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I TWENTY-FIVE MILLIONS. FIELD GUN TESTS COMBINE FORMED. Four Alaska Transportation Compan ies Now in Two. SAN FRANCISCO. April 12.—The details of the combination of a num- ber of Alaska commercial and trans- portation companies, which has been pending for several weeks, have been completed. The Alaskan Commercial Company, the Alaska Exploration Com pany, the Seattle-Yukon Transporta tion Company and the Empire Trans portation Company have been merged into two corporations — the Northern Navigation Company, with a capital of $3,250,000, and the Northern Commer cial Company, with a capital of $7,- 000,000. • The following official announcement has been made: “For some weeks past the repre sentatives of the principal transporta tion and trading companies doing bus iness on the Yukon have been in con ference, the original purpose being to arrive at some understanding whereby reasonable transportation rates might be maintained and a remedy found for the evils resulting from conflict* caused by divided interests. As this discussion progressed, the scheme en larged upon itself so that it was fi nally found that the best results could be obtained only by a unity of their interests in the Yukon, St. Michael, Behring sea and Port Clarence dis tricts. As a result of this decision, two new companies have been incor porated under the laws of the state of New Jersey, and the assets and business of the following companies have been transferred to the new in corporations: Alaska Commercial Company, Alaska Exploration Com pany, Seattle-Yukon Transportation Company, Empire Transportation Com pany. "The Northern Navigation Company will take over all the assets of the above companies which are connected with the transportation in that coun try, and will be handled as a separate corporation doing a purely transporta tion business. It is capitalized at $3,250.000. "The Northern Commercial Com pany, capitalized at $7,000,000, ,_______ will __ take over all the plants and stocks of merchandise now under the control of the above-mentioned companies in the territory described. "The new companies expect to re duce the price of supplies; to avoid in future any possible shortage of necessities in the North, and to make its legitimate profit in the reduction of expenses, which the conditions of late years have made abnormally large. "The principal offices of the new companies will be at San Francisco, Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver. "The officers of the companies have not been selected as yet, but will be chosen at the first meeting of the board of directors.” Will Be Made at Sandy Hook Next Month. WASHINGTON. April 13.—Prepara tions are making for quite an exten Botha Again Asks British for a sive and important test of field guns at Sandy Hook some time In May. At Cessation of Hostilities. present the army is not well equipped with field guns, compared with other ; nations, and the war department DEWET NOT TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION wishes to obtain the very best guns possit le for the equipment of this Im portant branch of the service. The The Boer General. Learning That the Free tests will be under the direction of the board of ordnance and fortifications. Stater’s Intellect Had Weakened, Assumed The board not only will test such guns Full Responsibility as may be presented by manufacturers and inventors, but it is expected that the new gun modeled on the plan of CAPE TOWN, April 12—General the French field guns and constructed Botha has reopened negotiations with under the direction of the board of the British for peace. It is understood ordnance and fortifications will be here that although General Dewet, in tested. The plans for this gun were his recent interview with General obtained by an army officer who was sent abroad last summer, and who Botha, refused to surrender, General claimed to have secured complete de Botha regarding him as irresponsible, tails of this gun, which artillery ex undertakes to negotiate in behalf of perts have asserted is the best in th* the entire Boer forces. The British world. The mechanism of this gun authorities here consider that if Gen has been concealed and its secret carefully guarded by the French gov eral Botha surrenders, Dewet's fol ernment. The report that the United lowing can be easily taken. States army had obtained the plan* As explained here, this action was of the French gun caused considerable determined in part by General Botha's comment at the time it was made pub discovery at a recent meeting that lic, and since then the procedure of department with reference to the General Dewet's intellect had weak the gun has been watched with interest ened, that his influence with his fol by ordnance experts. The French lowers was diminishing and that con government has not guarded more tinuance of the campaign, in view of carefully the mechanism of its gun General Dewet's irresponsibility, rest than the board of ordnance has the making of the new field gun which is ed with General Botha alone. to be tested in May. FRENCH ARE HAPPY. POSTAL SERVICE IN PHILIPPINES. The American Claim for Indemnity May Be Cut in Half. WASHINGTON, April 11. — The state department has heard further from Mr. Rockhill, our special com Plumer Occupies Boer Capital missioner at Pekin, touching the ef With Slight Resistance. fort making there to reach an agree ment respecting the indemnity to be demanded from a Chinese government. Mr. Rockhill's principal effort, acting QUANTITY OF AMMUNITION CAPTURED under direct instructions from Sec retary Hay, is to induce the ministers of other powers to keep down the Number of Prisoner! Taken— English Control total of their claims to the amount the Railroad—Siight Skirmish Reported which the financial experts, headed by Sir Robert Hart, have decided to Near Boshman's Kop. be within the ability of China to pay. The United States government has felt that the total indemnity claimed LONDON, April 11.