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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-12-22
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COMMERCE WITH SPAIN.
Belief Expressed That a Treaty of Reci-
nrOcitY VIII be Eoruned


NEW York, March 25.-The latest in
formation furnished by the Madrid press
gives hope that there will be a prompt
and favorable result from the conference,
which Foster opened Immediately on his
arrival in the Iberian Capital.
According to EI IDlp0rcidl, an influen-
tial Madrid paper, usually well informed,
the principal obstacle to the conclusion of
treaty of commerce will be put out of
the way.
1t says that Spain will insist in the ne
gotiation, upon liberal conditions re-
garding importation into the United
States of Cuban tobacco, either manu-
tactured or in the leaf, but it is supposed
that this tobacco question will be the OBJ
ject OF a special negotiation, which
amounts to saying that it may be en-
bodied in an amendment to the general
treaty, the conclusion of which would
not be delayed on that account.
Again, it is said in regard to the flour
trade, that the duties imposed upon
American flour imported into Cuba
would amount only to a sum equivalent
to the cost of transporting the flour from
Spain to Cuba.
1t will be remembered that the strongest
opposition made in Spain to treaty of
commerce with the United States pro-
ceeds from the agricultural provinces of
the peninsula. That opposition has mod
Grated, if the information relative to fix
ing the new duties on American flour in
Cuba is correct
Deputies representing those Spanish
provinces recently held a meeting in
Madrid, and appointed a delegation which
called on the Prime Minister and on the
Colonial Secretary. The Presidents
Cabinet told the delegates that ''the grav-
ity of the situation in Cuba demanded
urgent and immediate measures to help
the island, while harmonizing the latters
interests with those of the peninsula"
The Deputiesaaasked among other things,
that in the treaty of commerce to be
signed with the United States a clear dis
tinction shouldlbe made between arrange
ments concerning the Philippine Islands
and those concerning Cuba.
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ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

The Chinese cultivate an odorless on
ion.
French statesmen have offered 81, 900
reward for the best athletic game.
The imports of Victoria, Australia. last
year were 922, ,952, 600, against te24, ,402. 600
in the previous year, and the exports
were 913,227 900, against se12, ,734 900 in
1899.
A New Haven physician who refused
to attend an urgent case on the ground
that he had previous engagement has
been fined $40.
A young woman in Genesee County.
Mich, who had obtained $1,000 in a
breach of promise suit, has rewarded her
chief witness by marrying him.
An important gastronomic question has
arisen in Baltimore. Shall the size of the
guests mouths be taken into considera-
ton when raw oysters are served at din
ner?
A stern father in Keya Paha County,
Nebraska, with large family of girls,
has passed the cold edict that each beau
who frequents his domicile through the
winter must contribute load of sawed
stove wood.
a RUSSIAN press censor permitted the
following item to appear in a Moscow
paper: 1T is our opinion that Russia
needs new railroads and will have them"
For this the censor was suspended for
three months and the editor fined $500.
A Paris tobacconist, who had perhaps
been in America, advertised a certain
cigar to be 1.-The best in the world for 5
cents" He was arrested, failed to prove
it ''the best' and was fined $50 for ina
Hcious intention to deceive"
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MINISTER BLAIR.
The Report That His Record Has Been
Sent to China Confirmed.

The Report That His Record Has Been
Sent to China Confirmed.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-It will be
remembered that day or two after
Senator Blair had been nominated to be
Minister to China it was published that
his record had been cabled at length to
China by the legation here. This state
ment was met by the usual denial, but it
can be stated positively that the informa-
ton was absolutely correct. except that
the matter was mailed instead of cabled.
1t is now admitted at the Chinese Lega-
ton that no kilograms were sent to the
home Government except the bare an
nouncement of the nomination, but
Blair's record followed very soon after
ward in a bulky package.
In an Interview in q New York paper,
Blair now says that if he accepts the po-
sition he will sail during the early part of
May. 1t is believed here that he has
named this somewhat distant period of
departure SO that he will have an oppor-
tunitv to hear whether China will re-
ceive him, beforehe starts on his Journey
Secretary Blaine said this afternoon that
the Senator will go. He was asked
whether or not letter of instructions
had been issued, and he replied: 81 have
nothing to say about the letters of in
struction. All that 1 will say is that
Blair will 90 to China"
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FINANCIALLY EMBARRASSED.
A. Whitney d Sons, Car Manufact.
urerS, in Trouble.

