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NT" ?% rJ Tub cuuiti! ktouiut KIMGSTEEE, S. C LOUIS J. BRISTOW, Ed. & Proper, ? > A pretty New York deaf and dumb girl has sued a deaf and dumb man for ?50,000 for breach of promise. The young man's father is a millionaire. The chief witness is also deaf and dumb. Love, too, is deaf, dumb * ' " "" A-ll ana onnu, oat money tants. ? Says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: '"The Treasury Department estimates that the population of the United States is increasing 2,000,000 a year* That is fast enough without admitting great numbers of illiterates from countries with which we have nothing in common." The Gubernatorial election in Missouri is still three years away and already nineteen candidates have appeared for the nomination for Govk ernor. The Salvation Army will supervise Ithe settlement on farms, in the Arkansas Vallev, of the families that emigrate to that region from the overcrowded cities of the United States. In spito of bicycles, automotor?, trolly cars, torn-up streets in New York, and all other hinderanees to sport, the horso business is reported to be good, with most varieties of good horses in demand, and prices of raw material higher in the West. A New York family partook of red .herring, mushrooms and soor milk for supper, and all were laid low with violent pains and symptoms of poisoning. No wonder. That combination is warranted to kill. Isn't it about time to give a course of lectures upon diet in that neighborhood? JO,,-' ? A man in Iowa invited a girl to go with him to the theatre. A bicycle was offered to be drawn by lot among the audience. The woman won it,and i the Iowa man?generous soul?claimed the wheel, as he had paid for the woman's ticket. The result was a lawsuit, and the jury awarded the owe to the woman. There is an Eminent physician in London who takes the position that the health of the people would be, on an average, better and the duration of life longer, if there were not a practicing physician in the world. In other words, he favors the idea often tersely expressed in the words: 'Thy* sicians kill more people than they Set' core." * R As France taxes bicycles and trieycles, the namber of machines nsed in tho country is known exactly. On January 1, 1897, there were 320,814 v . taxed, an increase of nearly 74,000 over 1895, which had shown an increase of 58,000 over the preceding year, fet The revenue obtained in 1896 was 3,272,830 francs. Paris department, the Seine, heads tne list with 62,892 bicycles, paying a tax of 626,91G francs. The. barkentine Catherine Sudden L was put on tho dry dock at San Francisco the other day, and a peculiar find was ma^e in the bottom of the vessel. g}>. In what was supposed to be a worm hole was a piece of ihe sword of a fish nine inches long ana three inches in circumference. No leak was caused, as the sword had pierced through the four-inch planking, had penetrated five inches into one of the timbers of the vessel, and had broken off almost evenly with the copper bottom of the vessel. The fish had evidently taken the dark hall of the vessel for a whale. Harper's Weekly points ont that the loose ose of statistics makes the crime of murder appear more appallingly common in the United States than it really is. It directs attention to the fact that the European figures, often cited when comparisons are made, apply to murders alone, and do not include, like the tables for the United States, all sorts of manslaughters, justifiable or otherwise. In other words, in Europe the killing of a man is not counted as a murder by the statisticians unless his slayer is convicted of murder. The "Mirovye Otgoloski" (Echo of the Worlds savs: "The time will come i when Continental Europe will demand with firmness and energy the evacuaBK tion of the ancient land of the Pharaohs by the British, and British interests will by such a course undoubtedly suffer somewhat. But this is just the reason why Great Britain would do better to save her dignity by evacuating Egypt 0:1 her own initiative." The same paper has an article on the necessity of France taking steps in Northern Africa to prevent the British obtaining increased influence in Morocco. < . GBBiT Ml LONDON. 