—Lord Kitche should not exceed £40,000,000, and ner, reporting to the war office, under has steadfastly sought to make that date of Pretoria, April 8. says: figure the outside limit of the claim. "Plumer has occupied Pietersburg For itself, the state department claims with slight opposition, He captured $25,000,000 indemnity, and It has sup two locomotives and 49 trucks, He plied Mr. Rockhill with data for the took 60 prisoners, capturing a seven- presentation of an ■ itemized account pounder and destroying 210,000 car- showing the expenditures made by the tridges with 1000 rounds of seven government for transportation of our pounder ammunition, and a consid- military contingent in China, its erable of powder and dyua- maintenance there and the just mite." amount claims of the missionaries who were I The capture of Pietersburg is re American citizens and suffered in garded here as The place property and person from the Boxer is the terminus important. of the railway, and outbreas. In its anxiety to avoid op has been the capital of the Boeh gov pressing China and to secure a speedy ernment since the evacuation of Pre settlement of the Chinese question, toria. The whole Northern railway the United States government stands j is now in the hands of the British. willing to make a heavy cut in its According to Lord Kitchener's dls- claim, provided the other nations rep | patch, only one officer and one man resented at Pekin will also abate their was killed. The Boers evacuated the claims in proportion. It is entirely town during the night prior to Plu possible, if Mr. Rockhill can induce arrival, after blowing up two the other ministers to make a cut mer's trucks laden with ammunition. of 50 per cent in their indemnity he Kitchener reports the capture will do so, though the apparent result of Lord 16 prisoners, 50 horses and the be the loss to the United States of depot of war stores at Boshman’s $12,500,000. Kop, Orange river colony. The administration is satisfied that As an offset, the commander In the great danger of the situation at chief reports that 100 men of the Pekin lies in delay. Had the present ' British lancers and imperial yeomanry representations of Mr. Rockhill been | were attacked by 400 Boers to the heeded, the officials are confident that I northward of Aberdeen, Cape Colony, the formidable rebellion which has and that after several hours’ fighting broken out under the leadership of the British were surrounded and cap General Tung Fu Sian in Shen Si tured. with the exception of 25, who province would never have occurred. succeeded in making their escape. Mr. Rockhill had satisfied himself that the Chinese government was ab RUSH TO NOME. solutely sincere when it pleaded ina bility to punish this great general and Prospect That All Previous Records Prince Tuan in the full measure de Will Be Broken This Season. manded by the powers. It is thought SEATTLE, April 11.—The rush to here that modest demands could have been met by the Chinese government Nome this season will be the largest and the rebellion averted. The in yet. Even at this early date hundreds demnity question has also consumed of intending Nomeites are buying an unusual length of time, and if it tickets so as to be sure of a berth had been settled several weeks or when the time comes to go. The ear even months ago, the present diffi liest sailing for that place from this culty, it is believed, would have been city is April 26, that being the date the steamer Jeanie is scheduled to impossible. sail, Most all of the berths have been sold already. Dozens of steamers, THE REBELLION FAILED. schooners and barges will make the Negros Governor Tried to Start an trip this year, and the prospects are that every one of them will be loaded Uprising. lo the gunwales with passengers and DUMGUATE. Island of Negros, P. freight. I., April 11.—Since the United States Late news from Nome points to a Philippine commission was at Baco- great season there. There has been lot, the capital of this island, March a ricn strike on the headwaters of 21, the native civil governor of the the Kuskokwin river, and that has island, Senor Sovereno, has attempted caused a great sensation among those to start a ninsurrection against the who propose to go there this summer. establishment of the ^commission’s A recent letter received in this city new system of civil government. He from Nome gives an interesting ac failed to secure a following. count of life in that far northern The sentiment of the provincial country. The writer says the winter government is almost unanimous in has been very .mild this season, and favor of the division of the fund of he has been going around with very $70,000 