"If
V
lit nan mm postponfd.
LI HUNG CHANG ILL
Chinese Army Ordered to Move North Em.
prtit Dowager Itiues Instructions to
General Feng. Tie-Tsal.
I.I Hung Chang has snlTorrd a relapse,
and, became of the serious effect of this
and bit great hk-. it is feared that be
will be unable to act ns plenipotentiary
in arranging settlement of tbc trou
bles in China, and that tbc difficulty and
lelay in securing a successor may cause
the postponement fur a time ol negotia
tions. It is reported from Sian-Iu that the
empress dowager has ordercr General
Feng Tsc-Tsai, commanding in the
province ol Vim-Nan, to proceed with
bis army to the Yangtsc valley, and
from that section to move northward.
J lis force is said to consist of 15,000
men, armed with modem weapons.
Count von Waldersec. it is asserted,
lias arranged with Prince Chin and
I.i Hung Chang that the allied troops
arc not to operate ill the prefectures of
Shun Te. Ilaung-Piiig and Ta-Ming, m
the nrovinee of Chi-I.i.
Chang-Chili Tung, the Wit-Chang
viceroy, wired the Chinese envoy,
strenuously urging them to delay the
signing "f the note until several clauses
bail been amended and that portion of
the Preamble bad been expunged which
charier the imperial court with the re
uponsibi'itv for the attacks upon lec
tions, lie' further tinted the imperial
personages not to return to Peking, 011
the Krotind that the joint note permit
tlic powers to maintain 10,000 troops be
tween PekinK and the sea. An imperial
decree was issued to delay the nffiixng of
the signatures; but the Chinese pleni-
tiotcntiaries replied that it was impossi
le to recall the assent already given.
TO TRY AMERICAN COAL.
Russia Buys Six Thouiani Tons for the Navy.
May Ordor Mors,
Through Ilaron Fcrsen of tbc Rus
sian navy the Russian government has
purchased 6,000 tons of American coal
for trial by the vessels comprising her
Asiatic squadron.
This order is important, ns, if tbc coal
proves satisfactory, it may lead to other
contracts being placed in the United
States. The only thing that will prob
ably militate against the exclusive me
of American coal by the Russian gov
ernment is the enormous freight rate
that it has to pay to transport the coal
to Port Arthur. The coal purchased
by Ilaron Fcrsen costs only $2.75 per
ton, but the cost of its transportation
to Port Arthur is $11.50 pet ton, mak
ing the cost per ton $14.25. The coal
now used by the Russian warships in
cludes English and Japanese, but it is
not entirely Satisfactory.
LARGEST KNOWN.
England Ha Decided to Build Two Monster
Batlloshlps.
The British admiralty has decided to
- build two battleships which arc intend
ed to be the largest in the world. Tbc
distinction of having the largest war
ships has hitherto been held by Italy,
with the Lcpanlo and her sister ship
the Italia. Great Britain's two pro
jected large warships, to be respective
ly named the CJuccn and the Prince of
Wales, will be 2,000 tons heavier than
the Italian ships mentioned, reaching
the enormous displacement of iR.ooo
which is .1,500 heavier than Amcr
ica'a biggest armor-clad vessel. These
tremendous Ilritish vessels will 1 carry
( nothing larger than 12-itich guni. Their
batteries will chielly be composed of
these guns and of 7.5-incli and 6-inch
B"'is. t
A Large Increase Auurcd.
As the result of the recent combina
tions engineered by J. Pierpont Morgan,
culminating in bis purchase of the Cen
tral Railroad of New Jersey for the
Reading Company, the stockholders in
the corporations engaged in the anthra
cite coal trade will pocket $-'5,000,000 a
year in addition to their former profits.
The lion'a share of this vast sum will
30 to Mr. Morgan and his associates,
, John D. Rockefeller and the Vandcr
bilts, who together coutrol lines which
handle 82 per cent, of the total output of
50,000,000 tons. Without any advance
to the consumer they will reap an ad
ditional profit of 50 cents a ton.
