Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1900, Page 1

—=— THR EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY Temporary Busivess Office, 1109 Peaasylvazia Averus. The Eveaing Star Newspaper Company. SH. KAUFFMANN, Pres’t New York Office: 126 Tribane Building. Chicago Office: Beyc: Buildiag. Lengon Office: Trafalgar Saildiags, Trafalgar Square. ‘The Eventog Star ts served to subsczibers In the city by carriers. ou thelr own accouns. at 10 cents or 44 cents per month. Copics at the 2 cents eacb. By mafl—aoywhere In the ‘ates er Canada—postuge prepald—50 cents ce at Wasbington, D. C.. vriptioie tust be paid in advance a : Known om appileation, No. WASHINGTON, D. C.,, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1900—TWENTY PAGES. TWO CENTS. A BUSINESS AXIOM, From Piister’s tak. Money spent in continit= ous advertising in the daily press draws interest that is compounded daily. LANCERS IN A FIGHT General Roberts Reports a Skirmish at Brandfort March 25. BRITISH CASUALTIES WERE FEW Free Staters Anxious to Quit War and Go to Work. ADDRESS TO GENERAL WHITE —_+— LONDON, March —Reconnalssances of slight importance continue to be the only features of the war South Africa. Lord Roberts wires to the war office as follo “BLO Captain Sloane-Stanley of the 16th Lancers was slightly wounded in an affair of out- posts, nerth of the Modder river, March This bare statement fs all that comes from the commander-in-chief. A dispatch from Bloemfontein, dated Monday, March 26, and published in the second edition of the Times, amplifies Lord Roberts’ “ cavalry reconnaissance was made yes- terday toward Brandfort. The 16th Lan- cers, by skirmishing, drew the Boers from thelr position Into the open, when the 9th Lancers attempted to outflank the enemy while they were engaged from the front dismounted section of the 16th Lan- Our casualties are reported to be few.” To Repair the Railroad. A dispatch from Maseru, Basutoland, dated 26th, says: “The Basutoland government is busy col- lecting natives to be employed at Bloem- fontein in repairing and laying raflroads. The natives report that the Free Staters on the borders of Basutoland have refused to go to Kroomstad, and are staying on their farms, as it is now the ploughing season, and they are Inclined to keep their land and submit rather than give {t up and fighg.” Boer reports from Natal show no develop- ments. of importance have occurred there up to March A dispatch from the Boer at Giencoe, dated March 23, sa: » attack is expected to be made on the atel. Generals Botha and have been joined by their wi with a patrol, got between an ad- nd its main body , Who ref found giv- Spionkop at over Many camps aps. This will t an immediate British being flooded swe less indepen: mbly mia Address to General White. with an ad- icipal cou ring him of their 1 hon and of 1 that Lerd Roberts is go- Town to meet itt es to construct adding down ow! {ir labor. Will Sit Al the —The secretary ¢ Matthew White ation today Year. in- k and w ick ar with her excellent medical staff, is in that w: evacuation yitals of bad cases. artan are ample for local Rn If the Msine goes we hope she will return as soon as pos: . DISSENSIONS AMONG THE BOERS. Transvaalers Blame Hofmeyer and Schreiner for Deserting Them. DURBAN, Monday, March 26—Willlam . @ newspaper correspondent, who was re rom imprisonment at Pretoria, has arrived here. He adds his testimony to the the good treatment of the pris- y the Transvaal authorities, though r metimes subjected the cap’ to annoyances. Mr. Cox saw Secretary Reitz, and says he © Mr. Hofmeyer, the Afrikan- der leader, and Premier Schreiner of desert- ng them. They say they expected 100,000 Cape Colonists to join the republics. Gen. Joubert is apparently suspected of half-hoartedness, and Mr. Cox gathered that his life will be in danger at the hands irate burghers if Pretorla is besieged. lag y Mr. Cox saw well-knéwn s agents purchasing € all kinds of goods to the WATCHING DEVELOPMENTS/ PLEDGED IN WRITING/OXNARD’S ACTIVITY Representatives Keeping a Close Eye on the fenate, Greatly Interested in the Action to Be Taken on the Porto Rican Bill. Members of the House are watehing with keen Interest the developments in the Sen- ate upon the Porto Rican bill. The main point with them is whether the bill will come back in such shape as to give an op- portunity to have a vote on a free trade proposition. Some republicans are afraid that it will and others are afraid it will not. The latter are the men who would lik> to get in touch with their constituents by reversing their former votes. There is no doubt that the ranks of the free trade republicans have been materially recruited since th tariff bill passed the House. To what extent, however, can be develop- ed only by a test vote, with the House brought re to face with an unequivoca! question of tariff cr no tariff. L The republican free traders are unwilling to be quoted at this time upon their posi- tion. One reason advanced is that they do not want to disclose their strength In ad- vance of the vote. It is said that they remember how cer- tain men, who were ostensibly with them early in the fight, experienced a