A. Whitney & Sons, Car Manufact-
urerS, in Trouble.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25.-The firm
of A. Whitney d Sons, car-wheel manu-
facturers, is reported to be financially en-
barrassed. The firm is now composed of
John r. and James S. Whitney, surviv-
ing sons of the founder. The rumors of
the embarrassment of the firm were con-
firmed by James S. Whitney, who de-
clined to give details.
The car-wheel works were founded by
Asa Whitney in 1S49. When the works
were built they were among the finest in
the country, and an immense business
was built up. The founder died, leaving
an estate valued at Sl,000,000, and the
management of the concern fell to three
sons-George, John r. and James S.
After the death of the father it was found
that he had left large dover to his
daughter, who had married Bishop Howe
of Reading. This dover was secured in
the mandatory.
A couple of years ago it was found the
interest in this inheritance had not been
regularly paid, and an appeal was made
to the courts, when an order was made as
sesSing the unpaid interest, and the plant
is said to have been mortgaged to secure
its payment. George Whitney died in
1885, leaving an estate valued at $500, 600.
John r. Whitney had also retired from
the firm, but at the time of placing the
mortgage on the plant he was constrained
to come back into it, and is now the
senior member. Since then the works
have been doing fair business, but have
been gradually falling behind younger
establishments. In last years rating of
the firm by commercial agencies it was
cut down to between 500, 600 and $500, coo,
but their credit was good at that amount
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Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

special 10 the RECORD-UNION.
WASHINGTON, March 25. = Irwin F.
Smith, Special Agent of the Department
of Agriculture in the Division of Vege-
table Pathology, is conducting an inter
esting experiment of great interest to
California fruit-growers bearing upon
the propagation of a destructive disease Of
the peach tree known as ''the yellows.''
He has already found by experiment
that the buds affected by this disease
when grated in healthy stocks, viii in
variably produce stunted trees similarly
affected, and like result has been OBJ
tanned when buds apparently healthy
were taken from the diseased branch.
The object of the experiment now in
progress is to determine whether the dis
ease is not communicable even under
conditions which would seem to be much
more favorable to the production of sound
trees.
The buds used in this experiment have
been obtained partly from the healthiest
portions of trees not largely affected by
the disease and partly from trees in
which no indications of the disease had
yet appeared, but which are growing in
infected orchards. In order to eliminate
as far as possible all occasion for doubt
as to the disease in case it shall appear
in trees produced from these buds, hav-
ing originated in buds and not in the
stocks, the latter We're produced from
seeds obtained from districts in Tennes-
see, lower Maryland and lower Della
ware, which have so far been entirely
free from the ''yellows."
The practical object of the experiment
is to determine the degree of care on the
part of the nurserymen and peach-grow-
ers which it is necessary to use in order
to guard against the transmission of the
disease in the process Of budding.
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PERILS OF THE SEA.
British Steamer Wrecked and MIN
teen Lives Lost.

British Steamer Wrecked and Nine
teen Lives Lost.
NORFOLK (Va.) March 25.-The steamer
which went ashore one mile below Chica-
micomico Life-Saving Station, on the
North Carolina Coast, yesterday morn
ing, is the British steamship Strathairly,
Captain Wynn, bound from Santiago de
Cuba to Baltimore. She was vessel of
l.236 tons. Out of a crew of twenty-six,
nineteen were lost, including all the Off
GERS except the second mate. The steamer
Will be q total loss.
Communication between this city is
interrupted by q break OF the Govern
ment telegraph cable, and it win be inn
possible to secure any details OF the wreck
before tomorrow.
y WHEAT VESSEL SLIGHTLY DAMAGED.
LONDON, March 25.-The British bark
Priorhiil, Captain Proutt, which sailed
from San Francisco October 18th, loaded
with wheat, has arrived at Westport. She
sustained some damage. 1t is feared that
some of her carge is damaged.
A SCHOONER DAMAGED.
NEW YORK, March 25.-The steamer
Majestic, bound out, while passing Sandy
Hook this morning, fouled the schooner
Stowell Sherman of Providence, also
DouHu out. Inc SchoOnerS mast and
foretop mast We're carried away, and the
foresail was torn to shreds. The Majestic
proceeded to sea and the sherman re-
turned to port.
SHE STRUCK A ''NoRTHER."
New YORK, March 25.-The steamer
Caledonian arrived to-day from Mediter-
ranean ports. On March 1lth she struck
a a'norther," and the wheel-house was
mashed and the helmsman injured. The
sea also carried away the BOBBY hatch
and all loose spars on the deck, and Sc
verely injured the second officer and lot
of Italian immigrants.
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the second prize of $500, and Miss Laura
hayes OF Chicago the third, $3.50. Miss
Hayden has been wired to come to Chi
cago and elaborate her plans.
The design is one of mark simplicity,
In Italian renaissance style, with colon
nades broken by center and end pavil-
ions. The structure is to be 1000 by 400
feet, and fifty feet to the cornice. There
is no dome, the chief feature of the orna-
mentation being the entrance.
Miss Hayden is first-honor graduate
OF the Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology.
ACTION TAKEN IN GERMANY.
BERLIN, March 25-A conference in
which prominent German manufacturers
took part, and in which the Chicago
Worlds Fair and the prospects of Ger
many being there represented were dis
cussed, was held here to-day. The manu-
facturers concurred in the belief that rep
resentation worthy of the German EN-
pire only could be obtained if the Gov
ernment sent Commissioner to the
United States with power to secure to the
manufacturers of Germany who might
contemplate exhibiting all the ad-
yantages which German industry is en-
titled to.
1t was decided to issue call for a mass
meeting of the German manufacturers of
this city on April ID, at which COM
mittee of merchants will be appointed to
supervise and arrange for the representa-
ton OF the products of German industry.
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INCORPORATED.

