Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 October 1900 — Page 2

Shf pttr bounty Jifraoaat M. MeC. NTOOPS. Editor «ad Proprietor. PETERSBURG, s INDIANA. On the 16th Queen Wilhelmina ol The Netherlands proclaimed her betrothal to Duke Henry of Mecklen-burg-Schwerin. . . F. W. Vaille, director of posts in the Philippines, has notified the post office department that he has opened a night school for native postal employes at Samolpec, where they may atudy English. Prof. Pickering, of Harvard, arrived at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 16th, to establish an astronomical observatory at Mandeville immediately. He says the surroundings there are favorable for special researches. A conservative estimate of Florida’s orange crop this year places the yield at 1,000,000 boxes. The groves are in healthy condition. Fruit will begin to be marketed about the 1st. The average price per box is two dollars. Prof. Wilhelm Oncken, of the University of Giessen (Hesse), who was intimately acquainted with the late Prince Bismarck, writes to a Dresden journal that Bismarck’s last prayer was: “Lord, I believe. Help Thou mine unbelief." A It is regarded in Pekin as certain that the alleged imperial edict ordering the punishment of high officials was forged, and was concocted with the object of preventing the advance of the allies on Pao Ting Fu. Both Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang deny its authenticity.

Nicholas Scalp, a Swedish naval cook, who was on the battleship Maine when she was blown up in Havana harbor, shot and killed himself In Brooklyn on the 19th. His jaw was shattered by flying iron in the Maine explosion, and he had been unable to eat solid food since. The comptroller of the currency says that applications have been received under the act of March 14, 1900, for the organization of 496 new national banks, with a total capacity of $23,505,000. Of this number 373 will have a capacity of less than $50,000 each, and 123 of $50,000 of more. The report that the Dowager Empress Frederick was married, last April, to Baron Seckendorff, who was ■ hofmeister under Emperor Frederick, although widely circulated abroad, had always been strenuously denied in Berlin, until the present crisis in her disease. Now, however, it is being circulated again and accepted as true. Former cabinet officer and senator, John Sherman, is dangerously ill at his residence, on K street, in Wash- j ington city. The attack has taker j the form of a general collapse, in part due to the debility incident to old age and to the effects of the seri~ ous illness which he suffered while 1 on a trip to the West Indies two years ago. The bazaar for the benefit of the homeless Galveston orphans, which began in New York city, on the night ! of the 15th, in the Waldrof-Astoria, I was closed, on the 17th, by Mark ! Twain, who spoke for about ten min- I tites. The management of the bazaar estimated the net receipts for the three nights at between $25,000 and $30,000. Gov. Sayers of Texas was among the president’s callers on the 19th. He was on his way back to Texas from New York, where he went to attend the charity bazar for the benefit of 1 the orphans Of the Galveston disaster, ! and stopped in Washington to pay his respects to the president and to thank him for the aid the government had extended the victims of the storm. Secretary Long has ordered that there be no further proceedings in the case of Capt. Wilde of the Oregon, who was being investigated by a court of inquiry to determine the responsibility for the grounding of the battleship in the Gulf of Pe Chi Li, last summer, while hurrying to Taku from Shanghai. This action finally * disposes of the case. ^en. J. W. Fisher died at his home In Cheyenne, Wyo., on the 18th, at the ago of 86 years. He was one of Wyoming’s pioneers, going to Cheyenne in 1871 as associate justice of the territorial court, appointed by President Grant. He was afterward chief justice of the supreme court for over sight years. His war record was particularly brilliant, rising from the ranks of the volunteers to be a brigadier general.

Got. Mount of Indiana, on the 15th, received a deed to the 16 acres of land in Spencer county, Indiana, surround* tng the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the mother of Abraham Lincoln. The deed conveys the land from the county commissioners of Spencer county to the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial association, of which the governor is president. The work on the monument has begun, and will, it is believed, bo completed this fall, when dedicatory services will be held. Seven masked men wrecked the safe of the Farmers’ bank at Bronaugh, Mo., at about half-past one o’clock on the morning of the 19th. Dynamite was used, and the report was heard by Constable William T. Morren and | * the proprietor of the Bronaugh house, across the street from the bank. Constable Morren fired several times in 1 the darkness in the direction of the report, and shot after shot was returned by the robbers, one of which struck Morren and killed him. He was shot squarely between the eyes with a 44-caliber bullet. I