150 Warehouses Burned With a Loss of $25,000,000. aoaiit cri/rM afore im diiimq mduu i olvlii nunw in iiuikvji Larsenl Damage by Fire Since the Great London Fire or 1006?Started by an Explosion Near a Gas Engine?Under Control After Four Hours and a Half ?St. Giles's Church Badly Damaged. Londox, England (By Cable).?London bad a blaze Friday afternoon bigger and more destructive than any recorded In its annals since the historic lire that followed the great plague in 166G. Streets a quarter of a milo in length were involved, 150 great warehouses were destroyed, 300 important llrms and hundreds of minor ones were burned out and damaged at a loss estimated at close upon 525,000,000. Seven acres were burned over. The vicarage of the famous church of St. Giles, Cripple Gate, was destroyed, and the church itself, known for its associations with the poet Milton, caught Are and was saved Witn mucn mmcuay oy me iirciuou. The principal damage was done to the roof, the old windows, the baptismal font, anil Milton's statue. The warehouses gutted or laid in ruins number fully 150. They were filled with merchandise for the Christmas trade and employed large forces of clerks for ihe holiday season. It is estimated that the number of persons thrown out of work is at least 2000. This is regarded as the most serious aspect of the disaster. Many of these persons lost all their belongings. Nearly all the British Are insurance companies are involved, and Are insurance shares were practically unsaleable on the Stock Exchange after the lire was well under way. Nea -ly 303 telephone wires have neen eut, thus interrupting communication with many of the big provincial towns. The Are will cause au enormous advance in the price of ostrich feathers, which rose 30 per cent. Two feather Arms alone have lost ?75.000. The flames broke out just after 1 o'elock. p. m. They were fanned by a strong wind and. fed by the inflammable stocks of fancy goods and light material, were soon gaining rapid headway. They owed their origin to the explosion of a* gas CDgine at 30 Hamsel street, on the premises of Waller, Brown A Co., mantel manufacturers. battlesh: This large factory was crowded with girls when the fire broke out, nnd it was Instantly the scene of a semi-panic, the frightened operatives, with many screams, rushing to the roof of the building and thence crossing to other buildings and so effecting their escape while the flames were pouring out of the basement. In less than a quarter of an hour tho flames had enveloped the adjoining warehouse, and thence they leaped across the street to an enormous paper warehouse, which was alight in less than ten minutes. For four hours and a half the flames had their own way, and it was only after more than a hundred engines had worked an hour that the Chief of the Fire Brigade sent out the signal that the lire wa9 under control. This was at 5.45 p.m. At that time a rough estimate placed the loss at $25,000,000. When the good news became generally known, over 150 warehouses and a dozen or so minor structures had either vanished or remained only in blackened walls, a chaos of fallen girders and smoking piles of brick and stone. Following so soon upon the great Are at Black Friars a few weeks ago, when millions of dollars' worth of property was similarly destroyed through the Inefficiency of the lire department, this event has awakened London to tho fact that It is far behind the times, and that its Government in the practical work of extinguishing fires is a partial failure, and muy well take a lesson from New York. The brigade, too. was slow in getting to work, and thero was a noticeable lack of cohesion among the various sections. No one was injured, but this was print-ipally duo to the fact that the firemen have not half the go and pluck the American men huve, and prefer to work in absohitc safety. OUR BIGGEST BATTLESHIP. The Iowa Thoroughly Tried by a Government Board of Inspection. After a two days' trip at sea, the Untied States battleship Iowa, tho first of the new "sea-going battleships" to bo built for the navy, dropped anchor off Tompkinsvllle, Staten Island, nnd later steamed up to the navy yard at Brooklyn, where | she was moored to the cob dock. Tho vessel had just returned from a forty-eight j hours' eruise at sea. on her flnal accept ance trial trip. , The Iowa Is not only the largest and most < powerful ship about to bo added to the ac- , tive list of the navy, but during the trial trip proved herself to bo, under ordinary i conditions, equal. If not superior, in speed ( antl lighting ability to any vessel of her class in any of the navies of the world. The trial trip was made according to agreement between the builders of the vessel and the Government officials to deternine the condition of the hull with its var- , lous compartments,the mnchi a cry .engines, boilers and guns, besides the turrets and ' the apparatus for working them, and the electricial appliances for discharging the rifles in the larger batteries. Parricide, Firebug aud Suicide. .Tobn Kammarer, a farmer, who lived near Benton Harbor, Mieh., quarrelled with his son Henry about money. Henry shot his father and set fire to the house, after which he killed himself. The father was rescued from the flames, but died a few hours later. Mother'* Heroism in Vain. While try ing to save the lifo of her sixyear-old eon, Henry, Mrs. Arthur Fortin j was struck by a train near the village of St. Jean Bnptiste, a mile from Valley Falls, ! K. T. Both mother and son were killed- ' Mrs. Fortin was thirty-five years old. \ ' tj? THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Secretary It"ss File* nn Kxhaustiv Review of It* Work. Washington, I>. C. (Special).?Seerotar; of the Interior Bliss, in his anmal report submits estimates aggregating $156,532,41! for appropriations for the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1390. He says that 200,000 pension claims ar> awaiting adjudication, and it is estimate! that forty or fifty per cent, of these will bi finally admitted. If they are rapidly ad judlcated they will swell the pension rol from $5,000,000 to $7,000,000. When, how ever, these claims aro adjudicated and firs payments made the amount of the pensioi FECBETARY CT IXTERI02 BLISS. rol' will decrease r.nddly, possibly to J125,OO'J.OOO or i;130,000.000 the first year. In considering Indian alTairs the Secretary says that iu the Indian Territory leading Indians have absorbed great tracts, to the exclusion of the.eommon people, and government by an Indian aristocracy is practically established, to the detriment ol the people. From 200,000 to 250,000 whites, by permission of the Indian government have settled in the Territory, but art merely tenants by sufferance. No government for the Indian Territory will be satisfactory, says the Secretary, until Congress shall provide for the establishment of a single uniform system for the entire Indian Territory that will place all its inhabitants in possession of the rights ol Americun citizens. The Secretary asks for such legislation as will enable the people to reap the benelit of the deposits of asphalt and gilsonitc on tho Uneompahgre Reservation in Utah. He recommends that the period for the allotment of lauds to the Uneompahgre Indians bo extended beyond April 1,1898, the time which has been set for opening tin reservation. Speedy legislation for the coming tnelftfc \\\ ^ [P IOWA. census is urged, and lack of sufficient time in the past two or three enumerations is complained of. The Secretary recommends that the public-lands laws be extended to Alaska, and that additional land offices be created; that the granting of rights of way for railroads, telegraph and telephone lines and the constructton of roads and trails be specifically authorized; that provision be made for the incorporation of municipalities; thAt the legal and political status of the native population be defined, and that complete i Territorial government be established and representation in Congress be granted. DAMAGES FOR BLACKLISTED MAN. Ketcham Was Kept Oat of Work Kail* road Most Pay Him 821,660. Fred R. Ketcham, a blacklisted freight train conductor, a friend of Eugene V. Debs, and a former member of the American Railway Union, was awarded a verdict for ?21,666.33 damages against the Chicago and Northwestern Railway, at Chicago. He averred he was put on the olacklist of every railroad in the country. A score of similar suits, it is said, will be begun by former employes, who assert that every means of gaining a livelihood were taken from them after the strike, through the powerful Vanderbilt influence. When the American Railway Union men were called out to support the Pullman strike in July, 189-i, Ketcham gave up his freight train. All the strikers were dismissed, and when they applied to other roads they found their names on a blacklist. After struggling two years to obtain steady employment. Ketcham entered suit against the railway company for 825,000 damages. The case has been on trial for three weeks, and has been closely watched by railway employes and officials all over the country. The main question before the jury was whether the corporation had entered into a conspiracy with other and similar corporations to prevent Ketcham from earning a living. Competitor Crow Free. In pursunnce of instructions from Spain Captain-General Blanco released from Cabana Fortress. Havana, Cuba, Alfredo Labordo, the captain, and Charles Barnett, Ona Melton and William Gildea, members of the crew of the American schooner Competitor, captured in April. 1896. by the Spanish gunboat Mesagera. on a charge of filibustering. They were handed over to the Amerieun and British Consuls, and immediately took passage on the steamer Saratoga of the Ward Line for New York. Brothers Drowned While Skating. Oeorgo and Homer Brewer, aged seventeen and thirteen, respectively, were drowned while skating on Big Stone Lake, Minnesota. One brother broke through the ice and the oilier was dragged under while trying to save him. President Yglrsias lie-Elected. Senor Calvo, the Costa Eiean Minister at Washington, received nu official cable dispatch, announcing that the primary Presidential election for the next period, 1893-PJ02, was held on November 14,15 and 16, amid order and tranquillity. There were two parties, the Civilist and the Hepublican. The vote was the largest one ever taken in Costa Eica, and the Civilists, with President Yglesias as a candidate