V IT m.im OFFICIALS SUICIDE. SHORT $81,000. kldtnt and Cashier el Vancouver, Wash., Ini'.ltution Culd net Stand tht DIs- tract and Kitted Themselves. Charles Brown and E. L. Cnnhy, resident and enshler, respectively, of b First National bank of Vancouver, Wash., which has been closed by the controller of the ciirrrcnoy, committed aulelde by shooting themselves with revolvers. Their bodies were fouud lying together In a snmll clump of bushes near the town. Both used the same weapon, and Canity evldenty died first, na the revolver was found lu Brown's hands. Each put the murr.le of the revolver In his mouth and blew the top of his beau o.ff Brown, who was 54 years of ago, baa lived In Vancouver since 1802. Canby was 52 yenrs-of ngc and was well connected. A brother Is a pay master In the United States nrmy. Another brother committed suicide by Jumping off the wharf at Vancouver several years ago. v line Bank Examiner Maxwell, ho Is now In charge as receiver, has lade no official statement. It is kuown 'at the bank has loaned n large sum money on Insufficient security, coordlng to his report to the con oiler of the .currency there Is a short- we of $S1,000 In the bunk's ncconnts, 'id It Is nndemtooil that a consldor- ole portion of this amount wns aned to Brown and ('nilby on their rsoual notes. SMITH'S REVELATION. and Prayer tha Mormon Proph et la Rewarded. 'lation of President Joseph people hns been read to ' the reorganized Pay Saints at In- titTnttn came had In- and pray- I'en in the i irums since y them. i conference without a protest and thus becnine a part of tne religion of 45.000 people, by nil of whom It Is believed of di vine origin. The revelation directs that President Anderson be chosen to till the vacancy In the quorum of 12; that the rules of representation remain . as they are till the growth of the church renders a change necessary; that two new stakes be established, ., one at Independence, Mo., and one at I t i.iu:imin in.; tiiiii i ni cnnrcu proviue i Vacts In Scandinavian, lerninn. .Tan. 'nfctoe. oitncuese and other languag es ito the missions require: and that UonuVyT. firllliths be sent to l'.nglnnd In the TffffJyst of foreign missionary work. Also Tiatjlte missionary work of the church be -piOMKjited In Aus tralia and tne Islands of luKtt'a. JUSTICE If OKLAHOMA ludga Allowsd Thet $12 for Hauling tolen Hoga to Market, f .vVemnrknble lustnncetho ndmln- JsJjV n of justice In li K. Vie, Okln., Is reported, from Wmn county. Ad Edward Dustlnyas. on trial ore the probate JudXrou (l charge ixnUijakiaaV''l'liat he took 2s V ila shown from the start, but Ml question at' Issue wns their Vf20 or over making ho theft a Gillian- flense olwirly proven thnt ttustln re- u i'..i ror tne llogs from a deal r'i A vv ;omls, but Wntikomia wns n .l from the nnlnt wliere the a)uh - ,nirs we. re taken, and the tint fimiiiv decided (that .ustin wns entitled to ni for trmsnm'tlmr tl,a l,r.-. lownnc he mn'fkef. lie therefore allowed the Iilel mi J ior naming tlie stolen hogs, rhlcb reduced the crime to a misde ..niion and let him off u.itl, fin A. i 7 : Flguraa of German Trade. Jie values of Germany's foreign ue. Including gold and silver, are: nports. 6,042,000.000 marks, an In case of 25!,out,OO0 marks; exports, ril8,non,000 marks, an increase of !4,0OO,0o0 murks; Imports from the nlted States, 4.1!l,0oo,000 marks, oil ase of 02,000,000 uinrks. A mark ! cental I Mine take Ordered. ((Mil miners nftnllllnnt ITnn.1. Jefferson couutts, Ohio, and Isball. Ohio, Broollo and Ilan Auntlcs. West. Vlrclrtln. f firth Ohio mih-dlnfrU t hiiva Kit jii A'd to strike, owing to tbe failure lie committees of th mlnm-u' ...! frutors' committees to reach a i lenient at theli- hist 'Port. Which flrtlmimnrl K,ilr1.,., midnight. Prohahlv ft (km nmn loeted. Rrt'tlfiUMk nuocent white men were shot, nps fatally, a negro was shot Vr4iadly cut as the result of rlch wfted by a crowd tf I Kosedale. Kan., a suburb I City. William Blanchnrd V contents of a shotgun In VI breast and wns taken to . -where his wounds ore iittal. One of Blanchard's lown out bis face badly id a big hole was torn in oallng Station. 