change of heart before the vote came off. The intimation is that the republicans who might vote for free trade, if confronted with tke issue, do not it to have to go through the fire of party discipline in ad- vance. They are determined to keep their n counsels until the question comes to vote. —-—____e--____-___ WILL STAND BY THE BILL. Movement Aimed at Just Treatment of Haw Influences simfiar to those exerted in the Porto Rican case are now being brought to bear upon the proposed Hawaiian legisla- tion. At the meeting of the House com- mittee on territories yesterday it was an- nounced that Mr. Hill of Connecticut had informed the chairman of the committee that there would be resistance to the Ha- waiian bill if the provision recognizing it as a part of the territory of the United States, with a delegate in Congress, was retained. It was also stated that Mr. Lodge wanted the House to strike out from the bill the prov for a delegate, and that he would have resisted the adoption of the bill with that clause in it had he been in the S: ate at the thme of the passage of the b There was considerable talk on the ject in the commitice, and the opi expressed that the Tr afford to be comm of treating it ungenerous gh over Port) Rico, party « around quired here w without g t would better to fa by t u to the new terri injus- tice proposed to It was therefore mously that the bill, on party lines in on the subject. the » was no differenc smmitte infl u Porto abs to Perto Uneasy Feeling in Jnpan as the sult of the Move. YOKOHAMA, March squadron has arrived at Chemulpo. ed t Re- It is nand for a con- i n of bor twenty mii is es souch of Ch rou LANC r Brit aipi ng uneasy comments in Japan. 1Al, March A priv dd here confirms the Ss been Killed dis- report h missionary ++ ____ SALE OF DANISH ANTILLES. Rumored in Parix That It Has Been Practically Completed. LONDON, March A dispatch to the Exe! 2 Tel ph Company from Parts of the Danish Antilles to the s has ally been com- ——_+<+--__. LIBERIA'S NAVY IS NO MORE. Two Vessels Belonging to the Govern- ment Are Lost. ‘, M fail news rec LONDOD here from Monrovia, the capital o republic of Liberia, announces th tion of th berian navy, co ing of two gunboats. It fs added that the Rocktown sunk in the harbor of Monrovia Maren while the Gorronomah was capsized in St. Paul river, where she was going to werhay which cost by the a, Which probabiy will » them, CONCLUDING ARGUMES Senator Mason Addresses Jury in Be- half of Client. ‘ iuding argument was in progress rnoon in Circuit Court No. 2 of Maurice J. McGrath against the Capital Traction Company to recover damages In the sum of $25,000 for personal injury. It fell to Senator Mason of Miinots, of counsel for Mr. McGrath, to deliver the final talk to the twelve men fa the box, and the court room was crowded with specta- lcrs who assembied to hear him. Mr. R. Ross Perry delivered the argument for the defendant earlier in the day. The con late this in the In Circuit Court No. 2 th se of Haitle Bailey against P. C. rden to recover 10,000 damages for personal Injury was given to the jury for its consideration. A verdict had not been reached at a late hour. = vements of Naval Vesseln. ‘The Kearsarge arrived yesterday at Fort Monroe. The Iowa ts at Monterey, Cal. The Marcellus fs at Port Royal. The Philadelphia ts at Corinto. ‘The Montgomery is at Bahia. ‘The New York, Texas and Machias today sailed from Galveston for Pensacola. The squadron is bound for Hampton Roads by way of Bermuda. The Vixen has sailed from San Juan for Crab Island. ge : The Cruise of the Buffalo. The auxillary cruiser Buffalo, which is being transformed into a training ship at New York na yard, will make a cruise in Mediterranean waters during the coming summer, and will afterward visit the north coast of Europe. ——o Appointed Assistant Paymaster. Christian Joy Peoples of California has been appointed an assistant paymaster in the navy as a result of a recent competi- uve examination In San Francisco, Assurances of the Powers Regarding Trade With China, NO EXCLUSION 10 BE SET UP —— “Spheres of Influence” Not to Re- sult in Discrimination. THE FULL CORRESPONDENCE Secretary Hay today submitted to Con- gress the correspondence had with the gov- ernments of other nations respecting the maintenance of an “open door” in China. The correspondence extenéed over a pe- riod of time from September 6 last to the 20th instant, the last date marking the suc- cessful completion of the undertaking. The ations addressed on this subject by the nited States were Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy and Japan. It ap- pears that on September G the State De- partment addressed to our ambassadors at London, Berlin and St. Petersburg copies of a “formal declaration” setting out the desires of our government in the matter of the “open door.” Italy and Japan were similarly addressed about a month later. While the ‘formal declarations” sent to © ambassadors were similar in each case, yet each of the officers adopied a different phraseology in addressing themselves to the governments to which they e accredited, the dominant note being best set forth, perhaps, in the form of