Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 12, 1902, Page 2

| The Herald--Review. By BE. C. KILEY. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS, - The best way to punish the bri- gands will be to cut off their mission- ary supply. Wealth doesn’t always bring hap- piness, but it can generally furnish @ pretty good imitation. With Paderewski’s wife along, do the girls think his playing is quite as heavenly as it used to be? « They are going to levy a tax on novels in Paris. It might well be a prohibitive one on some of them, As a rule, stockholders do not kick so long as the dividends hold out. Then they want to know, you know. Another Spanish crisis has been averted by biocking the wheels that kept the Chamber of Deputies in mo- tion. New rules have been adopted for the government of golf tournaments this season. The game heretofore has been too exciting. Mr. J. W. Happy has just been ap- pointed postmaster as Mayfield, Ky. It ought to be easy for him to live up to the name now. Burglars secured 15 cents in the safe of the Standard Oil Company at San Jose. Now watch the price of coal oil take an aerial voyage. A new woman has been discovered ’n Chicago. The defendant in a di- vorce suit is described as a combina- tion of vixen and angel. The price of seats on the New York exchange has tumbled to $60,000. This extravagant sum, however, secures only a way-back location. Scientists tell us that another ice age is coming. As it is still several thousand years off there is no imme- diate cause for shivering. Legislation is now sought to enable the owners of adjacent property to restrain the pasturing of bulls. This has the semblance of a bear move- ment. The American Indian has not been completély civilized, but he rarely gets the worst of the bargain in exchang- ing his wares for the white man’s wampum, California prunes are to be utilized in the manufacture of vinegar. The fraternity of boarders long ago soured on the prune, and now it proposes to sour back. Hyphen is the name of one of the aorses entered for the American Derby that are favorably regarded—presum- ably on the theory that it never fails to connect. A New York man has been chosen as chief of the fire department at Ma- nila. This is believed to be the fore-. runner of an Irish police force at the Philippine capital. But litthe notice was taken in Hol- land of the anniversary of Queen Wil- helmina’s wedding, and no reference to it whatever appeared in the leading Dutch papers. Why? An explorer has found some water in Kansas that is said to bear a close resembiance to that of the Dead Sea. Probably it represents the remains of some prehistoric joint. The average number of inmates in Believue hospital, New York, is equal to that of a good-sized town—that is, it is from 2,000 to 3,000—and of these ® good many are unable to help them- selves. Poor Lo, who once flourished ‘2 tom- abawk, now meekly surrenders before the first click of the barber’s shears, and yet there are some persons who do not approve of our methods of subju- gating the Indian. Snowballs extinguished a fire at Georgetown, Pa., and prevented the destruction of the entire village. The willagers probably will keep snow in| icehouses during the summer season for fire-fighting purposes. With the football fiend, the empty pistol joker, the thin-ice skater, the boat-rocking idiot, the kerosene ftre- maker and the reckless coaster rounded up, there would be great encourage- ment given the national census. A man in Quincy, Ill, kicked at a cat and broke his own neck. The at- tempt merited some punishment, but} we are disposed to consider this a trifle | too severe. A broken leg or an arm should have proved a sufficient lesson. Now that lyddite has been found to have remarkable qualities that enasu- ger friendly vessels 2,000 yards away from the enemy’s ships, it appearg to be rather more of a boomerang than is peeded in the gentle art of modern warfare. The Granite Falls Tribune tells of @ young man in that town who can ‘drink half a pint of clear alcohol with- ut a recess. One of these days ‘there’ will be a flash of blue flame and that ung man’a relatives will have no rieral bill ty pay. Washington Notes. . Senator McCumber has introduced a pure-food bill. ‘The ship subsidy bill is dead for this session of congress. The house committee has ordered a favorable report on the bill establish- ing a coinage mint at Omaha, and ap- propriating $250,000 for a building. Secretary Hay has appointed a com- mission to investigate the report that an Alaskan boundary monument has been removed by a Canadian official. William Wiiliams of New York has been tendered and has accepted the po- sition of commissioner of immigration of New York, to succeed Thomas Fritchie. Secretary Root is reposted preparing an onslaught on Gen. Miles which will make that officer's reprimand in con- nection with the Schley case seem @ mild rebuke. The house committee has voted to report the bill of Representative Adams to reorganize the United States con- sular service