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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-07-27
A REVOLUTION IN CHINA.
The People are Disconnected and In
ternal Strife may be the Result.

The People are Disconnected and In-
ternal Strife may be the Result.
SAN Francisco, Cal, July 26.-Ho
Tung, a Chinese banker, of Hong Kong,
who figured in the unsuccessful negotia
tions in England, to float the Chinese
war loan, arrived from the Orient on the
steamer City Of Peking and is en- route
to New York and Londor.
In discussing the effects of the war he
says the official days of Ii Hung Chang
are numbered and inclines to the belief
that the country may be engulfed in a
revolution. He bases his prediction OF
internal strife, not only on the general
discomfort of the people, but upon the
superstition of the masses. Ho Tung says
that John W. Foster, who was one of
China's representatives in the recent
treaty negotiations with Japan, was
paid 100000 for his services by Ii
Hung Chang.
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THE MAssEY-PILOT SUIT.
The Case Given 10 the Jury Yesterday
Afternoon.


NORFOLK, Va, July 26,-Mr. Alfred
P. Tnom made the closing argument for
the plaintiff in the Massey Pilot libel
suit to-day, closing at 1;15 p. M, when
the case was submitted to the jury by
Judge Prentiss.
After celebrating about two hours,
the jury asked the privilege of going to
dinner, which was accorded by the court.
At three o'clock the jury returned to
their room and wrestled with a verdict
until seven o'clock, when they asked to
be adjourned over until 1920 tomorrow.
The court granted this request.
There is much speculation as to how
the jury stands, but every source of in
formation is hedged about by insurmoun-
table barriers. None of the jury will
talk and all the ballots We're taken when
the court officers were out Of the room.
Public opinion is divided between
hung jury and a verdict for the plaintiff
in small amount, probably costs.
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sEABoARD AIR LINE MOVES.
Preparing for Closer Competition With
the Southern Railway.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 26.-The Sea-
board Air Line is preparing to secure a
western outlet from Atlanta via Bir-
mingham, in order to be better able to
compete with the Southern railway.
President R. @. Hoffman, Vice President
E. st. John, and several large Eastern
stockholders of the Seaboard are here
inspecting prospective terminal facilities
and comforting with officials of the Kan
sas City, Fort Scott, and Memphis rail
road, with a view to concluding traffic
arrangements with that line for Western
business. The plan of the Seaboard peo-
pie is said to be to buy the East and
West railroad of Alabama, on which they
are believed to have options and which
President Hoffman and party inspected
yesterday, and by building thirty miles
on each end of it complete a route from
Atlanta to Birmingham, thus giving
them direct route of their own from
Portsmouth, Va, to this city.
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THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
Joe ManleY Wants 1t Held After the
Democratic Convention.

AUGUSTA, Maine, July 26.-Joseph H.
Manley said to-day that the National
Republican Committee will meet in Wash
ington in December, to select the place
and date for the next Republican con-
Yention, instead Of November as reports
had it.
Mr.. hanley said he should prefer to
hold the convention on the Pacific Coast.
A trip across the continent would be ed
ucatiVe. He expressed himself in favor
of holding the convention after the
Democratic convention had been held.
"The Democratic party is now in pow
er and it should be the first to announce
its platform and candidates"
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WIn Not Draw the Color Line.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 26.-J. H. Nil
liken, Director General of the G. A. r.
arrangements at Louisville, says in
letter to day to G.. A. R. men here that
all statements regarding the proposed
drawing of a color line at the National
Encampment against negro soldiers are
absolutely false.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-07-27
FORTY MINERS WE'RE KILLED.
Fatal Explosion of Fire Damp in Ger
many Yesterday.

BoOHUM, Westphalia, July 26.-An
explosion of fire damp occurred yester-
day in the Prince Won Praussen mine
in this vicinity. The bodies of thirty
two victims of the accident have already
been recovered and number of persons
are still missing. The search parties are
experiencing the utmost difficulty in ex-
pl0ring the mine.
In addition to the killed, nine men
were severely burned by the explosion.
The most distressing scenes are witnessed
at the mouth of the pit.
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FOUR CHILDREN CREMATED.
And Another Child and It's Mother
Badly Burned.

