Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 17, 1895, Page 1

sssans l:?m ) A AR 2062 L p A THE OMAHA ESTABLISHED JUNE 17, 1871, OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARC;}I'; 17, 1895—TWENTY PAGES, PAGES 1 TO 8, oaa RECEIVED NO REPLY Epain in No Hurry to Answer the Note of Secrotary Gresham, DIPLOMATS DISCUSSING PRECEDENTS Oontention in the A'abama Case a Two- Edged Affair for This Country, OFFICERS OF THE ALLIANCA INDIGNANT Deny the Oharge that There Were Cuban Revolutionists Absard of Her, CHARACTER OF APOLOGY TO BE O FERED Judglng 1 lar Affairs In the Past it Will Be Simply an Oficial Salute pm 8 to the American Flag by the Spanish Authorities. WASHINGTON, March 16.—In event of Bpain's apojogizing for the Allianca affair, tho question has arisen as to what form the apology will take. In diplomatic usage an expression of regret is often accompanied by an offer to salute the flag of the country to | which an international discourtesy has been | given. This was the course of the United | States in saluting the French flag in 18 and saluting the Brazilian flag in In the former case the French flag was | saluted as a mark of apology for an indignity | against the French consul at San Francisco. Mr. Marcy, the then secretary of state, first | offered to make an apology by saluting the French flag on a French man-of-war stop- ping at San Francisco. Count de Sartiges, the French minister at Washington, asked in addition that when the consular flag at San Franc was hoisted it should receive a salute. This was declined by Mr. Marcy France was not satisfied, but -after months the French government agreed to ac cept as sufliclent satisfaction an expression of regret by the government of the United States coupled with the provision that “‘when a French national ship or squadron shall ap- pear In the harbor of San Francisco the usual authorities there, military or naval, will saluto the national flag borne by such ship or squadron with a national salute, and the French ship or squadron whose flag is thus saluted will return the salute gun for gun.” The salute of the flag was thus given and with such apology the Incident closed. In 1866 the United States sent a man-of- war to Brazil for the express purpose of offering an apology by firing w salute to the Brazilian flag. The United States had seized tho' confederato ship Florida, at Bahia, Bra- zil, thus violating the neutrality law. Mr. Seward, then secretary of war, announced a purpose to make full apology, including the dismissal of the United States consul at Bahfa, when advised of the attack, the court- martial of the United States naval com mander who committed the offense, and a salute to the Brazilian flag. | The last feature of the apology was executed with much cere- mony on tho very spot where Brazilian neutrality had been invaden, In the Virginus case the United States de- manded a saluto of our flag as a part of the apology from Spain, but the salute was af ward waived on its appearing tat the papers of tho Virginus were based on a false afli- davit. The official salute of the United States to foreigners is made up of as many shots as there are states in the union. The salute to the president and his fleet s a fixed number of twenty-one guns. Should Spain salute our flag it would probably be by firing twenty-one guns. in 1866, a NO RESPONSE FROM SPAIN. Sccretary Gresham was at the State de- partment today for a short time, but Mr. Uhl, the first assistant secretary, is still acting as sceretary. In answer to an inquiry he sald that no response had yet been received from United States Minister Taylor at Madrid con- cerning the demand made by the State de- parlment for reparation for the firing upon the Alllanca. The Alabama claims decision, upon which this demand was based, is com- ing in for a good deal of discussion here and the diplomatic corps are by no means a unit in giving it their adherence. One officlal con- tends that (here never has been a practical application of the doctrine since it was enunciated and urges that the United States ftselt is the last power that can afford to surrender Its claim to jurisdiction, extending even to the right of detaining and searching suspicious vessels within the waters lylng three miles from our coasts. Should this position be taken, however, it is alleged that it would be practically impossible to preyent wholesale smuggling and the violation of our revenue and customs laws at every turn, The same doctrine, if extended to Bering s would throw open the seal fisheries to the vessels of all nations other than England, which would be stopped only by the specific treaty. Senor Muruaga, the Spanish minister, is calmly awalting developments, but has not heard from the State department or from Bpain concerning the Allanca affair, It was reported that the minister had been at the State department this morning, but this was not the case, and, as Secretary Gresham is dealing dircctly with the Spanish officials at Madrid, Senor Muruaga feels that he will have no occaslor to communicate with the department unless Mr. Gresham sends for him. The minister sald today that he hope the excitement over the affair would not prevent temperate and good natured consider- ation of the case. He has been frank and outspoken concerning it, but does not want his attitude to be mistaken for irritation or lack of every diplomatic courtesy to the authorities here “At the very outset,” sald the minister, “I sought Mr. Ull, the acting secretary, and assured him that if the facts disclosed that the Spanish Loat was In the wrong then an apology would be made and my only desire has been to have official action based established facts,” CAPTAIN CROSSMAN'S PASSENGERS. NEW YORK, March 16.