Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-04-07

GRAPHIC PRINTING co. PINE BLUFF. ARKANSAS.
 
 EMILE ZoLA was, on the 1st, elected president of the Paris Societe des Gems de Lettres.
 ON the 1st & treaty of peace was signed in the City of Mexico be- tween Secretary Mariscal and the min ister from Guatemala, thus averting the threatened war.
 TIE public debt statement, issued on the 2d, shows a net increase in the debt during March, less cash in the treasury, of SIS, 320, 105. Total cash in the treasury, $797 237, ,5s9
 A DISPATCH from TolSio, on the 31st, said that Koyama, the young Japanese who shot Lii Hung Chang. the Chinese viceroy, had been sentenced to impris- onment for life at hard labor.
 THE supreme court of Iowa, in an opinion filed on the 2d, sustained the constitutionality of the state statute for the regulation of the liquor traffic familiarly known as the mulct law.
 THE presidents family left the White House after luncheon, on the 2d, and took up their residence at Woodley, their suburban home, where they were joined by the president later in the af- ternoon.
 TIE anti-cigarette ordinance in Law renee, Kas.. went into effect recently, and no cigarettes can now be pur- chased in that city. The ordinance imposes a fine of $5 to $25 for each violation.
 THE Licking county (o.) building for the insane was burned before day light on the morning of the 2d. Jen- ney Jacoby, an insane patient, gave the alarm. thus saving thirty inmates from death. The origin of the fire is not known.
 IN Wayne county, on Whites creek, 20 miles south of Central City, ". Va., slide in the mountain near the bed of the creek has exposed large quantities of shining metal, supposed to be sil- yer. Much excitement prevails throughout the section owing to the discovery.
 ONE HUNDRED employees of the Gleye- land (O.) Ship Building Go. went out on strike on the 5th. The company proposed to pay the old hands $2. 37 and new men $9. 25 per day. The strike was for a $e.5o per day rate. The strikers were employed in the boiler making department
 THE statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended the 30th showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $T33, ,050; loans, decrease, $2, 12s, 300; specie, in crease, $4s5, 300; legal tenders, de- crease, $a, S93, 300; deposits, decrease, $4,os7, ,o00; circulation, increase, $529,- 300.
 MR. A. J. BALFoUR, NJ. P, in an ad- dress before the British Bimetallic league in London, on the 3d, said that the time was not far distant when men of all parties would agree to introduce into international transactions some medium of exchange less hurtful to industry than the present absurd sys- tenn.
 A DISPATCH from Shanghai, on the 1st, said it was reported in that city that the conditions of peace imposed by Japan were that China shall pay 100000, 900 yen indemnity and cede For mosa and southern Manchuria; Japan to hold guarantees pending the pay ment of indemnity and the settlement of the boundaries.
 THE general opinion was expressed at the treasury department, on the 2d, that the rise in the price of silver is speculative rather than real, and that what is real in the movement is to be attributed to the prospects that the Chinese indemnity will be paid in sill yer, rather than to any belief that the position of silver will be improved by the monetary conference, even should such conference be held.
 
 UNITED STATES CONSUL TINGLE at Brunswick, Germany, in a letter re gently received at the state depart. ment suggests that American packers turn their attention to furnishing the German market with horse meat, which he says is used in the larger cities in equal quantities with beef and mutton. on account of the high price of the latter commodities.
 THE eastern and central portions oi the state of Kansas were visited. or the 3lst, by copious rains. The rains were very warm, but were closely fol. lowed by a blizzard, which caused