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Eugene City Guard. 1 I. OAVPBILL, Propria LAI EH NEWS have EUGENE CITY OREGON. EVENTS OF THE MY Aa InUrattlOf Collection of ltroa Pra tli Two li . m. i r i rrant4 In i i Purtu. Julia Arthur ha retired from the ttago. The Insurgents lu Manila and Hudk Kong are active. Kt. Patrick' day wm euthuatioally celebrated thmughnut Cape Town. II. tt) 1 in 1 1 'i 1 1 1 .' 1 1 ( i in said to be engaged to a sir Span I ah nobleman. 'Hit. Kansas City, Pittsburg & Hull r.nhv.iy system hat I sin sold at huh tii ill. Andrew BolleV, one (if the noted mtpflwlogtoti in Austins, - dead Chicago. Two txiyc, uged 11 hiiiI M years, were burned to death in their own limine near Alfred, N. Y. HritUh Industrie are Iwilly in uced n( cash. The money nun Wet in head over ear in debt. Nine iemiiii were injured in New York by the dropping of a coal chute ujioii an elevated train. attars! HMMttai leader of tht Voi.c.ucla revolution, i imMbi pro grei against the government. Two thousand llm-r wuinen in Pre- torU have I n armed to aid in the de fi'iiMt of the Trauavaal capital. I nited Stutea supreme court rendered a decision upholding tlie Texas courts in their war against the trusts. During a row in a aaloon at Conui d'Alcue, Idaho, two negr.a'S were Hhot, one l.itally and the otlier seriously. Puerto IMoo'h distrea la gmwiug worne. lioveruorlieneriil Da via raided that .100 toua of pm villous will be Hooded weekly. The Krelirli line freighter I 'an lilac U miaalUK. Shu carried a cargo valued at $9,0(10,(1110 and haa not been heard from for ovei a mouth. inventor licer received a check for 87,M0ll.K5 from the war department In aettlcmcnt of the atnte of Oregon' claim (or clothing furiliahed the volull teera. Tu prevent friction with the aultan of the Sulu archipelago, meaaurea have been taken by the American authori ties in the Philippines for the adjudi cation of any qOMtiaM that tuny mire which cannot lie diaate. of by provia iona of the treaty whii b be and lien eral Hate eutered into aeveral month SgO, A echoo! of foreatrv will be establish ed at Yale uulveratty. inventor Lcarv ban issued a pnula mallnll freeing the peons of the ialalld uf tiiiam. The trail-port Meade aailed (or Ma mi! i. via Honolulu, with 3ft doctor, till hoapital culpa men and 3d recrulta. The I'ort OtblM preaa. Port (lltison, Mis. lu winch waa aton'd 1,000 hale of cotton, una hit i m il. I..-- 1 100,000. The feature ol the St. Patrick 'a dx jvarade in Chicago waa the carry iiiK "I a big Tranavaal II . at the head of the Ancient Order of llibernaiia. At Marietta., lia., a mob id 178 men. buttered down the door of the jntl and entered the cell of a negro and llred taOOt 100 almta at him. Il will die. The Academy of Mimic, the lending theater of luela-c, waa hurtled with a 0M of $00,000, The St. lamia hotel, adjoining wai damaged to the extent uf $S0. ooo. Mr. Lida (ireyemff, the I -t woman lu Indiana, .lie l suddenly at her hoine ill Kokomo, falling Irom a ediair while playing domiuoea. Silt weighed 650 pounds and waa !t'J vean old. Pivo dead and one fatally and una seriously Injured la the teault of an at tempt to atari a tire with gasoline at t 'olumbua, 1 1. licorgo White and the fluid at .tallica Weaver'! reaidence, ami an explosion followed. The tmil I liif waa aet on fire, aud the liiinatea cre covered with the biiruiii fluid. At Chicago, Qaana U Magiii, form- crlv preatdetit ol the Avenue Saving I'.. ink, which collapaed 111 ABgatti 9f, waa convicted of PaoatvlBg deKia- tin, kliowtliK hla iBBUtaUOa to be m tailvclit, mid aeutenced to the alliteu tiary for an iiideliiute term. He wae alan tilled double the amount of the de mit received, the line amouiitiiiK to t,000, Maud S , the famoua trotter, died at Bohalla1 lann. Port t 'heater, N. Y. She waa brought to the farm from New Yoik a week ait", and it waa intended t. uae her (ui breedlllK piilioaea. She Waa aick vv lieu ahe arrived here, and liad been under tin' .ate ol a veterinary iirKovu she gradually, haoann wopaa, Itoaever, aud all efTuita tn ae the life id the valuable BMUN were fpaillaaa Maud B waa DWBad b) the Itoimei ratate. and waa cara old, Her trottiiitr raooid of .' Q8V maile m ss.,. Machluufe of Cleveland, O , baea orderad out. Booaevllle, Iowa, Is balag terrorlxtd by etrlkioy oiioera. (ieneral Kitchener ha occupied I'rletka, in Cape Colony. The crown princeae of Auetria and oi.nt Louyay were married at Vienna. Cubans are clamorluK against the L'outiuuaoce of Mauagar Sbarruttl in the bisboprle. The Hoers at Aliwal North are still holdiuK a position in the bit, hills on the J'ree State side. J. K. Allen, of New Orleans, has laiUKht 1,000,000 I'aria eipositlou tick ill as a speculation. 