Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 18, 1899, Page 2

gee ee t E E E i The Rerald--Review. uy E. Kiley. GRAND RAPIDS - MINNESOTA. The man who fights, and runs away may live to run another day. Treat your dog kindly and he will not desert you when your money is gone. McKinley says our relations to the Philippines is a trust. That is bad for our relations, By the way he starts out we infer that President Loubet intends to cure France of its crisis habit. It would have pleased Thomas Jef- ferson.mightily to know that Mr. Croker would approve of him. The suspicion is rapidly gaining ground that the Hon, Mr, Aguinaldo is carrying the joke a little too far. Dewey may not be homesick for his native land, but his native land is yearning for a glimpse of Dewey. A peculiarity of the Spanish people is that none of the boy babies born this year are being named Dewey. Speaker Reed was once in the navy. That was one time when he didn’t ob- struct anything more serious than a gangway. “Are tights doomed?” asked a theat- rical journal. Sometimes they are; it depends on the humor of the judge the next morning. France’s new president has the sym- pathy of every Thespian who ever as- sumed the role of Hamlet against the wishes of the populace. There is another humane thing in the French form of governnment. They don’t incarcerate a man in the vice presidency over there. If Whitelaw Reid’s suggestion of making the Pacific ocean an American lake is considered at all, it will have to be taken with a good deal of salt. A mother may realize that her baby says and does things similar to other babies, but she also realizes that her baby says and does them so much bet- ter. Mr. Cleveland sees no cure for the policy of expansion once it has been adopted. He has tried all the rem- edies himself, banting included, but none of ‘em work. Shall the country boy continue to deplore his lack of chance? <A reporter has recently ascertained that 70 per cent of the cleverest men of the Chi- cago exchange were brought up on farms. While mere circumstance of birth may sométimes make or mar suc- cess in life, it is doubtless true that the all-round education of the farm is one of the best foundations for special- ization in any future career. Great Britain has been the leading commercial nation of the world. The United States has become her rival in the matter of accumulating dollarg and cents. With rare good sense the Brit- ish people see the handwriting upon the wall and have set about the task of becoming our mentors. Since she cannot control or monopolize the trade of the world she proposes to pull the strings so as to handle the one who does, Trusts will receive the chief at- tention of the New Jersey legis- lature. The bill to prohibit and punish monopolies is probably the most reasonable measure ever aimed at trusts, which it clearly defines. The punishments prescribed are fines of from $50 to $5,000 and imprisonment of from six months to a year, or both. Each day’s connection, however re- mote, with the proscribed monopolies 7. = is .v be considered a separate offense and separately punished. The passage of a reasonable anti-monopoly bill would be more surprising in New Jer- sey that anywhere eise, for that state has for a number of years been the breeding ground of trusts. Why is the conflict through which we have just passed known as the Spanish-American war instead of the American-Spanish? Is there anything more than euphony in the order of these: names? A current writer as- serts that there is a meaning, and that in the names of nearly all wars the de- feated nation comes first, as the Fran- co-Prussian, the Austro-Italian, and more recently the China-Japanese and the Graeco-Turkish wars. Oftentimes wars are named from the point of view of the people who do the writing of their history, as the Trojan war, the Punie war, the Indian war (British) and our own Mexican war. Fortunate will be the man who writes the name of the world’s last war. A force of fifteen hundred men marching in war array represents pow- er, discipline, stirs the imagination and gratifies the taste for display. Music and banners add their magic to rouse the emotions. But was not that a more striking exhibition of discip- line, when fifteen hundred school chil-' dren marched out of a burning build- ing in New York when