Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 April 1897 — Page 2

Srht§!ilw«outttg§m«rat ML M«C. STOOPS, Editor and Pt«pr>«lwPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. Tex senate, oM the 29th, confirmed the nominations of Frank EL Nash to be register of the land office and Wm. C. Whipps to be receiver of .public moneys at Kalispel, Mont. Ox the 80th the republicans of . the United States senate put into motion machinery looking to the reorganization of the senate so far as the commit* tee vacancies were concerned. Spain has accepted the invitation of President McKinley, and will send the war ship Maria Theresa to participate In the exercisesat the dedication of the Grant mausoleum on April 27. The debt statement, issued on the 1st, showed a net decrease in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, for for the month of March, of 18,688,858. Total «sah in the treasury, 9878,239,750. Ok the 29th the president sent to the senate the nomination of Charlemagne Tower, of Pennsylvania, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Austrisr Hungary. Thx United States weather bureau, on the 17th, gare out the startling information that 800 square miles of the State of Arkansas was under water and that the Mississippi river would continue to rise. Box. Watxe MacVeagh, the retiring United States ambassador to Italy, with his wife and daughter, will sail from Southampton for New York, on April 10, on board the American line steamer New York. Tut Italian government has arranged to send the steel cruiser Liguria to New York upon the occasion of the dedication of thesG rant mausoleum, on April 27, in response to the invitation of President McKinley. Ox the 30th Senator Foraker introduced in the United States senate a modified form of the Patterson pooling bill, which permits railroads, under certain restrictions, to pool in the matter c>t transportation of freights.

The Ohio state board of pardons, on the 29th. unanimously rejected the application for clemency for William Haas, the Cincinnati murderer of Mrs. Wm. Bracier, who is to be executed on April 8. Haas will be the first person to be electrocuted in Ohio. Da. Joseph J. Lciz, found guilty in the United States court at Baltimore, Md., of conspiracy and sending an armed military expedition against a friendly nation, was, on the 29th, refnaed a new trial and sentenced to 18 months in the Baltimore jail and to pay a fine of 9500. Nation a i. bank notes outstanding on March 31, 1897, amounted to 9333,708,994, a decrease during the month of §441,049, but an increase since March 81, 1898, of 913,481,089. The gold coinage during the month amounted to 913,770,900, while 1,400,350 silver dollars were struck off. T. A. Rhodes, an old soldier, formerly employed as a compositor in the government printing office, has entered suit against E. E. Benedict, ex-pnblic printer, claiming 9300 damages for violation of civil service rules. It is understood that a number of similar units will be entered. The steam yacht El Rio Rey, canryng the St. Louis Republic correspondent*. sank in 40 feet of water in front of the city of Memphis, on the 30th, at 4 a. in. The crew, five in number, couaisting of Capt. Saunders, John Fitzgerald, P. Burke, T. A. Burke and Geo. Schultz, had narrow escapes. Ox the 3d the Metropolitan Iron and Land Co. announced an increase in the wage scale in their mines in Ironwood, Mich., of ten per cent. This increase will affect every miner working in the Nhrrie and East Norrie mines, about a thousand men in ail. and means an increase of from 15 to 30 cents per day.

M. Albert A room Gabriel Ha.\oTAUX. French minister of foreign affairs. and Count Albert de Mur. the celebrated French politician and philosopher and member of the chamber of deputies for the arrondissement of Mortals, in the department of Finestere, were elected members of the French academy on the 1st. A dispatch from Havana, on the •9th. gave account of a battle near Gabesedas, in the Rio Hondo district, in which 100 patriots were defeated, after a stubborn resistance, by a superior force of Spaniards, who captured Gen. Rivera, the successor of Gen. Macro, who wss severely wounded in three places. Col. Bacallao and Lieut. Terry were also captured, the latter dying soon after of his wounds. Minister Dexbt, at Pekin, informs the state department that the West river has been finally opened to foreign commerce. This great river, on which C*nton is situated, with Hong Kong at its month, is the highway of southwestern China, and the largest goods distributor of that rich district, giving, as it does, access to the three large provinces Kwangsi. Yunnan ted Kweichow, with a population of 35,900,000. The department of state is advised from Constantinople that Yessuf Yunan. who was charged with the distribution of relief funds at Saird, Asiatic Turkey, was recently murdered and robbed of £500. On the assumption thafjkhe victim was engaged in dis- . tripling American relief funds, Mr. Terrell. American minister, made prompt request for the recovery of the ntolien money and the arrest wad punishment of the ruiltr. ’’ .... ■ Sti..-Aa