1 government has decld a unfavorable reply to t for a coaling station t Indies. , . , v . . od in Kentucky. -"ug: aged through- l lday and fcnt iivy ralu pre d brought on y, which run 's lu that sec .liater recede yetuin to their of snow In Yel 't 1 a half foot a. The peach ' f qd tbs fruit LATEST NEWS NOTES. The Helns smelter at Butte, Mont., wjis dnumged to the extent of $75,000 by fire. A St. I.ouls, Mo., surgeon success fully sewed three stitches In a living man's heart. The New York Central railroad car shops at Hochester, N. Y., were burned; loss, $iro,ooo. An atttempt Is being made to break up trat'llc lu Chinese female slaves at Pan Francisco. Mrs. II. B. Tnnnre shot and killed her bushand and committed suicide, at Mason City, in. A new manganese Iron ore Held has been discovered 12 miles soutn of Lit tle (irnuue, lah, The commissary scandal Is to be thoroughly Investigated In both Manila and Washington. While playing In a sand bank, at Du rant, I. T., four boys were crushed to death In a cave-In. Ilev. James Chalmers and Rev. Oil ver Tompkins were murdered by na tives In New tlulnea. The president has appointed Samuel T. Stapletnn, of West Virginia, consul to New Laredo, Mexico. Mllllam II. Pope, of Santa I'e, X. M., has been iiHilnted special attorney for the Pueblo Indians. J. P. Morgan Is said to be contem plating a priiiti-sliarlng or pension sys tem for the steel combination. Chni'h-s II. Sweeney, a wealthy cot ton planter of tireenevllle, Ky., killed bis wire and then committed suicide. The transport Itosecrans hns arriv ed at San 1'iiiucUco from Manila with a portion of the Thirty. tlfth regiment. tlnrrett 1. Ulpley was acquitted at Frankfort. Ky., on the charge of com plicity lu the killing of William tioc bel. The National Association of Clothiers has received an assurance that the Chicago market will Join the organisa tion. The Twenty-ninth and Thirty-second regiment. I'nlted tSates volun teers, arrived at San Francisco, Cnl., Friday. Fire at Birmingham, Aln.. destroyed the street railway barn, :i." cars and the Third Presbyterian church; loss, $73.0H. At Milton. Cnl., John II. Oorhnm shot and killed Oeorge B. McCarthy and blew himself to pieces with giant powder. Four seniors of I'nlon seminary. New York, have been declared unor thodox by examiners nud refused or dination. Two persons were fatally Injured nt a lire In tln North AmerUnn Iron works, Brooklyn, which caused n loss of $47,001). The Fulton Mills of the American Woolen Company, nt Oswego, X. Y., closed, and l,.'oo men nud women lose employment. The section around Nlles. Mich.. Is being so Hooded with bogus $" Rohl pieces that business men are refusing to accept gold. Japan will aid reform movement In China In order to overthrow the Man elm dynasty which is under the dom ination of Kussla, The Chinese minister at Washington will forward a memorial to his govern ment suggesting certain reforms la government policies. The transport (inronne arrived at San Francisco from Manila with the Tnenty-Klxth regiment after a Ions and stormy voyage. Vice President and Manager Thom as F. Ward, of the Lemurs National Bank, nt Leniars, la., absconded with $30,000 of the banks' funds. At Memphis, Teiin., two men with drnwn revolvers robbed Ben Marsh's gambling house. They spent three minutes lu the place and secured $.).ooo. (!en. MacArthur cables from Manila that three otltcers, many enlisted men and n number of civilians are on trial there for connection with commissary lrauds. By the explosion of the boiler of the head engine of a double header freight on the Lake Erie & Western nt Cass vllle, I ml., six trainmen were seriously Injured. The I'nlvorsal Wireless Telegraph Company wns Incorporated at Pierre, S. 1).. by .1. N. Huston, Thomas B. Bishop and L. C. Smith, with a capital of $20,000,000. A traveling doctor, named Taylor, who was accused of trying to entice a farmers' daughter from her home, near Laporte, lml., was tarred and feathered by a mob. At Earllngton, Ky preparations nre being made nt Sebree and other points to handle the 000 Invading min ers from Imllnnn, and a sheriff 'a posse is held lu readiness. At Syracuse, X. Y., nearly 500 em ployes of the Onoudngn pottery aro out ou strike In sympathy with the girls who went out recently. The differences between the miners nnd operators of the Hocking Valley, Ohio, growing out of the docking sys tem, have been amicably adjusted. Gen. Pchwnrtzkopf, the German chief of staff who lost his life In the I'ekiu tire, went back Into the burn-' Ing palace to save a pet dog and was caught by the flames. Officials at the war department now admit that the discovery of the frauds lu the commissary department of the army lu the Philippines may lead to startling disclosures. Notices bnv been posted on tho doors of the factory of the Wudsworth Watch Case Company In Newport, Ky., where a strike hns neen In progress, thnt hereafter uo union labor would be employed. Both houses of the New York legis lature havs passed an ant:-sca!pers' bill, forbidding