NEWS JN_BRIEF. Ooxnuiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL\ANP GENERAL. 8. X, Morris wap arrested in Chicago, on the 19th, fob an alleged attempt upon the life of 'John W. Gates, ex* president of the American Steel and Wire Co, When searched at the police station, two large revolvers were found concealed in his pockets, Charles Francis Adams, president of the Massachusetts Historical society, delivered the formal dedicatory address of the Wisconsin State Historical society’s new library and museum I building at Madison, on the 19th, before a large audienc^ Marquis Ito has formed a new Jap--anese cabinet. Viscount Katsoura Taro and Admiral Yamamato retain the portfolios of wav and marine respectively. The other members of the ministry belong to the premier’s new party. It was officially reported, on the 17th, that there were 100 cases of yellow fever in Havana. The statistical bureau of Berlin has been awarded a grand prix at the Paris exposition. Mr. ,T. Clancy gave notice, on the 19th, that he would move, at the next, meeting of the corporation, that the: freedom of the city of Dublin be conferred ^Bpon ex-President Kruger of the Transvaal republic. The municipal council of Berlin, on the 19th, adopted a resolution to build municipal street railways after the expiration of the present charters. Nearly four million dollars in gold arrived at San Francisco, on the 19th, from Australia, on the steamer Ala

meda. There was no material change in Mr. Sherman’s condition, on the 18th, except that he showed signs of increasing weakness. The patient was partially unconscious much of the time, rallying and brightening at intervals. He has a disagreeable cough, which irritates him a great deal in his debilitated condition. ThS* state department, on the 18th, received a report from thfe consul at Nagasaki, Japan, of the death at that plade, on September 13, of Bertrand W» Ragsdale, vice-consul and marshal of the consular court at Tien Tsin, China. He had gone from Tien Tsin to Nagasaki in July for the benefit of his health. Prof. Joseph Whitely, principal of the Salt Lake City (Utah) school of law, dropped dead out of his chair in a restaurant, on the 18th, from hemorrhage of the brain. He had taken a degree at Oxford university, and, before coming to America, was a clergyman in the Church of England. The Ohio Society of California has received information of a definite nature to the effect that President McKinley will visit San Francisco next April to witness the launching of the battleship Ohio, which is now nearing completion at the Union iron works in that city. The department of education in the Philippines has decided to place some natives in United States schools so that they may come in contact with American social and political usages. The first lot of students probably will not be sent over until next summer. The duke of Tetuan, Marquis Villaverd, Senor B. Olivier, director general of the civil register, and Senor Torres Campos, have been appointed members, on the part of Spain, of The Hague international arbitration board. It is announced that the immediate danger attaching to the illness of King Oscar has passed, but that ho will require a long rest. Rabbi Heyman Schwarz, a well-known-Jewish litterateur, died at Houston, Tex., on the 18th, aged 76. He had an international reputation as a writer on the Jewish religion. A home for women students at the Berlin university will be erected, following the general plan of college dormitories in the United States. Former Gov.'W. P. Dillingham was elected United Stater senator by the Vermont legislature, at Montpelier, on the 18th. Hard coal prices will never be reduced to the point where they were before the Pennsylvania strike in the opinion of retail coal dealers. They say that the strike has permanently raised the price of coal at least 50. cents on the ton. William Millham, of Solomon City, Kas„ a veteran of the civil war, and a furloughed inmate of the national miltary home at Leavenworth, Kas., was killed, on the 18th, at St. Louis, by the Kinloch special on the Wa

bash railroad. United States Marshal Hammack, at Eureka, Springs, Ark., has just completed the capture of an entire band of counterfeiters, who have been operating in that neighborhood for many years. Their headquarters were in a cavern known as Bennett's cave, four miles from Eureka Springs. Maj. Mott R. Peterson, chief commissary of Cuba, died of yellow fever, at Las Animas, on the 18th. An hour later his wife shot herself fatally. The remains were interred the same day with military honors. The lings at El Morro and on all the/public buildings were half-masted. The agony is over, Brooklyn is champion of the baseball world, the owner of the beautiful $500 Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph trophy cup, and carries home one-half the gate receipts of the four games necessary to decide its supremacy over Pittsburgh. Dr. Slattery, of Dubuque, la., has filed a~ bill for medical attendance on the late Archbishop Hennessey. It is against the estate of the deceased prelate, and is for the sum of $4,625. The period during which Dr. Slattery attended the archbishop extended from March 23. 1899, to Marsh 4. 1900.

