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See that the Coupon is in this paper before you buy it. VOL. XX.— NO. 197. BULLETIN UF TKE BT. Pf\Oi^ GI^OBE FRIDAY, JIL.Y Hi, INS>7. Went her for Today— Fair and Warmer. PAGE I, Proposition for Bimetallism. Tariff Conferees More (lu-»rful. Coal Strike Coming to a. Clone. , Japan and Spain Amiliisl America. Year's Exports Ilreak Hrrorilit, Bnajrllah I'reas in a Unue. PAGE 2. Johnson's Mayoralty Ambition. Bitter Till for MeCardv. iv\i;i: s. Minneapolis Mutters. Charter Commission at Work. lOx per line uters Adjourn. DowllnjK 1m Re-eleoted. Senators Slave a Hot Uel>ate. PAGE 4. I'.tlltorial. ProK-ress of the Coupon Contest. I uUiiowu Man Drowned. PAGE S. Bvckeyea Xenrly Shut Out. Hoosiers Stay at the Top. Brewers lleaten at Home. Millers Win Once More. Results in the National. Winnipeg: Defeated at Henley. Americana Still in for Finals. Day's Sporting Events. page: a. Slight cliiumcv In Stocks. Bar Silver, GO I-Se. I ash Wheat In Cliienpro, 74c. World's Markets Reviewed. PAGE 7. Social Life at I.akevlew. Hankers in Session in Duluth. Korthwest News. Railway Gossip. Wants of the People. page: s. Vanish Must Pay. .News of the Courts. Threats of Game Commission. Odd Fellow* Picnic at White Bear. Crop Outlook: I* Roeeute. EVKNTS TODAY. Lexington Park— llnse Ball, 3.45. MOVEMENT OK STEAMSHIPS. NEW YORK— Arrived: Michigan, London; Patria, Hamburg. LIVERPOOL— Arrived: Germanic, ?<ew York; Peunland, Philadelphia; Servla, New York LONDON— Arrived: Manitoba, New York. PLY MOUTH -Arrived, Havel, New York, for Bremen. -^»- The Redwood Falls gold mine is for sale. Who offers ten cents for it? * Carson is looking up again. Another big prize fight is scheduled for that t<'\vn. Sit on a cake of ice and fan yourself, Japan. Don't get excited in the sum mer season. ■♦» Young Mr. Tawney is at work again. He has secured a change of postmast ers at Janesville. -^v- Speaker Reed's business is fixed. He Is keeping track of the things that con gress is not to do. m The last old soldier to be named for a government position is Alvah East man, of St. Cloud. -^*- — ! Possibly the League of Republican Clubs chose a Kentuckian president be cause it loves the bottle so. -•- Senator Hanna says this is no time to increase wages. And Hanna is pros perity's advance agent No. 2. "More revenue" (more robbery), cry the Republicans. "More economy in public affairs," cry the people. President Angell and the sultan are going to have it out at Constantinople. -Mr. Angell has left for Turkey. -^. Emperor William has summarily re tired fifteen of his generals. He wants to give the young men a chance. Maj. McKinley has picked out a place at which to spend the summer, but the tariff conferees cannot hear him. -^ A Brooklyn bandmaster sustained a frill on a cornet 125 seconds. All he got out of it was a bouquet of red roses. .«»_ Dr. Chamberlain preached to the deaf and dumb in New York last Sunday. He didn't say a word, but was perfect ly understood. The mosquito has first claim on the mines of Alaska. Anybody who can get between him and the earth is liable to make a ten-strike. The winners of the three trial heats in singles at Henley are all Americans. This will make it necessary for the Americans to fight it out among them 6elves. -^. The only bicycle path Minneapolis has is a cow path. The Minneapolis Journal counted thirteen cows tether ed across the Lake street path one day this week. i A Philadelphia paper says a sacred concert is a sacred concert because it is given on Sunday. How about those given on the back yard fence after 10 p. m. Sundays? __ si The leading liars of the world have apparently moved from Thessaly to Al aska. Some of the stories about name less gold finds in Alaska will hardly bear investigation." m A New York woman rode 200 miles and won a medal the other day in spite of the fact that she had a bad fall, two punctures and other mishaps. Was the game wofth the candle? •«. Did some one say that one of the things we have in Minnesota is clean men in office? John Goodnow is made consul to Shanghai, and Tim Byrnes is to be made district attorney for Min nesota. _ THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE. EXPORTS FOR THE YEAR BREAK ALL THE RECORDS. The Balance Better by Twenty Millions Than Any Previously Shown. FIGURES APPROXIMATED BUT ONCE. THEN GRAIN SHIPMENTS WERE HEAVY. Gold Imports More Than Fifty Millions of Dollars in Excess of Those of 1896 — Siiver Move ment Unusually Heavy. WASHINGTON, July 15.