PREPARING FOR WAR.
Japan Is Making Energetic Preparations
for Trouble.
CRISIS BETWEEN EMPEROR AND CZAR
Attention is Directed More to Korea Than China
«Russia's Apparent Withdrawal or Modifica-
the Problem.
London (By Cable).—The
srn situation continues an enigma to all
European observers. Russia's apparent
withdrawal of her de
mands quite fails to restore confidence
or modification
in an amicable settlement of the prob
melancholy
that trifling
. the
em. It is pointed out
truth by
with the
lentsin
COSst
one Englrsh
Anglo-Russian incident at
railway siding
Great Britain
in hard cash
It was the news of thi
possibility of
and Great Brit
1
BOERS NEAR JOHANNESBURG.
A Freight Traian Is Derailed and Plundered--
Other Wrecks.
London (By Cable
has recei :
“ner,
ture
Five Firemen Injured in Kansas Fire.
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Hounds Trailing Bask Robbers.
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appr
posse «
Massacre of Gold-Seckers.
Phenix, Ariz. (Special).—1It is report
ed that a party of gold seekers was mas-
sacred by Ceris Indians the Islas
of Tiburon, in Gulf of California
Two weeks ago six Mexican prospect-
ors left Tepopa. on the west coast of
Mexico, in a small boat and went to
Tiburon Island. Pedro Parquila, one of
the party, has reached the mainland and
reported a fierce fight with the Indians
He escaped and believes his companions
were killed.
"
on
the
James Carey Evans Dead.
Buffalo, N. Y.
(Special). James
Cary Evans digd here, He was born in
Baltimore in 1809. In 183s he, with
others, formed the American Transpor-
tation Company, the pioneer of the
Great Lakes corporations. Subsequent-
ly the firm of which he was a member
organized the Evans Line and built the
first iron steamer on the Lakes,
The Cancer Parasite.
Buffalo, N. Y. (Special).—~"“Cancer is
caused by an animal parasite, which
we have identified and located in the
New York State Cancer Laboratory.”
said Prof. H. R. Gaylord, of the Uhni-
versity of Buffalo, who has charge of
the laboratory. A peculiar {sature about
the parasite is the length of time re-
quired to develop a culture, and this,
rof. Gaylord said, accounted for the
failure to fully identify it before,
Bank Failure Affects Whole Town.
Oswego, N. Y.
ing firm of W. J. Brewster & Co., of
Hannibal, this covnty, failed with lia-
is affected by the failure and many small
depositors in Oswego, Wayne and Ca-
yuga counties suffer severely,
the depositors, it is said, was the State
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
May Admit Sons of Veterans,
Chattanooga, Tenn,
N. B. Forrest Camp
Veterans is
sons and grandsons of Confederate vet-
erans to
nization. An effort will be made to
ave the convention at Memphis in Ma
adopt the plan, so as to make it a nd-
tional law of the organization. It is
thought that this, if adopted, may merge
the organization of the Sons of Vet-
erans ing the United Confederate Vet.
erans and dissolve the individuality of
the sons’ camps.
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS,
Domestic,
City Judge Kellogg, Yonkers, N
! Frank Jones, of, New
York, who had horsewhipped Samuel
Walters because the latter had maligned
Of
John S. Mosby says the South
than the North, and that the
status 1s bound to improve
Fire broke out in the
monwealth clubhouse, in
Va.,
deluged with water
Prince Krapotkin, the Russian
delivered a lecture in New York on
“Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal”
Frederick Young, of Atlantic City,
shot at his wife in Phil +]
then shot and wounded his sis
". Fiery, treasurer
Va
died at his home i
Negro
fine Com
Paw
the
Benjamin F
Martins
Afr
int
§ ave been dispatche ito
an expected revolt
11 North
miral Farqul
off San Juan, t
ed, expecting
waters
The Premier of France, M. Waldeck
Rousseauwy is timid about going to
Toulon, fearing a hostile demonstration
by the Marseilles strikers
The funeral of James Stephens, the
Fenian leader, took place in Dublin and
the remains were interred in the Mar.
yrs Plot
Lord Salisbury's conditic
ed by his physicians to
proving
Prime Minister Sagasta, of Spain, is
ill
Kumasi he Gold Coast Co y, and
troops Suppress
arrived
IS report
he Admiral,
‘ Venezuelan
ywrders to
1
be
is report
slowly 1m
The French Government has be-
stowed upon Captain William E. Hor-
ton, U. S. A., a colonial decoration for
finding the remains of Baron Dumarais,
a French nobleman murdered by Fili-
Pinos.
Herbert Gladstone, in an address to
his constituents, sharply arraigns the
British Government for the war in
South Africa and the absence of a
clearly defined policy in the East.
Queen Alexandra of Great Britain
associations,
the Vulcan Works,
Bulow
at
Chancellor von
The diary of Majors Andre was found
Lord Grey in London among a lot
old family papers.
Flaancial,
Mr. Morgan sailed for Europe Wed-
nesday.