for re-election, obtained a majority oi over twentv-tliroe thousand votes. The Philippines Pacified. The complete pacification of tbo Philip, pine Islands Is reported from Madrid. Ltd). .V. it -V .1- ... ,7.V IGRICETItL MUTTERS i i Secretarv Wilson Submits the Annual Departmental Report. TKE E?tT SUUAH INUU5! KY. I Demand* or ForelEn Market#?An Export Trade In Horse* May Be Ballt Up, Like That In American Cattle?Batter For London Consumption?Xew Method ot heed Distribution?Domestic Science. ; i Washington-, d. C. (Special).?ThoSecretary of Agriculture, In his report for the fiscal year ending Juno 30 la9t, draws attention to the purpose of tho department to give wide circulation to everything In j the way of experience, discovery or invention that can interest American farmers. "The department will in future," he says, "help producers to find markets for surplus j productions, by getting and spreading Information concerning them and concerning wnat roreign markets require.'' As the result of experiments made la the raising of sugar beets, the Secretary says: "There is abundant encouragement to lead us to conclude that our country Trill in a few years produce what sugar 'it requires. The department will collect all the facts regarding the work of this season and pub- , lish them for general distribution. Tho pioneer work will be pushed energetically > during the next year. Tho United States paid $382,000,000 the last fiscal year for sugar, hides, fruits, wines, animals, rice, | flax, hemp, cheese, wheat, barley, beans, eggs, tea, etc., 60,000,000 for chicory, castor beans, lavender, liquorice, opium poppy, sumac, etc., and 62.000,000 for bulbs, nearly all of whieh could be grown . and prepared for use at home." Tho Secretary believes that wo may build up as profitable an export trado in "horses as wo have had in cattle, nnd ho expects in the near future to inform horse breeders in j this country as to the reqnlrements of for- i sign buyorsof horses. An effort is making on the part of the de- I partment to distribute?.)edsupon a strictly I scientific plan, so tbnc none will be sent to farmors living in climates not suitable to J their successful propagation. This work ! has been piaced la charge of an officer of j iclentwlc training. Or the results of experiments in the plac- i !ug of fine American butter on the Engii&h market, the report says: "Butter from tne most remote creamery districts of the United States, when property made, can be so i transported as to be delivered in prime con- I iition to consumers in England or on the Continent of Europe fifteen or twenty days after making. The quality of selected American butter is quite equal to the best offered in London from any other country, although our supply, as a whole, is not so uniform in character as that from somejotber sources, notably Denmark. The products of the United States and of Denmark have been found to bo the only absolutely pure butter imported into England, all others,. Including the product of British colonies, contain more or less injurious ingredients, used 03 preservatives." The Secretary devotes considerable at-, tention to the matter of teaching domestic science to farm women, and expresses tho desire that there may bo opportunity fotf the undertaking of some definite lines of work in this direction. The appropriation for meat inspection has been insufficient, though during tho year all the beef and a great part of tho pork and other food products exported to Europe have been examined according to law. The meat of animals slaughtered tot inter-State trade has not all been Inspected. The work of the Bureau of Animal Industry "requires," says tho Secretary, "the use of an experiment station wb?re a considerable number of experimental animals can be constantly kept." He recommends that suitable grounds for such a station be purchased. The appropriation for tho weatner service for tne current year Is (883,772, which is (109,748 less than the cost of tho service in the fiscal year ending June 90,1884. The appropriation for the current year is depln red to ho "Injidpnvmte to mwt the do manda of the people for a material extension of the benefits of the service. It ia only with the utmost care, and by requiring from nine to twelve hours' work every day In the year, including Sundays and holidays, at a majorityof oar stations, that the important duties of the sorvlce can be performed." One of the more interesting parts of the report is that devoted to the chemical study of typical soils. An investigation of the disposition which is mado of street sweepings and other refuse of cities has been undertaken by the chemical division and will be prosecuted vigorously during the coming year. The division has placed itself in communication with all the cities of the United States having a population of 10,000 and over. It has also perfected arrangements for obtaining information