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ilAPAM YIELDS TO EDfiOPE She Gives Up Her Claim: on the LiaoTung Peninsula in China. PORT ARTHUR ALSO ABANDONED. This Much She Concede* to the Wishes f Russia, Germany ami Fmrt-' China's Emperor Signed the Treaty of Peace?Foreign Fleets Assemble at Che-Foe For Peace Ratifications. Japan, in conformity with the friendly ad^ioe of Russia, France and Germany, has undertaken to renounce her claims to final possession of the Fengtien or Liao-Tung territory in China. Hr. Sone Arasuke. the Japanese Minister to France, informed 31. Hanotaux, Minister ofForeigD Affairs, that Japan, in deference to tho friendly advice of the protesting Powers, had renounced her claim to permanent possession of the Liao-Tung peninsula, ineluding Port Arthur. A despatch to the Lon- I cava that .Tnnnn nl?o intimated tO tiormany her willingness to give up possesion of Liao-Tung. The London Morninc Post commends Japan for yielding to the demands of the three Powers, and condemns Russia, Germany and France for acting in their own interests and ignoring China. "Great Britain." it says, "wa? disinterested and equally loyal to both China and Japan." The" London News says: "The coalition lias made a deplorable mistake in coercinp Japan, but it is enough for us to know that wo did not share the mistake." The London Times says: "Japan is to be ongratulated upon her good sense and the elf-control of her statesmen. We rejoice . that she recognized the wisdom of not pushing her pretensions too far. Russia is to be congratulated upon the success of her diplomacy. Events show how prudent it was for Japan to compel China to accept definite ternw before replying to the Powers." The radical journals "agree that France would act wisely in advising Japan not to abuse her victory, but at the same time Trance must not resort to coercion. The Paris Debats says: "Japan will not abandon her claims for recompense for the urrender of the Liao-Tung peninsula. Immediately aftor the ratifications are exnan.ntioHnna will nnPDP/i with VUOU^^U, UV^VhlUOtVUU ! * vv ~ ? China. Japan will determine the nature of much recompense, and the Towers probably will support her in return for her yielding ovr." It is presumed from this that au understanding has been reached with Russia whereby Japan will relinquish a part of the Chinese territory which she is permitted by the terms of the treaty to occupy, and thus placate Russia, who strongly opposes the presence of the Japanese troops in any part cf China's territory. Official information has been received at Washington, making it conclusive that the Chinese Emperor signed the treaty without Modifications. As the Japanese Emperor aflxed his signature two weeks before, nothing wmained necessary in order to put the document into full effect but the formal ceremony cf the accredited agents of each Gov?nment handing to the other in its elaborately decorated lacquered ease the signed gre^ment of peace and amity and commercial intercourse. Russia invited France and Germany to unite in guaranteeing the regular payment sf the Chinese indemnity to Japan. INCOME TAX REARSUMENT. The Fall United State* Supreme Court Hears the Case. For the first time in several months all the members of the Supreme Court were on the bench when according to previous announcements the income1 tax cases disposed of by *k? mtnrt- nn fh? ?th Anril were ODened forreargument, the arguments to be made pon all the points of the ca3e, and not . merely upon those special ones for which a rehearing was asked by counsel. The recent announcement of Chief Justice Fuller that a rehearing might be granted under certain conditions was intended to mean that if Jushoe Jaokson should be present in court when toe case was called the entire matter would be reopened. Justice Jackson sat in his accustomed place at the end of the line on the left of the Chief Justice when the court met, and it was agreed by the lawyers interested toat the fate of the income tax law practically rested In his hands. Justice Jackson was the cynosure of all yes, and appeared tu feel keenly his peculiar surroundings as the practical-umpire en the constitutionality of the .law, the remainder of the court being equally divided. Pbeble and emaciated, he had come to Washington from Tennessee for the express purpose of making it possible for the court to render a final decision on the constitutional question involved. The discussion of the case was limited by the court to two counsels on each side, and at the suggestion of Mr. Choate the time wa9 fixed at Ave hours on each side. W. D. Guthrie opened the argument for the petitioners. Messrs. Hyde and Pollock, who eek to enjoin the directors of the Farmers' I*>an and Trust and Continental Trust Cornpony of New York from paving the tax on the dividends declared on the stock of these orporat ions, and in 90 doing attaok the oaistitutionality of the law. He wa3 followed by Assistant Attorney-General E. B. Whitney in support of the law. The National Game. Washington has a prize in Pitcher Mercer. Meekin is outshining Rusie as New York's f&ar pitcher. Slow curve pitchers are most effective against Cleveland. The fielding of the League teams as a whole las so far been inferior. The Louisville Club will pay the $500 fine imposed on PfefTer by the League. Catcher Ryan, of Boston, is said to be throwing like a ca apult this season. Burkett. of Cleveland, is batting fiercely and leading the League in home runs. Lively legitimate coaching is the life of the game?without it the sport will languish. Manager Davis, ot New York, thinks he kas secured a wonder in the tall college pitcher, Boswell. Old 'Longest - hit - ever - made - on the - tiro Unas nas l?seu ills ".unc uuu v/u his annual