conveyance chosen by Ambassador Choate in his note to the British government, which was as follow No Exclusion of Rivals. Lord: I am instructed by the Sec- of State to present to your lordship & matter which the President regards as of great and equal importance to Great Britain and the United States—in the main- tenance of trade and commerce in the east, in which the interest of the two nations fers, not in character, but in degree only— and to ask for action ‘on the part of her majesty’s government, which the President conceives to be in exact accord with its uniformly declared policy and traditions, and which will greatly promote the wel- ‘© of commerce. He understands ft to be the settled policy and purpose of Great Britain not to u: any privileges which may be granted to it in China ns of excluding any com- , and that freedom of trade empire means freedom of » world alike. Her majes- needing by for- ny and Russia ds and min same tme sou ain what is commonly called the ‘epen door’ policy, to secure to the com- merce and navigation of ent within of this po! the commercial ations, the oniy ng cor ir positions in extend their futur the government of in no ¥ omimit it on of the lusive rights of any within or control over any portion » Chinese empire, under such agri as have been recently made, it ¢ HOt conceal its apprehensio: dar of compit ising between the ¥ powers which may imperil the righis insured to the United States by its treaties with China. An Open Market for the World. “it is the sincere desire of my government that the interests of its citizens may not be prejudiced through exclusive treatment by of the controlling powers within their ‘spheres of interest’ in China, and it hopes to retain there an open mar- ket for all the world’s commerce, remov2 mmuniti it is justly held by one which will im- them to operations. the United elf to any n- that there !s tr ective F . ngerous sources of International irrita- tion, and thereby hasien united action of the paw t Pekin to promote admini. trative ms so greatly neaded for # the imperial government and the integrity. of China, in © whole western world ed. It believes that such be greatly aided and a s by the various s of interest’ in China a to their intention regard to the treat- ment of foreign trad> and commerce ther in, and that the present is a very favorable moment for informing he. Sty's go sire of the United States - it make on its own part and to powerful support in the effort to h of the various powers sof Interest’ in China a ‘uration substanually to the following The Desired Pledge. “(1) That It will in nowise Interfere with any treaty port or any vested Interest with- in any so-called ‘sphere of interest’ or leased territory it may haye in China. Phat the Chinese treaty tariff of the lime being shall apply to all merchandise landed or shipped to ail such ports as are within such ‘spheres of interest’ (unless be ‘free ts’), no matter to what ynality it may belong, and that duties able shall be couected by the Chin nm=nt. %) That it will levy no higher harbor en vessels of another nationality fre- quenting any port in such ‘sphere’ than shall be levied on vessels of its own nation- ality, and no higher railroad charges over lines built, controlled or operated with {ts ‘sphere’ on merchandise belonging to citi- zens or subjects of other nationalities trans- ported through such ‘sphere’ than shall be levied on similar merchandise belonging to its own nationality transported over equal distances. : fermany and Russia. “The President has strong reason to be- Neve that the governments of both Russia and Germany will co-operate in such an und anding as is here proposed. The.re- cent ukase of his majesty the Emperor of Russia declaring the port of Ta-lien-wan open to the merchant ships of all nations during the whole term of the lease under which {t fs to be held by Russia ramoves all uncertainty ag to the liberal and con- ciliatory policy of that power, and justi- fies the expectation that his majesty would accede to the similar request of the United States now being presented to him and make the desired declaration. “The recent action of Germany in declar- ing port of Kiao-chao a ‘free port’ and the aid which its government has given China In establishing there a Chinese cus- tom house, coupled with oral assurances given the United States by Germany that the interests of the United States and its citizens with its ‘sphere’ would in no wise be affected by its occupation of this portion of the province of Shantung, encourage the belief that litte opposition is to be antici- pated to the President's request for a simi- lar declaration from that power. “It Is needl2ss also to add that Japan, the power next most largely interested in the trade of China, must be in entire sympathy with the ylews here expressed, and that its interests will be largely served by the pro- posed arrangement; and the declarations | of its statesmen within the last year are so (Continued on Ninth Page.) jones who Has Always Locked After Interests of the Sugar ‘Trust. ALWAYS INSISTED oH PROTECTION His Work When Wilson and Ding- ley Bills Were Discussed. STATEMENT MR. SEARLES’ No