Bloomington Courier, Bloomington, Monroe County, 17 May 1895 — Page 2

HISTORY OF A WEEK.

THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP TO DATE. Political, Religions. Social and Criminal Doings of the Whole World Carefully Condensed For Our Readers. The Ac cldent Kecord. August Schultz was found shot near Paul's Valley, O. T. He said his wife did it, but she denies it. The quick glass -works, at Franklin, Ind., will be put up at receiver's sale within two weeks. The bodies of three unknown men were found floating in the River St. Lawrence at Sorel, Canada. "Billy" Sunday, formerly a favorite league baseball player, has held two enthusiastic revival meetings at Ottumwa, la. Whirlwind, the head of the Cheyenne Indians, dropped dead on the streets or Wichita, Kas., on hearing of the death of his favorite grandchild. An organized band waited on all the negroes In Alvin, Brazoria county, Tex., and commanded them to leave town or be prepared to meet death. Samuel E. Aymar, defaulting bookkeeper of the National Shoe and Leather bank, was sentenced at New York to six years and six months in state's prison. J. W. Goodwin was awarded $1,000 damages against Dr. H. W. Wood at Sedalla. Wood assaulted Goodwin for publishing cartoons about him in his paper. The suit of the Southern Pacific railroad to determine the ownership of thousandr. of acres in the central counties of "California was decided against it at Los Angeles. Will Green shot and killed James T. Estes near Covington, Ky. Green was eloping with Estes' daughter, and, after the shooting, continued on the Journey to Broughtonville and was married. A train of cattle cars will run over the Union Pacific in the next sixty days to carry 200,000 head of cattle now in Texas and New Mexico and awaiting shipment to Wyoming and Montana. Hamilton Disston, of Philadelphia, Pa., denies the truth of the dispatch that there will be a legislative investigation of the transaction by which 4,000,000 acres of Florida were transferred . to a Philadelphia syndicate headed by him. Two hundred men In the Delaware Iron works, Wilmington, Del., were taken by surprise when they found a 10 per cent increase in wages in their envelopes. They were informed that the Improvement in the iron trade made the Increase .in wages possible. The United States circuit court of appeals at Cincinnati, O., ended the Barr will case by finding the claims of the various heirs, who sue to recover their Interests to the undivided seven-eighteenths of Price Hill, a valuable suburb of Cincinnati, barred by the statute of limitations. The Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company proposes to advance $600,000 O tne reorganization pnmmiw far tht purchase of the Savannah, Americus ft Montgomery railroad, the sale of which is fixed; for May IT. A minimum price of $1,800,000 has been placed on the property by the courts. The state of Jalisco, Mexico, has abolished the stamp tax laws. M. Joubert, president of the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas, is dead. The British warship Wild Swan, from Corinto, has left Acapulco for San Diego. Friday, Saturday and Sunday fresh earthquakes were felt at Laibach, Austria. Sig. Solimbergo, formerly a member of the Milan Chamber of Deputies, has been appointed to the new post of Italian Consul-General at Montreal, Que. The Costa Rican government has signed a contract with the Pacific Mail Steamship company by which the former will pay the latter for three years a subsidy of $12,000 annually. On the other hand the Pacific Mail company will reduce its freight and passenger rates. Construction of the Mexico, Cuernavasca. and Pacific railroad is being rapidly pushed. The track has reached Cacapesco, forty-seven miles from Cuernavasca. The London Pall Mall Gazette says a certain Major O'Brien, who distinguished himself during the civil war in America, now living in London, is about to try to revive the old Earldom of Clare. The Guatemalan minister to Mexico, De Leon, is distributing profusely a blue book published by his government giving its side of the recent troubles and settlement between Mexico and Guatemala. Great damage was done to crops all over the country by the severe frost of Sunday night and Monday. Two million dollars is the estimated loss to the grape interests of New York state. Illinois G. A. R. encampment has begun at Bloomington. The government of Japan has for the first time published the details of that country's submission to the demands of Russia. France and Germany. The people are indignant. It is asserted that the Spanish general, Salcedo, and a thousand of his troops, were slain ir. a battle with Cuban rebels. A great race war is threatened in South Africa. The Boers are arming to march against the blacks. The National Sporting club of London will not offer a purse for Corbett and Jackson. Jack Smith, the leader of the Bull Hill miners, was shot and killed by a deputy marshal at Altman, Col. Rev. Otto Taswell committed suicide at Velpin, Ind. Unrequited love is given as the cause. The cavalry and artillery at Fort Sheridan and the Third Infantry at Fort Snelllng are ordered to tttend the encampment of the Wisconsin rtate militia at Camp Douglas, July 6 to Aug. 4. The Methodists of Chicago celebrated "Wesley Day" by a big meeting. Confederation between Canada and Newfoundland has been practically abandoned. The reports that the New York, Susquehanna and Western railroad has been,' or was about to be, acquired by the Delaware and Hudson railroad are officially contradicted. The probating of the Fair will of Sept. 21, 1894, has been continued for one week.