the “rapid dis- missal” signal rang? In silent obe- dience, smoke showing that.a deadly enemy was upon them, the miniature army moved on its appointed way. A wictory of peace won by childhood, i I ec a eee THE NEWS RESUME EVENTS OF THE Past “WEEK IN A * CONDENSED FrorRM. A General Resume of the Most Im- portant News of the Week From All Parts of the Globe, Boiled Down and Arranged venient Form for Rapid Perasal By Busy People. Accidental Happenings. The freight steamer Selkirk was gut- ted by fire at Nanaimo, B. C. She car- ried a cargo of hay, longs and cattle. Fire destroyed the Hungarian elevat- ors at Denver, and rendered nearly valueless 360,000 bushels of wheat. A naval powder magazine exploded near Toulon, France, killing all the soldiers on duty there and a number of other people. ‘Nhe Buttery whirlpool rapids elevat- or, a Niagara landmark, was torn from its fastenings during a recent hurricane and hurled into the gorge. It fell on the waiting room of the torge road, crushing it to the ground. Several people in the building had nar- row escapes. The elevaitor was built in 1869. Foreign Notes. Spain, according to a report. has sold ands to Germany. Great Britain repeats that she will defend China against the aggressions of other powers. The Argentine training ship, with President Sarmiento, has arrived at Valparaiso, where great festivities have been prepared in his honor. The British steamship, St. Regulus, from Liverpool, Feb. 9, has arrived at Brunswick, Ga., several days overdue, after a perilous voyage. President Alfaro of Ecuador has is- sued a proclamation granting amnesty to rebels who shall lay down their arms within thirty days. Those not complying will be regarded as outlaws. The Madrid correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle says that Don Carlos, the pretender, has forbid- den the Carlists to take part in the forthcoming election to the new cortes. ‘The court of appeals at London has upheld the decision of the lower court ordering the Peter Schoenhofen brew- ery to pay income tax on the entire profits of the business in Chicago, and , not merely on the portion remitted to | . Pr a ce " | Chattanooga, Tenn., but half a dozen England. Washington Talk. Gen. Wood makes an appeal in be- half of the starving people in Cuba. Cubans impose upon Americans in the matter of food supplies. The muster-out movement of volun- teers in Cuba has begun, Gen. Wood denies that there is any trouble at Santiago. Census Director Merriam pointed st ants. The astounding discovery is made that just one-half of the Cuban army of 50,000 are officers. The attitude of the United States re- garding the dismemberment of China will be one of “disinterested neutral- ity. ‘The gorvernment steamer Aberdeen has ap- eral of his leading assist- has arrived at Halifax from Sable isl- | and, bringing the crew of the wrecked steamer Moravia. Very few applications have been filed for grants, franchises or conces- sions for the construction of public works in Cuba and Porto Rico. ‘There is good reason to believe that the president will offer the position of librarian of congress to Herbert Put- nam of Boston. President McKinley decides not to organize a provisional army of, 35,000 men, the army bill authorizes him to do. The chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy at Savannah, Ga., which is the original chapter of the organiza- tion, has adopted resolutions strongly protesting against President McKin- ley’s suggestion respecting the federal care of Confederate graves. Otherwise. A coal combine is planned, 880,000,000 capital. Serious floods occur along the Ohio river, Americans who were in the Nicara- gua revolution return home. The American Steel and Wire com- pany buys Mesaba iron mines. Gen. Otis decides upon aggressive op- erations against the Filipinos. ‘The Federal Steel company and the lake shipbuilding interests may com- ine. Arthur W. Pinero’s new play, “The Gay Lord Quex,” is nearly ready for production by John Hare at the Globe theater, London. The Union Casualty and Surety com- pany of St. Louis has been sold for $300,000, but the identity of the pur- chasers has not been made public. Four hundred New York city Method- ist ministers applaud a paper read by one of their number, denying the infai libility of the Bible. Winston Bros. of Minneapolis have