man in Congress will assert with the expectation of being believed that the in- terests of the sugar trust have not been looked after in Congress whenever a ques- tion has been up which might involve those interests. The trust may have at various times men in Congress who will protect and watch over them. It is a very common belief that this is true, but those men do not avow themselves the representatives of the sugar trust, any more than does Mr. Oxnard. They are marked simply because they are always found to be alert and on the defensive when the trust seems to be in danger. Mr. Oxnard is known to be the most active of the sugar lobby at the Capi- tol when tariff is under consideration in any form or when anything is up which might affect sugar interests. His influence ha been so powerful that apparenily Congress has been at all times afraid to resist him. Speculation in Sugar Stocks. When the Wilson tariff bill was under discussion the uppermost question was su- gar. Sugar held the bill suspended in the Senate. It held the bill suspended in the conference committee, as everybody knows. There was a great scandal. It was alleged that senators were speculating in sugar trust stock. Some senators confessed to the he charge. One said on the floor that bought stocks when he pleased, or thing to that effect. One said that his ant inadvertently sent a telegram involving him, the senator, in sugar speculation. There was a cenatorial investigation and an attempt to send certain mewspaper cor- respondents to jail for npt giving the names of their informants as to certain statements made. The speculation was in sugar trust stock, and everybody knows that the inerease in the value of the stock Was predicated upon the belief or assurance that sugar would not be put on the free list, but that it would secure the duty that the trust wanted. The question of beet sugar was not as much as a fly speck on the wheel. There was no idea at that time that the trust wanted free sugar. The suggestion that the scheme to secure high protection might fail was enough to make the price of sugar stock tremble in the balance. The certainty that the protection would be had sent the ock booming from somewhere ip the cightles to far above a hundred. Tt was said that hundreds ofthousands were made in speculation. Jf tits statement was not true, then all the tradittons of the stock market were violated. The t which no ene ban deny is that the sugar stock went up 6s ‘the prospects for high protection increased. Oxnard the Principal Figure. No one with knowledge of the cireum- Siances and any regard for the truth will deny that Mr. Oxnard was the principal figure in the lobby before Congress for the high protection. The records of the hear- ings show this fact, and every man who watched the progress of the tariff bill knows it. No one professing to represent the sugar trust appeared before the com- mittee and urged protection or free trade, yet the interests of the trust were carcd for and the thing which Mr. Oxnard so persistent in demanding was what sent the sugar trust stock up in the market. Mr. Oxnard, together with other “beet sugar” representat and representatives of the Louisiana sugar interests were the appeared as advocates of the duty. Mr. Payne of New York, who was a member of the committee that time, says that the interest of the sugar trust is on the other side of fon from that of Mr. Oxnard. sentative of the sug trust appedred to oppose Mr. Oxnard’s efforts to secure high prote Under the Dingley Bill. When the Dingley bill was under con- sideration, Mr. Oxnard and the rest of the ar men” appeayetl demanding as- and support, as they were sugar dealers who displayed considerable knowl- edge as to the operations of the trust, and some of whom had something to say about thelr agreement with the trust as to the price at which sugar should be sold. At this hearing a statement In behalf of the sugar trust was submitted by “Mr. youn E Searles, treasurer of the American Sugar Refining Company.” ‘This statement was not an argument in favor of free trad which Mr. Payne seems to desire the publ to believe the sugar trust wants, but ¥ a part of the symposium of sugar protection ‘guments. 2 Moreover, this statement intimates a rea- son why the trust was not interested in having free raw sugar, which is the re- finers’ raw material. It says in part: Mr. Searlen’ Statements. “In order to market here the surplus pro- duct of Germany, the production of which is stimulated by a substantial bounty, their refined sugar, which is made directly from the beet, without the additional and inde- pendent refining process, ‘is practically sold on the basts of raw sugar, e.