round?. Umpire Betts expresses the opinion that Lawley, of Pittsburg, will Jead the League pitchers this season. Clingman has settled down as the Pittsfeorgs' regular third baseman. Niles will be retained as utility man. McPhee. Cincinnati's second baseman, has dually dropped a fly ball already. I: is larwly he does such a thing in a whole sea?Ki. TbeBaltimore$ are experimenting on caps with transparent visors, which will allow tbem to look at the sun without affecting il?e eyes. The triple play of the Bostons was the first jnade this season, the first ever made on the "Washington grounds and was, therefore, a ?cord-breaker. Pitcher Wilson, of the Bostons, was origl ally a catcher, who simply went in to pitch one dav to help out his team, and did so well that he" made a specialty of pitching ever KBCe. For making the first home run hit^f the isampionship seasoa tor uincinnuu imug ftceived a suit of clothes and a new hat. The silent coaching was not a success at Boston, and the Boston opinion now is that ibe new coaching rules must be changed, or else the club must furnish a brass band to stir up the animals. 3t is sai^that the old campaigner, Anson. eJ Chicago, has stored in the basement of Us home no less than 276 bats, each with its ?ory. They have all been wielded by Anson Samself in his many hard-fought struggles. Umpire Betts says he fails to see why the castom of umpiring a game from behind the jitcher ever came into use, as it is impossible to judge doubtful foul or fair balls from position, and but little advantage is gained in judging the plays on the bases. I PATRIOTIC DEDICATION. The Washington Arch Formally Taraed Over to New York City. The Washington Arch dedicatory exercise? in New York City elicited ereat popular enthusiasm. Grand stand tickets were distribu ted up to the capacity of the stands. The programme for the day was the same as arranged and published for April 30th, when rain caused a postponement, except that the Second Brigade was absent. The First Brigade formed at 2.30 on the west nwtm 10 fapinir past, the richt ; tEEL ^' ' % T^& './?L ~-L- ' WASHINOTOK ARCH. :>f each command resting as follows: Ninth Regiment on Fiftv-flrst street, Twenty-second Regiment on Fifty-fourth street. Seventh Regiment on Fifty-seventh street. Twelfth Regiment on Sixty-first street. Seventy-first Regiment on Sixty-fourth street. Sixty-ninth Battalion on Sixty-sixth street. Eighth Bat:alion on Sixty-seventh street, First Battery >n Sixty-ninth street, Second Battery on Seventieth street. The First Naval Battalion formed with its right on Seventy-flrst street. Each regimeut and battalion, after the Commander-in-Chief had passed its front, moved to the ea*t side of the avenue, and regained its place as soon as the reviewing party passed in rear. The command then formed in column and escorted th?* Commander-in-Chief to the arch, where it rested during the dedication ceremonies. The First Signal Corps acted a? escort to General Fitsherald. the Brigade Commander, and Squadron A were the escort of the Commander-inChief. The ceremonies at the arch began at 3.43, on the arrival of Governor Levi P. Morton, of New York, and his staff, when Bishop Potter delivered an invocation. General Horace Porter made the oration, and Henry G. Marquand, Chairman of the committee having charge of the building of the arch, made a short address. William Rhinelander Stewart presented the kev of the structure to the Mayor, who made a short speech and handed the key to the President of the Park Board, David H. King, Jr. The exercises closed with the march of the militia through the arch, and the parade wus then dismissed. ECUADOR'S REVOLUTION. The Revolutionary Leader in a Good Fighter and Has Financial Backing. Recent advices from Ecuador state that a revolution has broken out. Its leader is General Aloy Alfaro 01 no man is Ecuador more afraid than of Alfaro. It was for his part in the revolution of 1885 that he was exiled to Nicaragua. He is said to be a v w GENERAL AI.0Y ALFAKO. (Leader of the Revolutionary Forces in Ecuador.) Stood fighter, and it is said that he has the financial backing of manv prominent merchants iu Guayaquil and Quito. One of tue feats that made Alfaro famous in the revolution of 18S5 was the capture of a cruiser with almost five hundred meii on board at Guayaquil. Alfaro's force numbered only seventy-five. Should Alfaro succeed in ousting President Cordero, Senor Seminario will bo put forward for the office. DROWNED WH.iLE BOATING. Four Pertons Lose Their Lives at Detroit nnd Two at Mount Jackson, Va. George H. Baugh, roller of the Baugi: Forge Department of the Michigan Peninsu lar Car Works, was out with his wife and : male companion in a rowboat, at Detroit Mich., when tho boat capsize^ and all thret went into the river just off San.lwicl Point, on the Canadian side. Bau>;h and hi: wife were drowned. Their companion w:u rescued. Frank Connelly and John Moriartv I boys aijed fourteen, were swimming in tiv river Rouge, south of Detroit. Connelly wa, taken with cramps. Moriarty jumped in ti save him, but Connelly grasped him s > han that ho was helpless, and both were drowned At Mt. Jackson. Va., Miss Birdie NefT an< Miss Wyatt, a youug school teacher o Charleston, \V. Va., were drowned in tiv Shenandoah Iliver. Accompanied bv Cliarle Bowman, cashier of the Mt. Jackson Na tional Bank, and another lady, they wen boating. The boat stru?*K a sua* ana c;i(, sized. >Ir. Dow ma a seized the lady nearos him and swam with her to the shore. Tli others sank before he could return to tLei rescue. The Labor Worltl. The increase in wages in many indus'.rie continues. Miners' wasres in the Schuylkill (Ponn. region will be ten per cent, below the ?2.5 basis. Brooklyn issued certificates of debt fo $190,000 * to i>ay for the February troll" strikes. All the cotton manufacturers of New Bad ford. Mass.. have advanced the wagesc their employes. The :*union label" case in St. Louis n:t been decided against the cigar-makers. ti?