Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 49, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 April 1900 — Page 2

Site §?ibf bounty gjtuwttal M. McC. STOOPS, Editor and Pi oprUtorv PETERSBURG, ; INDIANA. VThe statement that Germany will soon publish the secret Anglo-Germau treaty regarding Africa is denied in well informed circles in Berlin.

Contractors in Berlin and the vicinity hove boycotted the eitjr of late because the latter insists upon a paragraph in their contracts guaranteeing the city against strikes. The statement of the treasury balances in the general fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold reserve in the division of redemption, issued on the 6th, showed: Available cash balance, $156,775,803; gold, $96,392,555. A Berlin dispatch says:“ “Reports from Washington intimating that Germany is instigating Turkey to take uniriendly action against American meats are emphatically denied by the German foreign office.” The board of governors of the Southern Cotton Spinners’ association decided, on the 2d, that southern mills should be advised to maintain present prices of yarns, as'there is no prospect of a decline in yarn goods. Senator Lodge introduced amendments to the army appropriation bill, on the 6th, giving to the commanding officer of the army the rank of lieutenant general, and to the adjutant general the rank of major general. Ex-Representative Springer called or, the commissioner of Indian affairs, on ihe 3d, to present a petition from the Miami and Peoria Indians of the Indian territory, who desire that lands belonging to them which have not been taken up in allotments be sold and the proceeds divided among the tribes. At the northern station in Brussels, on the 4th, while ex: route to Copenhagen, the prince of Wales was shot at by a young Boer sympathizing fanatic. named Sipide, who was promptly arrested. The prince, with characteristic nonchalenee, requested that the culprit be not dealt with too harshly. The oijflcers of the Marine hospital service* have consented to handle the smallpox situation on the Nez Perees settlement in Idaho. They will oooperate with the agents and inspectors of the Indian bureau, and will establish detention camps and do whatever else is necessary to stamp out the disease and prevent its spi*ead. ‘ 'The railway automatic-coupling bill passed its second reading in the British house of commons on the 5th. Speaking upon the measure, James Brice, liberal, declared America was far ahead of Great Britain in the matter of automatic couplings. In fact, he added, American railroads had shown Great Britain the way in many things. « At the session of the New York conference of the M. E. church, held on the 5th, Dr. I. W- Hathaway, president of the American Sabbath Union, announced that he had just arrived from Washington, where he had called upon President McKinley, who had informed him that the United States buildings at the Paris exposition would be closed on Sundays. ( . —‘— - Queen Victoria received a characteristic, Irish welcome on her entry Into Dublin on the 4th. There was no halfheartedness about 'it, and it touched the aged sovereign’s heart in a manner that nothing has done in many a long year. The irreconcilables were all in the backgi'ound, and nothing occurred to mar the joyousness of the occasion. The New York chamber of . commerce adopted resolutions, on the 5th, declaring that the stamp taxes should be abolished as soon as the revenues of the government will permit, and if it is impossible to abolish them all in the beginning, those upon telegrams, express and freight receipts, proprietary articles and sales made u$on exchanges .should be first abolished. r