dealing In railway or steamboat tickets except by the com panies or their agents. Consul Watts, at Kingston, Jamaica, reports the tippeurauce of several cases of yellow fever at Port Royal. The white troops stationed there hare been ordered to the bills. Continuous ruin of four days brings the rivet up to 28 feet, floods Pitts burg, Allegheny and suburbs, throws thousuuds out of work for several days, but pauses no fatalities. ufninwim if. GIVE UP SAVINGS. Three Matked Burglar In Indiana Steal $6,000 and Eacap After Commit ting Terrible Crueltle lo Farmer A special despatch from Kendal vllle, Ind., reports the brutal robbery by three masked men of John Andlgo, a farmer, who lived with his wife and daughter about lit miles northeast of that city. The men tied Andlg? and the two women, nnd upon his refusnl to reveal the hiding place of his money, they lighted matches nnd applied them to his finger ends, ears and nose until he screamed with agony. One of them cut the cords binding the daughter nnd dragged her by the hair and threatened other Indignities until the mother promised to show them when- their savings were hidden. The womnn wns released nnd con ducted one of the men to the cellar, where In an old cupboard, the family had a little over $!,oo, the hoardings of yenrs. This the men took anil with many threats of what they would do f any of the family ventured out of the house before morning, tney nu'de away. ON THE ANXIOUS SEAT. Owing to a New Ruling Few Divorce Granted In North Dakota Mill Hold. As a result of the I'nlted States Su preme Court decision declaring Invalid divorces granted In North Dakota In which residence was not bona tide, lawyers of the state are recipients of n Mood nf telegrams irom those likely to be affected. It Is believed that ow ing to the practice of rushing home Immediately after decrees were grant ed less than 10 per cent, of the di vorces allowed (luring the recent di vorce period would be founu valid If contest oil. Applicants for divorces have always been warned against abandoning their residences so hurriedly, but much of the troiiole has been caused by divorce bureaus, operated by unscrupulous local attorneys with branch otliees In the east. A majority of the victims have been from New York, all hough New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New England states are well repre sented. MAY RESIDE IN IRELAND. King Edward Making Preparation! For a Home in Ihe Emerald Isle. King Edwnrd has a new plan for conciliating the Irish, He proposes, it Is said, to have a palace lu Ireland, and to live there part of the time. This would be 11 new departure for nn English king. Even James the Second lived in Ireland only when be had been driven out of England. Leading Irishmen, however, nre not 1 ') iigiilne as to any good coining from King Edward's presence. They re gard him as a good fellow, well moan ing, and not narrow-minded, like his mother, and as an English king he is a foreigner to Ireland, nnd they have no use for him. Ireland, they say. wants autonomy, not royalty, and ir King Edward were to spend the whole year In Erin It would make no dirt'orcncc. The agita tion tor home rule will go on until It Is granted. HUGE TANK BLOWN DOWN. Crashed Through Six Floor and Injures Five People. A high wind which reached Chica go Sunday loosened a hiigh Iron water tank from Its fastening on the roof of the Gnlhrnith building, Madison and Franklin streets, causing it to crash through the six floors to the ground. Injuring live persons, one of whom may die, and resulting In damage to tlie building estimated at $,"111,111111. With two exceptions the Injured were pedestrians on tlie street who had not time to make their escape. Had the accident happened on any other day but Sunday many lives would undoubtedly have been lost, ns the building was occupied by several firms employing a large number of people. The tank was 2.1 foot long, l feet In diameter and contained 40,000 gallons of wnter. In falling It made 11 hole about 40 feet sqiiaro through the building. TRIPLE ALIANCE FORMED. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois Against Fraudulent Insurance Companies. Ohio, Indiana nud Illinois, through their attorney generals, have formed a friendly alliance to eradicate fraudu lent iusiiriinco companies. Attorney General Sheets of Ohio anil Attorney General Taylor of Indiana talked over plans to rid tho states In question of such companies. The co-operation of the three states. It Is believed, will more effectually quash the evil, ns under ths lack of combined supervision companies driv en out of .one state Immediately took root lu an adjoining state nud kept lu business with comparatively little trouble. The three state officials will keep each other posted as to the details of all discoveries In their respective states. Rainy River District Opened. Cousul Graham at Winnipeg has ad vised tho state department thnt tlie Itomlnlon government has officially nnouueed that a block of 00,000 acres of tree grant lands in the Itainy River district of Ontario has beeu surveyed and open to settlement under the homestead taws of Canada, May Make Shortage Good, Mrs, 1 ranees Pearson Hullot, a wealthy widow of 50 years, may make good the shortage of Cashier Lewis at the Farmers National bank, of Vor geunes, Vt, Her engagement to Mr. Lewis was announced three weeks ago. The Grip in Guam.. Advlcea from Agnun, Island of Guam, say that the, grip Is prevalent there and that many native children and adults are dying from Its effects. TAXES ARE INCREASED. Enormeu Cotl of Boer War Brought Horn lo Ihe Engllih People by ihe New Budget. A deficit of 53,207.000 pounds In the British government's Income for the current tlscnl year as compared with the expenditure nnd the necessity nf raising ,'I2.IMI,000 by additional taxa tion during the year or 11)01-11)02 were the Tacts which staggered the House of Commons when Sir Michael Hicks Beach, cham-cllor of the exchequer, an nounced the budget In the House. The revenue for IIMXMIIOI Is placed at 130. 3So,lNH) pounds and the expenditures at 1N3,."l2,o00. The expenditures for 1IK)1-1!H)2 are estimated at 187.tKtt.00H. Inclusive of the cost of the wnr In Soutn Africa. To meet the Increased deficit the governments' proposed ex tension of taxation will provide only 11.000,000 pounds, of which 2.100.000 pounds will come from the export duly on conl, leaving a deep hole to be tilled by n new loan of 00,000,01)0 pounds, and the suspension of the sinking fund for the redemption of outstanding securi ties. The deficit to be met In 1001 ltNtt will be alxiiit 0.'i.ooo,ihhi pounds. The chancellor proposed an Import tax on sugar, nn export duty on conl, and an Increase to the Income tax. Sir William Vernon Hnrcotirt. Lib eral, says this Is the most disastrous statement the exchequer has ever made. It has been proposed to Isirrow altogether I27,ooo,0io pounds, nud If this sort of thing was to go on the country would be Involved lu financial ruin. The coal duty has created consterna tion In Wales and the north of Eng land, because It will Injure the miners and materially nsslst Ihe I'nlted States nnd Germany. William Abraham, president of the Welsh Miners' Federa tion, says It will cause the overthrow of tho government. The chancellor's speech brought con viction to the nation of tho Immense sacrltlces entailed by the Boer war. "You have had your feast." said Sir Michael. "You have nil. Liberals nnd Tories, been mad for rioting and ex penditure. Now comes the reckoning, and you may laugh or not ns you please. If you defeat our budget, you will relieve us of nn almost Insupport able burden." BOILERS EXPLODE. Frightful Disaster on the Frater River Near Vancouver. B. C. Four people nre dead, and seven probably fatally Injured, ns . o result of nn explosion 011 the steamer Ita motta, which plies ou the Eraser river, In British Columbia. One 01 the plates In the rear of the boiler blew out, tear ing out the wnole front of the vessel nud knocking Into the water all Un people In that part of tlie steamer. The accident happened when the boat was lu midstream oppotilte Fort Langley, 30 miles from Vancouver. Four Indians were dreadfully scald ed and only one of these Is expected to recover. One Indian baby Is at the point nf death. Captain Seymour and John Oliver, the engineer, who owned the larger Interest In the vessel, were unhurt. Power, the purser lias gone Insane, and the others are in such n condition that no hope Is held out for their recovery. The Itamoua Is a stern-wheel river steamer of about 3oo tons. She is ten years old. but her boiler was compara tively new, having been put In last summer. On her fatal trip she had only six passengers, the two women who were drowned, nud the Indians, who were burned. PLAGUE IN A MADHOUSE. Dlsoass Ascrlbtd lo Rats, and Sewers Are Fumigatod. News hns been received of fresh out breaks of the plague nt Brisbane and Perth. Australia. The serious phase Is tlie appearance of the plague lu Dun wieli Insane asylum, where there are l.lioo Inmates. Nearly all the Inmates are said to be aged or Incurable, lnitiwlch is sit uated