'J he will of Philip D. Armour, Jr., was proved and admitted to probute The eatate is valued at H, 000, 000. John K. IforlOO. a Northern Pacific IWitabmaa, waa run over in the yards it Ta.oma, Wuili., and died a few lioura later. The slayer of fioebel la aatd to be u mulatto, who ia now IBppoaad to I in hilling in the arlldl of 0M of the moun tain counties. At lluda feat, Hungary, -4 aaant" were drowned by lie- capi.iii(j of a boat, in which they were croaalUK the DaBObl during a gale. Lieutenant Seatoii Schroder, pien nnt aecretary of the naval bWptOttOB laiard. haa been aelected to auci eed Captain Uuiy an governor of (inam. Oamafl I'aaba, the hern of Plerna, ia dead. In IS7II he defeated the tineat tnn of the czar in three pitched but tlea, which coat Kuaaia over 00,000 men. KlKht ladiea of the aultan'a ilace at Constantinople have been aent into ex ile for machiiiatioiiH in connection with the aultan'a fugitive brother in law, Mahmed Paaha. The city council of Aatoria, Or., paaaed all ordinance uuthorizirg the Oblaf Of Dolloa tO pay a laiunty of ft cents each for all rata caught or killed within the city limits within the not 10 days. The hnuae coiiimitt n foreign af- faira lias decided to iuveatlgate the al legation made by Clmi lea V.. Ma. nun. ex-cousel to Pretoria, relative Ui the oieulliK of his ofllcial mail by the Initial, authorities. Sir William Van Home, former pres ident of the Canadian I'acilic railway, la lutereated in a project for the con solidation of al I the rail waya in Cuba. Pot the davolopraant ol thia prolaot Hit William has 995,000,000 at his dia- poaaL The II. . i have 40,000 lighting men left. President Kruger lines nut expect any aid (mm the BOWtlBi The Huers have l.luwn up the bpidgOl north of III ifuiiteiii and are retreat ing to the norlhi Central American governments are inpoaad to the Davia aiuendiueiit to the llav d'auhcefiite treaty. Senator Davia, chairiuall of the sen ate committee mi foreign relations and lu . barge of the t rench reciprocity treaty, said that notwithstanding the purpoaa to extend the time for tl x change of ratilicatiuiia, he ptopoaai tu do all lie can to obtain ratificatlnu dur ing the present session, Klirulveth T. Stiul.le, editor nl the Nautilus, a Christian science news papaPi Bt Bloai I'alla, S. D., pleaded guilty ill the federal OOttPt to sending ihaccun Utaiattlfa thiough the malls, Ud was lined -00. Mra. Striildu re tnaad to pay the line and was taken to jail. The differential freight rate of III per cent mi the Canadian I'acilic Let w een the Kaat and San I lancisi o la abolished. fills is the outcome of a meeting held lu ( liicago, at which agents ol the Vinreican lines threatened to secure egialation debarring the Canadian I'a cilic from articiiatitig in traffic Orig inating in the I'llited states if the dif i n in i .i 1 were continued. Much concern ia being shown by the Herman government in the threat made by Montague White that the liners will destroy Johannesburg to prevent It be ing made the base of the Pritish opera MOM againat Pretoria. The Berlin au thnrltlea will atmugly oppose such ac tion, bOflaaM uf the damage win, I. will dune to the proiairty uwncd by UeT BUUUi PROCEEDED TO TAKll Gunboat Wheeling Has Gone to the Chinese Port BELIBTI0 BV THE CONCOKI) it ! iiiiarutt ! Paaaaal Iba Missioa- arlss, aa th Hrf.ua of Trouble la far Inland. Washington. March 22. The secre tary of the navy has received a cable gram from AOinlial v. alaou aiaiing that tin- gunlaiat W heeling had proi-eed- d Pi Taku, where ahe will be relieved I v tin- (uncurl I boat May 10, and will go as usual in the summer to I'ualaaka, jii the Alaakati coast. The alate di pHitiiicnt is in tqnudf7 U) devise means t render effective pro tOOtiODto the American miasionariea it haiiiung. The liili. ulty lies in the fact that the missionaries have in moat cases gone as tar aa 200 milea inianu. and an- thus beyond reach uf any aiil that can lai mdarad (miii a warship. Mr. Cotiger'a advices show that the situation ia further complicated by tin fact that the location of the present trouble is so far inland aa to make It difficulty to determine whether or not the "Boiers" are operating in Shan l ung Of across the In rder ill I'e in Li province. If tin- tlireateneil mission aries arc in Western Shall lung, then a further qasaUofl arises as to who is chargeable with their protection, China or Oerinatiy. The exact ex. ent of the Herman sphere of influence is not defi nitely known here. It is 200 miles from KiaoChou, the (iermau seaport, to the western lairder of Shan Tung, but, inasmuch as the (iermaus have claimed exclusive control of railroad frauchi-ea and like cotisceaaions throughout the whole province, it il presumed they have assumed military responsibility as well. At any rate, the Chinese government has been de land from attempting to exercise mili tary authority in that section by the intitu le of the ( iermau authorities, aud hat la the