Mexican currency, now in the ' ittle more underwear and other cloth hands of the present government of ing than he wore when in this city, Negros, between the proposed prov and he says he never wears an over inces of Occidental and Oriental Ne coat. Prices on produce, he says, gros. The bone of contention has were very low at the time of the been that the commission set apart writing, which was the 15th of Jan two-thirds of this fund for Occidental uary. He said the best hay was gell and one-third for Oriental Negros, ing for $250 per ton. Coal was down the difference in the amounts to be to $69 per ton, but last winter was offset by taxes still unpaid at Baco- up' to $1)0. Best beefsteak is selling Ito. A resolution in favor of the re- I for 75 cents per pound, and turkey organization of the two provinces has for 50 cents. He says Nome is the been adopted. Details have been em place to make a fortune in a small bodied providing for the obligations time, and advised the man to whom of the present government. The he was writing here to sell all of his provinces will be created later. interests and come up there in the summer and go in with him in open FEAR PUNISHMENT. ing up a large produce store. The shortest day had three hours of sun Cause of the Rebellion in Northern shine. but darkness did not come on China. until 8 o'clock at night. PEKIN, April 11.—The Russian min ister to China, M. de Giers, respond LARGEST PRUNE CROP KNOWN ing to the letter from Prince Ching | and Li Hung Chang regarding Man- | Outlook in Clark County—Orchards churia. merely refuses to hold further Are in Fine Condition. «ommunicatlon with them upon the VANCOUVER. Wash.. April 11.— subject. Clark county fruitgrowers are much The Mongolian Prince Olaskan. ^ratified over the excellent prospect fatherin-law of Prince Tuan, proves tor a big fruit crop. The orchards to be an important factor in the re ill over the county are in fine condi bellion now in progress. He urges tion; nothing has so rar occurred, as the rebellious troops to march on far as can be ascertained, to injure Singan Fu. Chinese knowing Gen ■he trees. The climatic conditions eral Tung Fu Sian say the emperor nave been most favorable for prune brought the rebellion upon his own md other fruit trees. The buds have head when he published the edict been kept back by the cold, frosty threatening the general with future nights which accompanied the warm, punishment. On account of his pres sunshiny days of February and March, ent power and Influence. General until now it is believed the season is Tung Fu Sian would not permit this so far advanced that there is scarcely and naturally desired to prove that any further danger. With a week power. He has the entire Moham more of the present warm sunshine, .medan population with him. Prince the prune orchards will be in full Tuan also has a large following, while bloom. Last I__ 1 . year . prune orchards in Prince Olaskan controls the entire this county were in bloom three province of Mongolia. weeks before noxr. Fruitgrowers pre diet the largest prune crop in tte FILIPINO CASUALTIES. history of the county. From 25,000 to 50.000 Killed Since New Ten-Dollar Note. the War Began. Washington. April IL—The secre NEW YORK. April 11.—According tary of the treasury has approved a to a Herald special from Washington, design for the new $10 legal tender since the rebellion in the Philippines United States note. Prominent in the 50,000 men is the lowest estimate of center of the face of the note is the the war department of the casualties picture of an American buffalo, taken sustained by the Filipino forces; 7667 from a photograph of a fine mounted rifles have been captured or surren specimen in the national museum. On dered. and 65,142 rounds of ammuni the right and left ends are the por tion have been seized. The number of traits of Lewis and Clark, the noted Filipinos killed cannot be accurately explorers of the far Northwest. By determined, as General MacArthur In the side of each is a youthful figure his dispatches states that it is im extending a palm over the pictures. possible to be accurate on this point The figures and letters denoting the It would not surprise officials should denomination are quite large and con the Filipino fatalities reach 25.000. and spicuous. The note is considered as some say that 50,000 is closer to the artistic as any that has been issued real figures. in many years. Brigadier-General John B. Turchin Must Go to Asylum. CHICAGO, April 12.—A special to the Tribune from Nashville 111., says: Brigadier-General John B. Turchin, soldier, scholar and author, is insane, and confined in the county jail in this city, whence he will be transferred to the Anna asylum tomorrow. General Turchin was born in Rus sia, and received a military training. He was commissioned colonel of the Nineteenth Illinois Infantry by Gov ernor Yates, in 1861. He organized his regiment at Chicago, and left foi Tennessee, where General Buell placed him at the head of a brigade. Here Turchin offered a plan to his superior officers for capturing Hunts ville, which was accepted and proved successful. In recognition of this ser vice, he was appointed brigadier-gen eral. In 1863 Turchin organized the Chicago Board of Trade Battery Into a battery of horse artillery. He com manded this division throughout the Tullahoma campaign. During the Chickamauga cam paign, with his command he distin guished himself upon several occa sions. During the Atlanta campaign in 1864 Turchin participated in the engagements of Resaca, Kenesaw NEW PROCESS DISCOVERED. Mountain and others. Here he was Armor Plate May Now be Furnished forced to leave the army, and later resigned. Cheap. NEW YORK, April 12.