Mining and Other Companies File Ar
ticles With the Secretary of State.
The following articles of incorporation
were filed in the Secretary of States office
yesterday:
The Campbell and Moreland Ditch
Company. Principal place of business,
Plano, Tulare County. Capital stock,
Sl2,S00. Directors-C. t. Brown, o. E.
Gibbons, w. S. Martin, V. L. Adams and
J. Fred Ressing.
Pacific Labelling Company of San
Francisco. Capital stock, S25O,O0O Di-,
rectors-Thomas A. Vest, A. j. Chenu-
nant. Parker Crittenden, Charles Z.
Newell and Peter Olsen.
Golden Rod Mining and Milling Com
pany of San Francisco. Capital, stock,
81, 100000. Directors-F. A. Davis, w. Il.
Bushnell, George n. Chase, George Nc
Lagan, J. j. Owen, e. E. Cothran and
George A. Muieson.
Standard Fertilizing Company. Princi-
pal place of business, South Riverside.
Capital stock, 100000. Dlrectors-Wm.
L. Somers, ii. A. Rising, Lionel Haw-
trey, L. B. Lyman and George B. Rowell.
Gold Bluff Mining Company of Down
ieville, Sierra County. Capital stock,
S500,000. Directors-John NJ. Van SIyke.
n. L. Briggs, John Costa, j. w. Brown
and III. Spaulding.
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Merchants Forced to Leave Val
paraiso on Account of War.
NO ONE DARES EXPRESS AN
OPINION.
Nine Jurors Obtained to Sit in the Case
of August Olsen, Charged with the
Murder of Ivett-San Jose Enthusi-
asts Preparing for the Opening Day
of the Baseball Season in that City.
Special to the REcoRp-US1os.

Special TO the REcoRp-UNIoN.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.-Alfred ard
Frederick Lee, two brothers, arrived
here to-day from Valparaiso, Chile on
the bark Guinevere. They were engaged
in the hardware trade in Valparaiso, but
the unsafe condition of affairs resulting
from the war which is now in progress
caused them to leave Valparaiso, and
they are the first residents of that city to
arrive since the outbreak of the trouble.
They state that the trouble has been
brewing for long time, and was princi-
pally caused by the efforts of Balmaceda
to have one of his tools succeed him as
President.
When the Lee brothers left Valparaiso
the inhabitants were expecting bonn
bardment at any moment. The city was
in an uproar, and all business was sus-
pended. No one dared to express an
oplnlon, and men suspected of sympathy
with the insurgents were thrown into
prison by the hundreds. The newspapers
were watched, and nothing against Bal
maceda was allowed to be published.
The telegraph and cable lines were seized
by the Government to prevent facts leak
ing out.
The Guinvere was the last sailing vessel
to leave the harbor, and then only got
away by bribing the naval officers.
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Criminal Assault.