—Capiain Cross- man of the steamer Alllanca Is indignant at the futimation by Semor Muruaga that there were Cuban revolutionists on the vessel when as reported by Captain Orossman and his ofti it was chased and fired upon by a Epanish gunboat. Sald the captain: “Senor Muruvaga insinuates that two of the pas sengers were Cuban revolutionists and that one of the two was a mulatto. The fact is | that we did not have a mulatto on board either as passenger or employe. As to the revolutionary part of his statement, it fs th renkest Kind of balderdash, “Of the four passengers ous was & ¥res gentleman who had hecome stranded at C and whom I trusted for bis fare to this city on here has called and paid the amount of his fare. It think he can easily be found by the State department. Another of the passengers was a gentle- man employed by the Aspinwall Fruit com- pany. He went out with us on the trip for United States employes, but caught the fever at Colon and had to come back. “Of the two other passengers 1 know noth- ing except that they were in the steerage, but the purser can probably furnish you their names. I do not know that either of them were Cubans.” The purser of the Allianca is Mr. Churchill. e said; *“The gentleman who went out and returned with us was Mr. Guggin, who was employed by the Aspinwall Fruit com- pany. His home is in Sullivan, Me. Both the steerage passengers, I understand, came from San Francisco. One was named Car- dosa and the other Craddick. Cardosa is a whaler and a Portuguese. Craddick is a miner and an American citizen. Both men had been stowaways from San Franclsco, as near as 1 can find out. They reached Colon by the freight steamer Progresso of our own line. My assistant obtained from both their full history, where they were born, where they came from, and all that the State de- partment can have.” SPAIN ORDERS AN INVESTIGATION MADRID, Mareh 16.—Replying to tions propounded in the Chamber of Deputies today, Senor Alejandro Groiseard, minister of state, sald that the report that Minister Tay- lor, acting on behalf of the United States government, had claimed reparation from Spain was due the United States on account the Alllanca incident was true. The United States government, at the time, de- manded that American t with Cuba should not be Interfered with, He hoped the Allianca affair would be amicably settled he United States government, he explained, considered the firing on the Allianca to be a violation of the principles of international law. Minister Grofseard, in conclusion, sald the Spanish government had ordered the full- investigation of the affair to be made. The government, he added. was willing to agreo to any settlement, provided the prin- ples of international law were not infringed upon, and that no attempt was to prejudice the dignity of the nation. Senor Dio Moreau, formerly an officer in tho Spanish navy, said the commander of the gunboat had the right to demand that the Allianea should show her flag. He argued the Spanish officers also had the right to scarch any vessel found in Spanish waters Minister Grofscard declined to make any further statement or to attempt any explana- tion of the incident until complete details and the reports of the Spanish officers of the gun- boat, which it is claimed fired on the Al- lianca, are received. Questions relating to Cuban affairs were hotly debated in the Chamber of Deputies. General Lopez Dominguez, minister of war, censured the press for recent comments upon the situation. At this all the reporters quittea the Chamber. This was intended as a pro- test against the official defense made by the minister of war of the officers who last night attacked the office of the Madrid newspapers These attacks on the newspaper offices was provoked. it is claimed, by the appearance of articles charging that the officers in the ser ice of Spain have been o reluctant to volun- teer for the Cuban service that the govern- ment has been compelled to draw lots to de- termine who should be ordered to the front Great excitement prevails here. The mili- tary governor of Madrid has resigned. The irectors of the leading newspapers held a mecting this afternoon and =greed that un- less the government would guaranty the lib erty of the press they would suspend ail issues, WAR SHIPS READY FOR SEA. BROOKLYN, March 16.—The most interest was expressed by officers of the Brooklyn navy yard today in Sccretary Gresham's de- mand upon Spain to explain the firing on the Allianca, Preparations are being made to respond to any orders that may come from Washington to have the ships now at the navy yard ready for sea in case they are wanted. 1t is the gencral opinion, however, among the officers in Brooklyn that if any vessels are called upon to patrol the Cuban coast they gvill be taken from Admiral Meade's squadron, now in the West Indies. The Maine is about the only war ship now at the navy yard which could be made ready for sea on short time. The battleships Purl- tan and Terror are still in course of con- struction. The Vesuvius left the navy yard several days ago to blow up derelicts in the sound. PITTSBURG, March 16.