Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — CHANGES HER TONE. [ARTICLE]

CHANGES HER TONE.

(JAPAN VERY LIKELY TO ACCEPT HAWAIIAN ARBITRATION. ,Uncle Sam's Cruisers Have Surely ProJ duced a Good Effect —New Signal System for Coast Defense Three People Shot Down in Georgia. Quite Friendly to America. There seems little doubt that Japan will accept the arbitration Hawaii has suggested. Her attitude has changed so completely and shows so plainly the desire for it speedy and peaceful settlement of the immigration trouble that whatever the motives are she must be taken in good faith. It is the first break by Japan with ci non-Asiatic power, and she has lost ground by it in national prestige and material gain to her people. The diplomatic firmness of the United States Government at Washington and the moral power of United States gunboats at Honolulu have been the most potent factor in the whole bnsiness. The Japanese Government would go a long way to retain friendly relations with the United States, and in this would have the support of the Japanese people. One thing Japan very much desires to do. It is to remove the impression from the United States Senate that she has or ever had designs on the Hawaiian Islands. When the treaty of annexation is taken tip by the American statesmen they will not be surprised if the protest against it is quietly withdrawn by the Japanese Government. This does not mean that Japan will cease to protect the interests of her subjects—■interests by no means small, and right and proper for her to protect —but she ■will do it by a more diplomatic and politic course of action than a protest and gunboat. Railway Wreck in Nebraska. There has been a blinding snow storm in Nebraska. As a result of the inability of engineers to see ten feet ahead of their engines the east-bound express and a freight on the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad collided seven miles east of Chadron. The engineers and firemen all jumped. Engineer Charles Connors of the freight was seriously injured. Engineer Cooley of the passenger train fell down a sixty-foot embankment, but escaped with slight injuries. The passengers were badly shaken up, but none hurt. The two engines are wedged together and the baggage and mail cars are badly wrecked. 'Phones on Coast Line. Plans have been perfected by the Navy Department at Washington for a complete coast line signal system extending from Maine around the Gulf to Port Eads, La., connected throughout with telephone and telegraphic lines, and all in direct communication with Washington. The special board having the subject under advisement has completed its work and submitted a scheme which has the approval of the Secretary, and after certain arrangements with the Treasury Department, whereby the life-saving service is to be partially utilized, it will be introduced generally. Shot from Ambush. Henry Turner, with his wife and sister, while crossing a small potato field less than half a mile from their home in Fairburn, Ga., -were shot down. At what hour the murder was committed no one knows. Captain Yarborough's bloodhounds were placed upon the trail, but all pursuit has been futile.