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U"~Correspondenee containing Important news solicited from every point. Rejected communica tions cannot be preserved Address all Letters and Telegrams to THE GLOBE. St. Paul, Mixk. MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1885. WTna Chicago office of the Globb is at Ko. 11 Times Bcildiso Efcv- The Minneapolis office of the Globe is at ko. 25" FiasT AvenHe South. Of* The Stillwateb office of the Globe is at 110 Maih Stbeet, Excelsior Bloce. NUB OF THE NEWS. A tow-boat race is on tbe tapis. The largest oil works in England were burned. A new symptom has developed in Gen. Grant's case. Twelve lives were lost by a mine horror in Indiana. Gen. Graham is certainly to advance on Wednesday, Prince Orloff, the former Russian diplo mat, is dead. A society lady was burned to death in Louisville, Ky. * Mankato ßepublicans nominated George T. Barr for mayor. More light is thrown on the criminal career of Wilbur F. James. Minneapolis Democrats hold their conven tion in Turner hall to-day. A Benson trapper named Blanchard mur dered his partner for 51. 50. The second annual meeting of the State Bar association is to be held April 7. A window-viewinc mulatto was shot through theTieart at Portland, Oregon. A prominent citizen of St. Louis and ex governor of Missouri is mysteriously missing. Northwestern officials say that road will pay its usual dividends at the rate of 7 per cent. Oen. Graham has been reinforced at Sua kim by the contingent from New South Wales. An Eastern capitalist, now in St. Paul, descants on the commercial supremacy of Duluth. The New York Sun, in its Wall street column, says that a foreign war would not benefit this country. The president attended church in company with his sister and his intended bride, Miss Foltom of Buffalo. A well-informed politician just from Wash ington predicts that the territorial office holders will go first. Mr. Phelps, Iv being appointed to Eng land, has been rewarded for his life-long fidelity to Secretary Bayard. President Cleveland has been sent from Portland a sixty-pound Columbia river sal mon on Ice for his next Friday's dinner. The French have been routed from their iiitrenehmcuts in Tonquin and Gen. Negrier Is reported badly wounded by a gun-shot. There is great excitement at Paris over the Chinese defeat of the French troops, and re inforcements are being rapidly dispatched to Touquln. There I* a rumor In Chicago that the Mil waukee road wi!l run its fast mall to St. Paul over the lowa Jfc Minnesota division by way of S.ibula. The revenue reformers at Washington are alarmed at Randall's Influence with the ad ministration aud want Carlisle to hasten so the capital. • m DI~WA YE HEAR THE SLOG AS. LAS til Kf" C >v. PifißCß may have scotched woman suffrage in Dakota but be didn't kill it, as may be Men fmm an article in the Sioux Falls Argus, from which we extract the fol lowing: "So woman suffrage Is rarely coming, and It matter* little whit we may sar or da. Wo may laugh at and revile iL,btit It* coming. We may ile Bounce it a* the great and only original absurdity Ot the world, hot while we arc talking It is row ing. We may ridicule it on the sta^e or carica ture it In the press, bill whil.> we jest the prin - advancing with <■.-«.», le«s motion. Kvery Sawing it • one day nearer, every evening it* ramp fire* glow on the ground it* in— Us MM «Ie«er««-i It :« mate* It is MS an inherem right as aotne may say. Bur It :« coming. We bava few Innareot rights but th* to be Moat otton are dependent on civilization a*id This is one. and it is com- The Arg;:« then proceeds SO ssv that WxSW ' SkmgprKtJ well without railroad* or • . \ . \ mule him hd without tbe improved m • .' and thai ".In.iri Cjksas nd bad a rovtJ time with nit a shirt to D which : -. to gvt .» Bf • I > -_*: * ''• : > ' ike. rn>r of Dakota, | ■ ■ ■ II Ml ? non ■ -. regardless - - "CToent are -•est. - doing a neigh borly a '-ess. THE LAST ACT J.V KESTUCKY'S IiLOODY TRAGEDY. Last Friday William Neal, the last of the Ashland fiends, was executed at Grayson, thus closing the last act in the most horrid drama ever enacted upou tbe historic dark and bloody ground of Kentucky. The crime for which he was bung stands pre-emiueut among bloody tragedies for its ghastly atroc ity. George Ellis, who was the first one to hang, confessed his guilt and implicated Ellis Croft and William Neal as his ac complices. Both Ckoft and Neal died with protestations of innocence upon their lips, and as the evidence against them, independ ent of Ellis' confession, was entirely cir cumstantial, there is not an absolute cer tainty in the public mind that they were guilty. Ellis, subsequent to his confession involving Croft and Neal in the crime, made a retraction and said that they were innocent men. In describing the execution of William Neal an outline history of the celebrated tragedy is recalled by the Courier- Journal. In December, 1831, there was standing on the outskirts of Ashland a little cottage. In which lived a respectable family named Gib hoxs, consisting of a father and mother, a daughter, Faxxie, and a little crippled son, Robert. The father left home on a two weeks' visit to West Virginia, and a few days afterward the mother went to Ports mouth, 0., ou a visit, leaving the two children in charge of the house. Near by lived a family uamed Cakuico, and between Emma Cahrko and Faxxie Gibbons there was a strong affection. Both the girls were about 16 years of age, and were universal favorites on account of their sunny tempers and their more than ordinary beauty. During the absence of her parents Faxxie GibboX3 had induced Emma Cariuco to spend the nights with her. About 9 o'clock on the night of the tragedy a villager who chanced to pass by the little cottage saw the light burning brightly in the front parlor and by the pathway of light that led out from the window into the darkness he saw the two girl 9 and the crippled boy sitting