FOREIGN. The German reichstag defieated the anti-revolutionary bill, a pet measure of Emperor William. It is claimed that after the last battle between the Jap-inese and Chinese troops the Japanese butchered all their helpless prisoners. The Cuban rebels are reported to have won a great victory over the Spanish troops. A big demonstration was held in Phoenix park, Dublin, Sunday. Resolutions asking the government to free the political prisoners were passed. Japan has made overtures for a treaty with Nicaragua by -which she will have equal share with other nations in the proposed canal. American capital has a splendid show for investment in China. Japan will retain Port Arthur for a number of years. Her diplomats have scored a victory in the peace negotiations. A telegram fromAlglers says Sir Frederick Leighton, before reported dying, is now recovering. John Laurence Toole, the well-known English actor, is suffering from paralysis, and will permanently retire from the stage. United States Vice Consul Dreier was tendered a banquet at Copenhagen by the members of the Royal Danish commission and the Danish exhibitors at the World's Columbian Exposition. The Spanish Minister at Washington has asked the Secretary of State to locate, if possible, a Spanish boy who ran away from his school in Madrid. His name is Jose Osorio y Morny, aged 16 years, short of stature, with brown eyes and hair, wearing a gray suit and a yachting cap. The boy speaks Spanish, French, German and English.

CASUALTIES. At Plainfield, Ind., Palmer Carter, aged 19, accidentally shot dead his brother, aged 13. A. D. McDonald and James Mabrinto were mangled to pieces in the shaft of the Rarus mine near Butte, Mont., and William Bowen was dangerously hurt. Three men were killed in a railroad wreck on the Erie road near Hornellville, N. Y. Two children at Saylersville, Ky.. poured powder on hot coals. Both will die. Five men were seriously hurt at Chicago by tie falling of a wall of a building which they were tearing down. Samuel Oson of Spokane, Wash., was riding a pony and had the picket rope tied around his body. The pony became frightened, threw the boy off, and dragged him to death. A man was killed at Lyons, N. Y.. while walking on the Central railroad tracks. A notebook contained the name, M. E. Avery, Detroit. The Imperial Varnish company, Akron, O., lost $60,000 by fire. Insurance $30,000. A forty-foot gasoline launch built for Ralph Granger, a National City banker, exploded while on its trial trip in San Francisco bay. Frank Fitzpatr.icI: was fatally hurt. LABOR NOTES. Over 900 wage-earners in mills at Norrlstown and Bridgeport, Pa., are in idleness owing to strikes. The strike at the Illinois steel works at South Chicago is about ended. The Oliver Iron and Steel company of Pittsburg has granted the amalgamated scale in all departments of the mill, and the min will return to work at once. Four thousand iron and steel workers employed in the Riverside and Wheeling, Belmont and Top mills In West Virginia have been given an increase in wages averaging 10 per cent. The miners at the Shelburn (Ind.) mine have adjusted their differences in regard to dues of the organization and notified the operators they are ready to resume work immediately. Wages for furnace men at Sharpsvllle and Middlesex, Pa., have been raised. In the various Ohio coal mines some of the mines have resumed work at 60 cents pending agreement on a general wage scale; at other mines they refuse. At Indianapolis, Ind., all the union molders went on strike, demanding a rigid scale of $2.25 to $2.50 per dey. They are now receiving from $2 to $2.40. The differences at Princeton, 111., between the government employes, and foremen on the Hennepin canal have been practically settled by a large number of the men resigning. CRIME. Louis Pischitt was sentenced at Menominee, Mich., to five years in prison for