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COMING QUESTIONS AT CZAR'S CONGRESS THINGS LIKELY TO BE DISCUSSED AND ACT? ED UPON. Washington, April 15.-The in? structions to the American delegates to the czar's disarmament congress are in the hands of the president and they will be communicated to Messrs. White, Low and N?well, and Capts, Mahan and Crozies at an early day. There will be ?no concerted meeting of the delegates on this side, the only parp?se being to arrive at the Hague about the same time, on or about Maj 18th In one respect, it is said in official quarters, that the congress may achieve results of far reaching char acter, although not in full realization of the plan of disarmament. This will be in the line of ameliorating the horrors of war, doing away with the needless suffering and maiming which some missiles of warfare occasion, and, in general, placing warfare upon as humane a basis as is consistent with military and strategic usage. This plan is said to be quite apart from any sentimental idea and to be based upon strict military consider ations. One of the American delegates said today that as indicating the ?cope of this line of action, tentative plane had been pot forward for doing away with torpedoes in naval warfare ; also for abandoning rams on warships ; also for the use of no explosive shells below five pounds. The abandonment of torpedoes and rams would probably arouse much opposition from naval quarters, on the ground that it was Utopian and sentimental. The restriction on explosive shells and bullets already exists np to one pound, bot the tentative plan is to make this limit five pounds. The change is based on the theory thal the three and four pound explosive shelfs cause wounds similar to those made by spreading ballets, which needlessly tear the flesh asa cause intens? suffering In many ways civilized nations already have recog sized the needs of mitigating the horrors of war. The Geneva con Terence brought about many of these humane understandings, and it is felt that the czar's congress will still farther carry forward this humane work. A KINGDOM FOB THE KAISER. Victoria, B. C., April 15.-Accord? ing to the Pekin Tie Tain, copies of which were received here by the steamer Glongle, it is generally believed a moo g the foreign element at Pekin that the seizure of Kiao Chou io November, 1897, by Germany was a ?rst step toward the realization of a scheme of Kaiser Wilhelm to place a Germac kiog on Chinese soi!. -Prince Henry, the emperor's brother, who ia in the orient io charge of the Asiatic ?qaar?rco, it is alleged, will be kiog, and the Chinese province of Shan Tung bis kingdom Tbe occupation of the interior of the provicce, it is pointed out, is a direct move toward the establishment of German sover? eignty over the ?hole of the 65,000 6qaare mites of Shan Tung, iostead of the 400 square miles around Kiao Chou, which was taken out of the Chinese domain by Admiral von Diedrichs after the native men bad killed Missionaries Neise, Henoie and Zeigier. Baron ven Heiking, the German minister, bas gone to Kiao Chou to consult Prie ce Henry. Chinese military officials in Sbang Tung have asked permission from the Pekin government to proceed against the German force of occupation. According to thc Japanese papers there is grave apprehension in British German diplomatic circles regardiog tbe situation io China, which is heightened by the fact that Russia is again making overtures fer control io Corea, In consequence of recent develop? ments the leave granted Sir Claude MeDerald, British ambassador, has bees withdrawn, and he will remain at the Chinese capital. Griffie Ga., April 16.-News comes tonight from Milser, six miles below here, that a negro, believed to be Sam Hose, tbe murderer of Alfred Cranford, bad been arrested there today The negro was passing through Milner when be was stopped by another of his race who told bim he believed him to be Sam Hose. The negro denied this, bot was baited and help summoned. Before he could be arrested he drew a pistol and shot his would-be arrester and fled. He was pursued, however, aod caught. A party of citizens tefe Griffin tonight for Milner to identify Hose if possible. Lieutenant Bili, a British officer with the Belgian troops ia the Congo Free State in Africa,was reoeotly captured by the natives in a fieroe fight, and was afterward kiiied and eaten. London, April 15.-Speciai dispatch? es from Madrid say she Duke of Arcos, the late Spanish minister to .Mexico, and who married Miss Sjjkftioia Lowery of Washington, bas wfej?5igoated as Spanish ambassador LAWTON MEN H?VE RECROSSED LAGUNA Object of the Expedition Was Accomplished. Manila, April 16.-Daring the ab? sence of Maj. Gen Lawton's exped? tion to the Santa Cruz district, on the southeastern side Laguna de Bay, the insurgents have been concentra? ting at the northern end of the ;ake, near the Pasig and the American scouts report that several thousand are already there. Gen Lawton's expedition is now on ita way back. Two hundred and fifty Chinamen from Santa Cruz have arrived here. They left the town owing to their fear that the rebels, on reentering it, would wreak vengence upon them for favoring the Americans. BACK AT MANILA. Manila, April 37, 10.50 a m.