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The herald., 1898-03-02

MISS KATE LAMPMAN, TEST MEDIUM
Life readings daily at room 10, Ramona
hotel; test circle Tuesday evenings.
3-10-99
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sttutions in which the control is not re-
served TO the province or municipality. The
minister Of public works and telegraph,
Senior Dolz, has control of the postoff1ce and
teie graph system, railroads, ports and light
ships. public buildings and grounds The
minister OF commerce. Senior Rodriguez, has
charge of agriculture. patents and copy
rights, banks and chambers OF commerce,
public forests and mining.
This division of duties will continue until
the Cuban Legislature meets and establishes.
net officers 1t is desired TO have the Cabi-
ret TO begin work at once. so that without
waiting for the Legislature the decree estao-
1sheS the system until the law is made
The Spanish minister regards the decree as
fully carrying out The plan of turning over
the internal affairs of the island to the
Cuban officials. AS indicating this, the min
lister points out that the decree reserves to
the governor general only those general
to her intercourse with the colony, while all
the internal affairs, such as customs. pris-
ons, etc, are conducted by Cuban officials
with their own staff of assistants.
A dispatch from Madrid says: THE press
generally gives a favorable reception to the
Cuban Cabinet, agreeing that the insurTec-
ton no longer has a raison d'etre, since it
would not be against Spain but against the
Cubans themselves" 1t is remarked that
this view also prevails in the United States,
and has been expressed by Senior Estrada
Palma, of the Cuban Junta in New York.
FL Impartial says: The mission OF the
new Cabinet is to aid the government and
the governor general in restoring peace, and
nobody is better qualified for this task than
the new minister's who know thoroughly
the extent of the rebel resources.
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CUBA's MINISTRY.
Duties of Cabinet Officers and Scope
Of Their Power.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-The large meas
ure of authority conferred on the new Cuban
Cabinet is shown in an official decree issued
at Havana Dec. %. copies of which have
been received by the Spanish legation. The
document apportions the budget of the ISL
and. giving to each Cabinet officer the
then states in detail what subjects are to
be managed by each minister. The first pro-
vision states the powers which Governor
General Blanco and his secretary general.
Dr Congosto, will continue to exercise, as
follows:
The conduct of general affairs between
Spain and Cuba intercourse with diplomatic
and consular officers of foreign governments,
census of foreigners. public peace and order,
honors and decorations. relations with the
church With these excepted powers, the
entire administration of the affairs of the
island are turned over to the members of
the Cabinet. Each member is authorized
10 select an assistant secretary, and TO en-
ploy his own staff of assistants.
The authority of each Cabinet officer Is
then specified as follows: The premier,
Senior Galvez directs the general policy OF
the island confers with the other ministers
ton the detailed work being left to the
other ministers. The minister of justice
and interior Senior Gown, has charge of
affairs relating to the courts and judicature,
officers, jails and penitentiaries municipal
ties provincial Populations local police.
public charity, charitable institutions etc
public health, asyIuns, the press and thea
teOro has control of all affairs relating TO
the customs OF the island, appointment Of
customs officers, conduct OF the treasury.
disbursement of public money. etc. The
has charge OF tho University of Havana, all
colleges. professional schools and other in
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Gals. and the people were generally well