LOUISVILLE, KY, July &c. "A special
from Big Stone Gap, Va, says John
Hicks house was burned last night.
Four of his children were burned to
death, and his wife and one more child
were badly burned. The fire caught from
a stove and burned rapidly, while the
family slept. The fire was not discov-
cred until it was too late to save more
than the parents and one child on the
lower floor.
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DURRANT is ON TRIAL.
Women Crowd the Court House and
LIOnixe the Defendant.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 26.-Cn
this, the fourth day of the trial Of Theo-
odore Durrant for the murder of Blanch
Lamont, work of choosing a jury began
in earnest. Slow progress was made. OF
fifteen examined, only one was passed,
and he may be challenged by the defense
later on.
A number of well dressed women at
tend the trial during every session of the
court. Efforts are made by the girls to
lionize the defendant.
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Building a New Railroad.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, July 26.-In-
dications are that all the counties in the
northern neck of Virginia, save North
umberland, have voted subscriptions in
aid of the Virginia, Fredericksburg and
Western Railroad. Work began on the
road to day. A blanket mortgage of
$3, 600, 600 on the road has been filed for
record.
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Twenty Persons Killed and 25 Injured.

PARIS, July ga train crowded
with pilgrims returning from the Shrine
Of st. Daurray, was wrecked near the
town Of St Brienne to- day. Twelve per-
sons were killed and twenty-five injured.
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Looking for Filibusters.

WARRINGTON, D. c., July 26.-The
United States steamship Atlanta, which
is engaged in looking after filibustering
expeditions, sailed yesterday from Ha-
vana for Key West.
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New Cotton Mill at Concord.

WINSTON, N. c., July 26.-Stock has
been subscribed for in an $4,000 cotton
factory to be built at Concord.
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BASEBALL YESTERDAY.

At Pittsburg: n. H.. r..
PittsbuTg, 2010l 1879 Is
New York, 5000 OOO-4
Batteries Hart and Merritt: Clark and
Farrell.
At Cincinnati: r. H. p
Cincinnati, 100000 023O-5 IL
Philadelphia, 00000lO4l- 0
Batteries: Foreman and Vaughn; Carsey
and Clements.
At Cleveland; r. H. E
Cleveland, 006040 F-lI II o
Boston, O0OOOO O.
Batteries: Cuppy and thinner; Dolan and
RYAN
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We are anxious to have her to testify
rather than to throw obstacles IN the
way, as has been said. want it under
stood that he desires everybody to tell
the truth"
''Is he setting the exampleq' was
asked.
"Well, have never known him to de-
ceiye me in anything He thinks, and
so do l, that true statement of all the
facts at the trial will be Of great assist
ance in proving his innocence.
A Pal of Holmes La the "Pen."
ST. LOUIS, No, July ga special to
the Post Dispatch from Little Rock, Ark,
says: 1t has been discovered at Fort
Worth, Texas, a few days ago, that the
Arkansas penitentiary holds a former
pal of H. Il. Holmes, the alleged murde-
rer of Pietzel and others, and that he is
in possession of valuable information
concerning the Williams girls. His name
is John @. Allen, alias John H. Caldwell,
alias John Caldwell, and is serving Is
year sentence for horse stealing.
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HOLMES AGCOMPLICE
MUCH DAMAGING EVIDENCB Is
PILTNG UP AGAINST JANI-
TOR QUINLAN.
ANOTHER VERY IMPORTANT FIND.

A Bench Covered with Blood Stains
Discovered in the'' 'CastIeo Holmes
Lawyer Declares that the Accused
gard to Quinlan-@Says @ that the Bodies
Found Were Used only ia InsuraBc ce
Sehemes-- HoImes Sells his Property.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-19