arson. W. G. Sherman, recently elected assessor, committed suicide by hanging at Oshkosh, Wis. William Anderson stabbed John Lorton in a fight at Ramsey, 111., and Lorton is not expected to live. Julius Lichtenberg, ex-school inspector, was convicted at Detroit, Mich., of accepting a bribe of $100 in awarding a contract for school furniture. H. J. Lephardt was convicted on a similar charge, James Walsh acquitted, and M. H. Davis fled the country. A steerage passenger named Stapel on the Adriatic, from New York to Liverpool, committed suicide May 3 by jumping overboard. Joseph Bruyere, 57 years of age, a merchant of Green Bay, Wis., committed suicide by hanging in his barn. Volney Beard was shot and killed In Lexington, Ky., by Albert C. Hall. The latter had discovered illicit relations between his wife and Beard. August Teffer, married, shot and killed Clara Herbold, aged 26, and then killed himself at Philadelphia, Pa. She would not elope with him. John Flood, ex-cashier of the defunct Kelly Bank at San Francisco, accused of embezzling $167,000, has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. It is claimed that irregularities amounting to over $1,000,000 have been discovered in Chicago's pay rolls. A big sensation is promised in the investigation. Thomas Barnes, a tourist from Jacksonville, 111., was found dead in a chair in his lodging house at Los Angeles, Cal. The coroner is investigating. At Wampoo, Ark., an attempt was made by Constable John Green to serve a warrant on Milt Harper. Green received ten buckshot and Harper twenty-three. Both men died. Benjamin Radcliffe, who shot and killed the entire school board of Park county, Colo., was removed from Buena Vlstajail to escape an attempt at lynching by vigilantes.

SPORTING NOTES.

A London, Eng., club is considering the advisability of offering a purse for Corbett and Peter Jackson to fight for. Virginia is after the Corbett-Filz-simmons fight if the men can be brought together. The race track at Hawthorne, 111., was raided by Chicago Civic Federation, and many bookmakers arrested. John S. Johnson, the bicycle rider, has been declared a professional. He will likely go to France to race for money. The Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight is now thought to be off. The men cannot meet in Florida and it is not expected they will fight anywhere else. MISCELLANEOUS. The American Protective Association, before adjournment, organized what will be known as the "Junior A. P. A." It is to be composed of boys and girl3 between the ages of 14 and IS. It is claimed that Louisiana farmers have been kidnaping negroes in Arkansas and taking them across the line. A race war is threatened. The Evening Journal of Frankfort, Ky., has been sold by George A. Kendrlck to Moses O'Connor, wrio will make It a stanch republican paper. The Dominion steamer Petrel made a raid upon the gill nets set in Canadian waters in Lake Erie by Cleveland fishermen. In all there were 182 gill nets seized. The fishermen say they did not know they were fishing in Canadian waters. J. A. Scott, who celebrated his 100th birthday a few days ago, diert at Charleston, W. Va. Bishop Dubs of Chicago dedicated at Bethlehem the first church built in Pennsylvania by the United Evangelists. Dr. W. M. L. Coplin of the Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, has been elected professor of pathology in the Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn. The San Antonio & Gulf railway muddle resulted in the appointment of Judge Henry Terrell, at one time minister to Germany, as receiver, and he has taken charge of the property. At the laying of the cornerstone of avCatholic church in Allegheny, Pa., Bishop Phelan objected to the presence of a band, thereupon members of the Board of Erin and the Hibernian Rifles refused to take part in the ceremonies. Delegates to the Southern Baptist convention