hei home 5 miles from Knoxville, Tenn. She was the widow of Joe Brown, a soldier in the revolutionary war, and was born in 1804. .Her husband died fifty-one years ago. Duke Albert,.heir apparent to the duchy of Wurtemburg, |vas seriously injured, on the 16th, by falling head foremost from his horse. He is suffering from (concussion of the brain. The physicians, however, ido not believe that his life is in danger. Unitei) States secret service agents arrested C. 0. Jones, a newspaper artist of Chicago, on the 18th, for complicity in counterfeiting two-cent stamps. Another man was also taken ■i into custody at the same time, but his identity was not revealed. IT was rumored in Findlay, O., on the 18th, that C. C. Harris had sold all his oil interests tci the Standard Oil Co. for $500,000. Harris refused to deny or affirm the report. He was the heaviest producer in the Ohio fields, and controled a vast amount of good territory. One hundred employes of the Cleveland (0-> Ship Building Co. went out on strike ott the 5th. The company proposed to pay the old hands $2.37 and new meh $3.35 per day. The strike was for a $2.50 per day rate. The strikers were employed in the boilermaking department. On the 16th Secretary Gresham, through Ambassador Bayard, informed Great Britain that this country will not permit, without protest, the bombardment of Greytown, and that the landing of 'English troops on Nicaraguan soil will be viewed as an act inimical to American interests. The treasury department has discontinued the collection of statistics regarding the production of tin and terne plates. The importations of foreign tin plate will be collated only in statistics regarding imports, as under the new tariff it is not deemed necessary to collect further information. A dispatch from Shanghai, on the 16th, spid that Li Hung Chang's son-in-law had telegraphed from Shimonoselg that * a peace convention had been signed, on the 15th, by the plenipotentiaries of China and Japan. Among the new terms mentioned is an offensive and defensive alliance between the two powers. The balance sheet of the Distilling and Cattle Feeding Co., prepared 'by experts employed by Receiver McNulta, was filed with Judge Showalter in the United States circuit court in Chicago on. the 16th. By this report it appears that during the ascendency of the GreenhUi faction the enormous sum of $1,139,443 disappeared from the treasury of the company and remains totally unaccounted for. The; stipulation in the treaty ot peace between China and Japan that the Chinese who had been captured by the Japanese and others who sold supplies to the Japanese troops in their mareh through Manchuria and Shantung shall not be punished by the Chi- # nese authorities, was inspired by humane considerations. It is the custom of China to behead such of her soldiers as fall into the hands of the enemy awd are afterwards returned to gb*ir own country.

CUEEENT TOPICS THE DEW£, II BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAU Ox the morning of the 15th the large livery barn of John G. Wilson at Tallequah, I. T., was discovered to be on fire, and, before flames could be cheeked eighteen business, houses of various kinds, four fine residences and fourteen offices were in ashes. The city is without waterworks or a fire company, and the fire was far-reaching in its destructive work, owing to a brisk southeast wind. Thb Vanderbilt-Iselin-Morgan syndicate, which has undertaken to defend the America’s cup. has decided to name the new yacht now building at Bristol the “Defender.” Owixo to a combination of untoward circumstances, the absence of the Marine band, a bleak day, turf damp from recent and firequent showers, the annual children’s festival, known as the Easter egg-rolling, in the White Bouse grounds at Washington, on the 15th, was not the usual success. Thb much-dreaded army worm has made its appearance in Logan and many surrounding counties of Kentucky. There are millions of them, and they are making a clean sweep of everything green that lies in their way. Thb new American loan opened in London,on the 16th,at 12134 and closed unchanged. ' As the result of the bursting of a water main the city of Pittsburgh, Pa., suffered a practical w|tcr famine on the 16th. The Ontario legislature was prorogued, on .the 16th, with the usual ceremonies The lieutenant governor in his closing address referred to the j electric railway act, and said it would I no doubt encourage the construction I of a system of light railways and thns | furnish cheap transportation for the | growing demands of the agricultural I and internal commerce of the country. Arthur, son of President L. C. Clark Seelye, of Smith college, at Northampton, Mass, a Harvard .post-graduate - student, was found dead on the rocks at the foot of a steep bluff on the south end of Mount Tom on the 17th. Two parties of 150 men were out searching Mor him. He had started out two days "before to explore the mountain. Miss Mary Vance, aged 74, who during the war was an assistant nurse to Miss Dorothea Lynde Dix, sister to Gen. Dix, was reported, on the 17th, to be dying as a dependent at the home of Mrs. Robert Williams, her niece, in Pittsburgh, Pa. She was one of the I most noted nurses in the Union | service.

