Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 8, 1899, Page 2

The Merai.- Review. — poetics Aer By E, Kiley. MINNESOTA. GRAND | RAPI DS - If seeing is believing,the wide-awake man ought to be more credulous. URES as Sa The only way to convince a girl that men are not angels is to let her marry one, A competent judge of music says some vocalists ought to get life sen- tences. The poet who writes poor verses is apt to accuse the editor of having poor judgment. Some men are silent because of their wisdom and some because of their ignorance. Lots of men who never think of making wives of their cooks make cooks of their wives. John Kendrick Bangs says women have no sense of humor. Did one of them say Bangs is funny? The Filipinos seem to understand thoroughly that he who does not fight but runs away may live to fight an- other day. An Ohio girl recently took the goid cure for love. She broke her engage- ment with a poor young man and mar- ried a wealthy old one. It is said that Gorman is already a candidate for the senatorship which Maryland will be called up to fill two years hence. The early candidate gen- erally catches fits. Vast changes are being wrought in the world’s way of doing things. France hasn’t had a crisis and Aguin- aldo hasn’t issued a proclamation dur- ing the past week or more. The signs of increasing good feeling between the north and south multiply. Witness an inquiry from a southern farmer, addressed to a newspaper of that section as follows: “Will the Bos- ton or Yankee bean grow here?” Sheikh Mahomet Suleiman, one ot the foremost native magnates of Egypt, declares that 80 per cent of his countrymen are not only content with British rule, but are earnestly desirous that it shall be maintained, and he adds that if it were withdrawn the country would within a short time re- lapse into barbarism. Protectorates have a justification when such testi- mony can be given. A society in Edinburgh gives its at- tention to cabs that stand idle on fine days, and by engaging them provides free rides for poor old people and in- valids. This is thoughtful and very exemplary, but it is not at all nec- essary to organize a society for such a commendable purpose. If you chance to know a poor invalid or a convales- cent, and have the spare coin in your pocket, as well as the generous im- pulse in your heart, you needn’t call a public meeting—just call the cabman. The constitution of the United States declares that the vice president shall be president of the senate, but shall have no vote, unless there is an equal di on of its numbers upon any meas- ure brought before it for decision. Such a deciding vote is comparatively rare. The breaking of a tie, as was recently done by Vice President Hobart, shows that the supposition that the office is unimportant, save in the contingency where the incumbent is called upon to succeed to the presidency, is entirely superficial. It is quite within the pos- sibilities that an issue of the gravest moment my be determined against the judgment of half the senate by the vote of a person not a member and personally obnoxious, and yet the un- welcome deteat would come by a pro- cess indisputably constitutional, It is never wise to regard any provision of the constitution as a political trifle. Consul General Du Bois, stationed at St. Gall, reports that the Swiss press contains frequent and intelligent arti- cles concerning the public school sys- tem of the United States, our colleges and universities, our hospitals, our asylums for the insane, blind, deaf and dumb, and for those dependent upon public and private charity for support. To these institutions are given the highest praise. Recently much has been written about our public libraries. In a late number of the Lusanne Bibliotheque Universelle et Revue Suisse an article was published by Mr. Albert Schintz on libraries of the United States. He described the as- tonishing increase of public libraries in our country, and says that not only does the United States publicly and privately contribute five times as much annually for public library purposes as any other nation in the world, but it spends nearly as much annually for educational purposes as do England, France and Germany combined. More thar twenty years ago Gam- betta, speaking of the increase of ar- maments in continental countries, said, “If this goes on, Europe will be re- duced to begging at the doors of the barracks.” And tsar and kaiser now begin to think his words were true. Admiral Schley has another advan- tage over Admiral Sampson when it comes to banquet oratory. Admiral