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‘which bave already been printed, THE SA striking proof of the prosperity of the country under British administration. Fighticg is certain. Th.e Mahdi hasa large force at Dongola, and this will un- doubtedly be formidably increased before the expedition has time to get within striking distance. Grave fears are enter- tained of the fighting qualities of the ptian army, and the expedition will prove a severe test of its courage. It may be attended Ly disaster. The Anglo-Egyptian expedition has the unstinted approval of the Conservatives and Liberal-Unionists, the hesitating sup- | port of the Liberals and the fierce opposi- tion of the Rad A statement relative | to the matter will be made in the House | of Commons on Monday night by the Right Hon. George Curzon, Parliamentary Secretary of tee Foreign Office, and wi! to the warmest debate of the s will be followed by every device of obstruc- | ti In gleaning from official opinion it | cals. is found that the line of defense of the | Government w. pedit ill be a denial that the ex- n aims at a reconquest of any part | Soudan, and a statement that the troops will only be employed to e to Wady Halfa, while the | advance to Old Dongola, headquarters at El Ordeh (New Dongola). Itis stated this afternoon that the Egyptian troops will not go be- yond Old Dongola. Defense, notconquest, will be the substance of the Government’s explanations. rances of this sort will dec no- According to Cairo advices the 0 Egyptian troops who will take part n the expedition will begin to advance ediately. Part of them will march while the others will pro- ht-d 1t steamers -up the river, which is now so low ‘that in many places camel port must be largely use hal Lord Wolseley and | General Kitchner do not seem to place h trust in the Egyptian troops. Itis cted that the Dervishes will make t Bl Ordeh, but in case of fight- be ready to sup- | port the ha view to giv- ing tt pport, a railway will be con- structed for 100 miles southward from Wady Halfa, and river steamers, armed with guns, will be stationed between the point where the railway will terminate and El Or The Nile at this part of its | course navigable for light-draught | steamers for the greater part of the year. The British troops, if the real designs of the Government are carried out, will ad- British puard the I 1 t100; vance in force up the Nile in August. A contingent of the Indian army, chiefly | Sikhs and Ghoorkas, will, it is reported, | be likely to be landed at Suakin to operate | in conjunction with the Anglo-Egyptian | forces and march to Berber. The London | P have arranged to send special cor- | respondents with the expedition. It is generally conceded that the campaign will | be a big undertaking, though the Govern- | ment is reluctant to disclose the whole scheme. | Simultaneously with the Dongola expe- dition a Belgian-Congo Free State force, | led Baron Dhanis, will attack the | Der s on the Upper Nile. Acting with | the consent of the British Foreign Office, Baron Dhanis has recruited at Lagos 680 Houssas, who have been drilled by British officers. These natives, who are splendid | tighters and who will go wherever they are | led without fear of danger, will join the | Belgian and Congo Free State forces. The | Congo State has chartered thirty steamers, | which will convey the expedition as far as | possible on the Congo River. | BHOKERS BADLY MPPED. Blue Jay Cormer Manipulators at Denver Meet With Disaster. Ruin and Disgrace Confronting the Con- spirators—Consternation Among the Dupes. | DENVER, Coro., March 14.—The corner attempted by Brokers Randall and Royer in Blue Jay yesterday proved disastrous to the schemers and dragged in many of the outside brokers who bad attempted to scalp the market. J. H. Royer failed to appear at the Clearing-house to-day and 34,000 shares were sold out by the secre- | tary of the Exchange. His shortage to the Clearing-house was over $36,000, while to other brokers it was very much more. Because of Royer's failure Brokers Ger- araghty and Keithley were unable to clear and they, too, were sbld out, all three be- ing suspended. Randall evidently pro- tected himself at the expense of his asso- ciates in the scheme. The stock dropped from 29 cents on yesterday’s quotation to 4 cents to-day. This affair has created & great sensation and much indignation among the brokers, who were forced to settle by giving checks instead of receiving the profits tirey thought they had made yesterday. Trouble now awaits Randall on Monday, when he must meet his futures. Tne Blue Jay Company disown any knowledee of this conspiracy of the brokers to corner the stock. On contracts 95,000 additional shares will be issued by the company on Monday. During the flurry of Friday Royer loaded up with 123,000 shares, most of which was on cash transactions, while Randall kept shy of cash trades and dabbled in futures. e iy NORTHERN PACIFIC AFFAIRS, The Plan for Reorganization About to Be Published. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 14.—The plan for the recrganization of the North- ern Pacific Railroad, the chief features of will probebly be published Monday morning. There was a meeting of the reorganization committec and different interests of the property this afternoon for the considera- tion of the plan. The plan has the ap- proval of Brayton Ives, the president of the road, who bas acted chiefly for the preferred shareholders. Mr. Ives will re- tire from the vresidency when the reorgan- ization is completed. Bequeathed by Aimee. NEW YORK, N.Y., March 14.—When Cel estine Aimee Tronchon, the actress, better known as Aimee, died in Parisin 1885, she bequeathed thirty-four acres of land in Passaic County, N. J., to an or- vhans’ home in Paris. The land was sub- | sequently sold for §18,000 to pay a claim of $700 against the estate. Now it has been discovered that as Aimee had no legal beirs and as her will was not according to the law of New Jersey the land really es- cheated to the State. A bill has been in- troduced in the New Jersey Legislature to release the claim of the estate. 0 Ttemitted His Own Fine. LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 14.—Jn the Law and Equity Court yesterday Judge Sterling B. Toney, who is a great stickler for promptness, turned up izte and ordered himself iined $5 for contempt of court. ‘When his docket had been cleared be re- mitted the fine and all others of a like DR, CARL PETERS MUST BE TRIED Foundation for Accusations Against the African Explorer. | BEBEL’S CHARGES STAND. | For His Fiendish Practices the German Official Was Ac- cused of Murder. TO BE PUBLICLY PROSECUTED. That Decision Reached After Revela- tions Brought Out by the Debate in the Reichstag. BERLIN, Grzmany, March 14.—The concluding incidents of the debate in the Reichstag to-day upon the occasion of the discussion of the colonial budget, which developed charges against Dr. Carl Peters, the African explorer, abundantly justified the demands which were made and ac- ceded to by the Government thatan in- quiry be made into the accusations brought against Peters. The defense of Dr. Peters, which was attempted by Dr. Kayser, the Secretary of the Colonial Depggtment, left the position of the Government lament- ably weak, esnecially in view of the de- clarations made by Dr. Lieber, the clerical | leader, that the Central party held that Dr. Feters was a criminal in the eyesof all honest men and that the whoie Ger- man-African administration * had been placed under suspicion. The accusation made by Herr Bebel,- the socialist leader, that Dr. Peters had forced the daughter of a native chief to be- come his mistress and had subsequently hanged her and his male body-servant upon discovering that itlicit relations were being maintained between them, formed the pivot of to-day’s debate, which was of a most exciting character. The charge made by Herr Bebel is based on a report made by Bishop Tucker to the English Missionary Society, and also upon corre- spondence which passed between Bishop Tucker and Dr. Peters in which the Bishop accused Peters of murder. In reply to this accusation Dr. Peters rote to Bishop Tucker that he had mar- ried the girl according to African rites, and that in accordance with the native African law he was entitled to kill her upon discovering that she was guilty of infidelity. Dr. Kayser, Secretary of the Colonial Department, announced that the Chancel- lor, Prince Hohenlohe, had ordered the in- stitution of disciplinary proceedings against Dr. Peters in order to estabhish the truth or falsity of the contents of the letter supposed to have been written by Dr. Peters to Bishop Tucker. Herr Lonzmian was cheered on all sides when, in reply to Dr. Kayser, he said that what the Government had proposed to do in the matter was not enough. The pub- lic prosecutor, he said, must try Dr. Peters, not a disciplinary court, which had proved to be ineffective in the cases of Herr Leist, the Chancellor of the Came- roons, and his substitute, Herr Wehlau, who ought also to have been tried by the public prosecutor. Count von Arnim read a letter from Dr. Peters denying that he had ever written to | Bishop Tucker in the terms stated by Herr Bebel. The resuit of to-day’s debate will be that Dr. Peters besides being tried by a discip- linary court will also have to undergo pub- lic prosecution. Dr, Peters still holds a position in the service of the State ata