< Coun holding tuat the union label is not : trade mark The Hohokeii (N*. J ) Observer announce the formation of a new political party eon posea 01 "ranroau The Amalgamated Association of Iron an Steel Workers at their next eonvention wi demand a restoration of wages. Massachusetts euttou manufacturers lmv restored wages to the scale existing befoi the reduction in August of last year. There are now about 40G blast furnace standing idle in Great Britain that will nevt be put into blast again, and 126 finished iro works that will probably never be worke again. Since the beginning of April the wages < more than eighty thousand workingmen i Iron mills, woolen and cotton factories an other industries, have been substantially ii creased. SffEFT MB TORNADO Scenes of Suffering: and Ruin In the Storm's Track. SCHOOL HOUSES DESTROYED. Vouthfnl Lives Crashed Out by the Cyclone That Devastated Sioux County, Iowa?Thrilling Story of Survivors--Tlie Country Strewn With the Bodies of Domestic Animals. Probably a hundred persons were killed h? o m-ninnn that nassed throueh Sioux K'J U V.JVIVUV "u"" X w County, Iowa, frotn southwest to northeast nn hour before sunset. Half a score of prosperous little hamlets were touched by the flying storm and hundreds of farms were laid waste. The territory devastated is as rich and populous as any in Towa, but the storm mainly kept clear of the railroad tracks and telegraph lines. A pitiful feature of the disaster was the numoer of youthful lives crushed out by the cruel wind. Four school houses near Sioux Centre were destroyed while school was in progress, and at ea^h one from three to ten children were killed or injured. Many of the children were carried from a quarter to half a mile before they were dropped. Two little daughters of John Koster. a farmer, near Sioux Centre, were picked up as they were leaving, the school house and dashed into a wire fence and both killed. Two sons of C. H. Haggle, at the same jchool house, had their less broken and received other fatal injuries. Mr. Haggle's house is near the school and, although he ?s<*aped. his daughter was fatally injured. The towns of Sioux Centre, Ireton, Orange City. Perkins. Doon, Hull. Sheldon, Alton, Ashton, Sibley and Lemars were almost entirely in the path of the cyclone. Fatalities were reported from Sioux Centre, Ireton, Orange City and Perkins. The cyclone was followed by a furious wind And rain storm. Telegraph line? and railroad tracks were disabled. The fatalities in the various towns are estimated as follows: Sioux Centre, fifty dead: Perkins, forty dead; Doon, ten dead; Sibley, five dead. No intelligent estimate of the damage in flicted can be made, but it will reacn tnto the millioa1*. A curious feature of the cyclone was the accompaniment of electric violence. Many deaths by lightning were reported. Numerous victims were found lodged in the trees, where thev had been hurled by the storm ind fatally injured. Two grown boys, who aad come from a field near Alton at the approach of the storm, were injured while in :he barnyard, one fatally. Wires were completely stripped from the poles, and in some places the posts were all taken from the ground. Horses, cattle and rehicles were hurled through the air like ihaff, and the coirtitry for three-quarters of i mile wide and many miles hi length is entirely wrecked. Where fine residences had stood could be found nothing but a cellar aole and in some cases a few twisted timbers. At Sioux Centre all the business houses were closed between 2 and 5 o'clock p. m., aext day. and five funerals took place during that time. Mayor Robie, of Sioux Centre, telegraphed to Sioux City for assistance, asserting that money, food and household supplies are jrgently needed. is estimated that $12,000 will be required to properly care for the sufferers. Fully one thousand families in the aeighoorhood of Sioux Centre are destitute and homeless. A mass meeting was called bv the Mavor and nearly 85000 in cash was raised. A* quantity of food anil supplies were donated. The destruction of the school house where George Marsden was teaching furnishes a pathetic story. Nor a vestige of the building remained. Mr. Marsden was found some iistance away, in a field. Two of his scholars wore close beside him. Two little daughters of John Koster. pupils in the same school were found jlinging to each other, covered with mud, tangled in a wire fence. The residence of Mr. Haggle, close to the school house, was swept away like a straw, and his eldest laughter, who was indoors when the storm struck it, was fouDd in the branches of a tree nearby badly injured. A.U his other children K-ere killed. In the valley of death from Ireton to Sioux Centre, which nearly parallels the railroad track, there was left nothing but debris. Dead horses, cattle, sheep, chickens, articles of wearing apparel, portions of houses and barns, pieces of wagons and farming implements, and jverything movable was scattered along the route. Around Sioux Centre forty farmers ire homeless and ruined. In the district around about the Haggle And Koster homesteads forty families are homeless and ruined. The same number is reported from Sioux Centre, and between Perkins and Ashton twenty-five families have nothing left. Altogether 300 families are homeless as the resuli of the five minutes' destructive work sf the evelone. The average of the loss to aach family is about $7000. It is thus seen that the financial loss is very large and cannot easily be repaired. In many cases it will