Sampson can’t talk of the destruction of Cervera’s fleet without having to depend somewhat on hearsay for his facts PITH DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. & Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week Culled From the Tel- egraph Reports — The Notable Events at Home and Abroad That Have Attracted Attention. Causalities. The little town of Liberty, in Dekalb county, Tennessee, is almost wiped off the map. Damage to property in the path of the recent storm is enormous, put no fatalities are reported. Three men were wounded at New York by the accidental discharge of 4 Krag-Jorgensen rifle in the hands of Herman Lausen, a private of the Twelfth regiment. ‘The Badger block, a five-story build- ing on Wareham street, in the heart of the wood-planing district of the South end, Boston, was gutted by fire. Loss, $75,000. Kitty Wanniemacher, aged fifteen, was fatally wounded at San Francisco by her foster brother, Joseph Miller, aged nineteen, while the young man was playing that he was a highway- man. Dr. Charles Corey shot and killed his wife at Tacoma, Wash, while the two were lying asleep. Corey was ill, and his story of the affair is that he was laboring under a nightmare, believing his wife was pursued by aistranger in- tent on killing her. He is nearly crazy with grief. Friends are watching him to prevent his suicide. The steamer Tacoma, from Japan for Tacoma, reports that when on her way from Kobe to Yokohama, she was caught in the big earthquake of March 7. So severe was the shoek that two ofticers were thrown off their feet. ‘The full extent of the damage done by the shock had not been learned when the steamer left Japan. At Osakika sever- al mills were razed to the ground. From Washington. Recruiting for the regular army is progressing most satisfactorily, the en- listed strength being over 62,000. Congressman Stevens expects to se- cure an appropriation for the improve- ment of Fort Snelling. The modus vivendl regarding Alaska, as proposed by the United States, has been referred to the British naval au- thorities and to the British foreign of- fice. Plans are afoot to reorganize the National Red Cross society to greatly increase its scope. The proposed plan contemplates the erection of a build- ing at Washington. Commander J. M. Forsyth has been assigned to the command of the Bal- timore, now on the Manila station, vice Capt. Dyer, who has been in- valided home. Adjt. Gen. Corbin says the conduct of the volunteers at Manila has en~ deared them to the regulars and that to muster them out before the end of the campaign would incite a riot. Commissioner Hermann, of the gen- eral land office, has recommended to the secretary of the interior the re- moval of the local land office now at Weare, Alaska, to Rampart City, six- ty miles further up the Yukon. The treasury department has pre- pared and will soon promulgate the uew rules for the inspection of tea made necessary by the “pure food” law. W. S. Ward of Denver has been ap- pointed first assistant in the United States department of mining and met- allurgy at the Paris exposition, of which F. J. V. Skiff is the head. Capt. Charles P. Elliott, a retired army officer, on his own application, has been ordered to report to Capt. Edwin F. Glenn, Twenty-fifth in- fantry, and proceed with him to Alaska for duty on the Cook's Inlet exploring expedition in the capacity of godetie surveyor and such other duty as Capt. Glenn may assign him. Personal. + Rudyard Kipling’s fatuer comes from England to visit his son. Gen. Flagler, chief of ordnance of the United States army, is dead. “Coin” .Harvey resigns as manager of the ways and means committee of the Democratic national committee. Addison C. Harris, the new United States ambassador to Austro-Hungary, has arrived at Vienna. Mr. Balfour predicts that general ar- bitration will be adopted by America and Great Britain. George Bidwell, one of the Bank of England forgers, dies at Butte, Mont., where his brother, Austin, died, three weeks ago. Ex-Gov. Francis H. Pierpont of West Virginia, one of the last of the war goy- ernors, was taken suddenly ill at the home of his son-in-law in Pittsburg, and is sinking rapidly. Sir William McDonald, the million aire tobacco manufacturer of Montreal, has made another munificent donation, said to be $300,000, to the McGill uni- versity. The San Francisco Call states that Peter E. Studebaker, son of the famous wagon manufacturer, who is in that city, has written a romantic drama en- titled “Sword and Scepter.” Archbishop Corrigan, says the Rome ecrrespondent of the London ‘Times, has written to the pope a letter thank- ing him for his encyclical on “Ameri- canism,” Edward F. Rogers, the originator of the Rogers grape and a successful hybridizer of grapes and pears, died at his home at Peabody, Mass., aged seventy-two years. Ex-Senator David B. Hill does not expect to attend the Democratie club dinner in New York on the evening of Jefferson's birthday, having declined the invitation, ‘The board of visitors of the Univers. ity of Virginia has elected Prof, CG, A. Graves, of the Washington «and Lee University Law School, to succeed the late Prof. Dabney, of the University Law school. ~ OF TH THE NEWS es London gongee annoeacer that the marquis of Salisbury has approved the draft of the convention dealing with the British and Russian spheres of influence in China, and that the con- vention awaits signature. uhe sealing steamers Leopard, with 2,000 seals; Vanguard, with 25,000 seals, and Neptune, with 32,000 seals, arrived at St. Johns, N. F. They re- port that the remaining ten vessels of the Northern fleet are almost loaded with walrus, and will probably secure | a full cargo. The tobacco manufacturers of Eng- land are evidently convinced that the ehancellor of the exchequer, Sir Mi- chael Hicks-Beach, intends to meet the deficit by increasing the duty on tobac- co. At Liverpool, the center of the trade, last week’s delivery of unmanu- factured tobacco from bond totalled 1,391,807 pounds, this transaction con- stituting a record. Criminal Record. A gang of murderers and train rob- bers in Kansas is broken up by a con- vict’s confession. A Union-Republican member of the Delaware legislature is arrested, on a charge of having offered bribes. James W. Cole, who shot and killed his sweetheart, Sophronia Ford, last December, through rage and jealousy, expiated his crime on the scaffold at Bismarck, N. D. Joseph Wright, colored, was hanged in the jail yard at Chestertown, Md. Wright shot William Newcomb, an aged colored man, on the night of Nov. 5, 1897, killing him almost instantly. It is probable that the bandits re- cently arrested in the San Lula district of Santiago de Cuba, will be sent to El Morro and set at work to earn their own rations for a time. Various re- pairs are needed there. Frank Kinahan, an dibstrician’ was killed in a street duel in Chicago with two unknown men. Over twenty shots were exchanged. Finahan, before dy- ing, acknowledged that he knew his as- sailauts, but refused to divulge their ! names or the motive for the assault. Kirahan formerly lived in Kansas City. Standing in the presence of his fam- ily at Lansing, Mich., Charles G. Lau 7un swallowed a fatal dose of carbol- ie acid, after saying “Good-bye to ev- ery’ body.’ ’ One year ago Luzman’s son was murdered, the head being beaten with a gas pipe. fhe mystery sur- rounding the murder has never been solved, and the father’s action is at- tributed to this fact. General. Immense damage was done in Texas by the freeze of last week. Wages on the New England railroads are materially advanced. The interstate commerce commission has rendered a decision on export rates. The Sealers Leopard, Vanguard and Neptune have arrived at St. Johns, N. F., with 69,600 seals. Isaac Sheppard & Co., iron founders, Philadelphia, have. granted their em- ployes an increase of 14 per cent in wages. The restoration of the wages of 1,700 employes in the York cotton mills, at Saco, Me, is announced to begin April Ast. The Alabama Democratic state con- vention was held at Montgomery, and elected delegates to the constitutional convention, to be held next August. The Indiana supreme court has de- cided that if a man marries a woman who is indebted to him, the marriage discharges the debt. Reports from many sections of the Joaquin valley, in California, show that the floods caused by the late heavy rains is increasing. Water is still pour- ing in on the low lands, about 30,000 acres being covered. Notice has been sent out at New York by the American Hard Rubber company, that an advance of 7 per cent has been ordered in the price of alt hard rubber goods. The Hamburg-American line steam- er Pretoria, arrived from Hamburg, brough 1,204 steerage passengers, the largest number of passengers brought by any one steamer this season. The strike of the 300 miners of the McLean County Coal company, at Bir- mingham, Ala., has been settled, the operators agreeing to advance the rate for mining 5 cents per ton. The strike of the veivet weavers of Crefeld, Germany, which commenced in January, has been adjusted by a slight increase in the wages of the em- ployes. Articles