Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 8, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 July 1895 — Page 2

"CftffgkeCmtg$f»«at M. XoO. 87001*8. Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG., - • ‘ INDIANA. Ox the 28th Miss Mary A. Dodge (Gail Hamilton) was taken from the Blaine residence in Washington and sent to her home in Salem, Mass. China's non-acceptance of the Russian loan proposals involves the withdrawal of her recent concessions to Russia in connection with the Siberian railway. * It is the intention of the German emperor, in the spring, to send a squadron to visit the ports of the nations which were represented in the naval display at Kiel. Commencement exercises took place at Chillocco Indian schools, in the Cherokee strip, on the 26th, eight graduates, representing six different Indian tribes, acquitting themselves with credit Failures in ’the United States daring the week ended the 28th, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 250, against 214 for the same week last year. In Canada the failures were 22, against, 35 last year. The United States consul at FooChow, China, reports the appearance of the Hong-Kong plague at that place. He says it is already established as an epidemic; but that so far it is confined to the city proper. The gold reserve reached $107,447,355 on the 26th. The stipulated gold payments into the treasury by the JBelmont-Morgan syndicate under the agreement of February 8 last have been fully carried out. A dispatch from Shanghai, on the 26th, said the high officials in that city are confidently expecting that war will ensue between Russia and Japan over the administration of affairs in Corea within three months. A report has gained currency that Chauncey M. Depew is going to marry a lady who is atmember of one of the first families in New York, and an orphan with $8,000,000 in her own right. The modest Chauncey denies the soft impeachment. 9

The diplomas for the foreign commissions at the Chicago World’s fair hare been prepared at last, and the distribution will begin in a few days from the state department, through Assistant Secretary Rockhill. There are fiftyeight of them. 2 Mrs. Mart Brown, a monogamian pensioner, died, on the 16th, at her home 5 miles from Knoxville, Tenn. She was the widow of Joe Brown, a soldier inj the revolutionary war, and wafi born in 1804. Her husband died fifty-one years ago. The current number of the Railway Age contains statistics showing that the total miles of track laid in the United States from January 1 to July 1, 1895, were 641 miles on 65 lines, against $25 miles on 51 lines for the same period of 1894. In 28 of the 49 <r\ states and territories no track has thus far been laid this year. The Bowers Dredging Co. of Chicago has been awarded a contract which covers the dredging and excavating of 85,000,000 cubic yards of earth, by which a, 3-mile canal will be constructed between Puget sound at Seattle, Wash., and Lake Washington. The cost of this dredging will be in the neighborhood of 86,000,000. The cruiser Columbia is to race against time from Southampton to New York under instructions from Secretary Herbert. She will not, however, be driven at her highest speed, (the effort being intended to determine what the famous triple-screw flyer can do under actual service conditions without subjecting her to strain. Harrt T. Hatward, of Minneapolis, Minn., the condemned murderer of Catherine Ging, has formally applied to the New York Life and Travellers’ Accident Insurance Co. for the $10,000 insurance carried by his victim. Action will be taken by the executors of thi estate of the murdered woman tc have the assignment of the policies t« Hayward set aside. , The government of Venezuela having requested the government of the Ignited States to endeavor to effect a renewal of diplomatic relations between Caracas and Paris, the American government consented to act in the capacity of mediator. The French government has, however, intimated that it does not desire any relations with Crespo’s government. *

. Customs officials at Port Townsend, Wash., arrested two Indians from Quillayute, on the 27th, for smuggling. Investigation showed that the Indians had been buying merchandise in British Columbia f6r the past twenty years and bringing it into the states in canoes and selling it to farmers. It is thought that many thousand dollars in duties have thus been avoided. Tm: prisoners Gronemeyer, Thies, Nestler and Drechow, who were arrested in Hamburg in June, 1894, for counterfeiting and forging American and other notes, were sentenced, at the conclusion of their trial on the 28th, as follows: Gronemeyer and Thies to eight years’ imprisonment, Nestler to four years and Prochow to three years. — According to the census report cov •ring the statistics of churches, which lias just como from the press, the total of communicants of all denominations in the United States is 20,612,806, who belong to 165,177 organizations or congreg ations. These congregations have 142,521 edifices which have sittings'for 43,564,868 persons. The value of all church property used exclusively fol jpur{>oses of worship is SS79.630.139.

CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IH BRIEF. PERSONAL .AND GENERAL.

Bids were opened at the treasury department, on the 26th, for the con* structiou of two revenue marine cutters, one to be used on the great lakes and one on the Atlantic coast, the cost of each being 8175,000. For the lake vessel the bid of the Globe iron works of Cleveland, O., at 8147,800, was the only one received. 0 The leading Russian financiers are said to be furiously angry at the action of Germany in supporting England in inducing China to refuse to accept Russia’s loau proposals in their present form. A cyclone hit Anderson, Ind., on the 26th, unroofing houses and tearing up trees. Lightning struck the high school building, burned two barns and set on fire a big and dangerous gas It is claimed that an examination of the bocks and records of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen shows a deficiency of 875,888. Of this deficiency 828,215 was incurred previous to September 1, 1803, and 847,647 represents the deficiency incurred from September 1 to December 81. 1894. Public memorial services were* held at South Bend, Ind., on the evening of the 26th, in honor of the late ex-Gov. Ira J. Chase. A liberal contribution was added to the subscription being raised for the relief of Mrs. Chase. R. W. Patterson, register of the United States land office at South Enid, Okla., and City Marshal Williams were killed, while J. L. Isenberg, editor of the Daily Wave, was badly wounded, the result of a sensational street fight that occurred there on the; evening of the 26th. Isenberg will recover. Mary Snyder, a member of the class of 1895. of the Keystone State normal school at Kutztown, Pa, who would have been graduated oh that day with high honors, died suddenly, on the 26th, the result, undoubtedly, of overstudy. Hon. Emily Jane Mercer, dowager marchioness of Lansdowne, and in her own right Baroness Nairne, mother of the present marquis of Lansdowne, who was formerly governor general of Canada and later governor general of India, died in England on the 26th. She was born in 1819. On board the steamship Berlin,which sailed, on the 26th, for Southampton, I was a company of 100 Presbyterian clergymen and laymen, who will spend eight weeks in visiting the scenes of interest in the olds world connected with the early history of their church. Maggie Turpie, aged 28, forewoman in the office of the Riverside Printing Co., St. Louis, fell through the elevator shaft from the third floor to the basement, on the evening of the 26th, and received injuries from which she died en route to the city hospital. A rich stream of petroleum has been : discovered near the Narrows of Harpeth river, in Cheatham county, Teun. An explosion occurred in a bluff there recently, and afterward a strong 6trjfam of oil began to flow. An expert from the oil region of Pennsylvania is making an investigation. Emperor William is preparing a brilliant patriotic celebration for the inauguration of the monument commemorating the battle of Woerth, during the Franco^russian war. The expenditure of 8.000,000 marks about 82,000,000), on the Kiel celebration is severely criticised by a large number of the newspapers of Berlin. Aaron Altmeyer, 73 years old, a wealthy Hebrew’, was found dead of asphyxiation in the parlor of his home, in New York city, on the 26th. The dead man was at one time a merchant, and is reputed to have owned 81,000,000 worth of real estate.

