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4 formal declaration Of war on China has
nj last been made by Japan probably on July
81, but he telegrams leave douht rs TO the
exact dute. 10 This the Emperor Vi China
has replied by an cdict, in which he accepts
the war 'thrust upon HIM and orders his
NiccIoySa and Generals to trout the p%estilent
Japanese out Of THEN l%airs." As far as can
he ascertained, the acts of war previously
committed were AS f0llows-On the morning
of July % there WAS a naval skirmish off Asan
between two Chinese cruisers eScOrting trans
ports,and threeJapalese cruisers. No great da-
mage was done to the ships Of war, but the
transport "Kow Shing' was sunk. Be
fore the "Kow Shing" was destroyed,
the Chinese succeeded in landing five thou
sand troops at Asan, .ond those thereupon
cntrcnched themselves. 1t is SAID that this
fore" (prohahly supported by Tie Chinese
troops already III Corea), was engaged with
the japanese at Asan on. July 9th and 2Sth
and that the Japanese were repulsed with q
loss Of two thousand men.
The last news OH Friday was that the two
fleets had assembled of ASan, and that a de-
decisive naval battle was imminent. 1t is
further stated. both in 4 French telegram
from Toxic, sent rid Nladivostock, and in an
English telegram from Shanghai, that CHI
nesc troops have already begun 10 enter Corea
from The land side. The Toxic telegram states
that the frontier was crossed on July 251h
and that from Shanghai thai troops twenty
thousand strong" had entered from Manchu-
Tia. A luihour that haS caused much COM
lpent IN the East must not be omitted. Eight
Russian waIships, with Il number o. troops
on beard, have, it is said, left VlaIlivostock
"
, 1894-09-05

Thursdays Times contains an account Of a
remarkable agreement entered III 0 hy the
Northern ShipbuilderS' and the B~oilermakers'
and Iron and Steel S|hiphuilders' Union
perhaps the strongest and best organised
trade society in the Kingdom. Under it no
alteration in wages IS 10 be made until SIX
months has elapsed since The last alteration,
and no alteration either WAY is to be more
than 5 per cent. -Four weeks notice in writing
must precede any alteration and previous to
such notice there must nave been a confer.
ence between the officials # the Employers
Association and the Union. Provision is also
made for settling minor disputes by u Joint
committee. Work is to proceed pendentc lite
whether the dispute is in regard 10 prices or
other conditions, and the decision is, VIC pre-.
sumo, to refer buck. Astanding committee Of
three on each side is to be appointed IN each
river to settle local disputes. The scheme
is to be tried for a period Of five yrAIs. The
men this week voted on the proposal, and
adopted Thy 1880 to 1870 against. Both
sides arc to lie congratulated on a llan full If
hope for the settlement of Trade disputes. So
practical an acknowledgment If tie virtual
partnership between employers ard employed
is a subject for real rejoicing. lie officials
of the BoiIclmakers' Union deserve the very
greatest credit fol their Shme in the lransac-
tions Men with narrow or selfish view
might have been Jealous Of he loss If power
apparently occusioncd by a fyc-ycar agree
ment.
, 1894-09-05