on Strand Brook Island and Is the nsyluui for the entire state. The nlMlotcd patients have been isolated on the sisylinu farm. Tlie carrying of the plague to the asylum is nscrlbed to rats, and till ewors In the Austral Ian cities are being fumigated in order to destroy infected visiiilu, with the result thnt thousands of dead rats have beeu washed out. To Fight Tammany. At a mnss meeting held In Carnegie Hall, Xow lork, 11 new political party to bo called "The Greater New York I )eniorracy," was rormcd to tight Tammany hall. About 2.000 persons were present. An address was Issued by tlie meet Ing which scores 111 present city gov eminent nnd declnres thnt Tammany had run up the annual expenditures from $70,000,000 to $!ltt,00o,ooo. nnd has given the city a tax rnte three times as largo as that of Chicago. The address declnres that It Is the Intention to "elect a clilef magistrate endowed with public spirit, courage and cnpaclty; who will lalior to admin ister his othce In the Interest of the general welfare." English Miner Protest. The conl miners of Cardiff are about to hold a meeting to protest against the export duty of one shill ing a ton on coal, which Is considered ns highly Injurious to tho Interests of South Wales. ( . CABLE FLASHES. It Is asserted thnt further troubles have occurred In Itusslu nnd that wholesale arrests have been made in Odessa nud other cities. A IiOiidon newspaper says a site of 145 acres bus been uequired lu Iro bind for a royal residence nud the building will soon be begun. Major General Horace Lick wood Smith Dorrleu, now In South Africa, is to be promoted to the rank of Ad Jutuut General to tho forces lu India. A cage Oiled with natives fell down a deep shaft of the Ulendenhuls mine, near Johannesburg, South AfrloV. Twenty-six of the natives were klllud, The coronation of Klug Edward wUll take piace at uie eua or June, 1U02, nn uwim. ELATION RESULTS. Advise HI Countrymen lo Makt Psice Wild Ihe United Slate a Sufficient Blood and Tear Have Been Shed, The following Is Agtilnnhln's address to the Filipino people; "I believe 1 am not lu error In presuming thnt tho un happy fate to which liiy adverse for tune has led me Is not n surprise to those who have bean familiar with tho progress of tlie war. The lessons taught with n full meaning, nnd widen have recently come to my knowledge, suggest with Irresistible force that n complete termination of hostilities nnd lasting peace are not only desirable, but absolutely essential to the welfare of the Philippine Islands. "The Filipino have never been dls ntnyed at their weakness, nor hnve they faltered lu following the pnth pointed ont by their fortitude nnd cour age. The time has come, however. In which they tlnd their advance nlong this path' to be Impeded by an Irreslst able force which, while It restrains them, yet enlightens their minds and opens to them another course, present ing to them the cnuse of peace. Tit's cnuso has been Joyfully embraced by the majority of my fellow countrymen, who have already united nroimd the glorious sovereign banner of tlie I lil ted States. In this banner they repose their trust nnd belief that under Its protection the Filipino people will at tain nil those promised liberties which they nre iieglnnlng to enjoy. The country has declared unmlslaknhly In favor of peace. So be it. There hns been euotich blood, enough tears nnd enough desolation. This wish can not be Ignored by the men still In nnns If they are animated by n desire to serve our noble people, which has thus clearly manifested its will. So do respect this will, now that It Is known to me. "After mature deliberation I reso Intel- proclaim to the world thnt I can not refuse to liied the voice of a peo ple longing for peace, nor the Inmeiita Hons of tliousnnds of families yearn lug to see their dear ones enjoying the liberty and Ihe promised generosity of the great American nation. "By acknowledging and accenting the severelgnty of the I'nlted States throughout the Philippine archipelago, as I now do, and without nny reserva tion whatsoever, I believe thnt I am serving thee, my beloved country. May happiness be thine." To signalize this Important step In the piicltlcntlon of the country. Gen. MacArthur orders the release, on swearing nlleglanee to the I'nlted States, of Loot 1 Insurgent prisoners. HALF BILLION IN GOLD. United Slates Treasury's Holding! Exceed Thoee of Any Othor Nation. The I'nlted Stales treasury now bolus ?r.oo,:!7.s,."ots in pod. the first time Its holdings have passed tlie $."iOo.. ooo.noo mark. This is the largest amount of gold held by any single linancial Institution in the world, ami It Is the largest ever held by any In stitution Willi one exception, the Im perial bank of ltussia. which In Feb ruary. 