a contract for grading between Omaha and Tama, Iowa, for a double track on the Chicago and Northwestern road. Mayor Quincy of Boston has given directions to the superintendent of public grounds to begin the work of exterminating the English sparrows, It is stated that the Britton tin plate mill at Cleveland, Ohio, owned by the tin plate trust, will be permanently closed. It has been found that nearly all wall paper at present contains arseni- cal poisons, some of them in surpris- ing quantities, At the office of the Federal Steel company it was denied that any pur- pose to absorb the Chicago Shipbuild- ing company, which has its yards on the Calumet river, as was asserted in a dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio. with in Con-, Caroline, Marianna and Pelew isl- |, { port of Boston, has resigned his posi- Aniericans will establish banks at Manila and Honolulu. It is likely that Eddy Santry will meet “Young” Pluto at Springfield dur- ing the first week im April. “Mexican Pete” of Cripple Creek and his manager, Thomas Osborne, are in Chicago, and are looking for engage- ments. Pete wants especially to meet Frank Childs. Citizens of Fort Wrangel, Alaska, are said to be drawing up a petition asking the high joint commission to cede their town to Canada. This is one of the oldest settlements in Alas- ka. Workmen at Detroit, engaged in cleaning out the cellar of the building on Jefferson avenue occupied by the Norris Collar company, found, in an unused portion of the cellar a safe which belonged to George J. Hiller, who was killed in the boiler explosion in the Journal building, Nov. 5. 1895. Criminal Record. Spaniards are persecuted and mur- dered by Cubans. Mrs. Cody was convicted of trying to blackmail George and Helen Gould. The Wilkesbarre (Pa.) postmaster was arrested, charged with tampering with the mails. Harry Hutchinson, ‘aged eighteen years, has been arrested, charged with wrecking express train No. 3, Cincin- nati Southern railway. An unsuccessful attempt was made by an organized gang to hold up and rob Neel, a small town in McDonald county, Missouri. Ofticers of the Montana Ore Pur- chasing company were fined for con- tempt of court—an indictment growing out of the Boston & Montana trouble. The Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railway Train- men are endeavoring to obtain a modi- fication of their contract with the Cot- ton Belt road. The United States grand jury at New York has returned an indictment against James McNaughton, formerly president of the Tradesman’s Nation- al Bank, for violating the banking laws. The $200,000 worth of deeds, bonds and negotiable papers found in an al- ley in Chicago, had been stolen from the waiting room in the Dearborn sta- tion. J. R. Sigafus was the owner. There is a strong belief among farm- ers around Poseyville, Ind., that Ste- phen Glawser did not kill his wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Kinch- loeb, and then commit suicide, but that the three were murdered. No one will die as a result of the ri- oting in which the men of the Highth immune (colored) regiment engaged at people injured will be laid up for sev- eral months. A conspiracy among the convicts in the state prison at St. Quentin, Cal., to murder their guards and effect a wholesale delivery of prisoners, was reveuled to Warden Hale through the faint-heartedness of one of the con- spirators. Personal. Austin Bidwell, the Bank of Eng- land forger, died at Butte, Mont. Goy. Barnes of Oklahoma has ve- toed the statehood bill. D. Dewitt Talmage has resigned his Washington pastorate to devote all his time to religious journalism. M. L. Hayward has been elected United States senator by the Nebras- ka legislature. It is rumored that Quay will with- draw from the Pennsylvania -senatori- al contest. Admiral von Knorr, commander-in- chief of the German navy, has been placed on the retired list. The Republican city convention of Chicago has nominated Zina R. Carter for mayor. Mr. Carter is a member of the drainage canal board. Congressman Sulzer of New York is confident that he will succeed Bailey as Democratic leader in the house and will be nominated for vice president. George H. Lyman, collector of the tion on the Republican national com- mittee of Massachusetts. Another report comes from Rome to the effect that Archbishop