apparently occosioncd by a f%ycycar agree
meut.
On Monday. Sir John Hutton, Chairman Of
the London County Council, formally dedicated
Hackney Marsh to the public. The Marsh,
which is practically in London (only three
and-a-half miles from the Royal EXchange),
and contains about three hundred and thirty
seyon acres, was not built over because il was
LammaE and,-i. e.. land over which certain
rights Of pasture existed. t was not. how
ever. Common land, and might have been
incloscd had the lord Of the manor bought up
those rights The ground is fiat, but when it
has been drained and planted, a lake made and
cricket and football grounds laid out, it will
be an enolmous benefit to East London. The
Marsh has a striking history. Certain DANISH
Vikings sailed their ships up the Lea as far
rs Ware, and there made a settlement for
purposes of pillage. King Alfred, however.
treated them as ~poachers sometimes treat
trout. lie drained away the water If the
river by cuttings across Hackney Marsh the
traces are still thert-and left the surf
deer" the long black ships, stranded and the
Scarovers like fish out of water, TO testify
that the Chronicle spIks true, a Danish slip
has been dug up at Hackney.
In the House Of Lords ON Friday, July Goth
Lords LawnSdowne rose to ask whether it
was still the intention of the Government to
prohibit the Government of India from cx-
tending the import duties levied under the
Tariff Act of 1894 to cotton goods. The
Indian Government were obliged to revert to
import duties. They must raise more money for
reducing expenditure would moan a great iniu-
ny to the community. But import duties with
out a duty on cotton would not yield the
necessary funds. A 5 per cent duty on cot
ton would not mean more than a f~arthing per
head for the population of India. Lord Kim
berley did not give a very positive answer.
Even with cotton duties there would he a de-
felt of Rx. 300,O 90 Under these circum-
stances the Government thought it would be
better 10 wait a little. j.. 2. until they had
"a further experience of the general financial
condition. Lord Kimberley was frank
enough TO admit that the Lancashire Depu'
tation weighed very much with him. The
deputation told him III explicit terms that,
without distinction of party. there was not a
man among them, or III Lancashire, who
was interested III these manufactures who
would not use every possible means at his
disposal TO agitate against and DESTROY
my such measure on the part Of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-07

New York, April 6.-The Herald's
Buenos Ayres dispatch says: The Her
AIDS correspondent at Desterro, the
seat of the Brazilian rebels provisional
sends word that Admiral
De Mello arrived there yesterday from
Parangua.
There are now in that port the rebel
warships Republica, Aquidaban, Urano,
Esperanza and the Meteor, together
with three torpedo boats and two steam
transports.
These carry in all about four thou
sand fighting men, and the entire fleet
sails from there today to meet Presi-
dent Peixotos fleet and give battle.
Admiral De Mello will command his
squadron in person. AS 1 have already
cabled you President PeiXoto's fleet
was reported to have started south
from Rio several days ago.
News has been received from the
Herald's correspondent in Pernambuc-
co, Brazil, that the newly elected legis-
lature of that state has refused to con-
vene until President PeiXoto suspends
the state of siege now existing there.
The majority of it's members have
signed a public protest against the ar
bitrary acts of the local military gov
ernor.
A letter from the Herald'S correspon-
dent in Maranhao says that Admiral
Gonzales is there now in quest OF ma
rines for President PeiXoto's fleet and
lis impressing employees of coasting and
lOrinocco river merchant vessels into
! the service.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-07
SPORTS AMONG ANTS.
They WrestIe and Box and Some
times Run Races.

The partisans of athletic sports (who
have been discouraged by President
Eliot's structures on college athletics)
may be cheered to learn that the ant,
whose brain is larger, comparatively
speaking, than that of other known
creature, spends it's leisure hours in
wrestling, running and other athletic
sports. Pierre Huber, son of Francis
Huber, the celebrated "blind natural
ist," tells the following remarkable
story concerning sports among ants:
Il approached one day to the formicarv
of some wood ants. exposed to the sun
and sheltered from the north. The ants
were heaped upon one another in great
numbers, appearing to enjoy the tenn
perature of the surface of the nest
None of them was at work. and the i'm
mense multitude of insects presented
the appearance of a liquid in a state of
Iebulition, upon which the eye could
scarcely be fixed without great diff
Guilty, but when l examined the con-
| duct of each ant | saw that they were
approaching each other, each moving
| his antannae with astonishing rapidity,
each patting the cheek of one of his
| fellows. After these preliminaries,
which very much resembled caressing.
they were observed to raise themselves
upright on their hind legs by pairs,
struggle together sieze each other by
mandible. foot or antennae, and then
Immediately relax their hold, only to re-
new the attack in a moment. They
would fasten to each others shoulders,
embrace and wrestle, overthrow each
other and then raise themselves by
turns, each taking revenge without pro-
ducing any serious mischief. They did
not squirt on their venom as they dc
in their real combat, nor retain their
hold upon their opponents with such
lobstinacy. l have seen some so eager
in their exercises that they would pur-
sue and vanquish several in succession
only struggling with each a few sec.
onds. In one place two ants appeared
to be gamboling about a stalk of straw
turning alternately to avoid or siezt
leach other, which forcibly brought tC
my recollection the sport and pastimt
of your dogs, when they are observed
to rise on their hind legs, attempting
to bite, overthrow or sieze each other
without once closing their teeth" Mr.
Huber tells of other queer habits o
ants, such as their running races
carrying each other upon their backs
Ietc., characteristics which certainl!
prove that they are endowed with ;
very high degree Of igence.-Phila
delphia Ledger.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-07
ROMANTIC If
NOT CRIMINAL.
STRANGE REVELATIONS IN A RE-
CENT DIVORCE CASE
Why Peter snyder Desired n .separ-
alton from Snrah Snyder, and
why the Court Allowed 1t.