salary of 6000 marks a year and is the leader of the party which is agitating Ger- man colonial extension. The revelations brought out by the debate and the disclos- ures yet to be made in the courts will be altogether likely to end his career of use- fulness if, indeed, there is any of it re- maining. The strain in the relations of Germany with England is rapidly relaxing under the influence of the conviction that a British expedition to Dongola would be the very best practical intervention in favor of Italy, and no beiter proof can be given to the political circle in Berlin of Eng- land’s friendliness towar@ Germany’s ally. Count Goluchowski, the Austrian Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs, learned of the decis- ion of the British Government to advance against Dongola before leaving Berlin for Vienna yesterday and called upon Sir Frank Lascelles, the British Embassador, and congratulated him, and the latter es- corted the Austrian Foreign Minister to the station. It ie a fact that Count Goluchowski ten- dered to Prince Hohenlohe the good offices ‘of Austria to settle the difficulty between Germany and England, and he also re- ferred ‘to the trouble between the two countries in conversation with the Em- peror. Rumor adds that the Kaiser assured Count Goluchowski that no difficulties existed between Germany and England, and the relations between the two Govern- ments were absolutely harmonious. In regard to the renewal of the Triple Alliance treaty, there is no doubt that Count Go- luchowski’s visit to Berlin was closely con- nected with the object. The treaty of Italy with the *“Zwei Kaiser Bund” ex- pires in 1897, but it will continie another six years unless one of the co: parties gives a year’s notice of wit] prior to the termination of the treafy. Marquis di Rudini, Italian Prime Minis- ter, had the option of giving a year's no- tice, but he has intimated his acceptance of the convention in its present form. The Dreibund is therefore safe until 1603. The Emperor’s visit to Count Lanza di Busca, the Italian Embassador, at the Ttalian embassy on Wednesday, the inter- view lasting four hours, is understood to have clinched the matter. The United States embassy here has issued a circular to the German univer- sities conveying an invitation from Pro- fessor Andrew West to take part in the coming celebrations of Princeton College upon the one hundred and fiftieth anni- versary of the organization of that institu- tion of learning. The universities of Er- langen, Freiburg and Rostock have replied that it would be impossible for them to send delegates so great a distance, but that they wiil not fail to send letters of con- gratulation upon the occasion of the cele- character that had been imposed on jurors and others during the week. bration. The university of Gottingen has | also replied to the invitation, but reserves yJ Lits decision in regard to sending repre- sentatives. J. B. Jackson, first secretary and charge d’affaires of the United States embassy, gave a dinner at the embassy last evening to the Brazilian Minister and his wife and the officials of the Brazilian legation. The Kaiser, while out driving to-day, ran over a working woman nsmed Auna Vendt as he was turning a corner of Gross- beren Strasse. His Majesty sprang out of the carriage before the driver had pulled up the horses and lified the woman from the ground and helped to remove her to a chemist’s shop. Being assured that the woman was not hurt beyond being shaken up, the Emeror entered his carriage and resumed his drive, but later he sent his personal aid-de-camp, Major von Moltke, to ascertain the condition of the woman. FXPELLED THE MINISTER. Members of a McKinley Club Objected to McLaughlin’s Language. EAST LIVERPOOL, Onro, March 14.— At a meeting of the McKinley Republican Club of this city Thursday night the Rev. J. B. McLaughlin, formerly of this city, but now pastor of the Methodist Protest- ant Church of Turtle Creek, Pa., was sum- marily expelled for conduct unbecoming a member and for violent and insulting lan- guage. Charges were preferred against him a week ago for a statement which he was said to have made reflecting on the charac- ter of Governor McKinley. The Rev. Mr. McLaughlin, during a speech made at a meeting of the Patriotic Orders of Pitts- burg on March 1, was reported as saying that Governor and Mrs. McKinley, while visiting Colonel John N. Taylor, a member | of the Governor’s staff here,danced and drank wine. The Rev. Mr. McLaughlin was notified to be present'at the meeting of the club Thursday night to answer to the charges against him. He attended the meeting and stirred things up so thatitissaid a fight was narrowly averted. He was then expelled for language which he is alleged to have used against several members of the club during his speech. . FOR A GOLD STANDARD. Action Decided Upon at @ Conference of Morton Men. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 14.—Since the declaration of principles by the Repu- blicans at the Ohio convention the friends of Governor Morton have felt that they should take some action. A conference has been called and it has practically been decided that the Morton men should come out emphatically for a gold standard. The silver men seem undecided. Sen- ator Pettigrew ot South Dakota, one of the most stalwart friends of silver, says that the silver men will not try to run the convention, but will be satistied with any good man who will pledge himself not to veto Congressional action. CHANCES OF CANDIDATES. Mr. Manley Figures on the Delegates Al- ready Eleoted. CHICAGO, IrL., March 14.—A speci; from Washington says: Joe Manley of Maine, Secretary of the Republican Na- tional Committee, has been figuring on the delegates already elected to the St. Louis Convention. He figures out that up to date there have been elected 200 delegates. In the cases of 34 of these there are serions contests. This leaves 166 delegates, who are distributed as follows: McKinley, 57; Reed, 36; Allison, 32; Cullom, 10; Mor- ton, 5; Quay, 26. e To Support Pattison. BEDFORD, Pa., March 14.—The Demo- cratie County Committee to-day elected four delegates to the State convention and instructed them to support Ex-Governor Robert E. Patfison for the Presidential nomination. Resolutions eulogizing Mr. Cleveland and his administration were passed. CARLISLE, Pa., March 14.—The Cum- berland County Democratic Convention to-day elected five delegates to the State convention. Ex-Governor Pattison was indorsed for the Presidential nomination. PR e Two Delegates Elected. SYRACUSE, N. Y., March 14.—Ex-Sen- ator Francis Hendricks and ex-United States Senator Frank Hiscock were elected delegates by the convention for - the Twenty-seventh Congressional district, held to-day, to attend the Republican National Convention at St. Louis. et o Instructed for McKinley. COLUMBUS, Omio, March 14.—Con- gressman L. J. Fenton was nominated for Congress by the Republican Congressional Convention at Portsmouth to-day and dele- gates to the National Republican Conven- tion were thosen. They were instructed to vote for McKinley. grieathg s NS Solid for Speaker Reed. PROVIDENCE, R. I., March 14.—The Republican machine leaders in this State have selected a delegation of eight to the National convention, headed by ex-Mayor Olney of Providence, and all are solid for Speai;er Reed for President. THE STRIKING THILORS, Cutters Called Out of Chicago Wholesale Clothing: Houses. This Move Is Expected to Cripple the Trade in Ready-Made * Garments. CHICAGO, L., March 14.—The cutters, trimmers and tailors to-day extended their strike to include the wholesale clothing- houses where union men have been em- ployed. The order was issued after a meeting of the executive committee of the Cutters’ Union, and 150 cutters left work as a measure of assistance to their striking fellow-workers, although having no griev- ance against their employers. The original strikers now claim there is not a union cutter at work in Chicagp, ex- in the custom tailor-shops. The strike leaders are determined to cripple the ready-made clothing trade, to- day’s walkout being the finishing-touch in that line. The strikers expéct a speedy surrender of the manufacturers who are fighting the cutters when they rezlize the result of having between 18,000 and 25,000 tailorsidle. The manufacturers claim to bave between 200 and 250 non-union cut- ters at work for them, while the strikers say there are sixty. It was announced that thirty non-union cutters left New York last night to go to work here. The mannfacturers claim the tailors are not on a sympathetic strike, but are strik- ing against the contractors for higher wages on each garment, and that if the contractors cannot get the work dons here they will send it to Cincinnati, Cleveland and Milwaukee shops. s sgen gk Death of an Ohio Editor. COLUMBUS, Onro, March 14.—Daniel L. Bowersmith, long editor of the Ohio Stats Journal, died this afternoon at the Central Insane Asylum, to which he was committed a month ago. FRANCISCO CALL, SU THAT FIGHT 15 YET IN EMBRYD, Bob Fitzsimmons Draws the Line at Corbett at Present. MUST VANQUISH MAHER The Ex-Champion Declared Not to Be in the Same Class With the Champion. LIP PUGILISM NOW BCOMING. Threats to Drive Jim Off the Stage as Well as Out of the Prize Ring. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 14.