of incorporation were filed at St. Louis by the Three Friends Zinc Mining company. It has has 35,000 shares at $100 per share. The capital steck is said to be fully paid up. The shareholders are mostly prominent St. Louisans. C. W. Jefferson, one of the largest retail grocers in the South, filed a peti- tion in bankruptcy at Louisville, Ky. His liabilities are about $100,000; ag- sets, unknown. The largest creditors are in New York, Chicago and Battle Creek, Mich. The will of Mrs. Melissa BE. Terry of Benton Harbor, Mich., has been filed for probate, in which she gives be- tween $6,000 and $7,000 to the public library of that city. Mrs. Terry was the widow of Dr. F. J. Terry, who died in Chicago several years ago. At a Socialist meeting, held at Jena, Germany, Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader, said the Socialists would gladly renounce the idea of a general revolu- tion, if the wealthy classes would treat the proletariat justly. He admitted there was a rift in the party, and ques- tioned how it would terminate, adding that if a split occurred now in the par- ty much ridicule would result. Fifteen hundred employes of Norton Bro.’s tin can factory at Maywood, UL, have struck. A year ago the company reduced the wage scale 10 per cent, and the strike is for a return to the old scale, A majority of the strikers are women and girls employed in the jap- anning and stamping department. On account of quarantine being en- | forced on April 1, instead of May 1, the five-day-a-week steamship service from Tampa to Havana will be discon tinued and a tri-weekly service inau- | gurated for the summer season. The Plant steamers Olivette and Whitney ‘will be placed on this run, “MALOLOS IS - CAPTURED REBEL CAPITAL IN THE HANDS OF THE AMERICANS. Insurgents "Evacuate the City and Simultaneously Set Fire to It— Now in Full Retreat Towards the North—Rebels cerpaeei MacAr- thaur’s Advance Desperately and Lost Henvily—Three South Dakota Men Wounded—Hall Has a Severe Engagement Beyond Mariquina With Twenty Casualties—Enemy Finally Driven Back. Manila, April 1. — Maj. Gen. Mac- Arthur entered Malolos, the seat of the so-called insurgent government at 9:30 this morning, the rebels burning the city and simultaneously evacuating it. They are now in full retreat toward the north, where Aguinaldo and the cabinet have been for two days. Confirmed by Otis. Washington, April 1. The war department at 1:30 this morning made public the following dispatch from Gen. Otis, dated Manila, March 31: “MacArthur captured Malolos at 10:15 this morning. Enewy retired af- ter slight resistance and firing city. particulars later. Hall had quite se- vere engagement beyond Mariquina; casualties, twenty. Enemy driven.” Strong Opposition. Manila, April 1. — Maj. Gen. Mac- Arthur advanced to attack Malolos, the seat of the insurgent government, at 7 o’clock this. morning. He was met with strong opposition, the rebels resisting desperately but losing heavi- ly. Gen. Hall’s brigade is advancing north from the water works and driv- ing the left wing of the enemy across. MacArthur's Advance. Manila, April 1. The United States troops rested last night in the Jungle about a mile and a quarter from Malolos. The day’s advance be- gan at 2 o’clock and covered a distance of about two and a half miles beyond the Guiguinto river, along the railroad, The brunt of the battle was on the right of the railway, where the enemy ‘was apparently concentrated. The First Nebraska, First South Dakota and Tenth Pennsylvania regiments en- countered them in the intrenchments on the border of the wood, and, the Americans, advancing across the open, suffered a terrific fire for half an hour. Four men of the Nebraska were killed and thirty were wounded. Three men of the Dakota regiment were wounded and one. Pennsylvanian was_ killed. The Americans finally drove the Fili- pinos back. Although there were three lines of strong entrenchments along the track the enemy made scarcely any defense there. Gen. MacArthur and his staff were walking on the track abreast of the line with everything quiet, when suddenly they received a shower of bullets from sharpshooters in trees and on housetops. But these were speedily dislodged. The ene- my’s loss was apparently small, the jungle affording them such protection that the Americans were unable to see them, and in firing were guided only by the sound of the Filipino shots. The American artillery was handicapped for the same reason. « ORDERED TO MANILA. Battery of the Third Artillery Will Start at Once. St. Louis, April 1. — Battery E, of the Third