The secretary of war, on the 6th, ,ent to the senate the original "ecord of the proceedings of the military court which conducted the beef inquiry of last year. This was done in response to a resolution calling for a copy of the record. The secretary explained that the record covered 4,700 typewritten pages, and to copy it, would occupy the time of two copyists for six months. Kansas City’s magnificent auditorium, completed a year ago, in which the democratic national convention was to have met July 4, was totally destroyed by fire on the 4th. It caught fire about 1 p. m., and burned with such fury that in fifteen minutes nothing remained but a mass of ruins. The second Presbyterian church, the Lathrop school and a number of adjacent dwellings were also destroyed. Loss, $400,000. The Kentucky court of appeals decided, on the 6th, against the republican governor and lieutenant governor and in favor of the democratic contestants, holding that the action of tha legislature in the case was final and the coairt had no jurisdiction. Two of the republican judges reluctantly subscribed to the same principle, whila deprecating the alleged injustice done. One republican judge dissented. Tha ease will be taken to the supreme court of the United States.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. FlcTY-SlXTH CONGRESS. In tnc senate, on the 2d, more than seven hours of vigorous debate, before galleries thajt were crowded from opening to close, was given to the Puerto Rican tariff and government bill. Th£ speeches wero good, and the running debates unusua tv bright and lively. The near approach the hour at which the final vote should be taken lent dramatic interest to every word that was uttered.In the house a resolution, presented by Mr. Payne, the floor leader ?of the majority, and which foreshadowed a possible reduction of the present war taxes, was adopted. Under suspension of the.rules bills were passed opening to settlement 418.0004 acres in the Fort Hall Indian reservation and 2.500,000 acres in Oklahoma, and dividing the northern judicial district of New York into two districts. In the senate, on the 3d, a vote was reached on the Puerto Rican tariff and c!m1 government bill, which was adopted by a majority of nine, the vote being: Ayes, 40; nays, 31. In the voting upon amendments, which preceded final action, only committee amendments were adopted. An effort by Mr. Lodge (Mass.) to have the Spooner bill made the unfinished business, involving the displacement of the Quay case, provoked an exceedingly lively debate for half an hour before adjournment.In the house, in committee of the whole, consideration of the substitute for the senate Hawaiian territorial I bill was taken up under a special order which would bring the question to a vote ! on the 5th. at four o’clock. j In the Senate on the 4th the session opened with a lively and interesting dis- < ussion o: the Quay case. In the course of which Mr. Wolcott apologized for language used by him on the day previous, disclaiming any intention of being offensive to anybody, and, least of all, to his 1 friend, Mr. Lodge. It was agreed to take i up the Quay case on the 5th, and the | Spooner bill was mads the unfinished businers_In the House many speeches were ! n.ude on the Hawaiian bill, several of | ibeni entirely irrelevant. The .most exoit- ; ing episode of the day's proceedings was ! a wordy w;-i I ctween Mr. Pugh (rep., Ky.j. end Mr. Wheeler (dem., Ky.), during discussion of the Kentucky situation Mr Pugh accused Mr. Wheeler of misrepresenting facts, but afterwards disclaimed any charge of personal intention ■ to distort facts. In the senate, on the 5th, most of the session was held behind closed doors considering the Hay-Pauneefote treaty. During the comparatively brief open sei - | sioo Mr. Gallinger <N. Ij.) made a constitutional argument against the seating of I Hon. M. S. Quay as senator from Penni sylv&nia.In the house ti\e bill to proj vide a territorial government for Hawaii was not completed when the hour (four o’clock) previously agreed upon for taking the vote, arrived, and it was decided to continue its consideration, under the ! five-minute rule, until finished. Several Important amendments were agreed to. In the senate, bn the 6th, after the morning hour, the unfinished business, the Spooner Philippine bill, was taken up. Mr. Lodge gave notice that, on the 11th, he would ask the senate either then to vote upon the measure or fix a time for a final vote upon it. Consideration of the Indian appropriation bill was then resumed, but without disposing of it, the senate, after a short executive session, adjourned....In the house, after four days’ debate, the substitute for the senate bill providing for a territorial form of government for Hawaii was passed, after unsuccessful attempts at amendment. PERSONAL AND GENERAL Secretary Hay has addressed a vigorous protest to the Turkish government against the proposed application of an edict excluding American pork from Turkey, The note enters an emphatic denial of the prepense of the unwholesomenesH set up against our pork as a basis for the exclusion. The republicans of the house, in caucus, decided to take the shortest possible route to a termination of the Puerto Rican tariff problem by concurring in all the senate’s amendments, and sending the bill direct to the president. The British garrison at Mafeking made a sortie, on the 2d, just as Col. Plumer’s force attacked the burghers at Ramathlabama- The attacking forces were in each case repulsed, 20 of Plumer’s men being left dead on the field, while six others were taken prisoners. A royal order was promulgated, on the 5th, for the organisation of a regiment in the British army to lx* known as the “Irish guards,” which will form a portion of the privileged household troops. This is in commemoration of the gallantry of the Irish regiments serving in South Africa.