1 APRIL— im. I Sib. Tm. Tbw. Frt. StL 1 3 : 8 9 lot is 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS nr BRIEF. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. (Special g«WlOB.) Is the senate, on the »th. during a short open session, s £iU was passed appropriating 1250.000 to he expended in saving life and property in the flooded dlstriot of the Mississippi valley; also a bill to approve a compromise and settlement between the United States and the state of Arkansan. Two hours and a half was spent In executive session discussing the arbitration treaty..In the house, during the discussion, in committee of the whole, of the tariff bill, the high rates of duty imposed in the cotton and woolen schedules were attacked by Messrs. McCall and fevering, of Massachusetts, and defended by Messrs. Gconvenor (<X). Russell (Conn.) and Dingiey (Me.). When the committee rose the house passed senate joint resolution making immediately available 1250,000 for protection of life and property in the lower Mississippi valley. Ik the senate, on the 90th, Mr. Allen (pop.. Neb.) spoke more than an hour to prove that congress does not possess the constitutional power to impose tariff duties on articles of daily consumption for the express and avowed purpose of increasing the private fortunes of one class of citizens at the expense of the masses." House amendments to senate joint resolution appropriating £50.000 to aid in protecting life and property in the Mississippi floods were concurred in and the joint resolution sent to the president — ..In the house the day was nearly all spent in disposing of amendments to the tariff bill offered by the committee on ways and means, principally to correct the phraseology or to make the classification clearer. Among others, an amendment putting books, maps and charts for the use of schools, colleges and publie libraries on the free list was agreed to; also ene restoring the McKinley rates on horses and mules.

is the senate, on the am. tne oniy matters ot public Interest treated of in open session were two resolutions upon the subject of Cuba, both of which went over without action. At 12:23 p. m- the seusste proceeded to the consideration of executive business. Including the arbitration treaty and the question of filling the vacancies in the standing committees.In the house, the debate on the tariff bill under the five-min-ute rule halving ended by limitation of rule, the vote on the measure was taken and resulted: Yeas, 305; nays. 131; present and not voting. 21. The affirmative vote was composed of 1» republicans. including Speaker Reed, four democrats and dne populist; the negative vote of I1T democrats and tour populists. In the senate, on the 1st. during the hour of the opening session, a joint resolution was passed authorizing the secretary of the navy to place a war vessel and a chartered merchant vessel at t he disposal of the collector of the port of New York tor transporting supplies to relieve thej famishing poor of India. The resolution, offered by Hr. Morgan (dem. Ala.), as to letters of Max i mo Gomez to President Cleveland and President McKinley was passed; as was the reisolution. offered by Mr. Mills (dem., Tex.), as tio the obligations assumed by the United States toward the people of Cuba in asserting an«;l maintaining the right to prevent the acquisition of the island by any European power. T]*e senate was in executive session from 1pm. Until 5:15. when it adjourned to the3th...J..The bouse was not in session on the 1st. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. * Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, late United States ambassador to the court of SL James, with his family, will sail for New Yolk on either May 8 or May 15. The scjhoqner Robert Lewers arrived at San i Francisco, on the 29th, from Honolulu, bringing news of a serious uprising of Japanese laborers on the' islands, which, however, for the time, was promptly quelled by the militia, reinforced by volunteers. The bank at Biggsville, I1L, was burglarized early on the morning of ;the 30th. Three dynamite explosions broke the vault, but the safe, in which the money was kept, was not opened. The robbers got $400 in the vault and escaped on a stolen hand-car. Just at dusk, on the evening of the 30th, the town of Chandler, OklK, was struck by a cyclone which destroyed everything in its path, but one building, a hotel,, being left intact. The first report said that a dozen or more persons had been killed, and 150 badly injured, while a later dispatch said many others were missing and thought j to be dead under the ruins. Only daylight could reveal the true state of jthiiigd.