New Wow Combine
The combination of plow companies,
of which there have been rumors for
some time, will soon be launched with
a capitalization of $65,000,000. Thirty
one firms arc said to have agreed to
enter the new concern, which will prob
ably be called the American Plow Com
. pany. The promise is that the combine
will be able not only to reduce the pric?
of plows to the farmer, but also will
turn into its own treasury a profit great
er by $5,000,000 or more.
,. Shoe Combine Planned
Shoe manufacturers are planning the
establishment of a national shoe com
pany to dominate the distribution of
shoes to the retailers and eliminate the
middlemen's profits. The company is
to consist of not more than 12 houses
manufacturing dissimilar lines of shoes,
with a total capital stock of $3,500,000.
Depots will be established in every lead
ing city in the United States,
Library for Seattle.
Andrew Carnegie has promised Se
attle, Wash., a gift of $200,000 to be
expended in the construction of a new
public library. He requires a yearly
guarantee of $50,000 fur maintenance
and improvement.
Sentenced a Street Car Striker,
Frederick Northway, one of the three
men arrested on a charge of blowing up
a cable conduit with dynamite during
the progress of the great street car
strike at St. Louis, Mo., last summer,
has been found guilty by a jury and
sentenced to serve eight years in 'the
penitentiary. Maurice Brennan was
sentenced to 10 years in November last,
ber last
of thj
on thr
ana james aenwartz, tne last ,
trio, will be tried this month
am charge
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Four miners were asphyxiated by fire
damp near Wilkcsbarrc, Pa.
Fight men lost their lives in a fire at
Minneapolis, Minn., Sunday.
A meteor five feet in diameter fell
into Seneca lake, New York state.
According to apparently reliable Fili
pino sources, Aguinaldo died six weeks
ago.
Millions of dollars arc involved In n
huge Minnesota lumber deal just con
cluded. The transport Mende. with a large
amount of specie on board, lias reached
Manila.
A big gold strike, at the rate of $15
to the pan, is reported from Tanana, on
the Yukon.
The Molokanrn. a Russian sect num
bering 40,000, contemplate emigrating
to America.
John Alexander Dowic, of "Zion"
notoriety, has sailed from England for
the United States.
The Senate has confirmed Frederick
F. Rittmaii. of Ohio, to be auditor for
the war department.
lloers continue to march southward
in pirallcl columns plundering farms of
loyalists as they go .
W. If. lie Haas, of the United StaKs
engineering department, committed sui
cide at Pensacola, 1'la.
Bishop Win.-ind Michael Wigg'ir,
bead of the Roman Catholic diocese of
Newark, N. J., is dead.
Lord Roberts received an enthusiastic
welcome as he returned to London from
South African campaign.
The Holland and Harvard buildings,
in Buffalo, N. Y.. were damaucd to the
extent ol $ijo,ooo by lire.
The Boers now threaten
mines, and Kitchener has
the gold
called for
5,xio men to guard them.
The teachers and school children tf
New York raised $27.1)07 for the school
children of Galveston, Tex.
Philip I). Armour, the millionaire
meat packer and grain denier, died at
his home in Chicago Sunday.
Five trainmen were killed and one
badly injured in a collision between two
freight trains at Melton, Mass.
The Colorado Legislature is contem
plating the passage of a bill for the
restoration of capital punishment.
Forty cars of bay in the Boston &
Maine yards were ruined by fire and
water, entailing a loss of $113,000.
Noaks, a Goebcl witness, who con
victed Caleb Powers, has disappeared
after admitting that he swore falsely, ,
Tom Wilson, colored, who staobed a
white man at Wilsonvillc, Ala., was tak
en from the sheriff by a mob and bang
ed, Great Britain is willing now to, make
concessions to the Boers, and the "un
conditional surrender" attitude is aban
doned. Andrew D. White, the United States
ambassador at Berlin, has been elected
a member of the Berlin Academy of
Science. ,
Ten Germans were killed and nine
wounded at Lei Tung, China, through
the firing of a salute with a defective
cartridge.