—Congressman Dockery of Missouri was in tho city today cnroute from Washington to his home. Con- cerning the Allianca affair, he sald: “Spain will have to make a complete and ample apology for the firing by one of her men- of-war upon an Amerlean merchant ship. Al- though only one side of the matter has been heard, yet there can be no excuse for the deed. Nothing that the captain of the war sip could offer would place him in the light of being justified n interfering with the commerce of this nation.” MADRID, March 16.—An official dispatch from Havana states that the government troops have dispersed the rebel band in the Slerre del Cobre. The rebels lost heavily. The troops lost one killed and two wounded. SAVANNAH, Ga., March 16.—The steam yacht Pedro Pably, about which there has been so much suspicion, has sailed for Cuba. She was kept under close observation by Span- ish representatives until she departed, The steamship Elliott also sailed for Bocas del Toro, Costa Rica, today. ques- same e st made is TWO HUNDRED MINEKS ENTOMBE plosion of Firo Damp--Many Men Res- aed bat Many Are Sl In the Pir, TROPPAU, Austrian Silesia, March 16.—An explosion of fire damp took place today in the Hoengge mine, belonging to the estate of the late Archduke Albrecht of Austria. At the time of the explosion there were 280 miners below. Already about 160 of these havo bacn res- cued, but the remaining 120 are lmprizon:d in the galleries which are blocked with de- bris. The bodles of seversl of vietims have been taken During the day twelye dead recovered, and a number of of whom were Injured, were r 18 now belleved not more than fi the out bodies were | rs, fifteen ed, and it y perished. mi Rider Haggard Eaters Polities. LONDON, March 16.--H. Rider Haggard the well known author, was this afternoon lected by a large meeting of laudowners farmers to contest the East Norfolk constitu eney for tho conservatives at the next gen- Heggard cliimed to belong to the party of hushandry, He taid he had heen brought up ve principles, and that he bad not scen the slightest reason for changing his opinicns during recent years. eral election in conserva Excarsionists PALERMO, marck, from New party of excursionists, here today at L he Arrly March 16, wlermo, Fuerst Bis- 29, with a | umount | of the Veterans' assoclation, REVISING A TREATY American Extradition Conventicn with Germany Baticfactory to Neither, EMPEROR PRESIDES AT THE STATE COUNCIL Von Kainta's Grain Monopoly Bill Virtually Laid on the Shelf, NOTHING NEW AGAINST AMERICAN MEAT Kaiser Very Much Displeased with the Persistency of Von Kanita, OLD SOLDIERS ASK FOR LARGER PENSIONS Appolntment of Young Bismarck Sald to Be the First of a Series of Honors ol to the lor and H Chanc Family. (Copyrighted, 1895, by the Associated Press.) BERLIN, March 16.—The revision of the German-American _ extradition treaty is now under way. The terms of the existing treaty in some respects are not satisfactory to cither government. It is the question of the costs involved in extradition proceedings which is the main objection on the American side, since the great majority of the extrad tion proceedings occur in America, in the proportion of 100 to 1, so that the American government, with each side defraying the expenses of the proceedings within its re- spective sphere, bears more than its proper | share. Consequently, in 1891, the Amerlcan government made advances to Germany with the view of modifying the treaty provisions in this and in other respeets, including the right of each government to try extradited | persons solely on the specific charges under which their extradition was den nded. Ger- many, however, was not satisfied with the proposed changes, and the negotiations after a time were dropped A recent extradition case at Hamburg, the person involved being a clever adventuress, who passed herself off in Berlin and elsewhere as the Archduches Theresa d'Estee and victimized several per- sons to the amount of 200,000 marks, is the Qirect cause of reopening the negotiations for a revision of the treaty. This time Germany ame forward with certain proposals, and these were sent a few days ago through the American ambassador here, to Washington. GRAIN MONOPOLY BILL SHELVED. Emperor Willlam presides daily at the s sions of the state council, which lasts from 10 in the morning until 1 o'clock in the after- noon, and from 8 p. m. until 7 o'clock in the evening. His majesty has proved himself an excellent chairman, ruling debate with a firm hand and at the same time allowing full discussion. The grain monopoly proposals of Kanitz have been virtually shelved by the state council and the agrarians, in reply, have introduced von Kanitz's bill, signed by 103 members, into the Reichstag. This number, it should be added, about represents the total strength of the members of the Reichstag who are in favor of the bill, so there is no possible chance of its adoption. Conse- quently, American grain will not be excluded from Germany for the present. The prohibi- tion of the import of American cattle was also discussed on Wednesday by the state council, and 1t was decided not to recommend any new measures in this respect, The state council yesterday discussed the currepcy question, and adopting a resolution noting with satisfaction von Hohenlohe's statement in tho Reichstag, February 15, in regard to the proposed international monetary conference, and expressed tne opinion that in view of this statement no further measures should be taken at present, but that the re- sults of the steps already contemplated should be awaited. The statement of Hohenlohe in the Relchstag on February 15, regarding the proposal of an international monetary con- terence was as follows: “Without prejudic- ing our imperial currency, one must confess tho