-Maj. Gen Lawton's expedition to the Lag? una de Bay districts reembarked last evening, anchored for the nigiit at the head of the river Pasig and reach? ed Manila this morning, bringing all the men and the captured insurgent boats. Iis objects, namely the capture of the insurgent boats and the dis? tribution of the proclamation, empha? sized by a lesson of American power, throughout the lake region, have beeo attained Gen. Lawton immediately began preparations for a ?important expedi? tion ou land There has been no flighting on the lake for three days. The Real Cause of the Race Troubles in the South. Tbe emiceotly sensible advice given his race by Booker T. Washington, who is reputed to be the most intelli? gent negro living, if only fellowed would end the race troubles in the South and show to tbe colored people where their real friends are. The continual clashing between the whites and blacks ba3 had no other cause than that to be discerned in tbe attempts of the latter to gain the whip band in administrative affairs, which they know themselves incompetent to wield. Their wrongs are for the most part imaginary and, as Mr. Washing? ton says, "fifty per cent, of the white Democrats io North Carolina are better friends of the negro than is Governor Rossel!" or any of bis politioal consorts. The southern white man and the southern black man have been associ?t ed with each other ever since there was a Sooth. Tbe fortunes of the former have always ?eeo shared w:.th tbe latter and if better opportunities have not been given the blacks to progress it has been wholly because the whites j bave been so impoverish-zd, themselves, that they hive had nothing to hold cut. There would not be tbs slightest ! trouble between the peopie of that I section if they were not incited by j agitators from the North and inflamed by partisan organs that ^opc to make political capital thereby. Booker T Washington touched the key note of j the situation wbsn he said : "Is there any reason why the negroes in the South should continua to opnose the southern white man and bis politics? Is this net tho source of! nearly all our troubles ? Unconscious- j ly we seem to have gotten the idea into our blood and bones that we are only acting in a manly way when we oppose southern white men with our votes." "In some way, by some method, we must bring the race to that point where it will cease to feel that tbe only way I for it tc succeed is to oppose everything suggested or put forth by the southern white meo. This I consider one of our real'problems." ."I believe that there are thousands of white Democrats in North Carolina who are fifty per cent, better friends to the negro than Governor Russell, and I see no necessity in ooutiouing to fol? low Governor Russell, who has no power to protect, or if he has the p^wer, does not exercise it, rather than these other white men who can protect us if we cease to continually and for? ever oppose them."-Bellefonte (Pa ) Watchman. WHITE CAFS IN PENN? SYLVANIA. Buffalo, N. Y.. April 16 -A Corry, Pa , speoial to the Courier says that an alleged wife beater, Henry Johnson, about 40 years old, was taken from his home at Spriog Creek, ten miles couth of Corry, by a band of masked men, stripped of his clothing, tied to a tree and beaten with whips until he lost consciousness. His back was horribly lacerated. Johnson was left apparent? ly dead on the ground. When he revived he orawled to his home. Aithoogb badly injured be will recover. A conviction ic a pension fraud oase at Washington revealed the fact that daring 30 years three women had drr.wn a pension as the widows of a man who had never seen married. To see is to try, to try is to buy the ?White. ? Good Sewing Machines from $10.00 up a Randie's. A New Sam Jones. An Independent Ohio Repub Hean Who Stirs up the McKi n ley-Harrison Crowd. Washington, April 17.-A mid? night conference was held to consider the spector of Sam Jonesism, which ?8 badly frightening Ohio republicans. The conference was participated in by Boss Hanna, Mr. McKinley, and several other republicans of promi? nence who came from Ohio to Wash? ington for the purpose They believe that Sam Jones intends to run as an independent candidate for governor of Ohio, and that he stands a good chance of getting enough ? vetes to throw the State to tbe democrats, if he doesn't get elected i himself They reelize that the loss of Mr McKinley's own State this year would star!; a boom for ''Teddy" Roosevelt that might knock Mr. McKinley out of a renomination next year. They don't know just what to do about it A proposition was made that Sam Jones be given the regular republican nomination for governor, but it did not find much favor, because it was stated that he could not be controlled by the ma? chine. It was also proposed that an attempt be made to