The trustees of the Baron dc Hirsch
fund will develop the town of Wood
bine, N. J., for the benefit of the Rus
sian Jews.
John Mitchell, president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers, says that 1000 has
been the best year in the history of la
bor unions.
Seven miners were killed and 40
wounded in an affray of Altgebirg.
Hungary, between riotous miners and
gendarmes.
One of the guards employed in quar
rantining a smallpox infested camp near
Sparta. Minn., was shot and killed by a
lumberman.
Ambassador Cambnn just returned
from France, is delighted with the part
taken by the United Slates in the Paris
exposition.
At Yrcka, Cal., seventy-two inches of
snow fell within 48 hours and many
week buildings have collapsed under the
great weight.
Thursday Charles II. Dietrich was in
augurated governor of Nebraska. He
recommended the passage of a strong
auti-kidnaping law. ,
The steamer Tunisian, which recently
sailed from Liverpool for Portland,
Mc has on board 50 laccmakers boun 1
for Dowie's Zion city.
The divisions of the Cuban conven
tion to draw up a constitution have re
ported one modeled on the lines of
that of the United States. ,
Charles Westcrvclt, cashier of the
Dime Savings institution, of Newark,
N. J., has pleaded guilty to forgery.
Bank Cashier Edward C. Rcmme, of
Newport, Ky., has been arrested at the
instance of Bank Examiner Tucker.
Twenty-five thousand tons of common
salt, has been purchased in Lisbon,
Portugal by the Armour Packing Com
pany, of Kansas City, Mo.
Eight Italians were arrested by the
United States treasury secret service
agents in New York on the charge of
running a big counterfeiting plant,
j Hanging for the crime of kidnaping
is the penalty the State of Nebraska will
indict if the members of the State Legi.v
lature remain in their present temper.
Officials of all the great railroads will
visit the principal shipping points to
devise a way to discontinue "fast
freight" lines and local freight agencies.
A monument in honor of Baron and
Baroness de Hirsh and to commemorate
eradication of racial prejudice fs to be
erected in Central Park, New York
city.
The secretary of war has submitted
to Congress an additional deficiency es
timate of $3.000 000 for army subsistence,
caused chielly by the heavy demands
made by the forces in China and the
Philippines.
Four Louisville (Ky.) men indicted
for attempt to defraud insurance com
panies, one of them being the intended
victim, who failed to drink himself to
death or suicide.
The report of the American board of
foreign missions says that $317,913 in do
nations was received during die year,
and complains of the treatment of mis
sionaries in Spain,
Thomas Cunningham, president of
the bank of Joplin, Mo., received a let
ter threatening him with death unless
he deposited Si.ooodn gold in sack in
a certain designate spot. 1
BOER INDN M GAPE COLCSY.
COLONISTS ALARMED.
The Burghers Very Active Along the Western
Border of the Transvaal More Mounted
Infantry from England.
Such is the fear of the Boer invaders
that the British battleship Monarch will
land guns as a precautionary measure.
The situation Is undoubtedly serious.
The latest reports show it to be gener
ajly as follows:
Kuriiman. if still uninvested, probably
soon will be. Griqtialand west is filled
with small parlies of Boers who are
working south toward Prieska for the
purpose of co-operating with or sup
porting Commandant Hcrtzog, whose
advance parties are in the neighborhood
of Frascrburg. The Boers are close to
tiraaf Reinet where, of late, the Dutch
have given many demonstrations of ex
treme sympathy. In the eastern part
of the colony the advance guard of tbc
Boers is close to Maraisburg, about 25
miles northeast of Cradock.
The general opinion in Cape Town
is that the position is not properly appre
ciated in England. Many old residents
regard a general uprising of the Dutch
as quite likely.