The St. Petersburg correspondent ot the Frankfurter Zeitung telegraphed, on the 17th, that the French and Russian governments were about to convoke a meeting of the powers for the purpose of revising the terms of peace agreed upon by the Chinese and Japanese representatives. At the meeting of the stockholders of the Distilling and Cattle Feeding Co., held in Peoria, 111., on the 17th, J. B. Greenhut was deposed from the presidency and expelled from the directory. He refused to resign, and when deposed threatened to take the matter into the courts. The Cunard liners Campania and Lucania have been added to the list of subsidised steamers agreed to be held at the disposal of the British admiralty. In the event of war they will be equipped with five-inch breechloading guns and Nordenfeldt machine guns. I.avk shipments from Chicago to the seaboard began on the 18th, two steamers leaving for Buffalo with grain. Dispatches from places in Bagot, Stanstead. Shefford and other counties east of Montreal, Can., state that a severe shock of earthquake was felt about 11:30 a. m. on the 17th. No damage was reported. Notices were posted in the mills in New Bedford, Mass., on the 17th, ot a restoration of the former schedule of wages, following the action of the Fall River manufacturers. The bill reorganizing the board of public education in the city of New York, known as the “Compromise bill,” passed the assembly at Albany, on the 17th, by a vote of 77 to 37. The sailors of the Spanish navy have unanimously agreed to contribute a | day's pay to the relief of the families i of the men of the lost cruiser Reina i Regents. Dr. Joseph N. Dickson, of Pittsburgh, Pa., aged 47 years, a recognized leader among the skilled surgeons Of the country, was stricken with paralysis. on the 18th, and his physicians did not think he would live through the night. Andrew Johnston, colored, was carried under by an alligator and lost his life at Green Cove Springs, Fla., on the 18th, while endeavoring to recover a gentleman's hat which had blown overboard. The statement that the British foreign office declined to accept the reply of Nicaragua to the British ultimatum was made, on the 18th, upon official authority. The annual meeting of the Commercial Travelers’ Home Association of America, will be held at Buffalo, N. Y.. October ft * The steamer Ciudad de Cadiz, ‘with 866 troops on Iraard, arrived at Havana from Spain on the 18th. Maj.-Gkn. McCooiP, commanding the department of the Colorado,with headquarters at Denver, has been placed on the retired list. His retirement creates a vacancy in t he list of major generals, and in crsc it is filled by promotion of a brigadier general two vacancies will exist in that grade. Mr. Preston, the director of the mint, has ordered the 3353.000 in gold bullion and 150,000 ounces of silver now at the United States mint at Carson, Nev., shipped to the mint at San Francisco. The inference is that the Carson mint will soon be dismantled and its machinery shipped to Denver for use in the new coinage mint to he established there. ^

At noon on the 18th President Dim of Mexico, in the presence of fall cabinet, diplomatic corps and a large concourse of military-end civil personages, received Mathew W. Ransom, the new American minister. The customary speeches were exchanged. A dispatch received from Tolcio, on the 18th, says that, in addition to the places mentioned in previous dispatches, the Japanese are to retain possession of Wei-Hai-Wei, as a guarantee of the payment of the war indemnity. - . Waiter S. Hats, a State league baseball player, was stabbed and killed at Bloomburg, Pa., on the night of the l?th, by Casper Thomas, 79 years oML Hays threatened to murder the old man, whereupon the latter turned upon his wonld-be slayer and killed him instead. Jake Brooks, aged. 70, convicted of murder in the first degree in New York eitv in the early 60s, bat whose death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life by Gor. Seymour, died in the Aubnrn prison, on the 18th. A large hern owned by James Graham, 3 miles north at Madison, Ind., was burned at midnight of the 18th. Two valuable horses, twelve head of cattle, twenty tons of hay and a lot of agricultural implements were consumed. Loss, $10,000; insurance, 31,500. Lena Neal, the 14-year-old daughter of J. F. Neal, of Church Grove, Tenn., was bitten by a eat recently, and, on the 18th developed a violent symptoms of hydrophia. The cat had been bitten by a rabid dog. It was stated, on the 19th, on seemingly good authority, that the masonic orders in Indiana are to take an important step in the promotion of temperance by making the use of intoxicants at public receptions a violation of the laws of the order, and punishable by severe penalties. The British government has offered to Umra Kahn an asylum in India for himself, bis family and his suite on condition of absolute surrender,' and has also guaranteed that the tribesmen and their villages shall be spared if they offer no further opposition. , Patriots’ day, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, was generally observed in Massachusetts, \ on the 19th, although not in so elaborate a manner as it was last year, when the holiday was legally commemorated for the first time. ^ The National Academy of Sciences concluded its four days’ session in Washington, on the 19th, after deciding to hold its next meeting in Philadelphia, October 29, 1895. A number of papers on scientific subjects were read. Failures