Arthur F. Marsh, of Allegan, former inspector general of the Michigan national guard,was convicted at Lansing, Mich., on the 5th, of having feloniously conspired with certain of his otheial associates to defraud the state. The 64 delegates from Pennsylvania to the National democratic convention in Kansas City were instructed by the state convention, on the 5th, to support William 3. Bryan for president. They are bound by the unit rule. Admiral Dewey's announcement of his candidacy for the presidential nomination appears to have dropped with the force of a 13-inch bomb into the ranks of the reception committees in the western cities, which have extended invitations to the admiral to pay them a visit. They don't know exactly where, they stand. The resignations of two of the faculty of Brown university was announced on the 6th. Prof. Hammond Lamont, pf the rhetoric department, has accepted a calj to the managing editorship of the New York Evening Post, and Miller Moore Fogg, instructor in public speaking and oratory, resigned to pursue higher literature abroad.*1 A bill was introduced in the senate, on the 6th, by Mr. Foster, making it a felony to use deleterious substances In the preparation of food.

Miss Olga NethersoJt* aud Hamilton Ilevelle, actors; Marcus It. Mayer, manager of Miss Nethersole, arul Theodore Moss, manager of Waliack’s theater, were,on the 6th. found not guilty, in New York, of maintaining a public nuisance in presenting the drama Sapho. The charge to the jury by .Judge Furs man was favorable to the accusedThe New York state legislature adjourned sine dU* on the 6th. One of the last bills passed in the assembly was the one appropriating $200,000 for a survey of the state canals, looking , toward their enlargement sq as to permit of the passage of barges through them. The amount of bonds deposited in the treasury, up to the 6th, for exchange for the new two-per-cents was $220,922,750, of which $27,-151,450 came front individuals or institutions other than national banks. The New York cotton exchange will b# closed Good Friday and the following Saturday, and the col?ce exchange will be closed on,Good Friday.

LATE NE^VS ITEMS. In the senate, on the 7th, almost the entire session was devoted to consideration of an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill providing1 for the continuance of the government's employment of contract Indian schools. The debate took' a wide range, the whole qtfestion of sectarian schools being gone over at length....In the house a resolution was adopted calling upon the secretary of war for information as to whether Charles E. Magoou, the legal advisor of the insular bureau, had ever rendered an opinion that, by the treaty with Spain, the constitution was extended over Puerto Rico and the Philippines. The session was largely devoted to eulogies of the late Richard Parks’Bland, for 20 years a member of the hod-sel Fred Titus, proprietor of the Depot restaurant at Peru, Ind., was probably fatally stabbed, and his brother Steve seriously cut, on the Sth, by two unknown men. The men, who were inoxieated, refused to pay for their lunch, and insulted Mrs. Fred Titus. They were driven away, but*later returned, when the stabbing occurred. Fire, -on the Sth, partly destroyed the piano and organ factory of the M. Schultz Co., comer Morgan and Superior streets, Chicago, entailing a loss of $50,000, covered by insurance. The cause is thought to have,been spontaneous combustion. ♦ Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., arrived at St. Paul, Minn., on he 8h, from Fargo and the Bed River valley, and after a quiet day at his hotel in that city, left at night for Chicago, en route to Washington. The rural free delivery system of the post office department has grown to such proportions that it has been found necessary to create two new divisions, making four in all, to properly handle it. Five men were garroted in Ponce, Puerto Bico, on the 7th. Subsequently the execution platform was broken up by a crowd of relic hunters, who carried away the fragments as mementoes. The Berlin papers publish a Washington dispatch with reference to the convening of a seeond Pan-American congress, and comment,upon the proposal in rather unfavorable terms. A bi-weekly oriental express train from Berlin to Constantinople will begin running April 30, making the distance: An 51 hours. CURRENT NEWS NOTES , A determined effort is being made to Irtish out Methodism in Rome. The house passed the Hawaiian bill providing a territorial government for the island. Senator Foster has introduced a bill which would make deleterious adulteration of food a felony. The boiler of the Van Arsvlale sawmill near Stillwater. Okla., exploded, killing Fred Van Arsdale. The general conference of the Reorganized Church^ Jesus Christ Latter Dav Saints is in session at Lamont, la. ■ '3 % Mrs. Robert Keith died at Alto Puss, 111., from starvation due to illness. Her stomaeh refused, tor <io days, to retain food. r ■ Mayor Seymour of Newark, X. J. has forbidden the production of “The. Degenerates” in that city ty Mrs. Langtrv.

