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CUT THEM IN TWO
The Great Northern Reduces
Its Elevator Rates. .
IT CAUSES CONSTERNATION.
Elevator Men Are Alarmed, at They
Think Mr. Hill's Policy Means Ruin
for Their Interests The Cut Is In the
Interest' of Discontented Farmers.
04UTH, Minn., August 10. The East
ern Minnesota, a part of the Great
' Northern system, to-day issued a circu
lar cutting charges of handling and stor
ing wheat in terminal elevators at this
point in two, in order to help the farm-
ers of the Northwest, who have been
growing more and more discontented aa
a result of the decrease in prices. Own
ers of the other elevators at once called
on General Manager ; Farrington and
threatened to have the certificates of the
Great Northern elevators uled off the
Duluth board if the schedule was put
into effect. Mr. Farrington ' dared them
to do it, paying they would take their
, business elsewhere if they adopted such
. a foolish policy. .t T he elevator men are
in consternation, aa they think J. J.
Hill's new policy means ruin for their
; interests, which involve millions. Mr.
Si Hill, according to Mr. Farrington, looks
upon a terminal elevator as he does a
ireight shed, and wants to ' make no
charges at all for handling and storing
wheat. He would have abolished charges
altogether but,. for the ruin it, would
' have brought to elevator interests. , The
elevator men are thoroughly alarmed.
It is claimed Duluth and Minneapolis
mills will be injured by the change.
FAMINE-STRICKEN COREANS.
A Movement Is on Foot In This Country
to Send Them Relief.
New York, August 11. The move
ment to send relief to the famine-stricken
Coreans has already taken shape, and is
being vigorously pushed. In response
to the offer of the Christian Herald of
New York, to contribute 1,000 barrels of
flour to any cargo that may be sent to
that country, the Corean Minister, Ye
Sung Soo, yesterday telegraphed to that
paper the following from Washington :
" Your noble and generous contribu
tion of 1,000 barrels of flour substan
tially starts the movement to relieve my
starving countrymen. My heart is full
of gratitude to you for your prompt as
sistance, and I shall' notify my govern
ment of the relief that may be expected
from this country. It fills my heart with
pain and regret that my starving coun
trymen and prostrate government can
not find means to transport the contri
bution you have so generously started.
In a day or two I hope I shall be able to
advise you whether the shipping port
shall be New York or San Francisco.
The latter port would be better."
Dr. Louis Klopsch of the Christian
Herald has forwarded the following dis
patch to Secretary Gresham, inviting
the assistance of the government in for
warding the proposed cargo:
" The pathetic appeal made by the
Corean Minister in behalf of his starving
people provokes widespread sympathy.
If means of transportation can be se
cured, a large cargo of grain for the re
lief of these starving multitudes can be
provided. Will the United States gov
ernment undertake the transportation
from either New York or San Fran
ciBco?" It is further proposed to secure the
co-operation of the various boards of
trade and exchanges throughout the
country, and especially at San Francisco
and Chicago. The cargo, when com
pleted, will probably clear from the
former port, and it is believed that a
guarantee of immunity from seizure,
either by China or Japan, will be granted.
Steamer Empress of China Ashore.
London, August 7. The British
steamer Empress of China, Captain
Archibald, from Vancouver via Yoko
hama for Shanghai, is ashore at the lat
ter port. It will be necessary to dis
charge all the cargo before she can be
floated. The Empress of China is a
vessel of 8,000 tons register and a regular
trader between Vancouver and China
and Japanese ports. She belongs to the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company. ,
Barbci'Shop
NORTHWEST MEWS.
Washington.
Tekoa wants bids on $11,400 6 per cent
funding bonds.
Ex-State School Superintendent Brvan
is to be principal of the Aberdeen schools.
The sum of $20,000 is being disbursed
by a special agent among the Indians at
Tekoa. . The money is due them from
the government.
Townships 28, in ranges 31, 32, 33 and
34, E. W. M., in Lincoln county will be
open for settlement September 5, 1894.