differences in the value of gold and silver continue to react upon our commercial life, Following, therefore, the tendencles which led to the appointment of a silver commission, 1 am ready to consider, In conjunction with the federal governments, whether we cannot en- ter upon a friendly interchange of opinion as to common remedial measures with the other states which are chiefly interested in main- taining the value of silver.” DISPLEASED WITH VON KANITZ. The state council today considered the pro- posed measures for reducing the cost of farm- | Ing and for reduclng the duties on agricul- tural products. According to general report, Emperor William has repeatedly shown dis- pleasure at the extreme demands of Von Kanitz. In this connection the Hamburger Correspondent says his majesty, at Wednes day's meeting of the council, replying to a re- mark of von Kanitz, said if the members of | the council continued to drag his personality | into their debates it would be impossible for | him to continue pre:iding at their meetings, The Hamburger Nachrichten also declares that upon one occasion when von Kanitz was addressing his remarks to the emperor, the latter intervened and requested the count to address the ministers, not himself. | Apropos of the state council, Dr. Stoecker's | organ has published the followlng anecdote When Prince Bismarck was appointed a mem- ber of the state council In 1851 he wrote to von Gerlach as follows: “My wife asked me what the state council was, and I answered “The quintescenco of all stupldity and wicked- ness is comprised In the words privy council- lor You see I do not indulge in illusions respecting the value of that body.” The appointment of Count William Bis- marck, seccond son of the ex-chancellor, as civil engineer of East Prussia, in succession to von Stollberg-Wernigorde, came as a sur- prise to the political world, Coynt William | is well acquainted with Koenigsberg, the seat of the government of East Prussia, as he was prepared there for the service of the state by the chief of the colonial department. As a student Count Willam had much the same merry time as bis father, and was nearly Killed in a duel at Bonn. When the great chancellor fell into disgrace Count William had the tact to keep in the back- ground, with the result that he continued in the service of the state, while his brother, Count Herbert obliged to leave offic Count Willlam's special appointment is re. garded as the first of a series of imperial honors to his father. OLD SOLDIERS WANT MORE PENSIONS The invalid and crippled of the Franco-German war have been endeavoring vainly to_get the Reichstag to Increase the of thelr pensions. Representatives which numbers 13,000, will meet during the coming week, adopt resolutions and send a deputation to was soldiers via Algiers, Alexandria, Congtantinople and He is In New York und siuce his arrival other porta. - ) the emperor to acquaint him with the miser- able coudition of many disabled veterans l The old soldiers will also send a deputation to the Bundesrath and to the "Réfhstag, with instructions to request adldittonal legislation looking to an increase of the peéhsion fund. It is stated the emperof, upon the occasion of the anniversary of the bitthday of his grandfather, Emperor Willlam 1., on Friday next, will iesue a decree having for its ob- Ject the ald of widows amd ofphans of the war of 1870-71, There Is no decrease in the spread of the epldemic of influenza. There have been 730 deaths in Berlin alone. Among those who have recovered from attacks of this malady are the grand duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, the princess of Saxe-Meiningen, Prince Alex- ander of Prussia and Herr von Koetter, the Prussian minister of the interior. Among thé new cases of influenza are the following notable people: Prince Hohenzollern, the von Furstenburg, daughter of the late duchess of Sangani; Countess Dureck- heim and the noted centrist leader, Baron Scholemar-Alst. The deaths from influenza include Prince Walbeck and Dr. Schoenfeldt. A mysterious ailment broke out a week ago in Berlin, chiefly .in the subarb of Schoen- berg. It takes the form of inflammation and pustules in the mouth and throat, accom- panied by high fever and thirst. Prof. Kir- chow, who has investigated the outbreak, is of the opinion it is due to infection by par- taking of the milk of diseased cows. Some medical men believe it is a human form of the foot and mouth disease hitherto peculiar to cattle. " In the Reichstag to day the minister of foreign affairs, Von Bieberstein, replying to a question of Herr Hesse, ¢:ntrist, sald the German charge d'affaires at® Caracas, Ven- ezuela, was in no way molested, and that there was no grounds for anxiety regarding German interests in Venezuela. CAUSE OF THE GERMAN OBJECTIONS WASHINGTON, March 16.—Last summer the United States cured the extradition from Germany of fugittve namel Jacob Princess a | Davidson, on a charge of forgery, a crime in- cluded trea in the provisions the y. When he reached the United States he was tried on what really, amounted to a charge of embezzlement. The German gov- ernment resented this, as embezzlement was not one of the specified crimes in the treaty The United States government sought at the time to have this cffense included in an of extradition | amendment to the treaty, but without result, and there the matter is r EN YEARS OF ¢ ting. ELE APBIVITY ENDED, Slatin ey Escapes from the Mahdist Camp Native Ald, ASSOUN, Egypt, March 16.