and place it on civil ser- vice foundation. Representative Adams of Pensylva- nia has presented the report of the house committee on foreign affairs in fayor of the bill reforming the consular service on a civil service basis. | | The house has passed the sundry civ- il appropriation bill. This is the eighth of «the regular annual supply Dills which have passed at this session. Only a few unimportant amendments were attached to it. ‘The state department has received from the French embassy at Washing- ton notice of a proposed congress for the international repression of the | white slave trade to be convened at) Paris June 16 next. This government may deal with the pope direct in the matter of the sale of the friars’ lands in the Philippines. In this event Bishop O’Gorman of South Dakota may be one of the United States representatives. It has been announced that President Roosevelt will deliver the diplomas at | the graduating exercises of the naval academy at Annapolis on May 2, the advance date set in order to relieve @/ dearth in commissioned officers. Dr. Cabell Whitehead, chief assayer of the mint, has resigned, to take ef- fect as soon as Secretary Shaw finds a suitable man to succeed him. Mr. Al- fred E. Jessup is most prominent | among the candidates for the place. | The president has appointed Brig. | Gen. R. P. Hughes a major general, and Col. Isaac D. DeRussy, Col. And- | rew S. Burt and Col. M. V. Sheridan to | be brigadier generals in the regular) army. to fill existing vacancies caused by retirements. In order to expedite the return home | of troops in the Philippines, the secre- | tary of war has decided that transports | fail from San Francisco to Manila ne- cording to the following schedule: Kil- patrick, April 10; Sherman, April 16; Crook, April 20; Logan, May 1. 1 The senate has pessed the house bill | providing relief for bona fide settlers | within the forest reserves. It was in-| troduced in the interests of settlers in the Black Hills who failed to prove up| in the time indicated in the proclama- | tion declaring the tract a reserve for forestry purposes. Personal. George Presley, a pioneer ship-build- er, died at Cleveland of heart disease, | aged eighty-two years. Chartran’s porteaits of Mrs. and Miss | Reosevelt have been taken to Paris, where they will be placed on exhibition. | David J. Griest, aged sixty-six, one of the oldest and most successful lum- ber dealers in the Missouri valley, died | at’ his home at Kansas City, Kan., of | acute Bright's disease. Gen. William D. Whipple (retired,) died in the New York hospital, of pneu- monia, after an illness of two days. He was seventy-seven years old, and for thirty-six years was in active mili- tary service. Counsel for both plaintiff an ddefend- ant in the divorce suit of Willlam Fa- | versham, the actor, in New York, in- | dignantly deny that the decree in the} ease was obtained by collusion, as indi- eated by an interview and letter said to have been written by Faversham. Maj. J. Rozier Claggett, of the Sec- ond United States infantry, died re- cently at New Orleans. He came to New Orleans two months ago, from Fort Thomas, Ky., in search of health. Maj. Claggett was a graduate of West Point, and had a creditable record as an Indian fighter in the West. Criminal. A colored servant in Philadelphia shot his employer’s wife and two chil- dren. A Rome (Ga.) negro was lynched and | his body filled full of shot, for an as- sault on a whit? girl. A half-breed Indian of Binghampton, N. Y., arrested on a charge of attempt- ; ed murder, says he was a paid assassin. Sensational charges of brutality to} Frisoners have been maie against the eeputy warden of an Indiana peniten- tiary. Former State Architect Paulson of Montana, supposed suicide and con- fessed murderer, is said to be alive in Germany. : With a wooden key. six prisoners es- caped from the workhouse at St. Louis, Three are still wearing chains. They kis a@ boat to the Illinois side of the ver. James Mason, a deaf mute of Louis- ville, has been sentenced to one year in the penitentiary, after entering a plea of guilty to the unusual charge of stealing a Bible. Sub-Contractor Dean, who was in charge of the Rock Island railroad camp near Bridgeport, Okla., was shot ‘and killed at that place by two negro camp laborers. ‘The safe of the Bank of Bazile Mills, Neb., was blown, and $1,000 in cash and $700 in drafts stolen. There is no clue to the robbers. They afterwards stole a team and made their escape. Casualities. The Sunset Limited was run into by a Soo freight at Turtle Lake, Wis. ‘Twenty-two miners lost their lives in a mine explosion at Dayton, Tenn. Fire in a Cincinnati theater caused many ladies to lose their Easter hats and wraps. A storm wrecked a church at Knox- ville, near Pittsburg, and forty people were more or less hurt. A loss of $60,000 resulted from a fire in Boston that riddled the two upper stories of the five-story building at 8 Franklin street. The loss by fire at Fukui, near the northwest coast of the Islaand of