This comprises 49,117 acres along the
Columbia river. Actual settlers will
have ninety days from September 5 in
which to otter their tiling.
Spokane 'county has a surplus of .re
sources ftverr liabilities amounting to
$103,31)9.47, according to the nnanciai
statement for the year ending June 30,
1894. The indebtedness of the county
amounts to $512,902.86, of which $483,
000 is bonded indebtedness and $29,-
902.88 floating.
On Hood canal points fir logs have ad
vanced $1 per thousand, and are selling
at from $5.50 to $6.50. This is the result
of the increased activity in the foreign
lumber demand, and some conservative
mill men say that if less had been said
about the increase in business there
would not have been any anxiety among
loggers to secure an advance. me in
crease . in the price of logs brings the
price about back to the prevailing prices
of 1893.
The offer of school district No. 58 of
Clark county, of $1,6000 funding bonds,
has been accepted by the State Land
Commission, subject to approval by the
Attorney-General. Secretary Cowen has
submitted a report to the commission
exonerating Charles Browder, ex-Auditor
of AVhitman county from careless
ness or collusion in the matter of dis
counting delinquencies on State land
contracts. The land selections made in
township 23 north, 5 west, and township
16 north, 8 west, were approved and ap
portioned to the graht for charitable.
educationable, penal and reformatory
institutions.
Oregon.
T7rr.iYi an ' 'irtirvmTir uritVi T?orAlvor
J-
Clark of tne Oregon Pacific it was
learned that the road is still holding its
own, with prospects somewhat brighter
for the future. During the month just
closed between 4,000 and 5,000 ties have,
been removed and new ones placed in
their stead, and the extensive repairs
begun some months ago on the Willam
ette bridge at Albany have been com
pleted. The system inaugurated by Mr.
Clark soon after his appointment, has
been carried right along until now the
road is in a better-condition both physic
ally and financially than it has been for
over two years. The receiver pays cash
for everything, and all bills for material
and supplies are discounted, a thing
which has not happened for years, ras
senger traffic for the past month has im
proved wonderfully over that of former
years. Trains of four' and five cars are
run regularly and carry from 100 to 300
bay-bound passengers daily.
In his annual review of the salmon
business, just issued, Mr. Kinney of As
toria savs : "After many weeks of un
certainty and an almost confirmed be
lief that the pack would be smaller
than that of any previous year in
the history of salmon-canning on the
Columbia river, the season of 1894
is about to close, and it is safe to
estimate the total pack at 10 per cent
in excess of last year's figures. JJuring
the earlier portion of the season the gen
eral belief in the four-year-run theory
was rudelv shaken bv the comparative
scarcity of fish, while the destruction of
wheels in the upper river materially in
creased the probabilities of a much-di
minished catch, btui another cause lor
uneasiness was the fact that until quite
recently seining was practically useless,
owing to the vast volume of water which
for weeks rushed down the uoiumoia
river and its tributaries. Trap-fishing
was also exceedingly poor because of
the freshet and the resultant muddy
state of the water. It will be readily
seen, therefore, that nothing short of a
phenominally large run of salmon dur
ing the latter days of the season would
enable canners to reach even last year's
figures. But within the past thirty days
the shortage was rapidly decreased, the
catch having been greater than for any
corresponding period for many years
past, considering the quantity ot gear in
use.
DYNAMITE AND THE DAGGER.
Santo Says He Was Tired of Looking on
an Infamous World.
Paris, August 11. The mother of
Caesario Santo, the assassin of Presi
dent Carnot, has written to Mme. Car
not asking her to intercede with Presi
dent Casimir-Perier for the life of her
son. The mother received this letter
from Caesario :
" Dear Mother I write you a few lines
in order to inform you I have been con
demned to death. What must you think
of me? You cannot think I am an as
sassin and malefactor. You know my
good heart, and my tenderness was al
ways shown to you. Well, my heart is
the same to-day. If I have committed
this act, it was simply because I was
tired looking on such an infamous world.