regiment of artillery of the United States regular army, which is now stationed at Jefferson barracks, has been ordered to Manila and will depart as soon as arrangements can be made to transport the men and equipments to the Philippines. Lieut. Col. G. C. Smith said that the battery will depart on or before Tuesday and will go direct to San Francisco and take passage on a transport. There will be 120 men and two carloads of horses. TRAINS WRECKED. Engineers and Firemen Jumped Phat They Saw Collision Inevita- le. St. Louis, April 1. — Two passenger trains on the Belt Line, one from Springfield, Ill, and the other from this city. collided head-on, at Haines, seven miles above Alton, Il. Dr. E. W. Porter of Jerseyville, ll, and a baggageman were fatally injured and several passengers are hurt. ‘The engi- neer and fireman of both trains saw that a_ collision was inevitable and jumped. They escaped without a scratch. Engineer Kearns, of the north-bound train, said the air brakes failed to work. The two trains met with terrific force, hurling the passen- gers into heaps and smashing the cars which were piled up. REINDEER MAIL SERVICE. Scheme of the Postal Authorities in Regard to Alaska, San Francisco, April 1. — The Unit- ed States revenue cutter Thetis is to | be fitted out for a cruise in the Ok- } hotsk sea and along the coast of Si- beria. The postal department pro- poses to use reindeer to carry the mails in Alaska, and it is for the purpose of securing the proper breed of these ani- mals that the Thetis will be sent to the Arctic. Lieut. D, H. Jarvis, who went north to rescue the whalers, will go out as master of the Thetis, and with him will go Sheldon Jackson, and; probably, Lee Williams, one of the best informed whaling captains in the Pacific. A $100,000 Fire. Fairhaven, Va., April 1. — Fire in the business distr! ict destroyed proper- ty valued at nearly $100,00u. A hotel, furniture store, millinery store and hardware store were among the build- ings destroyed. Seven ersons Injured. Parkville, Mo., April 1. — South- bound Burlington passenger train No, 20, from Omaha, was derailed three and 2 half miles north of Parkville, SERIOUS TURN OF APFAIRS. Village Bombarded by American and British Warships. Apia, Samoan Islands, March 23, via Auckland, N. Z., March 31.—The troubles growing out of the election of a king of Samoa have taken a more serious turn and resulted in the bom- bardment of native villages along the shore by the United States cruiser Philadelphia, Admiral Kautz, com- manding, and the British cruisers Porpoise and Royalist. The bombard- ment has continued intermittently for eight days. Several villages have been burned and there ‘have been a number of casualties among the Amer- ican and British sailors and marines. As yet it is impossible to estimate the number of natives killed or in- jured. As Mataafa and his chiefs, consti- tuting the provisional government, continued to defy the treaty after the arrival of the Philadelphia, Admiral Kautz summoned the various consuls and the senior naval officers to a con- ference on board the Philadelphia, when the whole situation was careful- ly canvassed. The upshot was a reso- lution to dismiss the provisional gov- ernment and Admiral Kautz issued a proclamation calling upon Mataafa and his chiefs to return to their homes. Mataafa evacuated Mulinum, the town he had made his headquarters, and went into the interior. Herr Rose, the German consul at Apia Issued a Proclamation supplementing the one he had issued several weeks before, upholding the provisional government. As a result of this the Mataafans assembled in large force and hemmed in the town. The British cruiser Royalist brought the Malietoa prisoners from the island to which they had been transferred by the provisional government. The Americans then fortified Mulinuu, where 22,000 Malietoans took refuge. The rebels—the adherents of Mataafa —barricaded the roads within the municipality and seized the British houses. An ultimatum was sent to them ordering them to evacuate, and threatening them, in the event of re- fusal, with bombardment, to com- mence at 1 o’clock on the afternoon of March 15. This was ignored, and the rebels commenced an attack in the direction of the United States and British consulates about half an hour before the time fixed for the bom- bardment. The Philadelphia, Porpoi angl Royalist opened fire upon the di tant villages, There was great difti- culty in locating the enemy owing to the dense forest, but several ‘shore villages were soon in flames. <A de- fective shell from the Philadelphia