—A special MOVE TO NEW CAPITOL. to the Herald says: Armor plate for naval vessels may be sold to the gov Governor Roger* Say* It Will Prob ernment for only $150 a ton and the ably Be Made in Summer, manufacturers may make a fair profit OLYMPIA. Wash., April 12.—Re at that price. An experimental plate, garding when the state will take pos manufactured by an entirely new pro session of its new capitol building. cess, has recently been shipped from Governor Rogers today said: “There was a taett understanding Pittsburg to the naval ordnance prov ing ground at Indian Head to be sub between the capitol commission and the board of county commissioners jected to the regulation ballistic test. that, inasmuch as the county will Upon the result of this test will de probably rent part of the present state pend further experiments which may building for a time, at least, the two result In the adoption by the govern boards would work In harmony, so ment of this new armor instead of far as possible, in making the ex that for which the navy department change of offices, without discommod is now paying at the rate of $455 a ing either party to the transaction. ton. In the summer months, during which If the new armor is a success and the supreme court is not In session can be sold for $150 a ton it will mean will, no doubt, be the best time at a saving to the government of $305 which this exchange could be made on each ton of armor. On a battle with the least possible Inconvenience ship of the Alabama class, carrying As the county will only have need of 2,600 tons of armor, this would mean two floors of the present state build a clear saving to the government of Ing, the exchange can be made without $793,000. serious difficulties." Reconsidered by Cubans. Havana. April 11.—The Cuban con ■titutional convention today formally reconsidered the vote against sending a commission to Washington, the final vote standing 20 in favor of recon sidering to eight opposed. The prrv gramme is now to appoint a commit-| tee of five, who shall, in the first In stance, wait upon Governor General Wood. discuss the situation with him. and ask his advice regarding the pro cedure necessary in the present case■ at Washington. , Prevented Hold-up. Omaha. Neb., April 22.—Deputy United States Marshal Hans, who Is also special agent for the Freemont, Elkhorn A Missouri Valley railroad, yesterday shot and killed David O. Luxe, near Ainsworth, Neb., while the latter was resisting arrest. The railroad offi cials authorized the state.ment today that the mission of Detective Hans to Ainsworth was to prevent a well- planned train hold-up. The man killed is said to have been the terror of Brown county. Knox Sworn In. Washington. April 10—Philander C. Knox, of Pittsburg, who succeeds Attorney General Griggs at the head of the department of justice, was sworn In at 10:30 yesterday morning in the cabinet room of the white house. There were present President Mc Kinley and Mr Knox's youngest son. Philander C. Knox. Jr., and Justice Shiras, of the supreme court, who ad ministered the oath Justice Shiras Is an old friend of the new attorney general. PROTECTION OF SEALS. United States Will Have Cutter* In Behring Sea. WASHINGTON, April 12.—The Beh ring sea seal grounds will be pa trolled by revenue cutters this sum mer, as in past seasons, in co-opera- tion with British warships, which have taken a hand in this special duty for the past two seasons. The treas- ury department, which has direct su pervision in such cases, flatters itself that in the course of the last five years there has been less illegal seal fishing in Alaskan waters than before, especially’during that period when the question of jurisdiction was in dispute between the United States and Can- ada. Since an agreement has been reached, the two governments have entered into a hearty co-operation, and established a sufficient patrol to stamp out the unlawful practice. This sea son the United States will have five revenue cutters in Behring sea, which will be aided by several of the smaller British gunboats. The cutters to be assigned to this duty are the Bear, Thetis, Manning. Grant and Rush. It is to be understood, of course, that their entire time will not be devoted to the protection of seals, but while on other duty in Alaskan waters, will look out for seal protection. The Bear will go to the Point Barrow region, where she will remain throughout the open season, and the Rush will be sta tioned at Sitka, for duty particularly in the Southern Alaskan waters, The several cutters are expected to start for Alaska between the 1st and 20th of May, next. Russia Gives Another Proof of Her Friendship. PARIS, April 12.