I thank the priest for coming to me, but
1 do not care to coniess. I salute you,
my brothers, sisters and others, with a
thousand kisses."
Creedon and Fitzsimmons.
St. Louis, August 12. Dan Creedon,
the Australian middle-weight now play
ing at one of the theaters here, received
a telegram from New York this evening,
asking him if he would meet Bob Fitz
simmons at the Seaside Athletic Ulub in
a six-round go for $1,000. His reply was
that he would meet Fitzsimmons for any
purse and a side bet of $1,000 to a finish,
at 158 pounds, and that no other proposi
tion would be entertained.
A VETO MESSAGE.
President Cleveland Exercises
His Great Prerogative.
CAPTAIN WELLS NOT RETIRED
For Reasons Roth General and Specific
He Finds It His Duty to Call a Halt
The President Reviews the Military
Record of Captain Wells.
Washington, August 8. President
Cleveland gave to Congress a clear state-
ment of his views on special legislation
for the retirement of army officers in a
veto to-day of the bill for the relief of
Eugene Wells, late Captain of the
Twelfth Infantry. The bill authorized
the President to appoint the beneficiary
a Second Lieutenant of artillery, to be
placed on the retired list for disability
without the usual examination by a re
tiring board. The President writes :
Appointments to the army under author
ity of the present legislation which
named the proposed appointees, and the
purpose of which is the immediate re
tirement of the appointee, are open to
serious objections, though I confess I
have been persuaded through sympathy
and sentiment on a number of occasions
to approve such legislation. When, how
ever, it is proposed to make the retire
ment compulsory and without reference
to age or previous examination a most
objectionable feature is introduced.
The cases covered by the special en
actments referred to are usually such as
should, if worthy of consideration, be
provided for under general br corpora
tion pension lawB, leaving the retired
list of the army to serve the legitimate
purpose for which it was established. A
recent decision in the House of Repre
sentatives upon a bill similar to the one
now before me drew from a memoran
dum of the House Committee on Mili
tary Affairs the declaration that hun
dreds of such bills were before that com
mittee, and that there were fifty prece
dents for the passage of the particular
one under discussion. It seems to me
this condition suggests such an encroach
ment upon the retired list of the army
as should lead to the virtual abandon
ment of such legislation in sound policy
and good administration. There are
facts connected with the case covered by
the -bill now before me which in my
judgment forbids its favorable consider- j
ation:
The President then reviews the mili
tary record of Captain Wells, saying that
in the fall of 1870 he was charged with
conduct unbecoming an officer and a
gentleman. . The specifications were that
while intoxicated he had violently as
saulted other officers at Fort Fetterman,
Wvoming, and struck one on the head
with a billiard cue. Before his trial he
took advantage of an act just passed to
apply for hi? discharge, which was given
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mm aiiu wiw cu&rgea wuuurawu. xu
1885 he was appointed a Second Lieu
tenant against the protests of other of
ficers, and in 1887 was charged with
being drunk on duty and with conduct
to the prejudice of good order and mili
tary discipline in refusing to obey the
commands of his superior officer ; was
court-martialed and dismissed in 1887.
The message continues :
" Since that time repeated efforts have
been made to vacate this judgment and
restore the dismissed officer to the serv-
, While a number of committees in
Congress have made reports favorable to
such action, at least committees have
recommended a denial of legislative re
lief. Both of these reDorts were made
on behalf of the Committees on Military
Affairs by distinguished soldiers, who
after patient examination, and with an
inclination to be not only lust but gen
erous to a fellow-soldier, were con
strained to recommend a refusal of the
application for restoration. I am im-
f tressed with the belief that the legis
ation of the kind proposed is of ex
tremely doubtful expediency in any save
very exceptional cases, and I am thor
oughly convinced by the facts now be
fore me that the discipline and efficiency
of our army, as well as justice to its
meritorious members, does not permit
my approval on any ground of the bill
herewith returned." -
DISGRACEFUL. RIOT.
