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BOHEMIA NUGGET. COTTAGE GROVE. . , OREGON. LUG OF W DAT An tnttrutlnj CoIleeUon tt terra From tht ft Two HcndipheroProaiitdlns $ Condensed Form. Tho Toft commission Is ta Western Leytc There will bo no strike on the Jer sey Central. The allotment of Chinese Indemnity ban been fixed. An American party was almost en trapped in Leytc. All arrangements are complete the president's trip. ... ... it is evident that Japanese will ex pect war with Russia. The trial of an army scandal case has opened in Manila. The crown prince of Germany will visit the Austrian court. Moral crusade in Seattle is a per sonal war on Mayor Humes. Twelve cenU per pound has been offered for hops at Salem, Or. Japan demands to know whether emperor will return to capital.- Tl, nlr, f K I at lavenworth is bel , T. v Mrs. Nation was arrested for. ob- strocUng streeU of Kansas City. Mo. Many natives flocked to Caplx to1 hear form of provincial government explained. Twelve thousand nrre in ivmi.ii.. county Or are to b nrosSected for oH nd cod. ar0t0bfrp rosp ected for ou ana coa . Co-operaUve method of marketing aetOSerereb,0,rbyCa, - irornia court. Thnu. P.nn..inni. 1, '. ijwijic w cic t uu down by a train and killed, and an- other Injured. Conduct of ministers of powers in postponing meetings causes much ad Terse comment. Ann Arbor university dean of med icine acknowledges Student Hare haa bubonic plague. The stolen gold bars were found daring the cleaning of the Kaiser Wil helm der Grosse. Captain J. G. Griffin, a Columbia (S. C.) railroad man, was shot, prob ably by Major B. B. Evans. Commissioner Young, of 1905 cen tennial, would call on the Orient for both funds and attractions. Washington pan-American fair com mission turned down honorary mem bers of woman board of managers. One of three Idaho men who fired on deputy sheriffs from ambush wat Jellied. Trouble probably due to abol ition of martial law. Charles M. Pepper and Professor Kdward M. Ross were speakers at the convention of the Academy of Polit ical and Social Science. Anton Pfanner, Forest Grove, Or, banker, who failed for $40,000, and then mysteriously disappeared, hat turned up in Switzerland. The Taft commission has arrived at Ho no. Botha reopened peace negotiation! -with the British. Agulnaldo will not be released until lie secures Tino's surrender. The war department Is advised ol the coming of a Cuban committee. The United States will have cutters In Behrlng sea for protection of seals. The transport Rawlins caught fire at Brooklyn, was filled with water and sank. Governor Allen, of Porto Rico, sayt the reports are not true that natives of that Island are starving. Attorney General Blackburn holda that the Oregon law requires fisher men to secure two licenses. An explosion In tie Santa Crux, CaL, powder works caused the death of one man and the serious injury ol another. The cause of the accident is unknown. A new process for making armor 1 plate has been discovered whereby SxiStorWto t; : government manufacturers may be able to furnish for $150 per ton. Three gold Ingots, worth $22,750, were stolen from the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse during her pas sage from New York to Cherbourg. JJo clew to the perpetrators. One of a band of roving gypsies, near Monence, 111., sold two girls, ol whom he was guardian, to another . man or tne same hand ror $S00. The Slrls objected to the sale, and a riot was almost caused. Admiral Sampson receives $3330 prize money. J. P. Morgan organizes a depart ment store trust. The American claim for Chinese In demnity amounts to $25,000,000. Lord Kitchener reports the capture ot Pictersburg, the Boer capital. The Russian fleet returned to the French coast and saluted Loubet. Four large Alaska transportation companies have been V merged into two. The Negros governor tried to start a rebellion, but could not secure a following. The "Edinburgh Castle" public bouse, situated ln the Strand, London, la to be hauled down, and the London county council has to pay 22,500 as compensation. Probably the smallest monarch in h world relims over tho Hindu vas sal stato of Bhopaul, and governs a people of more than a million souls. This dwarf is a woman, DJlhan-Be-gam by name, but although she Is about- 50 yeara old. she does not ap pear larger than a child of 10. FIELD QUN TESTS Will Be Made at Sandy Hook Next Month. WASHINGTON, April 13. Prepara tions are making for quite nn exten sive and Important test ot Held guns at Sandy Hook somo time In May. At present tho army Is not well equipped with field guns, compared with other nations, and tho war department wishes to obtain the very best guns posslblo (or the equipment of this im portant branch of tho service. Tho (not. trill tin iimlnr tho iilrnrtlnn nf board of ordnanco and fortifications, j rotnU ol tht Mny InduKrlu Throujh. 