Honshiu, where 4,000 houses were de- stroyed, is estimated at 9/000,000 yen: The large warehouses of the Peaslee- Gaulbert company, at Fifteenth and Portland avenue, Louisville, were de- stroyed by fire. The buildings were filled with paints and oils. The loss is about $200,000. The six-story building at 610-612 Mar- ket street, Philadelphia, the first three floors of which were occupied by the George de Keim Saddlery company and the other three floors by the Joel Baily Davis company, wholesale notions, was completely destcoyed by fire. Just as the curtain rang down on the last act of the play at the Third Ave- nue theater, New York, Benjamin Bar- nett, who had been sitting in a front seat in the gallery, accidentally toppled over and fell eighty feet to the orches- tra floor, He was taken to the hospital in a dying condition. In falling. Bar- nett brushed with his feet the dress of a woman who had just moved into the aisle, and broke the seat in which she had been sitting. Foreign Notes. The Boers have captured three offi- cers of the Second dragoons. English officers are accused of kill- ing men in South Africa in sport. Manila priests tell the natives that sanitary measures sre taken to annoy | them. ‘The strike of diamond cutters at Am- sterdam has been settled and the men have resumed work. Two thousand laborers were hired at Christiania, Norway for railway work in Canada by Congressman Frank M. | Eddy of Glenwood, Minn. * There was a drunken braw! between soldiers in a canteen at Pekin, resulting in four English soldiers being severely wounded by bayonets wielded by Ger- mans and French. Prof. A. Slaby, the electrician, has issued a written reply to Prof. Marco- ni’s report, denying that he (Slaby) learned from him what he knows about wireless telegraphy. A dispatch to the London Morning Post from Bagdad, Asiatic Turkey, says that an American millionaire named Darcey has secured an impor- tant concession to work an oil belt in Southern and Southwestern Persia. ‘The Chinese appear to believe that a Mahommedan rebellion in Kan Su, headed by ex-Prince Tuan, is really im- minent. Various rumors of that na- ture have been already telegraphed, and have created an impression that the insurgents are already in the field. In a cablegram received at the col- onial bureau at Berlin Herr Schlecter, the botanist, declares hé has discov- ered an abundance of rubber and gutta percha tr in German New Guinea, 3y this discovery Herr Schlechter wins the 3,000-mark prize offered by the Colonial society for the first person to find such trees in the German colonies. General. Olympian games plans are soon to be given wide publicity. It is evident that the Fitzsimmons- Jeffries fight will fall through. Spaulding has resigned the presiden- cy of the National Base Ball league. Voting machines may be used at future elections in New York Cfty. A rate of 1 cent per mile has been granted for the national G. A. R. en- campment. The street car str’ke, which has been on in Leavenworth since Feb. 1, has been settied. The mill operatives in New Bedford, Mass., have received an advance of 10 per cent in wages, from April 1. Two men-of-war, the Ilinois and; Chicago, will represent the United States at the coronation of King Ed- ward next June. W. J. Furniss, a banker of Pendleton, was nominated on the first ballot for governor of Oregon by the Republican state convention. Counsel for Miss Florence Burns of New York says the young lady will not be permitted to accept any of the the- atrical offers made her. According to reports made by fruit growers of St. Joseph county, Indiana, the peach crop for that county and sur- rounding territory is killed. ‘The annual report of the North Ger- man Lioyd Steamship company .men- tions the purchase of land at Manila for the construction of warehouses. Various city elections in New Mexico resulted in decided Republican victories in the fcur larger cities in the territory, Santa Fe, Las Vegas, Rater and Albu- querque. The glucose plant at Waukegan, em- ploying over 500 men, will be closed as soon as the supplies on hand are ex- hausted, which will probably be in a few days . The appointment of Capt. G. H. Pierce, of the transport Sheridan, to succeed Capt. John Banehon as marine superictendent cf the army transport service, is announced.) Twenty-eight members of the fresh- men and sophmore classes of the Uni- versity of Kansas have been suspended for thirty days, for participation in the recent contest over class colors. Gov. Odell of New York has signed a bill which provides that no decree of absolute divorce shall become final un- til after three months after the date of the filing of the original judgment. DANES GROW HOT RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY 18 DISCUSSED IN SECRET SESSION, WILL ORDER A PLEBESCITE OPPONENTS OF THE TREATY COME FORWARD WITH A NEW MOVE. MOTION TO REJECT DEFEATED INHABITANTS OF THE ISLAND SAID TO BE FAVORABLE TO THE SALE. Copenhagen, April 9.