Churches Are Demolished by a Mob in
Quebec, Canada.
Quebec, August 8. This city was last
night the scene of a disgraceful and
riotous demonstration. The French Bap
tist mission has recently been estab
lished in this city with its headquarters
in a building on Bridge street. A mob
gathered around the building, and an at
tack was begun upon it with stones.
The attack was a fierce one, and the
windows and doors yielded to the shower
of stones pelted upon them. The poor
preachers, cooped up in the building
without any means whatever of defense,
could not venture out, and were held
prisoners for some time, until a force of
police came along and cleared away the
mob, which numbered 6,000, composed
mostly of French Catholics. The mob
went to the building occupied by the
French Angelican mission. This place
too was wrecked. By the time the police
got this far the rioters had moved on,
and were at the Salvation Army bar
racks. Here another fusilade of stones
took place, and the nronertv of the
1 Army sustained considerable damage.
The police here also arrived too late to
make any arrests, and hearing that the
rioters had again made for the Baptist
mission, they started in cabs for that
place, where they arrived just in time
to prevent a second riot. The streets
were cleared, and the missionaries were
I escorted to their homes by the police to
prevent further violence being offered
them. There is every reason to fear a
recurrence of trouble, and the fact that
a similar disturbance led to rather seri
ous results, a few years ago, gives rise
to the gravest apprehension on this
scoref The city has been quiet to-day,
but an outbreak is feared should the
Salvation Army attempt to parade the
streets.
LATEST WAR NEWS.
Japan Closely Watching the Movements
of Russia.
London, August 8. A dispatch from
Tuen says a Chinese cruiser has captured
a Japanese trading bark and taken her
to Taku. All pilots have been warned
not to guide Japanese vessels or to give
them any information as to the waters
ofjjthe coast. A copy of a Japanese edict
issued since the declaration has been re
ceived by the Central News correspond
ent in Shanghai. It says the local au
thorities will be held responsible for the
lives and property of the Chinese sub
jects remaining in the several districts.
Russia's movements are watched very
closely by Japan because of a report of
a Russian-Chinese entente. The weather
on the China Sea is so rough all the lat-
ter's vessels have been driven to shelter.
The Japanese cruisers are supposed to
be concentrated at Uhemuipo.
THE WEAKNESS OF CHINA.
London, August 8. Captain Lang, a
former director in the Chinese navy and
supervisor of the building of many forts,
said in an interview to-day : The Chi
nese are well trained and excellent
marksmen. China's navy is about equal
to Japan's. The Japanese have more
dash and spirit than the Chinese have,
but all depends on how the Chinese are
led. If they have confidence in their
leaders, they will face anything without
tear of death, if Admiral Ting led them,
they would prove themselves splendid
forces. Some of the Chinese officers,
particularly those trained in America.
are bright examples of everything that
they should be. The lack of spirit is a
great drawback to the Chinese troops.
Regarding the Chinese forts, they are
well to the fore. Wei-Hai-Wei are im
impregnable, and no Japanese will dare
to approach. Captain Lang said that
his opinions were based upon the condi
tion of things in 189U, when he left
China. He feared that discipline had
become lax since the European influence
was withdrawn.
"There is. now." he said, "no high
European officials in the navy, although
there are one or two English officers at
Wei-Hai-Wei. If the powers allow a
war, an outrage, Japan must eventually
be utterly crushed."'
. JAPAN'S NEW MINISTER.' '"
Washington, August 8. Information
received at the Japanese legation is that
M. Sinichiro Murino, the new Minister
to this country, will leave Japan to-day
for his new post of duty. He is expected
here the latter part of the month. The
legation has not yet had a communica
tion from Valentine Nowacki, the leader
of the foreign forces of the Pennsylvania
coke strikers, who proposed to offer to
raise o.UUU soldiers for use in the war
against China. It is pretty safe to ' say
that, while jvowacki's oner will be duly
annreniated. vet it would be oromptlv
declined. The Japanese army has been
brought up to a very high standard of
efficiency, modeled very much after the
tactics in vogue in wermany, and n tne
former government sought the assistance
of foreign troops, which is not regarded
as probable, it is likely that efforts will
be made to obtain them from Germany.
i SUSPICIOUS OF ENGLAND.