disposed.
Somewhat over year ago this Great
sword Society looted the mission prem
ises and assaulted the fathers in charge.
RMS insult was settled more or less sat-
.slac.orlly and without recourse to any
most OF them arrested and were severely
punished and the matter was believed
20 haye been settled once and for all.
nevertheless, not very long afterward. 1t
became painfully evident that the gang
was too powerful and too well organized to
De overaWed by such feeble measures as
the ofncials were able to put into opera
llon or to enforce. There were many NUT
terlngs and premonitory signs which,
tnougn causing the fathers some temporary
anxiety, Ialled to influence them sufficiently
70 cause the abandonment of their work,
IN Wnlch they were progressing with much
eilcOurag cement.
Then came the murder OF November.
Wnen the mission premises were
rounded by a bowling mob, only too evil
dently bent on mischief 1t was late at
night, and the small community had re-
tired long before. and were only awakened
Dy the excited natives bursting into the
mission While the plundering was being
carried on by one party, another but less
numerous. party made for the fathers. In
the excitement one of them, an elderly man,
ailaInaaged 70 get away, but Fathers Henle
and Mes were knocked down and murdered
as they lay on the ground. When their
bodies were discovered by their terrorized
native servants they were lying almost
ing left
This had been literally torn off and cut
10 pieces by the countless Stabs which had
been inflicted. When the blood-stained
remnants of clothing were removed it was
round that there was scarcely space to
lay shilling on any part of the body
without covering a wound From head to
foot both bodies had been stabbed through
and through. This in itself seemed to show
that not only was the murder fully premed-
1tated, but that revenge and not mere muir
der was the motive. Plumber was a second
airy consideration, and it is not at all i'm
probable that the rowdies and loafers of
the place, distinct from the Tatoa Hui,
shared in the looting. Rarely has mutila-
ton been carried to such an extreme. In
deed, the next and the last would have been
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Beyond that barbarism
could scarcely go.
The murdered missionaries were compar-
atively young men, Father Henle had been
seven years in China, and was thirty-five
years old. Father Mes had only come TO
China late in 1895, and was twenty-six years
old They were both Jealous men, broad
minded and tolerant in their views, and ma
tives of Bavaria.
The outrage has caused profound sorrow
among all the missionaries working in the
province, but long distances separate them,
and even up to now ii is quite possible that
many are working in their respective dis
tricts in ignorance Of all that has taken
place
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EARL LII IN POWER AGAIN.
The Noted Statesman viii ReOrganiz'
Chfna,s Military Forces.

TACOMA. Wash, Jan. 3.-The steamer
Indrapura has arrived from Japan bring
ing the latest advices regarding the Orien-
tai situation. Ii Hung Chang has been re-
called to power at Picking, the Emperor
and the Inner Council desiring his assist
a,ice in the present diplomatic crisis Ii
Hung Chang recently started to his es-
tates on account of i'll health but he has
now returned to Picking and the govern
ment has taken UP for serious considera-
ton his memorial on the military and naval
defenses of the empire. This memorial was
prepared on Earl Lis return from America
and Europe, but it has remained in pigeon
hole until now. Thousands of troops are
being recruited in the interior, and it is
intended TO double the number of battalions
in all the Chinese maritime provinces
within thirty days. The Emperor has re-
ceived forty-eight memorials regarding the
defense of the empire from high military
and civil officials throughout China. All
China is awakening.
a number of papers in Japan and the
Chinese maritime ports express the belief
that a partition of China among the pow
ers is inevitable. In Shanghai it is reported
that France Will receive FOrmoSa from
Japan as part OF the territory allotted her
Japanese papers declare that part of the
programme to be impossible of consuTnma-
ton.
Captain Brussatis and other officers of the
German cruiser Cormorant were recently
pelted with stones and mud by a Chinese
mob while landing at Wu-Chung in one OF
the cruisers boats, flying the German en-
sign. The officers We're landing to pay
Germany's demand, has made prompt and
satisfactory apology for this insult, the
apology including salute to the German
flag OF twenty-one guns
1t is claimed that the Chinese commander
at I<iaochau was tricked into surrendering
by the German admiral who offered his
word that the Emperor of China had con-
scented to the occupation of kaiochau and
would regard any resistance as an act of
rebellion. The Jiji-Shmpo, the most infiu-
entail paper at Toxic, says that according
TO reliable authority Russia, France and
Germany have reached an understanding
whereby Russia is to take Corea and north
China Germany the Shan-Tung districts
while France will get Formosa and parts
of the Fookien coast This story comes
tied.
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A Murdcrer's Attempt to Escape.

MINNEAPOLIS. Jan. 3.-John Moschik. a
murderer condemned to DEATH made a des-
perate attempt to escape from the county
ing. this morning. He threw a handful of
cigar ashes in the eyes of Special Waterman
Peterson and then grappled with him. He
a long iron hook taken from his bedstead
and then locking him in the corridor made
mode of egress to the street below is the
jail elevator, and Moschik rang the bell.
hoping to take the elevator man by sur
the operator recognized him before OPENING he
the door and dropped his car down imme-
diately. Moschik was caught like a rat in
a trap, was soon overpowered and returned
to his cell. Petersons wounds are serious,
but not fatal.
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Ii HUNG CHANG SPEAKS.
The VicerOy Protests Against the In
vnSiOn of Chinese Soil.