ex- ploded near the American consulate and the marines outside Narrowly Escaped. A fragment struck the leg of Private Rudge, shattering it so badly as to necessitate amputation. Another frag- ment traversed the German consulate, smashing the crockery. The Ger- mans then went on beard the German cruiser Falke. During the night the rebels made a hot attack on the town, killing three British sailors. A British marine was shot in the leg by a sentry of his own party, another was shot in the foot and an American sentry was killed at his post. continuing,-the inhabitants of the town took refuge on board the Royal- ist, greatly crowding the vessel. Many people are leaving Samoa, the captain of the Royalist urging them to go so as not to interfere with the military operations. The Porpoise has shelled the villages east and west of Apia and | captured many boats. The Americans and British are fighting splendidly to- gether, but there is a bitter feeling against the Germans. Two men, a British and a German subject, have been arrested as spies. The bombard- ment of the jungle was for a time very hot. MANY FIND A WATERY GRAVE. At Least Fifty Lives Lost in a Steam- er Wreck. New Madrid, Mo., March 31. — The steamer Rowena Lee, with about thirty passengers aboard besides her crew, exploded opposite Tyler, Mo., about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon and immediately sunk with all on board except Capt. Garvell and one of the crew. The steamer left Cairo with sixteen passengers aboard bound for Memphis. At Caruthersville, Mo., she landed and took on board fifteen more pas- sengers. It is estimated that with passengers and crew she had aboard about fifty pewple. She made the next Janding at Tyler, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon backed into mid-stream from ‘Tyler to proceed on her journey. The steamer had just reached the mid- dle of the river when she suddenly stopped and lurched as if a snag had been struck. The next moment the boat parted in the middle, a volume of steam and debris arose and the de- tonation of an explosion thundered over the water. he river is running very high and the steamer immediate- ly sank with all on board except the captain and one of the crew. They clung to the wreckage and were saved by boats. ‘Che cause of the disaster cannot be obtained. Guilty of Murder. London, Ont., March 31. “Pegle” Brown was found guilty of the mur- der of Policeman ‘Twoby and sen- tenced to be hanged on May 17, Brown was arrested at Port Huron, Mich. Spain Paying Cuban Debt Interest. Madrid, Mareh 31.—The Official Ga- zette publishes a decree establishing a credit of 13,656,500 pesetas for the payment of the interest of the Cuban debt on April 1 Jadgeship for Gray. Washington, March 31,—Kx-Senator George Gray of Delaware has been ap- pointed United States circuit judge for | the Third district, Admiral Robeson Retired. Washington, March 31.—The formal order retiring Rear Admiral Robeson under the provisions of the personnel act have been issued. This retirement will promote Capt. Benjamin I. Day to the rank of rear admiral. Torpedo Boat Dumaged, Seatule, Wash., March 31. -- The ‘Times says the United States torpedo boat Rowan, now at Port Orchard naval station, has been badly damaged Seven persons were more or less seri- ‘by inexper' jepeed handling of her en- ously hurt. gines. The bombardment ' , the East. ———————eeee—eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee | ee ce ee LEE DISASTER. Two Dead and One Missing the Ex- tent of the Casualties. Memphis, Tenn., Apr.1. — Definite information was received at the gen- eral oftices of the Lee line yesterday regarding the nature o fthe steamboat disaster at Taylor, Mo. It reached that office in the shape of a telephone message from their traveling freight agent, H. C. Lewis, who was on the Rowena Tee at the time she went down. Two lives are known to have been lost and one man is missing. The dead are: Mrs. Chambers of Caruthersville, Mo., and an unknown negro woman. "The missing man is George Keuchler, mail clerk. General Manager Robert E. Lee, of the Lee line, furnished the information regarding the casualties as soon as it reached his office. The message said that the boat left Tyler at 4 o'clock, and, in backing out of the landing to reuch the middle of the channel, struck some hidden obstruction, the nature of which was not known, and she begap sinking immediately. As soon as this fact became known the pilot changed the course of the boat and started back to the landing, but before it was reached she had settled down in thir- ty-five feet of