1 retary On go, who remains In Wash. Tho board not only will test such guns . uu Ington. It Is proposed to transact In ns may bo presented by manufacturers ! out Our Thriving Commonwulth. ,,0itant business whllo on rotlto. Tho and inventors, but it Is expected that cabinet olllcors will keep In close tho new gun modeled on tho plan of Hudson A $10,000 sawmill Is to bo touch with tho hends of bureaus or the French field guns and constructed established near tho mouth ot Hock tho respective departments. Tho pros under tho direction of tho board of 'rac iust north of Hudson. Mont will transact alt of tho vast ordnanco and fortifications will tested. Tho plans for this gun were sent abroad last summer, and who claimed to have secured complete do - obtained by an army officer who was tails of this gun, which artillery ex- nerts have nsscrtcd Is the best in the for ' world. Tho mechanism of this gun I has been concealed and Its secret carefully mardod bv tho French cor- - ernment. Tho renort that tho United of the French gun caused considerable comment at the time It was made pub - oiuiL-s una) uuu uuusiui-u iu He, and since then the procedure of th denartment with reference to the gun has been watched with Interest by ordnanco experts. The French government nas not gunmen more carefully tho mechanism of its gun, tnan the board of ordnance has the making of tho new field gun wnicn is to be tested In May. .Pn,.r U nun mnlura LuHi.r LawhTTnd a Poor Sv Auditor Lawshee Found a Poor Sys- tern of Bookkeeping. WASHINGTON, April 13. A letter ' 'rom A- Lawshee, auditor of tho I Philippines, has been received at the war department, and certain portions I ot u have becn sent to tho Ps"as.te.r general for his Information. The let - ter relates largely to the methods of ! keeping accounts, which are not P - iproTcd hr "r; LaW8i,Ce' and,Ch have not been In accordance with the ' forms Drescrlbed. Mr. Lawshee took 1 , - , four exPert, cIerks when he went to uiu j-iiinjJiJiuL-s, auu uic b'"j over the accounts. It Is said at the department that there is no intimation of any fraud, but a system of book - keeping is in vogue which lacks the business methods necessary to secure the best results. The accounts as filed here," said Postmaster General Smith, "are cer - talnly ample. They account satlsfac1 itles. there is absolutely no word of foundation for such a story. Not long ZmJZ h ftX J?i lt ?,h PMiinnin nnTJ m!S a. luuiuugu uiajjctuuu ui c.cjj ucuui of the work there. His report paid a high tribute to the condition of affairs, The reports from there show a hand some surplus, a showing that I only wish the service in the United States could make.' THE STOLEN GOLD BARS Steamer Officials Say They Wero Taken In New York. BREMEN. April 13. In support of their belief that the gold bars reported missing from the specie room of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse in transit between New York and Cherbourg were stolen at New York, the officials of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company point out that the spcclo room on the Kaiser Wllhelmder Grosse is situated behind the baggage room, and that the trmks of hundreds of passengers are piled up against the doors of the specie room. The officials of the company are satisfied that tho gold was abstracted between the after noon when the barrels containing the 2,000,000 marks were placed in the strong room and the following morn ing, when the passengers Daggage was stowed away. The officials aro i of the belief that the thief allowed himself to be locked up In the bag gage room after tho gold was depos ited in the strong room, and managed to take the booty ashore during the confusion of arriving