occupied the pulpits of churches in Washington, Baltimore and Richmond. A large audience attended the memorial meeting for Rev. John A. Broadus. Gross receipts of the life insurance companies doing business in New York are $1,056,331,682, an increase of $S4,474,459. The liabilities of the several companies, excepting $S,970,500 of capital stock, are $916,591,138. Gov. Watson will probably appoint a man as senator from Delaware to succeed Senator Higgins. This causes a general speculation as to the appointee" chances of being seated, as the governor's right to appoint, when the legislature has failed to elect, would be Involved. Conflicting reports of injury to crops are received. It is thought the frost has net done much serious damage. Dr. Julius H. Seelye, ex-president of Amherst college, is dead. Gen. Harrison is to take a trip to New York. He denies it has any political significance. In the Urited States court J. G. Harley of South McAI ester, I. T., was appointed United States commissioner, vice Samuel A. Wilkinson, resigned. Philip W. Moen of Worcester, Mass., confirms the reported purchase by the Washburn and Moen company of the wire rope department of the California Wire Rope works of San Francisco. A severe sandstorm raged in some parts of Kansas and Oklahoma Friday. No casualities are reported. It is said that English capital is being invested in the breweries of this country. Dun's Review of Trade reports business in a generally prosperous condition. The rumor that Secretary of State Gresham is to resign and be succeeded by Don M. Dickinson, is pronounced untrue. Gov. Morrill of Kansas has not been arrested for obtaining money under false pretenses, as was threatened. The election of Senator Dupont of Delawore is considered valid by eminent legal authorities. The American Protective Association has decided to make the order worldwide. Traynor was re-elected president. Thursday was the hottest day in May for several years. All through the west the heat was the same as is usually experienced in July. Crops were not injured. The Tennessee House rejected, 60 to 30, the bill appropriating $300,000 for the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. A motion to reconsider was made. It is probable an extra session of tho LATEST MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle Common to prime.$l. Hogs Spring grades 2, Sheep Fair to choice 2. Wheat No. 2 red , Corn No. 2 , Oats , Rye No. 2 Eggs Potatoes Per bu BUFFALO. Wheat No. 2 , Corn No. 2 yellow , Oats No. 2 white PEORIA. Rye No. 2 . , Corn No. 3 white , Oats No. 2 white , ST. LOUIS. Cattle 2 Hogs 4. Wheat No. 2 red , Corn No. 2 Oats No. 2 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 spring , Corn No. 2 . Oats No. 2 white Barley No. 2 Rye No. 1 KANSAS CITY. Cattle 2 Hogs 4 S5 6.00 50 4.80 75 6.00 61V4 .62 50 U .51 28U .28 63 .64 11. . .12 45 .56 65 .66 53 .55 35 .35 64 .65 49 .49 31 .31 25 6.25 20 4.50 64 .64 47 .48 27 .27 63 .63 50 .50 32 .32 50 .50 C4 .64 00 5.40 05 M.55 50 6.S0 Sheep 3 NEW YORK Wheat No. 2 red Corn No. 2 Oats

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TRAM hVR THE WEEK

BIG GALES OP BONDS THE CHIEF FEATURE. Crop Frospccts Greatly Improved Strikes Retard the Revival of KiikIiiess in Many Industrs Failures for tho Week. New York, May 11. R. G. Dun Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "The event of the week is the demoralization of foreign exchange, caused by enormous sales of bonds abroad. Besides a sale of $10,000,000 Manhattan and other railroad bands through tho syndicate large purchases on foreign account have been made for some weeks, so that the aggregate probably exceeds 550,000.000 since the sale of governments. Safety for the summer means much for all 1: jsiness, and the syndicate deems it so fully assured that it distributes 40 per cent if the money advanced by its associates, which relieves a large