reason of the inability I the Peking government to meet Mr. Conger's demand for punitory uioaauiea against the "lloxers." Diplomat In Cnoatautiunptc believe llnsaia alms at commercial protectorate nt northern Asia Minor. The American Political league, a uew organisation, will hoi, I a national con vention in lUwbiu July 4. Orjsgaaaanan mid mm ton have i., 000,000 packagca of acvda to dlatributa among their rural OOMtttMtttl iNearly all the progrvaaive railroad ava aba&doatlM wood an cam ami adopt tng Um ataal built structure. The urn of worldlv love la diviui love for th world. The advaaeesi price of tMBfAtlMi ralalua and naval sUmva la making huu . lied- of Klorida pioduiera rich. Dr. John P. Wood, of CorT.yville, Kan., claims to b) the .ddest practlciLg physician in the world. He is tin years old and still makes dally visits to many patienu. The war depsrtment iwuixt the state ment that the receipts of public funds of the Philippine lalauda, beginning August IS, I sirs, aud eliding Decern U.r 01, 18UU. amount to e.dve.08t Uraat excitement prevails in San Jacinto, as it haa ta.cu discovered that part ol the San Jacinto mountain haa alipin'il into a subterranean cavern. A territoty covering (10 acres, at an eleva tion uf 4,000 feet, was dislodged bf the recent eartlupiake and has -hppe I I Ml feet lower than It had previously atiaid for ivliturlea. The taceof the new val ley is thickly traveiaed with liaaurea and cracks. The Herman government OOBtaut' ilatea another aspadttlOMry force to the interior of Shall Tung, where most of the American mi-.-iona are located I he (o rinan governor at Kiao Chou has -lauding Inttrnctloni to take audi tii earn raa (or the protaotlon, ool only of t iermau ntaftoMriM and other in tervsta in Shan lung province as may aaan nasMaaary, but ol Anarioan mis aiouarles aa well. A Bald Maker?. Pmria, March 22. An audacious fobbopy of 400,000 francs was commit ed today from the Northern Kailmad Company. The cuuiiany, which three times weekly, dapOafta large sums with the Hank uf Krance, aent tlMO.000 franca today, of which uinuunt 400,000 franca waa in amall bills. This was placed in a satchel and the money was con veyed from the station to the bank in a cart, which waa in charge of two i lerkl Be fore they started, one of the clerks placed the satchel beside the coachman. Two men then approached and engaged the attention of the clerk and tin' cnichmati, while the third man picked up the satchel and bolted with It. The loss was not discovered until It was Ion late to apprehend the rob- ban. ui( rire 9mA Ledge. Bntte. Mont., March 82. A ajs-cial from Kad Lodge. Carlam county, Mont., says: A lire started in Hall's general store at ft o'clock this morning in the hiislhrsa center of the town, an burned to the ground the two-story brick block uf the lied Lodga Improvement Com pany, containing three stores on the ground lliair ami the offices of the Hed bulge Pick-M and Curiam County Dem ii rat and the BuatDOBI Mcn'a Club, ls sides a DUmbaP uf other utticca on the n'coiul fliair, alao I'reeinan's new brick block, with Its large stock of dry OOda and clothing. The loss is al out 800,000. Manifold Trlrgraphr, Paris, March 21. M. Mcrcadier. a French inventor, claltua to have solved the problem of sending a number of dispatch 81 simultaneously on a single wire. His system, which was ex plained yesterday before the academy it sciences, was recently tiied success fully between Paris slid I'atl. Twelve independent currents were sent on the circuit at once, and in each direction. Waking a total of 24 telegrams. Alii fur llir i l.i... I . i . . i ... i San Franotaoo, March Mi A circu lar distributed throughout Chinatown announce- that Luang Ki Chew, a Chi nese reformer, now at Honolulu, will l e in this city next month. In lub stan. e the handbill declares that if the dathronad emperor is ool reinstated, the powers of KttPOpa will simn invade China and eventually control it. Chew implores the Chinese id America to use their hands and motley in behalf of the young anipapor. EXPLOSION OF COLLODION. Wracked Taru riulMinea In Hnllartal- pala llai Lite Loal. Philadelphia Merh 24. -One penoo waa killed and four injured by a tern bla explosion of collodion in the photo graphic supply establishment of Tuoiuae M. McCollin at o , on south Kleventii street, today. The dead man is Her man Weies, aged ID. The more sen ously injured arc i.i-. igc W. Nicho las, Angus: Hauaer. Daniel Keed, a fireman, and John A '.rant n The building waa almost entirely wrecked, and the adjoining atructure CMt'upiedby V. Clad oV sons manu facturers of hotel raiigea aud kitchen supplies, was also badly damage.) by the force of the exj, . -i n linn were over 100 persons in the i lad building when the aswoaioB OOtMPad "U tne sixth It.air of the UeColiia building. The force of the Piptoaioa