—The important festivities attending President Lou- bet's visit to the Riviera were brought to a climax today in the double naval demonstration at Ville- franche and Toulon. Both proved splendid spectacles. The profuse dec orations at Toulon, the flotillas of pleasure boats flitting about the har bor, the gaily dressed warships lying in the roadstead and the animation of the immense crowds of strangers jost ling one another in the streets anil along the wharves imparted a coloi and picturesqueness to the scene which outvied the situation at Ville- franche. The French people, however, derive as much pleasure from the in cidents at Villefranche as from the meeting of M. Loubet and the Duke of Genoa at Toulon. "The Russian squadron,” says Le Journal des Debats, “saluted the pres ident on his departure for Toulon so that Russia will be associated as com pletely as could be desired with the fetes on the Riviera. Those who have spoken about the coolness of two friendly and allied countries are now compelled to admit that they took the desire for the reality. Those who con tended that Russia wished to manifest hostility toward the Franco-Italian rapprochement now have proof to the contrary in the fact that the Russians came to salute the president at the very moment when the fetes at Tou lon. sealing this rapprochement, were about to take place." VETERAN IS INSANE. Russian* Not Uneasy. St. Petersburg, April 12.—The Novoe j Vhemya avers that Russia has no cause for uneasiness regarding Man churia. She possesses agreements with the government of each of rhe three provinces which remain In force. I* the future. If China desire* her for mer position restored, she can st any time sign the treaty In her posses slon. In the meantime, the St. Peters burg Zeltung says Russia I* free to act in Manchuria for the preservstlon of order a* her judgment dictate*. I But Wants Free and Unrestricted Trade Privi: jes. TERNS OFFERED BY ENGLAND TO CHINA it Would Ec of Gre.1 Benell to Chins, and Better for England Than a Cash Settle ment of Her War Claims. LONDON, April 15.—Great Britain has not yet deflntely estimated the money Indemnity she desires China to pay. The government adhere* to the belief that little can be gained by insisting upon cash payment from China, and though the government re grets this will possibly be a cause for delay, it continues to instruct Sir Er nest Satow to try to induce the pow ers to argee to a demand for greater trading privileges instead of money. The government is of the opinion that the opening of those rich province* hitherto closed to foreign commerce would result in much greater benefit to the nations concerned and to China herself than the extraction of lump sums of money. Regarding Japan’s attitude toward Russia, opinion in Downing street In clines to the belief that Japan, In common with the other powers, is sat isfied with what is termed as Rus sia’s backdown, but that Japan will Auditor Lawshee Found a Poor Sys continue to keep a sharp eye on Corea and have no hesitation in threatening tem of Bookkeeping. WASHINGTON. April 13.—A letter hostilities should Russia menace that from A. L. Lawshee, auditor of the country. Philippines, has been received at the China’s Resource*. war department, and certain portions Pekin, April 15.—The committee of of it have been sent to the postmaster general for his information. The let ministers which is considering China’* ter relates largely to the methods of financial resources has reported th* keeping accounts, which are not ap conclusion, based on what information proved by Mr. Lawshee, and which is thus far obtainable, that $300,000,- have not been in accordance with the 000 in gold can be raised without in forms prescribed. Mr, Lawshee took juring China's resources. The exami four expert clerks when he went to nation by the committee into the sub the Philippines, and these are going ject is thus far incomplete, and it will over the accounts. It is satd at the probably subsequently learn that department that there is no intimation other Chinese resources for indemni of any fraud, but a system of book ties are available. The discussion of politics has this keeping is in vogue which lacks the business methods necessary to secure week given place to amusement, com mencing with the German races at th* the best results. "The accounts as filed here,” said Hunting Park, Monday last. The re Postmaster General Smith, "are cer mainder of the week was devoted to tainly ample. They account satisfac international races, an assault at arm* torily for everything. As to irregular and tent peggtng at the Temple of ities. there is absolutely no word of Heaven. The Russians particularly foundation for such a story. Not long are celebrating the Easter holidays. The ministers openly express their ago one of the most experienced in spectors in the postal service wa* desire that the foreign troops leave sent to the Philippines, and he made Pekin. They are seemingly as anx a thorough inspection of every detail ious for the departure as were the be of the work there. His report paid a sieged ministers anxious for the arri high tribute to the condition of affairs. val of the troops. The reports from there show a hand THE FLOW REDUCED. some surplus, a showing that I only wish the service in the United State* Current in the Chicago River I* To* could make.” Strong. THE STOLEN GOLD BARS. CHICAGO, April 15.—The Post to day says: Steamer Officials Say They Wers "Federal authorities have ordered Taken in New York. the flow in the Chicago river reduces! BREMEN, April 13.