—The heavy-weight championship battle of the world is justasmuch in the embryo as ever. Corbett has signed articles of agree- ment that purported to be from the Na- tional Sporting Club of London. This organization has repudiated the ar- ticles of agreement and sticks to its origi- nal declaration. That is that no proposi- tion in which Corbett's name is involved will be seriously entertained until the ex-champion has withdrawn his remarks made about the National Sporting Club and apologized to the members of that organization. . When asked for his views on the situa- tion to-day Fitzsitamons laughed and said : “The fake articles of agreement have a Sioux City flayor about them. I haye the highest opinion of the gentlemen con- nected with the National Sporting Club, and am willing to meet any man under its auspices that they consider worth offering a purse for, but Corbett. I draw the line at that man for several reasons. “1 am now several classes by myself. I am the heavy-weight and middle-weight champion of the world. “I will fight any man from 150 pounds upward that honestly wishes to fight. I draw the line, however, at Corbett. I will give him a dose of his own medicine. I will not be so severe with him as he was with me, though. All I demand is that he vanquish Peter Maher. If he can, and does defeat Peter Maher, and I doubt very much if hejcan, I will take him on at once. ““When he refused to fight me and prac- tically put Maher up in his place, it is not generally known that I offered to stop him in ten rounds. This, however, is the case. Iinstructed Stuart to make a match of this kind when hLe came to New York to try to get Corbett to meet me. Corbett never honestly intended to fizht me, or we could have met long ago. He is afraid of me, but is now seeking to advertise himself as an actor at my expense. “His idea is not to fight, but to keep himself before the public. I have driven him out of the prizering and I will drive him off the stage Before I am through with him. If noone laysclaim to my title of champion, I may waive my conditions slightly in Corbett’s favor. I may even go so for as to not insist that he defeat Maher and get him on in a limited-round contest. “1 mean to agree to stop him in ten rounds. This he knows I can do and he will no doubt meet my ultimatum with as many subterfuges and dodges as he has done heretofore. The only chance he will get at my hands, unless he defeats Maher, is a limited-round contest, and he can stop talking and attend to business just as well now as a year or two later.” S AMERICA WINS AT CHESS. Great Enthusiasm in New York — The “inal Score. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 14.—The in- ternational chess ‘'match between Great Britain and Ireland and the United States of America was finished to-day, and Amer- ica won by four and a half to three and a half games. The proceedings to-day were similar to those of yesterday, moves being made pretty rapidlv. The spectators, numbering upward of 1000, enjoyed the match thoroughly, and at the conclusion there was a cheer such as has never been heard before at a chess match. The final score is as follows: AMERICA. GREAT BEITAIN. SETANERDG. RO RACAE H Players. £l & Players. i | Blackburn Burns. Details of the play: Pillsbury, who had lost right along, to-day fought on gamely, but to resign after sixty-six moves. Showalter beat Burns in capital style after sixty-four moves. Bird went down before Burille after :ony-e:lght moves, the former being prettily rapped. Barry disposed of Tinsley in beautiful style after sixty-seven moves. The games between Hyems, Locock, Hodges and Mills and Delmar and Atkins were drawn after forty-one, forty and forty- one moves rqsrectivul_v. Jackson brilliantly outplayed Baird and won after thirty-three moves. LONDON, EXe., March 14.—When it be- came known in London chess circles this morning that the British team would have a good chance of winning the match agaiost America, many chess-players hur- ried to the Cannon-street Hotel, where the Britishers were conducting their games, in order to witness the play. Greatenthu- siasm prevailed when shortly after the beginning of play the first victory fell to England. The winner, E. M. Jackson, is still a very young man._ All the experts present admitted that Jackson won his game in good style. . Adter this the spectators became mostly interested in the Pillsbury-Blackburn game, and at about 4:30 it was thought that Pillsbury would draw the coutest. After Showalter had won his game the general impression here was that most of the games would be drawn, and that the issue of the match would depend upon the Pillsbury-Blackburn game; but after Mills consented to a draw, much to the disap- mzment of all present, and when Bird me a prey to Burille’s combinations, BxRP, it was realized here that the Britishers would lose the match. There is only one game left to be fin- ished, the one between Tinsley and Barry. The latter player is scarcely known here, and his wonderful and precise :Flay yas the object of much admiration. The Brit- ishers took their defeat in a sportsmanlike manner, and Sir George Newnes, Bart., said to those faithful ones around him that he would send the trophy to Americs, ad finally AY, MARCH 15, 1896. and that he and the Britich players wonld try their very best to bring the plate back to England next year. Rialel o Won the Skattng Race. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 14—At the Washington ice palace to-night 3500 people witnessed a sharply contested skat- ing race of five miles between Joseph F. Donoghue of Newburg, N. Y., Harley Dad- idson of Toronto, Canada, and HowardyP. Moshier of Storm King, N. Y. Davidson led most of the distance. After a lively sfiurt in the last lap Donoghue won by about a foot. Time, 17:07}4. ETE i e Won by Cambridge. LONDON, Exa., March 14.—The Cam- bridge University athletic team to-day beat the London Athletic Club’s team by a score of 7 events to 2 JACKSUN AND WALLING. Pearl Bryan’s Slayers Fight Against Eeturning to Kentucky. CINCINNATI, Omro, March 14.—The intention of the Circuit Court to hear tue Jackson and Walling extradition matter this morning was balked by the fact that the attorneys in the case had not perfected their record in error from the decision of the Common Pleas Judge. In consequence adelay of several hours ensued, during which the attorneys were busy making up the papers. The case opened at 11 o’clock before Judges Ewing, Smith and Cox. Jackson and Walling were not present. Attorney Shepard, for Walling, mage the announce- ment, ana ex-Judge Ermston read a peti- tion in habeas corpus, setting forth that Jackson and Walling were unlawfully de- prived of their liberty, and pleadingerrors of law and lack of evidence. A bill of ex- ceptions was presented and-defects al- leged in the Common Pleas decision as to the warrants supporting requisition papers. Ermston then devoted himself to argument as to the position of Kentucky if the prisoners shoutd be extradited and as to any injury the accused would receive if taken there and placed recklessly on trial to determine which is the principal and which theraccessory. No-decision was reached, court adjourn- ing until next Monday. ALBERT WALLACE HANGED Brought to the Scaffold at Pekin, 111, for Killing His Sister. The Dissolute Man Was Crazed With Jealousy, Because Dis- inherited. PEKIN, ILL., March 14.—Albert Wallace was hanged to-day for the murder of his sister. He was pronounced dead in eleven minutes after the drop fell. He made no statement, The crime for which Wallace sufferea to-day was the murder of his sister, Mrs. John Bowlsby, the evening of February 19, 1895. All the parties lived in Dillon Township, Tazewell County. Albert had borne a bad reputation, often drinking heavily, and was considered a dangerous and quarrelsome fellow. When his father, Andrew Wallace, met hisdeath some years ago, his property was left to his daughter, and Albert was cut off with nothing. Mr. and Mrs. Bowlsby gave him a home and treated him well, though there were continual quarrels over the property. On the evening the crime was committed Mrs. Dowlshy waa plaving an orean in the sitting-room, her husband, Lawrence Linam (the hired man) and Albert stand- ing abont it singing. Albert suddenly teft the room, and a moment iater began shooting through the window with a shot- gun. Mrs. Bowlsby was shot in the stomach and died the next day. Her hus- band had his right hand shot off and Linam received a charge in the limbs. Immediately after the shooting Wallace drove to Pekin and gave himself up, though refusing to acknowledge the crime. At the September term of the Circuit Court he was found guilty and sentenced by Judge N. W. Green to hang October 25, 1895. The case was carried to the Supreme Court for the Northern District at Ottawa, which granted a supersedeas two days be- fore the day of execution. The motion for a new trial was argued before the Supreme Court of the Central District at the Janu- ary. term and on January 23 was remanded to the Circuit Court for resentence. Feb- ruary 19 he was sentenced to hang on March 14. ‘When the Supreme Court granted the supersedeas a mob was organized in Dil- lon Township to lynch Wallace, but lack- ing a leader nothing came of the attempt. Throughout the trial Wallace has pre- served wonderful coolness and up to the last joked and laughed with his guards. He has married sisters in Peoria and Tre- mont, who exhausted every resource to save his life. Dillon Township is a rough locality. Lewis Perrill was shot there by George Smith, who is now under sentence of death. The list of the crimes committed there is a long one. KRUGER'S TRIPTO LONDON It Is Fiercely Opposed by the Organ of the Boer Gov- ernment, Movements in the Transvaal Which Both Puzzie and Alarm the English. LONDON, EnG., March 14.