ascertain whether Sam Jones could be bought off with j a big appointment in the diplomatic service. All agreed that something bad to be done to head off Sam Jonesism in Ohio, and all promised to put their wits to work. And the fighting still goes on in the Philippines Our troops whip the Filipinos and take a town every day or two, bul; as soon as they leave the town-it would require 100,000 men on the island of Luzon atone to permanently garrison all the towns the Filipinos occupy it again. A?d this sort of thing is likely to go on indefinitely. It is not surprising that roen are beginning to ask each other how long the people of this country will be willing to put up with this j sort of thing. The question is per tinent Not satisfied with trying to deprive I him of honors rightfully belonging to I bim, the navy department has ignor ! ed the request of Hear Admiral j Seeley-he has at least got bis com mission as rear admiral-for sea duty, and practically placed him on the shelf for the time being, by making him a member of the naval examining board in Washington, while Sampson, the mau he ranks, is in command of a fine squadron. Secretary Alger had hardly got settled again in bis chair at the war department, before he made public a new defiance of those republicans j who have been trying to persuade Mr McKinley of the wisdom of throwing Alger overboard, regard less of what he might tell of ihe campaign of 96 This challenge of Alger indicates his belief that his hold on Mr McKinley is strong enough to keep him in the cabinet, no matter what happens. He said : "Since I entered the cabinet, I have not considered resigning ; the mat? ter has never been mentioned to me by the president, and I have no intention of resigning. If the pur? pose of the constant reports that I wiii leave the cabinet is to tire out the president and myself, (hose resposible for them are very much mistaken-they don't know their men " It li an open secret that many prominent republicans are working to force Alger out of the cabinet They are willing to drop him easv by letting him take the ambassadorship to France, or any other diplomatic position under this government, but they insist that he ehail be asked to resign if he wiil not do so. it is in connection with this scheme that Whitelaw Reid's paper printed a 6avage attack on Alger and Algerian), a few days ago. Reid's relations with Mr McKinley are so close*-he would have been in the cabinet; but for Boss Platt's pro? tests-that ii is certain he never would have printed that attack without Mr. McKinley's knowledge. The warmer this fight grows, the better democrats will be pleased, because they know it is bound to make a heap of trouble for republi cans next year. Wherever a few long headed republicans gather just now, the subject of how the party can get the idea that it is too favorable to trusts out of the beads of voters, is apt to come np for discussion At a gathering of several republican sen? ators, in Washington, this week, one of them said : "I must confess that I do not consider the political out? look over bright for the republican party. The spring elections were not encouraging. The Toledo elec tion I regard as most significant Sam Jones, the independent candi? date for mayor, got almost as many votes as his republican and demo eratic opponents combined. What does it mean 1 I believe it is a condemnation of trusts and monopo? lies. The republican party is in a very perilous position It has appa rently been captured by the trusts barons and monopolists Unless we can shake them off, I believe it will be next to impossible to elect McKin ley, or any one, on the republican Presidential ticket next year ,; An? other republican Senator present said : "The sentiment against trust ! ie certainly very strong throughout the West, and I agree with you that ? we must do something radical in order to disabuse the impression in the public mind that the republican party is a party of trusts. It wiil not be an easy thing to do, however Even if we put in a strong anti trust plank in our platform next year, the fact that the campaign will be in.the hands of Mark Hanna and other trust magnates, will render our declaration against trusts almost farcical " PILING BURDENS UPON THE PEOPLE TO ENRICH BANKERS. It is only when a gold man com menees to talk money that he forgets all he knows of other 6ubjecte Whee people ask us to drop our fight on the money question and the trusts. I remember that the republican party is today preparing to organize a trust more potent for evil than all the in industrial trusts combined There is a bill now before congress, represent ed by the Republican committee, that turns over to the national banks the control of the paper money of this country; it provides for the retire ments of greenbacks by an issue of bonds drawing 2J per cent; it pro? vides the bank shall be permitted to issue up to the par vaiue of bonds, and with the I cent tax circulation and this shall be reduced to a small fraction of 1 per cent Here is your evidence