The Itorrs commanded by Hcrtrojj,
Wesscls, Pretorius and Nieuwenhaiit
are continuing their march on Fraser
burg. It is reported they have arrived
at Spionbcrg. Looting continues. Com
munication with Frascrbury is suspend
ed. Col. Tborneycroft and Col. De
Lisle are continuing the chase, but their
horses and mules arc tired.
REWARD FOR PAT CROW.
The City of Omaha Hat Offered $13,000 for
His Arrest.
A specific reward of $13,000 is now of
fered for the arrest of Pat Crowe, anil
nothing is said in the offer about con
viction, The police of Omaha, Neb.,
arc sending out 5.000 circulars bearing
a picture and minute description of
Crowe. They will be sent broadcast,
and will also bear the description .if
two other men and a woman, supposed
to be connected with the Cudaiiy ab
duction. The offer for Crowe is made uncondi
tionally, the arrest and delivery to the
authorities being the only requisite for
securing the reward. This will allow
no excuse for anyone refusing to turn
him over on the score that he cannot
be convicted, and the police expect this
will greatly assist in securing his ar
rest. CHECKMATED A STRIKE.
A Scranton Company Oders the Affected Col
liery Closed Oown.
The 800 employes of the Mt. Pleasant
colliery of the Elk Hill Coal and Iron
Company at Scranton. Pa., are again
on strike, for the third time in a year,
lhey decided to strike Saturday night
because the superintendent refused to
give a driver boy the rate of wages the
boy claimed he was entitled to. The
company anticinated the strike by post
ing a notice that the colliery from this
date would be shut down. This will
save the officials from any dealings with
the union. The company will keep the
colliery closed until the men rcscinj
their strike order.
The men threaten to call out nil of
the 7.000 employes of the 12 collieries
of the Elk Hill Company if the lock
out is persisted in at the Mt. Pleasant
nunc.
Exp'oilon Killed Three.
Three men were "blown to pieces and
half a dozen others bruised and cut by
flying debris as the result of an explo
sion of dynamite at the toorks of the
Repauno Chemical Company, at
Thompsons Point. N. J., a thinly set
tled spot on the Delaware river. The
men had been punching dynamite into
eight-inch paper shells for use in blast
ing. It is probable that the machine,
used in n.irkincr th flvt-.nmifA rn-, .i
a spark and set off the explosives. Offi
cials 01 tnc company say the loss will
not be over $5,000.
Anolhor Boxer Beheaded.
Advices from Sian-Fu confirm the re
ports of the execution of Yu-IIsien, the
former governor of Sbansi, guilty of
massacring about 50 missionaries, whom
he had invited to accept his protection,
by order of the Dowager Empress.
Prince Tu.m is still at Ninghai. There
arc 30,000 Chinese regulars at Sian-Fu.
The court has made no preparations to
return.
Captured by Insurgents.
......... Uv..p, ... Muj. ui me engi
neer corps; his assistant, Private Lyons,
ui company r.,. rum inmiitry; five
scout and two native policemen have
been captured, while on their way to
Batac, by insurgents. On the receipt of
the news an American column was dis
patched against the Filipinos but failed
to overtake the party.
Firm Against Cigarettes.
Governor Bliss, who has succeeded
Hazcn S. Pingree as chief executive of
the State of Michigan, in his inn,,,....!
address declared himself most strongly
against cigarettes, iie.said on this sun
ject: "I advise the mos't stringent legis
lation possible, in order that the sale
of cigarettes may be discouraged, if not
prohibitied."
To Treat Separately with China.
A special dispatch from Peking says:
"According to an official Chinese
source Russia has arranged to make a
treaty with China at St. Petersburg.
The Chinese Minister there has been
appointed to act for China.
Lynched Two Negroes.
Two colored men were taken Friday
night from the county jail at Madisoi,
Fla., by persons unknown, led into the
woods about a mile from town, and
hanged. The bodies were riddled with
bullets. The negroes were charged with
killing Frederick Redding, a farmer.