-g., 100 pounds of refined sugar is sold for the equivalent of the same amount of purity in raw sugar, and while it may not be equal in quality to the product of the Ameritun refineries, which is the best in the world, it serves the purpose sufficiently to displace their product to a constantly increasing amount.” Here follows statistics, and the state- ment continues: , “The inevitable result fe amply illustrated in Great Britain, where, notwithstanding the advantages of freedom from duty and easier access to the raw augars ef the Hast Indies and her own colonies, the German re- fined sugars are rapidly. driving the English refiners out of their own market, the im- portations, according to the Official figures in the bureau of statistios, showing the im- Forts of German refined to.have been as fol- lows."” & And statistics are agaih.presented. ST. ELIZABETH ATTENDANTS. Bill Regulating Their Pay and Hours of Service. Mr. Mudd has introdueed,a ill in the House to regulate the pay’ and hours of service of the attendants at the Govern- ment Hospital for the Insane in the Dis- trict of Columbia. It provides that the at- tendants shall be classified as follows: Class 1—Those attendants who have served less than six months and whose pay shall be $40 a month, without board and lodging. Class 2—Those who have served more than six months and less than ene year, and whose pay shall be $50 a Month, without board and lodging. Class 3=Those who have served more than one year, and whose pay shall be $60, without board and lodging. ‘Thé bill also provides for gn eight-hour @ay for the attendants, . ——_— The Code in the Senate. Mr. McMillan has introduced in the Sen- ate, in the form of a bill, the code of law for the District of Columbia, which will be printed. ~ : NOW A NEW MEASURE ‘Amendments to the Forak=r Bill In- troduced. THE GOVERNMENT OF PORTO RICO A Commissioner Instead of Dele- gate in Congress. HOUSE TARIFF RETAINED ee Senator Foraker today introduced the amendments to the Porto Rico govern- mental bill, which were read to the repub- lican senatorial caucus yesterday. and some of which were agreed to by it. The amendments were incorporated in a new print of the bill and the bill as thus amended introduced as a new measure. The first important change is made in section 3, in which the inhabitants are described as “citizens of Porto Rico, and as such entitled to the protection of the United States,"". whereas in the old bill they were designated as “citizens of the United States." The following provision is substituted for section 8 in regard to articles imported into Porto Rico from ports outside the United States: The Free List. “That on and after the passage of this act the same tariffs, customs and duties sball be levied, collected and paid upon all articles imported into Porto Rico from perts other than those of the United States which are required by law to be collected upen articles imported into the United States from foreign countrics: “Provided, That on all coffee in the bean or ground imported into Porto Rico there shall be levied and collected a duty of five of law cents per pound, any law or part to the contrary notwithstanding; vided further, that all Spanish’ sc literary and artistic works, nut subversive of public order in Porto Rico, shall be ad- mitted free of duty into Porto Rico for a period of ten yea reckoning from the llth day of April, 18%), as provided in said treaty of peace between the United States and Spain; and provided fourther, that all books and pamphlets printed in the En- glish language shall be admitted into Porto Rico free of duty when imported from the United Sta The Tariff Clause. The new provision in regard to commerce between the United States and Porto Rico is as follo “That on and after the act passage of this M merchandise coming into the United es from Porto Rico and coming into Porto Rico from the United States shall be red ports of entry upon tym of the duties which are required to be levied, colle and paid upon like art imported from foreign c ure coming into the United States and withdrawn for con- sumption or sale upon payment of a tax equal to the internal revenue tax imposed in the United States upon the like articles of merchandise of domestic manufacture; such tax to be paid by internal reyenue stamp or stamps to be purchased and pro- vided by the commission:r of internal rev- enue, and to be procured from the collector of internal revenue at or most convenient to the port of entry of said merchandise in the United States, and to be affixed under such regulations as ths commissioner of in- ternal revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treisury, shall prescribe; and on all articles of merchandise of United States manufacture coming into Porto Rico in addition to the du'y above provided upon payment of a tax eqial in rate and amount to the internal revenue tax imposed in Porto Rico upon the like articles uf Porto Rican manufacture. “Entered Free of Duty. “Provided, that on and after the date when this act shall teke effect all merchan- dise and articles, except coffee, not dutiable under the tariff laws of the United States, and all merchandise and articles entered into Porto Rico free of duty under orde heretofore made by the Secre: of War, shall be admitted into the several ports thereof, when imported from the United States, free of-duty, all laws or parts of laws to the contrary notwithstanding: and whenever the legislative assembly of Porto Rico shall have enacted and put Into opera- tion a system of local taxation to meet the necessities of the government of Porto Rico by this act established and shall by resotu- tion duly