London, August 8. The Russian news
papers are abandoning the idea of an
amicable understanding between Eng-
land and Russia with respect to Uorea,
and are publishing anti-English articles.
Especially suspicious of England is the
Novoe Vremya, which declares that Eng
land is secretly supporting unina, and
that Japan will soon find this out. The
London Daily 'News remarks that this
language is noteworthy, inasmuch as
the statements made, would not be per
mitted to pass the censorship if the Rus
sian government objected to them.
. . JAPANESE PASSENGERS SEIZED.
Shanghai, August 8. A dispatch says
the Captain of the Chung Kiang, which
arrived to-day,' made the following state
ment with regard to the seizing of Jap
anese by Chinese soldiers. While the
ship was at Tunku the Chinese proposed
seizing the Japanese passengers. They
bound the Japanese and flung them over
on the wharf. Li Hung Chang, when
informed of this outrage on the British
flag, commanded that the Japanese be
returned at once to the vessel, and that
the soldiers who made the raid be pun
ished severely. '
, England's neutrality.
London, August 8. An extra of the
Official Gazette was published to-day,
containing a proclamation notifying
British subjects of the existence of a war
between China and Japan and declaring
Great Britain's neutrality. Lord Kim
berley, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, has
addressed a letter to the various govern
ment offices, detailing the neutrality
rules that are to be observed. These
rules become operative in the United
Kingdom August 12 and in the colonies
and other British possessions a week
after they have been published in the
local papers.
Headed for the Seat of War.
Gibraltar, August 8. The Japanese
warship Satisuata from Newcastle ar
rived here to-day en route to Japan.
The Satisuata will probably escort the
three fast vessels fitted out as cruisers
which were recently purchased in Eng
land for the Japanese government.
Open to the Public. '
Washington, August 7. Representa
tive Richards of Ohio to-day introduced
a bill providing that all sessions of com
mittees and executive ReRsions of the
Senate thall be open to the public. 1
BIDS FOR BONDS.
Portland's Water Issue Bring
Satisfactory Premiums.
THEY WERE UNCONDITIONAL,
Boston and Chicago Firms Offer 109.89
Other Straight and Close Offers
' Made Portland's Credit Good In All
. Parts of the United States.
Portland, Or., August . 8. -An ' ad
journed meeting of the Water Commit
tee was held yesterday to receive pro
posals for the purchase of $500,000 of
water bonds of the city of Portland.
Chairman Henry Failing presided, and
Messrs. Frank Dekum, C. H. Lewis, C,
H. Rafferty, C. A. Dolph, J. Loewenberg,
H. W. Scott, L. Therkelsen, C. H. Ca
rey, 1 C. H. Hill and R. B. Knapp were
present. Nineteen bids were received.
and thirteen agents of bond buyers were
in attendance and were admitted to the
meeting while the bids were opened.
The proposals were for $200,000 of bonds,
to be paid for and delivered to the pur
chaser on August 15, and for $300,000 on
September 15 ; the proposals to be for
the whole or any part ot the ?ouo,OUO.
The bonds, as is well known, bear 5 per
cent per annum interest, are dated July
1, 1893, and are payable thirty years
from date. The bidder was required to
pay the accrued interest from the date
of the bonds up to the time of delivery ;
that is, the interest coupons up to that
time are to be removed before the bonds
are delivered. r
There was quite a flutter of excite
ment among the agents collected in the
hall when the committee met, and one of
them came in shortly after and asked to
withdraw his bid. As there was no way
of telling for a certainty which was his
bid till it was opened, this could not be
done, and he concluded to let the bid
stand. ' .