in the United States during the week ended the 19th, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 241, against 319 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the failures numbered 34, against 45 last year. Mast deaths continue to be reported in Maco, the Portuguese settlement in China, at the mouth of the Canton river, as the result of the bubonie plague which made its appearance there a short time ago. A dispatch from Seoul, on the 19th, said that a plot bad been discovered to dethrone the king of Corea in favor of his nephew, Li Shun Yon. The conspirators, including Li Shon Yon, were promptly arrested. A dispatch received at the state department, on the 19th, from Consol Brice at Matanzas, Cuba, stated that the two American citizens, Justo Genere and Jose M. Caraballo, - arrested at that place, April 6, were released from eustody on the 9th in* stant. _

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Samuel C. Amaya R, charged with defrauding the Shoe and Leather bank of New York of S20,0(K>, and who was arrested in Brooklyn, on the 20th, was arraigned in the Tombs police court on the 21st, and committed to await further examination. He is a brother-in-law of Samuel C. Seely, recently convicted of robbing the same bank of §350,000 and sentenced to eight years in the Kings county penitentiary. k John L. Waller, formerly United States consul at Tamatave, arrived at Marseilles, France, from Madagascar, on the 20th, aboard the steamship Djemnah, and was taken directly to Fort Saint Nicol, where he will be confined until transferred to the civil an1 thorities. Waller is accused by the I French of conspiring with the Hovas I against the protectorate in Madagascar. During a meeting which was being | conducted by Dwight L. Moody in the { Auditorium at Fort Worth, Ti t, on | the evening of the 21st, a violent storm arose which blew a large section of | the roof off the east side of the build* j ing. A panic ensued among the 8,000 persons present, and in^ the rush to escape front the place many persons were injured. Negotiations have been in progress several weeks, with Chicago as the center of the figuring, for the organization of an excelsior trust. It is proposed to organize a corporation under the laws of Illinois to buy up all the factories and operate them under a single management. Lord Alfred Douglass, son of the marquis of Queensberry and friend of Oscar Wilde, has written a letter to the London Star appealing for suspension of public judgment against Wilde, who he says, is now delivered up to the fury of a cowardly and brutal mob. The Dietrich syndicate of New York, on the 20th, completed the purchase of the natural gas plant in Peru, Ind., the last city in the Wabash valley to sell out. The syndicate now owns nearly all of the pipe lines Indiana. The government of Queensland has issued the prospectus for a £1,250,000 -per-cent, loan at the minimum of The Chinese government has concluded a loan for 30,000.000 marks at 6 per cent, with a German syndicate. A dispatch from Hiroshima says the mikado ratified the Chino-Japanese treaty on the 31st. Sknhor Thkdim has been appointed Portuguese minister to the United States.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. At Cory, IS miles sonth of Brasil, ffm. Tiffy approached Charley Cox, a school teacher, on the streets, and deliberately fired five shot; at him, and then escaped. New Aebaxt’s city council will attempt to compel the New Albany Water Co., to filter the water furnished that city. The grave near. COlnmbns over which was found the strange tombstone bearing the name of De Panw has been opened and bones discovered. Clarexce Thorp. Eaton, shot an otter !n the Mississinewa river. Axoso the postmasters appointed a few days ago:G.W. Clutis, linn Grove, Adams county; J. W. Bear, Saluda, Jefferson county. Oscar Hah, a laborer, fell from a wagon at Lebanon, and an iron rod penetrated his side to the depth of seven inches, fatally Injuring him, At Etwopd, Clinton Etchison came near losing his life while attempting to get a valuable horse out of his bam, which was burning. At Connersville M. Muzzy was killed by a special train on the CL, H. A IX railroad. He waa about 60 years old and very deal Whies a party of Warsaw hunters were shooting “cottontails,” a few days ago, Walter Brady shot off a finger. |'-l A. Z, Foster, Terre Haute, in looking over old letters, found in one a check for 610, which he had forgotten. Feed Smith, of Peru, while fast asleepi, was suddenly awakened by a picture falling on his head. Edward Coleman, aged 40, a farmer, of Washington township, was fatally injured in a runaway the other day, He was returning home from Hartford City when his horses took fright. He was thrown** under the wagon and dragged by his feet for several rods. He died in about two hours. Dr. Metcale, secretary of the state board of health, was in Jeffersonville the other day and held a consultation with the local board. When seen, after the meeting, he stated that, in his opinion there has been greatly exaggerated reports sent out concerning the ^existence of smallpox in the city, and that the two Negroes now confined in the pesthouse with the disease are the only cases now in Jeffersonville Terre Haute boasts that seventyeight oassenger trains arrive and depart from its depot every day. The body of Mrs. Bassinger, aged 63, was found in an old log house near Lebanon, where she had lived alone for fifty years. Circumstance points to murder.