paseed so notify the President, he shall make proclamation thereof, and thereupon al] tariff duties on merchandise and articles going into Porto Rico from the United States or coming into the United States from Porto Rico shall cease, and from and after such date all such merchan- dise and articles shall be entered at the several ports of =ntry free of duty; and in no event shall any duties be collected after the Ist day of March, 1:02."" Disposal of Porto Rican Revenues. There is also a substitute for section 10, concerning the disposal of the Porto Rican revenues. It provid:s that “the duties and taxes collected in Porto Rico, less the cost of collecting, and the gross amount of all collections of duties and taxes in the United States upon articles of merchandise com- ing from Porto Rico, shall not be covered into the general fund of the treasury, but shall be held as a separate fund, and placed at the disposal of the President, to be used for the government and benefit of Porto Rico."" The Secretary of the Treasury is also to designate the several ports and subports of entry in Porto Rico and make such rules and regulations and appoint such agents as may be necessary to collect the duties and taxes. He is also to fix the compensation and provide for the payment of all such offi- cers as he may find it necessary to employ. The internal revenue laws are exempted from the provision that the laws of the United States shall have full force and ef- fect in Porto Rico. A Commissioner, But No Delegate. Instead of a delegate in Congress from Porto Rico is a “resident commissioner to the United States, who shall be entitled to official recognition as such by all depart- ments, upon presentation to the Depart- ment of State of a certificate of election by the governor of Porto Rico, and who shall be entitled to a salary, payable monthly by the United States, at the rate of $5,000 per annum.” : The only other change in the adminis- trative feature of the Dill is one requirii the approval of the President of the Unit States in the matter of Porto Rico tele- graph and telephone franchises. —_———__++____ To Recruit Navy in New York. In order to assist in recruiting the navy to its full authorized strength Secretary Long has ordered the establishment of a recruiting station in New York city. The new station will be located at a point on the lower river front, for the convenience of*men who work around the docks, sea- men, longshoremen and others, from which meterial the recruits are to be obtained. There is already a recruiting station at the navy yard in Brooklyn. The enlisted strength of the navy is now about 4,000 short, of which number 1,000 are of the apprentice class. LEWIS HARRIS LYNCHED. Negro Who Crimirally Assaulted Miss Mo- Iivajpe at Belair, Md. Sharp Fight Between Sheriff and the Mob, Two of Its Members Being Wounded. BELAIR, Md., March 27.—Lewis Harris, the negro who was arrested here day be- fore yesterday charged with a criminal as- sault upon Miss Anne McIlvaine, was taken from the jail last night and lynched after a brief struggle between the sheriff and the mob, in which two men were slightly wounded. It had been expected that an attempt would be made to hang Harris yesterday, when he was to have been brought up for a hearing, but this was postponed until today, and everything seemed so quiet last night that the suspicions of the sheriff were allayed, but he continued to keep a close watch. Shortly before midnight It was announced that a mob was on its way from Aberdeen, a neighboring village, and a general move- ment toward the jail took place. Pres- ently about twenty men appeared, some of whom were masked, and an attack upon the jail began. A fusillade of shots was exchanged between the sheriff and his dep- uties on the one hand, and the mob on the other, resulting in the wounding of Robert L. Bull of this place and one of the crowd from Aberdeen, whose name could not be learned. Bull was shot in the shoulder and the other man in the hand, neither wound being serious. The jail door was finally forced and Harris was taken out. While in the hands of the mob he exclaimed: “If I did it, men, I was drunk and didn’t knew what I was about. I have no recol- lection of it." The mob hustled him to a neighboring door yard in which stood a large poplar tree, and placing a noose around his neck, flung the other end of the rope over a limb. As he was hoisted from the ground, the limb upon which the unfortunate wretch was suspended snapped short and Harris fell to the ground. He was Mfted up again, moaning and groaning, and quickly hanged @ second time, this time effectively. Sev- eral shots were fired into the body, the loose end of the rope was tied to a gate Post and the corpse left hanging until this morning, when it was taken down. Miss Mcllvaine, Harris’ victim, is an un- married woman about fifty-four years of age, who lives alone near the railway station. She was called to her door at midnight Saturday, and attacked by a negro whom she afterward identified as Harris. The indignation aroused by the crime was more intense because of the fact that it is the second of the kind with- in_a month. Wm. Black, a negro, ts in the Baltimore jail, awai sault upon Miss Jes: woman residin place last nigh now confined i to have come. It fs asserted that Miss McIlvaine, Har- ris’ victim, was with the mob when the jal! was attacked last night, but this can- not be confirmed, end ft is certain that she Was not present at the actual hanging. ——~+-.