NEW YORK, Jan. 3-The Herald
prints the following copyrighted cable
dispatch from Picking: An interview with
Ii Hung Chang was secured to-day, and
the willy veteran seemed to be glad to pre-
sent Chinas case to the Western world.
The great statesman received the CORE
spOndent very courteously, and said that
China was willing, and even anxious, that
the Western people should understand thor
oughly matters as they We're. His Excel
lency then spoke as follows:
THE forcible occupation of Kiaochau by
Germany is a direct violation of existing
treaties and of international law. The pre-
text made for this act of war was the muir
der of two missionaries by robbers in the
interior province of Chanting. The Chi
nese government offered immediate and full
redress for this outrage-punishment of the
criminals, dismissal of the local officials
and large compensation for all losses.
Anxious to avoid hostile acts, the Chi
nese troops were withdrawn from Kiaochau
when the Germans landed, and in spite of
strong public feeling prevailing throughout
the country for the defense of Chinese ter
rtory against aggression, my government
has not sent reinforcements to Kiaochau.
Outlaws exist in China, as in all coun-
tries. Neither treaties. law nor religion can
entirely suppress crime anywhere in the
world. though they condemn and punish the
criminals. There are places in every coun-
try where Iawiessness abounds, and to such
a place in Chanting the German mission
aries determined to go, knowing that the
inhabitants themselves were often victims
of these bandits. Unfortunately, China has
not yet recovered from the enectS OF the
late war, and our country requires period
OF peace to carry out the Work of reform
lately begun.
.'Of late years, from instruction and OBJ
servation, the Chinese have come to regard
the countries of the Western world as mod
els, and even greater in justice than IN
arms. Is it just to Cypress US whlle we are
struggling 10 emerge from the restraints
of our ancient civilization, while improve
ment and progress steadily continue!
Should China be distressed by having
her shores invaded and her territory Occu-
pied because of an occurrence which west
ern countries would deal with by law and
not with by war-an unexpected Incident
deplored by my government and followed
by full redress? Our desire is to preserve
our territory intact and to steadily improve
it in a field open to all countries equally
for the deVelOpment of commerce..
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DlSPOSSESoION SUIT.
Eastern Claimants Want $2,OOO,OOO
worth of Illinois Farm Lands.

QUINCY, ILL.,, Jan. 3--Suit has been COM
menced by Edwin NJ. Harrison and other
Eastern claimants to recover possession of
thousands of acres of farm lands in Adams,
Hancock, Warren, Knox, Henderson, Mer-
Ger, Peoria and other counties. Richard
Smith lived in Raleigh, N c., fifty years
ago. He died in 1852, leaving will by
which his estate went to his wife, Penelope
Smith, and daughter, Mary A. Smith, and
after their death vast amount of property
in the Illinois military tract reverted to the
daughters children, if any, or to Smith S
natural heirs. Smiths wife died long ago
and his daughter died later in a Philadelphia
insane asylum. Now natural heirs have
com oined to dlspossess over one hundred
present occupants of large farms on the
ground that their title is but the life estate
of MRS. Penelope Smith and the daughter.
The property IS now worth $2,oO00 OO.
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BASIS OF GERMANS ACTION.
Murder of Missionaries by the "Great
Sword Society,"

TACOMA, Wash, Jan. 3.-Accurate de-
tails of the horrible manner in which the
German priests were murdered at Yen
Chowfu, Shan-Tung province of China. the
massacres of whom has resulted in Ger
man occupancy of Kiaochau, and bringing
Eastern international affairs to a crisis,
have just been obtained by steamer from
Shanghai. Even at Shanghai it has been
difficult to obtain accurate information, as
the Germans cut the telegraph wires fol-
lowing their coup
1t appears that a troublesome band Of
ruffians. the Tatao Hua, or Great Sword
Society,"" had been manifesting threaten
inc attitude for some time, and had on sew
eraI occasions shown signs of hostility to
the missionaries, but not such as TO lead
them to suppose that any unusual violence
was meditated. However. the superior in
charge of the mission felt it necessary to
warn the missionaries, and ii was found
that his words had not been unheeded. No
trouble had been experienced with the Off
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Here's Heresy.
Helen watterson, in Scribner.