never be repaired by the present owners of the land, as several of 'hem have already left the country. The injured aggregate 100 people. EVACUATION OF CORINTO, The British Withdraw Their Fleet and Nicaragua Will Pay. The evacuation of Corinto by the British marines and fleet was quietly accomplished, and the port was restored to Nicaraguan i authority. Shortly after midnight Minister Guzman" received a cable message saying that the preliminaries had been satis1 factorily arranged with the British Admiral through the intermediation of Senor i Fiallos of Honduras. In this manner Nicaragua was spared any appearance of humil' iation and friction was avoided. Nicaragua f will pay the indemnity in London within the 1 two weeks stipulated, and the remaining " terms of the ultimatum will be satisfactorily # arranged. Biggest Market In the Country. j Tearing down the old frame structure in 1 Wallabout Market, Brooklyn, N. Y., has be: gun. The new market, to bo of brick, and several of the new buildings are nearly completed. The whole market when finished - will cover a larger urea than any othei r market in the country. With 1,000,000 pop' -illation, 1500 retail meat shops and over 3003 retail grocers, its success seems assured, as ' the retail dealers have been crossing the river and buying supplies in New York, but e by purchasing in Brooklyn they will save ' from two to three hours, the time it takes to go to New York and return. a Oil Found In Wyoming. A sand-bearing oil has been discovered in ) a tunnel being drivon at Douglas, Wyoming, U for irrigation purposes. The oil was on the surface, and can be seen floating on the water 11 coming from a spring in one of the gulches, y It has been pronounced equal to the Casper oil. Developments of the Douglas field will [ be begun at once. The oil lands are situated if close to the railroad and near the North Platte Itiver. Gold Discovered in Tennessee. ;l Gold has been discovered near Raleigh, a suburb of Memphis, Tenn. .a ? Tornado in Texas. A tornado passed over Dcnison, Texas jj Houses were blown down and stock killed The storm crossed Red River to the Indian Territory, making a swath through the fore est. At Aubrey one house was demolished. e Near Carrolton dwellings were removed frora tnoir lounuauons, uuu m > ?iu aisi^uc uuu^uz ? and barns were unroofed. A cyclone 9wep1 >r the country west of Paris, Texas. Half th< ji town of Brcofcston Is reported to be in ruins d Destruction in IlllnoU. >f The tail end of a tornado struck St. Charles jj 111. It blew down the walls of a deserted " building in the Osgood block. Mis9 Hattlc Churoh was instantly killed. Five othei poople were buried under the ruins, NOTED NEW JERSEYMAN DEAD. Ex-Governor and Vice-Chancellor Greer Saccomba to Heart Disease. Ex-Governor and Vice-Chancellor Greer died the other morning at his home in Eliza both, N. J., from valvular disease of th< tieart. He had been ailing for severa months. Robert 8. Green was born at Princeton March 25, 1831. He was the son of James S Green, whose father, the Rev. Dr. Ashbe BOBEBT STOCKTOJf GREEK. (Vice-Chancellor and ex-Governor of Nev Jersey, Who Died in Elizabeth.) Green, was President of Princeton College The Vice-Chancellor's great-grandfather, th( Rev. Jacob Green, was Chairman of a com mittee which prepared the first Conatitutioi for the State of Now York at tile Provincia Congress, held in 1776. After graduaftinjj from Princeton, in 1850, Mr. Green studiec law, and in 1S53 was admitte d to the bar. H< soon after moved to Elizabeth, and was op pointed Prosecutor of the Borough Courts In 1858 ho became City Attorney of Eliza beth. In 1868 he was appointed Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas anc County Courts. In 18S4 fie was elected tc Congress. Mr. Green was a delegated th< conventions which nominated Stephen A Douglass, General Hancock and Presiden Cleveland. In 1886 he was elected Governoi after an exciting canvass. When his tern expired, in 1890. he was appointed a Vice Chancellor. In 1894 he was made a membe of the Courts of Errors and Appeals, to fll * - 1? A*.ofV. nf TCIlHnn ine vacancy cuuaeu uy mo u^i?u .... Walter Phelps. Mr. Green married in 1857 and his widow threa daughters and son survive him. ELECTION LAWS INVALID. Judge GofT Declares Sonth Carolina's Beg istratton Acts Unconstitutional. Tho State of South Carolina received tw severe blows in the United States Circui Court at Columbia. Tho more importan and far reaching case was that regatding th registration laws of tho State. Ever since it was decided to hold a Constitutional Convention, of which the avowei purpose was to insure white supremacy th colored voters have been much worked up Church collections were made for a fun< with which to contest the calling of the con vention and the validity of the. olectioi laws. Colored preachers were hard at work and the efforts of the colored people in dorsed by the Republican leaders, nave nop been rewarded in the preliminary lega fight, in which the registration laws are hel< to be unconstitutional by Judge Goff. He holds* in a long opinion, that it was thi intention of the Legislature In passing th( registration law, "How best to abridge an< destroy the greatest number of votes of th citizens of African dcscent, while (it the sam timo interfering with as few as possible of th voters of the white race." Tho decision of the court is that th registration law is harassing, unnecessary rigid, discriminating and outrageous in cer tain provisions, and is null and void. Thi leaves the Stifto without any election laws or with the same conditions as existed prio to 18S2, when tho law was enacted. The decUion of Judge Simonton In thi dispensary law, while it will, if sustained be a severe blow to the system, will