There have been so many attempts to
get in bids at the different sales of bonds
Which were indefinite, or which might
be understood in more ways than one,
that the committee has been obliged to
reject all bids which imposed any condi
ditions or did not comply strictly with
the terms of the advertisement. Most
of the buyers have come to understand
that it was.no use to put in anything but
" flat " bids. There was such a number
of agents present that the. committee
could not help wondering whether they
were putting up any job or not, as some
new scheme to avoid making a straight
up or flat bid had been tried by some of
the agents at every previous sale of
bonds.
Before beginning to open the bids Mr.
Dolph said if any question was likely to
arise in regard to the form of bids which
should be considered, as had happened
at the last sale, it would be advisable to
settle the matter at that time. ' '
Chairman Failing said it "was under
stood that the proposals were to be uncon
ditional. There were to be no conditions
attached to them at all. If the bidders
were fully advised of this, he would pro
ceed to open the bids. It may be remem
bered here that the bids as a whole were
the most satisfactory lot received yet.
Only a few, mostly from persons who
had not bid for Portland water bonds be
fore and who apparently did not under
stand their value, attempted to impose
any conditions. The bids ran higher
than was expected, and the premium re
ceived amounted to $49,450, which was
considered by the committee as a very
successful sale. Bids came from all the
Srincipal cities of the East Boston,
ew York, Cincinnati, Chicago-which
goes to show that the credit of Portland
is good in all parts of the Union.
THE NEW STATES.
The Tariff Bill Interferes With Action
Upon Their Admission.
Washington, August 7. With the
session of Congress drawing to a close
and all attention likely to be concen
trated upon the tariff bill, it is not con
sidered probable the Senate will act upon
either the Arizona or New Mexico State
bills before the final adjournment. This
was the understanding when the bills
were reported from the Committee on
Territories. The date of admission in
the case of Arizona and the constitu
tional convention in the case of New
Mexico have been so deferred in the
Senate bills that no change will be nec
essary in case of postponement. The
provision in the Arizona bill is for ad
mission August 1, 1895, while the con
vention in New Mexico is not to meet
until July 1, 1895. Governor Hughes is
of the opinion the bill will have to be
changed to provide for a new constitu
tion before it can pass the Senate. This
opinion he bases upon the opposition
he finds to exist in the Senate to the
constitution adopted in 1891 on account
of the irrigation and silver payment
features. . . . :
Based on the Guilford-Miller Ruling.
Washington, August 7. The Secre
tary of the Interior has affirmed the de
cision of the general land office in the
case of the Central Pacific Company
against W. A. Calkrons, T. M. Morse,
John T. Clark, Lea Burch and John C.
Watts, involving lands near Shasta, Cal.,
and a large number of cases involving
selections of lands made by the Union
Pacific Company. The selections of both
companies are held for cancellation on
the ground that other parties in the
cases settled on the lands prior to their
selection by the companies. The deci
sion in these cases is based on the recent
Guilford-MilUr ruling.
MOST IMPORTANT CAPTURE.
Four Men Are Sure to Serve Time for
- ' Counterfeiting.
New York, August 9. When a safe
and closet in the office of the secret serv
ice division of the Treasury Depart
ment of the postoffice buildings had
yielded up substantial evidence of crimi
nality this afternoon and W. P. Hazen,
chief of the division at Washington, and
W. H. Forsythe, one of the operators of
the Treasury Department, had talked of
these treasures, a vastly interesting story
of expert counterfeiting had been told.
The evidence of the dangerouB character
of the scheme of felony in the possession
of the United States officers, and which
formed a connecting chain in which not
one link is missing, except a printing
press, consists ol the lonowmg articles :
One set -of counterfeiting engraved
steel plates, front, back and seal for
striking off United States treasury notes
of the denomination of $10 of the year
1880, with a Webster vignette; letter
check 13, signed, W. S. Rosecrans, Reg
ister, and James W. Hyatt, Treasurer ;
a package containing 1,200 notes from
these plates ready for circulation, except .