about the table talking happily together. He was the last human being who saw them alive until the brutal executioners came. At an early hour the next morning neigh bors living nearest the Gibbons cottage were startled to see the house wrapped in a dense cloud of smoke. Before the sun rose there was only a blackened mass of rafters and beams to mark the place where the cottage stood. The most strenuous efforts were made to save the inmates and finally they were dragged out from among the ruins. An examination of the three charred and blackened forms showed that the skulls had been crushed and that a nameless crime had been commit ted upon the two girls. The whole country rose up and thousands of men devoted weeks in the search to discover the perpetrators of this awful outrage. At length suspicion fell upon George Ellis, a drunken ruffian who hung about the village. When arrested he made a confession, giving the horrible de tails of the crime, and begging for mercy. His story was in substance as follows: About midnight Ellis Croft and William Neal came to his lodging place, awoke him and ordered him to follow them. They went to the Gibbons cottage. All was quiet within and the lights were extinguished. Neal forced open a window with a crow bar and they entered. They found them selves in the sleeping room of the three in nocent children. The boy lay on the sofa, his face turned to the wall, sound asleep. The two girls were in a bed at the other side of the room, their arms clasped about each other with girlish affection, their hair woven together and surrounding their fnces in a setting of gold. The fire tinged the faces of the sleepers with its rosy light. The three men stood lookine about them a moment and then Croft laid his band on Fannie Gibbon* and rudely awakened her. The girls sprang up and when they saw three Strang* men iv the room screamed for help. (icoft stifled FANNiE'scries aud Neal seized Kmma Caxxioo. The boy turned over, atfakened by the outcry, but a blow from an axe in the hand of Ellis silenced him for ever. When the girls bad been outraged Neal seized the axe, which was yet dripping with little Robert's blood, and sank It into EMMA'S brain. Croft then took the axe and killed his victim. Oil was then poured over the floor and furniture, over the dead bodies of the children, a match was applied, Mid the three wretches slunk away in the darkness. This was the story UuttG«oßOl Km i* told, and upon that statement the three men have been hunt. The Kentucky supreme court has ju*t de cided that a contract made by telephone is valid and ran be sustained In court. The same question is in dispute in some other states, but Kentucky is the first to make a judicial decision upon it. The New Tork World alleges that Mr. Io- NATirs DoNsr.Li.T is not the original discov erer of tbe Hv oN-SHAKi>rKi'.T-AS theory, bat that Miss Delia BaOOS, tbe sister of Dr. LaoXAXD BaOOH of New Haven, claimed to have made the same discovery in 1857. She made a good deal of noise about it. The World ronninds Mr. Donnki.lt that Mi*a Bacon was so bewilderingly involved in the controversy that she went out of her head and Into her grave two years afterwards— a fate that will uot overtake the cool-brained and level-headed autiquarian of Minnesota. l_ is laid that Mr. Cox owes bis appoint ment as minister to Tii: key to a joke. There is no man whom a joke could serve a better turn than Mr. Cox, for no man ever turned better jokes. _______________ The fact that the new minister to Enff bind is called **professor" does not n» tea rik indicate that he is proprietor of a skating rink. Trf Philadelphia Record Aiinks the best evidence Mr. Ci.rvrt.wr> ha* furnished of his intention SO revolutionize things is the arrangement to have Sunset iv the cast. CHICAGO** VIM' Hit rr>\TF*r. It looks like going out of the way to dis • i in anuSher and distant town when we are snon to have enough of LaM kind in our own city, but we cannot r .fraln frmn saying a w^rd or two in relation utajneottv contest in Chicago. A* the marks shoot him, Carter as - i made hi« mark in politic* that he almost amounts to i national issue. i proper subject for newspaper discus \ ■ -< wh-'- has visaed Chicago within the last few years but has bern struck with '. rut the city has made in the condition of its streets and in its improvements grueraliv. And yet all -i done under Mr. H*RK - | >n. and we have never beard in be h*s been mayor Of the city that one dollar of the UtoaeV appropriated ment has been mi*.- The ■ '-the ' financial m n ta which an manipulators to as hia* a USSCe as is oecapisd be the credit of any other man- * ■■■* has been done under * * sdmtetßtru- It is r. " -. • ■■-■ag i"at the ated bim by - It tl will surprise us very much :f he is nc* rv-ele<«ed by the largest vote be - »:tci!- Tbe BetMtßesa papr* in . may have creased some prejudice HdV ' I Mfjsj of Chtes<e will again . rs I :>h a n*e a« e*Sj - that are being upon h'm. H Cntisfft never has a -or** magei taaa CxnTtß E-vbumos she UrfH be a icifcy city. THE ST. PAUL DAILY GLOBE MONDAY MORNING. MARCH 30,1885 SEXATOR SHERMAN'S REFORM SPASM. As the Globe indicated several days ago, Senator Jonx Sherman, who was recently converted uuder the reform preaching of Granger Vax Wyck, Is going to make an active display of zeal in his new calling. If Brother Sherman keeps on as he baa started out at the end of his probation he will be a shining light in the new church. In the Re publican senatorial caucus held in Washing ton last Friday Mr. Sherman made a very strong speech advocating the adoption of a resolution offered by himself rescinding the order of the senate which created an amount of junketing for committees during the re cess. He showed the Republican senators that this unnecessary junketing would so much increase the civil contingent fund as to create a scandal. He asked them what they would say in the next campaign when the Democrats wpuld be able to point to a record of