Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-04-28

will be devoted largely to the financial situation of the country.
 TIE Dietrich syndicate of New York, on the 20th, completed the purchase of the natural gas plant in Peru, Ind, the last city in the Wabash valley to sell out. The syndicate now owns nearly all of the pipe lines i'll Indiana.
 THE department of public safety at Pittsburgh, Pa., issued an order, on the 24th, that the gold and stock tick CTS reporting baseball games, horse races and other sporting news will not be allowed in saloons or other resorts this season.
 IN the British house of commons, on the 24th, Mr. T. W. Russel1's bill, pro- viding for the perpetuation of the ex- isting temporary regulation closing the drinking saloons in Ireland on Sundays, passed it's second reading by vote of 16s to 69
 MRS. MARY BROWN, monogamian pensioner, died, on the 16th, at her home 5 miles from Knoxville, Tenn. She was the widow of Joe Brown, a soldier in the revolutionary war, and was born in 1894. Her husband died fifty-one years ago.
 NEGOTIATIONS have been in progress several weeks, with Chicago as the center of the figuring, for the organi- zation of an excelsior trust. 1t is proposed to organize q corporation un- der the laws of Illinois to buy up all the factories and operate them under single management.
 
 THE Ohio republican state central committee will meet in Columbus, on the 27th, to call the state convention which nominates a successor to Gov. Me Kinley, who has positively declined renomination, as he desires to ap- proach the next national republican convention as a private citizen.
 TIE earl of Lonsdale was sum- moned to court at Melton Mowbray, England, on the 23d, upon charge of assault in having struck q gentleman named Boden upon the head with hunting whip. His lordship offered an apology to Mr. Boden, which was ac- cepted, and the summons was with drawn.
 ASSOCIATE JUSTICE JACKSON, of the United States supreme court, intends to leave his home at West Meade, near Nashville, Tenn, about May to sit with his colleagues during the hearing of the income tax peti- tions. After the consideration of these petitions, he will return to his home and remain until the October term of court
 DURING meeting which was being conducted by Dwight L. Moody in the Auditorium at Fort Worth, Tex, on the evening of the 21st, a violent storm arose which blew a large section of the roof off the east side of the build- ing. 4 panic ensued among the 5000 persons present, and in the rush to escape from the place many persons were injured.
 PEKIN advices of the 23d state that some modications in the Chino-Jap- anese treaty of peace have been agreed upon. Of the five new commercial ports to be opened, it has been decided to substitute Nankin for Pelzin. and Woo Chow, on the west bank of the Canton river, for Huchow. Wei-Hai- Wei is also to be garrisoned by Jap- anese at Chinas expense for term of years.
 JOHN L. WALLER formerly United States consul at Tamatave, arrived at Marseilles, France, from Madagascar, on the 20th, aboard the steamship Djemnah, and was taken directly to Fort Saint Nicol, where he will be con- fined until transferred to the civil au- thorities. Waller was convicted by a French court martial of conspiring with the Hovas against the protector ate in Madagascar.
 ON the morning of the 22d, at St. Johns Episcopal church, one of the historic churches of Washington, Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, M. P, of London, England, and Miss Mary Vic toria Letter, eldest daughter of the Chi cago millionaire, L. z. Letter, were married Tn the presence of the British ambassador, the president and Mrs. Cleveland and large and distin- guished assemblage.
 SAMUEL c. AMAYAR, charged with defrauding the Shoe and Leather bank of New York of S20, GOO, and who was arrested in Brooklyn, on the 20th, was arraigned in the Tombs police court on the 21st, and committed to await fur ther examination. He is brother-in- law of Samuel c. Seely, recently con victed of robbing the same bank of S35o, GOO and sentenced to eight years in the Kings county penitentiary.
 THE stipulation in the treaty of peace between China and Japan that the Chinese who had been captured by the Japanese and others who sold SUD- plies to the Japanese troops in their march throuph Manchuria and Shan