| C. X. Budd, of bpai-ta. Tenn., killed | his wife, on the 80th. and then committed suicide. He left a letter saying k he committed the crime because his wife did not love him. There was an accident, on the Slst, on the Hoosac Tunnel &. Wilmington road, a quarter of a mile below Readsboro. Mass. The cars rolled over on their sides and lodged on the brink of a bank 25 feet high. Several passengers Were more or less injured, but no fatalities occurred. Spreading rails caused the accident. This boom in Argentine securities is continuing on the London stock exchange, the activity being due to the decision of the Argentine government to resume payment of full interest upon tbe debt ane. cancel the obliga- ■ tion of the year in advance of tbe time ;■ agreed upon. Ljtkr news from tbe cyclone-swept town of Chandler, Okla., greatly increases tbe number of the dead, with the Ridded horror that many of these ! met their fate in the flames that de- | strok ed the rains of their homes or places of business. The Ding ley tariff bill passed the house on the Slst—205 yeas. LSI nays; present and not voting. 21. Five demo-crats-Broussard. Dovey and Meyer, of Louisiana, and Kleberg and Slaydeu, of Texas, voted for the bill amid applause. Xu business houses at Albany, Ind., were destroyed by fire on the Slst. Loss. *40.000; insurance, about 930,000. The Red Cross society has made an international appeal for aid for the inhabitants of Crete. The armed insurgents are able to obtain provisions by going to the coast for supplies, but the HvbMF Inland are destitute. .

Wans masons were tearing flown the New Hartford house at Winstead, Conn., the oldest landmark in that part of the state, on the Slat, they unearthed a bottle of wine which was placed there when the hotel was built, 135 years ago. The state department declared, on the 81st, that Consul-General Lee bad not been granted a leave of absence to take effect on the 15th, as published, or on any other date. Gen. Lee had not asked for leave. Stephen J. Field, associate justice of the United States supreme court, has decided to retire from the bench in July. Jacob N. Sampson , the assistant prosecuting attorney of Lenawee county, Mich., who was indicted for conniving at the escape of Anton N. Christensen, arrested in New York city on a charge of embezzlement, was arraigned before Justice McMahon, in general sessions, on the 1st, and released on $500 bail. Noam Rabt, on the 1st, celebrated bis one hundred and twenty-fifth birthday anniversary in the Piscataway (N. J.) poorhouse. It is said that Hetty Green is about to begin foreclosures of mortgages upon about $4,000,000 worth of Chicagc property. The nomination of Benjamin Butterworlih, of Ohio, as commissioner of patent*, was sent to the senate by the president on the 1st. .£ Col. Fred Grant decided, on the 3d, to decline President McKinley’s offer of the position of first assistant secretary of war. A new Atlantic cable is being manufactured at Calais, France, and will shortly be laid. Maltist breaker, an immense structure operated by the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. at Maltby. five miles from ' Wilkesbarre, Pa., was destroyed- by fire on the 2d. It was one of the bestequipped coal breakers in the Wyoming region, containing all the modern mar [ chinery. It employed nearly 800 men, ! and had a capacity of 1,600 tons per day. An explosion, on the night of the 1st, wrecked the dryhouse of the Shamokin PowderCo., four miles west of Shamokin. Pa. The shock was felt for many miles. The barn of David llann, a farmer., living near the scene of the explosion, in some manner caught fine and was entirely destroyed.