They fled to Georgia, were arrested and
taken back to Florida. From the num
ber of empty cartridges found at the
pi e of lynchinaJt J-1 ted (hat the
r o ' x,r nvQr..
MORE GOLD AND SILVER.
Production In (he United Slates Greatly
Increased Last Tear.
Mint Director Roberts estimates the
production of gold in the United States
during 1000 at 3,837,213 ounces, valued
at $79,322,281, nnd of silver nt 50,610,543
ounces, valued, nt the average price of
61 cents per ounce for the year, at $36;
362,401. During 1K99 the gold produc
tion was $71,053,400, and the silver pro
duction 54.7f14.500 ounces. The Nome
gold and silver production for tono is
given as $5,100,000 and that of the Klon
dike, which Includes both the American
and Canadian fields, $22,287,566. Colo
rado produced $29,500,000 in gold nnd
20,202.200 ounces of silver: California,
$14,377,200 in gold and 012,800 ounces
of silver; Alaska, $7,771,100 in gold and
318,400 ounces of silver; Arizona, $3
500,000 in gold nnd 4.250,000 ounces of
silver; Idaho, $2,067,183 in gold and 4,
500,000 ounces of silver; Montana, $5,
126,615 in gold and 16,750,000 ounces of
silver: Nevada, $2,350,000 in gold and I,
229.756 ounces of silver; Utah, $4,237,726
in gold nnd 0 .500,000 ounces of silver;
Washington, $826,873 in gold nnd 300,
000 ounces of silver; South Dakota, $6,
617.694 in gold and 280.000 ounces of
silver; (iregon, $1,715,762 in gold and
150,000 ounces of silver.
MONEY FOR THE EAST.
A Forty -five Cent Coin Rocommended for
Use In the Philippines.
Telegrams from Washington say:
The President will ask Congress to pro
vide a Philippine currency to consist of
a silver piece about the size of the
American dollar. It will contain 45
rents worth of bullion, and will be fur
nished in unlimited quantities to anyone
who is willing to pay 50 cents for it. I',
is to be redeemable in gold at its face
value. The coin will be a little lighter
in weight than the Mexican dollar,
which at the present price of silver
bullion is worth 52 cents in American
gold.
The primary purpose is to furnish a
circulating medium showing that the
United States is exercising all the func
tions of a sovereign. The immedi iti
necessity is created by the great scarcity
of the Mexican dollars, the recognized
medium of exchange in the Orient.
The American troops in the Philippines
and the 80,000 foreign soldiers in China
have produced such a call for the Mex
ican currency that the shrewd Orientals
have taken to boarding if in hope oi
making a profit. Mexico has also taken
steps to prevent the depletion of her
stock of money, so the trade situation
on account of the scarcity of dollars is
becoming very bad.
It is the purpose, if Congress grants
the authority, to pay the soldiers in the
Philippines with the 50-ccnt dollars, giv
ing them two for one. All other gov
ernment obligations in that part of the
world will also be discharged with the
new coinage, so there will be no trou
ble in getting it into circulation.
It is expected there will be a demand
for $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 worth per
month for quite a while.
Farmers Had a Good Year.
Dun's review in its summary review
ing the business of the ycaf just close !,
says: The closing year of the century
was a remarkably satisfactory one for
farmers and planters, notwithstanding
the fact that some sections harvested
smaller crops than in preceding years.
While the south produced less cotton
than in the two previous record-breaking
seasons, prices were the highest in
10 years, and the net profits made on
plantations were enormous. Spring
wheat States lost much grain, but
Kansas a ndother large winter wheat
growers made big crops, and the aver
age price was high. In fact, the cereals
wera nil abnormally advanced until
there occurred a natural loss in exports,
so that Russian ports were able to secure
much foreign trade that had belonged
to American producers. Corn was put
up to within a fraction of 50 cents here,
and speculative manipulation forced the
Chicago price still higher. These oper
ations had a naturally deleterious effect
on exportation and foreign surplus
countries reaped much of the benefit
from excessively inflated domestic mtr
kets. Australian Governor Seated.