H. W. Kennedy, employed by a Dallas (Tex.) telephone company, was instantly killed by taking hold of a vagrant wire to remove it. - F. P. Puderbaugh, of Chicago, has leased 6(X) acres of land eight miles northwest of Springfield, Mo., and has stocked it with Angora goats, Harry Varden, the British champion golfer, was beaten by two Vale students at New Haven, Conn. He charged bis defeat to unfair American rules. In a street fight at Huntington, W. Va., Shelly Sharit^ was shot and instantly killed and Charles Snyder seriously wounded. They were lookerson. The dead body of John Callaghan was found in tf(g barn of his falther-in-law, James Walsh, near the little village of Garfield, 111. He had shot himself. Arrangements are being made at Alto Pass., 111., to employ an expert geologist from Pennsylvania to prospect for oil, gas and mineral in thatRegion. * The Dublin police, by order of the government* seized Friday’s issue of the United Irishmen as a print “calculated to produce discontent, disaffection and disloyalty.-’ Henry Bauer, who was defeated in the race for constable in Wade township, Clinton county, 111., has received consolation in the shape of a $20,000 legacy from a deceased uncle m Jersey City, N. J.

ALL OVER THE STATE. Events in Various Portions of Indiana Told by Wira - Rhiwijt Girl*. Whiting, Ind.. April 6.—Dythin Morrow and Nellie McTide, of this place, each 17 years old, were taken into custody by the police In Chicago aiul spent the night in a station. They were apprehended on a- complaint that they had run away from home. This the girls deny, asserting that their parents approved of their departure. A young man. Miss Morrow says, who has suffered some humiliation at her hands is to blame for their arrest and detention. Snld (to Be Short. Hartford City, lnd., April 6.—The j commissioners of this county haveac- j cepted the report of the expert who \ examined the county records and will take steps to recover the deficit of about $4,500. According to the report, former County Clerk D. C. Caldwell is $2,800 in arrears; former Sheriff E. C. Go vault, $800; former Sheriff Jessie Bugh. $400; former County Auditor Joseph Painter, $265. and former County Treasurer John G. Wood, $107. Another Bridge Blown Up. Flora, lnd.. April 6.—The farmers In the eastern part of Carroll county seem determined to compel the company owning the Logausport & Burlington turnpike to abandon the road. Not satisfied with burning two tollhouses and blowing up a bridge with dynamite, they blew up another fridge four miles north of Deer creek over flock creek, thus rendering traffic over the road from Carrpll to Logansport out of the question. j *

