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y. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS HOW THE POLITICAL PARTIES WILL BE REPRESENTED. 80 Close la the Senate That the Populists May Hold the Balance of Power?Prominent Democratic /I T*TI nr - x. a vaauiuaieg wno were ueieaiea For Re-Election. The balance of power In the Senate of the Fifty-fourth Congress will evidently be held by the five or six Senators who are now miscellaneously classed a3 Populists, liver a Ivocates, or Independents, at present. With three vacant seats, the membership of the Senate Is divided as follows. Democrats. 44; Republicans, 36 ; Populists, 5. Mr. Irby, of South Carolina, is classed In this arrangement as a Democrat, and Mr. Stewart and Mr. Jones, Nevada, are counted as Populists. Republicans are certainly ore of election to the three vaoant seats from Montana, Washington and Wyoming, while in four other States ?Kansas, New Jersey. West Virginia and North Carolina? Bepublican Senators will probably be chosen to succeed Democratic Incumbents. These changes would increase the Republican strength to 43, and reduce the number of Democrats. Mr. Irby Included, to 40, leaving Messfs. Stewart, Jones, Kyle, Peffer and Allen to give the deciding votes on all questions of organization and legislation. Messrs. Jones. Stewart and Peffer have heretofore been disposed to side with the Republicans on other than financial questions, while '? Messrs. Kyle and Allen have ai&liated with tfce Democratic side. h "" The Next House. The latest returns from Congress districts, . ? as given by the New York Herald, show that there have been elected to the next House of Representatives 246 Bepablic&ns, 100 Democrats and 10 Populists. The Republican majority over Democrats and Populists combined therefore Is 186. The list of Democratic candidates defeated Includes nearly every leader of prominence, foremost among them the author of tbe Wilson bill, and also Bynum, of Indiana j Outhwaue, of Ohio; Springer, of Illinois; Hatch, of Missouri, and Knloe, of Tennessee. Bland, of sllver-dt ;r fame, Is defeated. and Holman, of Indiana, is, for the first time in many years, defeated In a district that has been considered hopelessly Democratic sinee the war. The "Eolid South" Is broken. West Virginia elects 4 Republican Congressmen, Maryland 3, Kentucky 5, Virginia 1, North Carolina 1, Tennessee 4, Missouri 11, Delaware 1, and Texas L States that for a long time were in the Habit of electing mixed delegations, this time present a solid Republican front. Among them are Illinois, Mlcjignn, low*Indiana, Connecticut. New Jersey and Kansas. In other States the ohanges in the makemp of the delegations are not leas startling. New Tore sends 29 Republicans and only 5 Democrats; Pennsylvania, 29 Republicans and 2 Democrats; Ohio, 19 Republicans and 2 Democrats, ana Massachusetts 12 Republicans and 1 Democrat. Somewhat varying niaima are made by the Congressional Committees at Washington in thvir recapitulation of totals. Late returns indicate that the next House will stand about as follows. For the purpose of comparison the membership ol the present House is also given: sad Congress. 64th Congress. States. Dem. Rep. Pop. Dem. Rep. Popw K: Alabama 9 ? ? 8 ? 1 f Arkansas 6 ? ? 6 ? ? .I'LC-.v California...* ? 4 2 116Colorado ? ? 2 ? 1 1 Connecticut.... 8 1 ? ? 4 ? , Delaware l ? ? ? 1 ? Florida, -tv 2 ? ? 2 - ? Georgia. 11 ? ? 11 ? ? Bdaho ? 1 ? ? 1 ? ' ^ Illinois 11 11 ? 1 21 ? Indiana 11 2 ? ? 13 ?> Iowa 1 10 ? ? 11 ? I iWtrmM ? 8 5 7 1 Xanmckv 10 1 ? 6 5 ? ( Xonifllana 6 ? ? 6 ? ? ] T; ' .Maine ? 4 ? ? 4 ? 5 Maryland 6 ? ? 3 3 ? . Massachusetts.. 4 9 ? 1 12 ? , ; Michigan 5 7 - - 12 - ' Minnesota 2 . 4 1 ? 7 ? s> .Mississippi... . 7 ? ? 7 ? - 1 - .'.Missouri 14 1 ? 5 10 ? Montana ? 1 ? ? 1 ? Nebraska 18 2?51. IHevada ? ? 1 ? 1 ? < New Hampshire ? 2 ? ? 2 ? INew Jersey 6 2 ? ? 8 ? iNew York 19 15 ? 5 29 tNorth Carolina. 8 1?315 North Dakota. ? 1 ? ? 1 ? 0m*: It 10 - 2 19 Oregon ? 2'? ? 2 ? (Pennsylvania... 10 20 ? 2 28 ? 'Bborto Istani.. 2 ? ? ? 2 ? South Caro iua. 6 1 ? 7 ? ? ;8outh Dakota.. ? 2 ? ? 2 ? [Tenner*; 8 2 ?? 6 4 ? | Texas 13 - ? 11 1 1 : Yermon;..;.. . ? 2 ? ?1 2 ? Virginia 10 ? ? 9 1 ? . "Washington....? 2 ? ? 2 ? ; West Virginia .4 ? ? ? 4 ? - Wisconsin. ... 6 4 ? ? 10 ? Wyoming 1 ? ? ? 1 ? Totals,... 218 126 12 102 244 10 1 Changes In State Pluralities. The chamges in pluralities made in many et the States at the election of 1894. as compared with the pluralities at the Presidential lOaO U 9^.\\^rrrlrxrm WOCUUU VI IOOJ, two fjiYcu 1U iuu ivuvrriUK table " i Plurality. _ Ware. ?-1892 , 1894 Colorado 14.9G4 Pop 20,000 Rep * Connecticut 5,867 Dam 15,605 Rep Delaware 504 Dem 1,200 Rep Idaho 1,921 Pop 2.000 Rep Illinois 20,993 Dam 100.000 Rep Indiana . .. . 6-482 Dem 50,000 R9p Iowa.. 22.965 Rep 70.000 Rep Kansas 5,870 Pop 30.000 Rap Maine 14,887 Rep 38.000 Rep Massachusetts 26,001 Rep 64,000 Rep Mlohigan .20,412 Rep 90,000 Rep Missouri 41,480 Dem 15,000 Rop Montana 1.270 Rep 3,000 Rep Minnesota 22,157 Rep 50,000 Rep New Hampshire..;. 3,547 Rep 11,000 Rap Hew York 45,518 Dem 155,792 Rep Hew Jersey 14,974 Dem 50,000 Rep H.Dakota.. 