col. A. st. Clair uenver, a brother of Gen. Denver, founder of Colorado's capital city, died in Washington city on the 26th. He was a California 49er, and served In the state senate. John Pahpknter, an employe of the Armour Packing Co. at Atlanta, Ga., has gone insane as aresult of being ex* posed to thfe extremes of temperature between that of outdoors and that in the cold-storage room. Miss Remie Londonderry, of Boston, the round-the-world bicyclist, arrived at El Paso, Tex., on the 26th, from the west in good health and spirits. She will remain there until July 15, then ride north to Denver, en roqjie home. Miss Londonderry says she has declined over 150 offers of marriage, and has $1,500 saved up. Ramon O. Williams, United States consul at Havana, will -return to his post direct from New York, without going again to Washington. It is said at the state department that there has never been any question as to Mr. Williams' return after the expiration of his leave. Two more alleged members of the firebug gang, whose operations have involved the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars and put in peril many lives, were arrested in New York city on the 26th. They are Max Gluekman, the chief mechanic of the gang, and Adolph Hirchkopf. During a fire in a five-story building in Minneapolis, Minn., on the night of the 27th, a number of firemen were caught and crushed under a falling \vall. Six of these were taken out dead and two severely injured, while several were still missing and supposed to be under the debris of the collapsed wall.

Tine fifth meeting of the International Kail way congress was opened in London, on the 26th, by the pilnce of Wales, in a feiicitious speech. ;He paid special compliment to the American delegates. || f|;- ijg Sax Fraxcisco was visited by a great conflagration, on the evening of the 27th, which destroyed property to the amount of $1,750,000, anct rendered hundreds of families homeless. Oak* land and Alameda each sent fire steamers, which materially aided in cheeking and finally subduing the flames. Admiral BeardslSr telegraphed to the navy department, on the 27th, from San Francisco announcing his return to that city on board the flagship Philadelphia from Honolulu, whereshe had been stationed since the latter part of January.

The Coco pah moan tains in Lower ! California are again in a state of eruption. George Neah a miner, recently returned from the Juarez placer district, reports seeing a volcano in eruption on the -3d. The Evening Express Ca. of Chicago, was granted incorporation papers on the 27th. It will assume legal ownership of the Chicago Mail, the incorporators being representatives of the new purchasers of that paper, chief among whom is Mr. Booth, of Grand llapids, Mich. There will be no change in the name or policy of the paper. On the 27th Gov. Morton of New York in for rued Mrs. Annie Buchanan that lie must decline to hear aoy further appeals for clemency in behalf of Dr. Robert W. Buchanan, the condemned wife murdered. Buchanan applied to Judge Lacombe, in the United States circuit court, on the 27th, for & writ of habeas corpus, but it was denied. . A 13-YEAR-OLD boy named Kirk McMurtrie, employed in the state department at Washington to distribute the mail, has been detected in robbing letters addressed to the passport bureau of the inclosed fees, and to cover up his tracks destroying the applications and in many cases the naturalization papers contained therein. He is supposed to have secured between $400 and $300. j'S Mb. Hashiguchi, tlie Japanese con-sul-general at New York, in an interview, on the 28th. said among other things: “I wish to say emphatically that Japan is not afraid of Russia. I will go so far as to assure you that there are Japanese who are not carried away by enthusiasm who would not be astonished to see * Japanese army in St: Petersburg within the next two years.” , In an encounter, 4 miles from the city of Spartanburg, S. C., on the 28tli, between State Liquor Constables Pettigrew and Noland and two moonshiners named Fisher and Durham, the two latter and Pettigrew were killed outright and Noland was mortally wounded. Minnie Lynch, aged 19, of Chicago, committed suicide, on the 28th, by taking carbolic acid. She was a pi*pil of the Lake high school, and expected to graduate this year, but failed to pass the necessary examination. Later advices say that the loss by the recent lire in Minneapolis, Minn.,® will reach $250,000.' Lord Salisbury will issue the manifesto of the new government on the 3d. A four week’s quarantine and five months’ veterinary supervision will, • after October 1, be imposed upon all swine and cattle imported into Germany from infected countries. The Manitoba legislature adjourned, on the 28th, without taking any action on the school question. LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Robert Strong, familiarly known | as “Col. Bob Strong,” who executed ] Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield and seventeen other convicts, died in Washington, on the 80th, of infirmities incident to old age, being close upon his eightieth year. He had been an officer of the district jail thirty years. Arthur Haight, a bootblack and porter, will start, on the 10th, to walk from Joliet, 111., to New York city in thirty-four days. This will be an average of thirty miles a day. He is to only have two dollars in money when he starts, and is not allowed to beg or work while on the trip. THEstatement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended the 29th showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $2,318,325; loans, increase, $516,100; specie, decrease, $643,900; legal tenders, decrease, $2,680,100, deposits, decrease, $4,022,700; circulation, decrease, $35,500. ' • Articles were filed, on the 29th, with the secretary of state of Hlinois for the incorporation of the Transcontinental Railway Co. with a capital stock of $200,000,000. The company proposes to construct and operate an electric railway from Chicago to Jersey City, N. J. Judge Ross, of San Francisco, on the 29th, rendered his decision on the demurer in the $15,000,000 suit of the government against the estate of the late Senator Leland Stanford, as a shareholder of the Southern Pacific. Theverdict was adverse to the governinept. Government receipts for the fiseal year ended on the 30th were, in round numbers, $312,500,000, against $279, 722,019 .for 1893-4, and $385,819,628 in 1892-3. The expenditures for the year were $350,000,000, the deficit being $43,500,000, against $69,803,200 last year. Oscar Wilde’s plays are about to make their reappearance in the English theaters in London. The Grand theater announces the production of “The Ideal Husband,” and prints the author’s name in large letters on its bills. * Jake Gaudaur has accept- d a challenge issued by Edward Hanlan fora 3-mile race on Toronto bay in September. This will be Gaudaur’s last race, he having decided to retire. Three thousand persons attended the Epworth League sunrise prayer meeting held on Lookout mountain on the 29tli. The greatest fervor marked the devotions. 1