Saved by a Dor, Anderson, Inch, April ti.—Mrs. Jane Mahoney, two children and two farm hands owe their lives to the vigilance and good sense of a big shepherd dog. The dog barked for some time and then broke open the door of Mrs. Mahoney's room. The dog pulled her out of bed by the arm. The house was then wrapped in flames, and a moment after the last occupant left the roof fell in. Returned In a Pullman. Logansport, Ind., April ti.—Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Chatman have Returned to Burrows after 35 years’ absence in California. They left Burrows in a eo-vered wagon, drawn by a yoke of oxen: their belongings being worth less than $100. They returned in a Pullman, with drafts and papers representing a handsome fortune. Suffocated. $ Kokomo, Ind.. April 6.—While loading cars with shelled corn from his elevator at West Madison Frank Boyd found the chute from uhe funnelshaped hopper closed. An investigation showed that his son. Charles Boyd. 13 years old. had fallen into the hopper and was smothered. . Love Feast. Washington. Ind.. April fi.—Republicans of the Second congressional district held a love feast here. Among the speakers were John L. Griffiths, of Indianapolis: Enoch Hogate, of Danville; W. S. Haggard, of Indianapolis, and Frank Posey, of Evaff&ville, all candidates for governor. Successful. Richmond, Ind., April 6.—The county superintendent, who has, during the, last year, been experimenting with the consolidation of district schools, thinks that work of a higher standard has been the result and patrons in nearly all the townships approve of the system. Died Uaklny u Speech. Kokomo. Ind..’April 6.—Ex-Postmas-ter G. W. McKinzie died of heart disease while making a speech at a republican ward meeting. Sinking to *fhe floor, he,gasped: “It’s all over, boys; I am gone.” He was a member of the j Ninth Indiana battery in the civil war. -j Trumps Burn Can, Butler, Ind., April 6.—Tramps were discovered setting fire to box cars in the Wabash yards in this city, and they were apprehended after a sharp chase, and were 'committed for grand jury action. The damage was* about $200.

Were Sweetheart*. ' Worthington, Ind., April 6.—Martin Van Buren Smith and Mrs. Preston Sanders have been united in marriage at the home of the bride in this city. Both parties are over 50 years old, and were sweethearts in their early life. Larne Attendance. Terre Haute, Ind., April 6.—The spring term at the state normal school lias opened with a much larger attendance than was expected, the smallpox ! scare manifestly having little effect among the students. Brains Beaten Out. Crown Point. Ind.. April^ 6. The body of a six-months’-old infant has been found in the highway near Lake station, this county. The infant was undressed and the upper part o^its head was crushed in. A Boy Sentenced. (ioshen, Ind,. April 6.—Peter Alwine, J2 years old. has been sentenced to four months in jail, on a plea of guilty to a charge of burglary. It was the second time the lad had been arrigned in court nplhin six weeks. On Trial for Life. Kokomo. Ind- April S.—After a day spent in securing a jury William Busby is on trial for his life in the circuit court for killing Oren Springer last November. Healthy Children. Knightstown, Ind., April 6.—Of the &30 inmates of the state soldiers’ or, phans’ home, not one is. confined to the ' hospital because of illness.

-i- ; , Thousands Gather at Austin to View the Devastation Wrought by the Ruthless Waters. -A -JL,