___ MACRUM’S OFFICIAL MAM. MR. Voluntary Apology of Great Britain for Opening It Received. It is sald at the State Department, re- specting the story that Great Britain has apologized to this government for the ac tion of the censor in opening some lett addressed to the United States consul at Pretoria, that the United States govern- ment never made any demand upon the British government for an apology. Never having been acquainted by Mr. Macrum, who was consul at Pretoria when the mail was said to have been opened, with the plaints on that subject which he has laid before the public through other chan- nels, the State Department had nothing official before it to serv demand for an apology As stated before, however, the British government itself voluntarily took notice of Mr. Macrum’s complaint and finding that san incident to the transfer of a large quantity of mail from Durban (which w the place where our consular mail usually landed) to Cape Town, resulting in a frightful congestfon, and the handling of mail by new agents, there had been an s a basis for a | $454,000 for a portage railroad CALEB POWERS HELD Judge Moore Refuses to Allow Bail for the Accused. MOTION 10 DISMISS OVERRULED. Cases of Davis and Culton Taken Up This Afternoon. ARREST OF H. E. YOUTSEY FRANKFORT, Ky., March 27.—The fourth day of the examining trial of the republican secretary of state, Caleb Powers, began with the court room cleared of all persons excepting attorneys, newspaper representatives and officers of the court, When Judge Moore called for order at 10 o'clock the attorneys for the defense held a consultation and called County Attorney‘ Po'sgrove. Immediately after the consultation Gov+ ernor Brown, for the defense, announced that no testimony will be introduced for the defense, and they would waive further examination. The pardon issued to Powers by Governor Taylor was tendered by ex- Governor Brown as a bar to the prosecu- tion, and he asked that the defendant be dismissed. Col. Campbell said the common- wealth denied Governor Taylor's right to issue a pardon at the time the pardon waa granted. Governor Brown moved that the prisoner be dismissed upon the evidence. The motion was overruled. Bail was asked for, Judge Moore said: Judge Holds Powers to Grand Jary. “It is not my be'lef that Powers fired the shot which killed Governor Goebel, but from the evidence it is my opinion that he was connected with the conspiracy to kill him. I shall therefore order that he be held over without bail to the Franklin county grand jury that the case may be further investigated. After the Powers case had been dixposed of Judge Moore asked if the common- wealth was ready to take up one of the other cases, that of Capt. John Davis or Wm. H. Culton, who are charged with be- ing accessories to the assassination. County Attorney Polsgrove asked tiat both cases be postponed until 2 o'clock this afternoon, the gitorneys having agreed, and court ad- Journed until that hour. H. E. Youtsey Arrested. Detectives today arrested H. E. ¥ republican Auditor Sweeney's private sec- retary, as the man with the black mustache hom Golden mentioned in his testimony the man to whom John Powers gave the y to the office of Caleb Powers. Youtsey a haif brother of L. J. Crawford, a prom- inent republican of warrant charges him with the fact to th WORK OF COMMITTEES. Representatives of Various Interests Appesr at the Capitol. A delegation of prominent clergymen ap- peared before the House committee on ju- dictary today and were heard in advocacy of the Showalter anti-polygamy resolution. -gation were Dr. T. P. Stevenson phia, Dr. Fugh Johnston of Bal- ore; Dr. Kerr B. Tupper of Philadelphia, Dr. Joseph E. Smith of Baltimore, Dr. By: ron Sunderland of Washington and Dr. Syl- vester F. Scovel of Ohio Wesleyan Univer- sity. Representatives Cushman and J. ed before the House mittee and urged Idaho and on appear= river and harbor com- the appropriation of at The Dalles, Ore. The House committee on military affairs agreed to recommend the reappointment of the present board of the National Home for Disab!ed So! < s al greed to offer amendm bill, giving tr in lieu of th SH ers’ A indiscriminate opening of letters which had Ho aver of probably affected the consular mail with | a | in which c may others, Lord Pauncefote, speaking for his | be kept on trains wh) on the wa m the government, disavowed the action of the | ranges to the market censor, and declared that it was unau- Ty es of the few York cus- thorized in respect to Mr. Macrum’ . | toms inspectors were before the ways and This assurance was n long ago, and | means committee of the House in advocacy some, at least, of the members 0: the | of fixed compensation for these officials House committee of foreign affairs are fuily | in lieu of extra compensation for night ex- aware of it, so that