—Slatin Bey fas arrived here, having escaped from the Cais Mahdi's camp at Khartoum after eleven years of captivity. Father Ohrwalder and two Sisters of Charity, long prisoners at Omdurman, escaped from there on November 20, 1891, and arrived at Roon December 1 of the same year. CAIRO, March 16.—The following are the particulars of the escape of Slatin Bey from Mahdi's camp, Omdurman, near Khartoum, where he has been a prisoner for eleven years past, Slatin escaped with the assi ance of a Soudanese merehant named Eyail, who arrived here from Omdurman some months ago bearing a letter from Slatin Bey in which the latter asked i some arrange- ment could be made with Eyail so as to en- able him to escape. Eyail was placed in com- munication with the Austrian consul here, Baron Heydler von Egeregg-Syrgenstein, who made a contract with the merchant, the lat- ter agreeing to try and effect the escape of Slatin Bey. When the arrangements were completed Eyall returned to Omdurman and laid his plans to get Slatin away, but the first attempt failed. Eyail, however, per- sisted, and eventually succceded in getting Slatin Bey out of Omdurman. The Soudanese merchant closely followed the plans of Abdal- lah, the native who was successful in bringing about the escape of Father Rosignoli from the camp of the mahdi. They obtained possession of camels, and when the proper time ar- rived, rose out of camp at night and made at full speed for Berber, following the Nile as closely as possible at night and hiding in the nills back from the river in the day time. For ecighteen days, suffering great privations, the fugitives journeyed through the desert to Assoun. It was three days after they left Omdurman before their eseape was no- ticed. When the alarm was given there was a hot pursuit, and a body of pursuing dervishes reached Kokreb, sixty miles from Suakim, last week. Slatin Bey made nine previous attempts to escape. Slatin Bey, who is an Austrian, was the Egyptian governor of Senaar when Khartoum fell and General Gordon was killed. At that time he was led in chains to Khartoum, where he has been a prisoner ever since. In the early part of 1889 a’ family living in Vienna named Slatin recefved a letter from Khlefir Abdallab, who ~succeeded the late mahdi as chieftain of Egypt's rebellious provinces in Soudan. The letter stated that Slatin Bey had adopted the religion of Mo- hammed. “He lives with us,” the letter { continued, “honored by our friendship, one of our valued advisers, and is perfectly con- tent and happy in the highest degree. We see in him-neither grief nor chagrin, but, on the contrary, he fs perfectly healthy and is looked upon as our own son, and one of the most honored mahdis.” The letter invited any of Slatin's rela- tives or any Austrian to visit him, assuring them they could do so in perfect safety, in consideration of Slatin's sincere pity, of his faith in Islam and because he had become one of the most eminent and highly esteemed mahdis, At about (heé Rame time a letter was received from Slatin, which established the authenticity of this®communication, Re- | ports concerning Slatin ‘Bey have been con- tradictory, but it is beleved he was em- ployed in the most servile tapacity while In captivity. After Father Ohrwalder effected his escape in December, 1891, he stated there were forty Europeans still held at Obdurman; that they were kept loaded with iaacles and were often cruelly beaten, and ‘were so strictly guarded that they bad lost all hope of ever escaping. He also stated Slatin Bey was still alive and belonged to the bodyguard of the mahdi's successor, but that also was closely watched, 4 he Revolt in a Brazilian b idtary School. BUENOS AYRES, March’'16.—A dispatch received here from Rio de Janeiro says that the cadets of the milltary schoal have broken out in revolt The government is exerclsing strict censorship over alithe telegraph com panies RIO DE JANEIRO, March 16.—The mutiny of the cadets at the military school has been ressed by the trcops, and cadets to the number of 800 have been expclied. The mutiny was caused by political intrigues ageinst President Moraes and the government of Brazil. A number of the eadets engaged in the disturbance have been arrested. Leowumed Kelaior s with Portuga RIO DE JANEIRO, Mareh 16.—Th* gov- ernment today formaily ‘decided to resume diplomatic relations' with Tortugal, which relati were broken off at the time of the close of the rebellion, when a number of in- surgents were given refuge on board Portu- gucse war vessels, JAPAN AS A SCOURGE European Monarchies Trembling at the Thought of Being Overrun by Her, OOLEFUL HINTS OF A FRIGHTENED BRITON He Points Out the Possibility of Power to Be Wielded by the Mikado, LVENTS THAT INDICATE THE RESULT Progress of the Present War Points to One Inevitable Conclusion, (URUPE SHOULD DELAY NO LONGER Interference to Check the Plan, if Possible Now, Should Begin at Once—China Supinely Awalts the Outcome of the War. (Copyrighted 1885 by Press Publishing Company.) LONDON, March 16.—(New York World Cable—Special Telegram.)—The members ot the governments of Great Britain, Germany and Russia are reticent, of course, concern- ing what action will be taken in case Japan should demand a large concession of Chinese territory in the peace provisions. The offi- cial organs the subject with the utmost delicacy, but influential men in private conversation bilities with bery intimated in a speech la newspaper touch discuss the proba- Lord Rose- st autumn how deeply Interested England is in the possible disruption of China. “It will not be permitted by Engl indeed by the civilized world, A member of Parliament, in close relations serious concern. 