„ A child of the late Mrs. Spoon more, of Star City, fell from the hotel porch, a distance of fourteen feet, and sustained injuries which proved fatal. Boonville is undergoing a temperance revival. Over two hundred people have signed the pledge. Simon Schmidt, of Evansville, shot himself in the stomaeh and died. Worry. Harry Gibson, convict in the prison at Michigan City, stabbed and instantly killed Ed King, a fellow-pris-oner. The deed was done without any provocation. After twenty years’ courtship Dr. M. L. Hale and Miss Ella Parrett, Newport, were married. Kosciusko county’s new infirmary will cost J30.000. Terre Haute is to have a charity eircus July 4. When Anthony Beck, a wealthy farmer living five miles west of Lebanon, stepped out of his door the other morning he found a bundle of switches and a white cap notice, which informed him he would receive a visit unless he treated his family better and mended his ways generally. He immediately secured the bloodhounds used in tracking the desperado, Jeff Powell, recently, but the attempt to trail his wouldbe intimidators proved fruitless. Mr. Beck is very wealthy and says he will spend every dollar he has in trying tc find the offenders.; Col. Frank Martin appointed W. T. Anderson quartermaster sergeant of his staff of the Sons of Veterans, Indiana division, vice A. M. Jelloff, deceased. T. P. Kessler, a wealthy farmer living a few miles west of Waterloo committed suicide by shooting his head off. Kessler recently lost $15,000 in a business transaction. The six different mines near Carbon are all in operation again. The miners’ meeting at Brazil the other day is reported as having resulted favorably and-every thing will run smoothly until May 1 at least. Another large tin-plate factory is to be located at Franklin. Columbus talks of mounting the police on bicyeles. Eastern Indiana fruit is reported in good condition. T. B. Burla, a farmer at Peru, snicided by hanging. After a trouble over some property Mrs. Barney Elwanger, of Crown Point, was murdered by her husband. Allen county is to have a $a,0Gp courthouse. Thomas Hurt, a prominent Miami county farmer, committed suicide by hanging himself in the barn with a log chain. William Walls, a Monroe county farmer, was hauling logs when the wagon turned ofer and he was caught under the logs, being crushed to death. Effee May Hunt, an estimable young woman, committed suicide at the home of her brother-in-law, Geo. Townsend, in Hartford City, a few days ago. She took ’‘Rough on Rats,” and efforts to save her proved futile. The large sa w and planing mill of Peabody & Penman at Akron burned early the other morning. Loss $10,000. Fifty employes were thrown out of employment. No insurance. The verdict returned by the jury la the Burr murder case at Rockport, after being out fifteen hours, found Burr guilty and sentenced him to the penitentiary for two years. Burr killed Capt. Williamson last October.