blew out the north wall of the baildilsf, and the heavy mass crashed through the naif of the Clad building, which waa only four stories in height. Weiss and Hauser who were work ing on the upper Roof of the Clad build ing, were cruahed under the falling de bris. Mcholaa and (.rautoti were burned by the explosion, and were taken from the M ollifl building b tlremen. While firemen were working in the McCollin building, the thud lliHir gave way, and in this cra-h I ire man Daniel Raad had hi leg broken. The property loll is alaiut 7fi 000. Fire, which followed theexplo-iou, did conalderable addttl' naf ilainsge. The risif of the Jefferson hospital, the rear of which adjoined the I urncl atructure, caught Are, but the Hainea were iuickly extinguished, and did but little damage. A number of pa- i .cut- were . i ii 1 1 -k I y rem I fmui tin hospital as a inea-iire uf precaution luring the prOfTe-" of the tire A REVOLTING CHIME. Young Woman l; .... I to Ileal ll hy Poor vi. ,, in -..nil. f'arolliiM. Wadealsimugh, S. '.. Manh 34. I'artlculara were received today of a re volting crime committed in ( he-ter-field county a few days ago. i ,i--.. Itooue, a young woman, was enticed (nun her home by four white men. carried to the wo. sis near by aud as saulted with knives. The woman was gashed with knives in the fleshy part of her body, the cuts la-lug from four to 1 2 inches iu length. Then oosl oil was poured over her and she vva- set nil lire aud released ill the wiaida, to run screaming until ahe fell dying. When found a small braid around the forehead was the only shred of clothing left on her lasly. Casaie I'.onnc was 20 years old, the daughter uf (ieorge lliauie, a farmer. She was una.fjoartar Indian. The girl's reputatiou, it is said, was not gisal. laist Sunday evening ahe left her home with Sam Wisidwanl to vi-it Yinee Melton, she left there later in the evening w ith Tom stcen and James Jackson, presumably tn return to her father's house. Nothing more was heard of her till she waa seen Muudav night running through the woodt. Hoas Jackson, Johu Jackson, Abb Kirkly and Jim Yeruer, raporlad that they heard the icreaniiug, aud, collect ing a CrOWd, went into the wiaida and found the girl. Some ouu threw an ivercnat nver the charred and dying Woman, and then summoned help. When a doctoi arrived she was dead. INO PEACE OVERTURES Salisbury and Kruger Notes Related to Prisoners. NOW FItiH'I AT W ARKE.NT0S Brlllah eOt Pnrounlar a MM -No Maws PruHi Malal ! SMMM of I'rrlorla. Plr ha bean overture London. Manh '.'4 It learned I ill no new la-a. e have la-en made to Dord SalUbury. nor are any expected at present by liteal jlrltain. The telegraphic i.xrrea(nd euce ha- la-en eoutlUed to the treatmeut of llnti-ll prlsotiera. lrrd saliabury holding the presldeuta of the .South African republic reaiueible. The frnattirn ol the aafety of Johanneaburg and the gold miuea there hai not been raised It et:::a BSPtain that Mafeking' only chancea lie ;u relief by the colutuu snp'sed to br ail v Hlicing from the south, or in the (-..albility that monei Haden-I'ow. ll ia -till atmiig enough to attempt a HftiS with a view of captur ing the Jka r guns at a time when I OB' mamlaut Miyman has withdrawn hi men to DBpOH Colonel l'luuier' ad vance Nothing has develop! regarding (ieneral Puller's intentions, hut it M i-ma hard to believe that he is agalL an barking Oanaral Wam-n's division It i reairted fmm liureuco Man pica that I'retoria is prepansl to stalid a aiege of two years, aud tii.it the Itoer women, frantic at the reverse to the I'aa-r arms, are eutreattllg to lie allowed to ahiK.t the I'.ritish officers impriaone.1 t I'retoria. It is alao announced from the Traii-vaal capital that the Italian government has declined to intervene Fllhtliif at Harrnilun. Kimlrley. March J4. There waa a mart artillery duel near Warn-nton yeaterdav morning. A battery under Major lllewitt. aupertl by the Kim I erlev Light Horse, located the Ika-rs, who employed four guns, two of which naad OOPdita, but ineffectively. The Bridah battary lapliad with effaet. ami silenced the llia-r fire. The Ika-rs sent two shells near the railway station, which waa not damaged. A scouting psirty got tiai close to the bank of the river, and encountered a hot I re. The men were unable to get away, and it was lllgsailllla to relieve them without loan, the iartv Is-iug obliged to wait for darknesa in order to i -cape. The party retired with only one Wounded. This morning brisk tiring was re sumed at Warn-nton. alaiut G:J0, but it has now slacked up. A dc tin hmeiit uf Kusilers has ar rived. Two Vryburg inhabitants, who have 1. 