0d, nor said he, with the government, said today: “The un- of the Japanese more the unanimous testimony of interrupted success and still foreign correspondents that the Chinese peo- ple have conquerors without hostility, with effusion, raises a question of startling importance to army, received the sometimes even Russia and England, particularly, and to all European nations. the attention has been the subject of much correspondence between London and St. Petersburg. MIGHT CONQUER THE WORLD. “Japan's lengthy preparations for war and well known arrangements for the civil administration of the conquered proy- inces might indicate a clearly formed inten- tlon on her part to remain in Peking after capturing the city. The Tartar dynasty was never popular In China, There is no national feeling or patriotism in the country, as we understand it. The outrageous tyranny and corruption of the mandarins, if followed by the present policy of Japan in the conquered proviness to respect property and establish the same admirable system of order and good government as at home, would Induce the Chinese people to welcoms gladly a change of masters. Japan firmly seated at Pek'ng, with control of 300,000,000 people and all their resources. Could all the civilized world prev; her? She is flushed with victory now. Un- hampered by outside influence, her armies are certain to occupy the Chinese capital by We should not permit her to farther, that is, if we even to bring her to a halt or to Intertere successfully with what terms she to exact. As to the acquisition of the island geographically belongs to Japan, and T do not believe any govern- ment would object to its transfer.” CHINA HAS ASKED NO LOAN. There is no positive information that China has even sounded the great financial houses here, or in Paris or Berlin, regarding a loan to pay the Japanese indemnity. The Roths- childs have not been approached with any definite proposal The financlers here think the placing in Europe of such a $400,000,000, or half that amount, is very doubtful, unless under It has recently occupied of our own government and her now persons and Suppose, then, 1 against next summer, go much e have the power chooses Formosa, certainly. loan as Is suggested, provisions extremely disadvintsgious to China. The comparatively small loan placed here some months ago, although secured by the customs duties at several large Chinese ports, has proved unfortunate to speculators and investors, Probably, China in terms of The universally accepted in silver, taken tainty that the terms of peace will provide for the open- ing up of the great and steady purposes of commerce. BALLARD SMITH. ENROUTE TO JAPA N however, her desperation would offer such security now that money would be had, prospect of the loan is as accounting for the rise together with the anticipated cs the and of country consequent inflow silver for the L1 HUNG CHANG Poace Commissioner Starts for the 1co with Japan’s Representativos, (Copyrighted 1895 by Press Publishing Company.) PBKING, China, March 16.—To the Editor the New York World: Li Hung Chang Chinese plenipotentiary ap- pointed 1o go to Japan to negotlate a treaty of peace, left Taku yesterday with his ret- inue, Signed by DENBY. of the minister who ates him Mr. Denby, the United cables this dispatch, minister to Peking. was through that China requested the United States minister at Toklo, Mr. Dun, to approach Japan on the subject of peace. Following that overture a correspondence was carried on between the two through the United States ministers, led to the appointment of peac and an agreement in general conditions, of peace. Taku of the Peiko river, on the Its forts command the entrance o the river which leads to Tien-Tsin, the port of Peking, the capital of the Chinese empire. Tien-Tsin is the capital of the province of Chili, over which Li Hung Chang has long ruled, exer- clsing a power scarcely inferior that of the emperor. Prince Kung uncle of the emperor, and now at the head of affaira in the empire, was appointed negotiate a peace before Li Hung Chang was chosen am- is It powers which ambassadors terms on the is at the mouth It of Pechili in to an to THE BEE BULLETIN. Weather Forecast for Nebraska— Generally Fair; Warmer; South Winda. Page. 1. Spain's Answor Not at Hand, Germans Digoassing Agricaitural Rellef Japan Has Frightened Earope. England's Cabinet May Fall to Pleces. South Omaha's Building Wil Walt, Horrors of & Chicago Reformatory, Rallroad Rumor from iloston. Country Militia Coming to New Orleans. Benodlct's B Easlly Wins Fromont’s Candidates Placed to Run. Long Feud Settled at Crawlord, Scott Caso May Go te Boyd County, Last Weok In Omaha Soclety Sullivan Says Ho'll Fight Again, rriors Arrested for Arson. Loeal Views on Spring Tusiness. Discussing # County Tramway. Whit Happens at South Omiha, Council Blaffs Mappeaings. Firebugs Terrorizo Algona. Theatrioal Gossip Here and Among tho Musical People, Wom: THer Ways and Hor World, Crincess Biamarck as n Wife and Mother St. Patrick and His Festival, On the Old Spanish Trail, Co-Operative Rome Bullding N Editorial and Comment, Conditlon of St titat Episode In the Career of John Wesley. John Walters' Reliots in w Jangio. Condition of Omaha's Jobbing Trade. Commorclal and clal News. Featares of tho Live Stock Ma rket. Mystorios of Mardl Gras, Emerson and {1is Den ut Concord, Yellow Jackets and Pencook Feathers, ow Story of the Great Grant. Growing Germs of Cr Captain Avery and the Mo Model System of Profit 19, Weekly Grist of Sporting 20. Chronicles of Count Antonlo— Abroad. .. 