—Two more se- cret meetings of the landsthing were held yesterday to discuss the West In- dian islands treaty, but no vote was reached, The opposition made a new motion, namely, to order a plebiscite before and not after the ratification of the treaty. This motion will notebe ac- cepted, Lut it caused the postponement of the vote to th> next meeting of the house which will undoubtedly be the last one. A reliable forecast indicates that the landsthing will vote for the ratification of the treaty and a plebescite’ subse- quent to this aet.. Herr von Fessen, who was sent to the Danish West Indies in 1901 by the Na- tional Tidende to stir up opposition to the proposed sale to the United States, has returned with glowing reports of the i Success of His Mission. Yesterday he published an article in the National Tidende in which he de- clared that influences have been at work in the islands which would render a plebiscite at this time worthless to Denmark as the vote of the inhabitants o* the islands would result in favor of the sale. He, therefore, asks the landsthing to reject the treaty outright. This is believed to show the desperate straits of the opposition. It is said that the secret meetings of the landsthing were very stormy and that a préposal to reject|the treaty was defeated by a vote of 35 to 28, Fenr a Revolution. London, April 8.—The Dutch cruiser Valkyrien, which left the Danish West Indies last. week, says the Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily Mail, has been suddenly ordefed to return to St. Thomas, as the government is appre- hensive of a revolt there. FALL IN BATTLE. Forces of Venezuelan Government Suffer a Severe Defeat. Willemstad, Curacao, April 9. — The revo.ution in the vastern part of Ven- ezuela has made much progress during the past week, and the government has been obliged to send reinforcements of troops and supplies of ammunition daily to many parts of the republic. Gen. Escalante and two of President Castro’s brothers suffered severe de- feat at the hands of insurgents under Rorando, Penalosa and Ducharme, April 3, at San Agostin, near Carupano, in the State of Bermudez. Of the 850 government soldiers engaged in this ac- tion orly 350 retreated, the remainder being killed, wounded or deserted. ‘The government, was defeated in an- other engagement April 4 near El Pilar, when its soldiers were trying to reach Cariaco, in Bermudez. On this occasion the government Troops Again Retreated to Carupano, where Gen. Escalante is awaiting reinforcements. Among these will be 500 government solciers called Andinos, Gen. Escalante hopes to take the offensive with 1,200 men. The situation at Carupano was still without change April 6. There the rev- olutionists and the government forces are facing each other in an attitude of expectancy. The town of Cumana, also in Bermudez, is surrounded by revolu- tionary forces. Barcelona, the capital of the State of Bermudez, is again closely watched by the insurgents under Nonagas. Gen. Velutini, the minister of the interior, has recently been sent to this town. Government officials at Caracas esti- mate that there are*3,500 revolutionists under arms in the above mentioned districts. Checking Government Troops. ‘The revolutionary general, Riera, is stil! in the District of Coro, where his forces are checking the government troops under Gen. Gomez, the vice pres- ident of the republic. Government forces have also been routed near Cau- cagua, in the State of Petare, dnd the Rio Chico district is also in arms. The situation of the Venezuelan gov- ernment is becomirg critical. It is al- most without financial resources anil, consequently, cannot pay its soldiers. The pecple are making efforts to es- cape forcible enlistment in the army and President Castro has been obliged to bring troops from the State of Los Andes. Castro was born in this state, and the men from there are called Andinos. The customs receipts of the republic are decreasing daily. SUICIDE OF SPORTSMAN. J. EF. Whitfleld of Kansns City Dien by His Own Hand. Kansas City, April 9. — James E. Whitfield, president of the Western Basebal! league and sporting editor of the Star, committed suicide yesterday morning at his home with a revolver. The strain of manoging the league's finances is ascribed as the cause of the act. POWDERLY RESIGNS. Sargent Will Not Take Hold for About a Month. . Washington, April 3—The resignation of Terrance V. Powderly as commis- sioner general of immigration has been placed in the hands of the president. Mr. Powderly is to be succeeded in of- fice by Frank P. Sargent, but as the | latter does not exprct to take hold for more than a month, the present com- missiorer’s resignation probably will not be accepted by the president until * CLEAR UP SPION KOP. Broderick Says in Commons That Buller Will Be Shown Up. London, April 9.