— The month ly statement of exports and imports of the United States, issued today by the bureau of statistics, makes the re markable showing that never before, in the history of the country, have the exports of merchandise, which include practically all the exports except gold and silver, reached so high a figure as during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, nor has the excess of exports J over imports ever been so large. The only time these figures were approehed was in 1892, when the United States was making heavy shipments of grain to feed Europe, suffering from a series of deficient harvests. The statement for 1897, with compari sons, is as follows: Exports of domestic merchandise, $1. --032,995,859, increase over 1896 about $170,000,000. Total exports of domestic and foreign merchandise, $1,051,987,001, as compared with $852,606,93S for lSi'U. The total imports of merchandise dur ing the fiscal year just closed amount ed to $764,373,905, of which $381,932,605 was free of duty. The total imports were about $15,350,000 less than last year, and the excess of exports for the year was $287,613,186. This is an ex cess of about $23,000,000 over any pre vious year. The figures for June also show an im portant gain. The domestic exports ot ■merchandise during that month amounted to $72,866,880, a gain over June, 1896 of $8,000,000. The imports for June amount to $84,826,110, as compared Tariff Conferees More Cheerful. The End of Their Trying Task Is at Last in View. WASHINGTON. July 15.— The tariff conferees were in a more hopeful mood today than yesterday, and one of the leading representatives of the senate expressed the opinion that the Repub licans would be able to conclude their labors tomorrow, and to summon the Democratic members by Saturday. His view, he said, was justified by the present appearance of things, but he added that there were still more con tingencies that might arise to prevent so early an agreement, and that it was impossible to say precisely when the end would be reached. "We shall come out all right, however, and I think soon," he added. "We havea tedious job, but it is not a hopeless one and there is no foundation to the reports that we are in danger of not reaching an agreement." The day was spent in considering minor details of the bill which have been passed over with an occasional reference to the differences on the sugar schedule, which is still the stumbling block. Senators not in the conference, but in close touch with the members of it, express the opinion to day that the contending factions are very near an adjustment which will compromise the differences on the sugar schedule. On the house side, on the other hand, among those in close touch with the conferees, it is asserted with great positiveness that the house conferees have no intention of yielding anything to the senate on the house schedule, and the opinion is freely expressed that the deadlock will continue indefinitely until the senate yields. The house con ferees, they say, know that they have practically the unanimous support of A Proposition for Bimetallism Submitted to England by France and the United States. LONDON, July 15.— A joint pro posal for bimetallism was presented today on behalf of the United States and France, at a conference held at the foreign office between Baron de Courcelles, the French ambassador, rep resenting France, Ambassador Hay, Senator W r olcott, former Vice President Stevenson, and Gen. Paine, represent ing the United States; Lord Salisbury, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, and A. J. Balfour, first lord of the treasury, representing Eng land, and Lord George Hamilton, sec retary of state for India, representing India. The proposals, after some dis cussion, were taken under advisement, and the British cabinet will give its answer at a subsequent conference. It is reported this afternoon that an international conference will be sum moned, probably to meet in the United States, with Great Britain participat ing. All the delegates will be unin structed with regard to the ratio, al though it is well known, of course, that the United States favors 16 and France 15% to 1. According to today's report, England's participation would mean India's, and there is a prospect of some concessions as to the Bank of England's reserve and silver certifi cates. LONDON, July 15.