Ireland is to be made a cardinal. He states his position on “Heckerism.” Michael’ Angelo Wolff, an artist, whose portraits of little waifs had brought him note, died at the home of his sister in Brooklyn, of heart disease. Vice Chancellor Pitney of Jersey City has appointed Walter L. McDer- mott, son of State Senator McDer- mott, receiver for the American Gro- cery company. Wilson H. Day of Cleveland is to be the general manager of the Chautau- qua association. The appointment was made some time ago, informally, and was confirmed at the meeting of the trustees held in Cleveland. Chief Naval Constructor Hichborn, the designer of the battleship Wiscon- sin, became a rear-admiral, by virtue of the provision of the naval personnel bill relating to the bureau officers in the navy department. Gen. Reyes, the Nicaraguan officer who headed the recent revolution at Bluefields, and who succeeded in es- caping from that place, is still at Bo- cas del Toro. Nothing is known as to his future movements, A Poser. “Papa,” said Tommy Treadway. “Now, Tommy,” replied Mr. Tread- way, “I shall answer only one question to-day. So be careful what you ask.” “Yes, papa.” “Well, go on.” “Why don’t they bury. the Dead! Sea?’—Household Words . He = aaa ea ate . Foor for the “Devil.” t A certain kind of fire grate used in’ some sailway engine sheds is some- times called a “devil.” At the headquarters of one railway company a telegram was received from an out station which read: “My letter yesterday; send‘devil’ next train.” ; The “devil” was dispatched, and soon ; after its arrival another telegram was received saying: “‘Devil’ arrived. Send coal to feed } it."—Jewelers’ Weekly. COST OF THE WAR WITH SPAIN ALCOUNT CHARGED UP WITH $482,- 562,083. Chairman Cannon, of the Appropri- ations Committee, Makes a State- ment of the Appropriations Made by the Fifty-Fifth Congress— Places the Total for the Entire Congress at $1,566,990,016 — Ap- propriations Authorized for Fu- ture Congresses Under -:e Con- tinuing Contract System, $70,- 000,000—Increase Over Last Con- gress. Washington, March — Availing himself of the privilege accorded by the house of representatives previous to adjournment, Chairman Cannon, of the committee on appropriations, has prepared for the Congressional Record a more extended statement of the ap- propriations made by the Fifty-iifth congress than he made the day after adjournment. He places the total ap- propriations for the entire congress at $1,566,890,016, and the appropriations authorized for future congresses under the continuing contract system for battleships, river and harbor improve- ments and public buildings at $70,000,- 000. The total appropriations made at the last session Mr. Cannon places at $673,658,400, showing an apparent re- duction of $219,573,214 below the ap- propriations of the preceding session. Mr. Cannon attributes this reduction to the extraordinary war expenses of the “preceding session. Of the total appropriations for the congress he says that the sum of $482,562,088 is directly chargeable to the war with Spain. He thus shows that the ordi- nary expenditures for the two years covered by the congress were $1,044,- 580,273, and this suni exceeds the total appropriations of the Fifty-fourth con gress by $39,746,658. This excess is acceunted for as follows: For payment of pensions, $3,875,200; for the postal service, to meet in- creased demands of commerce, $16,- 619,581; for river and harbor improve- ments, $3,401,128; for constructing new ships, $6,080,888; for beginning the work of the twelfth census, $1, 000,000; for the Paris exposition, $1,- 210,000; for new publi¢ buildings, $5,- 000,000; for payment of judgments against the government under the Bowman act, and for the French spoli- ation claims, $3,100,768. Total, $40,- 287,516.. Mr.’ Cannon congratulates congress and the country upon this showing and also upon the fact that, notwithstanding the war, close atten- tion was given to the ordinary ex- penditures of the government, which is, he thinks, unusual. ADMIRAL KAUTZ’S MISSION. He Goes to Samoa to Fulfill a Treaty Obligation. Washington, March 12.