1s: Ml. raised Its total holdings to $.7.NI,.'loo.0Oii. At present the Kus slan bank holds only ,v,':Ti..ho.oiio. The Hank of France holds JMTJ.'JTl.oiiO, Its high record being ?17!.'.U4.imm on April 4. Most of this gold Is lit-lil against outstanding notes. The P.auk of Eng land holds iilillUiin.iitHi gold, ami the high record of Its history was S'.'I.'i.riOi).. (MMl In February. IS! Ml! Present sold holdings, of the Imperial bank of tier many - are $l.'ii),oiiii.oHi ami its total of gidd ami silver combined never ran nbove S'.'l'.ViOO.ooo. The I n'ted States treasury gross gold holding" have In creased ?7ii.4:i!i,iMM wlthlu the past 12 months. In April, lfiy.i. they barely exceeded $27Xotnuoo. On February 10, l.N'.lii. they reached the lo-.' level of Ir!)l,2iill,.-)I2. AN ACTIVE CAMPAIGN. Kilclmer Will Soon Send 250.000 Men to the Front Capture Reported. Pretoria advices say: "The next six weeks will see a resumption of active campaigning. Lord Kitchener will re new his sweeping movements. He has tin army of 'JoO.oiin clllcleut troops, in cluding 00,000 mounted men with a good supply of horses, -10,001) having been seemed ill Capo Colony alone. The army Is in good spirits, and Lord Kitchener Is satlslled with the prog ress of events, slow though It seems." The war office has received the fol lowing illspiitch from Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria: "Colonel Sir Henry Itawllnson's column ruslte.. the south laager, northwest of Klerksdorp. Six Boors were killed, 10 wounded nnd 2.'1 taken prisoners. He captured a 12 pounder, one pompom co:..plete, and two ammunition wagons with ammuni tion. Our casulutles were three wounded." ' A Belated Blizzard. It la reported that mo Swan Land As Cnttle Coiupnny. which ranges large herds of cattle in Western Wisconsin nnd Eastern Nebraska, haa lost moro than 2,.r00 head of cattle during the storm of the Inst ten days. John Kd wards lost 7,ooo head of sheep near Kimball, Neb., out of a bniui of 14,000. Olner losses nro reHrted from West ern Nebraska. South Dakota and East ern Wyoming. Tuesday's reports from Northern Colorado aro to the effect that another storm has prevailed on the prairies for the past 24 hours, and stlli continues. It began with a misty rain and devel oped Into a blizzard. The loss of stock will bo great, as they have become greatly weakened by exposure to tho Killed by an Avalanche Two engines attached to a passeu ger train on the Colorado & Northwest ern railroad were struck by snowslldo near Koulder, Col., nud hurled into a chasm. Engineers Hnnnou and Fitz gerald, Fireman Miller and Conductor Hulr were killed 11 ml their bodies aro burled under the hiiow. The avalanche did not touch the train. To Recruit Artillery. , The Boeretiiry of wnr'a orders di recting that artillery corps be reciiut ell to lta tulj atrenifth of 18,000 men MODIFICATIONS REQUIRED. German and French Soldier Organlie M Expedition Against Boxer Rebels Em peror Refuse lo Return lo Pekln. Telegrnma from Pekln dated Tne day, say: "At the meeting of the mln. Isters of the powers It was decided, to adopt the recommendation of Mr. Itockhlll. giving effect to nrtlcle XII. of the Joint note concerning tho reform of the tsiing-ll-yamcn nud the modifi cation of the court ceremonial. It was agreed thnt In place of the tsung-ll-ya-men, there shall be a wnl-wii-pu, ot board of foreign affairs, having pre cedence over other boards. It Is to consist of a president, who shnll be nn Imperial prince, nud of two minis ters, one being president of a board nnd the other n member of the grand council, with direct access to the ejn peror. There will also be two vice ministers having knowledge of foreign affairs, one of them speaking a foreign lnnzuage. "With regard to court ceremonial, the ministers of the powers when about to be received In nudlenee, will be con voyed In imperial chairs to the palace through the central gateways and be received In the halls where the emper or Is accustomed to entertain the Im perial princes: and they will be shown honor eqttnl to that shown by Euro penn sovereigns to foreign ambassa dors." A force nf 2.100 German and French froops hns left here to Join the expe dition against Lin Kuan Ting. Liu hns 10.01)0 men ami has dolled the nl lies to drive blin from uls position. Tlie Chinese court has replied to Ja pan by saying that It Is Impossible for Emperor Kwnna Hsu