not nec essarily kill the law. It Kill simply estab lish the right of tho citiz? to bring llquo into the State for his own consumption anc not for wile. The State authorities announced that th dispensary system was there to stay, ant that they did not believe the Supremo Cour would sustain the opinion of Judge Simon ton. A tost case will be made at once, ant it Is the intention of the Stato to have con stables continue the seizures, put themsoive In contempt of court, go to Jail and then asl fpr habeas corpus proceedings. Tarney Inaugurated ;n Tennessee. After four months of contest Governo Peter Turney, who was declared Governo of Tennessee by the Legislature, was inaug urated at Nashville. The ceremony begai at noon and lasted an hour. It was a Demo cratio inauguration. Republicans and Pop ullsts remained away by agreement. The Republicans went to Chattanooga ant spent the day with H. Clay Evans, who ha< a majority of 748 on the faco of tho returns but was declared not to have been legal!; olocted. Stepfather and Son in a Duel. A duel took place in Galveston, Texas, be tween Louis Zimmerman and his stepson Wnnrv W. Bauss. resulting in the instan death of the former and the fatal woundini of the latter. Litigation over property ant domestic troubles were the cause. Helil Up a Stage Coach. A stage coach running between Calistoga Cal., and Clear Lake was held up and robbei by two masked men, who secured abou 81200 in cash and looted the Wells-Farg treasure box. The highwaymen also sc cured considerable valuable jewelry. Englishmen Buy American Fig Iron. The Sloss Iron and Steel Company, Bii iningham, Ala., sold 1^> parties in Livet pool, England, 100 tons of pig iron. Th order is only an initial one. Crew of Thirty-Two Lost. The sealing schooner Walter Earle, o Victoria, British Columbia, was overturned and her crew of thirty-two mon lost thei lives. Teace In the Orient. The ratifications of the treaty of peace be tween China and Japan were exchanged a Chefoo. Prominent People. A colossal statue of Queen Victoria is to b erected at Rangoon, Burmah. Campbell Bannerman is supposed to b the richest man on the English ministeric bench. 8ardou'9 income from royalties on hi plays in Franco and other countries is $150, 000 a year. Carl Vogt. the famous German naturalist died in Geneva. Switzerland. He was in hi eighty-second year. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore and the Rev. E P. Livtrmore celebrated their golden wed ding on the 6th of May. Bismarck told a deputation from Austri that the Triple .Alliance is the modern forr of the ancient German Empire. Ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, has neai ly completed her memoirs, which are not t be published till after her death. Tho Earl of Jersey owns a margarine fac tory, near London, which turns out 175,10 pounds of butter substitute per day. The Austrian Emperor created a sensatio: I in Vienna the other evening by appearing a a theatre. It is the first time he has bee seen at a playhouse since tne tragic aeam c his son. "Dan" Rice, the veteran circus clown, wh Is now over seventy years old, lives quletl In a cottage at Long Branch, N. J. He sti ; has a ruday face, a strong voice and a heart ' manner. ... .[EBGLAUD IS APPEASED., 1 - Nicaragua's Indemnity to Be Paid < \ After the War Ships Withdraw. J r , SALVADOR TO THE RESCUE, ' i ! Snarantee In Given That the Money f Shall Be Remitted Within a Fortnight < aa Agreed?Final Settlement of the Con* troveray Between the Two Coantries? j Opening the Port of Corinto. The Nicaraguan incident, growing out of ' the British occupation of Corinto, has been , practically and happily settled, seemingly, 1 tnrougn me gooa omcea 01 me oaivauurcan Minister to Great Britain and France, who urived in London from Paris, and had an Interview with Lord Kimberley, the British Foreign Secretary. It is understand that Ambassador Bayard was present at this meeting, although the statement of Sir Edward Grey in the House c of Commons that the United States had not suggested terms for an amicable settlement would indicate that Mr. Bayard was only present In a friendly capacity. ^ The conference between Lord Kimberley and Mr. Medina, the Minister from Salvador, resulted in a definite arrangement of terms 7 for the settlement of the trouble at Corinto, c the substance of which was immediately ( cabled to Secretary Gresham by Mr. Bayard. In the despatch Mr. Bayard said that Great 3 Britain had accepted the guarantee made f by Salvador of the payment of the indem- . i nity of $77,500 domanded by Great Britain, . I the payment to be made by Nicaragua j in London within a fortnight, and [ I the British Government agreeing that, as J soon as Nicaragua confirmed this promise , to pay and informed the British Admiral in oh&rge of the naval forces at Corinto of - that fact, the Admiral would bo instructed J J to withdraw not only the force of marines i whioh, tinder command of Captain French, > now holi Dossession of the Custom House . 