—It is denied positively at the state department that Rear Admiral Kautz has gone to Sa moa on the Philadelphia to restore the status quo existing before the last emute, to depose Mataafa and restore Malietoa Tanus even if foree is neces- sary to accomplish these objects. It is said that the admiral has gone to Sa- moa to meet the treaty obligations that is imposed upon the United States to send a warship there at least oc- easionally as an evidence of the inter- est held by the United States in the islands. While there he will make a careful examination of the conditions on the islands and look into the events leading up to the restoration of the provisional government, reporting all the facts to Washington. It is not ex- pected that he wiil be a disturbing ele- ment and endeavor to make arbitrary changes, but only prevent bloodshed aud protect life and property. SEE HOW IT’S DONE. Court of Inquiry Inspects Packing Houses at Chicago. Chicago, March ‘The court of in- quiry resumed its work regarding beef yesterday by continuing the investiga- tion of processes of preparation at the stockyards. Several more of the pack- ing houses were inspected, most of the time being spent in examining the methods of one of the companies which deals exclusively in canned goods. The various stages from the Killing of beef to the labelling of the can were witnessed. After seeing 4n animal killed the court followed the carcas to the refrigerator rooms and from there to the department where the meat was cut into the proper size for canning. Much information was obtained as to the character of the meat used for canning purposes. Gen. Devis was the vhiet inquisitor, the oth- er members of tne court heing content to simply watch the various processes. SOLDIER STABBED. Tragedy Enacted on a Train Con- veying Kansas Volunteers. Kansas City, March 12.—The Twen- ty-third Kansas volunteers, en route to Fort Leavenworth, Kan., from Santiago, passed through here. When a short distance out from St. Louis a soldier named Williams was stabbed to death by a comrade named Ray. . Williams. who was known as the “Bully of the Regiment,” had stirredé up considerable trouble, finally assaulting Ray. Ray drew a knife and struck Williams in the breast, killing him instantly. Ray is under arrest. Record-Breaking Justice. Philadelphia, March 12. — John P. Evans, who was arrested while in the act of robbing a dwelling was rail- roaded through court and sentenced to six years within twenty-four hours of the time of his arrest. Steamer: Ashore. Nassau, N. P., March 12.—The Brit- ish steamer Collegian, Capt. Owe, New Orleans for Liverpool, is ash on the Riding rocks. An underwriters agent has left here to assist the distressed vessel. THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations Frone Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, March 12. — Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 681-4@6Y¥c; No. 2 North- orn, 66 1-2@67 1-2c. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 311-4 @ 321-4¢; GOats—No. 3 white, 29 @ 291-2¢; No. 8, 28 3-4@29 1-4e, Barley and Rye — Sample barley, 37@43c; No. 2 rye, 53 @d4e; No. 3 rye, 51@52¢. Duluth, March 12. — Wheat—Cash, No. 1 hard, 693-4c; | No. 1 Northern, 67 3-4e; No. 2 Northern, 64 1-4¢; No. 3 spring, 601-2c; to arrive, No. 1 hard, 70c; No. 1 Northern, 68¢: March, No. 1 hard, 691-2c; No. 1 Northern, 67 1-2¢; May, No. 1 hard, 711-2¢: No. 1 North- ern, 69 1-2¢; Ju ‘0. 1 hard, 72¢; No. 1 Northern, 70c; oats, 28 1-4¢; 53 3-4c; barley, 40@46ce. Minneapolis, March 12. - Wheat. — opened at closed at 68 1-4¢; July 3-4¢ and closed at 69 1-4c. o. 1 hard, 68 1- No. 1 March closed at 6Sc; Ma 691-Se and Northern, 65 1-2e. Milwaukee, Wis. steady. Wheat lowe a orthern, 701-2c; No. 2 Northern, 68 1-2c. Oats steady at 28@30c. Rye steady; } % 57e. Barley lower; No. 2, 491+ sample, 48@49 1-2c. Chicago, March 12. — Wheat—No, 2 red, 70 1-2@711-2c: No. 2 hard, 65@ @64 1-2c; No. 1 North- erm spr ng, 69@71e; No. 2, 67@69e 3, 68@67c. Corn—N No. 3, 1-4 @ ~ Hogs — Light, ; mixed, ; heavy, 90; rough. Cattle 8, $3.50@5.60 nd heifers, Texas stee $4.1545.6i stockers and _ feeder $38.4004. Sheep — Natives, $3.30@4.75; lambs, $4.30@ ; Sioux City, Iowa, March 12.—Ilogs— $3.50@3.65. Cattle—Beeves, $4@5.10; cows, bulls and mixed, 74; stockers and feeders, $3.50@4.4! calves and yearlings, $3.50@4.90. South St. ul, March 1 $3.60. Cattle steers, $4.10@4 4.60; heifers, $ 3.30. Sheep, $2 WANT TO STAY AND FIGHT. Gen. Otis Says the Volunteers Are Not Anxious to Return. Washington, March 12.