181 Pop 12,000 Rep Ohio 1,072 Rep 135,000 Rep Oregon 7,737 Rep 9,664 Rep Pennsylvania 63,747 Rep 235,000 Rep Bhode Island 2,637 Rep 3,860 Rep Vermont 21,667 Rep 27,310 Rep Wisconsin 6,470 Dem 53,000 Rep Wyoming 732 Pop 1,500 Rep West Virginia 4,174 Dem 2,000 Rep Total plurality. .174,898 Dem 1,240,844 Rep KILLED A BANK ROBBER. He Had $1500 in a Grain Sack When He Was Shot. Reports received from Sylvan Grove, Kan., a little town twelve miles Irom Hutchinson on a branch of the Union Pacific road, *?ll of a bank robbery and a murder. Three men heavily armed entered the bnnk, demanded the money and got It. The bundits placed the money in a grain sack and -were preparing to mount their hoiaaa wnen one ot them was shot in the back. The fellow was able to mount, however, and ride some distance before he tell to the ground, weakened Irom the loss of blood and t<oon died. He has been identified ns Stephen McKee, who lived about thirty miles north of tne svene of the tragedy. All the money taken irom the bank, nbout ?1509, Was recovered with the dead body. McKee was a member of an organize.! *ang which made Its headquarters in thf Blue Hills in Osborne County. Interviews with large retailers In Cht? fego result in the unanimous opinion that more goods are being sold than In 1892 at . time, but the gross return ia much jmaller because of the lower prices. All ex? pressed themselves as satisfied with thf . MtiOOfc. haa allowed $30,000 to be paid by the Government to the Gettysburg (Tenn.) Jiectrlc Railway Company for the taking of knd? required to keep the historlo battlei laid Intact. MK&k::.;,,.,,., . , THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States* James Foley, forty-three years of age, awaiting trial at Philadelphia, Penn., for kicking his mother to death while drnnk, hanged himself in his cell with a rope made of the lining of his coat. Alfred Carpexteb, aged fifteen, of New Brunswick*. N. J., was struck on the head by a snowball at St. Paul School, Concord, N. H. He fell Insensible, and died a few hours later without regaining consciousness. At the Trenton (N. .T.) Fair Grounds the University of Pennsylvania football eleven defeated the champion Princetons by a score r\t 19 tr\ ft Pnllr 1A flfift noranna oottr fhft game. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the lower courts declining to enjoin nuns from teaching in tha public Bcboole. A shocking tragedy occurred at Pittston. Perm., Henry Martin, a seventeen-year-old boy, deliberately shooting his mother, who died soon after. J. Hood Weight, of Drexel, Morgan 4 Co., a well-known financier, died suddenly of apoplexy in the Rector street station of the Ninth avenue <;L," New York City. South and West. Two children of Alfred Hlndstorm, of Chassell, Micb., were burned to death, having been left alone in the house, which caught fire and was consumed. Foeest Ares, the most destructive and general ever known in the fimber regions of the South,raged in Eastern Arkansas,Northern Mississippi and Western Tennessee. Thbee masked men entered E. C. Enderley's store at Thermopolis, Wyoming, and ? J 4U. 1.4 UU cuLupeueu iuu pruprioiur wuu kuuj iu givo them $1300 from the safe. Ia escaping one of the robbers, Jake Snyder, was fatally shot. The Federal Grand Jury at Jackson refused to Indict the Governor, Treasurer and Auditor of the State of Mississippi on the charge of printing 8tate warrants in imitation of National currenoy. Floba McGbossen, of Cedarville, Ohio, was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary for horse stealing. She is sixteen years old. A train was held up at a small station named Verona. Mo., by two masked men. The affair did not occupy more than twenty minutes. The amount secured by the train robbers was not more than $400. Washington. Secretary Morton has appointed Dr. W. G. Byron, of the Washington and Lee University, Virginia, first assistant chemist in the Department of Agriculture. Secbetary Lamoxt Issued orders assigning General Miles to the command of the Department of the East, made vaoant by the retirement of General Howard. Tnu 'FfMlfir/il Pr>mmi??lnn nnrinlnfAri frt vestigate the great railway strike reported to the President, condemning in the main the notion of the railways in combining to control wages arbitrarily and recommending the establishment ol a permanent "strike commission." Foreign. The Spanish coasting steamer Fernando foundered twenty miles north of Bahla Honda, Cuba. Ten of her passengers and crew were drowned. Three men were killed and several others injured by the collapse of the Montreal (Canada) Street Railway Company's seven-story stone building. The embargo of Germany on American cattle and dressed meat has been extended to Alsace and Lorraine. Afteb a stately funeral pageant through the streets of Moscow, Russia, the remains of the late Alexander III. were placed in the Church of the Archangel Michael. At Bruex, Bohemia, twenty persons wer? killed in an explosion at a colliery. PBOMHTENT PEOPLE. Tax late Czar of Russia was maae a oowird by his lather's assassination. The Osar of Russia is an enthusiastic blsycler, and mounts his wheel on every opportunity. Edwabd Clabenoe Steoxa.it, author, poet, orltloand banker, Is one of the hand" jomest men In New York. Dwioht L. Moodt has an Invitation to jpend six months evangellzlncr Japan, and It Is said that he will probably aooept. Euqene Oram, one of the most popular American singers on the llpht opera stage, lied In London after a brief illness. Paraox Clodwio Cabl Victob vox Hohxwix)Hx-SoHit.LXKO,?ruBsr, the new German Chancellor, Is seventy-four years old. Pbofessob Biackie, the distinguished Scotch philosopher, has an odd habit for In* doors. It includes a wlde-brlmmed hat Db. Chables Eastman, the Indian, and - - ^ - s i ii_i j. a4. I nis