1 ii impriaotied by the lba-ra, were sent into Warranton under a white flag, after Wing taken fmm laager to laager aniuud the dl-trict. They say that the big gun from Kimbarlay has been taken through Christiana to Pre toria. There arc women and children in nearly every laager. Trains now run within eight mile- of Warreuton. TO PREVENT NIGHT ATTACKS An Iowa concern is making farm wagons wholly of steel l ie, tt leal power can la trail-nutted with profit SO miles aud use. I aa steam is used. Ot aba 06 man who have tilled the governor' chair in In. liana, Gov, Mount la the onlv QM III lag Panntylrania factory inapaoton re port 1,310 accidenta last year, three fourth of which were due to catch ne-s The MlasUKippi liigt-lature ha- pa-cil a law lorbldding the sale of cocaine ex cept when apaaopibad by a phvi, iu. lu Virginia a company haa Iwn iopasad to make artiticial marble of lime, salt and inar-h mallow txsit, to gether with cetni lit Mis. Amelia .lallev. age.t 'T'.', whose second hnabaud die.1 a year ago, waa married in Wilktwbarre, Pa . the third time Ui Daniel RSSaS, aged IS, Dr. Arnold C Kiel, apavakiug at the Academy of Sciences m Chicago, sai l that llhl.lHH) peraou die of eotiatimptiuu each year lu the I'uitetl SUIea. Urate nnieii bp nia ami Chicago, March 'J'J tiivorge Kinch, a day laborer, living iu Austin, a su burb of Chicago, was tonight shot aud instantly killed bv his III vear-old son llbarti The elder Klnch waa intoxi cated and was makitig a murderous at tack on his w 1 1 iv riaguvi In Initla. Calcutta, Match M, The bnbonio plague ia last incniaaing. lu Bangs 1,780 daathi occurred last week. Thaaa included 744 iu Calcutta ami 'J, 044 lu l'atua. Wklta Lena PPerki iiumr.t New Yotk. March 18. The Jewctt White Lead Wvirks, at Port RiohlUOOd, affarad to the extent of $100,000 by tire t.niav. it i inppoaad the tn as anse.l by defective insulation of an electric light wire. BHUafe KlaUtee n Itenmnn London, March 2S. Sit Kdmnnd DOBghtl Vaitoh Kane, en vxiy extraor li nary aud mini iter plenipotentiary to the court of Copenhagen, is dead, aged 03. XV ar In Colombia. Kingston. Jamaica, March I'.'. The British crni-i r Alert arrived here to.1 iv from Colombian port. She reports the repalation there m rail amy, and that Uritiah sul jecta are in need of pro tection. The Matt ia coallug haatily and will return to Colombia. Wagon Walk Uu.ii.-.t PUal, Mieh . March '."J. The Khnt wagon worka were totally detstroyed by lire ti Sight, catiaing a loa of over 1000,000 rha plant was insured for glSii.OOO. Font hand red men are Ihrowu out of w, rk TREATY RATIFIED, itruiina to th Dlspaelllaa or Mtate of Thoaii Who Hie Aliroail. Washington, March L'l. The senate today iu executive session rati Hod the treaty between the I'mted states and .real I In ta ill relative to the estates of oitiaeni of one country who die in the ather, which haa been under considera tion for the past few days. There was no debate tiday, but several addition were accepted. Article J was amended so aa to provide for the extension of the prov isions of the agreement to depend. euciea of the I'uited states, "otily iisiu direction of the lawmaking power of the I'llited States," thus relieving the treaty of the criticiim that it conferred too great aivver BpOO the president. Article Ti was amended so as to make it apply only to the right of dUpoeing of property. As drafted, the treaty conferred upon the subjects of (ireat llritain and upon those of the I'mted States in (ireat llritain "the same right iu acquiring possession- or diepoeing of property" as ia possessed by the cm ena of the country it-elf; the WOTXll "acquiring" and "possessing" were ItrickaO out. Aa amen. led, the treaty waa tatnied by an almoet uuauinioua rote, Hrlil t u a Train. St. Joseph, Mo, March L'4. A 'ione" tobbSPi wearing a false face, w ith a huge black moustache tmiuted on the mask, held up the southbound Kansas City, St. Joseph A Council llluffa train four mile- south of Ham burg, la. i at i:Ho o'clock thia morning. The train waa iu charge of Conductor lilliy Mci.ee. riagmiili .xionre was first accosted by the robber at the rear eud of the train, ding Moore aa a shield, Uie robber want through the sleeper and chair car, getting .f.'no in cash and a gold watch, lie pulled the ls'11 conl aud when the tram slowed down Jumped off aud eaoaped in the dark nee The robbery was reported to the Burlington general offloe here from Latngdon, the first station BDUth tl llaiuburg. Meet on ReSMre iioitte. Ksnaaa City, March 34. U. J. Mc Par land, chief of the Kansas City polioe department, has hung up a bounty for the Kaiie ol all highway rotilvers killed iu the city while iu the act of committing robberies or directly theieatter Hie price the chief offers to give for the IhhIv of each Highway man, the money to W paid out of his salary, is 185, The reward is opeu to Diam ban 01 the force as well as anv citir.cn. There have recently lavn many highway robU-nes on the Kansas ode of the river. Kx0oalii al I'nwitrr Worka. lamlaiaM. Ho., March J4. The