18 al’s Ship. attend the conference, but s no indi- cation that the prin o HAS FULL POWER TO ACT. Li Hung Chang has been given full powers to conclude a treaty. China has pledged her- self through the United States ministers to abide by whatever conditions he may accept in her behalf. General John W. Foster, ex- | Amerfean secretary of state, was engaged by China to act as counsel for the peace com- mission which went to Japan with worthless | credentials, He has been retained, it stated, as adviser of Li. Japan’s peace ambassadors are Count Ito, her prime minister, and Viscount Mutsu, min- ister of forelgn affairs. They have authority to bind Japan to whatever conditions they agree to impose on China. They are on the way to the place of meeting. The conference will be held at Shimonose Hi, on the southwestern extremity of Hondo, the largest island of the Japanese empire, on which are situated Tokio, Yokohama and most of the chief citles, It is at the entrance to the inland sea. Hiroshima, the emperor's war headquarters, Is about 100 miles away. There was considerable correspondence over the place of assembling. Li Hung Chang wanted the Japanese ambassadors to meet him In Manchuria, near Port Arthur, and in the con- quered territory. He pleaded physical in- firmities as his excuse for not wishing to travel to Japan. Premier Ito would not hear to such a proposition, and the getting to- gether must be on Japavese sofl. An ambassador of Li Hung's rank is en- titled to travel in the best war ship at com- mand. If he should sail up to a Japan port like Yokohama, or if he should undertake to invade the inland sea and go to Hiroshima on a man-of-war flying the Chinese flas, the government might not be able to restrain the Japanese. At any rate, the authorities did not feel that it would be prudent to run such a risk. Consequently a small, out-of-the-way place was chosen, and there the ambassadors will seek fo frame a treaty, the importance of which to the civilized world cannot be estimated. WASHINGTON INFORMED OF THE MOVE, WASHINGTON, March 16.—The Japanese legation has recelved a cable message con- firming the press dispatches of the departure of Li Hung Chang. The peace negotiations will be conducted at Shimonoselki instead of Hiroshima as originally announced. change has been made to accommodate Li Hung Chang for his voyage on Chinese ves- sels, and if tho negotiations were held at Hiroshima he would be compelled to transter to a Japancse ship. Shimonoseki s on the ex- treme southwestern coast of Japan, and it was here that in the early 60s the forelgn powers forced Japan to assent to certain in- demnities demanded of the empire. The town has a population of 10,000, It fs stated at the legation that assertions that the peace negotiations have been ar- ranged already and that the whole affair is cut and dried are erroncous, and that all statements as to the details of terms of peace are guesses. None of the details, it 1s sald, have been settled and they will not be until the negotiations are in progress. Japan has been informed that Li Hung Chang has full power to arrange terms of peace and has been assured China desires that the war be stopped by treaty agreement. The details as to the price China shall pay have not been definitely arranged, neither of the exact ces- sion of territory nor the amount of the in- demnity or kind of money In which it shall be pald. Japan has reached certain con- cluslons, especlally respecting the cession of territory, but no conclusion has been reached with China, Minister Denby has cabled the State department confirming the press re- ports of the departure of Li Hung Chang for Japan. He says the viceroy salled in royal state with 130 persons, embarked on two ships, GERMANY'S there intends is TO SILVER, Prince 1 enloh an lmportant Ntatement to the Counell, BERLIN, March 16.—The grain monopoly proposals have been virtually shelved by the state council which has also declded not to recommend any new measures regarding the prohibition of the import of American cattle, The state council has also endorsed Chancel- lor Hohenlohe's statement on silver in the Relchstag on February 15 regarding the pro- posed international —monetary conference Prince Hohenloho then said: “Without prejudicing our imperial currency one must confess that the differences in the value of gold and silver continues to react upon our commercial life. Following, therefore, the tendencies which led to the apointment of a silver commission, 1 am ready to consider, in conjunction with the federal government, whether we caunot enter upon a fricudly in terchange of opinion as to eommon remedial measures with the other states which are chiefly interested in maintaining the value of silver.” Will Forbid silver Importations. OAPE TOWN, March 16.—The government of the Transvaal republic has informed the banks that it has decided to strictly prohibit any further importation of foréign silver coln. It 1s added, however, that the foreign silver colns already in the Transveal will be al- bassador, It was supposed that both wuuldllkud 10 clreulate 1 that couptry, SPLIT OVER SPEAKER Resignation of Peel May Be the End of the. Rosebery Administration, PLEDGED TO WAIT THE QUEEN'S RETURN. Both the Premior and 8.lisbury Have Agreed to the Armistice, HARC URT BOUND TO MAKE TROUBLE His Opposition to Bannerman's Ambition Takes on Violent Coloiing, QUEENSBERRY-WILDE MESS GETS WORSE Promises Now to Stir Up a Scandal Almos Equal to the Notorlous CL Aftair and Stroed Mrs, Votter Palmer and the Pope. (Copyrighted 1805 by Tress Publishing Company. LONDON, March 16.