wire (Hiiamb uooatue; are uviug moi. Paul, Mian., and are well and prosperous. Oscar Wilde Is said to have deolinedwith scant courtesy an offer of much flnannclal fascination to lecture again in this country. Thomas Bailey Aldbich, the veteran poet, Is now making a tour of the world In eompany with H. L. Pierce, ex-Mayor of Boston. Kino AleXandeb declares that Servla desires to remain on good terms with all forsign Stat68, and that her flaanoes will be put in order. Pbotessob Letden. the famous Berlin physician, received $5000, according to German papers, for his first visit to the slok Russian Emperor. Sib Henby Bessemeb, who is in his eighty-fourth year, has nearly completed his autobiography, on which he has been engaged for some time past. Justice J. 31. Harlan, is the largest, and next to Justice Gray, the tallest man on the uuuou omies ouprauie oauuu, no in juk- i one years old, bald, and la fine health. He | is bluff, hearty, very popular, and greatly i In demand at dinner parties. The Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, of Eng- I land, the author of the popular hymn, "On- J ward, Christian Soldier," Is at once a coun- : try parson, a country squire, a lord of the i manor, a sermon writer, a student of comparative religion, a popular novelist and a poet. He has written fifty books. M. A. CHtTxa Is the diplomat of the Chinese Legation In Washington, whose thorough knowledge of English makes him the medium of communication between the legation and the press and public, Mr. Chung is a Yale graduate and a member of the Delta Kappa Upsilon fraternity. He is one of the first of tne Chinese offlolals able to speak English without a trace of foreign aocent. Dpnoan H. Campbell, whose inventions are said to have revolutionized shoe manufacturing in this country, died in Pawtucket, R. I. aged sixty-eight. He was born in Scotland, and was brought to this oountry when eight years old. The New England and Era pegging and stitching machines, cable sorew wire machine for making clotncovered buttons, and the greatest of all, the wax thread loek-3tioh machine ware among his Invention*. PORT ARTHUR FALLEN. China's Great Naval Stronghold Taken by the Japanese. A ufsnatch from Shanghai.China, savs it is A ' ' reported there that Port Arthur was taken by j the Japanese without resistance. The Japanese, after bombarding the place for a short time, made a land assault upon the enemy's works, when the Chinese surrendered. The j General in command and the other chief officers of the Chin^ss forces nt Port Arthur j had abandoned the forts on November 6 and disappeared. A ter fruitless efforts on the part of China | to induce England, France, the United States, Russia and Germany to intervene, Pr:nce Kunpr, the recently appointed President of the Foreign Office and of the Admiralty. exclaimed. ''Then China is lost!" , Major von Hanneken, who formerly was chief adviser of Li Hang Chang, and who was recently summoned to Pekin, has counselled peace at any price. He has left Pekin. The flight from Pekin is increasing every duj\ Hundreds of the ladies of the Imperial harem, Ministers of State and wealthy people have already left the capital. It Is said that about thirty-three per cent, of the rice orop in South Carolina and Georgia was destroyed by the late storm. ' V*. ? ' I. "' '. v.'C > * REV. DE. OHABLEI The Rev. Dr. CharlesH. Parkhurst, the p been elected an honorary member ot the Unloi was added to the number there were just a doz the only olergymn to be be thus honored, and behalf of Good Government and clvio reform 1 Committee of the New Yorit Legislature. CASSIUS M. OLAT MABEIES. The Eighty-four-'Year-Old Kentucklan Weds a Girl, Aged Fifteen. General Casslus Marcellus Clay, of Ken Tinirr' ting dnnn one of the most aston ishlng things ot his sensational career. Driving to Richmond from Whitehall, the home of the Clay family for generations, he went to the County Clerk's office and secured license to marry a flfteen-year-old girl, Dora 0AS8IUS MARCELLU8 CLAY. Richardson. He was accompanied by the girl's brother, Daniel, who gave his consent as guardian. She has no other relatives. The ceremony was performed at Whitehall, where Oeneral Clay has been spending a solitary life for years, abandoned by his kindred. The girl Is an orphan, And belongs to s poor family In the neighborhood. General Clay has been educating the child, but his great age kept people from supposing that he would marry her. He Is eighty-four rears old, although surprisingly strong in body and mind. Sho is of quite ordinary appearance and intelligence. Oeneral Clay, the "Old Lion of Whitehall,^ as he has been called for years, has hnd the stormiest career of any man in Kentucky. He is a distant relative ot Henry Clay, but his branch of the family is a more aristocratic one. He was born upon his farm wbloh his great-grandfather bought from the Indians. Cassias, a large slave htmooif hwamn an Abolition ist in early life, when to do bo required & man to take bis life In hi* hands. He was repeatedly assaulted, and killed three men with his own hands before the war, but he never ceased to speak and write his abolition sentiments. He boasts that he first suggested to Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln made him Minister to Russia during the war. He took an active part In publlo affairs up to a lew years ago. He has lived all the time upon his splendid Blue Grass farm, upon which he raises the finest Southdown sneep in