-The house of com- mons met yesterday after the Easter recess. Mr. Arthur Balfour, leader of the house, in reply to Mr. John ‘Morley, said that the government had no in- formation regarding the negotiations now going on between Mr. Schalkburg- er and Mr, Steyn, with a view to pos- sible terms of peace. Mr. Broderick, secretary of war,.said that in view of the statement made public regarding the dispatches dealing with the opera- tions on Spion Kop and the misappre- hension that appeared to exist on the subject, the government proposed to lay on the table of the house all the papers accompanying Lord Roberts’ dispatch which had been forwarded to the war office. Sir Redvers Buller re- cently sent to the press a correspon- dence between himself and Mr. Balfour, in which the former repeated his charge that the government had gar- bled his official report on the Spion Kop fighting. Mr. Balfour replied that the only passages omitted from Lord Roberts’ covering dispatch were those which reflected severely on Gen. Buller. In consequence of this correspondence there has been a general demand for all papers on the subject. LOPEZ CAN MAKE PEACE. Former Representative of Aguinal- do Offers to Undertake the Task, Boston, April 9.—Senor Sixto Lopez, who for some months lived in this city and claimed to represent Aguinaldo, bas returned from the Far Wast, and yesterday, in an interview, said that he was prepared to return to the Philip- pines and secure final peace, provided the United States gives some intima- tion to the Filipinos, not necessarily of their immediate, but of their ultimate status. Regarding the order prevent- ing his return to the Philippines, Senor Lopez said the American authorities did not object to his landing in Manila provided he took the oath of allegiance, He refused, however, to take it be- cause he did not believe that any one had a right to interfere with his liberty of corscience. LUCAS’ MILLIONS GONE. His Father Was the Richest Man in the West at One Time. Chicago, April 9. — Henry V. Lucas was one of the 164 bankrupts for whom the United States district court yes- terday wiped out $40,000 in debts. The schedule filed ‘by the petitioner con- tained no assets and showed that in 1882 Mr. Lucas fell heir to $2,000,000 as his portion of a $9,000,000 estate left by his father. Twenty years ago Judge Lucas, the petitioner's father, was reckoned the wealthiest man west of the Alleghenies, He was a money king in St. Louis, where a street is named in his honor. Among other ventures the son is said to have lost $300,000 by the failure of a barge line which he started between St. Louis and New Orleans. Later he came to Chi- cago to work for a living. PRESIDENT’S JOURNEY. Meets With Enthusiastic Cordiality in Virginia. Danville, Va., April 9. — President Reesevelt’s journey through Virginia has been marked by extreme cordiality and enthusiasm and he has shown the keenest interes: in the historic country threugh which the train is passing. His first remarks -vere addressed to a small crowd at Rappahannock, where the train mdde a short stop for water. He appeared on -he rear platform and after bowing his acknowledgments, said to the little gathering: “I am now upon historic ground.” At Char- lettesville the people were out in force, the driving rain not seeming to dampen their spirits in the least. At Danville there was another large assemblage, the president being compelied to come out on the platform and acknowledge their greeting. If PLEASES THE KING. New York's Invitation to the Prince of Walex May Be Accepted. London, April 9. — The suggestion that the prince of Wales attend the dedication of the new home of the New York chamber of commerce excites the liveliest surprise here, coupled with satisfaction at the indication of good feeling on the part of the leading men of America’s industrial community. Undoubtedly it is hoped in political circles that the expected invitation will be accepted. Inquiries have elic- ited the fact that in court and official cirelés it is recognized that there are certain, obstacles in the way, but it is hoped that they may not prove insur- mountable. King Edward personally is said to b> strongly favorable to such a visit, yet he may be slow to establish a precedent which hereafter might lead to trouble or misunderstanding. LOOKS LIKE DOUBLE MURDER. Remains of a Man and Woman Are Found in a Box at a Depot. San Francisco, April 9. — A Gilroy, Cal., special to the Bulietin says that the remains of a man and 2 woman were discovered in the railroad station at that place yesterday when a box which had lain in the station for tea days was opened. Ther2 were no marks by which the remains can be identified. The box was left with the station agent by a rancher named Jamison, who told the agent that he would send for it. The rancher disap- peared shortly afterward and nothing has been heard from him since. It is presumed that a Couble murder was committed. ‘ . Attorney Goes to Jail. Peoria, Ill, April 9.—George T. Gill- jam, a prominent Peoria attorney was yesterday sentenced to serve six months in the workhouse and to pay’ fine of $400 and costs. He was found | guilty of defrauding a woman of $4,000. Cholera Victims at Manila. « Manila, April 9.