Well, to blurt out the awful truth at once,
have never thought so highly of intellec-
tual stimulation as | have of some other
things in life 1t is by no means clear, as
yet, that the power of intellect upon life
is Of the greatest value; just as the MIS-
tory of human nature does rot go to show
that seeing clearly and doing well have
been invariably associated. One man or one
woman with that extended and clarifying
vision which is occasionally the flower Of a
well-informed mind but is oftener the fruit
of a beautiful spirit is a greater power for
all right-mindednes than the most active
intellect under the most conscientious slim
ulatioa. And as to the opportunity of Gull
TO me that in a last analysis true culture
eudes any conscious effort to acquire it.
| have liked to think that culture, like all
other graces of the mind and the soul.
is not attained by being too consciously
sought.
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useless expenditure of many thousands OF
dollars. Such a list was published in 1883,
in accordance with Senate resolution, and
Commissioner Dudley took extraordinary
care in its preparation. There were then
on the rolls about 1903 900 names, and it took
five volumes, averaging over 100 pages to
was considerable discussion of the pension
system, and the belief that the rolls were
permeated with fraud brought about de-
mand for publicity
Il do not recall that any pensioners were
dropped In consequence, but l well and dis
tiDctly remember that the Pension Bureau
was almost Immediately deluged with ap-
plications for increased rates. There was no
cutting down" of the lists on the contrary
at the end of the fiscal year of 1884 the rolls
had jumped UP to over 322, 900. The attor-
neyS, as they undoubtedly had the right to
do, used the volumes for the purpose of So
liclung increase applications, and some of
them were very successful. One of these
gentlemen told me that within a week after
he had secured the lists he sent out car
lead of applications for increase, and added
great many thousand dollars to his bank
account.
will probably exceed $140 200, 900, and the
number of pensioners on the rolls at present
is in the neighborhood of 1000. If such
list were published now it would take six
teen or seventeen large volumes to con-
tain the names and the other information
that would likely accompany them. If,
however, the newspapers OF the country
were supplied with the list and were to pub
lish the names of those residing within the
radius of their circulation, some good might
result. The great cost of the publication OF
the volumes, however, might offset the
fraudulent pensions brought to light
During the last Cleveland administration
many newspapers requested lists of PEN
sioners residing in their respective locali-
ties. Such requests were always accorded
by the commissioner Of pensions, and the
lists were published in many places. /
watched for the result carefully, but could
not discover that any great good came of
these publications. 1t may be. however,
that dishonest people were deferred from
applying for the government bounty, but
that is matter for speculation.
Commissioner Bentley, in 1879, prepared
a bill designed to prevent fraud upon the
pension rolls, but it met with little favor,
although possessing many excellent fea-
lures. His idea was to divide the country
into sixty pension districts" and to have
all applicants appear, with their witnesses,
before court, which was to be vested with
power to test the merits of applications
and the worth of the accompanying evil
dence. The court was then to forward its
findings to the commissioner of pensions,
and the claim was to be admitted or reject
ed upon these findings. 1t is certain that
such q system would effectually prevent
fraud and imposition and greatly aid the
worthy applicant. Something of the kind
might be devised at the present time with
profit"
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Won DER Ale MUST PAY.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decides
in Favor of Pitcher Baldwin.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3.-The Supreme
Court to-day affirmed the judgment of the
Common Pleas Court of Pittsburg in the
damage suit of Pitcher Mark Baldwin
against Chris Won der Abe, owner of the
ST. Louis baseball club. The suit grew out
of charges of conspiracy made by Won der
Abe against Baldwin at the time the latter
was playing with the Pittsburg team in the
spring of 1892 Won der Abe alleged that
Baldwin attempted to persuade Silver
King, then famous pitcher. to desert from
the ST Louis team and sign a contract with
PittSburg. baldwin arrested and locked
up and later he sued Won der Abe for $40
0OO damages for false arrest. Two different
judges In Pittsburg decided in Baldwin S
favor for $500 damages. and to-day's deci-
sion of the Supreme Court determines his
right TO that amount OF the ST. Louis mag
Mates cash
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HAVANA, Jan. 3.-La Discussion says
that General Blanco will take the field with
in the next fortnight and proceed to eastern
Cuba During his absence from Havana,
Senior Galvez, premier of the new colonial
Cabinet, will assume control of the govern
ment of the island.
In the town of Caraballo, which is with
out local authorities, 100 persons out of $50
residents are suffering from hunger and DIS
ease.
Major General Julio Sanguilly was a pas
senger on board the Ward line steamer Sar-
going to Tampico Mex. but the fact tina
he is registered under an assumed name
gives rise to the belief that he intended to
some other point on the island. The police
are watching him.
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Rank Preparing to Quit Business.