—(New York World Cable.—Special Telegram.)—English politt clans are occupied just now with questions more imminent, if less lmportant, than the Eastern problim. A definite statement was published here last week and cabled to Amer- fea that Lord Rosebery had actually resigned. This fs not true. The facts were exactly as glven you in this correspondence a fortnight ago, and since then Lord Rescbery was with Qifficulty persuaded from resigning, even up. to the time of his interview with the queen. the day before her departure for Nice, ¥ understand that she exacted both from him and Lord Salisbury, whom iiflcantly summoned directly after interview with Rosebery, that disruption be avolded during her The over the speakership has attalned bitterness unprece- dented in English history of that ofice, and the avowed candidacy of Campbell Banner- man, etary of war, was so fiercely op- posed by Sir Willlam Harcourt that a fatal split in the cabinet is considered probable, and, if it should come, the resignation of the premier and a general clection would be almost compulsory. MAKING A BEASTLY MESS. malodorous Wilde-Queensbury scandal daily In unwholesome intensity, and 1s ahead quite certainly exposure theatrical, artistic and literary circles, which will equal In foulness a sim- ilar exposure some years ago, which drove many young, titled and ultra-fashionable Lon- doners into dishonorable exile. The marquis id not follow Wilde to Monte Carlo, He was. fn London yesterday., While it Is not im- probable that he would assault Wilde, his friends say he would never dignify him by accepting or glving an invitation to a duel. HIGH HONOR FOR MRS. PALMER. The World's Roman correspondent writes that the pope’s special and private audience- to Mrs. Palmer was one of the few such ever accorded to a Protestant, His holiness asked many questions about America ih general, and educational questions in particular. His remarks were highly complimentary to the American nation. He was greatly pleased to’ find how much his loan to the World's fair was appreciated by all classes in the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer subsequently visited the Vatican gardens, another privilege rarely. accorded to strangers, DEATH OF A TITLED GIRL. Lady Mary Alva Montagu, one of the beau- tiful twin daughters of the duchess of Man- chester, dled at Rome of pneumonia, resulting from a severe chill. She was named for Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, as Consuela, the daughter of that lady, was named for the duchess. As Is usually the case with twins, the two daughters were deeply attached to each other, and the surviving girl has been’ prostrated by the shock of her sister's death. Lady Mary always looked delicate, and it was largely for her benefit that a yachting trip in the Mediterrancan had been under- taken. Mr. Van Alen of Newport and Fernando Yznaga have been of the duchess' party in Rome. BALLARD SMITH, SOUIALISTS CONVICTED, sho i, the should absence, quarrel The grows there in certain an SIXTY TWO ilven Sentences Ranglng from n Few Days to Five Yoars. BUDA-PEST, March 16.—The trial has been finished at Szezedin of sixty-two soclal- ists, who were charged with being concerned in the peasant riots at Holdemzo, Vazarhol, Hungary, in April last. Twenty«ix of the soclalists were sentenced to imprisonments for periods ranging from cight days to five years. There Is intense excitement in the vicinity of Szegedin in consequence of these sentences, and the police and troops are being held in readiness to prevent additional riots. The riots at Holdemzo, Vazarhol, oce curred the last week in April, 1894, The police at that time being called out, refused to interfere with the strikers, The claim was made that the local police greatly sym- pathized with the socialists. The rioters suc- ceeded In forcing thelr way into the town hall before the arrival of the state troops. They tore from the walls the portraits of the King and queen of Hungary and Louls Kogs suth and trampled upon them. They nearly wrecked the bullding. Four of the rloters were killed and a large number injured dure ing the melee, Pussengers on the Puris. SOUTHAMPTON, March 16.—Among the passengers aboard the Amcrican liner Paris, sailing from this port today for New York, were Mr. William Carlisle, son of John G, Carlisle, secretary of the United States treas- ury, Sir Weetman Dickinson Pearson and Lady Pearson and Mr. Harry Rosenfeld, Sir Weetman Dickinson Pearson 1s & part- ner in the firm of 8. Pearson & Son, contrace tors for the Blackwell tunnel under the ‘Thames and other great works. He Is also the new member of Parliament for Colchester, where he won a seat for the government from the Torles. Chinn Asks Eura ST. PETERSBURG, March 16.—The Chinese envoy has solicited the intervens tion of Russia for the protection of the in- tegrity of China's continental territories in the event of Japan Insisting upon cone slons on the Chinese mainland. The Chin envoy has gone to Berlin in order to make the same request of Germany and similar fnstructions have been sent to the Chinese envoy at London and Parls. It {s added thay no request for aseistance has been made to the United States, Italy or Austria. ean Protectios Ineresscd the Duty on Corn, STOCKHOLM, March 16—The Ricksdag today adopted a bill Increasing the import duty on unground corn to 8 kroner 80 ore per 100 kilos, The duty on ficur was Dok chinged.