THE MONROE DOCTRINE. A 3 >w Light Thrown I’pon mm Old I<W»— S nator David U. UIU Interviewed—He o f«Urt* that the Fapalar I'adenUmUag the Macb-Vaaated Doctrine la Br* h aeMt-fhat It BtaUr Docs Mean. i,lbast, N. Y., April 22.—In view of th< general interest which is now beinii attracted to the subject of this country’s relations with foreign governments, and especially the discos* sion now in progress regarding the true features of the much-talked ot Monroe doctrine, a representative of the United Press interviewed Senator Hill at his residence, “Wolfert's Roos:," in the suburbs of this city upon this interesting topic. Senator Hill was asked, among other things, whether experts in public law think the Monroe doctrine has given the United States a special right, not given by the Spanish-American. He answered that he had never thought about it “B at does not the Monroe doctrine,” was inquired, “declare the United Status cannot allow any SpanishAmerican republic on this continent to lie oppressed, or its destiny controlled by a European state?” ‘Tha t would not have referred,” he said, “to a legitimate dispute such as we, or any other government might have to-morrow with a Spanish-Amer-ican state. It protested against using sucii a controversy with an intention to increase European political dominion on thiis hemisphere, or control the destiny of an American state or transfer a colony like Cuba to a new European owner, but not change what was then the law of nations. The establishment, a year or two before 1823, of more than a dozen independent stages at the south of us, naturally forced the United States into new lines of thought and action. John Quincy Adams, our then minister of foreign affairs, had the eyes to discern it. Entangling alliances on this side of the ocean Were to be avoided so far as could be. We had to maintain impartial neutrality in the affairs of the new and independent Spanish-Amert-caut states and suppress as ~ we should to-day piratical expeditions from our shores against any of them, or any remaining European | colony. The Monroe doetrinq has ex- j erted a powerful influence at home and abroad in regard to Cuba, Yucatan, Nicaragua and its tribe of Mosquito Indians (invented by England) a Napoleonic dynasty set up thirty years ago in Mexico and dominion over all the regions of projected, interoceanic canals.” “But was not the Monroe declaration to congress a national pledge, a guarantee of intervention, forcible if need be, in behalf of each Spanish-American republic whenever, in onr opinion, oppressed by an European state?” - “I think not,”he replied. “Not otherwise, certainly, than if Chili should oppress Peru or Mexico should be unreasonable in dealing with Guatemala. Congress has never affirmed the Monroe doctrine. You remember that when President Monroe made his declaration a congress was convened by Bolivia at Panama for the consideration and discussion of an “American alliance” to enforce the declaration, there was substantial concurrence of opinion between President John Quiney Adams, who had formulated the Monroe doctrine and the members of the senate and house, especially the democrats, including Senator VanBuren, of New York, participating in a long debate, that the declaration did not pledge the United States to forever thereafter prevent a European power from interfering with the independence or form of government of a Central American state.” “So you think that President Monroe has the reputation of having given his name to a rule of conduct by the United States for which neither he nor Mr. Adams contended?”

Precisely that,” the senator an* swered, “the doctrine cannot be formulated in a treaty or a statute, yet its influence has been, is and ought to be very great. Discrimination should, however, be made between legitimate disputes and illegitimate . purposes behind disputes. “in 1879 when the United States of Colombia granted to Frenchmen a concession for building and controlling an interstate oceanic canal at Panama, President Hayes did not intervene or ask congress to intervene and congress did not intervene to prevent the work. “Interposing our good offices botween England and Venezuela is one thing, but dictating to one or the other in a peremptory way is a very different thing, unless it be a dear case of self-defense. “The reported conversations of our minister at St. Petersburg, Mr. Middleton, concerning the Monroe doctrine, with Emperor Nicholas and his accessory in 1836, who was his brother, the Emperor Alexander; the note from j Nerselrode, the notes from Secretary Henry Clay on the same subject to Bernseti. our minister at Mexico, Everett at Madrid, Rufus King at London and Brown at Paris, pour a flood of light on what was in the mind of Mr. Adams from 1833 to March 1839, when that incomparable man, Andrew Jackson—my ideal of an American president—began to ‘fill the sounding trump of fame.’ The Monroe doctrine was. as 1 have always thought, a part of that diplomacy by Mr. Adams successfully exerted to that end. The Momre doctrine was and is immensely popular, but its application should of course vary with the facts and situation which invoke it.” NELLIE MEEKS fo be Exhibited to Raise Money to Froeeente the Taylors. St. JosKru, Mo., April 31.—Little Nellie Meeks,"the sole survivor of the massacre at Browning, where the entire Meeks family, with the exception of the little girl, were butchered, for which murder the Taylor brothers are now awaiting trial a second time, will be placed on exhibition. A prominent amusement manager announces that he had secured a contract for her exhibition. The proceeds will be used to tssist in the prosecution of the Tavlora.