The Earl of Hopetoun was Tuesday
sworn in as the first governor of the
federated Australian colonics amid
scenes of pageantry such as have never
before been attempted in the Antipodes.
Scores of thousands of people partici
pated in the demonstration ami general
joy marked the occasion.
Suicide by Dynamite.
II. E. Webber, a well-to-do farmer cf
Lisbon village, Maine, blew himself to
pieces. Parts of his lower limbs wore
scattered about the premises. The head
and .arms and upper part of the trunk
were found on top 'of the barn. Notes
left by Webber said that the writer hid
decided to kill himself by exploding dy
namite cartridges. He had been acting
strangely for several weeks.
CABLE FLASHES.
Unprecedented cold prevails all over
Europe and snow has fallen in Rome.
Snow is falling heavily over Central
Germany severely interrupting railway
traffic.
The German government will make
another attempt to have its canal bill
passed.
A fire at Baku. Russia, has destroyed
25 naphtha springs and three ware
houses. The Duke of York has been promoted
from captain to rear admiral in the
English navy.
Cape Colonists call loudly for more
troops, fearing that the Boers have bein
strongly reinforced by Boer sympa
thizers. The czar of Russia has recovered his
health and is able to take long walks
and drives daily.
Empress of China delays progress of
negotiations bv insisting on changes in
provisions of joint note.
Archbishop Favier, vicar apostolic of
Pekin, declares that the Poji is not ill
disposed toward France.
Russia had made an agreement with
China for the practical acquisition of
Manchuria two years ago.
Ifharles Alexander, grand duke : of
V "mar. is dead at Berlin. He
GZAR IS IRlG'CODIffl.
RUSSIA'S GAME.
An Agreement Whereby SI. Petersburg Will
Have a Protectorate of a Manchurian
Province Concessions Made-
In a dispatch from Pekin Dr. Morri
son gives the text of the Russo-Cbincse
agreement for the Russian protection
of the Manchurian province of F'cn
Ting. Russia consents that China shall
resume the civil government on certain
conditions which aim at aid being se
cured in railroad construction and in
feeding Russian troops.
Following his announcement that the
Chinese emperor has decreed the ac
ister Conger cabled the State department
that the ministers had been notified for
mally, not only that the agreement was
accepted by the Chinese government,
but that the government felt able to
guarantee a performance of the condi
tions imposed. It is believed in Wash
ington that the result of an endeavor to
have . equable commercial treaties will
be the framing of a general convention
to be signed collectively by the powers
which will insure uniform treatment to
all. The arrest and punishment of the
Boxer leaders is expected next.
In an interview Li Hung Chang says
that the emperor is desirous of comply
ing in all particulars with the demands
of the powers, (in the other hand, he
thinks the powers should order a cessa
tion of the frequent irritating expedi
tions, which he looks upon as unneces
sary and ns doing a deal of barm.
The emperor, Li Hung Chang as
serts, is willing to punish all those nam
ed by '.be powers by banishment to the
furthest part of the Chinese dominions,
on the northwestern frontier; and thir
r.'turn, he declares will be prohibited
under penalty of decapitation.
FLOODS IN ENGLAND.
Many Vilages Isolated by Water Railroads
Suspend Operations.
Telegrams from London say: While
the gales continue on the coasts, floods
are causing havoc on the railway lines
and farms. The midlands are entirely
inundated. Railways arc submerged to
the level of the station platform, en
gine fires being extinguished. Bridges
have been carried off and the overflow
ing streams have inundated miles of
country. At Coventry the devastation
is greater than at any time during 30
years. A number of factories have been
flooded, and hundreds of the inhabitants
imprisoned in their homes. The town
of Bath is endangered by the rise of the
Avon, which is 10 feet above the normal.