Kentucky. His nephew, Oassius M. Clay, Jr., Is a Demo* cr&t, and one of the leading candidates for the nomination of his party lor Governor. TRANSIT OF MERCURY, Observations of It Made at the Naval Observatory. The transit of Mercury, as witnessed at the United States Naval observatory, Washington, was made an occasion of some Interest through the presence of a number of distinguished persons. Invitations were sent by Secretary Herbert to the President and Mrs. Cleveland, the members of the Oabinet, ami the ladies of their households. Several Cabinet officers drove out to the observatory In the afternoon, but the President and Mrs. /"IIn**si nAf nffan<1 ViD*Oiauu VUU UVk lllivuu* To other than scientific people there waa nothing particularly interesting in the event. Photographs of the sun were taken continuously from the time of its first contact with the planet until the latter ha>l disappeared from the sun's surface. But however little interest the transit had from a popular and unscientifle standpoint, It was of the greatest Importance to astronomical science. Astronomers hav? known for a long time that the dally running of the earth was somewhat uncertain} that Is, the earth and the moon do not keep time together. The motion of Mercury, however, as ooserved In its transit, can be utilized In showing whether it is the earth or the moon which is not ezaot In its movements. Pre lessor Harkness, who had oharge of the observations, said that it may be six months before all the data necessary to make the determination are worked up. The beginning of the transit was observed at 10.57 a. m., about two minutes later than expected. The last observation was made at 4.12 d. m.. when Mercury disappeared from the surface of the sua. No more transits of Mercury will take place during the present century. Recent transits have taken plaoe on November 12, 1861; November 5,1868; Mhv 6, 1878 ; November 7, 1881, and May 9, 181)1. FATAL EXPERIMENT. Three Mea Tried to Thaw Out Some Dyuainlte. An explosion of dynamito occurred at Huntington, Ind., and resulted In the death Of three men and the injury of many more. The dead are: John Hartmnn, Norton Keefer and John Flynn, all mnrriotl. The explosion occurred at the Flint Creek sewer, which crosses the entire city from northeast to southwest. Some of the men had built a fire on the bank and were thawing out a fifty-pound box of dynamite. There was a great crash und the entire city was Bhaken. Hartman was literally torn to pieoes. His body was lifted in the air 300 feet and fell on j Market street sidewalk, a square away. The 1 others were not kiihd outright, but died later. / 3 H. PARKHUEST. richer and reformer, of Now York City,has 1 League Club. Until Dr. Parkhurst's name ;en of such members. Dr. Parkburst makes , it was done as a tribute to his efforts In n' connection with the Lexow Investigating ITOOOK SUCCEEDS HOWAED. Colonel James W. Forsyth Named for Brigadier- General. ' Brigadier-General Alexander McDowell McCook has been 'appointed MajorGeneral of the United States Army, doe General Howard, retired, and Colonel James W. Forsyth, of the Seventh Cavalry, has been promoted to be Brigadier-General, to succeed General Mc General McCook has been for the past year In command of the new Department of the Colorado, with headquarters In Denver. Daring the riots im that olty last Muroh ha bad a famous altercation with Governor Waite, in which he demonstrated to that official that the laws o! the United States and his own duty as commander of the Federal forces and guardian of Federal property were paramount to any authority that could be claimed by the State's executive. General McCook comes ol the "fighting Mo* Cooks." being the oldest of the ten brothers in the National army. He was the fourth Brigadier-General in the army, and by the President's selection is promoted over Generals Buger, Merritt and Brooke. However, he retires April ?2d, next year, on reaching the age of sixty-four, when the others will have a chance to reaob tha. highest grade now authorized in the service. General McCook graduated from the Military Academy in 1852. and was assigned to the Third Infantry until he left the regular service in 1861 to accept the appointment of Colonel or the ' /VLI- ** - ' 1- AAMmnn/1*^ klfl XT1TSE UUio v Uiuuieora. ao wiuiunuucu u?? regiment in the first battle ot Ball Baa, and was brevetted there fer gallant servloe. Brigadier-General Forsyth was born In Ohio in 1835 and appointed to the Military Academy from that State. He graduated and became a second lieutenant of Infantry in 1856. General Forsyth has served in various staff capacities since the war and took part In the Bannoclc campaign of 1878. He has published a "Report or an Expedition np the Yellostone Hirer in 1375." President Cleveland made these assignments of general officers of the army: Major-General Miles to command the Department of the East, with headquarters on Governor's Island, New York City. < Brigadier-General Thomas H. Buger to the command of the Department of the Missouri, with headquarters In Chicago, i Brigadier-General Wesley Merritt to the command ot the Department of California, with headquarters In the Presideo, Cal. ~Brigadler-General7John B. Brooks to tht command of the Department of the Dokotfc, With headquarters in St. Paul. Minn. GBEATEB NEW YOKE, Preparing a Measure for the Pro* posed Consolidation. The Greater New York Commission, on motion of J. S. T. Stranahan, settled upon President