—One of the paragraphs of the army reorganization act contains authority for the re-en- listment of the volunteer troops now in the Philippines. It was stipulated that these troops should be so re-en- listed only for a period of time neces- sary to replace them by regular troops, in no case longer than six months. The question has been presented to the war department whether or not it was able under this provision to itself of the services of the officer the volunteer regiments as well as of the enlisted men until the t ps can be replaced by regulars. The law of- ticers of the department have con- cluded that the word “enlist” em- ployed in the act was used in a broad sense, and that, therefore, the presi- dent h 1uthority to take over all the volunteer regiments now at nila and other points in the Philippines into the service of the United States in or- ganizations with their full comple- ments of officers and men. It had rep- resented that the volunteers there are longing to return to the United States and to private life. The of- ficials say that this is a mistake. Gen, Otis has reported that the volunteers, as well as the regulars, do not want to come home, but are anxious to fight and “crush the insurgents.” Nearly every company has suffered through the wounding of some of its members at the hands of the sharpshooters, and they are,an. us to make the account even. HEALTH OF THIF Death Reported of Edward Sutton of Minneapol St. Paul, March 12.—Ed Con.pany I, Thirteenth } dead of smallpox in Manila, Gov. nd having notice by cable from Col. Ames. He enlisted from Minneapolis, and had relatives in Green Bay, Wis., and was unmarried. The regimental return to Adjt. Gen. Lambert for Jan, 31 showed 115 men in the hospital out of 1,185 enlisted men. Five had been discharged for disabilities since the last. report. rd Sutton, innesota, is TOO OLD TO MARRY. But They Decided to Do It—Divorce and Suicide Followed. Lebanon, Ind., March 12.—A tragic ending of a matrimonial venture be- tween two old people who met through a matrimonial agency, has been made by Edwgrd Wannick. Wannick’s wife beg: proceedings for divorce and he broke up her furniture, then shot himself and finally hanged him- self to a tree. .Wannick came from Flagstaff, Ariz., Yast August to marry his wife, then a widow. STATE SOVEREIGNTY. Tuley Puts Himself Against the War Tax. Chicago, March 12.—Judge Tuley, in the circuit court, issued a mandamus to compel the city authorities to issue a saloonkeeper’s lcense although no 50-cent war tax stamp was attached to the bond. Judge Tuley declared the tax in this instance an unwarrantable interference gvith the city and state governments, infringing the principle of state sovereignty. Jadge Up Leap of a Madman. Malaga, Spain, March 12.—-A mad- man leaped yesterday from the high- est tower of the cathedral, a distance of 260 feet, and was dashed into an unrecognizable mass. A large crowd witnessed the leap. . Set Back for Senator Jones. Washington, March 12.—Senator J. K Jones of Arkansas, who has been | ill for some time. suffered another set- | back yesterday. The physicians, how- ever succeeded in relieving their pa- tient and he is reported to be better. Two Hundred Killed, London, March 12.—According to a ' dispatch to the Times from Sidney, /N S. W., no fewer than 200 persons perished in the hurricane that has just swept the northern coast of Queens- j land. ~DISINTERESTED No. 3, 31 @ 82e. NEUTRALITY Se POSITION OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE EASTERN QUESTION. Reply fo the Italian Government’ Invitation for an Expression 2% to This Government's Attitude— Report That Italy Had Asked and Been Refused the Support of the United States Is Entirely Erro- neous—Circamstances of the Ne- gotiations Explained by an Emi- nent Authority — Italy Satisfied With Our Answer. , Washington, March 11.