— -At the meeting of the London Joint Stock bank today, the chairman, referring to gold move ments, said that Japan had lately im ported £5,000,000 in order to make the gold standard effective; while America had retained most of the bul lion shipped during the last half of FRIDAY MORNING, JUI,Y 16, 1897. with $56,163,740 for June, 1896. The ex ports of gold, including ores, for the fiscal year 1597 amounted to $40,359, 75S as compared with $112,409,947 for 1S!)6. The imports of gold amounted to $85, --013,575, an increase of about $51,500,000 over 1896. The exports of silver during 1897 amounted to $61,946,638, and the imports $2,533,227. The excess of gold imports over exports theretofore was $44,653,795 and the excess of silver ex ports over- imports $31,413,411. Never before has the silver movement, both export and import reached so high a figure. The records of the treasury depart ment show that the imports of sugar during June, at the principal sugar ports — Baltimore, Boston, Galveston, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco, at which about S6 per cent of the whole importation is made — amount to 696,904,103 pounds of all kinds, valued in the foreign markets at $13,560,125. Beet sugar below No. 16 Dutch standard aggregated 264,165,952 pounds, and the cane and others 353. --614,709 pounds. Above No. 16 Dutch standard, net stated in treasury re ports, imports were 27,781,556 pounds. The free Importation of Hawaiian su gar under tJhe reciprocity treaty amounted to 44,321,886 pounds, foreign market value, $1,270,655. Compared with importations for May there is a de crease of 3,794.892 pounds. The sugar imports for June, 1896, amounted to 472,637,376 pounds of the foreign value of $11,836,088. For the first six months of 1596 there were imported 2,442,615,32:) pcuncis, foreign value $60,262,778, and for the first six months of this year ending June 30, 3,143,697,768 pounds, of the foreign value of $67,755,671. the house Republicans back of them, in their contention for the house sched ule, and moreover they claim that many of the senate Republicans agree with them on this point. The committee made the discovery to day that there would be still further difficulty in aranging the wool schedule on account of the objections of the car pet manufacturers. It appears that while the makers of the more expensive grades of carpets gave their assent to the compromise of four and eight cents arranged yesterday, the makers of the cheaper carpets are not pleased, and ask that the rate on the lower grades of wool be reduced to 3 cents. The wool men are not willing to concede this demand. The worsted manufact urers are also making trouble over the senate amendment putting a duty on wool of the second-class, which may have been washed. Heretofore there has been additional duty on the wash ed article, and it is claimed that the change will work a material hardship. The Democratic side of the chamber is somewhat disturbed over the vacan cy caused by the death of Senator Harris. "I fear," said Senator Jones (Ark.) today in discussing the question, "that the vacancy may, if not filled before that time, occasion no little embar rassment when we reach the vote on the conference report. It will be re membered," he continued, "that some of the articles on which we succeeded in reducing the rate of duty, as on white pine lumber, and on some which we succeeded in putting en the free list, we had a majority of only one vote. Some of these articles, as burlaps, cot ton ties, paris green, etc., are of im mense importance to the farmers, and it would be regrettable indeed, from our standpoint, if the absence of a Democratic senator from Tennessee should cause us to lose them by giving them a deciding vote." The senator said in reply to a ques tion that he had heard nothing indica tive of the intention of the governor of Tennessee in the matter of an appoint | mtnt. 1596. The harvest prospects of both countries he described as very promis ing-, while the crops nearer home were less favorable and the gold shipments from New York were not likely to be large. The outlook of trade generally, was now more promising', he continued, there were evidences of a gradual im provement of trade in the United States. If the currency question could be settled and the stationary engineers dispute arrang-ed, both countries, both the United States and England, might speedily enjoy better times. fabulouTeldorado. A Wonderful Discovery of Golrt Re ported From AliiMkn. SAN FRANCISCO, July 15.— A story rivalling in intensity of interest th.at told of the fabulous wealth of Monte Cristo was related by the passeng-eis of the little steamer Excelsior, which has just arrived from St. Michael's, Alaska. Millions upon millions of vir gin g-old, according to the story, awaits the fortunate miner who has the hardi hood and courage to penetrate into the unknown depths of the Yukon district. There was tangible evidence on the little steamer of the truth of the story told by the travelers, for in the cabin were scores of sacks filled to the very mouth with "dust" taken from the placers of the far frozen north. The amount brought in is variously esti mated at from $500,000 to $750,000. There came in on the Excelsior some forty people, among them some women, from what is now known as the Clon dyke district, though only fifteen of these had been actually engaged in min/ing. There were among them men who had been for more than ten years facing the dangers and hardships