^ oawvt ouvv wvui*v*» «uv •• v«, «% Antequera, 2S miles from Malaga, in the province of Andalusia, Spain, caused by a popular uprising against the imposition of the octroi tax. Several people were injured before the police were able to suppress the disorder. Ox the 'id Fourth Assistant Postmas-ter-General Bristow made his first appointments of fourth-class postmasters. His predecessor, Mr. Maxwell, did not appoint anyone for his last month, which left Mr. Bristow about 3,500 places to fill, caused by deaths, resign nations and removals. The four members of the Button gang, Frank and Antonio Borrego, Lauriano Alarid and Patricio Valencia, were hahged in the jail yard at Santa Fe, N. M., on the 2d, for the assassination of ex-Sheriff Frank Chavez, on the night of May 29, 1892. • Public Printer Palmer, on the 2d, resumed charge of the government printing office after an absence of three years. He found a handsome bouquet of roses on his desk from the employes, all of whom were glad to see him back. Cornelius O'Donnell and John Baird, two oil men of Pennsylvania, were blown to atoms near Celina, O., on the 2d, by an accidental explosion of nitroglycerine. * LATE NEWS ll^MS. The senate vtas not in session on the 3d... .In the house a message was received from the senate transmitting the joint resolution authorizing the secretary of the navy to transport in suitable American vessels, which he shall charter, contributions of the people of the United States for the faminestricken people of India. After some discussion the resolution was adopted by common consent. The house adjourned until the 7th. Comptroller Eckels has refused to permit the proposed reorganization of the defunct Missouri national bank of Kansas City. The bank failed last fall, owing SI.500,000. Those' favoring reorganization had secured the signatures of 1.947 creditors, representing $901,550 of the bank's liabilities, while 6S8 creditors. representing $347,400, had refused to give their consent.

Tint foreign embassies and legations in Washington are watching the progress of ,the tariff bill with great care, as it materially affects all commercial nations. Reports are being forwarded to the various foreign offices, and there in tarn are being made public abroad for the information of concerns shipping goods to the United States. A dispatch from Havana says: Acting Capb-Gen. Ahumada has received orders from Minister of War Azcar raga. at Madrid, not to try Gen. Ruir Rivera immediately by court-martial The minister thinks that a summary court-martial, followed by the shooting of Rivera and BaCallaco, would have a bad effect in Europe. Th* annual eight-oar race between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge was rowed, on the 3d, over the Thames championship course of four and one-half miles, from Putney to Mortlake, and was won by Oxford by three lengths. Th*last report of the retiring superintendent of the Quincy (111.) soldiers* home. Wm. H. Kirkwood, shows that there is due the home. the sum of $75,000 from the state treasurer, and that the home sadly needs the funds, A spkciai. dispatch from Washington says: Senator Foraker is determined to push his* railway pooling bill to a vote in the senate before the dose of the extra session, if possible. Th* steamship Fuerst Bismarck, which arrived at New York, on the 4th, from Mediterranean ports, brought nearly 1.000 Italian immigrants. Th* mind of ex-Gov. Porter, of Indiana, is said to be almost gone. He is 75 yean old and a victim of paresis. Ha was at one time minister to Italy.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Citizens of Monravia will bore lot gas. The factories at Mancie are running on full time. A double calf born in Cass county sold for $100. Anderson is preparing for location of new factories. The Colerick-Hall tragedy at Ft Wayne is still a mystery. Fifty car loads of stone are shipped from Bedford daily. Nearly all the people are joining church at Franktoo. Old veterans are preparing to go to Richmond in May. High school girls cheated in exam* ination at Middletown and were sent home in disgrace. Jack Gowdt will rent his farm at Rushville before going to Paris as con* sul general. Farmland boys perpetrated a fake robbery and had bloodhounds set on the track of supposed desperadoes. The Richmond high school has ao* cepted an invitation to take part in an oratorical contest among the high schools of the state at Indianapolis in May* The Richmond contestant will be chosen at a primary contest After two weeks repairing, the Methodist Episcopal church of Bed* ford was' formally dedicated by Bishop Thomas Bowman the other morning. At the conclusion of the morning serv* ices a collection was taken for the foreign missions amounting to several ,hundred dollars. After making an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide by severing an artery in one of his arms, Charles Peters, of Hammond, repaired to an outhouse and finished the job by hanging himself. Despondency over do* mestic troubles is supposed to be the cause. Deceased leaves a wife and five children. Word was received at Anderson the other day by Sheriff John Starr that John Patton, a colored man who had escaped from jail there last December, had been arrested in Toledo, and an officer was sent to return the prisoner. At the time Patton escaped he was under a two-year sentence for shooting a colored man in Alexandria Ueo. Patterson, prominent citizen of Knightsville, was seriously, if not fatally, injured in a runaway accident. His companion, John Allen, was also injured.