New York, April 6.-Justice Ingra-
f1rmed the report of William j. Gray
as referee of absolute divorce to Peter
Snyder from Sarah e. Snyder, and
awarding the custody of the three
children 10 the father. Extra precau-
lions have been taken to keep this &C
ton from the public. All the papers,
even the decree itself were placed in
ia sealed envelope, which was given
into custody of the county clerk.
This action recalls one of the most
sensational incidents connected with
the killing of Charles e. Goodwin by
Burton c. Webster, the night Of Au-
gust ?, 1891, in the Percivals on West
Forty-second street Goodwin, it will
be remembered, was shot and killed
by Webster a boollkeeper, as the lat
ter asserted, for insulting Webster s
common law wife, Evelyn Granville.
After Goodwin was shot an unfinished
letter in his hand writing addressed:
My own precious darling wife" was
found on his desk. The letter had
been cut short by Webster's bullet.
Everyone supposed that Goodwin
was q, bachelor, but twenty or more
letters were found in his rooms from
the woman whom he addressed in this
letter as his wife, and she was soon
| identified as Mrs. Snyder, the wife of
Peter Snyder, cashier of the Hudson
River bank, at Columbus avenue and
Seventy-second streets. 1t was shown
from those letters that Mrs. Snyder
had left her husband and gone to
South Dakota to get a divorce, in
tending to marry Goodwin if she was
successful in her application.
During Webster's trial Mr.. Snyder
was put on the stand and testified that
while he was living with his wife at
Darchmont, in 1888, they made the ac-
lquaintance Of Charles e. Goodwin. Mr..
Snyder also testified that up to that
time his wife had no children. An at
tempt was then made to prove that
Goodwin had been intimate with Mrs
Snyder so that the relations between
herself and her husband were broker
off and their affection alienated Mr.
Snyder is still cashier of the Hudson
River bank and he is a member OF
the Colonial club
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-07

Jacksonville, Fla, April edwin A.
Waldo. of Boston, but for the last six
months engaged in charitable work in
Chicago. fell in a faint at Church and
Main streets. He was picked up in an
unconscious condition and carried to
st. Luke's hospital, where he is rapidly
improving.
Waldo has been missing from Chi
cago since Tuesday, March q, his dis
appearance having caused a profound
sensation in that city He was believed
to have been sandbagged, robbed and
killed.
Young Waldo said: ''My name is Ed
win A Waldo, and am from the Hull
house, Chicago. My father is S. S.
Waldo, a wholesale merchant at Dam
.ielsOnville, Conn. I have no recollec-
ton whatever of anything since Eas-
ter Sunday, when 1 attended st. James
church in Chicago. / remembered plac-
ing flowers in the church and that is
all l remember.
DO you reeollect when you arrived
in Jacksonville?"
I mot thing at ALL
When Mr.. Waldo was picked up on
the street he had only SIPS in his
pockets and did not have a watch or
other jewelry upon him
DR.. StOllenwerck says that Waldo
case is one that is likely to excite a.
great deal Of attention in the medical
world.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-07
HOLDS ALL THE TRUMPs.
Union Pacific at Last shows Its
Hand