Andrew H. Green, the New York: financier,, who has been the leader In thd movement to unite the City of Churches and New York, the work and responsibility of preparing a measure for the proposed consolidation for submission to the Legislature. ANDREW H. QBEEX. Mr. Green accepted the duty and will begin work Immediately upon a general plan of consolidation, whioh will be passed upon by the Commission and the details decided apon later. OFFICIAL CROP REPORT. riie November Returns to the Agricultural Department. The November returns to the Department Df Agriculture of the rates of yield per aore make the average of cora 19.7, whloh Is ibout \\6 bushels above the vleld indl lated by the condltiou figures In October. Thl9 is the lowest rate of field that has occurred since 1881, when It stood at 18.6 bushels per icre. Last year the yield was 22.5 bushels upon a larger harvested acreage. The rates for the years 1886, 1887 and 1890, which were years of comparatively low yield, were respectively 22, 20.1 and 20.2 bushels. The ivnrage quality is 79.4. The average yield of buckwheat Is 16.1 bushels per acre. The averaze yield in 1893 W'.s 14.7. and In 1892, 14.1 bushels. The ivornge quality is 90.3, 100 balng the ttamlard. The average yield per acre of potatoes Is returned as 62.3 bushels. In 1893 the yield was 72.2, and in 1892, 62.0. The quality is fair, standing at 84.0. The average yield of tobaoco is 783 pounds per acre. In 1893 It was 395.3, and in 1892 62 pounds. The average quality is 87.9. The yield of hay for 1894 averages for the oountryat large 1.15 tons to the acre. In 1893 the yield was 1.32, and 1892,1.17 tons. The quality is high, as shown by the percentage of 94.5. The crop of apples is reported at 41.7 per cent, of an average product. The returns relative to the feeding ot wheat to stoclc are not sufficient to justify a report at this date. The department hopes to able to make a speol&l report on this subject In the near future. " ' " v ' * CLEVELAND ASMDIATOB READY TO ARBITRATE BETWEEN JAPAN AND CHINA. France Asked the United States to Intervene and It Is Said England Would Not Make Objection ? China Believed to Be WillingJapan's Position. A connected history of the position taken by this Government with reference to the China-Japan war Is as follows : Secretary Gresham, acting under Instructions from President Cleveland, telegraphed Minister Denby at Pekln that this country would, If desired, arbitrate the differences between China and Japan. On the same day another dispatch, also inspired by President Cleveland, was sent by Secretary Gresham to, Mr. Dun, the United States Minister at Tokio. This dispatch, after announcing the willingness of the United States to mediate between the two countries, proceeded at considerable length to define our position. It added that in making this suggestion the United States was influenced only by sentiments of friendship for both the contending parties; that no consideration of territorial aggrandizement entered into the question; that our Interests In the East were not materially affected by the war, and that the attitude of this Government could not be open to any other construction than that of an earnest friend of the two nations Interested. Since these dispatches were sent the State Department has received assurances that China will accept the proposition. Nothing, meanwhile, has been heard from Tokio, but it is suspected in Administration ciroles that the Japanese Government will take no action until they have first been apprised of China*s intentions. In other words, the Japanese feel that they have all the advantage at present, and they ,n * anHeflaH Will HOC movo Ui IUO LUCkbkui uuui aunouvu that Ohina is willing to make peace on terms satisfactory to them. These terms are well understood. They include two conditions?the Independence of Korea and a war Indemnity sufficient to compensate Japan for the expenses incurred by ner since hostilities began. Japan, it is understood, is satisfied that if President Sieveland be chosen as arbitrator he will act fairly with both parties, and that he will fix the indemnity at such a figure as will satisfy Japan. Meanwhile Great Britain is making every effort, with the co-operation of Franoe and other continental countries, to bring the war to a close. Thus far she has been unsuccessful. and she has been equally unsuccessful In ner desire to seoure the co-operation of the United States In a joint Intervention. The belief Is expressed In diplomatic circles that If the war be prolonged muoh further England may Interfere and forcibly prevent any^further aggressions on'the part of Japan. Suoh a step would at onoe involve the latter country in war with Oreat Britain and no wthat the Japanese have their fightingjblood up they; will not bo balked la their purposes of punishing China an* less prevented by a superior outside force. For this reason, therefore, Japan, It Is thought, may the more willingly consent to arbitration, although the fact Is indisputable that their consent to arbitration cannot be gained until China shall have first shown a disposition to aocept the proposition made by tho United States. Victories tor Japan. Advices from the armies commanded by Field Marshal Count Ovama, now operating on the Leaotong Peninsula, confirm the reports of Japanese victories at Chlnchla (Kinchow) and Talienwan. One brigade of Japanese captured Chlnchla. The next day Talienwan was captured. Field Marshal Oyama states in his official dispatches that the Chinese forces at Kinchow numbered 1009 infantry and 100 cavalry; at Talienwan 8000 Infantry and 180 cavalry. The Chinese made little resistance at either places. They retreated toward Port Arthur. The Japanese lost only ten men in capturing both places. The Chinese losses also were slight. QENERAl HOWARD KETIRED, He Leaves the Armv Under the Time Limit Major-General Oliver Otis Howard has been retired from active service In the United States Army under the age limit. With th? exception of General Schofleld, General Howard was the last of the corps commanders of the war In active service. OEUEBiX 0. 