to return to To kin until the coumrys' guests, mean ing tlu foreign troops, retire. SHOT BRUTAL HUSBAND. Loft Wile and Children In Want and Then At tempted lo Poison Tlietn Roturned Home to Wreak Vongsnnce. Mrs. Imnlel Smith Is held a prisoner In the Cadiz. Ohio. Jail, having shot and killed her husband witli a rltle, as he broke down the door of the bouse. Smith, It Is alleged, bad previously tried to poison ids family by buying them candy ami mixing It with arsenic ami was hold In his threats to blow up the house with dynamite. His wife and children lived In great fear of him. Tuesday night he returned home, nnd tlmling the house locked, hroke. win dows nnd doors In his effort to get In, calling out In ihe meantime, It Is said, that there was going to be a killing when be got Into the house. ills wife warned hlin away, and threatened to shoot him unless he loft As he brok" In the door she tired, the bullet passing through his bend. Al though he had lost a half pint of briflns from the wound, ho lived until noon next day, and doctors pronounce It ns unprecedented that a man could live for five minutes with such an In jury. Mrs. Smith wns formerly n school teacher, and had never tired n weapon before. She claims that she fired to frighten li 1 in away. The scene of the tragedy was about four miles from i. mil.. RCL'GH RIDERS' CGLLEGE. It Will be Locatod In Wyoming With Col. Cody at President, It Is announced that the "National Hough Killers' Military Encampment," which was originally projected for Col orado, has now been transferred to Wyoming after having been incorporat ed miller the laws of the state of New Jersey with amide capital and with Col. W. F. Cody as Its president. It Is also announced that the school will hereafter be known ns the Cody Military College and Industrial Acad-. cmy of Hough ltldcrs. 1'rlg. (leu. K. V. Sumner, I'nlted States army (re tlrcili. Is i. ne of tlie Incorporators and commanding general and treasurer of the college. Col. Schuyler Crosby, of ,,cv York, a former governor of Mon tn tin. and member of lieu. Sheridan'a staff. Is llrst vice president and C. I). 'tirley, second vice president. One of the objects sought to lie ob tained Is to tit the Ktudelils nf this col lege for practical camp life and to com mand a company of soldiers In time of peace or wnr. IMPERIAL PALACE BURNED. Pekin Heme ol the Empress a Complete Ruin. Gorman Officer Missing. Telegrams from l'eklii, dated Wed nesday, say: The palace of the Em press, occupied by Field Marshal von Wahlorsoe and his staff, was burned to tho ground. Maj. tien. Sehwartzkopf, von Wnldcrace'a chief of staff, has dis appeared. With the exceptions of the limitary papers everything wna de stroyed. Trustworthy Chinese report that troops lu large numbers nre massing in the province of Shan Si, uear the fron tier or Chi I.I. It is Impossible to as certain whether tlie court Is playing a double game or its authority is insuf ficient to preveut the Chinese generals from provoking hostilities. The foreign ministers view with alarm the expedition against tien. Liu Kuan Ting, ns they think he will re treat, probably laying waste tho vil lages he traverses ami killing native Ohrlstlans. and that such actions will be used ns on excuse by the military for further uggresslou, which would probably be the taking of Tal Yuan Fu. capital of Shan SI province. The ministers discussed the Indem nity, and estimated that lUoO.OOO.OOO will cover all claims. Russia Plans Tariff War. The decision upholding the action of the American government In discrim inating against Kusslau sugar was the subject to-duy of a ministers' uieetlug, at which an Increase of the tariff ou all American products was considered. American steel ami Iron manufac turers will be uiade more severe and other American goods will probably be put In tho same category. George Lawrence aud Frederick Hock were burned to death In a lira thnt destroyed Louis Miller's aaloou at Hatavla, N. Y. ' t . THE MARKETS. riTTsntmo. Grain, Plato? and tmA. WsrT No. I red $ Itys No. 3 Cons No. t yellow, enr No. H yellow, shelled Mixed enr Oats No. 3 trhlto i 19 59 4Sl 1H Tt 60 4 41 41 40 2'i No. 8 mnlto 31V i Flocs Winter rs'1"'!'- ill 8 M Fancy Blriilglil Winters.. 8 70 8 SO Hat No. 1 timothy. 19 70 10 w 18 iS 11 75 ton.... IS) 0 ) 20 00 17 00 17 80 18 00 18 M 8 'Ji M 8 X) W 'lover No. 1 Frso No. 1 white ml J. llrowo middlings... , Jtrnn, bulk Straw Wheat . . ....... Oat Dolrr Prndaote, Dm-rna Elgin creamery. i5 Ohio ereamery SlJ-f Fancy country roll 18 Ciiki.sk Ohio, new 1 IJ-tf New York, now 12 Poultry, ate. ITiss per lb $ 11 Chickens dressed 14 Eoos Fa. nnd Ohio, fresh. 