Immense tracts of land in several coun
ties have been transformed into inland
seas, the inhabitants seeking refuge m
the upper rooms of their dwellings.
FATAL BULL FIGHT.
One Man Gored to Death and Many Severly
Injured.'
The bull fight arena at San Luis Pos
tosi, Mexico, was the scene of another
tragic exhibition of brutal sport Sunday.
While the fight wa in progress one of
the vicious bulls jumped the stone bir
rier that separates the fighting ring from
the spectators. The animal landed in
the midst of the crowd and instantly
charged upon the men, women and chil
dren, who fled in every direction vainly
seeking the exits.
One man was gored to death by the
animal and a score or more were injur
ed, being knocked down and tramnlcd
under the feet of their panic-stric'ke:i
friends and neighbors. The bull; was
finally killed by a rural guard.
Boxors to Invade Korea.
Copies of the "North China Daily
News" received at Victoria, B. C, l-y
the steamship Tacoma have a long ar
ticle ou the plot by Korean Boxers to
massacre foreigners and follow the re
rent Boxer program in China in Korea.
The Seoul correspondent of that paper
says that without question there bave
been orders sent to every prelect to this
end. '
Mongolians are Barred.
The provincial government of British
Columbia has proclaimed the new regu
lations for carrying out the immigra
tion act which was passed at the last
session, prescribing the educational
test.
A big fight will be made by the com
panies engaged in bringing in Japanese
and Chinese as the act is an effective
bar to their entry.
Famine on the Amur.
A dispatch received from Vladivos
tock. Russia, reports that famine
threatens the Amur and maritime prov
inces. The crops are bad and the rail
ways, being almost wholly engaged for
war purposes, cannot be used for t!i'j
tnnsportation of food to the inhabitants.
In addition the prohibition of foreign
coastwise trade has prevented importa
tions into the threatened provinces.
Want Canadian Independence.
The Independence club, of Montreil.
Can., has published its platform and
constitution. The clauses call for the
dissolution of the colonial relation with
Britain and a declaration of independ
ence, the new federation to be known as
the United States of Canada; provinces
to become states with sovereign pow:r,
and universal suffrage to be granted.
The list of officers is kept secret.
Native R sino in West Africa.
The colonial office at London is in
receipt of news of a native rising in the
Gambia river region of West Africa.
The dispatch conveying this information
adds that a punitive expedition is being
orcanized.
, s
Found Diamond Bed.
The discovery of diamonds in the vol
canic hills near Capitan. Otreo county,
N. M., has created intense excitement
among mining men. The discoveiy
was made by J. J. Blow, general mtn
ager of the Linderman Coal Company,
who picked up four gems in an ant
heap. He took them to jeweler, who
pronounced them genuine diamonds.
Blow then dug into the ant heao. an.1
ai a aepm 01 is ices, uncove
TWO FACTIONS CLASH.
Each Will Issue a Promulgation of Sentiment
Regarding Cuba's Relation to the
United Slates.
The Cuban constitutional convention
is considering the promulgations of the
'future relations between Cuba and the
United Stales. The first affirms an ac
ceptance of the Monroe doctrine and
the establishment of friendly relations
with all nations, with a resolution to
proceed in all cases in complete accord
with the United States. It proposes to
put at the disposal of the United States
a portion of shore of any bay on the
north coast and of two bays on the
south coast for naval stations, together
with concessions sufficient in extent for
the purposes of defense and sanitation.
It declares that Cuba will place herself
on a war footing to help the Unitid
States in case assistance should be need
ed. The other says that the aspirations cf
the convention are merely to consoli
date the country for reconstruction. The
first promulgation embodies the desires
of delegates friendly to the United
States. The latter is a counter check to
the extremists. It is considered that
the former is likely to carry.
NEW YEAR FESTIVITIES
Led to the Belief That the City Had Beea
Attacked Assassin of Baron von
Kettler was Beheaded.