reform and economy in the admin istration of public affairs, while the Republicans would have nothing in tbat line to show but the record of an extrava gant and needless lot of senatorial junket ins trips. We are sorry to see, however, that the Re publican senators did not meet Brother Sherman's exhortation in the spirit it de served. It is true that they could not entirely resist the force of his argument and they promised to examine the list of 300 em ployes around the senate chamber to see if there could not be a reduction made. They also promised to decline taking the Butler building for a committee room, and scolded Senator Joxes of Nevada for his renting of this building. But as for Senator Sherman his late Republican associates laughpdhimto scorn. They taunted him with hints that his Roman virtue was very recently acquired. Some of them wanted to know why he didn't begin the reform and economy when he was in the treasury department. Others of them went so far as to tell him the fable of the fox and the sour grapes and to call him "Old sore head" because he failed to get the chairmanship of the finance committee. It was just shameful the way they treated Brother Sherman, but he bore it with gen uine meekness, so much so that the humility displayed by him and the disposition to turn the other cheek when the one was smitten, gave hope to a great many reformers that his repentance is sincere and his conversion a genuine one. While we have strong hope of Mr. Sherman, still we wouldn't advise anybody to put up money on the permanent change in his political morals until after the next senatorial election. You know, Mr. Sherman is a mighty sick man, politically. Gov. Hoadly is said to have an eye on Brother Sherman's seat in the senate. And Hoadlt's popularity with the Buckeyes makes Sherman sick. When the devil got sick The denl a aaint would be; When the devil got well The devil a ealut was he. It is possible that Mr. Cleveland is going to have some influence with this administra tion himself. All slates that are fixed up without a consultation with him will be broken. A well-advised politician of the West, who has been in Washington some months, claims in an interview with a Globe reporter that the senate caucus has bestowed the patronage of Dakota and Montana offices to the congressional delegations from Missouri and Kentucky. Just why the gray and reverend seignors of that august body have taken it upon themselves to place this gen erous distribution in the hands of these delegations doesn't appear clear to the casual political observer. Montana has a Democratic delegate who is certainly entitled to have some slight hand in the allotment of these offices, and the secretaries of the respective departments may also have some choice which even a senate caucus may yet feel impelled to respect. Besides President Cleveland has shown signs of becoming con siderable more than a mere executive clerk. It Is barely possible that the Democratic senators are a little fresh. Perhaps a sea voyage would tend to season their judgment of their functions. The Winnipeg Free Press is painting the government party a blazing red with the blood shed in the rebellion. The opposition papers are severer on the government's course than the St. Paul papers, which Sir John Macdoxald claimed were doing all the kicking and fighting in their minds, until he had translated the news of the recent fight from Premier Nouq,cat's cypher dis patches. " Ex-Deleoate Maginms reads his title to the territorial governorship clear through the darkness of the nelena Kxioht. He say she knows he Is the choice of the people. Bon sell, the bonanza merchant, is in Washing ton laboring for him with the same zeal that would characterize collecting from country customers. The friends of Padot Rtax have at last braced him up for a fight with John L. Sil i.i\ an, professor of the Boston esthetic school of slugging, at Butte City, Mont. Rn 11 -aro K. Fox backs #7,500 aud the diamond belt on St i.livan against Rtas'9 muscle and gall. Ryan has everything to gain and nothing to lose except the symmetry of his facial architecture and his equilibrium. Sti. i.ivan's blood l» up, and if he doesn't slug Rtan over the ropes It will l>e because he has already been knocked out by the only enemy that can get away with him, old budge. A SEXSIRIE SORT OF REFORM. Speaking of the depletion of the clericsl force in the various departments at Wash ington, the Brooklyn Eagle says: That over twenty thousand needless i lb r- will be shortly retired from the Federal service and be condemned to the civic hard ship of earning their own living. Is apparent. That the remaining force will be required to work about half as long as the people who do not hold office may be confidently expected. Tiiat such a reform is better than any other kind affecting the public service is unques tionable. It is exactly of the sensible sort which Democrats would be expected to effect, although we have no doubt that many of the politicians on each side will agree in regard ing it as a "fresh" and foolish p.ilicy. which, r.everthele**. such Is the ugly honesty and picturesque stubbornnes* of Gp. >yer Cleve land, will be steadily adhered to. Of the condemnation which the opportunity and necessity for such a reform passes on Repub licanism, we care not to say anything. Men pas* just comments on that without sugges tions fmm newspapers. The truth is, the abuse is predicabie on each party, when its spoils ciass control it, and when they cajole or coerce It to fl<Mit the sentiment of tbe people for reform. Such was the estate of Republicanism. That accounts for this abuse, which was only one of the seTeral which caused the overthrow of that organ ization. Twrt.rß men were wined in a mine in Indian.