HArIFAX On. 81, March 25.-Mr. Tan
ner, late United States Consul at Pictou,
who had fled from the province to escape
prosecution on charge of attempted as
sault on little girl, has been arrested in
Boston, and, it is said, will be brought
back for trial. He was prominent in So
ciety while at Pictou, but one day in
velgled into his office little daughter
Of q well-known citizen. with whom he
took improper liberties. He was severely
beaten by the father, but soon after left.
when prosecution was about to be in
augurated
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FORTY DAYS FAST.
A Lady Accomplishes the Feat With
out Neglecting Her Duties.

PITTsBURG (Pa.), March 25.-Eva Bran
mock, a teacher of music in the Bethany
Home, has just finished successful forty
days fast. This lady, who is religious
enthusiast, was struck by the fact that
whenever or wherever she opened the
Bible there was found command to fast.
She began her forty days fast, which
differed from all others, in that she at
tended to her regular duties as teacher
and keeper of the rooms in the home
Her fast ended to-day, and she joyfully
consumed dinner which did not harm
her in the least. There is no doubt as to
her having lived forty days ON nothing
but water, as the story is substantiated
by reliable people.
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WORLDS FAIR.
Several Governments Accept the Invi-
tation to Participate.


tation to Participate.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-The Spanish
Government has notified the Department
of State that it will participate in the
Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chi
cago. Minister Lincoln also cabied a
brief announcement to-day that the Gov
ernment of Great Britain had accepted
the invitation to make display at the
fair.
1t is curious fact that the first action
taken by any foreign nation in connec-
ton with the celebration of the four hum
dredth anniversary of the discovery of
America should be the Republic of San
Domingo, on which was located the first
settlement of Spaniards in the New
World. Captain Nathan Appleton, a
well-known citizen of Boston, engaged
in the construction of railway in San
Domingo. has been requested to take
charge of the large exhibit of that re-
public.
Navy. Commissioner to Venezuela, re-
ports that the President had received him
very cordially, and announced that Vene-
zueia would accept the invitation to par
ticipate.
DESIGN FOR THE woMAN's BUILDING.
CHICAGO, March 25.-Miss Sophia G..
Hayden of Boston wins the Slo,OOO prize
offered for the best design for the
woman's building for the Worlds Fair.
Miss Lois L. Howe, also OF Boston, takes
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Trouble Anticipated.

EDINBURGH, March 25.-The evicted
crofters, who on Monday marched back
to the Orissy Park forest, are engaged in
doing their Utmost with the limited
means at their disposal to rebuild their
demolished homes. A large force of
police have been collected, and is en-
route to the scene of trouble. with in
structions to drive the crofters out of the
intrenched camp at any and all costs. If
the crofters resist, as they announce,
there is a possibility of bloody work.
The sympathy Of the people in general is
with the crofterS.
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BASER ALL.
San Jose Making Preparations for the
Opening Day in That City.

San Jose Making Preparations for the
Opening Day in That City.
SAN JOSE, March 25.-Manager Finn
and his team are going to San Francisco
tomorrow morning with determination
to make the Bay City boys exert them
selves if they want to win the second
game of the series. The new grounds
here are now in first-class condition, be-
ing second to none in the State. The
grand stand is completed, as is also the
club house, which are excelled only by
those OF the Haight-street grounds.
A large delegation of San Jose cranks
will go with the club to San Francisco to-
morrow. Great interest is taken in the
game. between San Francisco and San
Jose, to take place here on Sunday, as it
will be the first game ever played here
by professional clubs. Manager Beach
of the st. James Hotel will entertain both
clubs at dinner Sunday, and they will
parade the streets from the hotel to the
grounds.
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Distressing Condition of Live Stock.

ALBUQUERQUE (N. NJ, March pa
great deal of distress has been reported
among cattle, sheep and other live stock
in the Territory.
Representative Frank Hubbell, who
has returned from his ranch near Zunie
Salt Lakes, Socorro County, tells dis
tressing story about the condition of the
sheep.
He has lost within the past few months
over 10000 head from freezing and starva-
ton, and also reports the loss general
among all sheep-owners.
The weather has been cold and the
ground covered with snow, so that the
sheep cannot get anything to eat. Such
weather as that of the last two months
was never experienced before.
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TERRIBLE SUFFERING.
A Bark's Crew Landed at Plymouth il
Dying Condition.