in regard to disposition of street sweepings and 6ewage in the largest cities of Europe. It is hoped that a material advantage will accrue from this Investigation, both to the cities, in respect of the method of disposing of the refuse, and to the farmers, in respect of securing a new fertilizing material at a low price. Drowned Herself in a Reservoir. The body of the woman found in the reservoir at Hartford, Conn., was identified as that of Miss Alice I. Patton. Hbe had considerable means.and mado her home at the noiei t/apitoi. xi is peueveo tuai sue was slightly deranged. Miss Pattern's family came from Waterbury, where her father was well known from keeping a famous book store called the "Bookhunt." Daughter of a Revolutionary Sire. ? Mrs. Mary Todd Hall died In Heridan> Conn., a few days ago. Mrs. Hall was the daughter of Thelus Todd, of N'orthford, a soldier in the Revolutionary War. She was born February 1805. Her father was drafted wlun sixteen years old and was sent to Fo.-t Griswold, New London. His Killing No Crime. Julian Gain an, the boy who shot and kllied District Attorney Charles Jones at Carson City, Nev., recently, was exonerated by the Grand Jury. The shooting was done because it was alleged that Jones had ruined the boy's sister. A. P. A. Headquarters Closed. The A. P. A., as a national organization, ha> ceased to exist. Its headquarters at Washington has been closed and tho property has been sold at auction to satisfy a debt. Massacred Thousands. A special dispatch from the Niger region, West Africa, says: In order to punish the inhabitants of tho town of Kong, capital of the Kingdom of Kong, in the Mandmgo * region of Upper Guinea, for their refusal to supply his troops with provisions, Chief Samory bus razed the town and massacred several thousand natives. Turkey nnd Germany Allies. The despatch stating that a military convent'on had been concluded between Turkey and Germany has excited profound Interest and speculation In European capitals. Wit V'-- .Vi # THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Wanlilncton Item*. Sixty employes in the Topopraphiea'! Bureau were laid off because the Board ol Apportionment reduced the appropriation. The Secretary of tho Treasury has issued a circular to employes to tho effect that clerks receiving a stated salary who ne K' to )Hiy tlieir UfUia, uuuunctru iui uir 1 necessary support of themselves and theii families, without presenting satisfactory reasons therefore, will not be retained in office. The Cabinet has decided to send the revenue cutter Bear to relieve the ice-imprisoned whalers. Premier Laurier and the other Canadian officials left Washington for Ottawa; reports that their mission had proved a failure were officially denied. Ex-Congressman Frank W. Mondell was appointed Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office by President McKinley. Secretary Algers favors the transfer oi the management of volunteer soldiers homes to the War Department. President McKlnley signed the treaty adopted by the Universal Postal Congress recently held in Washington, thus completing its ratification on the part of the United States. Bv orders issued at the Postofflce Depart ment the salaries of cight-flvo clerks of all classes In the main office and stations of Brooklyn wero raised, making an aggregate of $8500 increase. Domestic. John Burgess, a youth of nineteen years, shot and killed George Hart at Merridan, Mich. Hart, who was engaged to marry Burgess's sister, disguised himself as a cowboy and tried to frighten Burgess, who killed the supposed tramp. A sensational suicide occurred at Augusta, Ga. William Moody shot himself through the back of the head while in bed in bis room at his boarding houso. He was one of the best-known men in town. About two months ago Moody married Miss Maggie Puryear. The two quarrelled and the wife went to her parents' house to s) end the night. When Moody awoke ho killed himself. A robber who was carrvine wheat from a barn in Newbern, Vi.., was killed by two men who had been employed to watch the place. He proved to be John M. Feagles, Postmaster of the town. When his rooms were searched a quantity of stolen goods was found. The magnificent new Anchor Line steamer Bluflf City, one of the finest and nowest boats on the lower Mississippi, which loft St. Louis bound for New Orleans, with forty passenger.? ^.nd one thousand tons of miscellaneous freight, was burned to the water's edgo at Chester, 111. Morrow Brothers, of Clarksville, Tcnn., have secured the contract for tobacco for the Italian Government. About fifteen million pounds of dark tobacco are required for next year. At the Allen Farm, near Bryan, Texas, whiie gambling for pecans, a colored man named General Cbetnam, was stabbed and killed. Another colored man, Tom Sweat, was arrested for the crime, and while being eonveyod to Miilican by a posse was taken from his