passengers and the stowing away of the baggage. TRANSPORT GOES DOWN. t ' Rawlins Catches Fire at her Dock In New York and Sinks. NEW YORK. April 12. Fire was discovered in the second hold of the transport Rawlins early today. The Rawlins was at the government r'er. 5?Wn; W0S to haVC t0T Cuba today, The fire was under control alter aboit two hours' work by firemen, but the Rawlins listed to port from the Immense Quantity of water pumped through the port holes toy the ' nreDoais. one nnaiiy san in me uiuu al "er P,er- , , .. . The cargo, a large portion of which Isted of ors? .feed .'"Ty1' use ' " " " . ?8port ,s e!U.matftnn ' ' 000, and the cargo at $SO,000. Suicide of a New York Broker. New York, April 12. Benjamin turkeys, live. 10012c; dressed, 13014c Forst, a broker and member of the , pel pound. consolidated exchange, committed sul- Cheese Full cream, twins, 13Q cide today in the Hoffman House. 13Vc; Young America, 13014c per After a night of meditation, spent no pound. one seems to know where, he went to Potatoes 50C0c per sack. the hotel at 5 o'clock this morning. Mutton Lambs, 10011c per pound A bottle which had contained carbollo gross; best sheep. $8; wethers, $5; acid was found in the room. Mr. Forst 1 ewes. $4 50; dressed, 7V407Uc per had outstanding debts at the close ot pound. business on the exchange yesterday, ' Hogs Gross, heavy. $5 75 06; light, and this is believed to have been tho . $4 7505; dressed, 7c per pound, cause of his suicide. Forst had lost Veal Large, 77V4c per pound; more than $320,000 in his stock deal- small, 8t49c per pound, lngs. In some quarters there was an 1 Beef Gross, top steers, $505 Impression that Mr. Forst was worth cows and heifers, $4 5004 75; dressed at least $500,000. . beef, 708Uc per pound. German Officer Killed. j In ls0o Sweden had a population of Berlin, April 13. A dispatch from ' 2,350,000, and at tne present time, in Pekin says that Captain Bartscb, of spite of the large emigration which the Second Infantry (German). .lJJ. found dead in the neighborhood ote0dn State8' the r Pekin yesterday. An inquiry has been opened and the information so far on tained tends to show that the officer met with an accident. On the other hand, a dispatch from Pekin to the Lokal Anzelger says Captain Bartsch was shot while riding near the 'Sum mer palace, and that his horse disappeared. ltcrm of Interest From All Parts icms 01 imcrcst rrom aii raru of the State. ' COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS hn 1 ttrltf Rtvltw ol the Growth tnd tmorove- bo, ... ... , kamc iiovc um o wcu iv sumcd at tho Goldbug mine, In Cable -. 11 i I. r-,!,. Cove district. Two shifts are cm lI"0el, Grants Pass Prospects are favora- , blc for tho resumption of actlvo work .at tho Pacific plno needle factory urants rass. r. --.. ti.. t r..nt,. ti. Lv.'"i V" XiT nZXJ t.,Z. , name or n now company just organ lred at pa8iey. 1 ... ... ,J lnc ,BU?" l"" V, City mlno is nowdown over 300 feet. ?n4 l 18 "P1 00:11 yfm "0 round ul nt" lvv , coos county worK nas sioppeu in one of the tunnels In tho Beaver hill mine. Coos county, pending Installa- uon oi new macninery. I Baker Clty-The Bonanza mine. In heads of the departments In this city, onwltotiowoni 'Baker county. Is making preparations and will by them , bo disseminated to nhK Is I termed as li.Vs- wumj, is uimu(, ijhiiuioiium 1 Some. . DullllnK8 bo delcd. , Arngton Tho Arlington Ware- house Company has made the pur- chase of about 7000 sacks of wheat stored on the Heppncr branch at ' prices ranging from to 45 cents . per bushel. 1 PassThc GranU Pass Watr0arnt8,L? Sfclowcr cZnanr htf ! -nr. 7 SS!l?f iS! Jteelplpe'toralTexJon" PW- extension to n point n0OTe me piace nero me water is now tAKen mil or tno river now laKcn oul 01 lDO nTcr- union i ue uregou sugar company will havo 300 acres in sugar beets ' near Union this season. During the ' thinning and spacing tlmo boys and girls will be employed to do aiost of the work. Six dollars an aero will be paid for this work. It Is said good wages can be made. ., . . Oalla Cek-peraUona have been , ln ua 8 creeK district. Weston This town will issue $5000 ''ottn 01 to nlse money 10 ,m- prove lts water 8uppIy- Z". r , 'X; ' as being more numerous In Eugene than ever before known. Grants Pass Work has commenced on the GranU Pass-Williams telephone line, and will soon be ln operation. Baker Clty-Durlng March. 