as to staining to simulate pocket wear ;
counterfeiting fibre paper made in Eng
land, or Connecticut, scarcely distin
guishable from treasury paper and
claimed as "highly dangerous;" enough
of the same material to serve for strik
ing off $1,500,000 of counterfeit notes ;
special ink used in printing the counter
feits ; a book of ink samples and silk
fibre used in making the paper; sixty-
six new counterfeit ten dollar bills, and .
one ten-.dollar counterfeit stained and
ready to be put in circulation ; thirty
four stained counterfeit ten-dollar bills,
with identification mark of the treasury
operative upon them and sold to the -operative
for $100; one set of counter- '
feiting engraved plates, front, back, seal
and back number for striking off Mystic
Kiver .National .Bank notes of the de
nomination of $10, bank number 645 ;
one set of counterfeiting engraved steel
plates, front, back and seal, for striking
off United States $20 gold coin notes,
series of 1882, with a Uarheld vignette ;
letter check A, signed B. H. Bruce,
Register, and James Gilfallan, Treas
urer. Four persons, who are in custody, are
affected by these evidences of criminal
ity. They are Russell B. Hoyt of
Brooklyn, Samuel Massey of Brooklyn, .
James W. Murphy of Bethel, Conn., en
graver, regarded as the ringleader in the
counterfeiting scheme, and Lorenzo O.
Hoyt, a farmer of Bethel, Conn., on
whose farm the counterfeiting imple
ments were found. Chief Hazen said in
an interview:
I regard this case as the most im
portant that has eyer. been handled bv
any administration of the secret service
division ot the Treasury Uepartment. "
Kirst look at the evidence in the safe and
closets. Could any set of counterfeiting
paraphernalia be more complete? Of
course, just now the prosecution deals
with the Webster head plate, from which
we have about $13,000 in notes, and with
which the four prisoners are connected.
But see what luck has come to us in the
seizure of the Garfield $20 plates. As
you see, there is no evidence on these of
a single counterfeit having been struck
from either set, and I believe that not
one spurious note had come into circula
tion from them. 1 he Garfield counter
feit is a dangerous one. More so . than
any others. Webster notes are marked
in various ways, notably in the head
vignette." ' . i
ENGLAND'S STAND.
She Will Not Attempt to Define What
is Contraband of War.
London, August 7. In the House of
Commons to-day Sir Edwin Gray in
reply to a question from Mr. Gourley, a
prominent ship owner, said that Japan
had promised that no warlike operations
should be undertaken against Shanghai
and its approaches on the condition that
China does not obstruct the approaches
to shanghai. Japan contends that the
powers have no right to interfere with
neutral vessels except in the event of a
blockade, due notice of which should be
given, or in case of carrying of contra
band of war. It would be dangerous for
Ureal .Britain to define by a general
statement what is not contraband of
war. Coal has been held not to be con
traband of war as a rule, but it was
possible in some cases that it might be
come so. Great .Britain must adhere to
the doctrine that it is not for fighters to
decide what is and what is not contra
band of war regardless of the well-established
rights of neutral people. .. :
UNION NOT RESPONSIBLE.
Its Members Did Not Destroy Railroad
Property In Chicago.
Chicago, August 7. During the past
week a committee of the American Rail
way Union held several consultations
with Mayor Hopkins. To-day E. W.
Burns, a director of that organization
and the head of the committee, ad
mitted that the purpose of the commit-
tee's visit was to furnish the authorities
with information touching the damage
claims of the railway companies. The
union men say they expect to prove in
many instances that the destruction of
property for which damages are claimed
was done by men employed by the rail
roads and the General Managers' As
sociation. They claim to be able to
prove that the men arrested last Friday,
charged with leading the riot and burn
ing cars on the Rock Island tracks July
5, were at that time in the employ of the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois road. They
also claim to have other similar cases.
Their object is to show that the union is
not responsible for the riots and destruc
tion of property.
, River and Harbor Bill.
Washington, August 7. The confer
ence report on the river and harbor bill
has been agreed to by the Senate. This
completes the bill, and it goes to the
President.