* on last Friday, but the accident was not fount out until yesterday. The tele gram doesn't say, bat tbe presumption is that the Indiana people had all gone down to -gton to congratulate Mr. Hr*dric*3 on his success in the Indianapolis postoffiee matter. SrviTor. Mahone's wife is a claimant to tbe amount of #600,000 under the French spoliation act For oace in his Hfe tbe sena tor is not willing to hare his farorite princi n> of r?adfri*inj-nt acnlied to tbe claim. The pretty and piquant Aswan says she noticed •there were not so many baldheads la tbe audiences in tbe West as in the I Besides aeia^ a sweet praSUer Aivss is an observing little woman. THE TERRITORIES TO HAVE THE FIRST I'LUM. A Montana gentleman tells the Globe this morning that as soon as tbe senate adjourns the appointment of territorial oilicers will be the first thing on the calendar. It looks a little hard to give the new territories prefer ence over old settled states like Kentucky and Missouri. But one thing must be remem bered, Kentucky and Missouri are provided with good Democratic state governments while the territories are in the hands of a hard lot of jobbers. For illustration there Is Montana. The Philadelphia Record the other day, In speaking of a rumor it had heard that President Cleveland intended to remove Gov. Carpexteh and appoint in his stead Mr. Maginxis, said: "This is a move in the right direction. Mr. Magixxis knows some thing of Montana and has interests there. Mr. Carpenter is one of the worst products of a bad political machine in New York, and had no earthly claim upon the Republican administration which appointed him, except the fact that the people who knew him best declared by a majority of nearly 200,000 that he was not fit to hold office." The Record is an independent paper and is supposed to be free from partisan bias. While it may seem rather cool treatment ta defer the claims of good old Democratic states until the young territories can be fixed up, still Kentucky and Missouri can worry along with Knott and Marmaduke, while Montana must suffer no loDger with a spewed-out New York machine politician. The president is a discriminating man and knows where aud when justice shall be done. The French war against Van Zandt still continues. The American gunooats will have to be steamed up. John McLean is the most useful man in Ohio. Everything that goes wrong in that state is charged up to him. Imperial sway costs the people of Great Britaiu something. The expenditures of the British government for the current fiscal year ending with the present month will exceed the receipts by $7,500,000. The war in the Soudan is the principal cause of this deficit, and it is estimated that for the same cause the deficit for next year will be $30,000,000. To meet the increased expenditure the British government does not propose to dis tuib the present revenue system by levying a protective tariff, but it is proposed to add two pence in the pound on the income tax, which it is estimated will produce about $20, -000,000 annually. Our Northwestern wheat is for sale to the highest and best bidder. This is a pointer for the queen, the czar and L. Mahdi, Esq. Barrios' aggressions in the petty states of South America smacks somewhat of a dic tatorship on a small scale. But he is a small gun of the smooth bore pattern and he has no business trifling with the heavy ord nance now doubly shattered awaiting forthe chips to be knocked off the diplomatic shoul der of the belligerent nations of the earth, HEROIC TR.IMF. There is no class receives more abuse than tramps and no class deserves it more. It is therefore a genuine pleasure to have an op portunity to say something good in favor of one. The idea of a tramp appearing as the heroic defender of helpless women is so thoroughly inconsistent with the history of the species that it seems next to incredible that such an incident should occur. But it really did, and it must go into history. Down in North Carolina, near the town of Wadesboro, two respectable maiden sisters live together, no one else occupying the premises except themselves. They owu a valuable little farm, have a good deal of personal property and are supposed to have some surplus money about the house. Last Tuesday evening a tramp called at the bouse and asked for lodg ing. The ladies at Bret refused his request, but, finally offered to keep him on coudition that as soon as he had his supper he was to be locked in a closet where he was to remain until morning. About midnight the ladies were aroused by a negro who had gained entrance to their room. He threatened to kill them with a butcher-knife he carried in his hand, if they made any outcry, and demanded their mon ey, which one of the ladies said she would get. She then went to the closet and un locked the door, when the tramp, who bad heard the whole conversation, sprang out with pistol in haud. The negro started to r un, but the tramp fired, killing him In stantly. Shortly afterward it was discovered that the supp< Bed negro was a white man who had blacked himself uu and invaded the house. He was recoguized as a near neigh bor of the ladies. In the general din of wars and rumors of wars, the unequal contest between a mere handful of Trench and a horde of Chinese should not be forgotten. The French gen eral in command appears to be apprehensive that he may be overlooked by the home gov ernment, while some fifty thousand oriental sons of Mars are devotine their special atten tion to him and his little command. He has been driven back from the euphonic field of Dong Dang with heavy losses aud is calling right lustily for reinforcements. The faint echoes of his despairing cries are heard In the streets of Paris much more audibly than they are in the gilded halls of the assembly, or In the dim recesses of the war office. While the government seems slow to succor his hard-pressed forces faraway at the front, the price of securities on the Bourse is tending downward to a degree decidedly de pressing to the longs In government securi ties. The question arises In the diplomatic mind why it Is that France Is Inclined to meddle in the affairs of