of the frozen north, in the hope of making a rich find, but who failed. But now they come back with fortunes stowed in their gripsacks and untold millions to be picked up in the country of which so little is known. » The new Eldorado Hee just across the Alaskan boundary, in British ter ritory. It is of recent discovery, but already there are at least 3,000 people on the ground and more are flocking in that direction. Around Forty Mile on the Yukon, is a tribe of Indians known as the Slickers, and Avith them is a man who years ago was known as George Cormack, but who is now call ed "Slick George." In September last, at the head of a party Indians, he left his hut near Forty-Mile camp, and started in a southerly direction, saying he intended to find a new gold field be fore his return. He came back two weeks later and startled the miners with the announcement that forty miles away there was gold to be found in plenty. The streams abounded with the yellow metal, and all that was needed was for somebody to pick it up. Many persons flocked to the place, ami in time the word reached Forty-Milo camp that untold riches could be found along the bottom of Bonanza creek ami its tributaries. Men who had failed at the former camp, immediately packed up and started for thi? new fields. It was a hard and trying journey, but that was nothing with the promise of millions at the end of the route. -^»- STILLWATER NEWS. Wreck t'nnsed by Recent Storms Give* LomsrerH Mucli Trouble. Indications are that it will take some little time to clear up all damage done during the heavy storm and high water the first part of last week, several million feet of logs having floated as far down as Afton and Catfish bar. A large number of men are employed on the broken rafts, and are allied by nearly all of the tug boats owned here. The Ravenna cleared yesterday with a raft English Press Is in a Rage. Comment on the Sherman Bering Sea Dispatch Ex tremely Savage. LONDON, July 15.— The evening newspapers are in a rage over the sharp reply of Secretary Sherman to Lord Salisbury, in the seal controversy. The half-penny journals issue sensa tional placards bearing such lines as "Twisting the Lion's Tail Again," and "America Shrieks at England." The more serious papers deal with the sit uation editorially.. The Pall Mall Ga zette says: "Mr. Sherman's tone is not what it might be, but the nastiest feature of the affair is the publication of the dispatch at all." The Westminster Gazette refers to Mr. Sherman's "somewhat ugly dis patch," and says: "Seals like silver get into American party politics. It is an ugly symptom that setUs should be used to provide the new American govern ment with means for a demonstration against England. The McKinley gov ernment will inevitably disappoint the American jingoes in the matter of silver, and thinks it necessary to clear itself of pro-British suspicions by strik ing a too heroic attitude in the matter of seals." The St. James Gazette says: "The publication is a further demonstration of certain trans-Atlantic methods of diplomacy which may one day involve consequence much mare serious. The real gist of the situation is the fact that the United States considers that kind of language saff. But it is not safe, and after some affront, more or less flagrant, we may some day find that we cannot yield to them; and then INSURANCE EXCITEMENT. MtlWtUtlcee Situation Oully Growing More Complicated. MILWAUKEE, Wis.. July 15.— The situation in fire insurance circles is getting exciting. President Alfred James, of the Northwestern National Insurance company, of Milwaukee, doing business all over the United States, today issued instructions to looal managers and agents in territory from Eastern Ohio to Colorado and from North Dakota and Min nesota to Tennessee to nacet the proposed reduction of from 30 to 60 per rent on all preferred risks authorized by the Western Union. The agents of the Northwestern Na tional are instructed to meet all Bueh re ductions on all business; that Is to reduce the rates on all brick mercantile buildings as well as upon such as come under the head of "preferred" risks. EXPLORE3I BROWER INJURED. Knee iliully Crnnhed While Tenting Wear Sawtell Pea-te. Special to the Globe. HENRY LAKE, Idaho, July 15.