98 coy - City at the office of the county clerk, Wendllng Smallpox is very preva- lent at this place, and county author- ities have been appealed to. So far It Is only in a mild form. Corvallls-Benton county ha, Issued j a call for all warrants outstanding up to August 10, 1900, and same will be paid upon presentation, Brownsville There are now two brass bands In Brownsville. A new one has Just been organized, known ' as the Brownsville Independent band. 1 Glendale There have been -11 cases of smallpox In and about this place, but no deaths as yet. Several cases are now in a very critical condition. Athena A man arrived at Athena on a new bicycle and was Immediately arrested by request of Pendleton au thorltles. He had stolen the wheel from a store at that place. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 5G457c; Valley, nominal; bluestem. 59c per bushel. Flour Best grades, $2 703 40 per barrel; graham. $2 CO, n.-jfn WhllP 11 as Oats White. $1 25 per cental: gray. $1 201 22 per cental. uaney Feed, $16 50J17; brewinn. $16 50017 per ton. Mlllstuffs Bran, $16 per ton: mid dlings. $21 50; shorts, $17 50; chop. $16. Hay Timothy. $12012 60: clover, $79 50; Oregon wild hay, $G?7 per ton. Hops- -12 He per pound; 1893 crop, flea,7n Wool Valley, 13014c; Eastern Ore- , gon. 912c; mohair. 20.021c per p0un(1 - ' Butter Fancy creamery. 2002214c: dairy. 1518c; store, 1012c per 'A Eggs Oregan ranch, 13013c per dozen. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3 50 5; hens. $506; dressed, 11012c per pound; springs, $405 per dozen; ducks, $506; geese, $608 per dozen; 150,000. But one person is alive who sat' in the house of commons when Queen Victoria came to the throne. It Is Earl FitzwIIllam, who, when Viscount Milton, was elected a few months before William IV died. At the Dla mond jubilee there were several sur vivors of pre-VIctorlan parliaments. M'KINLEY ON WHEEL8. Tour to Be Made by Pretldont and His Cabinet. Washington Correspondence. President MeKlnloy's tour to the Pa- ' f"10 con8t mitl tl,c,,co caBtw'V,1,1 whence tho return to Wash- mgton will bo made, will bo one of splendor. Tlio train upon which hu will travel will bo most gorgeous and costly. ! President McKlnley will travol across tho continent surrounded by ..to rnhlnet. with tho execution of Sou routlno which tno cmci exccuiivu - , ii, ,. whlln In wnmnnrion. m ...... ........ ... : ' ,"8.l. K,n"" ,w " " 'JSh n. nrs - ie,,lc8elltng tho two big telegraph companies, will accompany tho train to handlo official messages, and ovory tclerraiih station along tho lines of at tho railroads which are to bo tra- versed will Do suujeci to incir oniura in ihn exclusion Of all commercial and newsnanor business. Cabinet jnoet- Fridays, Just as they nro now hold In Washington. The questions pertain- - ihk i v "w,u - Ing to domestic and foreign policies , .u.-Mg-oj. cinhor dispatches from all over the world will bo laid before the president, experts from tho stnto department Deiug in niiontiance to reduco them to Kngllsh. Tho con- elusions reached upon all public qucs- tlons will do convcyeu to. mo ncunB - - an mose concc-rucu. Tr,P or Recreation. As th,8 ,8 t0 b(. trlp for rccrca. tlon and pleasure, tho president wants it understood that he will avoid formal receptions wherever posslblo and make speeches only where he cannot escape doing so. They want to see everything that will servo to give them an Idea of the progr6ss and ad- vancement of the country, nnd a commercial growth and mercantile stability. They will pay a specla ylst , the eat cotton wharves of 0 , . w tness the loading - . , . ... . . of steamors of all nations with tho mtii; ipiuuuu ui mo nc.ua ... South. The party Is due In San Fran- cisco. May 8. and will participate In the launching of the battleship Ohio. and will remain five days. The coast Is to be followed north to Salem, Tort - land. Seattle and Spokane, and thenco the party will mora eaalwarf Into Montana, where, after an inspection of the va8t cop,wr mine8. "they will Thence they will go to Ogden nnd Salt Lake and then eastward through 'rau. sioppmg ai ue!" 