The Swedish State Bank made a
Seats in the New York Stock Ex-
change have advanced to $55,000,
The funeral of Queen Victoria cost
The National Bank of China had
gross profits of $117,682 in the year
1
The Russian Journal of Statistics
states the national debt of that country
to be $3,936,000,000,
ARE
of Steckholders at Meeting to Mortgage
Property-Fee of the State Amounted to
$220,000-- Reasons for Filing the Separate
Articles- Will Absorb the Olive Mining Co.
I'renton, N, J The United
{ Spec 1a)
{ State 3
3 . 3
of State here articles amend
nd increasing its cap
} $1 100.000. 000
the filing of
filed some
Only one
par
tage of
legislature
in an
ould not
Hrof
THREE FALL OVER A PRECIPICE
Excited Woman and Girl
Child.
y
Follow a Falling
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FRAUDS STIR UP MANILA.
Quartermaster, Contractor and Many Others
Are Arrested.
in the
well
Manila (By Cable) Interest
capture and fate of Aguinaldo is
nigh overshadowed in Manila by sen
of
Department
Commissary
frauds in the
How widely these extend
spective,
has not yet been ascertained, but enough
is already known to justify the belief
that they are far-reaching
Capt. Frederick J. Barrows, of the
Thirteenth Volunteer Infantry, quarter-
Luzon, together with seven commissary
several civilian clerks, a
government contractor, the
assistant manager of the Hotel Oriente,
number of store
ms have
A 1. “
Manila, a
other PETSL
bakeries in
{
and been
arrested
The 1
t
ly begun;
r, 4 quan
of
Marks,
invsetigation has scarce
of sacks of flou
and wagon |
but thousands
tity of bacon other
Dear
NIW PRESIDENT FOR READING
Bacr, a Member of the Executive
Commitice.
George F.
He
pointment of the Brave Kansan,
WHEATON MADE A MAJOR GENERAL.
Colonel Smith Also Promoted to Be a Briga-
and Promotions ian the Army that Will
{
f
Filipino If He Declares Allegiance.
PRESIDENT DISPOSED TO BE LENIENT.
Have Been on the Anxious Bench.
Washington (Special). —
of rewarding General Funston for the
of
President at a conference
War. 1
is contained
capture Aguinaldo was decided by
the
Secretary of he decision of the
President in the following
despatch sent to General MacArthur, at
Manila:
The following :ppointments made:
Major General; Smith and
Funston, Brigadier Generals; the Sec-
retary of War joins me in congratula-
tions to all. Corbin.”
The following annoucement was made
at the White House:
Army, Brigadier General Loyd Wheat-
on, vice Miles, promoted Lieutenant.
(renerals to be Baier Generals in
the regular army, Colonel Jacob H.
Smith, Seventeenth Infantry, Brigadier
Volunteers, vice Daggett,
retired; Brigadier General Frederick
Funston, United States Volunteers, vice
Wheaton, promoted.”
This announcement was followed
later by another giving the appoint-
ments decided upon by the President
of
ment, and the appointments of chap-
lains, * .
General Loyd Wheaton, just pro-
moted to be major general, was pro-
moted to be a brigadier general only a
few weeks ago.
Wilmington, N. C. (Special).~~As an
outcome of the heated municipal cam-
paign, there was a street fight here be-
tween Representative John D. Bellamy
and City Attorney Iredell Meares. The
immediate cause of the difficulty was a
written statement by Meares regarding
back taxes alleged to be owed the city
by Bellamy. Bellamy told Mears that
his statement was a lie cares re.
sponded with a blow and Bellamy de-
fended himself. Both received blows in
the face, but neither was badly hurt.
Aguinaldo, Giving Him Freedom la Return
for Aid in Establishing Recognition of Amer:
ican Sovereigaty~Will Be Held for fhe
Present as a Prisoner of War.
Emilio
of the laws
Washington (Special). Ii
Aguinaldo has violated any
lines to take the oath of
allegiance to the United States, he will
be tried by a military commission to
be appointed by Major General Mac-
Arthur
This is the important feature of in-
structions sent by Secretary Root to
General MacArthur regarding the dis-
position to be made of the prisoner.
General MacArthur will make no bar.
dom in return for aid in establishing
of American sovereignty.
He will inform Aguinaldo that the Gov-
i
i
i
with him and he will be held for the
present as a prisoner of war.
He wall be kept under close surveil
lance, 80 as not to be able to communi-
cate with his former subordinates to the
injury of the United States. He will be
i
nerally with what he has
done and his views as to their future
course.
It was explained that notwithstand-
ing the fact that Aguinaldo was cap-
tured, the President holds that his case
comes within the scope of the amnesty
proclamation issued by General Mac:
Arthur last summer, and the enabling
act recently passed by the Philippines
Commission,
Zimmerman to Pay the Duke's Debts.
London (By Cable) The Duke of
Manchester a red in the Bankruptcy
Court for public examination, But the
case was again adjourned to May 10.