South America when she cannot stand a little reverse like tbat in China without getting excited about it. The trouble with France is that she has no Napo leon the (iuEAT, to lead her in the field of conquest, and she had better attend strictly to ber own business and leave territorial ag grandizement to other and more aggressive powers. Col. Irvix has evacuated Fort Carlton In the Northwest territories and fallen back on Prince Albert.wbere he has a better strategic position and where he may protect a more thickly populated settlement. Before leav ing he took the precaution to destroy the stores snd munitions of war and it is as sumed tbe fort itself to prevent the rebels se curing a fortified position, although it is lot known whether he or tbe rebels burned the post. The colonel has wisely notified Gea. MmoLETo* that he must bring a large force with him to accomplish his mission of pacification by force of arms and tbat officer is accordingly awaiting the arrival of the regulars from Ontario and Quebec and other volunteers from Winnipeg and eisewbere. The gorernment now fully realizes the gravity of the situation snd in addition to the regulars already in motion, is holding others under marching orders rerard'ess of the fact that the most available troops for the emergency are the volunteers in the N'-rtbwest. Although ther may not enjoy tbe discipline of regulars, tbey are better adapted to the stlfftti Various views of tbe situation are set forth in the Globe specials and in a series of interviews with men who are posted. Death of a Prominent Chicago Lawyer- Chicago, March 29.— Hon Perry H. Smith, retired lawyer and millionaire, died here this morning of congestion of tbe liTer. He was in poor health for several rears, having broken down both pfavsieajiy snd mentally from orenrork. Re< restored him until the present attack which came* about two weeks ago, since whir-fa tine h!« death has brea hourly expected. The funeral will occur from hi* late residence at 11 o'clock Wednes day. Tae deceased was a life-long Demo crat and exercised a strong influence In the councils of his party in the west. He was a close friend of Samuel J. Tilden. He was born at Augusta, Oneida county, N. V., March 28, 1828, and graduated at Hamilton college at the age of 18 aud was admitted to the bur in 1849. He came west in the fall of that year and began to practice his profession in Wisconsin. At the age of 23 years he was elected county judge and subsequently served in tbe state legislature. He became vice president of the • Chicago, St. Paul & Fond dv Lac railway and held the same po sition when that road was consolidated with the Northwestern. He came to Chicago In ISGO and retired from active life in 1868. TRANSPORTATION TOPICS. The Northwestern Expects to Pay its Regular 7 per cent. Dividend. Rumored Change in the St. Paul Fast Mall— Rail Motes. Special to the Globe. Chicago, March 29.— The Northwestern expects to pay its regular Z}{ per cent, divi dend in June. At least so anticipates Vice President Sykes. He says: Of course I know nothing about the operations of the St. Paul road, but so far as our own company is concerned I am thoroughly satisfied with the outlook. lam not looking for any re markable increase In the earnings, but I believe we shall still continue to show a marked improvement. No action will be taken on our dividend until late in May, and I can't see any reason why the conservative policy of our company should be deviated from or the stockholders be asked to receive less than the customary 3}4 per cent. Minnesota's Fa*t Mail. Chicago, March 29.— 1t is rumored that the Milwaukee &.St. Paul is considering the practicability of changing the fast limited mail train from Chicago to St. Paul and run it over the lowa & Minnesota division via Sabula, Dubuque and Austin. It is claimed that the longer distance can be more than made up by the absence of sharp curves and a multitude of trains occupying the road. The lowa & Minnesota division is steel tracked, of easy grade and is comparatively free from curves. A fast mail from St. Louis is involved in the scheme. Missed a Golden Opportunity. The president of a Western railroad was lately waited on by a couple of directors with very solemn countenances, and after the usual salutations had been exchanged one of them said: "Mr. President, have you the interests of this road at heart'" "Yes. sir — yes, sir — of course I have," was the reply. "If so, why didn't you cut rate 9 last week, Blank and Blank, $1, and thereby have our road advertised all over the country i" "Why, sir, last week we were so snowed under that we didn't move a train between the points named!" "Of course, I know all about it, and it was a golden opportunity that may never come again. When you are stuck in the suow is the very time to cut rates. We get the ad vertisement aod the public receives no beue lit. Let this be a moral lesson to j*ou, sir — a great moral lesson." A'eta Yakima. Advices received at the Northern Pacific office state that the new town of North Ya kima, W. T., is growing rapidly. The rail way company some time ago made an offer to the residents of the old town of Yakima to furnish them with the same amount of property and transport their property to the new town free of charge if they would settle there, and they are now taking advantage of the proposal aud flocking in. An effort will be made to locate the capital of Washington territory at this new towu. Local and General. Th» Western Trunk Line association, op erating their California fast freight line, issued a tariff taking effect Saturday on lum ber and salt from Chicago and Milwaukee to points on the Union Pacific railway as far west aa Cheyenne. The rates on lumber to Denver. Col., are 40 cents, and on salt, 69 cents. The rate to Lincoln, Neb., on lum ber is 24.; cents, and on salt 25 cents, and li 3 cents on the former to Omaha and 10?