Soldiers Hons .Msnagers-rhs Govern
or's cturn--Dsm urrsr Filed.
Special Dispatch TO ths Standard.
HELENA, April 1s.-Governor Richards
to-day appointed the following board Of
managers for the soldiers's home; p. X.
Dolman, ex-department commander
Montana G. A. r., Butte, four year term /;
DIR. c. b. Miller, Helena, four years; Ly-
man Lorring, Kalispei, two years; Ed +.
Ferris, Bozeman. two years. Department
Commander II. L. Fisk of Helena, will,
by virtue OF his office, be a member Of the
board.
The board will select site for the
home and manage the institution when
under way.
The governor, secretary OF state and
attorney general returned to-day from
Miles City, where they inspected the re-
form school. They were very much
pleased with the institution and the way
IL is kept.
The respondents in the mandamus case.
instituted by Ross, Frank & Eavcs against
the state furnishing board and the Inter
Mountain Publishing company, to-day
fled n demurrer to the application for a
writ. The demurrer will be argued next
Wednesday.
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ANOTHER EXPRESS SION.
Fred Harrison Tells His London Friends s
of Horri bles In Hawaii.

Fred Harrison Tells His London Friends
of Horri bIes In Hawaii.
LONDON, April 1s.-Frederick Harrison,
who says he has been a resident of Ha-
waii for IL years, has written to the press
from San Francisco. complaining of the
treatment to which British subjects have
been subjected in Hawaii. He says !:
"When the plan of the revolt was disoov-
cred in January the government seized it
as a pretext to make wholesale arrests. /,
with others, was confined in crowded
and filthy prison. British subjects and
others were subjected in prison to tor
lures, in the hope of obtaining evidence
and dragging them into testifying as di-
rected. To the credit of England, only
one man surrendered to the dastardly
methods. A dark cell, hunger, being
thrust naked into a tank of cold water
until the victim tainted, threats OF execu-
ton and arrest of other members of the
prisoners family, and bribes are only
samples of the methods employed"
Harrison also complained that the
British government did not take any
notice of the affidavits forwarded to Eng
land by British subjects who were sub
jected to oppression.
The 50. James Gazette, commenting ON
Harrison's letter, says: "Tbe Hawaiian
government applied a mild form of tor
ture to the prisoners accused Of sedition
against the republic" and expresses the
opinion that the British foreign Office
should investigate the charges made, and
adding: "If true, we are bound to with
draw our recognition of this government
of second-rate Yankee adventurers."
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DURRANT is CHEERFUL
NO MORE EVIDENCE FOUND
Yet the Circumstantiai Testimony y
Against Him 10 StronR-Inquest
Continues-ReportT That Mrs.
Forsythe Has Eioped.

SAN francisco. April 18.-Theodore
Durrant was very cheerful this morning.
The searching of the church is completed
and no further evidence has been brought
to light. Another witness has come for
ward who thinks he saw Durrant and
Miss Williams at about IL :15 o'clock Fri-
day night. He did not observe their ac-
tions, but says they were walking toward
the church. Tho description taliies ex-
actly with the dead girl and Durrant.
Chief Crowley is still hard at work try
ing to strengthen the evidence against
Durrant. The chief had conference
with the detectives engaged in the case
to-day, and not one of them has found
anything to prove that Durrant is the
guilty man. General Dickinson, Dur
rants attorney, called on the prisoner to-
day aud the two held an animated con-
versation which lasted for some time. At
the conclusion of the conference, General
Dickinson informed several persons that
his client was about to make a statement,
which was not to be made public at pres
ent, and requested the police to see that
Durrant was not disturbed.
Durrant spent the whole afternoon
working on the document and denied
himself to all newspaper men and his
friends. A slight reaction in public opin-
ion has turned in favor of the prisoner,
brought about, no doubt, by the testimony
of those who witnessed his cool actions
after the discovery of the body. His ac-
tions at the Christian Endeavor meeting
on the night of the murder of Miss Will
Jams were SO gay, and he seemed SO self
possessed, that there are many who think
the police have run down the wrong man.
On the other hand, the circumstantial
testimony against Durrant is SO strong
that something else will have to be done
to remove from the minds of many peo-
pie the impression that he is the guilty
man. The inquest did not go on to- day,
but will be resumed tomorrow.
A report has been published here that
Ella Forsythe, who disappeared April 8,
and whose name has been mentioned in
connection with the Emanuel church MUIR
ders as another possible victim, has been
located at San Jose, and another story is
that she has been located in Southern
California. In both stories she is said TO
have eloped. but the statements do not
appear to be authenticated, and her hus-
/ band does not believe them at all and still
believes that his wife is drowned.
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garting the income tax. He says the
decision Is based in the interest of gold
bugs and Wall street millionaires. IL
recognizes the divinity OF wealth by ex-
empting IL from taxation and brcathes .
curse against enterprise by making u
bear all the burden of the government.
"But," says Aiteeld, ''it is in harmony
with that passage of scripture, which
says that Unto him that has shall be
given. and from him who hath not shall
be taken the little he hath;' and IL 10 IN
perfect accord with the republican and
mugwump theory of government now
being app lied in this country. 1t shows
the interests of the East are paramount to
the interests Of the rest of the country;
also at least two of the coordinate
branches OF our government has received
their inspiration at the same altar.n
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-19
LADY 5 MERSET.
She Asks tho Americans to Believe Her
and Not Hicks.