amount to stimulate operations in securities and products. "Crop prospects also have greatly improved and this is of still higher importance, as it will do much to determine the character and volume of all business after summer uncertainties are over. In addition business Is reviving, although the gain in great indus tries is retarded by many strikes. Sales ! of wheat f'r the week have been 84.000,000 bushf Is against 95.000.000 the previous wek and 81,000,000 the week before, but Thursday brought new activity. Wheat had fallen 21 cents but rose 2 cents that day. Western receipts are 1,467,169 bushels, against 1,261,764 last year, and Atlantic exports, flour included, 1,615,051 bushels, against 2,214,041 last year. In three weeks since the rise in wheat these exports have LORD SHOLTO DOUI Lord Sholto Douglas, son of the marquis of Queensbury, is in San Francisco, shabby and impecunious to a degree, living in a back room of a very cheap lodging house. He is wa'ting for Lcretta Mooney, otherwise Addis the BakersSeld dive waitress, on whose account he was recently arrested for insanity. Douglas has literally not a dollar to his name. He is being assisted by Ned Homan, a well known sport and proprietor of "The Midway Plalsance," a disreputable variety theater in Market street. Douglas expects the girl to work as a waitress in the city. been 5,160,121 bushels, against 7,849,971 last year. Pork has fallen 25 cents per barrel, lard 20, and hogs 30 cents per hundred pounds. "The output of iron still exceeds the consumption. Bessemer pig has been raised to $10.90 at Pittsburg and the general demand for finished products does not equal the recent output, but Is distinctly increasing, bars and sheets seling more largely, though structural specifications are disappointingly slow. The noteworthy gain is in orders for steel rails, 30,000 tons for the Pennsylvania and 50,000 for a Western road. Coke production still lessens, 6,732 tons for the week and 36.35S or 23 per cent in the last three weeks. Tin has been raised to 14.4 cents and copper to 10 by increasing demand. "Sales of wool for the week are less than in 1892, but larger than in the last two years, though prices do not rise. Rather more demand appears for men's woolens, but cancellations are also more numerous, and imports of woolen goods with withdrawals from warehouses were about $19,000,000 in the first quarter of the year against $5,000,000 last year. "The failures this week have been 227 in the United States against 206 last year, and thirty-four in Canada against forty-two last year." BIG CONFEDERATE UNION. Veterans from Both Sides Expected at the Houston, Texas. Encampment. Houston, Texas, May 13. It is expected that 75,000 visitors will attend the meeting of the United Confederate Veterans and state encampment of the Texas Volunteer Guard in this city 03? the 20th. An auditorium capable of seating 10,000 people has been built at a cost of $20,000. Indications point to a representation from nearly all of the 700 camps. Gen. Gordon, commander-in-chief; Gen. George Moorman, Genw. Longstreet, Leo, Sable and other noted confederates will attend with their staffs, beside several prominent ex-confederate generals. Gen. Schofield and Gen. Wheaton have written that they will be in attendance. Mrs. Jefferson Davis will be unable to come, but her daughter, Miss Winnie Davis, will be the special guest of the occasion. Large delegations from Grand Army posts will attend, and the United Veterans' Association, composed pf survivors of both armies, will hold a eampfire. Purse f tMO.OOO for the Fight. San Antonio, Tex., May 13. George Walker has received authority from citizens here to offer a purse of $40,000 for the Corbett-Fltzsimmons fight, and a certified check has been placed to make the offer good. It is proposed to have the fight take place in New Laredo, Mexico, four hours' run from this city.