5 and other Government building at Corinto, but also io remove his war ships from the , t harbor. - mu? 9wr\ rr\ AT * "Rq TTrt VAfl TfV L lllO UCT[/ftU/U 41V/IU ilAl. ... V. ,(HW i oeived at the State Department, Washington, , - by Assistant Secretary Uhl, the Acting Secre- , t tary of State in the absence, through sick- : 1 ness, of Secretary Gresham. J The President was promptly advised of the 1 receipt of the intellieence that a settlement ' , of the Nicaragua difficulty was in prospect, and immediately drove to the White House, where Mr. Uhl joined him with a copy of the dispatch. The Nicaraguan Minister to the United . States, Dr. Guzman, is deeply gratified at the satisfactory termination of the serious dispute between his country and Greftt Britain. Dr. Guzman says there is no doubt that the Zelaya Administration will pay the t Indemnity in London within fifteen days if ) t the British ships be immediately withdrawn. A review of the successive steps which led to this resftlt will show that Dr. Guzman telegraphed the Nicaraguan Government that it would be better to pay the idemnity and thus rid itself of the presence of the f British war vessels, which were a source of || great irritation to the people. He received a ? reply saying that Nicaragua would pay the Indemnity in London in fifteen days if the 1 British vessels were removed. Dr. Guzman i oommunicated these facts to Seoretary Gresham, who cabled them to Ambassador Bayard, ' coupled with a request that they be brought ] to the attention of Lord Kimberley. The J other portions of the Secretary's despatch were not made public, but he is 5 believed to have asked Mr. Bayard 9 tQ present the case so strongly i as to secure Lord Kimberley's acquiescence. 8 Lord Kimberley notified Mr. Bayard that Ni0 caragua's proposition would be accepted and 0 thus terminated a difficulty which, had it been prolonged, might have led to serious e results. y I WILL RUN BY ELECTRIC POWER. s i '> Locomotive of a New Type Completed at r the Baldwin Works. 8 An electric locomotive of a new typo has j been completed at the Baldwin works at i Philadelphia for the North American Com- ' r pany, which operates the property of the 1 Oregon Transcontinental Company and an extensive street railway and electric lighting 8 interest in Milwaukee. This locomotive is 1 1 intended for special experimental woric in t handling heavy freight and for switching purposes. It resemblessomewhattheordinary 1 consolidation type used for pulling freight 1 in yard work. There are four pairs of drivers 1 a coupled together by connecting rods. The | i drivers are flfty-six inches in diamefer. the end ones only being flanged. The motors, , four in number and alternating in position, are of the "continental" lron-olad type. The | motors are Aiade for 800 volts at 225 revolutions, which equals sixty-five miles an hour ' r when in motion. Each motor will givo ! about 250-horse power, and there will be,a i constant drawbar pull of over 10,000 pounds. Venezuela Honors President Monroe. A popular subscription has been opened j at Caracas, Venezuela, for the statue of , President Monroe, to commemorate the y Monroe Doctrine. TURNEY. DECLAREDGOVERNOR. End of the Gubernatorial Contest in Tennessee After Debate. t' The Senate and House of Representatives , of Tennessee met in joint convention at 1 Nashville, and resumed the consideration oi the oontest between Peter Turney (Dem.) and Henry Clay Evans (Rep.) for the Governorship. If At the night session intense feeling was j created during the speech of Senator Bates, who took the penitentiary corruption for a 4 text. 0 The argument closed at 11.40 p. m.. and the roil was CHiiea. ine majority rojjuri sented bv the investigating committee iD favor of Turney was adopted, the vote being 71 to 57. The announcement of the result was greeted by loud cheers by the Turney men, and "" cannon were fired on Capitol Hill. e Will Graduate in Calicoes. The senior literary class of the Ann Arbor (Mich.) University hail its cap and gown ' "swing out" at chapol exercises before an I, immense audience, which cheered loudly a1? r over 100 of the class marched in with theix mortar boards and sable robes. Slightly over naif of these were "co-eds." The sensation of the day was caused by the circula* tion of a pledge among the "co-eds" in the !* class to graduate in calico or other cheap ,t dress so as to subscribe the more liberally to the "co-ed" gymnasium fund. ILLINOIS CRIES "ENOUGH!" e Titled Sons-in-Latv Cost Money and There e Are Worthy Atnerlcano. j In the House at Springfield, III., Mr. McCarthy obtained unanimous consent to Ins troduce the following resolution "Resolved. That the members of the General Assembly do hereby request the daughters of Illinois not to accept the hand in mar j riage of any person not a citizen of the United States by right of birth or naturaliza tion. as we are of the opinion that the ; daughters of Illinois should be patriotic in their views and should disregard the title of any foreigner and marry none but a citizen a uf the United States." 11 CHUNK OF WOOD AS EVIDENCE. Upon It Depend* the Disposition of a Fortune of 940,000. >. Upon a chunk of wood 200 years old de 0 penda the disposition of a ?40,000 fortune at Philadelphia, Penn. The suit was the ease n of Ruhaunah W. Creesse against the Security it Trust Company in foreclosing proceedings n on a mortgage for 440,000 on valuable ocean ?f frontage property at Five Mile Beach. The leading evidence Introduced was this secq tion of a tree. In the wood several inches y beneath the bark marks were found which it II was claimed were surveyors' marks defining y one of the boundaries of the property in dispute. This waa admitted in evidence. Two wills dated 200 years ago were also introduced tti Ihe trial, which 1b not yet ended. SCHOOL- DIRECTORS KILLED. rhree of Them Shot Down by One ManWoman's Gossip Said to Have Caused It. Three school directors were killed in the n !omo (Col.) District a few days ago. The layer and only survivor of the duel, "Ben" 8 tadclifTe, was taken to Fair Play after surendering, but declined to make any state- \ nent. It is said that Mrs. Joseph Crockett wrote i letter to RadcllfTe informing him that Samlel Taylor had made the statement that Raisliffe's daughter should not be allowed to go ^ o school with decent children. This was ac:ompanied by a broad insinuation. RadclifTe armed himself with a revolver md a Winchester rifle aud repaired to the jlace where the school election was in process. What occurred is not known, for of t four men who took part Radcllffe is the only survivor. It is supposed that he accused Taylor of f vriting the letter and in the argument that ollowed George D. Wyatt and L. F. McI!urdy, the other parties killed, took part I tgainst him. Wyatt's statement after he :rawled to the door is rather incoherent and annot throw any light upon the quarrel. 