0. HOWARD. He was graduated from West Point In 1854, took part In the Seminole War in Florida as Chief of Orduance on General Harney's staff, and subsequently was an instructor at West Point. He went into the Civil War a Ca'onel, and came out a Major-General of volunteers, minus an arm. After the war he was at tha head of the Freedman's Bureau. Re-entering the army in 1872, he was in 1888 given command of the Dopartmoat of the Atlantic. JUDGE ALLISON KILLED. Shot by the Clerk of His Court In Nashville. Chancellor Allison, Judge ol the Chancery Court, was shot with a double-barreled shotgun and Instantly killed in the Court House at Nashville, Tenn., by George K. Whitwortb, the Clerk and Master of the Court. After killing Judj?e Allison. Whitworth drew a revolver and shot himself twice, fatally. Conrt had Just adjourned. Judge Allison was crossing the corridor when from a dark hallway ho heard a voice call "Oh, Judge." He turned and saw Whitworth standing ten feet away with the gun leveled, Whitworth fired one barrel and then the other. The charges of buckshot went full into the Judge's breast. Whitworth instantly aroppea nis snottfun. drew his revolver and turned It upon himself. The first bullet passed under his heart and the second pierced his left lung. Being taken into an offloe, Whitworth inquired as to the condition of the "other fellow." On being told that Chancellor Allison was dead he expressed his satisfaction and then demanded a pistol that be 'might finish himself. "A man can't live in the same climate with me and do mo dirt like that," Whitworth said in explanation. "The public knows all about it." Chancellor Allison had announced that he would appoint his son. Granville Allison, Clerk and Master in place of Whitworth, who had held the ofilc? six years under Judge Allison. Whitworth expected to be reappointed because he had spent several thousand dollars in securing the re-election of Judge Allison. The office Whitworth held paid ?18,000 a year. Whitworth is a son of Judge James L. Whitworth, a wealthy and prominent citizen, and Judge Allison was known throughout the 8tate. Chancellor Allison was about fifty years old. and had Just begun his second term of eignt years. Whitworth is about forty-two years old. Librarian Spoptord joys that the new Congressional Library building will be leady for occupancy by the summer of 1896. ^,vm: ? ; .' V ' -vA',v - ' - - . ' ?, ' ' ?y. , . -? - - LATER NEWS, Miss Eli,a Cooset, of Cato, N. Y., who disappeared three weeks ago and sent loft-ora in h?r narpntn flnvinr* aliA tna hnlnc* ? -J?a ? ? I held captive by colored men, was fou ad in Syracuse, hor hair cut off and her mind a wreck. Awakened by a bnrglar in his room, the Rev. F. C. Seckerson, of Brooklyn, N. Y., iprang out of bed and grappled with the robber, who, in the struggle, stabbed trie minister before the latter, using his revolver, wounded the thief twloe. The marauder essaped. The President appointed John Kurel, of Ulinols, to be Consul-General oi the United 5tates in St. Petersburg ; Charles Jonas, of Wisconsin, to be Consul-General of the United States in Prague, Bohemia. The report of the commission which investigated the recent railroad strike in Chisago was published. The body of Alexander HI. arrived In St. Petersburg, Russia, and was taken to the Cathedral of St. Isaac, there to lie In stato until the funeral, Axjjeet F. Weight, aged eighteen years, at Rngnnnhnnnn. Penn. HIS father. Congressman Myron B. Wright, of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania District, died at Trenton, Canada, two nights before. John wishbtrasr exploded a shotgun la the firearms store of Captain Abraham'1 Jonee, in Sing Sing, N. Y., and In the general explosion that followed he'waskiHed, and many others were Injured and the building was demolished. Seven miners, charged with murder and arson, were looked up In the jail in Bldgway, Penn. During the recent strike, It Is alleged, they destroyed and burned valuable property, and blew down several houses with dynamite. A boy was killed In one house. The wife of Tom Hayne, a farmer "of Donettl, Ala., was assaulted by a colored employe, Bob Mosely. A posse pursued Mosely, found him In a nearby swamp and shot him. The President commuted to .life imprisonment the death sentence of Charles Hopkins, sentenced to be hanged in the District 01 Colombia for murder. Secbetaby Caelisle Is officially Informed that the> Republic of Honduras has adapted the gold dollar of the United States ai its standard coin. The report saying that 3000 Armenians, including women and children, were massacred in Turkish Armenia during a recent attack by Kurds, is confirmed. A force of Bashibazouks raided a number o! villages and killed and wounded 6000 persons. THE LABOR WORLD. New Yobk has 600 unions. Telephones employ 10,000 Americans. Cincinnati