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Sevexteem new Iron bridges and a new jail hare been built in Pike county since the present board, of commissioner* took their office. At Madison Thomas Donlan, Wm. Starling and John McDaniel, found guilty of attempting to dynamite the “Red Onion” saloon, were each sentenced to 2 years in the penitentiary. Water county commissioners purchased the last toll road in that county the other day. Ei.khart claims to have saved $400 in one job of street paving by the city doing the work. Ex-ArMTOR James C Lavkixe, Daviess county, serving eight years in the prison south for attempting to burn the courthouse at Washington, Is dying of dropsy. Maj. Hart, the new warden of the prison south, has resigned his municipal position at Brazil. Stoxeworkkks on South Bend’s new library building struck because they did not like their foreman. UlXETY-SEVEjf taxpaying farmers of St. Joseph county have formally protested against the building of the new courthouse.

The Akron Oil Ca, of Hartford City, which recently purchased the Columbian Oil Co., of Bluffton, has struck a three-hundred-barrel weH: on the Alspaugh farm, ten miles south of that place. ' Charles, the 14-year-old son of Dr. Rush Fee, was drowned at Kokomo. Forest fires near Decatur have burned over a territory eight miles square. At Frankfort, while George Bath, a bartender, was separating two men who were engaged in a savage fight, he received severe injuries. One of the men, Heck Shinn, attempted to throw a mustard bottle at his adversary, but it flew wide of the mark and struck Bath in the face, knocking out one of his eyes and terribly lacerating his face. Shinn made his escape. Jat Hi'BBard, the 18-year-old son of Mrs. George \V. Hubbard, was fatally injured by falling from the root of the Brazil Brick, and Pipe Co’s building the other morning, a distance of forty feet. According to the last enumeration” Montgomery county contains 8,504 voters. Hon. W. D. Bvncm is billed for a “sound money” speech at Frankfort on July 30. Articles incorporating the McFarland Hotel Co., capitalized at $8,000, have been filed with the Fayette county recorder by Harry B. Upman and others. The long-continued drought in Madison county was broken a few days ago. The downpour lasted about two hours, nnd in that time the rainfall amounted to 1.2 inches. Chase memorial services were held at Anderson the other night. Rev. Black, the evangelist, delivered the eulogy. A generous sum was subscribed to the Chase fund. ’ A horse driven by Mrs. Mary Hoehn, of Sellersburg, took fright while Mrs. Hoehn was on her way home from Jeffersonville and ran aw&v, throwing her put and probably fatally injuring her. The preliminary hearing of John Holzheer, charged with the murder of his wife, was held at New Albany the other day. Thirty Witnesses were examined and Justice Richards committed Holzheer to jail without bail to await trial at the October term of court The evidence was very strong against Holzheer. The Gas City and Jonesboro Electric railway is to be consolidated with the Marion line. An brder will be issued by the governor directing that the state military encampment this year be held at Fairview park, near this city, beginning July 22 and continuing until the 2Sth. At a Sunday-school children’s meeting southeast of Waterloo, two young men, named Klinger and Albright, began a quarrel, and it was not ended until Klinger drew his knife and stabbed Albright several times, inflicting serious gashes. Albright will re