The feeling vh prevalent at Hazleton, Pa., on the 18th, that the decision of the operators’ meeting at ocranton to insist that the reduction in the price of powder must be taken into consideration in determining the net ten per cent, increase in wages has complicated matters somewhat. Health Commissioner Reynolds of Chicago is considering the advisability of licensing dealers in horse meat. Inspectors have discovered that, a large amount of the product is being disposed of in the city markets. The new Piltonger Grand opera house at Centralia, HI., nearly completed, at an outlay of $35,000, was burned on the i8th. There was only $8,000 insurance. A meeting of citizens was called to devise means to aid in rebuilding. A portion of the walls can be saved. 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 19th, showed: Available cash balance, $135,730,134; gold, $86,304,185. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Senor Cancio, Cuban secretary of finance, in the course of a pamphlet just issued on the financial condition of the municipalities of the island, urges better business management, pointing out that a municipality should be as carefully conducted on its financial side as a business corporation. The state department, on the 21st, received a copy of the Anglo-German agreement regarding China from Count De Quadt, the German charge d'affaires, who, earlier in the day, had received it by telegraph from Count Von Buelow, the German chancellor

at Berlin. The Vremdenblatt and the Neue Preie Presse, of Vienna, approve the agreement between England and Germany, and express themselves as confident that all the powers will adhere to it, “because any power declining to do so would excite distrust.” Baroness Von Ketteler, the widow of the murdered German ambassador to China, arrived in Detroit, Mich., on the 21st, and was immediately driven to the residence of her father, Henry B. Ledyard, president of the Mhicigan Central railroad. AH the London morning papers dilate upon the high importance of the Anglo-German agreement. The Daily Telegraph describes it as “the most remarkable success scored by British diplomacy since the Berlin treaty.” A. D. Price, of Palestine, Tex., a student at the Bingham (N.C.) school, died, on the 21st, from injuries sustained in a practice game of football the day before. His spinal column was broken between' the shoulders. Mr. .Robert Buchanan, the novelist, had a cerebral hemorrhage in London, on the 21st, which was followed by paralysis of the right side and complete loss of speech. His condition is very critical. Advices received from Hayti, on the 21st, assert that the revolution in Santo Domingo is not ended, and that fighting was proceeding in the interior, although the revolutionists were weak. Maj.-Gen. Leonard Wood, military governor general of Cuba, arrived in Washington on the 21st. During the afternoon he called at the White House and had a conference with the president. The new British minister to China. Sir Ernest Mason Satow, arrived at Pekin on the 21st. CURRENT NEWS NOTES. The seventeenth annual St. Louis exposition is a thing of the past. • Eduard Strauss, the waltz king, has arrived from Germany. It is his first trip over in ten years. William J. Bryan has mailed his letter accepting the nomination fot president given him by the silver re* publicans. The looted bank at Bronaugh, Mo., was insured against robbery by the Bankers’ Mutual, of Des Moines, la., in the sum of $3,500. B. Percy Eennett, a native of St. Louis, was killed by the accidental discharge of his own revolver at Victor, Mont. Burglars cracked the safe in the post office at La Prairie, 111., securing $14 in money and $70 worth of postage stamps. Jewels worth1 el ,000 were stolen from the trunk of Mrs. C. S. McGuire while on her way to Cincinnati from a visit in St. Louis. A cablegram announces that Sir Roderick William Cameron died in London, Friday, in his seventy-sixth

President Selaya of Nicaragua and President Costro of Venezuela are said to be scheming to plunge all Central America into war. Secretary Long has ordered that there be no further proceedings in the case of Capt. Wilde of the battleship Oregon, 'which ran on to Pinnacle rock in the gulf of Pi Chi Li. The cup won by the Brooklyn base* ball team in its post-season series with Pittsburgh, was presented at the Alvin theater, Pittsburgh, Friday night, to the victors. The records of the United States marine corps show that Private A. J. Turner, who was reported killed at Pekin, is a native of West Plains, Mb. A reception and banquet were tendered, Friday night, to Frank A. Vandelip, assistant secretary of treasury of the United States, by St. Louis officials and bankers. Owing to the sudden change in the Missouri river at St. Joseph, Mo., 50 feet of the east bank has been cut away. The lost property was very valuable. S. I. Morris was arrested in Chicago on a charge of plotting to kill John W. Gates. Morris underwent treatment at St. Louis for the drink habit laBt month.