At Indianapolis a horse attached to a laundry wagon indulged in a run* away and fell the other evening, and as Benjamin France, a fireman on the Monon road, was assisting in releasing the animal he was kicked in the stoin* ach and fatally injured. Jacob Vaxness' barn, two miles west of Elwood, was burned by incendiaries the other night Earlt the other morning Geo. Huff* atetter’s big barnL near Solon, Clark county, was burned by incendiaries Eight cows’ farming implements and grain were destroyed. The loss was *3,000, with no insurance. Jambs Lovett, sheriff of Huntington county, went to Hartford City a few days ago and took charge of Fred Nichols and Duff Highland, two burglars arrested there They are wanted for burglarizing three stores at Mt Etna, Huntington county. At Indianapolis, Edward Shingler, the five-year-old son of William Shingler, the Bates house engineer, while playing with his father’s revolver, fatally shot himself. While repairing some fencing James Lower, of Walker township, Kush county, lost an eye. A staple glanced backward and struck him in . he eye, splitting the eyeball. The sight of the other eye is endangered. Earlt the o:her morning the body of Elias Ledford was found in a woods on the outskirts of Alexandria by Mat Benger. It was lying face down. Two bullet holes were discovered in his breast. Ledford was despondent over losing *50 while gambling the night before—his entire savings. He was 30 years old. James B. Rodman. The forger who was sent up from Richmond to serve two years in the prison south at Jeffersonville, has made rapid progress. His brightness earned for him an easy position. He is stenographer and typewriter in one of the contractor’s offices, is looked upon as a model prisoner, and is a great help to the prison officials. The developments when Rodman was on trial showed him one of the cleverest and most successful forgers in the country.

The Marion high school class this year will include 99 graduates, with the boys outnumbering the girls. Love Morgan, for assault witii in* tent to kill Matthew Lyons, was sent to prison for two years from Madison. G. W. McCammox, the Farmersbnrg absconding agent who skipped out with $3,800 of the Adams Express Ca’s money about one year ago, was landed in the Sullivan jail At Curtisville Boley Ruse, a young school teacher, shot Gilbert Hadley, who charged Lose with insulting his -wife. During her hpaband’s absence, Flora Moran, of Boston, eloped with a peddler. State Statistician Thompson admits that his accounts are mixed, and has offered to resign. At Wabash Frank J. Rettig was severely injured by the explosion of resin he was using to repair a bicycle tire. Th* state board of agriculture reports that the prospects for winter wheat are very poor. At Hartford (Sty a circuit court jury in the case of Joseph Disman, keeper of a road house, gave him two years lor shooting Asher Farrett. a mover, who stopped at his place to warm and refused to patronise the bar. Suit for $10,090 damages was filed in the Wabash circuit court by F. J. Barnett, administrator of the estate of George W. Scott, who was run down and killed by a freight team on the Wabash railroad at Rich Valley. | Frauds continue to turn np in the Mkin of OeXalb county. Several of the ex-county officers are in the penitentiary, and the arrest of stveral others will follow. .