ENCOURAGING THE COMBINE. tfc# U«T«ramrnt Advertise* Its Inability to CMtNl tW Uorf Tiros*, th* AntiTrust Low Being So Loosely Dn«s a* to hm Practically Valueless. Washington, April 22.—The Evening News says: Mach gratification is expressed at the prompt actio a of the president and his official family ia taking’ up for consideration the devising of wavs and means to break the beef combine. The president has taken the greatest interest in this question and Attorney-General Olney has devoted considerable time to ascertaining the precise application ‘ of the antitrust law to the criminating evidence secured by Secretary. Morten. This evidence shows conclusively that, the rise in beef is not justified by any trifling advance in the price of cattle. It is also shown that the same combination, which is manipulating the prices, fixes the value for live cattle as well as that of the dressed product. At the same time the combination has a monoply on transportation, as it controls the patents for refrigerator cars, and for this reason the railroad lines are said to discriminate against the small shippers in favor of the large ones. Attorney-General Olney and' Secretary’Carlisle consider it virtually useless to bring prosecutions finder the anti-trust law, and both stated at the cabinet meeting that the law was so loosely drawn as to be practically valueless for the purposes intended. Postmaster-General Wilson, who was a member of the judiciary committee at the time the bill was under discussion, stated that Judge Culberson then pronounced it worthless, but that,' owing to the fact that the session was about to, close, amendment was impossible. # Attorney-General Olney and Mr. Carlisle, after a study of the two cases which have been brought, under the law, and in which the Sugar trust and Whisky trust were defendants, gave it as their opinion that the same failure on the part of the government would follow if a case should he brought against the beef combine. FIVE NEGROES LYNCHED Three Men and Two Women Strung Up loathe Brutal Murder of a White Mat*. Montgomery, Ala., April 22.—A gentleman, who arrived at 0 o'clock last night from Greenville, Ala., forty miles south of here, reports that five negroes were lynched near there Saturday night Just before his train left Greenville the sheriff of the county came into town. He reported that in passing through the Bnckalow plantation, three miles from town, he had found the five negroes, three men and two women, hanging by their necks to some trees. Their bodies were eold and they had evidently been dead for some hours. Saturday night news reached Greenville of the brutal murder near Butler, in that county, of Watts Mujrpby, & popular young white man. by tkree negroes. Murphy was a nephew of the late Gov. Watts, of this city. After murdering him the negroes olaced his body in a brush-heap and burned the heap. The debris was examined aiid parts of the victim were found. The balance of the body had been consumed. > An investigation was instituted. Three negroes were arrested. One of the negroes gave way and confessed the-erime implicating two other negro men and the two women. The officers secured them and were closely guarding thejprisoners when last heard of Saturday night The report last night did not give the details of how the mob secured the murderers except that they were taken by froee. A telegram from Greenville confirms the story. THEY DON’T LIKE IT. Japan's Conditions Not Regarded with Favor by European Nations. Paris, April 22.—The Debats says in a leader on the situation in the Orient: The Japanese occupation of Lioa-Tung is a menace to both Pekin and Corea. If Japan experts Russia to renounce her policy towapd Corea ^she probably has made a great mistake. Moreover France will not leave Russia isolated in the east and Germany is not disposed to regard indifferently Japan’s encroachments. Japan's conditions of peace are immoderate. Her ambition ought to be brought down at once. England will incur a grave responsibility if she separate herself from the rest of Europe fit this decisive moment Prior to the exchange, of the ratifications Japan ought to see that a revision of the treaty is necessary and effeet it voluntarily.” GOLD IN MISSISSIPPI

Qntt Excitemmt Over Reports off Kick Jack sox, Miss., April 23.—Intense excitement pervades this community oxer the discovery of rich end payinggold deposits within three miles of this city, on the Bocky branch, a stream bordering the suburbs of Jackson. The first discovery was made in the course of excavating for a cistern on Collins Hemaningf way's place, two miles out. Later, Ed J. Gilliam, a mile further out, found surface indications, and slight scratching on the earth brought excellent results. Hundreds of able-bodied men and boys are now abroad with picks and shovels up and down the branch, but so far no paying vein has been found. A SEVEN-FOOT COFFIN Required to Encase the Remains off Ceorce % £. Seaman. Newark, N. J., April 21.—George E. Seaman, whose weight in life was 47$ pounds, was buried at Orange Friday. The coffin was 7 feet long, S feet wide and 2Kfe«t deep It had to be taken through a window to a monster bears© made for exhibition at the World’s fair., Fourteen men carried the body and coffin from the house. Seaman was a G. A. B. veteran, and the under taker wanted to use a gun carriage to sarry the body to the grave.