WITHIN OUK LIMITS. New* by Telegraph from Various Town* in Indiana. rrotablr ratal Affray. Salem, lad., Oct. 18,—Ex-Auditor John L. Williams shot and probably fatally wounded Marion Mayfield at the home of the latter’s mother, to whom Williams was said to be paying attention. Young Mayfield is about 22 years of age, is married and lives in the same house with his mother. Williams is a widower and was auditor of this county for eight years, retiring and going into the grocery business about 12 years ago. He is about 60 years of age. Mrs. Mayfield is separated from her husband, William Mayfield. Gift of a See House. Michigan City, Ind., Oct. 19.—John H. Barker has made a handsome gift to the Episcopal diocese of Michigan City in the form of a residence to cost from $20,000 to $25,000. It will be known as the bishop’s house and will be occupied by the bishop and his family. The structure will be of Bedford stone, in modern style of architecture. Mr. Barker’s gift will result in making this place permanently tj»e see city of the diocese. Fatally Shot. Muncie, Ind., Oct. 19.—Louis Wilhelm, 38 years old, a window glass blower belonging to the, old labor assembly, No. 300, was shot in the abdomen at Eaton by Andrew Cowan, a cutter belonging to the new organization. Wilhelm will die. The tragedy is a result of the starting up of the Baur window plant with new Knights of Labor men. Cowan is in custody.

Will Reeowr. Elkhart, Ind., Oct. 19.—Lewis Reynolds, the Lake Shore engineer who went down with his wrecked locomotive near Chicago Sunday night, will recover. For 36 hours he was unconscious, but his vigorous constitution prevailed, and he is now out of danger. He was an Andersonvijle prisoner during the civil war, and is famed for his great courage. New Facto*, j. South Bend, Ind., Oct. 19.-*-A new factory which will cost not less than $1,000,000 to build and equip will be established in this city by the Singer Manufacturing company, makers the sewing machine. The compan. has already an enormous plant here, but this will be abandoned, to be replaced by the new plant. State RecoveM In Part. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. .19.—Judge Carter-in the superior court handed down his opinion in the suit by the state of Indiana to recover nearly $3,000,000 from the Vandalia railroad. He holds that the state is entitled to recover $745,154.65 instead of nearly four times that sum, which was demanded. Fatally Burned. South Bend, Ind., Oct. 19.—Mrs. Eliza Croker, age 76 years, awoke in the night and lighted a match to find a glass of water. She dropped the match on the flbor, setting the carpet on fire. The flames reached the bed clothing, and before she could be rescued her body was burned almost to a crisp. Student Hart. Madison, Ind., Oct. 19.—During the Initiation of Paul Snyder, son of Capt. James O. Snyder, of Milton, Ky., into the Phi Delta Theta fraternity* at Hanover college, the candidate was so violently thrown that his right arm was broken. Rnral Mall Rontes. Goshen, Ind., Oct. 19.—Special Agent Deball was in the city and established four new rural postal routes from this city, trwo east and two west of the city, which makes six free rural routes established in this county within the last month. Killed la the Philippine*. Brazil, Ind.,vOct. 19.—Mungo Penman received a Ihtf?;r-from Manila giving an account of theNdeath of his son James, who was instantly killed while placing the American flag over a fort being stormed by his regiment. Seared Away. Poseyville, Ind.. Oct. 19.—Burglars attempted to rob the Bozeman & Waters bank at this place, their intention evidently being to blow the vault and safe door open. They were scared away before acompl-ishing their purpose. -

Cn night Im IUtitola. Sullivan, Ind., Oct. 19.—Levi Cox, who killed John Arnot, in Gill township, this county, a few days ago, has'been caught in Crawford county, 111., and returned1 to the sheriff of Sullivan, from whom he escaped. Hone Again. Peru, Ind., Oct. 19.—Lyman Paul Edwards, who was one of the famous party of prisoners in the Philippines under Lieut. Gilmore, has returned to his home here." Firemen Rewarded. Sullivan, Ind., Oct. 19.—The members of the Sullivan fire department have betn presented with $150 in- cosh by citizens for their heroic work at Mon* day night’s fire. Aged Couple Married. Logan sport, Ind., Oct. 19.—Martin Conroy, 81 years old, and Mrs. Margaret Donaldson, 58, were married and went to Chicago to spend their honeymoon. , Tried for Murder. Greensburg. Ind., Oct. 19.—The trial of Charles Suttles, charged with killing Robert Weaver, of Xewpoint, in April last, has commenced here.