cover. At Columbus Farmer Henry Horn, while driving a harvesting machine the other morning, was thrown upon a wire fence by a runaway team of mules and dragged some distance. He received twenty-one cuts across his stomach and abdomen, two 6f which are believed to have entered the cavity. His arms and legs are also badly cut, and he may die. Ike Hendersor, a Fulton county farmer, claims his wife beat him and then ran away with another fellow. He sues for a divorce. There's a post office in ifarrison county named H. Attica will have a free mail delivery after July 1. * * . The intense heat killed a lot of stock for Farmer Miller, of near Hagerstown. The coopers at Evansville engaged on beer-keg work are striking against a reduction in price demanded by the breweries. A New York syndicate is negotiating in Brazil for an electric light and street railway franchise. Harvests® is on in several parts of Wabash county. This is the earliest in twenty years The wheat and hay crops are very short and half of an average yield of wheat will greatly please the farmers. A law YEBat Frankfort married, three days after securing a divorce, and rent* ed a home from his first wife. A family of freaks was discovered in Madison county. James Leonard, living nine miles west of the city, was born without teeth and never had one. lie married a woman with teeth and they had four children, all of whom are half-grown. All are like their father in one respect, that they have never had atooth in their head. Their gums are like bone and answer all the uses of teeth. Syracuse, one of the oldest towns in the state, has had but two fires in the past thirty-two vaara.

“COL. BOB STRONG,** ^ n»e Hangman of th« District ®f Colombo. Afl*r Sxncming KlgMmn Mm. Ibrlarflng Oaltma, the AmahI* or Prestd«at (iartietd. Meats the tiritu Monster Hlauott— A* UMca It \VU1 be Hard ts mi. 3 -I ; "WAsibforojr, Jane 30. — Robert {Strong-, familiarly known as “CoL Bob Strong,* who executed Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, died in this city of infirmities incident to old age, being- close upon his eightieth year. He had been an officer of the district jail thirty years and during that period executed eighteen criminals, the last one only a year ago, when his nerves seemed aa steady as if not strained by the wear and tear of seventy-nine years of life. , Before settling in Washington he went out to California with the Fortyniners and assisted in building the old San* Francisco mint He afterwards took a hand in building the bouse wing of the capitol. Notwithstanding the grim natnre of his professional duties, he was a jovial, kind-hearted man in private life and sacrificed most of his own means to aid a brqther in the protracted litigation of a claim of many thousands of dollars against the city government for unpaid services as a contractor. That claim was finally decided in his brother’s favor, but two years after he had dieu, worn out by the long straggle. Strong's death is a great loss to the jail officials, end it will be no easy matter to fill his place. Three executions are scheduled to take place in July, and it will be necessary to select one of the jail employes to perform the duties formerly looked after by Strong. '