'ur,i, protracted vWt. r rom Denver the tn SCM to lopeM. iaienwona ana rvansns CIIJ. DU L.UIUB will uc honored by a visit of two days. Tho Mississippi valley will bo travorsed 'rom that city to St, Paul, with stops at Keokuk. Burlington and Dubuque. l From Train to steamer. i , ,SJi;UthiSVlth8,l j wl wa,tlnR t0 thcm through Ijike Superior, the famous! Sault canal, with its wonderful locks, the Straits of Mackinaw, Lake Huron,' the St. Clair and Detroit rivers, and Bu- .ThnCnPvd0n:S the lakes will possess novelty and Interest for every member of the party, even for those who have al- ready made It. and at the same time will constitute a recreation after nearly five weeks of travel by rail through plain and prairie, desert and mountain and valley. The president win visit tno ran- local river interests and the jtKc Car American exposition at Buffalo. Then Tiers' Association, which, since the he Is to go to Niagara Falls and make opening of the big canal, have com a trip down the American rapids. ! pislned thai 300,000 cubic feet pro After he has aone mat ne ana nis party will embark on a new special train for Washington, arriving there June 15. President McKlnley will travel about 13,000 miles on tho fasten, safest, most comfortable and best equipped train America can produce. He will visit 25 states ana territor ies, and touch the southern, western and northern boundaries of the coun try. Mr. McKlnley and tho members of bis cabinet are to be accompanied by their wives and several other ladles, well known In Washington society, will accompany the party. ASK FOR RECEIVER. Depositors Will Walt on Bank Which Failed No Longer. NEW WHATCOM. Wash., April 15. After waiting 45 days at the request of the lank officers to enable them to raise funds with which to reopen the Scandinavian-American bank ln this city, which failed February 27, the de positors today unanimously requested the court to appoint Robert Mulr per manent receiver, and he was request ed, If appointed, to take immedlato steps to punish those responsible for the failure of the Institution. Presi dent H. St. John, ot the Institution, Is said to be In London to secure funds from bis family with which to pay de positors. His legal adviser Is In New, York trying to dispose of some pic tures belonging to the St. John fam ily, with the same object ln view. ! St. John was also president or tho Bank of Blaine, of Blaine, Wash., wbicn failed the same time as the Scandinavian-American. The liabili ties of the two institutions are said to bo about $50,000. It Is believed the assets are practically valuelscs. The London Times was first printed by steam power on the morning of No vember 29, 1814. Four Counterfeiters Sentenced. Spokane, Wash., April 16. Four counterfeiters were sentenced by Judge Hanford this morning In the federal court. James Morlarity was given 10 years, whllo Mike Williams and Mack McCleary got 'off with eight years each at bard labor in the United States penitentiary. Mrs. Ethel Wal. lace, the last member of the gang, was sentenced to one year. Morlarity and McCleary were partners of Arthur Spencer, the bogus Chinese inspector, in the daring jailbreak a few weeks ago. mill nonrr England Wants China Opened to Commerce. WOULD GREATLY BENEFIT BOTH NATIONS D.ltcr Thin DtmnJln Cih Indemnity lo lioxer OuImSi JPn S.llilkd with Kuiilt'i lUckilown. LONDON. April 15. Orcnt Hrltnln has not yot dellntely ostlmntod tho monoy Indemnity sho desires Chlnn i ... mhoroo to 'n.o belief that little can be gained by " n . . . i... . insisting upon cash payment from china, and though the government re- grots this will possibly bo n cnusu for delay. It continues to Instruct ir i-.r nest Satow to try to Induce the pow era to nrgeo lo a demhml for greater trading privileges Instead of money Tho government 1b of tho opinion that .. 