Chicago, April 6.-The Union Pacific
has finally shown its hand in the fight
over emigrant business. and it cannot
be denied that she holds about all the
trumps. Other lines are of the opinion
that the Union Pacific is very unrea-
sonable, but what they are going to do
TO help themselves is another matter.
The Union Pacific holds contracts for
about 80 per cent of the California
emigrant business for the year, and it
will not surrender this without receiv
ing concessions which the other lines
are not willing to grant. They can
wrest the Union Pacific control of the
emigrant business from ii, but could
only do so after 2 hard fight, which
would involve regular as well as emil
grant business.
To avoid this contingency, and at the
same time preserve the emigrant clear
ing house, is what the association lines
are now seeking, but it was acknowl-
edged that the prospects are not
bright
The Union Pacific was the cause of
| the Denver & Rio Grande Western S
withdrawal from the Western Passen-
ger association. The latter road gave
notice to Chairman Caldwell that the
| Union Pacific was manipulating rates
| via Ogden in such a manner that it
was compelled to withdraw in order
to protect its business. One of the
Western Passenger association lines
has succumbed to outside pressure and
granted cheaper rates to meeting to
which the association as q whole re-
fused them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-07
TOLD In A TRICE.
Newsy Notes Flashed from Far and
Near


Denver, Col, April 6.-The embalmed
remains of Judge II. NJ. Look, of Gree
ley, Col, were shipped today TO Pom
tiac Mich, for burial
Des Moines, Iowa, April 6.-After
clearing up various appropriation and
other bills, both houses OF the Iowa
state legislature adjourned sine die at
IL p. m. today.
New York. April SIN the state SUI
preme court of the United States an
application was made for writ of
habeas corpus on behalf of Mckane.
Judge Lacombe reserved decision.
Saratoff, Russia April 6.-M. Jahlo-
chkoff the electrician, the inventor of
the electric candle is dead.
Baltimore, April 6.-Rev. 2. J. Dono-
hue will be consecrated bishop of
Wheeling next Sunday.
Washington, April Representative
Sampson, of Kansas, is preparing
joint resolution proposing cooperation
between the United States and Canada
in building canals connecting the great
lakes with the Atlantic ocean.
Wheeling, w. Va, april Elm the
United States court here today. Mrs.
Margaret Moore, a woman recently in
dicted for obtaining a fraudulent pen
sion of $1,000, was convicted and was
sentenced to one year in TIE peniten-
tiary and $1,000 fine.
Rome. April Gone hundred and fiji
teen thousand Spanish pilgrims are in
Rome, and the pope has decided that
the services in connection with the
beatifying of Juan de Avilla, Diego
of Cadiz, and DiaZ, are to be held in
ST Peters which has not been the
scene of a similar ceremony since 1870
Huntington, Ind, April 6.-J. A. Lin
QUiSt, a member of the editorial staff
of the New York Commercial Bulletin
died suddenly on board the Erie train
near Rochester, Ind, late last night.
He was en- route from Colorado
Springs, where he has been seeking
health.
San Francisco, April 6.-The board,
which has been in session at the Brit
ish consulate, investigating the circum-
stances attending the abandonment of
the British bark Archer, of Liverpool,
has concluded its }abors Captain Daw-
son and the other officers of the bark
were eXonerated from all blame. The
Canadian Pacific Navigation company
has filed libel for $4,000 against Hulk
for salvage.
! San Francisco, April 6.-The steamer
| Columbia, with big party of Omaha
officials and their friends arrived this
morning from Portland. Here a COM
mittee, named by Mayor Ebert, will
show them about the city, and they
will take in all the great features OF
! the Midwinter' fair On their way
home by way of Portland, they will
visit Seattle The party numbers TWEEN
| ty-three, including the mayor OF
! Omaha.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-07
THIS IS THE LATEST.
City of Rio Grande Now Being
BombariIed.

City of Rio Grande Now Being
BombartIed.
New York. April 6-The Herald's
Montevideo dispatch says: The cores
pondent in Rio Grande do Sui sends
word that Admiral Mello's fleet which
sailed from Desterro yesterday, to
meet President Peixoto's squadron,
forced the bar of Rio Grande this af-
ternoon. Soon the fleet was in front
of the city the big guns of the Aqui-
daban and Republica were brought in
to action. The city of Rio Grande was
bombarded and was still under hre
when the Herald correspondent sent his
dispatch. Forces which had been land
ed from the transports were sent ahead
and will attack Porto Allegro.
General Tavares has resigned the
command of the revolutionary forces in
Rio Grande do Sui.
General Gumericino Saraiva has been
proclaimed chief of the revolutionary
forces.
A dispatch from Santome announced
the defeat of President PeixOtos gar
rison near Santa Bora. The revolution
ary forces surprised the loyal troops
land blew up the fort where they We're
Iouartered. The slaughter resulting was
terrible. All of the loyal troops who es-
lcaped took refuge in Argentina.
passengers from Parangua arriving
on the steamer Enrique Banoso con-
firm the report of the evacuation OF
Sac Paulo by Saraiva. president re
Iixoto has captured Itarare.
The passengers also bring news OF the
flight of Doria, the rebel governor OF
Parana. from Carityba, and Mello's
virtual abandonment of Parangua.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-07