She Asks the Americans to Believe Her,
and Not Hicks.
WASHINGTON, April 1S.-The associated
press to-day received the following card
from Lady Henry. Somerset, the well
known temperance advocate of England: !:
my attention has been called to an Ut
terly unfounded charge made against me
by Mr.. Hicks q few weeks since on the
eve of my sailing for home. / do not con-
slider il necessary for me TO go into any
detailed refutation of these accusations
frequently reiterated by the enemies of
the reforms with which my name has be-
come associated. but IL any of my Ameri-
can friends desire to ascertain the posi-
ton occupy with regard to the manage
ment Of my London property, they will
do me q favor to seek for their informa-
ton from the housing committee OF the
London council. The ignorance of Mr..
Hicks concerning the laws of English en-
tailed property must be his excuse for the
absurd statements he makes about my
country estates. Ihavc legal information
that his attack is libelous, but II all the
libels against reformers were brought be-
fore the courts we should have but little
time for more useful occupations. My
experience of the fairness of the Ameri-
can press makes me confident that this
communication will be widely circulated,
as an act of justice TO one who has re-
ceived so many tokens of good will from
the home folk of America. and who is
written and spoken of as n friend. and
not a critic of the new England across the
wareru
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JUMBLED UP.
Defective Rsport-one Talks English
aud the Other spanish Only.

Defective Rsport-one Talks English
and the other spanish Only.
WASHINGTON, April 1s.-Dr. Guzman,
the Nicaraguan minister, was asked to-
day concerning a report that Nicaragua
desired that the present Nicaraguan
Canal company should surrender the con-
cession under which work has been
done thus far and the United
States and Nicaragua should jointly
undertake the future work as govern
mental enterprise. The minister ex-
planned the report was due to misap-
prehension. The Nicaraguan governmeut
had no wish, he said, that the company
should surrender its concession. IL had
every confidence that the company would
push the enterprise with all possible
speed. Under these circumstances, DIR.
Guzman said, the joint governmental ac-
tion was not n live one and it was need
less to speculate on n contingency which
Nicaragua did not regard as remote con-
tinqency.
facility and encouragement to the COM
pany and did not want the impression to
get abroad that IL considered forfeiture
likely or even possible. DIR. Guzman says
the mIsapprehension arose through cred
iting to him statement which he had
communicated to the state department as
an enclosure. The statement had been
made during an interview between the
United States minister Mt Nicaragua and
the government authorities. II was for
warded to Guznan and by him sent TO the
state department without any intention
OF endorsing the views.
1t has since been found that the report
OF the interview at Managua was very de-
fcctive. Minister Baker was talking
I'm English and understood no Spanish.
The Nicaraguan minister was talking in
Spanish and understood no English.
There was naturally some emisunderstand-
ing, from which the recent reports have
arisen.
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ACT TWO OF A TRAGEDY
& S. Croker Charged With the Mur
~, der Of His Partner.
HIS BODY FOUND IN A BARN
Harvey Booth. the Victim. and the
Defendant We're Well Known
and Wealthy Wyoming
Cattle men.
Special Dispatch to the standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., April is.-An Evans
ton, Wyo., special says: The grand jury
impaneied by the district court of Uintah
county last night returned true bill,
charging E. S. Crocker. n wealthy cattle
man OF this city, with the murder Of his
partner. Harvey Booth. Mr.. Crocker was
Immediately arrested. He will be tried at
the September term of court. On the
night Of the 26th Of last January Harvey
Booth. one of tho best-known cattlemen
of Western Wyoming, and man Of much
wealth, was found in the harness room of
his stable I'm the heart of the town Of
Evanston foully murdered. He was last
seen alive at a store little before 8
o'clock on that evening, wherc he made q
small purchase and went alone to his
stable TO receive n load of straw he had
purchased. The stable is located in the
heart of the city.
1t Is supposed that he was struck on the
head with hatchet or some blunt instru-
ment as he entered the granary. Then
his head was beaten into pulp by the
hend. 1t was at first supposed that the
murder was committed for robbery. The
offer OF liberal rewards for the arrest of
the perpetrator of the crime led to much
work by detectives, which finally led to
suspicion In the direction of E. S. Crocker,
partner of the murdered man, and the
indictment by the grand jury. The testi-
mony before the grand jury and the coro'
ner's inquest has been 'keptfrom the pub
lie, consequently 1t Is impossible to say
upon what the prosecution bases it's case.
Two years previous on the same day Will
lam Crawford, a partner of Crocker and
Booth disappeared and no one has heard
q word from him, and it is now supposed
that he was also murdered. but by whom
il is not known.
The case is one of the most remarkable
ones in the annals of crime and will
create deep interest when it is brought to
trial =, ~ .Igffg
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RESERVATION TROUBLE
A Sheriff is Arrested By a Squad Of
Indian P0Iice.
OVER ELECTED SETTLERS
But He Shows Up Later and in
tends to Return and, With a
Posse. Put the Outfit In
His Custody.