THE GOLD SYNDICATE Molt Continue to Protect the Treasury Reserve CutU October. » New York, July 1.—Hradstreets says: Inasmuch as many usually well-informed newspapers appear to continue in doubt as to' whether the bond syndicate has completed its work or not, whether it is about to dissolve and leave the treasury gold reserve, now well al»ove the $100,000,000 mark, to the tender mercies of the market for foreign exchange, it may be well to state thus prominently that the syndicate has not completed its undertaking. It expects to continue to lend aU proper support to the treasury in maintaining $100,000,000 of gold reserves until October, 189ft. in the same way and manner that it has thus far. If, therefore, Lombard street and Wall street operatorS have been in doubt as to the probable future of the market for American securities, because of their uncertainty on the point referred to, they may at once replace that doubt with a sense of security, which this information must tend to impart. _ HAIRBRAINED AND VICIOUS. Because He Thought He Had Committed Murder a Man Kill* Hie Own Wife. Charlotte, hi. C., July J.— A 'white farmer named Sims was at work in a field near Huntersville, sixteen miles from here, Saturday afternoon, when some boys passing called to him saying something which he construed into au insult He became antfry and made toward them when one of them told him that they meant no harm. He started to return to his field, when the boldest of the boys told him he had better tend to his own business. He turned again on the boys, when one of them threw a rock at him. Sims drew a pistol and fired on thp boy, inflicting what is considered a mortal wound. He then ran through the house and his wife fearing danger fled. He overtook her and shot her in the body, then putting his pistol to her temple blew her brains out. Sims then went to Huntersville and surrendered to a magistrate who sent him to jail here. He gave as his reason for killing his wife that he would be hung or sent to the penitentiary for killing the boy and he could not bear to be separated from her. Victory will go into the iron ore trade between Lake Superior and Lake Erie, with occasional trips to South Chicago.__ REPORTED CAPTURE OF MACEO

Not T«t> Confirmed—Will Deal with the Rebellion with an Iron Hand. Washington, June 80.—It is now three days since the report of the capture of the insurgent Gen. Maceo, was first made public and no one in Washington, not even the Spanish minister, is able to confirm the story. The rumored capture of Maceo tends to “boom” the proposed financial scheme of the Spanish cortes to raise funds for the prosecution of the «var. Latest advices from Spain indicate that the home government intends dealing with the insurrection in Cuba with an iron hand. Arrangements are being made for a perfect patrol of the island and for the capture of any filibustering expedition that may attempt to land. The 600,000,000 pesetas, equivalent in American money to 8120,000,000, voted by the cortes as an emergency fund for the suppresson of the insurrection in Cuba, is at the com mand of the government and 35,000 men are ready to embark as soon as Gen. Campos gives the word. It is confidently expected, therefore, that as soon as the rainy season ends in September the combined land and sea' forces will be pushed forward and some decisive engagements with the insurgents may result. Suicide of a Bunk President. Austin, Tex., June 3a—Emery Taylor, president of the Link Line, Trinity, Cameron & Western railroad, shot and killed himself at Georgetown yesterday. It is believed that the act was committed while despondent over the bad financial eofiditfou of the road. Fell aud Broke His Nee*. Salt Laics Citt, June SO.—R. W. Kidder, a prominent lumber dealer of Park City, fell from an enbankment in front of his residence yesterday afternoon. and broke his neck, causing instant death.

national finances. What Hfmt-Ofletel Trawarr D«putawt rtcan* fhov-MMaaly #f FortyTSiw* Million*—The Receipts fwr <!«*• H*»# Exrtedcd Eipradltana bjt Two Millions of Dollar*—It Hadn’t Happened Since lest Aupnt. ■ Wabhij»«tox, June 80.—The fiscal year 1894 ended to-day, and from the official and semi-official figures obtained at the treasury department, which will not vary more than $250,OOP either way from the figures finally announced, the govern ment revenues and receipts for the fiscal year can bn stated. The receipts are as follows: isw-5.....;... ... The expenditures for the same years was as follows: $312.600.000 18M-5..........|8 O.OmOOO iwm..... sei.rn.ti9 lese-a.......*. 3*3.477.95* The deficits for' the past two years were: 18W-5... . M3.500.000 im-4...... ...... ».8u3.3»