The advent of the New Year and the
new century was celebrated in Pekin on
an elaborate scale. The discharge of
numerous guns at midnight created a
scare and many troops were sent to dis
cover whether the city had been attack
ed or whether it was a Boxer rising.
Gen. Chaffee held his reception in the
morning and Mr. Conger received in
the afternoon. A feature which caused
considerable comment was a review of
the British troops in honor of Queen
Victoria and of Australian federation,
to which all th'c nations were invited to
send representatives. The F'rench were
conspicuous by their absence, not a sin
gle Frenchman being present.
The man who killed Baron von Ket
teler. the German minister to China, in
June last, was beheaded in the presence
of a large number of spectators. His
name was Su Hai and the execution
took place on the scene of his crime at
3 p. m. December 31.
PROVED A WINNER.
Refunding Operations Close with an Annual
Gain of $10,700,000.
Refunding operations tinder the finan
cial act of March 14 closed Monday, the
books of the treasury department hav
ing been open to the exchange of bonds
for nine and one-half months. Assist
ant Secretary Vanderlip says: The re
funding has been successful. Holders
of the old bonds, 3s, 4s and 5s of 1908,
1907 and 1904, respectively, have volun
tarily offered for exchange into as, ap
proximately $439,000,000 out of $839.
000.000, leaving outstanding of this pait
of the interest-bearing public debt lew
than one-half the amount subject to. the
law. The net saving to the government
of interest is substantially $10,700,000,
accomplished by the payment now (A
$42,200,000, which is really an anticipa-
tion of $52,900,000 interest which would
have had to be paid within the next
eight years, in case the old bonds were
permitted to run to maturity. The 4
per cents of 1907'have been exchanged
in greater amounts than any other class,
their total up to December 29 being
$264,000,000. Of the three per cents of
1908, $f).ooo.ooo were exchanged, and of
the 5 per cents of 1904, $70,500,000.
From March 14 to date, 395 new
banks Iikvc been organized, of which
2J were with a capital stock less than
$50,000. ar.d 115 with a capital stock
over that amount. The aggregate cap
ital cf the former class was $7,372,000,
and of the laiter $12,650,000, a total ad
dition to banking capital of $20,022,000. ' '
Bank note circulation in the meantime
Smallpox Among Veterans.
Smallpox has broken out at the Sol
diers' home at Leavenworth, Kas., and
the institution has been placed under
quarantine. There are two fully-de-veloped
cases. Wholesale vaccination
will be enforced. There are more
than 3.000 veterans in the home. They
are quarantined in brick barracks, each
building holding about 150 men.
Brazil Invaded by Teutons.
"Germany in Brazil" is a topic rarelj
discussed in the press, and yet the Ger
man settlements in South America are
the most flourishing of which the Fa
therland can boast. Since the beginning
of the present century German emi
grants have struggled against fearful
odds to establish themselves in South
ern Brazil, with the result that to-day
it is claimed that a quarter of a million
inhabitants of German extraction find
a comfortable home there. Large Ger
man colonies exist in Rio de Janeiro,
Bahia and other purely Brazilian places,
but the Germans almost call their own
the Brazilian provinces of Parana,
Santa Catcrina and Rio Grande do Sul.
The Germans in Brazil may nt at pres
ent have either the intention or the wiih
to constitute themselves an independ
ent political body, but the increase of
Germanism in that part of the world is
a factor that will no doubt one day be
felt Paris Messenger.
TERSE TELEGRAMS.
W. H. Bod well, a newspaperman.
Been lost on Mt. Washington,
Near Eastondon, Ga.. Will
boy of 17, shot and killed Kin
en.
A nephew of Cardinal G;
murdered by footpads in
Tuesday.
Congressman Grosvenor
sue an "autograph edition
traits ot our t residents.
Governor Roosevelt, of
has pardoned Annie Walde
per husband nine years au
Tuesday Benjamin B. (I
inaugurated governor
State,'yith elaborate ceil
Hirar SlMaxir,
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