—In support of from 300,000 to 200,000 cubic feet a their belief that the gold bars reported minute. Word to this effect came missing from the specie room of the from Washington to the sanitary board Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse in transit today. The board will act immediately between New York and Cherbourg upon receipt of the official order, and were stolen at New York, the officials the current will not be increased, as of the North German Lloyd Steamship the channel has been widened and Company point out that the specie deepened and existipg obstructions to room on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse navigation have been removed. Ac is situated behind the baggage room, tion on the part of the war department and that the trunks of hundreds of was brought about by the protest ot passengers are piled up against the local river interests and the Lake Car doors of the specie room. The officials riers’ Association, which, since th* of the company are satisfied that the opening of the big canal, have com gold was abstracted betweenghe after plained that 300,000 cubic feet pro noon when the barrels containing the vided by law was dangerous to navi 2.000,000 marks were placed In the gation under present conditions. Ix> strong room and the following morn cal authorities are apprehensive of the ing, when the passengers' baggage effect it may have upon the St. Louis was stowed away. The officials are litigation. With the full flow to dilute of the belief that the thief allowed the sewage carried down the canal himself to be locked up in the bag from the Chicago river, the board had gage room after the gold was depos no fear of the charge that Chicago ited in the strong room, and managed was polluting the water supply of St. to take the booty ashore during the Louis. In view of the action of the confusion of arriving passengers and war department, the outcome of the the stowing away of the baggage. St. Louis appeal to the courts is doubt ful. If the legislature passes the bill TRANSPORT GOES DOWN. authorizing the commission to collect one-half of 1 per cent tax to be used Rawlins Catches Fire at her Dock In for the improvement of the river. It Is New York and Sink*. believed the current can be increased NEW YORK. April 12.—Fire was gradually after September, as the discovered in the second hold of th* work of widening and deepening the transport Rawlins early today. The channel progresses. Otherwise It will Rawlins was at the government I 'er, be four or five years before relief can Brooklyn, and was So have sailed for be obtained.” Cuba today. A Mystery Cleared. The fire was under control after about two hours' work by firemen, Sedalia. Mo.. April 13.—The mystery but the Rawlins listed to port from surrounding the theft of $10.000 In the immense quantity of water greenbacks from the Bank of Com pumped through the port holes by the merce, of this city, August 1, 1898 fireboats. She finally sank in the mud has been cleared by a convict named Freeman, now in the Michigan City at her pier. The cargo, a large portion of which Ind., penitentiary. According to Free coniisted of horse feed for army use, man, the theft was committed bv will prove a total loss. The damag* Irwin Gamble, who entered the vault to the transport Is estimated at $30,- of the Bank of Commerce at the noon 000, and the cargo at $80,000. hour, and got away with the money while he watched outside. Suicide of a New York Broker. Radical* on Top. New York, April 12. — Benjamin Forst, a broker and member of the Havana, April 15.—The Cuban con consolidated exchange, committed sui stitutional convention placed itself cide today In the Hoffman House. upon record today against the Platt After a night of meditation, spent no one seems to know where, he went to amendment by a vote of 18 to 10 on the hotel at 5 o’clock this morning. a resolution that the convention should A bottle which had contained carbolio declare itself opposed to the amend acid was found In the room. Mr. Forst ment “on account of the terms of some had outstanding debts at the close of of its clauses and the way in which business on the exchange yesterday, they are drawn, and also on the con and this Is believed to have been the tents of the others, especially clauses caus* of his suicide. Forst had lost 3, 6 and 7.” The conservatives assert more than $320,000 in his stock deal that thf* action Is embarrassing. In ings. In some quarters there was an asmuch as it practically ties the hands Impression that Mr. Forst was worth of any commission that might bo sent to Washington. at least $500,000. German Officer Killed. Berlin, April 13.—A dispatch from Pekin says that Captain Bartsch, of the Second infantry (German), wa* found dead in the neighborhood of Pekin yesterday. An Inquiry has been opened and the information so far oh talned tend* to show that the officer met with an accident. On the other hand, a dispatch from Pekin to the Ixskal Anxeiger says Captain Bartsch was shot while riding near the Sum mer palace, and that hl* horse dis appeared. Georg* Q. Cannon Dead. Monterey, Cal., April 15.—George Q Cannon is dead. The end came early this morning. The patient breathe I his last without a struggle. He 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 th* worse came apparently without fore warning. The body was shipped to San Francisco to be embalmed an t reshipped to Salt Ijike City, wher* the interment will take place.