DYING FOR WANT OF FOOD. i

Scores of Labrador Indiuns H ported to Have Starved. Quebec. May 13. The worst of the stories of destitution and death reported from time to time from Northern Canada appear in the publication by order of parliament of the details of starvation and death among the Indians and Eskimos of Labrador. In the vicinity of Fort Chimo, a Hudson Bay trading post on Ungava tay, 1G0 people, two-thirds of the entire tribe of Montagnais Indiana trading at the post, have perished of starvation. The Canadian government has taken action by placing a sum of money at the disposal of the Hudson Bay company for the relief of the Indians and the Eskimos in the event of another severe winter, for nearly thirty Eskimos are reported to have perished, in addition to the wholesale Indian fatality. So scarce is game becoming in this country that the early disappearance of the remaining Indians is enly a question cf time. DUPCNT CASE COMPLICATED. Senator Mitchell Hints that the Election j Will Not Stand a Test. j Washington, May 13. Senator Mitch- j ell, the ranking republican for the j chairmanship of the committee on prlv- j ileges and elections, before which the ! I-robable Delaware contest will be re- j ferred, said that ho did not care to say I anything that would commit him before j hearing the testimony, but, if he was ; correctly informed as to the condition : of affairs in Delaware, and if the con- j stitution of that state was as has been : quoted in the papers, 'ie could not see j how Speaker Wilson, while acting as j governor, had the vuthorltv to vote for j a candidate for the seuatorship. Of one thing, however, Mr. Mitchell said he was profoundly convinced, and that LAS AND MlbS ADDIS. He declines to say whether he will r.arry her or not, remarking that he and "Lollie." as he calls her, will settle that when she reaches the theater. Homan will do all he can to help on a marriage. Lady Douglas as a waitress and Lord Douglas as a hanger-on will help to advertise his so-called theater. Douglas is a tall, thin young man, with a Roman nose, blue eyes, a feeble yellow mustache and light hair. His face Is very weak. His clothes are badly faded and shiny from long wear and his shoes are patched in numerous places. was that the governor of the state had no authority to make an appointment, and If he did so he was confident the senate would not give such an appointee his seat in the senate. FREE SILVER SPEAKERS. Northwestern States to lie Treated o Speeches Next Fall. St. Paul, Minn., May 13. According to a suggestion of Senator Faulkner, chairman of the democratic congressional committee, as announced in a letter received here, a arty of free silver speakers will! probably make a tour next fall through Minnesota, North Dakota. Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska. The speakers are Senator Morgan of Mississippi. Chauneey M. Black of York, Pa., president of the national association of democratic clubs; chief clerk of the house of representatives (congress), James Kerr of Clearfield, Pa.; Lawrence Gardiner, secretary of th democratic congressional committee of the national association of democratic clubs; W. R. Meyers, late secretary of state of Indiana; and Edward Sefton," stenographer of the democratic congressional committee. All Equador in a Tumult. New York, May 13. The Herald's special cable from Panama says: "Advices from Ecuador state that the rebels have seized Quarantea, interrupting the mail service between the capital and Guayaquil. The province of Oro, containing the towns of Santa Rosa, Sarurna and Pasaje, has revolted. Plenty of arms are in the possession of the rebels, and the whole nation seems to be against the existing government. Even the troops can not be depended on. Gen. Pierola applauds the revolution and says it is just, Colombia favors the present administration." New York Bank Statement. New York. May 13. The weekly bsr.k ! statement shows the following changes: Reserve, increase, $3,836,526; loans, increase, $4,016,100; specie, decrease, $288,200; legal tenders. Increase, $6,833,400; deposits, increase, $10,834,700; circulation, increase, $4,100. The banks now hold $31,070,100 in excess of the requiraments of the 25 per cent rule. Jones Held for the Grand Jury. Carson, Neb., May 13. The preliminary examination of John T. Jones, formerly assistant melter and refiner, charged with robbery of the Carson mint, has been concluded and Jones was bound over to appear before the grand jury. His ball was fixed at $25.0000. Acting upon the advice of his j counsel he made no defense.

IS A SECEET OF STATE.