atnaratiag hoaaa at the Hanole. Powder W. rks at La Motte, 10 milai north, blew up tinlay. and l'etcr liucks and K.dmutid Carter were blown to atom. What caused the explosion will never Is- known. Washington. March 34 The navy department ha issued onlere for the repair of the cruiser Uoston. now at the Mare Island navr rard, the wst ui lahich will be atvut f4tX.Oi0. Navy Depart ot fTaat an lllunilnl- 1 ii k Prajaetllei New York, Man h 34. Considerable interest 1- taken by naval officials here and at WaihingtOn in the efforts vv Inch inventor-are making to conatru. t it shell containing a chemical compound w in. h, when it strikes the water, will blaze up and illuminate the surf mud ing atmosphere, During the war with Spain. Ivear-A'limral O'Neil, cl.ief of ordnance, expressed his williugt.c-- to try InvantiOM Ol this character. A shell containing calcium chloride was submitted a few weeks agi and has just been fired at the Indian I lead pro v -in- grounds. Lieutenant Sfausa, in charge ol the proving gronndi, has re puted t Admiral O'Neil tliHt the pro Jaotila is tiai oumbaraonia and too light, turning over and over in its Might, though when it struck tin water it bunied w ith an excellcut light. Such a projectile would la- extremely valua ble in time of war, as a warship equip ped with several of thia tyii would lie able to discharge them at an enemy' toipedo boat, for instance, and by the light thus produ e would be able to de stmy the attacking vessel. Lena inn heieedi Washington, March 34. After a spirited discussion extending over three days, the Lflttd bill, relating to second class mail mutter, was recommitted by the house today to the committee on po-toiii. es. The majority in favor ol the motion to recommit was so decisive that it is regarded as unlikely that the measure will appear again daring the pro-cut congress. Loud said, after the vote was announced, that this was the third tune and out, so far na he was concerned. The vote on the motion was US to Oil, with 111 present and not voting. Reeralt for Manila. New- York, March 34. More than 1 ,000 cavalry, infantry ami artillery rccruiti will leave For! Schuyler and Fort siocum tomorroxv for Brooklyn, where they will laiard the transport Sumner, xvlu.h will sail Saturday for the Philippines. New York., March 24. The threat of the Western leaders of organized lalsir to tie up machine shorn through- . at the country unless the nine-hour lay is granted to all employes, ha carried such weight with local metn bcrs of the National Metal Trade Aa. is 1.1,11,11 n- it. cause mem to take im mediate steps toward organization. Tae national organlMtiott ii only jwr. tially hwaaad, but when completed will include the machine manufacturer ol to a city aud adjacent tow us. BAD NEWS FROM MANILA. Kab.la aplnre OBanlttle luuiulilllon. i t'mnciico. March 36. The ..nnnirr HoDa- Kong Mam firing from Hung Kong uew of a .orpriring rtate ,,( affaire existing in tne rninppm" The correspondent of a Hong Kong paper eut the following uucennored letter to hi journal: 'XUnila reb 18 It i StraUge .lulu f fTim that exist ill the 1'hilip . Itoi.r.ivement is visible ,u uearlv everv quarter. Civil govern are rapidly ta-ing established in trary town ol hnpoptance, and garri- OUaad patrols are in pMcessofexteu HOB where. er Americans hold territory, Hid v.-t It if aa undeniable fact that -m e January 1 the Inraigaat have captured a number ol rifle and quanti ties of ammunition from the Ameri cans, almost equalling the sum total of American captures fnun the iusui gents. :.-i le this, the casualty rate for the last two weeks will come very cl.se (0 being heavier than at any other is riml Ol the insurrection, with the ex . pin n ol the time uf the outbreak and the fortnight beginning with Man h 16, ly. These are hard facts to swallow, aud somewhat alarming into the bar gain. "The threatened guerrilla warfare that was heard Oi on eveiv side tSSflll to he a ateru reality, and parties of 60 or smaller numbers are ambushed and "jumped" day after day. Supply train, small escorts and scouting par-in-, are the sts'i'lal objects of attack, and the country seems to m full 01 small, loving bunds, waiting at every convenient cover until the prey l caught. "In one or two instances heavy pa trols have quickly avenged these raid bv setting out immediately and hunting down and killing as many of the ma rauder aa possible. These lessons have not la-en forgotten, and in the im mediate districts there have been no rea-titio!ia of the trouble. "The uuthoritiea are giving theque tc n . onsideralde attention, and every effurt will be made to insure the public -ab tv, or on thia depanda the future of the country. Knglatid'a policy in India is freuueutlv discussed, and her swift and severe punishments are haiked u ism as model tH-aceinakers. The arms weie probably