OMAHA, April 16.--A special to the Bee
from Peuder, Neb., says: A new phase
of the trouble on the reservation de-
veloped to-day, when Sheriff Mullins was
captured by Indian police with drawn re-
volvers. At present the place of his con-
finement is a secret known to none of his
friends. The federal court ordered all
evictions of settlers on account of the
difference between the Indian agent and
the Flourney Land company to cease un-
ill n rehearing could be had April p. The
Indian police, however, have continued
TO eject settlers from the reservation.
The sheriff of this county secured posse
yesterday, intending to surprise the In
dams as they were eiecting settlers and
arrest them.
alone and at noon news of his arrest was
received. Nothing has since been heard
in regard to the sheriff's arrest. 1t is be-
iieved, however, that he has been taken
to Dakota City for preliminary hearing
before United States Commissioner Spen-
GER. No effort is being made to release
him from the custody of Captain Beck
until word can bc received from the attor-
ney general of the state. but in the event
of the sheriff being held by Beck, he will
probably be released tomorrow on writ
of habeas corpus.
There are conflicting rumors regarding
the manner in which the sheriff was ar
rested this morning by the Indian police.
One rumor Is to the effect that they read
q warrant to him which had been issued
several days ago by n United States
commissioner at Dakato City, and which
the Indian police have since been
carrying around, awaiting a chance to
catch him on the reservation, while an
other rumor says that when the sheriff ar
rived at Waterman's place-the man
whom the police were trying to dispossess
of his land-and attempted to read the
warrant for their arrest, three or four of
| the Indians seized the sheriff and hand
cuffed him. while others stood around
| with drawn revolvers as a warning for
| him not to resist.
| Later, 10 80 p. m.-The sheriff returned
at 10 o'clock. He was released on bail by
a justice of the peace. He at once Sc
cured posse of six men and left for the
reservation. 1t is said he will attempt to
arrest Captain Beck and the Indian
4 police.
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frequent use of that and kindred
phrases. Everybody favors sound money
and safe currency and q plain and
simple statement of what you
mean by those ephonious and uni
yersally admired phrases might dispel
the war clouds and make a line OF
battle unnecessary. II by sound money
you mean n gold standard, why did you
avoid the use of the word gold in your
letter? II by q safe currency you mean
bimetaIlism, why did you avoid the word
'bimetailism?'
"Please define your position on the
financial question, please designate some
one who has authority to speak for you so
that the people may be afforded an intel
lieent opportunity as you suggest, to
study and decide this now paramount
public question"