Dying Condition.
LONDON, March 25.-The steamer Don
has landed at Plymouth the crew
of the German bark Humboldt, who,
when rescued, had suffered terrible hard
ships, and were in dying condition. The
Humboldt sailed from Altata, Mexico,
on the Gulf of California, in September
last, bound to Falmouth. On the voy-
age the crew were stricken with scurvy.
and they became so weak that they We're
almost insensible. Their teeth loosened
and their skins became swollen and livid
When spoken by the Don the Hum
boldt was in disabled condition and
sinking, and all her boats had been
swashed.
Two of the crew have already died. The
survivors were so exhausted that they
had to be hoisted on the Don. They have
been i'll for three months.
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NICARAGUA CANAL BILL.
Two Things in the Measure Which
That Country Cannot Admit

That Country Cannot Admit.
NEW YORK, March pa Herald
Washington special says: Senor Guz-
man, the Nicarguan Minister, in refer
ence to the Nicaraguan Canal bill, said
to-day: ''There are two things in the
bill that Nicaragua cannot admit. The
first is the validity of the Costa Rica
canal concession, whicn is referred to in
the bill as valid document. Nicaragua
being the only sovereign of the route,
could never allow a foreign Government
to give concessions for a canal through
her territory; and, second, Nicaragua has,
according to article so of her own con-
cession, the right to demand six per cent
of the amount of bonds issued by the
company, as well as six per cent. OF
the stock.''
The Minister said he refers only to the
latter.
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Much Distress Among the Poor in
the West of Ireland.
THE PEOPLE CLAMORING FOR FOOD
AND WORK
The Court of Inquiry Investigating the
Causes Which Led to tie Sinking
of the Steamer Utopia, Finds the
Commander of the Vessel Guilty of
Grave Error of judgment.
Special to the REcoRD-Us1oS.

SpeclaI 10 the RECORD-UNION.
BosToN, March 25. = William Lloyd
Garrison, who is receiving funds for the
relief Of starving people in the west of
Ireland, prints extracts from letter
written by Mrs. Sophie Surge, who has
charge of the distribution OF the relief in
Connemara.
She says: "You viii hardly believe
me when I tell you that not one farthing
of the large fund Balfour has collected
has come to the people. But for our own
private work many would have died of
famine. All Government officials send
their cases to us. The people are clamor-
ing for food and work, and we find we
cannot supply the increasing need.n
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Queen Victoria at Grasse.

GRAssE, March 25.-Queen Victoria
has arrived here. She was met at the
depot by the Mayor and Prefect, who
presented her Majesty with q basket of
MOWERS. The town was decorated with
flags. The streets along the route to the
hotel were crowded with people, who
saluted the Queen enthusiastically. She
repeatedly bowed her acknowledgements
10 the DeOD1e
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Trial of Michael O,Brien.

CORK, March 25.-During the trial to-
day of Michael 'Brien, Dalton and others,
charged with riotous conduct and assault
at Tipperary, John Morley deposed that
the action of the police at Tipperary was
most unwarranted attack upon the
people. He recited his views of the affair
at length, as already told in his speeches
and letters.
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for his country, beside he is going to be
tried hV the G0vnrnnnnf 3,

for his country, beside he is going to be
tried by the Government"
The. injury done Healy's eye by the
blow he received from Dalton last even
ing is of a more serious nature than at
first supposed. y is confined to his
bed, and tht clans say there is a
prospect ths / remain in his room
Tor montt e.
The tris hazel O'Brien Dalton
and othe, charged with rioting
at the t Z. trial at Tipperary of
D1llenf en, opened here to-day.
SAT FROM CORK.
LON: ch 25.-The Times to-day
says ell, having announced that
he h is application for the Chill
tern IS to Nolan, Healy has sent
his ion to Sir Thomas Esmonde
for daneous presentation with that
of G5rf
1rch 25.-The Parnell Leader
sh nittee announces that Parnell
W Nc-9 esign until Healy has sought re-
e.el ~
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The Utonia Disaster

GIBRALTAR, March 25.-The marine
Court of Inquiry into the loss of the
Utopia has decided that Captain Nc
keague, commander of the Utopia, is
guilty of grave error of Judgment in
attempting to enter anchorage behind
Newhill without knowing what vessels
were at anchor, and in attempting to turn
the Utopia out of the anchorage across
AnSon'S bow
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Horrible Accident.

LYONS (Kan.), March 25.-There was a
horrible accident at the salt mine here to-
day. Four men-Thomas Beach, Nelson
Van Brocklin, Thomas McCandless and
Fred Miller-were descending the shaft
in bucket, when the heavy oak beam
overhead broke, letting the bucket fall to
the bottom of the shaft. The beam fell on
top of them, crushing the unfortunates to
death. The bodies were frightfully
manpIed.