—The Italian government, through its representa- tive in Washington, lately laid before the authorities here its purpose to ask of China a port on San Mun bay, and invited an expression from this £0V- ernment as to its attitude. In Te- sponse it is understood that Secretary Hay, as well as the president, made it clear that the United States would pursue the same course as toward the Russian, British and German occupa- tion of Chinese ports, namely, disin- terested neutrality. The exchanges have been verbal and rather informal, more in the nature of diplomatic soundings than direct propositions. They have given occasion to erroneous publications to the effect that Italy had asked the United States to sup- port her demands on China, and that this government, in a pointed note from Secretary Hay, had refused. It is stated in an eminent and authori- tative quarter that Italy made no such request for American support, an@ that there was no.declination from this government. The circumstances of the negotiation as explained in this authoritative quarter are as follows: When Italy determined to seek a port on the Chinese coast she ad- dressed those powers having large in- terests in China, notifying them of her purpose. Owing to the good will be- tween Italy and this country, as well as the American Interests in China, a notification was presented to the state department here. While Italy is said to have had no desire through this notification to enlist the support of the United States, she was desirous of pursuing the usual diplo- matic course when a move of this character is contemplated, namely, Jearn whether the United States would be either. first, favorable; second, dis- interested; third, opposed. In hort, before’ proceeding, Italy desired to know what attitude the United States would take as to the Italian demand on China. The reply of Secretary Hay, which is said to have been verbal, was in response to this notifi- cation and soundings from the Italian authorities. In this reply the presi- dent is said to have given his personal concurrence. In substance it was an announcement that the United States would in no way change its attitude as maintained thus far when Great Britain, Germany and Russia made advances toward China, but would continue to observe a position of dis- interestedness. Instead of being a de- nial of any request the reply was ac- cepted by the Italian government as “entirely satisfactory andsas placing it in the same position as other Euro- pean powers who had sought ports in, China. This, it is said, brings the ne- gotiations at Washington to a close in a manner entirely satisfactory to the Italian authorities. The reported ac- tion of Italy since then in making its demand on China and following it up with threats of demonstration have not been officially communicated here. DETECTED IN CRIME. Postmaster Bogart of Wilkesbarre Arrested While in His Office. Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 11. — Ed- ward F. Bogart, postmaster of Wilkes- barre, was arrested, charged with tampering with the United States mails. About two months ago several complaints were lodged with. the postal authorities at Washington that mail was disappearing, or that which was received bore evidence of having been opened by a steaming process. The postal authorities subsequently detailed two secret service men on the “case, under orders of Inspector Gor- man. Their investigations culminated; in the arrest of Mr. Bogart,whom they caught in the act of rifling letters. CHINA IS SORRY. Expresses Regret Through the Min- ister at Rome. London, March 11.—The Peking cor- respondent of the Standard says: The esung li yamun has notified Sig. Mar- tino, the Italian minister, that his dis- patch asking for a concession at San Mun bay was returned to him because it was impossible to comply with the request and because a refusal might have endangered the relations between Italy and China, but it was added that asthe matter had been misunderstoo® the Chinese minister in Rome had been instructed to express the tsung li yamun’s regret. Entombed in a Mine. Leadville, Colo., March 11.—A cave- in in the flooded shaft of the Bonaire mine entombed Charles Reuss and Burt Frye, miners, in a drift 400 fee below the surface. The men have signalled that they are alive by rap- ping on the steam pipe and it is: thought they will be rescued. Triumph for the Government. , Washington, March 11.—Senor An- drade, the Venezuelan minister here, called at the state department. Re- ports from his government res: ecting the revolution indicates, he ys, tri- umph for government forces. The Peace Conference. The Hague, March 11. — The peace conference, otherwite the congress called by the czar to diseuss the possi- bility of taking steps toward a general bdaeampigt will meet here on May