JAPAN'S SUBMISSION KEPT FROM THE PEOPLE. Have No Official Information of the Adverse Fortune Dealt Out to the Victorious Nation by the European Alliance South American News. Tokio, April 27, via San Francisco. Cal., May 13. Although totally ignorant up to this day of what Is in store the people of Japan are about to receive a heavy blow of adverse fortune. To what extent the news of the hostile combinations of Russia, Germany and France has been made public in Europe and America, residents of Japan have no means of knowing; but in this country it remains a secret of state and may not be officially disclosed for some time to come. Rumors are prevalent, but the startling fact that the three great powers have united to deprive Japan of the continental territory ceded by China is scarcely suspected by any outside of official circles. The announcement was delivered at Hiroshima April 22, and after receiving the emperor's commands, Count Ito set forth to consult with Viscount Matsu at the sanitary resort, Maiko, whither the Junior commissioner had repaired in hope of regaining his shattered health. The heads of departments in Toklo were notified April 24, but foreign ministers were confidentially advised on that and the following days. By them the governments not already concerned were made acquainted with the facts. No Japanese newspaper has yet obtained information on the subject, but foreign journals indulge only In vague speculation. Upon the general populace the stroke is yet to fall. TREATY WITH NICARAGUA. Japan Wants Privileges in the Canal Equal to Other Nations. Toklo, Japan, May 13. Recent achievements of Japan have led it to turn its attention to securing a treaty with Nicaragua by which it would secure marked privileges in the Nicaragua canal. The subject has been under consideration at Washington between Minister Guzman, representing Nicaragua, and the representatives of Japan. The treaty has not as yet been concluded, nor Is it being further urged for the present, although no doubt exists among officials a satisfactory treaty will be made, giving Japan privileges in j the canal to commensurate with her j growing power as a military and eom- ! mercial nation. Washington, May 13. Thus far the United States has regarded Great Britain as the only dangerous competitor for the use or control of the canal. Now Japan's interest in the canal presents a new factor. Her victories over China promise to make her a prominent power in the Pacific. By gaining privileges In the use of the Nicaiaguan canal Japan would also secure direct access to the Atlantic without the long trip around "the Horn." The importance of a quick route to the Atlantic from Japan is great from a naval and commercial standpoint. FOR A DOUBLE REVOLT. Dissatisfied Hondurans and Nlcaraguans Form a Plot. Tegucigalpa, Honduras, May 13. The government has proof that dissatisfied Nlcaraguans and Hondusans have combined for simultaneous revolutions in those countries. The date set for the double revolt was In August. The greater part of the army here is said to be in the conspiracy. Managua, Nicaragua, May 13. The government denies having aided the revolutionists in Ecuador under Gen. Alfaro. No credit is given to the published rumors of a probable war between Colombia and Nicaragua over Colombia's claim to the Mosquito coast. j White Cubans Taking to the Field. Santiago, Cuba, May 6. via Key West, ! Fla., May 13. The whole situation in Cuba has changed. There is a contin ual exodus of white Cubans from Santiago now, whereas up to a week ago the reports of numerous departures for the fields were incorrect. The government of the Island Is alarmed, but is divided in its councils as to the expediency of sending to Spain for more troops. Gen. Salcedo thinks It would be i useless to bring over any more raw, unacclimated levies until the season changes. It is proposed to call out those Spanish soldiers who have served their time in the army, been given discharge papers, and are living in Cuba. Several thousand men, it is estimated, can be obtained in this manner. Objections have already been raised by those to be called, and threats made to the revoluitnolsts. Ravages Are Caused by Lightning;. Bloomington, 111., May 13. Reports from the country show that the recent electric storm was the most terrific that has been seen in the county in many years. It was especially violent about Colfax and Cropsey. Near the former place Robert Abeby's cattle barn was burned, with seven head of steers, hay and 700 bushels of oats. Asa Putnam's barn was burned, with all Its contents, Including nine horses, four cows, vehicles, farm machinery, etc. His loss is $3,000. Martin Williams was knocked down and stunned. Horses and cattle were killed on a number of farms. The barn on the farm of William J. Rhodes, four miles southeast of Bloomington, was burned, with its contents, entailing a loss of $1,500. May Be Capt. Kldds' Hoard. Riverside, N. Y., May 13. John A. Peterson, a resident of Baiting Hollow, while excavating for a cistern on the premises of George B. Wells, found an old irou box containing a quantity of gold and silver coins. The money had evidently been deposited where it was found for at least a century. There are those who insist that Peterson discovered some of the gold once belonging to Captain Ktdd. Peterson refuses to discuss the find. Lichtenberg Is Convicted. Detroit, Mich., May 13. A verdict of guilty was entered Saturday against Julius Lichtenberg, the ex-school inspector who was tried for accepting a bribe from the agent of a Manitowoc i. Wis.) school furniture firm. Lichtenoerg was remanded for sentence.