guards and strung up to the limb of a tree. The vigilantes are said to have been colored men. !' William Wells, thirty-five yeare old. cf NorthviUe, and Andrew Poley, aged fifty, of Aquebogne, Long Island, farmers, were found dead in a catboat on the beach near Squire's Landing, on Peconic Bay. The ooat was about half filled with water. Coroner Nugent sumtnoned a jury and they rendered a verdict of death by exposure, i Snow storms have made some of the nountaln roads in Vermont well-nigh impassable, and many drifts have been formed., j Henry Sherry, a lumberman, of Necnc.h? Wis., failed with liabilities of (1,000,000. ' Secretary of Agriculture Wilson made nn iddress at the meeting of the National' 3range in Harrisburg, Penn. Edward E. Jones, bead clerk in t he Ameri an Book Company, shot himself in the Sew York offices of tho eoneern, leaving no utplanation for bis act. He died in St. Yin-' rent's Hospital. The Leather Belting Manufacturers' Association at its Annual meeting in New York City determined to advance the price of! pelting twenty-five per cent, because of the luty placed on hides by Congress. Fannie Eagle Horn and Eliza Flander. Indian girls, were arrested on complaint of Superintendent Pratt of the Carlisle Penn.) Indian School, and lodged in jail. >n the charge of arson. A mysterious Are rrokc out in the girls' quarter. These girls darted the Are with the intention of burnng down the school, because permission to jo home had been refused to them. Arthur B. Moody, member of a wellinown New Haven (Conn.) family, was arrested in that town for swindling au Engish artist and two young society women >f New York City out of bonds and money s glittering but bogus investments. The Rev. Dr. George H. Houghton, rec:or of "Tho Little Church Around the Cor-: ler," the Protestant Episcopal Church of ;he Transfiguration, in New York City, 'amous for years for its many theatrical 'unerals, died at the rectory, adjoining the jhurch. The jury at-Chattanooga, In the case of Deasley against Chief Justice D. L. Snod?rass, of the Tennessee 8upreme Court, returned a verdict in favor of Snodgrass. efusingto allow Beasley damages forpcrfonal injuries as asked. Fritz Meyer, or Constantino Steiger. was jonvicted in New York City of the willful nurder of Poliieman Smith, and afterward idmltted that he slew Bellringer Stelz, but refused to name bis accomplice. Joseph A. Iaslgi, former Turkish Consul, n Boston, was sentenced by Judge Sheldon un the Superior Criminal Court to State prison for a period not exceeding eighteen lor less IUBU luurwru y raie. Bishop Doane, of Albany, N. V., made n ipeech against jingoism. Jean B. Guillemot, a boy whoso lavish jxpenditure of money caused suspicion that he had been Implicated in the murder of bis uncle, J. B. Leplante, tax collector of St. Libolre, Quebec, mado a complete confession of the crime to the pollen of Biddeford, Me., and afterward repeated it before his parents. Guillemot asserted that his aunt admitted her admlrhtiou for him and assured him if he would kill her husband she would come to Biddeford after a time and marry him. Harry Potter, thirty-seven years old, was looking in a store window at Philadelphia. He held an umbrella with a steel rod in it over his head. Above him was an electric arc light. The end of the umbrella rod touched the Iron frame of the lamp and a current of electricity passed through his body to the iron covering of a coal shaft in the sidewalk, killing him instantly. Foretell. Earthquake shocks were felt at Asch, FalkenAU and Carlsbad, Bohemia, and in Saxony. The confession of Inspector-General of Police Velasquez, in Mexico, asserts that a mob of the common people lynched Arroyo, the would-be assassin of President Diaz. Forty men were killed recently in Bogota, the capital of the Colombia Republic, in an election riot. Countess Ulfcld. a Russian, killed herself with a revolver in a police station of Edinburgh. General rellieux has boon appointed to inquire into the charges brought against Comte E9terhazy in connection with the Dreyfus case in Paris. A London company bought the old C11narders Bothnia and Scythia to run from Vancouver to Klondike ports. v im ' .. ; ? GEBHANSLAKBINCHDfA.' I Admiral Diederlchs Takes Possession of Kiaochou Bay. v*J ? CONSIDERED AN ACT OF WAR. ' The Kslier'i Demonstration to At?