—A total of 175 cases and 137 deaths from cholera were re- ported up to noon yesterday. The na- tives are making great efforts to break the quarantine and in doing so one na- IN SUNNY SOUTH NATURE SMILES ON PRESIDENT ROOSEVEL?T’S VISIT TO CHARLESTON, POPULAR GREETING IS CORDIAL PRESIDENT AND PARTY VISIPS HISTORIC ‘SCENES AROUND THE CITY. ENTERTAINED AT A BANQUET ROOSEVELT ENTERS WITH ZEST 0 ALL FEATURES OF THE OCCASION, Charleston, 8. C., April 10—The presi- dent’s train reached Charleston at 9:20 a. m., on time. The president's immediate party went directly to the naval station, where they were joined in a few min- utes by members of the reception com- mittee and invited guests from the city. The president and his party were shown about the station and were then conducted to the pier where the revenue cutter Algonquin was in waiting. As the president set foot on the deck the flag of the sommander-in-chief of the army and navy was raised and the jackies were paraded while a salute of twenty-one guns was fired. In the sirean. the cutters Forward and Ham- ilton were lying and further down to- ward the city the cruiser Cincinnati and the training ships Topeka and Lancaster. Wenther Was Perfect. After the committee and guests had gone eboard the Algonquin started on a tour of the harbor. Passing down Cooper river a fine view of the city and the opening of the bay was presented. The weather perfect. Passing into the bay the Algonquin abreast of the cruiser Cincinnati, whose decks were manned with all her crew, as well as the Topeka and Lancaster. As the president's vessel passed each ship a salute of twenty-one guns was fired. Off the fortifications of Sulli- van's island the Algonquin was greeted with the same welcome and she pa d out to the ocean with gay steamers. Just a little run to the sea and the Al- gonquin turned about and re-entered the harbor, passing around Historic Fort Sumter. While steaming up the bay luncheon was served in the cabin of the cutter. A short run was made up the As river, giving a view of the city’s ern water front, and then the ship was headed back from the landing, where a troop of the Charleston Light Dragoons was in waiting to escort the president to his headquarters at the St. John ho- tel. All the arrangements were excel- lent, and there was not a break in the programme. The presilent seemed in kigh spirits and entered with keen zest into the features of the occasion, In the evening a banquet given by the city in honor of the president was held at the Charlescon hotel. While this was in progress Mrs. Roosevelt held a reception at the St. John. STATES sur. American Vessel Ix Attacked by Co- lombians in San Juan River. Washington, April 10.—A cablegram has been received at the state depart- ment from United States Minister Bowen at Caracas stating that he has just been informed that the Bermude steamer (by which it is supposed h¢ means one of the great carriers be- torging to the National Asphalt com- pany) kas been fired upon in the River San Juan, The minister said he had asked for an explaration at the foreign office, and had been told that the government knew nothing of the attack, which was probably made by the revolutionists. Information of the reported firing on the ship also came from the United States consul at Port of Spain. not stated which side did the firing. Instructions have been sent to United States Minister Bowen at Caracas to see to it that the interests of the Ber- mudez company are protected and that the company does not suffer from ir- regular practices in the Venezuelan courts. REBUILT 'PINO BILL IS READY. House Republicans Perfect Plaa of Government. Washington, April 10. — The house bill establishing a civil government in the Philippines was finally perfected yesterday by the Republican members of the insular committee, and in its complete form was reintroduced by Chairman Cooper. There is little doubt that it will be reported to the house by the full committee, probably to-day. and in its present form. The house bill is unlike that of the senate in thut it provides a complete form of civil gov~ ernment for the islands, to go into ef- fect when the war terminates. RENOM ATE GROSVENOR. Uhio Republican Given the Houor hy Acclamation, Athens, Ohio, April 10.—The Repub- lican congressional convention helé here yesterday nominated Charles H.- Grosvenor by acclamation for congress from the eleventh district. Gen. Gros- venor made an address accepting the nomination. The convention appoint- ed a committee of one from each county to take such action as may be deemed. necessary in reference to changes in the Ohio districts. NEGRO IS RESPITED. Condemned Man Spirit-d Before It Is Found Opt. Marlin, Tex., April 10—Joe Marlin, @ negro, was>to have been hanged at noon yesterday for criminal assault om a little white girl. but early yester morning the governor granted « respite. The prisoner was slipped out of town and the local militia was placed about the jail before the respite wa ead. It caused very bitter feeling. If returned here it is ex- Away the negro is Es: Lee It was-