captured fnun commis sary trains." GREAT STEEL FIGHT ENDED Oarnegte ami Prlek Settle Thai nirrrr fliers I ' ' k ii ' .i i Pittsburg March M. The differ ences between II. C. Prick and An drew Carnegie have been settled. The IHtrtiea llitere-ted have agreed iiixill a plan of raorganiaatico, the new con ccrn to la' incoria. rated under the laws of New Jersey. The Carnegie Steel I'laut, Ltd., la conic- a stock company with a capital at from l'00,iloo,000 to 3a0,000,000, the famous ' iniiiclad agreement is vvia'. out, all litigation between th tuirtners in the t arnegie ( omiianv is dropped, mid II. ( '. Ir'rick. theex-presi nt ol the cnuipanv. vittuallv secures all he has contended for. I in -i tacts are embodied in an authorized statement issued tonight bv the company. As the capital of the Cnrnegi" Com- pair. . Ltd., ia $80,000,000, under th propoeed plan of leorganiaattoa, each partner will hold either eight or ten times the amount in the corporation As Mr. hrick holds ii r cent of the company stock in the Carnegie Steel Company, he will receive in stock of the uew concern, f 13,000,000 if it is capitalized at f 300, 000,000; f la, 000,- ooo if the figure is put up to $100,000, ooo.. Ilia contention in his suit was that his stis-k was worth at least f IK, oiiii.ooii, mid he sued to recover the difference between that and tile amount offered him when he was invited under the "ironclad" provisions to resign. The Print Hell. rich. Berlin, March 24. The German crniaex launched today at Kiel received the name Print flelnrioh ami wa christened by Princess Henry, uf Prussia. She is ladt armored, with plate loo millimeters thick at the water hue. She has all indicated horse power Ot 15,000, sad triple expansion eugiuea, and is capable of milking 20 S kn. t- an hour, she carries two 24- oantimatajr gnna in two revolving tow ers, six lfi-centimetcr guns in case mates, futir 1 6 -Centimeter guns in re volving towers and numerous smaller gUBti with lour torpedo tubes. I let displacement i- S.SOO tons. To Wlteeet an Bellpee. San I'rancisco, March 34. William II. Crocker has offered to dell ay the expeuse of sending out a party fp the Lick Observatory to observe the total eclipse of the sun on May 28, A complete outfit of instruments will bt taken. A station has not vet been delinitely choseu, but it will probably be llarm-Mille, n small town Dear Atlanta, (ia. ii s n-nnn i i . i u n i l aaiin ar i i ii t 'UI. I I Secretary Roofs Rpni... - - . t"J to oenaies. Resolution. MKKELY PIBMIT8 'iRANTE x.aw to rr.v.nt Ppeeeeatta. .. --. ...u i, Nul iv in DeaH Meeaete, Vraukfort, Ky.. Manh '-'4 state frv. i, recoguiiiug the IVniocratio iraPnoP, IWckhain, are iu possession ol the county court house and jail to night, aad will do military dutv here Bjgor order from t.ovcrnor lleckham u.nng the examining trials of the Rt publican -s n'tary of state. Caleb pow j-r. Captain John V. Havia and V. H. Culton. which are aet for hearing before Judge M.avre tomorrow. The military ia alo reinforced by ;j ape. ial deputr ahenffa, who were IWOPS iu I v the cij authoruie thi aftcruwa. Sewarill Belle Sxplodeil, Munice, Ind., Manh 3(1. The James Siekuin sawmill, ix miles southwest of here, was deatPOyed by a (earful lanler explosion this evening. Three men are dead, one will die and three others wen Injured, The dea l are Thomas Bulliavn, Clifford Van Hus kirk and Marion Carer. Iin Van Rna. kirk, the engineer, had his akull erusluNt in and taith arm bmkens. Marttereil h) Muunahlner. Kaleigh. N. 0., March 34. tow enior Kussell itofflolally iuforine.l that mat uignt tour masked men went to the home of Geofga Kittel. a Degro mar Oarthsgn, unit attempted tn hang him, but he bn.kiv away. He wa canght, however, horiil'.v mutilated and hanged au i si,t. nls marderen are la-hevtsl to he moonahiners. He who lights the candle at both emis, may expect s.s.u to burn tingem. wasningion, .March , Root today transferred to ths his reulv to tho rem. I..,,. .. . ""nt practice of grouting permiti i,, V dreslgingoff the Alaskan otiaaL m states that no concession or excavate the fjold'haaring .."i0, -eu at or in the vicinity ol ('HlJB v, or in other Alaskan water harelS made by the aecreUry ol wro, other official of the war dep,nn ' but that tairmitk- have been ,. 81 der the navigation Mrtol March.) ' U excavate or dredge for gob Mt ' wtiere mere can be uo hii,,ira navigation. He states that l.ro., . ....... .....i, " --van: o". "..-..' "uvh ('.-inn - i avi.1.1 . -1 ' - a . . i ... nuuy mi neavy lines uu ler th, i i.e secretary nana: "Ah thi statute was d. -i .,, M for the protection of navigation, it been the practice of the war dsn.