horeshoers work ten hours. Amebican tackmakers organized in 1824. Cincinnati carpenters get from $2 to $3 a day. St. Louis women shoemakers have formed a union. The Sicilian authorities are allotting land to laborers. Savannah, Ga., has a colored longshore UiOU D UUlUUt Intebxational cigar-makers have a surplus of $450,000. The American Railway Union ia gaining ground In the East. Thibty per cent, of the Union molders of Cleveland, Ohio, are idle. New Hampshibe central labor onions have formed a State association. About 200 tailors are employed in the uniform factories of Great Britain. Coluebt riots cost the .West Riding, of Yorkshire, England, $120,000 in 1893. Thebe are 3466 railroad engineers employed In the United States and Canada. Employes of the United States Glas9 Company has been on strike eighteen months. The Cooks and Pastry Cooks' Association Of New York has nearly 200 memoers and a fund of $8000. The owners of the Cocheco mills, at Dover, N. H., have increased wages five percent without any demand from the operatives. Typewbitebb in the British War Office receive only from $3.50 to $6 per week, and an agitation for higher wages is in progress. The trades unions of Australia have protested against the admission of non-union men to the public and charitable hospitals. The defaulting Secretary and Treasurer of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association took $32,000 of the money belonging to the Order. Washington Crrr has got foar-cent bread, but it is making trouble in the bakeries, as the bakers want to reduce the wages of their employes, and a strike is threatened. The number of employes of all grades in the famous Krapp gun manufacturing establishment at Essen, Germany, is 17,176; the number of children is 43,boo, ana taut 01 Btrlkes, 0. Is consequence of the ciosing of twelve sulphur mines in Sicily almost 4000 laborers were reduced to the danger of starvation. In the mines still open laborers are glad to work fourteen hours a day for twenty cents. ' The Mutual Society of Linotype Operators and Employes" is the latest trade oi> ganization in England. It is independent of the London Society of Compositors, and will probably Include hand compositors who work in offices where the linotyp* muchinea are used. STOKM IN EUROPE. Many Lives Lost and Enormous Damage to Property. Floods raged In various parts of England. ! [n Buckingham the houses in the lower por " I ?ion 01 tiie.iowu were iiuuuw uuu , blocked. The Avon overflowed Its banks at Bath, and thousands of persons were consequently, imprisoned in the upper stories of factories and dwellings. The gale along the English Channel wa? the most violent experienced this year. The Channel steamers report having had fearful passages. The war ships anchored at St. Halo, France, were in serious danger, and put out to sea flying distress signals. Cherbourg and other ports were crowded with damaged craft. The steamer Prenssen was torn from her moorings at Hamburg, Germany, and damaged many other vessels wltn which she collided. The storm was very violent in Paris. Much damage was done to chimneys, roofs, and windows. Throe persons were killed by falling chimneys and several more were Injured. The velocity of the wind, as recorded on the Eiffel Tower, was eighty-two miles an hour. Deaths and injuries due to i the storm were reported from Nantes, I Rouen and other towns in France. Tele- | graph and telephone lines were blown down in France, Belgium and Germany. The loss of property and live stock by tha 1 floods inDavon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset an.l elsewhere in England is enormous. A terrific -wind, rain and nail storm prevailed in Brussels, Belgium, and vicinity, doing immense damage to property and in- : volving considerable loss of life. So far, j fifteen deaths are reported. During the Btorm the roof of a factory at Ath was carried away, killing four persons. The hurricane which prevailed along the German coast of the North Sea did a great deal of damage and considerable loss of life was reported. Theee Is a great demand in New York City for a decrease In the prloe of bread ! owing to the cheapness of flour, but no general reduction has taken place. Small bakers say that they are doing very badly, and that the Bread Trust, which is making li the money, should reduce their ratei. - \v : iV . . fS&frr:< cjp5$$r>? 55RT4H TEE CALL FOB BOM BIDS ASKED FOR FIFTY MILLIONS OF SLOUEITIES, Secretary Carlisle Offers an Issue of Ten-Year Five Per Cent. Gold Bonds?The New Series to Be a Continuation of That of February?To Replenl sh the ReserveSecretary Carlisle has Issued a call lor proposals for the purchase of five per cent, tenyear bonds of the United States to the par value of 650.000,000. The formal circular invitinj? proposals for the bonds was drawn up in the Treasury De Iiartmeni, ana wa3 carriea dj- oocreiarj quisle to the Cabinet meeting at 11 o'olook. where It was discussed by the President ana his advisers. The Secretary remained at the White House after the other members of the Cabinet had left, and the official announcement that a call was to be issued was made late that afternoon. The circular is a0 follows! 'tmasttby dkpjlbtkxht. 