if Mr. Macrum’s al- tion of bag legations as set out in the public print are he House committee on commerce to- sustained it will still be the c: accord- ¥ report the bil ing to the officials, that Great Britain has voluniarily, and without waiting for the production of evidences of culpability on the part of her agents, made such explana- tion and taken such action as the rules of international intercourse require. SALISBURY HAS NOT APOLOGIZED. Flat Denial in London of Report Cur- rent Over Here. LONDON, March he report, pub- Ushed in the United States, that Lord Salis- bury has apologized for the opening of American consular mail in South Africa is untrue. Nothing whatever has passed be- tween the two governments on this mat- ter, and the British premier has taken no action to investigate the allegations of Charles E. Macrum, former consul of the United States at Pretoria, nor has he been requested to do so. A printed fac simile of a letter to Mr. Macrum alleged to have been opened was given to Lord Salisbury by a representative of the Associated Press, of Mr. Sherman to prevent the fa brand- ing or marking of food and dairy products, with an amendment that the act shail net apply to the branding or labeling of wines or liquors. —_—__- + +_____ THE DANISH WEST INDE No Information of an Intention to Legt te for Their Sale. The State Department has not been ad- vised that the Danish government intends to introduce a bill at present in the Danish parliament providing for the sale to the United States of the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix. The opinion prevails here that If any such measure fs introduced at this stage it will be through the indepen- dent action of some person not directly connected with the government of Den- mark. The reason for this belief is found in the fact that the negotiations which have been in progress between the two govern- ments in rather indefinite fashion for some time past have not yet reached a stage but he made no | where legislative action would seem to be comment, nor did he direct that anything | neccesary. be done. ———_+--___ GOING TO NEW YORK. It is said that our government knows of ho interest superior to its own in connec- ulon with the transfer of title to these Dan- ish West India Islands, and even if some A Distinguished Party to Inspect the | °ther government has, through previous Sumner. A distinguished party of offictais of the| of negotiations, secured what it regarded as an option on the islands, the same would be no avail az against the pre-eminent ‘War Department will leave here tonight for | rights of the United States should our gov- New York for the double purpose of in- specting the army transport Sumner, which 1s to sail for the Philippines Thursday af- ternoon with a large detachment of re- cruits and to attend the military tourna- ment in progress at Madison Square Gar- ernment incline to the purchase of the fslands, and the Danish government be Willing to sell at all. —______+« +______ Death of Mrs. W. W. Rice. Mrs. W. W. Rice of Worcester. Mass., died this morning at the Richmond, where den Wednesday evening. The party will| she had been for several Weeks the guest consist of Secretary Root, Inspector Gen- of Senator and Mrs. Hoar. Mrs. Rice, who eral Breckinridge, Quartermaster General| was the sister of Mrs. Hoar, was in i Ludington, Weston, Surgeon General Sternberg and Paymaster General Bates. The army of- ficlals are to see that the Sumner fs in per- fect condition and completely equipped in every respect for her long voyage to Ma- nila, Their attendance at the military tournament will be merely incidental, and is due to a suggestion made by the Secre- tary of War, who will take a prominent part in the ceremonies Wednesday evening. ——— THE TAFT COMMISSION. Acting Commissary General | health when she came to Washington in January, and had since steadily declined. She was the widow of W. W. Rice, who in 1877 succeeded Mr. Hoar as the represen- tative of the Worcester district in Congress and who became a prominent and influen- tial member of the House during his ten years’ service. Mrs. Rice was the daughter of the late Henry Miller of Worcester, and had long been actively identified with char- itable work in that city. Funeral services will be held at the Rich- mond at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning, and will be conducted by the Rev. Dr. Edward Preliminary Meeting of the Members| Everett Hale. The remains will be taken Held Today. The new Philippine commission held a preliminary meeting today at the headquar- ters of the old commission on Vermont. to Worcester, made. where interment will +e = — Cavalry from Porto Rico. be avenue. Judge Taft, the president, called ‘The War Department is informed that the the body to order, and in a discussion, transport Kilpatrick is expected to arrive which lasted about three hours, the plans | 2t Newport News Thursday, with a battal- for the movements of the commission were | ion of the 5th Cavalry, from San Juan de pretty thoroughly canvassed. Soon after 1| Porto Rico, which is destined to Jefferson o'clock @ recess was taken for an hour. barracks, Bt. Louis, Mo.