- ment to grant permits to iH'rsnn. aZ ing Ui excavate for an v purui.a .kJ the work is not riuch as unjuttly kjat feet navigation, and is otherwiaei,. ful. Permit thus granted ara km! lustre; they do uot t.reclurii. uuinner oi similar permits appli iu i.n- rttuiu Lxuxivury; rnev are tr grants or concessions, ami tin y ,., . j . c . i A . no riguia wmuever, except I n, i,IQmTT from prosecution under the stm,,..' "As there seems to be no 1m jjl sou why all citizens of the Uniw States should not have the satneotm.. t unity to prospect for gold end Mqtfel mining riiruis uuoer tne milling la. upon lima unaer water a- they h,,, upon land not under water, the depart ment determined, as a general jin iu the exercise of the discretion vntei in the chief of engineers aud swreun of war bv thia statute, to ralltn . ' ...us applying from the ....ta.Jra terposed by this statute as longttna) pniajsed oK'ratious do uot, in fact, it terfere with uuvigtitiun. All applica tioua nade under this statute have c cordiugly, ho far a it has beeu fm hie to disjsise of them, received hnp able attention. No application of tin description has beeu denied, l' two, permit nave been grunted. Vpt a third, papers hud been prepared tc were awaiting the secretary uf u, signature ut the time of the passage ( vour resolution. Three others nn apprxived by the chiefmf engineers, nj were in the hands of the judge-advi -- r au- . ,j .i caie iur niw prepiiraiiou oi me Decev sary papSPS, Kieveu others are ituT it the ollice of the chief of engiDeenu pnicess of exiiminntinii nps.u the ipjes tiuu xvhether they interfere with hju; gation. Pour more, just rei eived, n iu the ollice of the secretary of wu. and w ill today be sent to the chltl engineers. I'tiless otherwise direivl by OOngreta, the secretary of war afl deem it his duty in the exercise of tlx discretion vested iu him by law. v grant permits in all of these cases tui upon all otlier similar application b citizens of the United State-; protrkW that the proposed work doet uot affect navigation." A Vegra'e six rietlm. Raleigh, N. ('., March 24. A neitm, Tom Jones, commonly known in tht country us "Preacher Junes," thu morning murdered Kiln Jones and brt oldest daughter, Ida, with an ax, nr theu set tire to the beds in -x-hicb ! the Itodies of his victim I and four sleep ing children, ranging in years from balsa one month old to the largest bflj, w ho xvas not mom than 0. The foul children were burned to death. Tlx crime was committed at Osmen, lut tie town live miles east of here. Tbt murderer, according to the story ul little 7-year-old Laura Jones, wbo escaped with her yonnger titter, It liberataly struck the mother lour liM and then made two cuts into the of the oldest child. He then Bred tht house. When the oopli' heard the story o' the murder, they want to Jone' Hon Pi arrest him. They found that hit clothes still bore stains ui m-li blood, aud that his hands were oovered Win bUaid. Irr Oorg Klimila a T..v... Monroe, Mich., March 86. Owlaj to an ice gorge u larce Kirtioii 01 m T hird ward of this city it under i"0' feet of water, and the current of nt Kaisin river is running down Kroui street on the south and Kim avenneot tho north. Great damage in- thai I laeu done. The citv authorities h1( lecided to dynamite the let 11 his Victim, f l annlbala. Vancouver, IS. c., March M shocking .Uvrr comes by the Warrituno from Hutch New (.uineaof the captui,. by the natives of three otlicer- of the .teatner t.eneral Pel. The captives were .ubjected to the most horrible tortures and were devoured while vet iving by the cnnilmlisnc utiv"es. While the General Pel vx in Dutch Newcuinea. four of her officers went ahore and were about to take photo graphic view, when they were ur rounded by the native., and three of the naval men were taken primner. Factory aieratet Pell. New York, March 24. One ol elevators in the MVen-ltorv li t'1') building at 347 Center street rok W cable today aud fell seven lb tie, i" juring three of its occupants iuti rulv The injured are: John Pododt. I vears old. thn alaeatnr lev ; b. riis'1 Kaizuug and Anton Bchroe tr, 1 Hrooklyu. A.lnplr.l hjr the sViiate. Washington, March 26. Tht "t today adopted tho oooiarance report a the Puerto Rican tariff bill bv a voH of 85 to 15, practically a ttri tlj I expression. No Democrat rati d fol tm report, but Stewart, Silver, oi Sevad. voted with the Kepuldicans. of discussion xvas oousu toed n -t 1 ! Tillman, who made a tiene ttttel i the rnaaanre, and aoonaed the ' can senators aud the Ranublican OsTg of indiscretion, bypoority an I work." MirtJ lbrl Mnaperla. Krankfort, Ky., Mapoh 26. Tha P" liminarv examination of Bocretarj 0 State Caleb Powert. charged with ting the assaisination of Willi bel, began today before Jodgt The courthouse wt guarded in out by militia and awre ol J,!'ut? sheriffs with Winchester rides vent possible interference from """ taineere, who were reported on then y to Krtnkfort. but their nra unneceteery, aa the mou: ' failed to appear, and no diiordtroc cur red. .