1 "Washinotow, November 18, 1894. f "By virtue of the authority contained In the act of Congress entitled 'An act to provide for the resumption of specie payments,' approved January 14.1375. the Secretary of the Treasury hereby gives public notloe that sealed proposals will he received at the Treasury Department,office of the Secretary, until twelve o'clock, noon, on the 24th day of November, 1894, for United States Ave* percent, bonds in either registered or coupon form, dated February 1, 1894, redeemable in coin at the pleasure of the Government after ten years from the date of their issue, and bearing Interest payable quarterly, In eoin, at the rate of five per centum per annum. "Bidders whose proposals are aaoepted will be required to pay twenty per oent. in gold cein, or gold certificates, upon the amounts of their bids, and to pay in like coin or certificates an additional twenty per oent. at the expiration of each ten days mereauor, umn mo wuwu u jj?u j ??> iuuj may at their option pay the entire amount of their bids when notified of acceptance, or at any time when an instalment is payable. The first payment, however, of not less than twenty per cent, most be made when the bidder receives notice of tne acceptance of his proposal. "The denominations of the bonds will be #50 ana upward, and bidders will, In their proposals, state the denominations desired, whether registered or coupon, the prloes which the bidder proposes to pay. the place where It is desired that the bonds shall be delivered, and the office, whether that of the Treasurer of the United States or an Assistant Treasurer of the United States,whert it will be most convenient for the bidder to deposit the amounts of his payments. "The bonds will be dated February 1,189^ In order to make the proposed issue uniform as to dale with the existing Issue, but Interest thereon -will begin November l, 1834, and bidders will be required to par ao~ crued interest at the rate of Ave per oent on the face value of their bonds from November 1 to the date or dates of payment. The total issue of bonds. In pursuance of this notice, will not exceed the sum of $50,000,000. "The Secretary ot the Treasury hereby expressly reserves the right to reject any or all bids. All proposals should be addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, Washing* ton, D. C., and should be distinctly marked,, 'Proposals for the purchase of five per cent. bonds.* Blank forms for proposals may be had on application to the Secretary of the Treasury. J. O. Ckoublz. "Secretary of the Treasury." QHEBAMi KETfBED. The Distinguished Admiral Leaves the Brooklyn Navy Yard. When the last gun of a parting sal ate of thirteen was fired at 10.30 a. m. from the Cob Dock battery at the Brooklyn (N. T.) Navy Yard, the flag of Bear Admiral Ban* croft Gherardl, the "Admiral of the Blue," was slowly hauled down from Its staff on board the Vermont and the senior offloer of the United States Navy UKBtt OHIBAML resigned big command of the yard to Captain Prederiok Bodgers, United States Navy, and retired from active service In the navy. It was the Admiral's special order that there should be no other oeremonv attend* ing bis retirement, and bis wishes were carried out to the letter. Bear Admiral Bancroft Qherardi was bom t? Jackson, La., on November 10, 1833. He aammed command of the Navy Yard, relieving Commodore Henry L. Erben, who was sent away as Acting Bear Admiral, la charge of the cruiser Chicago to the European station. Ont of a total of forty-eight years in the service, twenty-six were spent at sea, fifteen and a half on shore and six years on leave. This is Bear Admiral Gherardl's record, which is one that any officer might be proud oL His war record was a good one, and in time of peace be has proven himself an officer of more than usual executive ability. That is proba bly the reason why he was selected by the Secretary of the Navy to command the North Atlantic squadron, to welcome the officers of the foreign men-of-war at Hampton Roads and to arrange the details of the great naval parade that took plaoe in New York Harbor In April, 1893. KENTUCKY RAPE WAR, Celebrating the Republican Victory Causes Tragedy. The colored men of Elizabethtown gave a monster parade In celebration of a Republican victory in the Congressional district and elsowhere. Bad feeling was oreated at first when tbo colored men Insisted on M leading the parade, only one white man falling Into line behind a Bg colored band. The colored men were all S3 armed, having been granted permission to H shoot blank cartridges. As the parade pro- B grossed It was seen that ballets and shot Bfl were oontalned la the charges fired bythem. H At the home of Mrs. Woodsone ballets H crashed through the windows and barely Hh missed her daughter, who sat reading. Bfl Town Marshal Neighbors halted the parade at the publlo square ani said he wanted to see if the cartridges being fired were blank. As he advanced George Wilson, one M of the colored men, said : "I will give you Q| the oontents of my shells," and, leveling his jffj gun, fired. The charge tore off a part of the Marshal's overcoat and entered the body of Blako Robertson, aged eighteen, aon of ex- SS Congressman Robertson, who was standing 9Q| on the sidewalk ns a spectator. Neighbors flrAH nistAl at Wllsor. woundincr him in the arm, * Robertson died at 8 o'clock a. el fifi KILLED BY EARTHQUAKES, 1 Violent Shocks In Bolivia and Along Chile's Northern Coast. There have been violent shocks of earth- H quake along the northern coast of Chile M and in Bolivia. BM One hundred people have been killed by the aelsmlo disturbances within a radios of HB forty miles from La Paz, Bolivia. Tha HQ cathedral has been rendered unsafe. One _ I