Seated at breakfast recently in. the
house of a rich man, L heard a charm
ing woman exclaim petulantIy: That's
six times I've received this miserable
bill for rs cents. II won't pay it
until 1 get ready. The idea of draw
ing check for 70 cents. It's ridicu-
lous. Some time when I'm driving
past that woman's shop I'll settle with
her. She knows L don't intend to
cheat her"
Had 1 not heard that speech should
have believed it impossible for those
pretty lips to be capable of such an
parent heartlessness.
Has your creditor much capital" I
asked.
Really don't know; probably not"
Then she is poor"
yes; but what difference can IS
cents make?'
you say you have received that
same bill six times?''
Yes; did you ever hear of such i'm
pertinence?"
81 don't admit the impertinence. Let
us see what those six duns cost that
old woman. Six letter postage stamps
alone amount to twelve cents. Twelve
cents from 70 leaves 63 cents. Add
time, labor and writing materials and
you have deprived that woman of her
small margin of profit"
The pretty woman looked astounded.
Il never thought of that she muir
INJURED.
"Of course not. Had you done so
you would no more have postponed
paying a just debt than you would
be guilty of murder. You are quite
right in thinking Is cents of little con-
sequence, but multiply that amount
100 times and look at the sum total
You may be one of many who are in
debted to this same woman and who
have failed to pay their bills for sim
| liar reasons"
Tears stood in my friends eyes as
she replied: THANK you. Will YOU
go with me this morning and see that
L pay my bill?''
with pleasure"
/ The carriage was ordered and off we
drove to an out-of-the-way part of
town that shall be nameleSS, until we
stopped before the shop of a woman
who is an expert in a certain trade
/ Looking up from her work the wo-
man smiled family as she stiIled the
cries Of a small boy Juggling at her
skirts.
Don't say a word. dear Mrs. Y"
said her debtor. Il owe you a thous-
and apologies for so long neglecting
to pay my bill. 1t was small, you
know, and I didn't think. I hope you
have not been Inconvenience.
20, it would not matter if yours
were the only bill, but you see many
a mickle makes a muckle. and ladies
don't pay up this season; so I've been
obliged to discharge my girls and do
all my own work. [ haven't been able
} to pay my rent, and I'm afraid the
: landlord will turn me out. Then God
| knows what will become of me and my
: children
At this point the poor woman broke
down. and a more stricken
face than that of my friend / never
beheId Before we left that shop the
debtor paid her bill with interest plus
: II cents; what is more, she became
} security for her grateful creditors
2 rent until hard times ceases. God
/ bless her for her generous amend.
3 "Te1l me-" asked the pretty woman
:, as the carriage turned toward home
:. "what made you think of what never
f occurred to me?'
!, "a fellow feeling that is said to make
, us wondrous kind. 1 am a. working
Y woman Kate Field in Chicago Trib
q une
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-07

we'll, at Omaha, appointed J. B. Wat
kins receiver of the j. j. Watkins Land
Mortgage company. The assets are 81
900, 900 and the liabilities $7,500,000. The
capital stock is $S000,0O0 and the sur
plus 100000. Mr.. Watkins owns about
$50, 900 of the stock
The constant drain on the company
since last summer and the failure of
collections, occasioned the failure. Since
August 1, it has paid out S995,00
The foreign stockholdersheld a meet
ing in London today to form a plan of
reorganization, and it is thought the
receivership will not be of long dura-
ton. For the past three years the COM
pany has had much of its loans in
Texas.
j. B. Watkins came to Lawrence in
1880 and engaged in the loan business.
He had less than $4,000 at that time.
Today his fortune is placed at between
SO, 100000 and 100000. Most of it is
invested in the development of Louis
lana lands, industries and railroad.