1 RadclifTe has the reputation of always going irmed, and during the past year he has had ? leveral quarrels with the School Board and he Superintendent. Wyatt survived four lours, but at no time was he able to give an j iccount of the occurrence. CL0UD3URST IN NEW YORK. 1 i. Fierce Hall Storm, Terrific Thunder and j a Brilliant Electric Display. Reports of a terrific cloudburst were re- \ eived from the southern part of Ontario j bounty, New York. A passenger on the Middlesex Valley train oported that when the train left Naples and tad proceeded about a mile from the depot 1 he clouds came together accompanied by errifle thunder and a brilliant electric dis- . >lay. Immediately the rain began to fall in orrents. 1 In the Middlesex Yalley. in the vicinify nf Yeat River, the railroad was washed out .n nany places and crops and vineyards detroyed. When the train reached Rassville he storm was such that it was nonconsidered , safe to send it further. The storm was the- worst in years. The >ed of the railroad from Middlesex to Naples I vas washed out most of the way. Fields j lave been furrowed and the small streams y vere transformed into rivers. T&y Ireignt nouse at itussvme was struct iy lightening and completely destroyed. >rent damage was done to telegraph and J elephone wires, and in many offices the rires were burned out. Great damage was lone along Canaudaigua Lake, both to vine- I rards and to cottages. l 1 PRINCELY CIFTS TO A COLLEGE. i Columbia Gets SI,000,000 From Setli Low and S300.000 From YV. C. Scliermerhorn. At the last regular monthly meeting of the | Trustees ot Columbia College, New York ( City, it was announced that President Seth i Low had given $1,000,000 to build a new 11- j 8ET3 LOW, r UUL.UJI11IA tULLtlil.. bran*, and that this gift was supolemented by one from William C. Schermerhorn, Chairroan of the Board of Trustees, who had given 2300.000 to build the Natural Science build- ( intr. Mr. Low said that he wished the library building to be a memorial of his father, the : late Abiel Abbott Low. F. Augustus Schermerhorn also donated the Townsend Library of war records. BUCHANAN'S RESPITE. | i Governor Morton Referred the Wife Poisoner's Case to the Attorney-General. Colonel Cole, Governor Morton's Private Secretary, said.that the Governor had re- ! ferred the question of Dr. Buchanan's execu- ' tion to the Attorney-General for a decision, in view of the legal difficulties which have arisen. The Governor took this step after receiving a telegram from District-Attorney Fellows declaring that there was no action pen- ' ding in the United States Court to stay the i execution of the wife-poisoner and urging the Governor to order the warden at Sing , Sing to carry out the death sentence. To this the Attorney-General replied, for:he ' Governor, that the matter would better be 1 disposed of by having a new day for the ex- 1 AA..tu? K,. ?,.> AA??f0 cuutiuil IUCU try mu wunc. Warden Sase. of Sing Sing Prison, said ' that he would not execute Buchanan until he ' received authority from some court competent to pass upon the question. C. P. HUNTINGTON WINS. Judg?,*Brown Denied the Writ (o Remove the Case Agalnnt Him. Judge Brown, in the United States District Court. New York City, denied the application for a writ of removal to California, in the. case of Collis P. Huntington, President of the Southern Pacific Bailroad. Mr. Huntington was arrested on a charge of violating the Interstate Commerce law by issuing a pass on the Southern Pacific Boad. In his decision Judge Brown said: "The application for removal must be denied on the ground that the indictment is fatally defective in not averring that any use was over made of the pass, or that any transportation was ever furnished under it." Mr. Huntington was indicted by the Grand Jury of the Northern District of California for a violation of the Interstate Commerce law by having issued a free pass to Frank Stone over the Southern Pacific Bailroad. Hooker Reunion at HaiUey, The Hooker reunion was held j at Had ley, Mass.. in the big canvas tent on the green nnnosito the farm house where General Jo seph Hooker was born. The military parade was witnessed by 4000 persons*, and the tent where the the exercises were held was crowded to its fullest capacity. The platform was filled with distinguished men. PerUheil in a Leaky Boat. Fivo persons were drowned in Carsrude's ' Lake, Colorado. Tho dead are Ray Badger. ' of Denver, aged nineteen: Robert Craig, of 1 EVvrt rv>llina nt?Arl tWPntV: H SOU HUd tWO ' daughters of H. C. Carsrude. i The party went out lishing in a leaky old ( craft. ^ Drowned With His Sister. Iii attempting to cross the Clinch River at Clinton, Tenu.. Thomas JIcGuire. a jeweler and optician, of Atlanta, and his sister were drowned, and their team of horses and 1 ?3iX)0 worth of jewelry were lost. i THE TEXAS TREASURY INSOLVENT, i The Legislature Appropriated 8514,000 More Than Could Be Paid. The Texas State Treasury was announced , insolvent by Treasurer Wortham. The pass age of the General Appropriation bill ( by the Legislature just closed made the State liable at once for $614,000. To ( pay this amount there was only 5100,000. When the bill beeamo effective warrants were draw, and within six hours every cent 1 of the ?100,000 in the Treasury was taken ? out. and there Is now a shortage of $514,000. , Treasurer