For the year 1892-3 the excess of receipts over revenue Amounted to only $2,384,074. Prior to that year there had been an excess in receipts over expenditures for every fiscal year since 1865, the excess in all those years up to 1892-3 having been in the year 1874 when the receipts exceeded the expenditures by only $2,344,882. For the present fiscal year ended today, Secretary Carlisle, on December 8, 1894, estimated that the deficiency would be $20,000. As shown by the official figures this estimate was more than $23,000,000 out of the way. largely due to the elimination of the income tax from the revenue. • \ On February 2, 1895, Secretary Carlisle, in an estimate furnished to congress, stated that for the calendar year 1895, the surplus revenue over expenditures would amount to $22,563,08$. Six months of this period have now passed and the deficit for this six months is $16,750,000.; Assistant Secretary Curtis in a published statement estimates that the .. deficit up to December 11, 1895, would be $35,000,000. For the month of July, which begins Monday, it is estimated by the treasury, if receipts continue normal, that the expenditures will exceed the receipts by about $12,000,000 or $13,000,000, July being an interestpaying month and the payments on account of pensions being also especially heavy. ,/ ». For the month of June just ended the receipts have exceeded the expenditures by nearly $2,000,000, the first month since last August when this has been the case. SALISBURY'S SLATE. 1 The Mew British Ministry Selected by Lord Salisbury, & Londom, June 30.—The marquis of Salisbury has completed the work of forming a new ministry, which is as follows: , ; Premier and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs—The marquis of Salisbury. ''President of the Council—The duke of Devonshire. Lord High Chancellor—Baron Haisbury. Lord Privy Seal—Viscount Cross. Chancellor of the Exchequer—Sir ... Michael Hicks-Beach. Secretary of State for Home Affairs —RL Hon. Sir Matthew White Ridely. First Lord of the Treasury—Rt Hon. , A. J. Balfour. f , *1 Secretary of State for the Colonies— Rt Hon. Joseph Chamberlain. Secretary of State for War—The marquis of Lansdowne. * First Lord of the Admiralty—RL f Hon. Geoi ge J. Goschen. Secretary of State for India—Ebrd ^ George Hamilton. " President of the Board of Trade— Rt. Hon. C. T. Ritchie. i President of the Local Government Board—RL Hon. Henry Chaplin. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland—Earl i Cadogan. Lord Chancellor of Ireland—Baron Ashbonrne. * ” . ■ ■ Secretary for Scotland—Baron Balfour, of Burleigh. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—RL Hon. Sir Henry James. The other appointments are as follows: ' ' ? ‘ ; Financial Secretary of the Treasury —Mr. Robert William Hanbury. Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs —RL Hon. George N. Curzon. CONSUL WILLIAMS

tells for Cabo with Iocreued Latitude for Bis Personal Action. |New York, July 1.—United States Consul to Cuba Ramon 0. Williams sailed for that port shortly after noon Saturday. Mr. Williams has been absent from his post about eight weeks. The Spaniards, while Mr. Gresham was secretary of state, are skid to hare expressed a little disi pleasure at Mr. Williams’ distinctly American methods of conducting the consulate in Havana. Secretary Olney, however, has prevailed upon him not to resign, but to resume charge of * American affairs in the little island, and in deference to his wish Mr. Williams has sailed. It is not likely that Spain wilhrequest his removal. Mr. Williams’ family saw him off. They were accompanied by a few friends from Brooklyn. Mr. Williams .declared before he left that he had special instructions from the state department regarding his methods in dealing with the duties of his office. Death of Ex-Consul Bure hard at RaataB,, Honduras. WASHiROTdN. July 1.—The state department has received a dispatch from Consul Jernigau, at Ruatan, Honduras, announcing the death there on June 8 of his predecessor in the offioe, Wm. C. Burchard, who had been appointed to the posfe April S, 1891, Mr. Burchard was born in New York sixty years ago and entered the service as consul at Managua and Tegucigalpa in 1860. He was one of the most efficient officers in the consular service, but of late years had been in wretched health. ' ■ r