water. All the passen- gers and crew were saved excepting those whose names have been given. Mrs. Chambers took passage at Ca- ruthersville for Memphis and was. bound for some ding in Mississippi. MAY Nor BE DEAD. Some Doubt as to One of the Men Reported Lost in the Steamboat Disaster. St. Louis, April 31. — A special from Memphis says: C. H. Lewis, traveling passenger agent for the Lee line, tele- phoned to Capt. James Lee of this city from Tiptonville giving the mail clerk’s name as George Keuchter of St. Louis. It is doubted by the postal authorities at Memphis, under whom Keuchter was working, that he was lost. His orders were to leave the Rowena Lee at Cairo, and there is no reason to believe that he did not do so. TEA INSPECTION AT ST. PAUL. Secretary Gage Listens to Arguments in Favor of the Appointment. Washington, April 1. — Secretary Gage and Assistant Secretary Spaul- ding gave a hearing to Senator Davis and a number of importers and jobbers in tea at St. Paul and Minneapolis in | favor of the appointment of a tea ex- pert at those points under the pro- visions of the pure tea act of March 2, 1897, as amended by the act of June 18, 1898. Some weeks ago the depart- ment stated its purpose to appoint a tea expert at St. Paul, which, it is said, has developed into an important tea distributing point. Subsequently nu- merous remonstrances were received at the department from the tea trade at New York and other Eastern cities against this appointment, mainly on the ground that uniformity in the tests. | could be secured orly by limiting the examiners to the lowest possible num- ber. The members of the government board of tea experts at New York also reported against making St. Paul a tea examining point. ‘The importers. and jobbers in the Twin Cities, how- ever, insisted that there was no more difficulty in arriving at a uniform and just conclusion as to the quality of tea than there was in the examination of wheat, and that under the present ar- rangement they were being discrim- inated against in favor of Chicago and The secretaries took the matter under advisement. ARE BACK’ TO HOMES. Arrival of the Members of the Fif- teenth Regiment in St. Paul. St. Paul, April 1--Members of the Fifteenth regiment of volunteers, re- cently mustered out at Augusta, Ga., filtered into St. Paul yesterday through the several roads. No order as to companies was observed ieaving Au- gusta, and it was impossible to place the men as to companies. After the final muster-out papers were signed and the soldiers received their allow- ances in cash, it was a sort of “go-as- you-please” out from the Southern camp. Few remained any length of time in St. Paul, but pulled out for their respective homes by the first trains bound out. The men looked bronzed and healthy, and apparently had grown fat leading a life whose chief aim was to kill time. There was no demonstration at the union depot. The men at once took or arranged for other trains to their homes, outside of those who lived in the city. These were welcomed by their friends at the cepot. GOING TO THE JURY. Arguments in the Acid-Throwing Case at Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wis., April 1. — The Sharp acid-throwing case will probably go to the jury to-morrow. District At- torney Gill of Oconto, having finished his opening argument for the state, At- torney Feiker pleaded for the defend- ant. He started out by telling the jury the meaning ef the word mayhem, with which the defendant is charged. He then reviewed the evidence sub- mitted in the case, stating there was nothing offered to support the com- plaint. Gen. Edward S. Bragg fol- lows Mr. Felker in an argument for the defense, the closing remarks to be tinde by P. H. Martin for the plaintiff. Forger Gives Up. Lisbon, Ohio, April 1. — Jobn G. Stouffer, indicted for forgeries aggre- gating about $5,000, gave himself up to the sheriff yesterday. After his in- dictment he dorfeited his bail and left the country. He says that he has -been in Mexico, but that his conscience troubled him so he returned to stand trial and take his punishment. After the Barrister. Winnipeg, April 1. — A one-legced house painter named Kerr, who had a suic pending, drew a revolver on H. M. Howell, Q. C., one of Winnipeg's leading barristers, in his office. Clerks prevented him from shoating. P School Burned. | Sleepy Eye, Minn.. April 1. — Fire broke out in the school house of dis- trict No. 11 at Iberia, and the build- ing, with furniture and circulating and text book libraries. was © wholly de- stroyed. Loss, $1,000; half-insurance, ‘ss — nd '