% cents on the latter article. So much of the Pacific Coast association circular No. 1. issued Jan. 12, 1885, as re lates to the division of rates from Cincinnati and common points to the Pacific coast, i 9 cancelled by the association. West-bound business originating at points east of Chi cago or East St. Louis will be subject from these two points to rates provided from them. The situation in regard to rates from tile Pa cific coast to Cincinnati and common points is unchanged. A New Symptom iv Gen. (Grant's Casn. New Yokk, March 29. — The usual weekly consultation on Gen. Grant's condition was held to-day. Drs. Barker, Sands,Shrady and Douglas were present. The irritation of the nose, which had produced brain symptoms, whleb Induced the to send for the physicians last night, had been relieved so that the general had sleep four hours — from 3to 7 — and naps more or less in duration duripg the morning, making seven or eight hours' sleep during the last twenty-four hours. The general presented at the con sultation a much-improved appearance. To night he was free from palu and reasonably free from the annoying discharge which had troubled tbe family last night. LATER. New Tohk, March 30.— T0-night Gen. Grant became anxious to see the doctors and they arrived at the house after midnight. They found the patient's throat much better than at the consultation, although there was still a slight congestion. The doctors dressed it and gave the general another anodyne and put him to bed. Dr. Douglas remained with the general all night aud Dr. Shrady will stay to-morrow night. Tbe physicians are in the house to allay the general's own nervousness and calm the anxiety sl his family. Clearing House Statement- Boston. sfSM., March 29.— The following table is compiled from special dispatches to tbe Boston Post from managers of lesding clearing houses in the United States, giving the clearances for the week ending to-night, March 28, 1865, with tbe percentages of In crease and decrease In comparison with the corresponding week of last year: Clearances. Inc. Dee. New York $437.K9.5.-jO 23.9 Bostoo 62.569.628 .... 6.6 Philadelphia 42.87;! 783 .... 4.8 'hicago 33,771.000 10.1 St. Louis 18.879,54? .... 16.9 Baltimore 11,858.588 5.9 .... >an Francisco «.21 Q „482 L''t « Cincitmsti 7,290,019 13.2 Httsbonr 8.090,999 New Orleans 6,9*9.917 33.0 Providence 2,994,500 5.1 Loolsriße 3.471.182 .... 14. v lUlwaskee 2.729.000 IS.O Kar.«a-^ * ltv 3,219,384 15.8 .... Detroit 2.013.1 f «9 9.3 -.-A 1.424.08 .... 22 4 •Umaba 2,171,548 . - 1,237,280 -•>polis 1,030,549 15.9 Hartford 1.245.0 M 9.2 Memphis 1. 594^5-) 6.2 New Haven 795.015 5.3 as 1,191.740 11.4 Peoria 75:>.«36 8.9 PortUr.d 704.932 72 -tor 562.155 23. J Sprio^aeid 55-. l*o 2.2 St. Joseph ti'j.'V) 8.3 Lowell 275,775 fSjissass 879,7*9 23.8 Total f«»«.72>.4«9 .... 22.2 Outside >'ew York $209,550,933 12.4 * Not incladed ia totals. diers of tbe German Army Oranize. Chicago. March 2f». — DelrgaU-s from Cin cinnati. St. Louii. Milwaukee and Chicago, ' • i -soldiers of the German army, met here to-day and formed the nucleus of a na tional organization for mutual benefit and cultivation of a love for their adopted coun try. Tbe following officers were elected: President. Charles Winkler of Chicago, vice pre*id*nt, Herman Pfitzcnreiter of Cincin nati: secretary. S. Se.teo of Milwaukee; treasurer. Herman Hoitmann of St. Louis. A MONGOLIAN VICTORY. The Chinese Rout the French by Storm From their Tonquin In trenchmeuts- Gen. Negrier Seriously Wounded and an Imploring Call Made tor The Russian Press Ridicules the Idea of War With England, Who still Continues Naval Preparatious . Latest Advices from the Central American Republics— Mexico Jealously Watching the Movements of Barrios. The Tonquin Defeat Confirmed. Paris, March 29. — The following dispatch has been received from Gen. Briere de Lisle, dated Hanoi, March 28: "I regret to announce that Gen. Negrier has been severely wounded and obliged to evacuate Langson. The Chinese in three large columns made au impetuous attack upon the out-positions before Kilua. Col. Herbinger. in the face of a superior number of the enemy and exhausted of ammunition, was obliged to retreat to Dong Daug and Thannoi. lam massing forces on the Chu and Kep roads. If the enemy still increases I shall retire to Sangoki. What ever happens I hope to be able to defend the whole delta. Please send reinforcements as quickly as possible." The cabinet met at 8 this evening and there will be another meeting in the morn ing. The Journal Dcs Debats says: "France will make the necessary efforts in behalf of her sons in Tonquin. To-morrow, however, we shall see with whom the responsibility rests." The Siecle says that Premier Ferry will make a statement in the chamber of deputies to-morrow. Gen. Negrier Fatally Wounded. London, March 29. — A dispatch from Paris, says it is officially announced that the Chinese troops on the Tonquin frontier yes terday made a desperate attack upon the intrenched camp established by Gen. Negrier between Langson and Kilua, and from which Gen. Negrier has been making recon noissances beyond the frontier separating Tonquin from China proper. The Chiuese drove the French back beyond Langson and j-ecaptured that town. During this Series of fights Gen. Negrier was grievously wounded and the French casualties were very serious. The latest accounts rep resent the French troops in full retreat with the CMuese vigorously pursuing them. A vast quantity of commissary and other stores were lost. Gen. Negrier received a gunshot wound in the chest. He was brought from the field but recovery is doubtful. The total French loss in killed and wounded is not yet known. Gen. Briere de 1' Lisle, who is in chief command iv Touquiu, telegraphs for assistance in au imploriug tone which leads the Parisians to expect further disasters. A council of war was held to-day with Gen. Lewal, minister of war, presiding. Intense excitement prevails wherever the bad news has become kuown in France. Eep rted Dead. Paris, March 