BOSTON, Jan. 3.-The directors of the Ma.
tional City Bank have issued a circular to
stockholders stating that it has been decided
to recommend to them at their annual meet
ing, Jan. II, the winding up and liquidation
of the affairs of the bank and the distri-
button of the net proceeds of it's assets
among its stockholders. A circular mas beer
issued to depOSitorS also stating that sub
Ject to approval by the stockholders of the
directors recommendations, an agreement
has been made with the Eliot National
Bank, whereby the business of the Nationa
City Bank will be consolidated with that
of the Eliot National Bank. 1t is stated
that in the event of liquidation the share
holders of the National City Bank will have
good reason to expect return better thar
par for their stock, most OF it within the
next five or six months.
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Gunboats Worrying Dervishes.

CAIRO, Jan. 3.-The British gunboats
made reconnaissance past Shendy and
Metemneh, the Dervish posts between Ber-
Der and Khartoum, on Saturday. The Der
wishes kept up smart fire from both banks
of the Nile. The guntoats proceeded twenty
miles south and captured number of boats
laden with grain.
LONDON, Jan. 3.-It is semi-officially an
nounced in this city that the movements OF
British troops in Egypt entirely due to
the news or a threatened northerly advance
Of the Dervishes and that they do not imply
immediate advance in the direction of
khartOum
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HAMBURG, Jan. S-Prince Bismarck
feet were tapped to-day by DR.. Freese, Of
this city.
LONDON, Jan. 4.-The Berlin correspond
ent of the Daily News says: There is un-
favorable news from FREDERICKSBURG, al
though the recent alarming rumors were
grossly exaggerated. The rigorous way in
which the manor house is closed TO every
body facilitates the circulation of un-
rounded reports. DIR. Schweninger has ex-
pressed the opinion that Prince Bismarck s
govt is taking its normal course and will
soon pass over. 1t must not be forgotten
however, that his medical advisers are do
Ing their utmost to prevent any unfavor-
able report from reaching Bismarck, who
tiOn
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Appraisers Appointed.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3.--Judges Penny
packer, Wiltbank and Sulzerberger to-day
appointed appraisers to pass upon the as
sets of the defunct Chestnut-street Trust
and Savings Fund Company, which closed
street National Bank. The appointees are
Louis S. Fiske, a wool merchant; VIM B.
Hackenberg, a silk dealer, and Mai VIM.
H Lambert, of the New York Mutual Life
Insurance Company, and president of the
board of charities and corrections. In con-
nection with the banks affairs depoSitors
representing 1900 have assented to the
plan of the settlement and about 20 per
cent. of the trust derostors have also as
canfed
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WIN Desert webb McNairs state,

Mutual Life Insurance Company has sent
the following letter To Webb McNall SUI
perintendent Of Insurance; We. beg to adj
wise you that this company will cease to
transact business in Kansas after Ian. i
1898" The letter is signed by benjamin.
Stevens president of the company The
New England Mutual has never done very
large business in Kansas. This action is the
outgrowth OF Superintendent McNalrs fight
on insurance companies generally.