GRANT DAY IN GOTHAM. Prepurttiom for the Monument Dedlentlei ob April 97—A Marine Display Will be Included—Gen. John B. Gordon Expected to Hand the Ex-Confederate* in the Land Furnde—President Dins of Mexico Cun Not be Present. New York, April 4.—The marine display at the Grant monument dedicatory ceremonies will closely rival the demonstration on land. The men in charge of it are bestirring themselves and arrangements are progressing satisfactorily. Rear-Admiral Erben says that seweral of the French and English men-of-war on the North Atlantic stations of their respective countries will take part in the naval review. It has become arranged that Admiral Bunce, commanding the North Atlantic squadron, with the foreign ships, will form in two columns opposite the Grant monument. The revenue, marine and lighthouse fleet, together with the merchant marine, will fall in under this formation and move at the same time that the land parade moves and pass in review of Admiral Bunce's fleet and the foreign ships. As the land parade passes in front of the president, appropriate salutes will be fired from the fleet which will be anchored. The idea of making April 27 a flag day is gaining ground. Mayor Strong is so favorably impressed with it that | he has determined to issue a general reI quest that flags be displayed from every 1 house in Greater New York. The reasons he will give for the request are that the eyes of the nation will be on j New York April 27, and that local pride [ should be incentive enough to make the t ceremonies historic in their grandeur, j The hope that New York would enj joy the sight never vouchsafed to the J people of the presidents of two great* | est American republics riding in the ! same carriage has been blasted by the j receipt of a letter from President Diaz. ! saying that he can not be present on j Grant day. He can not leave his coun- ! try while in office. j There is every prospect that Gen. | John B. Gordon, of Georgia, one of the | distinguished lighting generals of the | south, will be here tp marshal the conI federate veterans April 27. The problem of seating visitors is pressing upon the committee. A statement of the arrangements made for the accommodation of strangers will be made in a day or two. Expert mechanics have begun the work of cutting through the steel bars and copper case inside of which reposes the rosewood casket containing the ■ remains of Gen. Grant, This is rendered necessary in order to remove the casket to the sarcophagus. It is a difficult task, because the steel bars are chisel-proof and the rivets have to be heated and cut before the ease can be penetrated. The work will occupy several days. • s HIS MIND GONE. Ex-Gov. Porter of*Indiana n Victim ot PareeU. Indianapolis, Ind., April 4.—ExGov. Porter's mind is almost com

v_ EX-GOV. PORTER OF INDIANA, pletely gone. He is 75 and a victim of paresis. He was at one time minister to Italy. ' WESTERN CROPS. Bmud* of Condition* in Missouri, Illinois. Texas and Arkansas. Washington, April 4.—The monthly report, issued by the weather bureau, gives resume of the conditions of crops as follows: Missouri—Ground too wet for form work, except in a few extreme southern counties, where oats sowing and corn planting are now in progress: wheat badly winter killed; clover also frozen out badly in places: peach buds reported killed in some districts; other fruits all right. Illinois—Roads impassable: work at present impossible and little done; few oats sown in southern section, elsewhere none: winter wheat, rye. and clover somewhat injured, wheat seriously. much killed : grass starting fairly well in central and southern sections; also tree buds; fruits thought to he uninjured, except peaches in central and northern sections; frost out of ground, bur little snow remains. Texas—Dry weather delayed farming operations over southern portion, but under generally favorable conditions over other sections good progress has been made; corn planting about completed during the month, and where not too dry has come up well; ootton planting progressing nicely; wheat and oat crops generally promising. Arkansas—Little plowing has been done; very little corn and no cotton planted; wheat and oats are doing fairly well, though some bad affects are noticed in oats from too much moisture; grasses are growing fast. Fruit trees, except apples, are in full bloom and uninjured as yet; many strawberry vines killed by drought list summer. OXFORD THE WINNER. The Eight-Oared Oxford-Cam* bridge Bace oa the Thames. London, April 4.—The annual eightoar race between the crews of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge was rowed today over the Thames championship course of four and one-half miles, from Putney to Mortlake, and won by Oxford by three lengths. The usual crowd lined the river banks on both sides of the course. The weather was bitterly cold, but the war ter was smooth. AN ILLINOIS HEROINE. 8hs Tackled a Thieving Tramp aad Pa* Win to Flight—Arrested and Jailed. Cablinyuxk. 11L, April 4.—Miss Amelia Herrick, of Girard, is the heroine of a desperate encounter with a tramp who broke into her house Friday. While one vagrant watched outside the other entered and pointed a revolver at her mother’s breast The plucky girl, who is muscular, sprang •non him, and after a straggle, in which she was severely braised, wrested the weapon away, when he fled. Thev were arrested and Jailed.