29. — A report is in circula tion to-night that Gen. Negrier has died from his wounds. limited at Langson Paris, March 29. — The Chinese forces gained a victory over the French at Laugson Friday. Tbey carried the key of the position and intrenehments and the French troops have retreated beyond Dong Dang. They are falling back on the Long kod. The French loss iv men and guns is unknowu . The Chinese, it is estimated, are 50,000 strong. They menace the French lines and communication with the south. It is reported in Paris that Gen. Briere de Lisle asks for 20,000 reinforcements. The French reVeneS have increased the political excite ment in Paris. The narrow majority ob tained by the government yesterday on the vote of confidence leads to the expectation that the ministry will be defeated in the next Tonquin debate aud then resign. The rad ical and monarchist organs predict the early fall of Premier Ferry. Will Advance on Tamai Wednesday. London, March 89. — The latest advices from Egypt are that (Jen. Wolselcy, after making an inspection of the military stations from Dongola to Cairo, will go to Suakim. It is now certain that tl^e advance of Gen. Graham's army to Tamai will be made on Wednesday, sufficient water stores at Gen. McNeill's zefebfa having becu completed to day. Granville Instructs Tlieiri. London, March 2.!. Karl Granville has instructed the British delegates to the Btiez conference, to be held «t Paris, to refuse to consider any proposition which might inter f. re with the customary quarantine regula tions. Granville'* Turkish Tactic*. London, March 29. — The recent meetings of Musurus pasha, Hassan Fehml pasha and Karl (irati'ville were in connection with the Egyptian financial convention. The Turkish government vu reluctant to sigti the con vention, thinking it implied the recogni tion of tils) bombardment of Alexandria find England's subsequent action iv Egypt, which were considered as opposed to the sultan's suzrelan rights and likely to produce a bad impression 0b the Mussulmen. It in reported that Gran ville threatened to give Musurus and Fehml their passports and break off diplomatic rela tions with Turkey unless the sultan signed the firman for a loan of £9,000,000. The sultan, it is said, agreed to issue the firman, still refusing, however, to sign the convtn ton, but l.c afterward called a council of notables and finally decided to sign the convention with certain reservations which Granville ac cepted. Great Naval Preparations Continue. London, March 80.— The British govern ment has chartered the ncwCuuard steamer, Etruria, and the steamers Oregon and Alaska for service as armed cruiser trans ports. They will be fitted with ten guns each. The admiralty has ordered the men of war Iron Duke, Hotspur, Hecate, Conquest and Hyacinthe to be prepared for service. It is presumed tbey will go to the Baltic. The admiralty have aKo ordered the ships In flexible, Devastation, Cyclops, Rupert. < !or delia, Volage, Active and Emerald to be made ready for immediate service. They are to be ready for sea in a few days. Prospects for I'eare. Lonfiolf, March 29.— The Daily NeWs ssys: There is reason to beliefs that the T'-v'.y of M. de ''•:■ r-, eoncergiog the A frontier, is on the way to England, and that (i is distinctly favorable to peace, for wblch we must thank the firmness of England and tbe immense meeting at BawnepiedL There is Increasing ground, it continues, for the bei.ef that some resourrc of diploma' enable ftunsfato abandon her elalms witbou tbe loss of prestige. If not, England's duty is still clear, and arbitration of the dispute wouid be Inapplicable. Gen. Graham JtHnforced. ::m. March 30.— The Sew South Wales conting'-nt arrived to-day snd were eornpli- I by Oen. Graham opbn tr,e!r fine ap pearance. He eulogized their patriotic in ns and ?aid he was pro'ii to command such men. Trie tr'^- h'-ariiiy cheered tbe landing. They will take part in the advance on Tamai. . The Jilspnte too Trivial'© Plight About . St. Petkp>B! ko, March 29. — The German Gazette thinks the dispute bctfeiesa Kngland and Ro--ia of too trivial a nature to figbt about. Tb*; Gazette ssys it is difficult to un nd bow a nation with such experience as that of the BoadSU disaster can assume such a warlike attitude towards a powerful miiiury state. The Journal de St. Peters burg believes the repjy of tbe Russian min f foreign affairs will have a cone!. ... .-;. effect, and that the marquis of Hoitington, expecting this, postponed debate on the queen's message calling out tae reserves. The Mexican Situation . Mexico, March 29.— Troops are practicing military maneuvers every day, preparing to enforce the position of the government against Barrios, if it should prove necessary. The minister of the interior's proclamation that the reform laws must be strictly obeyed, provokes a violeut article from the Voz de Mexico, the leading Catholic daily here. It accuses the government of persecution, and defies President Diaz, sayiDg the Catholic party ia composed of men without fear, and that persecution will awake them from their lethargy. Prince Orioff Dead. Paris, March 29.— Prince Orioff, the Rus sian diplomatist, Is dead at Fontainebleau. Central American Advices. Sax Jl-an, March 29.— Gen. Preston, in Colon, refused to dispatch the outward mails to Carthagena, sent through the British con sulate to the national postal agency, aud the mail bags were returned to Panama yester day. Gen. Corresso, the new secretary of war, was arrested by Gen. Aizpura, to whom Cor resso had carried peace proposals. The rebel general excused his conduct by saying that Corresso had brought no eredenUuls to him. The rebel camp at Naranjo, near Buena Ventura, has also surrendered. Bayaea left Buena Ventura for Panama yesterday. The United States steamer Wachusett'a guard on the railroad is removed. Urngruay and Its Cntholic Priests. Buenos Atbes, March 29.