THE CIT^PRACTICALLY IN DABKilESS. The Great Pourr Hnnw That Supplied Electric Lit;lit mid Tower k Hau of Kuiiirt m the Keenlt ot the Breaking * of the Big Dam -Many 1’eopie Were Drowned. Austin, Tex., April 8.—Fully thirty thousand people gathered at the powerhouse stationed north of this city to witness the ruins of the plant which cost this city one and thiye-quarter millions of dollars a few years ago. The waters of the Colorado river were still plunging and foaming around the wreck, eating away the big pile of granite which once formed the dam, as though it was nothing more than chaik^tock. So fierce was the current that great boulders were carried half a mile from the dam,, being rolled, over and over by the turbulent tide. The powerhouse, which succumbed to the terrific wash of the water at two o’clock this morning, lies a mass of wreckage on the edge of the river, all the valuable machinery either having been thrown into the river or badly damaged by the falling timbers of the powerhouse. The wreck of the plant is complete. The Situation Most Serious. The situation in the city to-night is most serious. The, wreckage of the plant means that it will take several weeks to secure even a temporary water and light system, if it can be made possible even then. In the meantime the city will be in a bad sanitary condition. All the hotels, private residences, stores and the like are without water, and there is no fire protection. Churches were unable to hold services to-night for want of light, and all public meetings were abandoned. The daily papers are handicapped.in their publications, being deprived of their electric power. The river is jailing to-night. Rverytliinsr U Inder Water.0 Reports from the neighboring country are to the effect that everything is under water. In Williamson county, north of here, railroad bridges and trackage have been laid waste, and all trains have stopped running. Hundreds of head of cattle have been drowned and miles of fencing torn down and, washed away. In Bastrop county and iit the southern portion of this county similar conditions prevail, everything- being under water and much loss of property is* reported. 1.088 Will Kxceed Three Millions. The country tributary to the Colorado river all the way down its course is being inundated, and while it is believed the worst is over, the loss, as estimated to-night, will exceed some three million dollars, counting Austin as the largest loser. Fortunately the list of drowned, according to reports up to to-night, is limited to those reported in the' press dispatches last night, as it seems the only:, drownings reported were here when the dam broke, and caught the victims unawares. There were no trains operated on the Inland Great Northern, as much of its track and quite a number of bridges were washed away during last night. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad is also a heavy sufferer from a like cause. ' j| I.arKt* Acreage l nder Water. Reports from several sections of central Texas are to the effect that a largo acreage is under water, and much damage has been suffered in property and live stock. «

THE WATERS ASSUAGING Great Property Damage, bat No Lom ot Life Reported. Houston, Tex., April 8.—As a rule the Texas rivers are now falling, and there is not much danger of a general flood. The crops have been damaged over a wide area, but there is still time for farmers to replant if they can get the seed. Corn has been planted over once, and will have to be planted the third time. The farmers, as a rule, have not planted much cotton because the' heavy rains have kept them out of the fields. The railroads have lost many small bridges, and it will be a week before the traffic resumes its normal condition. Smithville reports tremendous rains have fallen throughout that section, the main flood in the Colorado from the break in the great Austin dam reaching there this evening. The river is bn a 38-foot rise at 7 p. m., and is rising one foot an h^ur. It is estimated that over 5,000 acres of growing craps in the bottom lands within-five miles of town have been inundated by from ten to fifteen feet. The loss will] reach over fifty thousand dollars. The stock has been destroyed. No deaths r.ave been reported in that section so ::ar from drowning. Great excitement and uneasiness prevailed last night. Cameron reports that the flood in Little river now equals that of last «fuly. The waterworks and power* house have been overflowed. People were warned, and no loss of life is re- ] lorted. Brushy, San Gabriel and Little Rivet t»re all overflowed, causing the entire destruction of all crops. The rivers s re still rising. Reports from points on other river* o re of damage *o crops, but no loss of lie. All sections tributary to the Colo ruda rifer report serious damage ti property.

r ■/& -- THE IlfS JRGENTS ARE ACTIVE. Latest from the situation fa t.Mi Xot HfiNxtiriuK tn Americana. > **C