—President Kruger of the South African republic told his latest interviewer, the editor of South Africa, that he was going to London as soon as he had arranged matters with his Government, The Volksstein of Pretoria, the accredited organ of the Boer Govern- ment, vehemently opposes President Kru- ger’s acceptance of Colonial Secretary Chamberlain’s invitation to visit London to discuss Transvaal affairs. Tibe English, says the Volksstein, have a shrewdly accu- rate desire to get President Kruger to Lon- don, in order to show Europe that the Transvaal is a vassal state of Great Britain. The journey, it adds, will humiliate the President and will make him appear, not as a ruler to carry out the wishes of the Transvaal, but as the tool of Downing street. The fact is that President Kruger con- tinues to puzzle English officialdom. ‘While seeming to be all frankness and friendliness, reliable advices report him to be secretly continuing his elaborate opera- tions to arm the Transvaal. Itisa matter of the greatest uneasiness here that small groups of Germans, who are understood 1o be veterans, are systematically im- ported into the Transyaal. The artiltery strength of the republic has been greatly increased and there are now a number of retired German officers attached to that branch of the service. SETTLEMENT 15 SO0N EXPECTED, Amicable Adjustment of the Venezuelan Dispute Predicted. SALISBURY WAVERING. Not Quite Ready to Submit the Boundary Question to Arbitration. YET TRYING TO DEAL DIRECT. Some Significance Attached to the Meeting of Sir Julian Pauncefote and Senor Andrade. NEW YORK, N. Y.. March 14.—A Her- ald special from Washington says: There is absolutely no foundation for the report that the United States and*Great Britain have come to a definite and satisfactory settlement of the Venezuelan controversy. That there will be an amicable settlement, however, no one familiar with the case has the slightest doubt. It is believed that Lord Salisbury is wavering in hie position against arbitra- tion, but at the same time it is thought he has not abandoned the hope of reach- ing a settlement directly with Venezuela. In this connection considerable impor- tance is attached to the recent meeting here between the British Embassador, Sir Julian Pauncefote, and the Venezuelan Minister, Senor Andrade. There is a pos- sibility that this meeting may lead to a resumption of diplomatic relations be- tween the two countries and eventually to the settlement of the boundary question. LONDON, Exe., March 14.—The Venezu- ela Blue Book, issued last week by the Government, gets scant respect on any side. The Speaker says that it cannot suppose that the Blue Book is all that Great Britain Intends to place hefore the Washington Commission. The Govern- ment, it adds, has been served with lam- entable inefficiency. If this country has to put up with a Na- tional humiliation‘the blame will rest with the officials of Downing street. ‘The St. James Gazette says that the re- ply made in the House of Commons last night by Sir Richard Webster, the Attor- ney-General, in response to a question asked by Sir E. T. Gourley relative to the alleged misquotations in the Blue Book does not vindicate the British case as pre- sented. It adds that there has been no in- tentional garbling of the evidence, but that it is impossible to deny that there was carelessness in the preparation of the work. This has created the belief that the Blue Book is less cogent and convincing in favor of the British claim than it really is. TO ADVANCE CHRISTIANITY. Non-Sectarians to Spread the Gospel in rureiyn Lanas. PITTSBURG, Pa.. March 14.—The Na- tional Christian Alliance, a non-sectarian organization, the object of which isthe ad- vancement of Christianity and the spread of the gospel in foreign lands, will begin a three days’ convention in Carnegie Hall, Aliegheny, to-morrow. In its system of both'home and foreign mission work the alliance is far-reaching and has more than 300 missionaries in all parts of the globe. To-night Rev. John Salmon condueted an all-night prayer meeting at the Alliance Society’s rooms on Penn avenue. g ey Docking Is Delayed. PORT ROYAL, 8. C., March 14.—The wind was against the docking of the In- diana this morning.. Evervihing was ready except the depth of water. The In- diana steamed down the river_about seven miles and there anchored. If the wind shifts to the east by morning the Indiana may be docked to-morrow, otherwise it is likely that the docking will not take place until the full moon. CHARLESTON, 8. C.,, March 14.