of good Republican policy They want to issue bonds in place of greenbacks and tax the people to pay the interest on the bonds, and then they reduce taxes that the banks now pay on circulation that they have. Why pile up the tax es on the people and lower the taxes on the banks ? What doea it mean ? What if that law goes into effect, and 2| per cent bonds are at par ? Then a national bank with a capital of $100 OOO can invest the $100.000 in bonds, deposit the bonds with the treasury and draw upon the bonds $100,000 in bank notes ; so that the amount the bank gets back is just equal to the amount the bank paid for the bonds. So that it bas not a single dollar invested, yet it goes on drawing It is a small pro? position in mathematics, and yet those banks will tell you they want this done for the public good -William Jennings Bryan in Jefferson banquet speech. Befeat Impossible Declares a Filipino. Says While American Bal? lets Kill One Native Disease Kills 20 Americans. New York, April 17 -A Hong Kcog letter to The World says : "We are weak and you are strong," 5aid Dr. Gallicaoo Apacible, the bead of the Fiiipino juota here, "bat we have an ally and you have none. **We have 70.000 stands of arms and oO.OOO troops in the field and sufficient material to make cartridges for four years to come "Oar ally is the climate of the Phihppioes. Ycur bullets cannot kill one of cur men where disease wil! kiil twenty of yours, once you begin your advance into she inierior. We wiil harass your advance at the same time that we welcome it. "We cannot fight pitched battles with you and we do cot need to. We eh ali be here tcdav and there frmorrow, attacking, then flying You can no more catch na or cocqaer us tban you can the wind. Youth seems io be more enviable first requirement of leadership among the Filipinos Only thu younger generation of balf-oreeds ba?e had the advantage of education Dr. Apacible and Dr. Santos (after Apacible the most prominent member of tbe Hong Kong junta), are under 25, and both have received the degree of dootor of laws io Spain Between them and tbe num?reos young men who are their associates and the mass of Filipinos, there is about as muoh resemblance as between a quadroon and a full-blooded negro They were led to organiza their rebellion by a priest ; priests educated them aod by the irony of fate they now hold hundreds of friars as prisoners. A TERRIBLE^ACCIDENT. Union, April 15 -A very unfortu na'e accident occurred hers this after? noon by which Mr. Abe Long, a son of Sheriff J G. Long, was seriously, and in all probability fatally wounded Mr Long went horre, carrying a number of packages in bis arms. He went directly to his private room, and io a (-hort time a pistol shot was beard. Oo going to his apartments, Mr. hmg was found lying on the Soor in an unconscious condition. An examination revealed the fact that he was shot through the left arm and had a bullet hole in his forehead, near his right eye Just how tbe shooting was done is not known, but the supposition is that the pistol fell out of Mr. Long's pocket as be stooped to lay his bundles down, and was discharged. Medical aid w&s procured, but there is scarcely any hope for his recovery Mr. Long is about 21 years of age, and a most exoellent young man. He has had charge of the county chain gazg several months, and the pistol he oarried with him when on duty, a 44 calibre, is the one with which be was shot. The sad affair is very much regretted by everyone. LIQUID AIR EXPERIMENTS. Cold is Hotter Than Heat Carbon Burns at 312 Below. The guests of the National Geo? graphic society, after its annual reception in Washington, recently, were entertained by Chas. E Tripler, of New York, the inventor of liquid air. Mr. Tripler had brought from his laboratory in an ordinay vessel, not unlike a milk can, ten gallons of liquid air at a temperature of 312 de? grees below zero. This was brought into the banquet room, at the Arling? ton hotel, where the audience was assembled, and manyv of the experi? ments which have lately startled the scientific world were repeated. Mr. Tripler was introduced by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. ? large number of distinguished scientists bad gathered to witness his experiments, and in the audience were the German and Russian ambassadors, the Chinese minister, and a large number of the most distinguished people in Wash? ington. Mr. Tripler first exhibited the liquid air by passing around the audience tin dippers filled with it. These gave off a vapor l^ke steam j and rapidly accumulated frost on the ! outside After the audience had finished the inspection, Mr Tripler struck the dippers against the table and they broke to pieces 'ike glass. He then immersed a common rubber ball in the liquid and afterward threw it on the floor, where it broke into pieces. He partially immersed in a com mon tumbler, filled with liquid air, a stick of carbon, like those used on the arc light, and the part of the carbon above the surface burned rapidly with a white light as