It was represented that Mr. Zimmer-
man, the duke's father-in-law, had just
arrived in England and was investigat-
ing the debtor's affairs, and that, there.
fore, it would be for the benefit of fhe
creditors to adjourn the case until the
investigation was completed, This is
taken as an intimation that Mr, Zim-
merman proposes to extricate his son-
in-law from his embarrassments.
DIVIDED AT HAVANA.
Motion to Appeal to Washington Beaten
By One Vote,
THE DELEGATES MAY RECONSIDER.
Constitutional Convention la Secret Session
Turns Down Propositions on Platt Amend-
ment--Senor Alejandro Rodrigues, Who Was
Elected Mayor of Havana Last June, Has
Resigned the Office.
Havana (Special)
of the Cuban Constitutios
held Monday and as at
twenty-five delegate
i
was tended |
Among the
scntees were Senors Giberga, Quiles
and Sang {
Platt amendment
The first
resolution
tion recomn
: ryt
accept th
“SIGNS OF MENTAL DEPRESSION.”
The German Press Is Stili Puzzling Over the
Emperor's Pessimistic Talk
HIS STOMACH REMOVED.
Expert Accountant Bodman Will Have to Eat
Predigested Food.
N i oy £3
it contained a large
caused the
harden made unable
form their natural functic The
ter of the stomach containing the th
was removed and the
were sutured and are expe
a good adhesion by first intention
A Desperate Burglar Killed.
Chicago (Special). — After having
been wounded in a previous attempt at
burglary a few hours before, Cornelius
Doherty, one of four who attempted to
break nto the Newberry Building, on
East Ontario street, met a tragic death
while running away from Watchman
Frank Kelly, who shot him in the left
temple and the left thigh. Kelly had
driven away three men earlier in the
evening, discovering them as they were
climbing the fire-escape. He fired sev-
eral shots at the fugitives, and one, who
fell, but regained his feet, is believed to
have been Doherty. Shortly after mid-
night the men returned \elly again
discovered them, and, as the men ran,
fired, killing Doherty.
Compiaisant Officer's Discomfiture.
Moundsville, W. Va. (Special).—Con-
stable J. 1. Barnett went to the home
of John Barcus to serve a warrant
of
tissues
and them
Mis
other portions
i
ted to form
Barcus with abducting Dardinger’s 17-
year-old daughter. Barcus asked per-
coat.
for an hour, and then went up to find
that his prisoner had droppe
ut of a window and had escaped.
Robbers Get $4,000 State Money.
Montgomery, Ala. (Special).—At Re-
form, Pickens county, the safe in the
in money secured. The police here were
notified. The robbers escaped. The
which were sent there for the quarterly
payment of the public school teachers,
Express Company Robbed.
tion about a robbery of § supposed
to have committed in the New
York office of fhe Southern Express
Company, just leaked out here. General
ting. A fevkvlays ago an official of
Te ank of Columbia personally ex-
pressed a package containing $5000 to
the Bank of Commerce, New York.
The package laid over night in the New
York office. On being at the
Bank of Commerce it was found to con-
i
tain slips of brown paper, the size of
bank bills.
LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS,
Migister Loomis Recalled.
Although the f
Department adhere to
that
officials of the
GONE, the
1 & 4
Deen earned of
between Venezuela
States, ity bel
the ba
General
for the
£9
Presidential Appointments.
f
Receipts From Revenue Tax.
New Official for Venezuela
fae
States Militar
The Na
blegram
that during
i iu
nt received a ca-
1 Remey saying
sailroom of the
3
mmanaer
from
a hire
gunboat Petrel :
Jesse M. Roper was suffocated and 22
officers and men prostrated
ant-L«
ns ior
Secretary Gage gave his reas
questioning the expediency of using the
growing surplus either to buy govern.
ment bonds or increasing the deposits
in the banks
The recall of Minister Loomis, our
diplomatic representative in Venezuela,
is significant, as showing that thie gov-
ernment’'s relations with Venezuela are
strained
President McKinley will make an ad-
dress and Chauncey Depew will deliver
the oration at the unveiling of the Logan
statue in Jowa Circle
Minister Loomis has been recalled 10
Washington to explain in detail the cir-
cumstances connected with the Vene-
zuelan controversy
President Orcutt, of the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Drydock Com-
pany, signed the contract to build the
cruiser Charleston.
"he Navy Depariment was adviped
It is reported from a source, usually
correctiy normed, that Ambassador
Choate will retire from the diplomatic
master General Smith,
Capt. William B. Gordon. of the Ord-
Among the naval appointments mate
The Secret Service Bureau announced
that a clever counterfeit five-dollar sil-
ver certificate is in circulation.
A company of the Sixth Cavalry, in
a fight with insurgents in Cavite
Province, lost two men wounded.
Eighteen insurgents were killed.
The Jrssidem of the Filipino Junta
in Madrid says Aguinaido will be re-
placed and the Filipino War will go on.
Lieutenant Dean and thirty men of
the Sixty Cavalry Were surrounded hy
200 insurgents at Malvars Church, Cali-
say. Three of the men cut their way
Be Shuts
orcements, upon 0
the Filipinos retired,