—A special from Port Royal says that notice has been sent to the Indiana to come up and go into dock to-morrow at 9:40. oo ey Morton First Choice. BUFFALOQ, N. Y., March 14.—The Re- publican convention resulted in the selec- tion of McEinley delegates from the Thirty-third district. The Thirty-second district convention was in favor of Morton, but a resolution was adopted instructing the delegates to support McKinley as second choice. March April, May are most emphatically the months for taking & good blood purifier, because the system is now most in need of such a medicine, and because it more quickly responds to medicinal qualities, In winter impurities do not pass out of the body freely, but accumulate in the blood. April The best medicine to purify, enrich and vitalize the blood, and thus give strength and build up the system, is Hood’s Sarsa- parilla. Thousands take it as their Spring Medicine, and more are taking it to-day than ever before. If you are tired, “out of Miay ports,”” mervous, have bad taste in the orning, aching or dizzy head, sour stomach and feel all run down, a course of ‘Hood’s Sarsaparilla will put your whole body in good order and make you strong and vigorous. It is the ideal Spring Medicice and true nerve tonic, because Hood's Sarsaparitla s the One True Blood Purifler. All druggists 81, Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass, st ek & o ot Hood's PIlIS it o i JOY’S A NEW RoAD 19 PROFIT_;\,'HARIXG‘. NEW COMBINATIoN Combination For Twenty-Five (onts cuticura Soap. Vaseline, large Sponge, 15¢ size...., JOY’S JOY’S Discount for combination,., JOY’S McKenzie's Skin Soap B men of Kogom Saiia. JOY’S = Discount for combination. Combination For Fifty Cents. 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They are black, all- wool goods and a bar- gain at $12 50, but we want to move 200 suits in six days of this style alone, and this is the way to do it. Freight prepaid lo near points—say 100 mites. ‘ The above represents the 16th special adver- for this week only Smiths’ Weekly,” whicl illustrates and fully describes 16 Spec- ials every week at less than wholesale price to boom trade, and to in- duce the good people of San Francisco to per- sonally call at the larg- est Western DEPART- MENT STORE, SMITHS* CASH STORE, 414,416,418 FRONT ST, S. F. Don't forget—Removal prices every department, Bicycle Premiums April 1 to largest buyer. Bicycle repairing reasonably done. REELCRRCLRICLCRECIRD % : 2 THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. RICHARD A, McCURDY. President. STATEMENT For the Year Ending December 31, 1895, $221,213,721 33 veeess 194,347,157 58 $26,866,563 75 $48,597,430 51 Total Paid Policy-hold- ers in 1895, Insurance and Annul ties in force. 823,126,728 43 899,074,453 78 Net gain in 1895, 861,647,645 36 NorE—Insurance merely twritten is discarded from this Statement as wholly misleading, and only insurance actually issued and paid for in cashi is included. I havecarefully examined the foregoing State- ment and find the same to be correct. CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. From the Surplus a dividend will bo apportioned as usual. Report of the Examining Committee, Oftice of The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, February 11, 1896, At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Compuny, held on the 18th day of December last,the undersigned were appointed a committee (0 exam- ine the annua! siatement for the year ending De. cember 81, 1895. and to_verity the same by come parison with the assets of the company. The committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them and hereby certify that the statement 18 1n all particulars correct and that the assets specified therein are in possession of the company. In making this certificate the committee bear tess timony to the high character of the investments of the company and express their approval of the system, order and accuracy with which the ace counts and vouchers have been kept and the bust- ness in general transacted. (Stgned) . C. voN PosT, CHaS. R. HENDERSON, JaxEs C. HOLDEY, ROBERT OLYPHANT, Wit P. DIXoN, J. H. HERRICK, Committes. ROBERT A. GRANNISS, Vice-President ‘WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager Isaac F. LLOYD, Second Vice-Presidens FR» DERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer EMORY MCCLINTOCK, Actuary FOR BARBERS, BRUSHES &= =i b brewers, . bookbinders, candy-makers, canmer: flourmills, foundri laund: men, tar-roofers, % ete. BUCHAN. Bl oy 4 Brush Manufacturers, 609 - 98 NEW WESTERN HOTEL. 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