01)CninK of tn080 rfch provinces . . ... .,.,.,. , nimcrio uu i I would result In much greater benefit to tho nations concerned and to ChlnaJ horsplf than the extraction of lump . ,1, innn' ninnnln tuwnrd JJ , J" iw-iiiiic street In' ". "., V t.it- tl..i !,..,,,., I.. , . bBckdown mll that Japan will continue to keep n sharp eye on Coren nnd ,mvo J)o ,, ln throntonlng hostilities should Ilussla munncu that country. , China's Resources. ickln. April IB. Tho commltteo ol ranllltcr8 which Is considering China' flnancln, 0,, has reported the conci,18on, b80d on what Information , lg thu fa obtainable that $300,000,- JT Z ,'e .'"iwlthouf 1 Jllr, regourco(1. Tho examl- t.i ,., ,,(., i. ...i. vvu......v Ject lg lIlU8 far incomplete, and It will probably subsequently learn mat othCr Chinese resources for Indcmnl ties aro available, Tne dgcUBgon 0f politics has this W(?ok Kivon jace t0 amusement com 1 mencn wun the German races 'at the , uul,ti,,K iari .Monday Inst The ro , , of .,,' weok ,ievotel to i in,rnl,(nnai nn hhmuIi i nrmu 'nm T"? "niK?!' T. tlTranl aro celebrating the Hunter holidays. The ministers openly eipretm thcli 'desire that the foreign troops leave , Pckln. They are seemingly as ant- (oua for tho dcpartro aB wero ,hc be. aln,l n.l.l.1,... nnrlmi Inr llin nrrl. 1 '1R ,mI , val 01 tnc lTOP8- THE FLOW REOUCEO. current In the Chicago River Is Too Strong.. day says: "Foderal authorities have ordered the flow In the Chlcaco river reduced from 300,000 to 200,000 cubic feet a .minute. Word to this effect came ff,WB,l , today. Tho board will act Immediately upon receipt of the official order, and tho current will not bo Increasod, ai the channel has been widened and deepened and exlstlne obstructions to navigation have been removed. Ac ' tlon on tho part of tho war department . was brought about by tho protest ol vlded by law was dangerous to navl gallon under present conditions, L cal authorities arc npprehenBive of the i effect It may have upon tho St. I.ouli litigation. With the full flow to dilute the sewage carried down the canal from the Chicago rlvor, the board bad no fear of tho charge that Chicago was polluting the water supply of St Louis. In view of the action of the war department, tho outcome of the St, Louis appeal to the courts Is doubt ful. If the legislature passes the bill authorizing tho commission to collect ono-half of 1 per cent tax to be used for the Improvement of tho rlvor. It It believed tho current can be Increased gradually after September, as the work of widening and deepening the channel progresses. Otherwise It will be four or five years before relief can be obtained A Mystery Cleared. Sedalla. Mo., April 13. The mrstcrj surrounding the theft of $10,000 In greenbacks from tho Bank of Com' merce, of this city. August 1. 1838 has been cleared by a convict named Freeman, now in the Michigan City Ind., penitentiary. According to Free man, tho theft was committed by irwin uamuie, who entered the vault of the Bank of Commerce at the noon hour, and got away with the money wnne ne waicncd outside. Radicals on Top. Havana, April 15. The Cuban con stltutional convention placed Itself upon record today against the Piatt amendment by a vole of 18 to 10 on a resolution that the convention should declare Itself opposed to tho amend ment "on account of the terms of some of Its clauses and the way In which they are drawn, and aUo on the con tents 01 the others, especially clauses 3, 6 and 7." The conservatives assert that this action Is embarrassing, In asmuch as It practically ties tho hands or any commission that might be sent to Washington. George Q. Cannon Dead. Monterey, Cal., April 15. George Q. Cannon is dead. The end came early this morning. The patient breathed his last without a struggle. Ho slept considerably yesterday and the fore part of last night, A bulletin was Is sued near midnight stating that he rested easy, and the change for the worao came apparently without fore warning. The body was Bhlpped to San Francisco to be embalmed and resblpped to Salt Lake City, where the Interment will take place. nunla Heads tho List With Nlniy Millions. 1113III.IN, April 10. Tho corn m0ni. out of the Prows liimm tonight fU)m authoritative source that thu l'lilin-ii0 linloniullleH for wnr oxikiiihch, ,ko,. slvo of claims of private liullvl(iimiH nnd missions, have beiyi iu(,d f() lows: Itiissln, 300,000,000 iirnrkn (,,i,(ll $110,000,000) i Franco, 280.000.000 mark, (about IfiR.OOO.OOO) ( Onriilniiy 2t0. 000.000 mnrJiH (nltotit ICO.OOO.oooo) " Kiiglandi bO.000,000 minks (about $22'. 