Manila. April 9.—Reports of en* Jounters l etwoen the American troop* and. the ibsufgints continue to arrive from {mints, On Friday Capt fturgis while reconnoitering. struck an insun.int outpost on the Nov a belies road, miles distant from Manila, killing t \’’o and capturing ten. All iverc ii| fall uniform. Unfortunately, Capt. $1t»rgis' force was not large «nough$ pursue the main body. Pi rkueU by the lttMunceuty. A |d;t»t’hn!cnt of the Forty-second infantiv. while scouting in Laguna prm»n« e, was pursued by the insurgents and obliged to Jake refuge in a church; a t Paeto, where the Americans repi Ue>l the rebels until reiulorcen en ts arrived. *'’w u Small FiiKMKwmenta. Lien i. Gordon, with 4 company of the Sixteenth infantry, while scouting near Aparri. Cuyagun province, engaged 250 insurgents, Lieut. Gordon was wounded. .. .V*; A sergeant and a corporal of company if, Eighteenth infantry' were killed hi a severe fight in Capiz province, Island of l*an:iy. /A Kin (it Attack IpoB Calhayoa. The insurgents made a night attack U)>Oii 'albayon, Island of Samar. They killed the sentry, swarmed into the town ani searched the house of Mii j, Giljmore, of the Forty-third infantry, who was absent. They killed liis cook. Ultimately th$ Americans drove them out o; the town, killing four and capturing 1L Reviucata for Reinforcement*. (lei . Young, commanding in north Luzon has made "several requests for vejnfo.xfemerps, representing that his foi-ce is- inadequate; that the men are exhausted by the necessity' of constant viirHaucb.:' that he is unable to garrison the towns in his jurisdiction; that Ihe insirgents are returning to the district and killing the amigos, aod that i» is necessary for him to inflict punishficnt in several sections before the rainy season negius. i-'oree* Are Inmletiuate. Gen. James Hell, who is eoyimanding ini southern Luzon, has made similar representations. He says his fcfrCcst are inadequate, and that he merely holds few towns, without controlling territory . The president of the town of m nut!, Province of Bntaar, Luzon, and a prominent native, have been assassinated because they were known to be' friendly to the Americans. The president of another town has joined the Insurgents because they had thveatvn< • to kilThiin if he did not. RURAL FREE DELIVERY, tir >vrth gL^hr System .Necessitate)* the Establishment uf Two New Divisions. Washington, April 9.=—The rural free delivery system of the post office department has grown to such proportions that it has been found necessary to create two new divisions to properly ki ndle it. An order, signed by the postmaster general Saturday, establishes free delivery in the eastern division with headquarters at New York, including in its territory New England, New York and Pennsylvania, nine States, with Special Agent E. H. Hathaway in charge: the middle division, headquarters Indianapolis, Ind., coiap sing Ohi) and all states west to the Missouri and southern states down to and including Louisiana, with C. F. Rice in charge; the west division, comipr. sing states wesjpetf"the Missouri and lo'.vu to the eoasf, headquarters Hen[vet. with William E, Annin in charge; the southern division, including 11 southern states, headquarters at VYashington, with H. Conquest Clarke in cha rge. The orde# will go into effect May 1. -K

READY FOR HER TRIAL TRIP. | The Torprdoboat Destroyer Strlnshum Expected to Outstrip All the Fast Vessels, v 1 * ; Iforfolk, Va., April 9.—All preparations are now complete for to-day's r ial over the measured course in lower ;C'l]p:>sapeake bay of the torpedoboat des .rover String-ham. She has been tied ip in this port for the last three days \ liile the skilled medianios who constructed her have been at work on her, j diking every bearing’, nut. bolt and ; t efew of her machinery: perfect in its *• forking1 parts. J The official trial board, headed by ar-Admiral Rogers, will arrive from Vjashington this morning’, and the 1 drip "ham will leave immediately on » r trial. She is expected to surpass n speed every ship in the navy. The Saints* Conference. Laniont, la., April 9.—Yesterday, ; < hough the first Sunday of the Saints* | conference, showed one of the largest crowds ever gathered at a conic rente of this people. The auditorium j|id basement of the Brick church were ajbth crowded to their fullest capacity it the forenoon preaching services, i id many failed to gain admittance to J t her. Charged With Heavy Embezzlement. Minneapolis, Minn., April 8.—L. P. 1‘iunner, the insurance agent who was & rrested at Republic, Wash., is charged with embezzling $150,000 from a Buffalo county (Wis.) bank.. Wisconsin officers made the arrest and will bring Munner back for trial. SU Men Injured. Buffalo, N. Y„ April 8.—An engine collided with a work tiain on the Buffalo Creek railroad at Prescott street. SSix men were painfully injured, one ui them, Charles Coheti, car iusuecto?1, teriously.