|* the Murder of Missionaries?'Tha Admiral Occupied Kalochott With 60# Tars Unopposed?The Chinese Gsrrliea * i at Once Skedaddle Over the Willi. v. Shanghai, China (By Cable).?Admiral Dicdcrichs, commanding the Germaa J Asiatic Squadron, upon arriving In Kiaochou Bay, on the Shantung coast, whither he had been ordered for the purpose of ob* taining satisfaction for the recent murder of two German missionaries, found three forts occupied by Chinese troops. He arranged his ships opposite the forts and Gained his guns upon them. Then he sent an ultimatum to tho Chinese commander. ? calling upon him to evacuate the forts la. ; tlirAA hnilffl nffor wKlah ha CAA MAM ... ? utkuk nutvu UQ iUUUUU WV uuu with six guns, who marched toward tb? forts. The Chinese watched the sailors and- y marines for a few moments until they be came convinced that the "foreign devils'* <s were advancing in earnest, and then the three garrisons bolted acro99 the hills be- . hind the forts. The Germans quickly oc- ? cupied the positions and hoisted their flag, which was saluted by the warships. The 5 Chinese General and his fnmily alone did not flee, and it is said that they received 1 German protection. Official Chinese here consider that Germany, by landing an armed force and cap-| ' ^ turingthe forts, has committed an net of. war, but they do not believe that the Pekln ^ Government will treat it as such. British and American warships hare been ordered to proceed to Klaochon Bay to watch developments there. It Is said Y. that the region is immensely rich In mln- vaS erals. The harbor is one of the best on the '^3 whole coast. It is believed that the Germans intend to stay there. It is now asseited that the murder of the two German missionaries near Yen-Chc-Tn'; 'was not the work of bandits, as originally understood, but was deliberately planned. * ,JE by LI Pung Hing, Governorof the province, prior to his departure for Seet-Chouan, of -*?? u-? % ~ i-i a tt? WUIVJU uu uua IM:OU appuiuiyu liizvzijy. . i Shantung is one of the largest coast provinces of China, and about a third of It 7 *j forms a very large peninsula jutting out ^ Into the Yellow Sea. This peninsula glvea ? Shantung an unusual proportion of sea coast. The Great Canal from Pekin to Hangchow passes through the province. ! If Germany were permitted to possoss her- . | self permanently of a harbor in China, she could hardly mako a better selection. 9 Steamers in Kiaochon Bay are hardly more u ' ! J than a day's sail from Tientsin, the port of Pekin on the north, or from Shanghai on ;.jg the south. It is tme that Shantung abound* fig with minerals, bnt little has yet been done. . "TO to develop the mining Interest. J J]Sk LORD ASHBOURNE. He Will Probably Be Canada's Xext Gov-, ' ernor-General. J ^ Baron Ashbourne, according to an English paper, is to be the next Governor-Gen-, eral of Canada, and the Earl of Aberdeen! ' ^ will not be succeeded by the Duke of LeedsJ as was reported some time ago. Lard! ' *' ^ Ashbourne's chief qualification for ^ his new post, 1* a charm of manner; LORD iSHrorEXE. > ^ which has made him popular with even the most vehement of his political opponent*. He is now Lord Chancellor for Ireland, _?A and will probably be succeeded in that office by Gerald Balfour, at present Chief ? Secretary for Ireland. The Bight Honorable Edward Gibson, Baron As bourne, was born in Dublin in 4 1838. He entered Parliament in 1875, and in 1877 was made Attorney-General for Ireland. He was the chief spokesman for the Opposition from 1880 to 1885, when Irish questions were under debate. He received his title upon the jjj accession of Lord Salisbury to office in 1885, and, in addition, was made Lord Chancellor of Ireland, n post which he writ, given a second time, when Salisbury again become Premier in 1895. NEW JERSEY GAMBLERS DEFEATED Court Refuses to Order a Recount on the V Antl-Gainbling Amendment. / Justices Van Syckel, Dixon and Collins^ of j tho New Jersey Supreme Court, denied the * application for a recount of tho votes on . the anti-gambling amendment to the State Constitution. The opinion, which was written by Justice Van Sycklo, represents tho unanimous sentiment of the Court. Iu the opinion no view Is expressed as to I the power of the Court to order a recount. Tt la h?M hnT?ri>r tlmt the mutter of hst* i ing a recount is not a matter of private or individual concern, bat is one of poblio policy, and concerns only the Government. This leads to the conclusion that the appli-! cants hare no standing in court. The opinion goes on to say that the matter, being one of public policy, the Legislature had a right to say how the voto should be canvassed and a proclamation of the result made by the Governor, and the canvass having. V been made and the Governor's proclama-1. . tlon having been issued in accordance j * j with the result of the canvass, the matter is now closed. * Japanese Warship Sinks. Advice from Japan says that the Japan-; ese man-of-war Fu-So ran on n rock near' , < Nagahama, after having been In collision j ? with another ship, taking part in the naval [ .* manoeuvres, and sank on October 29. Thej Fu-So is an iron ship, built In England in, 1877. She is 220 feet long and of 3718 tons} displacement. I ...Vr The Saltan to Give Satisfaction. S The Sultan has declared his willingness; :A to give Austria full satisfaction for the Merslna Incidents, averting In this way the threatened bombardment of that port ^ by the Austrian fleet. ^ - ' - a; it