Seme of the Sick and Wounded Soldiers Who Arrived on the Transport Sherman. BE*. FITZHU6H LEE'S SON AMONG THEN. Sire Sea, Each of Whom Loot a Leg la Either the Philippines or Cht- ^ aa, Members of the Party—Oae Unfortunate Who Was Grievously * WoaadeO by a British Shell. San Francisco. Oct. 21.—Among the invalid soldiers who arrived o.n the transport Sherman is First Lieut. G. W. Lee, of the Thirty-ninth infantry, son of Brig.-Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, now at Havana. He is suffering from disease contracted in the jungles of southern Luzon. Lieut. Lee says the Filipinos usually fire from ambush, aiming at the American officers. He saw Capt. W. L. Murphy, of his regiment, shot down by natives concealed in a hut. Five Moa, Eaeh Mtaas a Lea. Five men, each of whom lost a leg in the orient, came home together on the Sherman. They are: Arthur Kosloske, Sixth infantry, wounded at Tien Tsin; George King, Fourteenth infantry, wounded at Pekin; Charles Johnson, Fourteenth infantry, crippled at Yang Tsun; Joseph Beir, Thir-ty-seventh United States volunteers, wounded in the Philippines,and James lakin, Fourteenth infantry, injured, August 6, on the march to Pekin.

Hit By a M(■placed Shell One of the most grieviously-wound-ed soliders who ever entered the Presidio general hospital is Private R. W. Adams, of Co. A, Fourteenth infantry, who took part in the battle of Tien Tsin, and was one of the relief column that pushed on to beleagured Pekin. He was wounded at Tang Tsun by one of the British shells dropped by mistake within the American lines. The whole of one side of his face, his nose and one eye were literally torn off by a fragment of the missile. Mentioned tor Gallant Condaet. First Lieut. Harry F. Rethers, of the now famous Ninth infantry, is another arrival from China. Accompanying him is his wife, the daughter of Maj. Lee, who succeeded to the command of Ninth at the death of Col. Liscum. Lieut. Rethers has been mentioned for gallant conduct at Tien Tsin and Pekin, and has been recommended for a brevet. y His story of the march to Pekin shows that, the men suffered terribly from heat, the thermometer standing as high as 120 in the shade. k OUTSEY WAS FOUND GUILTY. The Jury at Georgetown, Ky., Aneaaed Hla Pnnlabment at Imprisonment for Life. Georgetown, Ky., Oct. 21.—The jury in the case of Henry Youtsey, on trial on the charge Of being a principal in the Goebel assassination, returned a verdict of guilty, and fixing the penalty at life imprisonment. 7 Wheu the jury was called Judge Cantrill asked: “Gentlemen.v^ye you made a verdict?” The foreman, R. H. McCabe, nodded his head. “Pass up the papers to the clerk,” said the judge. The sheriff passed them up, and the clerk read the following: “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty, and fix his punishment at confinement. in the penitentiary for life.” “Gentlemen, is that your verdict?” asked the judge: The jury was then discharged^ and the trial was at an end. It was learned from one of the jurymen that no ballot was takes Friday night, and that the vote wai unanimous that Youtsey was guilty then the degree of punishment was fixed. The defense filed their motion for an arrest of judgment, and Judge Cantrill set the time for hearing on the second day of the February term. Youtsey will not be sentenced before that time. Youtsey will be taken to the Frankfort jail for safe-keeping.

QUFEN AND CONSORT-ELECT.. Qvmb Wllhelmiiia and Dnke Henry' Knthnsiastlcally Welcomed at The Hagne. The Hague, Oct. 21.—Queen Wilhelmina and her betrothed, Duke Henry of Mecklenberg-Schwerin, accompanied by the queen mother, arrived here, and were enthusiastically welcomed. The future consort of the queen was presented to the authorities assembled at the railroad station. The royal party then drove to tho palace, where crowds sang the national anthem. Later, the members ox the diplomatic corps arrived at the palace and were introduced to the duke. MASSACRES OF ARMENIANS. Five Days of Vnrestrained Pillage Outrage and Mnrder In the Diarbeklr District. Paris, Oct. 21.—A special dispatch from Constantinople to the Petio Bleu says new and frightful massacres of Armenians have just occurred in the district of Diarbekir. The Mus- i selmans, it is asserted, pillaged, outraged and killed during the five day; without the intervention of Turkish troops. Eight villages, it is addec, ware entirely destroyed and burned.