— A rupture be tween the Uruguayan government aud the Vatican is immiment owing to the orders of the government for the ai rest of priests who preach against the government's atti tude iv regard to civil marriage. The bishop declared he could not accept the judgment of a police office as to what sermons would come under the ban of law and merit punishment by imprisonment, and he has consequently directed the priests not to preach in any church upon any subject. The bishop also asked Monsignor L. Matera, the apostolig delegate- resident in this city, to intervene. THE DAY'S CALAMITIES. The 3lurderouB Gun and Pistol Do Theii Deadly Work. Extensive Conflagrations in Xew York, iv England and t-lsewhere. Big: Blaze in New York. New York, March 29. — A fire completely destroyed Schumacher & Ettlinger's litho graphic art establishment, 32, 34 and 36 Bleeeker street to-night. The total loss is about $350,000, of which §100,000 is on the building, which is believed to oe insured. It was over four hours before the flames were got under control. In consequeuce of the secure way in which the building, with its iron shutters, was locked the firemen had much difficulty in forcing an opening through which a stream could be sent. When the hole was made smoke and flames drove the firemen back and more time was lost. Ten thousaud people flocked to the vicinity. Twenty engines and the reserve polica forces of five precincts were at the scene half au hour after the conflagration started. A colony of Italiau tenements adjoining the blazing building were burned and no sooner were their occupants out of the way than two five-ton water tanks fell from the roof of 34, carrying with them portions of the roof and front and side walls. Several persons were knocked down, but no one was seriously in jured. Engine 20 was considerably dam aged and a water tower was wrecked. Then the roof fell in, but the flames were not allowed to spread to the adjoining tene ments. At St. Barnabas P. E. Home, ad joining the police headquarters, there was much excitement. Shot Tlironcli tbe Hear\ Cleveland, 0., March 29.— For several nights past the family of W. 1). Iloyt. 49 Sibley street, have been annoyed by a man looking in at the windows. About S o'clock this evening .Mrs. Hovt noticed a face at the window, ami Iloyt went outside, revolver in hand. Seeing a man in the yard he com manded him to throw up his hands. The Stranger reached for his hip-pocket and Hoyt fired, shooting him through the heart. The dead man is a mulatto, whose identity it is Impossible to ascertain. Iloyt gave himself up to the police. He is a stenographer, in the enploy of the Standard Oil company, and came here last fall from St. Louis, where he was employed by the Missouri Pacific rail road. The Great Belvedere Oil Mills Horned. London, March 2y. — Charles Price iv. Cos oil mills at Belvedere are on fire. The fire will be allowed to burn out. as it would be useless to try to extinguish it. The loss will be $200,000. The mills are the largest in England. It is expected the lire will burn Beveral days. A Fatal Assault. Yolnostowx, ()., March 29. — While re turning home hist night, Michael O'Mara was attacked by "Chuck"' McGraw, a well known rough, and stabbed four times in tbe breast in tbe region of tbe heart and twice on the bead, laving the skull bare. O'Mara v.a^ taken home and the Injuries are pro nounced fatal. McGraw was arrested. I'iiprovokcd Cowboy Murder. Butlkk, Perm., March 29. — Last night William Stover, while under the Influence of liquor, w,-iit into tbe general store of Harper A: Bon., al North Washington, in this coun ty, and because he was refused cigars iv ex change for a bunch of keys, drew a revolver and fatally idiot an old man named James Duncan. Stover was arrested aud lodged In jail. He is a desperate character and claims to have killed eleven men while a cowboy hi the far West. A Fatal An Heiit , LorrsviLLC, Ky., March 20, — While stand ing before s fire at li'-r residence In Pewee" Valley Mrs. Judge ?. B. Mnir, a prominent Society ladj of this City, had her clothing tak fire aiid she wm burned to deatb. Her son Sidney in attempting to extinguish the flames was seriously burned. Stolen Securities. Special to the Globe. Mii.w.u kkk, March 39.— T0-ttight it wag ascertained that seven of the bonds of Issue of 1882, which weft Supposed to be yet in the bfahdl Of the city Officials, but WblCh were found Ink yesterday upon tbe pre sentation of two coupons for collection by the Fir-t Katioosl bunk In Chleago. Tbey -■T I. deposited at that bank by el-Comptrol - ler Jsmei 8. White SS collateral for a loan of I i. White not pottinjf In an appearance for the money or matured bonds, aroused Ispicidns of the bank, when tbey sent to a bank In this cftf for the purpose of as certaiblng? the train. A search was made for White but he was not to he found. The CbleigO !>;<t:. that it ?.ill hold the city Of Milwaukee for tbe amount advanced on tbe Stolen securities. Benator RMdleberger's Telegram. N~w V'okk, March 29. — Senator Kiddle— burger did not attend the meeting of the httonlstl to-night. In his telt g»am he said: "WerB lat your meeting my sentiments would be American, without inowbothlngism. Irishmen should he Americans without forgetting there is an op preMed Ireland. I befitTS it to be the duty of American Irishmen to do their utmost for Iri-h nationality and liberty. " Tbe Bankers & Merchants. Baltimore, March 29. — A mortgage for •300.000 has been filed in the reeorifl office of this city by the Bankers <fc Merchants Tel egraph company to the? Farmer-' Loan <fe - ftfflpany of New York, payable In 1918, •i, aeetire bonds for payment of indebted ness and to extend the lines of the company. Will He Bend It Back? Portland, Or., March 29.— Yesterday a firm of salmon canners shipped In Ice by ex press a genuine Chu salmon weighing sixty pounds to President Cleveland, it is one of the fihert ev«r caught In the Columbia river, and is expected to reach the president in time for his next Sunday's dinner.