Wortham says it will be next January before the State will be on a cash basLs again. ;. I 4 '"s* ':VV ^ V v^ ; > ? WORDS OF WISDOM, ' Many a man's tongue shakes out hil laster's .undoing. When you give others advice, takd^ ome of it yourself. \ Aid is never satisfactory. The best \ eay is not to need it \ Love never complains that the price V. t has to pay is too much. ? ;^8 Lingering with temptation is like ampering with dynamite. There is not a pin's point between he yes and no of a woman. Thought is the property only of ; j hose who can entertain it. There is an idiom in truth which alsehood never can imitate. He hath a poor epirit who is not planted above petty wrongs. Well-arranged time is the surest nark of a well arranged mind. There are only two beautiful things n the world?women and toses. While the tall maid is stooping the ittle one hath swept the house. The girl who runfi away to get married will very likely walk home. The generous heart should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain. When friendship stands in the way )f ambition, the latter rarely makes ihe sacrifice. Why should a man be good to enenies when he can never sufficiently reward friends? You have not fulfilled every duty mless you have fulfilled that of being feasant.?The South-West. ?^ Oar First Treatr With England* Of interest to-day is our first treaty vith England, says the Behoboth Sun- ' v lay Herald. The first thing was to jet from the King of England & statement that he and his Ministers were villing formally to acknowledge Ameri- . :an independence. When this was done three American ? Ministers went to Paris in order to be lpon neutral territory, and there they net one David Hartley, who had been aamed by the King to represent Great Britain. Each spent some time examining the other's credentials to see that they were treating with the right 3arties.| ? When fully satisfied upon this im? | portant matter, they took a few sheets if common and rather coarse white paper, nine by fifteen inohes in size, rod folded once, and at the top of the first page wrote in coarse and crude j [land: "In the namo of the most holy ?nd undivided Trinity." Writing in unbroken linen across the entire page, on both sides of the paper, and frequently referring each to the other as "High mightiness," these commissioners filled nearly four sheets of the paper, and at the end they signed their names. David Hartley signed first, and he placed his name away np in the left hand corner, just under the last line of the text, where it appears almost crowded off the paper by the names of the American signers, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and John Jay. They tied the sheets together with some very narrow and veiy cheap blue ribbon, the ends of which they fastened to the paper with patohes of red sealing wax. This wax they needlessly burned in plaoing it jnst at the left of their signatures. This is the definite treaty of Versailles, now yellow and faded. By it Great Britain formally renounced all claim to the thirteen original States* These four'sheets of cheap paper, with their "High mightiness," their "Most potents," and their faded blue ribbon, constitute the official close of the Revolutionary War. ? Savage Birds. , A young naturalist who is a close observer of birds tells this little story: "One morning last sunmer while walking through one of the parks I was attracted by a tremendous chattering from a clump of bushes near * ' > the pathway. It sounded as if a hundred birds were having a fight over their breakfast?for sparrows think that a fat worm or a juicy bug is worth making a great fuss about. 1 walked quickly and stealthily up to the bushes and peeped in. It was not a worm which caused .the commotion,, but something bigger. A large flock of English sparrows were flying about, screaming as if they had gone mad and pecking savagely at intervals at some small animal which was running about on the ground. It was a poor little red chipmunk who had escited their wrath. He was running baok and forth, evidently trying to get away from his tormentors. It was of no use, for he was closely surrounded by them, and he evidently was getting weak in the unequal struggle. So I drove away the sparrows and tried to rescue the miserable little squirrel. When the birds flew away the chipmunk still lay upon the ground, and seemed unable to move. 1 picked hi a up in my hands. He was in a pitiable condition. The sparrows had pulled g nearly every hair out ot His tan. una of his eyes was entirely pecked out, and he was covered with pecks and wounds where the pugnacious little sparrows had pecked and beateu him. Poor little chippy! He was nearly dead and evidently in such suffering that he had to be put ot his misery. We had Mr. Chipmunk stuffed ftnd put him on the mantel shelf for an ornament. He looks much more happy there than he did the day the quarrelsome little sparrows pecked his life iway. But what it was that excited their wrath Mr. Chipmunk never told."?New York Recorder. Chinese Opinion ol Europeans. Edward Walker, a former missioniry and hospital director at Soo Chow, showed me the other day a copy of the pamphlet that was circulated some twelve years ago in Hong Kong against the Christian mission work. It affirms that Europeans do not belong to the human race, but are descended from monkeys; this raoe of wild beings worship neither the heavens nor the earth; they do not ^honor ^ their parents, nor have respect for their forefathers; they come into China under the pretense of preaching a religion, but really come to take the eyes and brains of dying people and the blood of children; with these they make medical puis wmcn tnev sen iq their country and thus seourj ahrewdaesa,?New York Preta. a