intense as that of an arc lamp. He explain? ed that a temperture of 1,000 degrees above zero was required to burn carbon, yet this air at 312 degrees below zero burned it rapidly He immersed in the same glass the end of a coiled watch spring, and it burn? ed rapidly and threw off a shower of sparks until the entire spring was consumed Mr. Tripler explained that alcohol freezes at a temperature of 202 below zero, and he accordingly took a pint of whiskey and, pouring the liquid air over it, soon bad it in a state eo that he broke it up into chunks and passed it around the bis audi? ence Mercury freezes at 40 degrees be? low zero. The inventor froze a chunk of it in the shape of a hammer and drove a nail into the table upon which his experiments were conduct ed. This hammer afterward circu latd Ihrough the audience for haif an hour without melting, though it gradually accumulated a frost on the outside Mr. Tripler dipped several Irish potatoes into the can of air, and then threw them cn the floor, and they broke into pieces, like china eggs. The pieces were picked up for souv enirs, but were found to be so cold j that they were uncomfortable to ! keep j SERVED FROZEN POTATOES. They were extremely bard and could be carved w'th a pen knife like boxwood. They circuiated pretty rapidiy through the audience, each person being apparently anxious to pass them on to his neighbor. -. A piece of raw beef was immersed in the air and taken out pure and white and bard as ivory. Thrown on the floor it broke into pieces. Sever? al persons having picked these up ss souvenirs, Mr. Tripler warned them that in a few minutes after the cold had passed away the beautiful white substance would return to beef sgain and would become an uncomfortable keepsake. A cake of ice was placed on the table, and Mr Tripier placed upon it a teakettle filled with liquid air. He then put the kettle over a gas flame and it quit boiling, and a thick coating of ice formed on the outside and waa afterward broken off with a mallet Mr Tripler threw a dipperful of air over his clothing and it left them perfectly dry, and a finger dipped in the liquid would be withdrawn dry, but uncomfortabiy cold A quantity of the air thrown on the floor made a heavy sout;d like melted lead The liquid scattered in all directions throwing off a gray vapor aod being rapidly consum ed. lt left the floor dry. Mr. Tripler said that he had receiv? ed letters from scientific meo all ever the United States questioning his statement in a reoent ouober of Mc? Clure's Magasine, to the effect that he could produce liquid air with liquid air ; that is, with a start of two gal? l?os of the substance he could gog on producing any quantity of tba air for any length of time. Tho inventor said that though this assertion had been questioned by scientists from Harvard college and from eeveial other eminent i institutions of learoiog, it was literally ! true, and was demonstrated daily in his labratory. He said that it was strange that these scientists were not surprised when, with a few gallons of amooia. a large ice factory was kept io operation He said that he had actual? ly made ten gallons of ?Squid air io his liquifier by the use of about three galions, a surplusage tba: would go oa indefinitely. The inventor's theory is that liquid air, 312 degrees below aero, beicg waru.ed by contract with atmosphere, throws cff a vapor or 6team v?hicn, if corfioed, could be made to operate say eogice DOW operated by steam He held up a glass of the liquid when he dismissed his audieace tc-night and remarked that if the small quantity of liquid at 312 degrees which be held ia his baud were warmed 100 degrees -that is to say 212 degrees below zero ?-it would throw off a force that, if confined, wculd operate a 1,000 horse? power engine. The inventor said that be proposed not only to utilize liquid air in place of the water cow used ?a boilers, but that he proposed to heat the air with natural atmosphere, thas operating engines without water or fuel. -Iowa State Register. 100,000 MEN NEEDED BY OTIS. New York, April 17 -A dispatch to The World from Maniia says : Major Lawton, at Pa:t"?, to-day authorized The World correspondent to make this statement : "The present prospect is that 100,000 troops will be necessary to pacify the Philippine islands." General Lawton's expedition bas been ordered to Manila and will return there immediately. AU the territory be captured will be evacuated and ail (he lauoches will be restored to their original owners-that is to say, they will be given bao&'to the persons from whom Aguinaldo's soldiers took them. After giving the opinion that 100,* OOO men woald be required to subdue these islands, General Lawton explain? ed the situation to The World corres? pondent as follows : "The difficulties in the way are those of fighting guerillas in a tropical country. With my brigade, I^aftald force my way from one end or thc island to the other if I did not have tc hold the territory ? traversed. 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