000,000). Franco will also prc.,t',t claims for tlio In.lomnlty of u,,. nni, inlaslun. The Amount Too High. Washington, April 1(1. Tho lnt vIcob to tho state department from Mr Hoekhlll contain further detaiu rn. Hpectlng tho ninnunt of Indaiiiiiltlrs claimed from Chlnn by the powtrx it appears thai tlutso clalmn have iK.,, much utnggoruled In hoiiio Htatitiiinu, ilthoiiKh the sum total In wt I II far u excess of the amount of momy it ih believed here that Chlnn can rnlnn it Is the belief of tho state department that tho total claims should mt )0 nllowpil to exceed 1CO,000.000 or $soo.. 000.000. According to the Information received here, tho British claim no far as formulated, Is rcaitnnnlilu in atnuuut, as compared with other claims, In fact, thu United Htntm nnd Japan reproMont. In those negotiation, the moderate element, whoxo dmiro Is to prevent tho ImpoHltlon of charge that shall dr. troy tho Chlm-mi got era. mcnt nnd result In thu division or tho empire. None of tho claims oxn-cin 1100,000,000, and even the Inrgi-ni is something less thnn this amount Tins Is believed to bo tho Itmtnlnti claim, which Is fixed nt $00,000,000. Tlir .irr man claim Is flexible, ranging betwvn $00,000,000 nnd $80,000,000, but Is ii.-nr-er tho former mark at present, though It. doubtless, will grow. As nln-n!y stated, tho claim of the United Stnx-H Is $26,000,000. and. with these f.m i( tain. It will be seen that If thu remain Ing powors are to hit allowed n pro portlounte share, tho aggregato will tm beyond Chlnn ability to pay. wht-ii has been tentatively placed at $2i 000.000. Nothing tins yet been itrti-i mined respecting the method of ran Ing the Indemnity fund, even after nti igreement Is reached. VERMONT BANK WRECKED. Cashier of a Vergennes Institution De ceived the Officers. VERGENNK8, Vt.. April 16. Th. Farmers' Nallonnl bank wont Into tho hands of John P. Sullivan na receiver at the close of business this afternoon. The exact amount of the shortage Is not mado publlo horo, but It Is Intl mated that the entire stock will b wiped out and In addition tho stock holders will bo heavily assessed. It Is not thought likely the depositors will lose. Spcclnl Kcamlncr Cunningham was asked for particulars tonight, but ho declined to say a great deal, merely remarking that Cashier Iswls had de celvod tho ofllcors of tho bnnk and that ho nlono wns responsible for tho wreck. Mr. Lewis Is very well known throughout tho state, has been a mem her of both branches of thu state leg Islature, and In 18SC was a candidate for Btnto treasurer. Ho romalns at homo nnd has turned over to the of ficers of the bank his entlro .holdings of stock and negotlnblo' property. His sureties aro cqunl to $30,000, nnd tho men who have signed his bond aro bollcvcd to bo good for tho full amount. $350,000 Fire In Blower Works. HoBton, April 10. Tho main build Ing of tho oxtcnslvo blower works or the B. F. Stortovant Company, In tho Jamaica Plain district, wns burned early this morning, causing n loss of $350,000. Tho concern manufactured various kinds of machinery nnd elec tric goods, as well as blowers. ,UI pat terns and plans wero dostroyed. The company hnd recently added $75,000 worth of tools nnd machinery, anil had a largo amount of clectrlcnl work roady for shipment. It nlso had n big number of onglnos nnd blowers for tho government for uso on battleships nnd crulsors In course of construction, all of which wero destroyed. ' Russia Laying Mines. London, April 16. Joseph Chnmber laln's orgnn. tho Birmingham PohI. learns that tho Russian ministers of war and marlno hnvo Issuod joint or ders for the Inylng of nn oxtenslvo system of submnrlno mines nt Port Arthur, Vlndivostock nnd olsowhoro In those seas. Tho apparatus leaves Odessa early In May. Run Down by a Train. Wllkesbarro, Pn.. April 10. A narty of four people, whllo crossing tho tracks of tho Lehigh Valloy railroad nt South Wllkesbarro early this morning, were run down by tho Buffalo oxniess going north. Throo of tho party woro killed, and one injured. Missionary Statements Exaggerated. Pekin. Anrll 1R. Prlnm ri,in- vi all his reports go to show that tho missionary statomonts regarding a re bellion In Moncnlln nrn nnt minnnrlml by tho facts. Nelthor does ho bollovo that tho rebellion of Gonoral Tung Fun Slang amounts to much. "It la the object of certain elements." ho assertB, "to mnko It Boom that China Is In a condition of constant broil, ron. derlng It unsnfo for tho foreign troops to bo withdrawn. Thoso who hnvo this In view will magnify a vlllago nuurrei mio a uig rebellion.