FILIPINOS AND THE FRIARS. Tt* Mime of the Latter Voder Sfu* -*R Role—Motives Oppose Their Ret«ro~*roo Aprolooldo. Manila, Oct. 22.—The Philippine co mmission has passed a bill appro* pointing $475,000 gold for the pay* mant of expenses incurred for the benefit of the insular government during October. The bill goes carefully into detail regarding thp items Of expenditure throughout the archipelago. Judge Taft, president of the commission, has been engaged for some time in taking a mass of Filipino testimony concerning the conduct and p>licy of the friars, this being a continuation of the investigation which b;gan with the depositions of bishops a id members of monastic orders. The statements of the Filipinos go to siiow that the friars, under the Spania h regime, greatly abused their limithauii political and religious powers oror the community, and that this abuse oi authority often led to immorality. All the testimony offered ty the Filipinos shows that they do not desire the return of the friars to the parishes. Archbishop Chappelle has gone to the more peaceful provinces of northern Luzon, accompanied by three Dominican friars. It is asserted and generally believed that he intends to re-establish these friars in certain Parishes; and the trip is exciting the natives in Manila, who call upon tbeii countrymen to prevent the re-estab-iishment of any .friar, on the ground -hat it would fix a dangerous precedent for the future.

oenor uuencamino has received what purports to be a letter from Aguinaldo, ordering the former, lead* ers of the revolution who are now in Manila to desist from the formation . of political parties and to cease all their attempts at pacification. The letter mysteriously hints that plans are maturing among the armed rebels in the field and describes these as “best for the country.” Senor Buencamino declares that the letter is genuine. The military situation was comparatively quiet last week. The commission, the military authorities, the Filipinos and the foreigners are awaiting the result of the presidential election in the United States. Many persons assert that, whatever ^his may be, it will have no immediate effect upon the armed situation in the Philippines, and that disorders and - guerilla attacks will continue for a time. Mr. R. Wildman, United States consul general at Hong Kong, who is now in Manila, says the expectation of a general anti-foreign outbreak in southern China, notably in> Canton, is growing daily, and that cablegrams received by him last week record an increasing uneasiness in Hong Kong. A troop of the Sixth United States cavalry has arrived here from China. POOR CUBAN FINANCIERING. Last Yeat’i Management of Mnnldpallttes Makes a Very Unsatisfactory Shovrtnar. Havana, Oct. 22.—Senor Cancio, sectary of finance, in the course of a pamphlet he has just issued on the financial condition of the municipalities of the island, urges better business management, pointing out that a municipality should be as carefully conducted on its financial side as a business corporation. “Last year,” he says, “the municipalities had almost absolute freedom in the matter of levying taxes and spending the funds. Nevertheless, their aggregate receipts weye some 30 per cent, below the estimated expenditure, not including the cost of police, prisons, public instruction and" charities, all of which was paid by the state. The municipalities expended $8,730,825. They received in taxes, $4,292,831, leaving a deficit of nearly $2,500,000, which came out of the state fund.” In a few years Senor Cancio believes that the municipalities can be made self-supporting, and that then large reductions will follow in the duties on imported necessaries of life. PROTEST AGAINST WEYLER. tpukk Cabinet Reiigni Upon Hie Appointment ns Captain-Gen-eral of Madrid.

Madrid, Oct. 22.—Senor Silvela, the premier, had an audience with the queen regent yesterday, and formally announced the resignations oi Senor jGassett, minister of agriculture, and Senor Dato, minister of the interior, together with the resignations of the high officials in other departments, as a protest against the appointment' of Gen. Weyler as cap* tain general of Madrid. The cabinet council which followed disclosed serious differences between the members of the ministry; and the premier decided to place the question of confidence in the cabinet before the queen regent. >'vv At seven o’clock last evening Senor * Silvela Went to the palace to tender the resignation of the entire cabinet. Chinese Diabolism. Victoria, B. C., Oct. 22.—According to a correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury, Bishop Fontosati, in Souths Ho Nan, was tortured four hours by Chinese. Different members of hia body were removed singly. Two priests were covered with coal oil and placed on a pile of sticks which were then set fire to. Bishop Fontosati1 was disemboweled, and others were frightfully tortured. Three thouconverts, led by French priests, in defending their church, were massacred.