THE RUSSIAN VIEW. Greece Responsible tor All the Trortto la Crete, mad Grecians Moat Suffer if U» Horror* of War Arc Precipitated by Her Obstinacy—The Powers Will Sot Conceal That She Derive Any Advantage. St. Pxtxrsburg, April 5.—The “Journal de St. Petersburg’'’ (semi-official) says: *‘The aggressive and provocative attitude that Greece maintains with such deplorable obstinacy <;ompels the powers to blockade the Gnlf of Athens^. Greece, by keeping Col. Vassos in Crete, is exposing the Cretans to all the disadvantages of blockade there. She frustrates the restoration of peace, she prevents the powers from learning the real ~2 wishes of the inhabitants of Crete, which can only be ascertained by the powers after the removal of an interested pressure.. The reports of the consuls in Greece, and of the admirals of the international fleets show the utter impossibility at the present moment of communicating directly with the Cretans, who are subjected to the overwhelming influence of the Greek detachment in the island. “Col. Vassos has practically declared war against the powers. “Moreover, certain extravagant and habitual fomenters of disorder hysterI ically advocate a declaration of war by | Greece against Turkey on the 6th of | April, or on the date when a bloekad^ of Greece commences. “We refuse to believe that any such extraordinary aet of folly will be com* ! mitted, but in the event of it happening. Greece will certainly have to endure the most serious consequences. If Greece wishes war at any price, she can count on the support of no one, i whatever the result may be of a conflict so wantonly provoked. The powers will never consent to the aggressors deriving the slightest advantage from victcsry in such a struggle. “After the powers have exhausted all possible means at their disposal to j spare Greece the sufferings she has I drawn upon herself, they are not bound | to disturb themselves further. Their i complete agreement is the surest guarantee of the final victory of order, right and fairness, and the pledge for the maintenance of the general peace of Europe, even in the event of partial disturbances, created by Greece, which the powers will know how to localise I and, if necessary, to suppress.”

POSSIBLE SOLUTION. How the Trouble in Crete Can Be Speedily I Ended in a War Honorable to All Pnrtles Turkish Evarontion and Withdrawal at (ireek Army From the Frontier,to Be Followed by Joint Grecian and European Occupation of Crete. Londojt, April 5.—The Times pub* fishes the following1 dispatch from its Athens correspondent: “The erux of the situation is the presence of Col. Yassos and his army in Crete. The powers insist on withdrawal, but neither King George nor the government cares to comply. It is believed, however, that the difficulty may be surmounted in the following way: “The first step would be the withdrawal of the Turkish forces from Crete. This would not only remove the suspicions of the Cretans, but would make it possible for Col. Vassos and the army to return from Crete with a certain amount of prestige. The prior retirement of the Turkish army would be less offensive to the sultans amour prop re than the simultaneous withdrawal of both armies, inasmuch as he has intrusted Crete to the powers, and the arrangement to be reached would be one concerning him and them exclusively. “The order for the recall of the Greek army from the frontier would immediately follow. Greece having thus abandoned her contumacious at* titude. the powers ihight intrust her with a mandate to occupy Crete in the name of the - sultan, as when Austria received a mandate from Europe to occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina. “Thus legally empowered, Greece could send another army under another commander to Crete to occupy the interior of the island, while the international occupation of the seaports might continue until measures had been taken for the repatriation, or, possibly, th© partial emigration, of the Mohammedan refugees. Eventually the Greek occupation would become general, the powers having in the meantime decided upon the form of the new constitutibn, with such guaifentees as might be demanded by Europe for the protection of the Mahommedan minority which would be readily accorded bj* Greece.*’

MISSOURI NATIONAL BANK. THE NATIONAL MINERS' BUREAU ImM a Call for u International OoU Miser** Convention. Dexver, Col., April 5.—The National Mining bureau has issued a call for an “International Gold Miners’ convention,” to be held in Denver on the 15th and 16th of Jane. The exhibits will consist of refined gold and gold ores, and a general mineral display. State bureaus of mines, state schools of mines, chambers of commerce, boards of trade, mining exchanges and mining and miners' organizations are invited to co-operate in the exhibit and movement. The milling and smelting interests are requested to participate, as well as machinery manufacturers and dealers. Each county in the mining states is asked to hold a mass convention not later than May “JO, and elect delegate to the gathering here. Comptroller Ecfcels Refuses to Permit Xt to Reorganise. Kansas Citt, Mo., April 5.—A Washington special says: Comptroller Eckels has refused to permit the proposed reorganization of the defunct Missouri national bank of Kansas City. The bank failed last fall, owing $1,500,000. Those favoring roorganuwtion had secured the signatures of 1,911 creditore, representing $901,550 of the bank’s liabilities, while 638 creditors, representing $347,400 had refund t» give their consent.