13 55' li 14 HH liii "li 13 i fruits nt Vegetable. Pkass Navy, perbmhol ii 80-? 1 SJ Fotatoks Fnney white, V bu.. 3 88 Cabsaok per barrel 1 75 9 00 Ohioks per tnuhel 1 10 1 28 MALTlMOIte, Fi.otj Winter Futcnt $ 8 S0$ 4 00 WnKAT No, 8 red Cons mbted 4.' 77 4rtX 83,'J lit 28 Oats Eoos. U!i liirrrxa Obto creamery. PIIILAUKLt'lIIA. Fi.oon Winter pntent Whiat No. 3 red Cons No. 8 mixed Oats No. 8 white IIctteb Creamery, extra.. Euue l'euneylvania Ural.. . 8 2S9 3 40 77) 4Htf 83 '2 77 13.1$ 14 NEW YOltK. Flock Patents. Wukat No. 8 rod ,. Conx No. a Oats No. a White bi n En Creamery Euos Btnte and 1'eona 6 3 63 4 09 7fi,?i 4;j 32'i It) 14 2a Live MTOUIL Central Stock Yaidi. Ext Uksrty, Pi. CATTLK. Frlme lienvv, UOO to KiOO lhs...9 5 51? 5 (!3 I'nine, lSOO to UOO lbs 6 85 5 00 Medium, 1000 to lzOO Ins 4 N) Fut liolfurs 4 00 Hatcher, l)0 to 1000 lbs. 4 50 t'ommou to fair 3 75 Oxen, common to fnt 8 O'J Common to good fut bulls & euw U 50 Jlllch cows, each 1!0 01 Extra niiicli cows, each. 87 50 BOOS, 5 0.1 4 50 4 75 4 25 4 on 4 00 85 0 0 60 00 I'rlme medium weights. SO 6 35 0 85 6 85 6 1)0 6 00 85 6 20 0 75 4 75 l'est heavy vorkers and medium 0 80 C.'jod to choice rni-'.i-'rs. GnoU p'.g ami light yorken... Pigs, common to good Prune heavy hogs Common to fair, briigus..- blags 6 8J tt 20 (It) 6 80 0 II) 4 00 li Ol) BIIKEF. Extra, medium weight wethers. 5 0Dg 5 S5 (iooil to choice. 4 40 4 CO Jloilhim 4 01) 4 2i Common to fair t 00 4 00 LAHDS. Lnmbs, extra spring $ 5 258 5 85 Lambs, good to choice, spring... 5 00 5 25 Lnmbn, common to fuir.spriug.. 4 Oi ft 00 Kpruig Lambs 7 00 1100 CALVES. Veal, extra f 6 00 ip 5 21 Veal, good to choice. (10 ft OJ Veal, common to fulr 8 60 4 00 Veal, common heavy 2 75 8 00 TRADE CONTINUES ACTIVE. Favorable Crop Reports and Big Railway Earnings Mako Businei) Generally Look Very Bright. II. O. Pun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "Favorable crop reports heavy bank Clearings, record-breaking railroad earnings, n large diatrlbutlou of spring and summer goods, and easy collections give the business situation nn encouraging aspect. ' Wall street speculation does not ye discount any approaching reaction In commercial lines, nud the money market seems to have turned the cor ner nt least for the present. Cotton and woolen goods retain their gain of last week, though partly on ac- . count of tho Idleness of many mills. '' The wool market is steady notwith-' standing tho absence of demand frorj large producers of goods. Aside from the uneasiness caused by labor contro versies no setback has appeared in the leading Industry Anolhcr feature was the greater activity lu structural ma terial for brjdgcs nud buildings, while the large tonnage of steel rails already placed did not prevent further orders. The recent advance In plates failed to diminish business. Faith In the fu ture is evidenced by more plans for the erection of new mills with enor mous capacity. Shipments of boots and shoes from the East declined to 80.547 eases, against !M,ir3 two weeks ago, but there still appears n good mar gin above tlie movement a year ago. Failures for tho week numbered 200 In the I'nlted Etntes, atiglnst 184 -last year, and '11 In Canada, against 17 last year. Bradstreet'a says: Cold, rainy weather, with the roncomltaut of bad roads, has been unfavorable to distrib utive trade this week, special com plaint coming from the Central West aud parts of the Northwest. In the Iron trade finished products rather than the cruder forms have fig ured prominently this week, but pig Iron, though quieter at most markets, has uot beeu neglected, and there Is uo loss of strength noted. Unsatisfactory weather reports, heavy rains, high winds nnd cold re- ! tarding the growth of vegetation, coup led with talk of and some actual cur tailment In New Vmglnnd nnd at tho South, have advanced cotton, but the gain has been small, large receipts act Jug as a drag ou the market. Wheat, Including Hour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,300,'JIT bushels, against tMOo.UOl lust week, and 3,808. 451 bushels lu tho corresponding week of 1000. Tragedy at a Wedding. While Miss Lizzie Mitchell, of Pitts burg, Pa., was being united In mar riage at St. James' Church, her Bister, Hosio, who was hurrying to the wed ding, fell aud brok her neck. Tho ac cident occurred Just outside tuo church, W aerator aiitrerea tt so treat and bitter passions? Did He It not to take away oar lu? Gamaliel Bradford.
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