— .1. V. Brower, the well known explorer and archaeologist, left Henry Lake recently for th^ Bradley Crater and Missourian Caldafca, was on the 7th of July badly injured in the rig-tft knee by a glancing blow from an ax used in pitching the tent. The camp was above the snow line at of logs for the Standard Lumber company, of Dubuque. Several small lor purehasc'3 were made yes terday by Joseph Zimmerman for Zimmerman & Ives, of Guttenburg, 10. There were no new developments yesterday in the case of the State vs. Charles Goodrich now on trial in the district court. Prospects are that the case will not go to the jury this week. The Knights of Pythias wlil take a trip to Taylor's Falls and the Dalles of the St. Croix this afternoon. It is expected the Graelo Kent will be repaired in time to make the trip. Rapid progress was made in the Goodrich case yesterday afternoon and the closing argument will be made this morning. Annie Neuman was received at the prison yesterday, having been transferred from the reformatory at St. Cloud. She was recent.y sent to the reformatory by the courts In Min napolis for burglary. AWFUL EXPIATION. Neirro Murderer Stumped to Deuth and 111 m liody Murned. FLORENCE, Ala., July 15.— Near West Point, Term., Tuesday afternoon Miss Rene Williams was found brutally murdered in the wood near her home. This afternoon Anthony Williams, colored, her murderer, was captured near Pruitton and tonight he expiated his crime in the streets of West Point in the presence of five hundred people. Williams was riddled with bullets and burned in the streets of West Point, his body being burned to ashe3. Hefore a shot was fired the negro was knocked down and stamped to death. Then the crowd fell back and those who had pistols fired volley after volley at him. The crowd then gathered wood, and bui'.ding a fire over him, watched the ghastly scene until the murderer was only ashes. Ozuiun Continued. WASHINGTON, July 15.— The senate today confirmed the following nominations: Perry M. McLeon, of Georgia, to be consul general at Guayaquil, Ecuador. To be consuls: F. W. Hoddfeld, of lowa, at Trieste, Austria; George J. Gcrrey, of Illinois, at Amsterdam, Netherlands; Edward H. Ozman, of Minne sota, at Stuttgart, Germany; Joseph G. Stephens, of Indiana, at Plymouth, Eng. TIM AXD MIKE-XOXE OF YOU CAN GET IX HERB V XL. ESS WE SEE FIT TO LET YOU. might arise a situation of the gravest peril." + The Daily Mail says editorially: "Un less we get an arbitration treaty the day will come when the unbridled ver biage of a small section of American politicians will magnify petty insult into a pretty war. Secretary Sharman's di&patch is too undiplomatic for Eng lish ears and too hollow for American common sense. In the interests of humanity the iumo.ed all ance bitween Japan and Spain is de irab'.e. Our Yan kee friends want a little blood-letting to bring them to a sensible interna tional policy, and this would best be dene by any hands other than those of England." The Times in an editorial article says: "It is impossible to doubt the authen ticity of the document. It is a mani fest attempt, in offensive language, to fasten upon England a charge of bad faith." The Daily Chronicle thinks Lord Salisbury would be justified in return ing Secretary Sherman's dispatch on the ground that the British government does not receive communications couch ed in such terms. If he does not, it is because American diplomatists as sume a certain liberty of language not used by other countries. The Chronicle proceeds to severely censure the meth ods of American diplomacy and says: "The fact that some nations, like ours, are fortunate in being favored with the presence of a diplomatist who is no less a gentleman in public than in private life, te not sufficient to remove this slur and danger." The Post in an editorial says: "Every indication points to the certainty that Great Britain will be compelled to fight for her existence against the United States as soon as an American govern ment believes that war can be safely begun. In such a situation war can not be averted by justice nor by good will." Rock's Pass, headwaters of the Mis souri. Mr. Richard W. Rock, the noted hunt er and mountaineer, brought the in jured explorer down from the camp with saddle horses, and there is every reason to believe he will soon resume his work. The camping ground where the acci dent occurred was 9.000 feet above the sea, near Sawtell peak, and at the southern extremity of the crater wall, sixteen miles from Henry Lake. CROCKER DYING. Sudden Chanite for the Horse in His Condition. . SAN MATEO, Cal., July 15.—Physi cians have given up all hope for the recovery of Col. Crocker, vice president of the Southern Pacific railway com pany. A sudden change for the worse has set in and his death is expected momentarily. Annandale Can liny«- a Game. Special to *he Globe. NEW PAYNESVILLE, Minn., July 15.— The challenge issued by the Annandale Base Ball club to the team of this place, which was published in the city papers on Mon day, will no doubt be accepted by the team here. Annandale can count on the game of its existence. PRJCE TWO CENTS los thai*. AN OFFENSIVE ALLIANCE AGAINST UNITED STATES. Spain and Japan Preparing for Simultaneous Decla ration Against America. NAVAL DEMONSTRATION PLANNED AGAINST CITIES ON BOTH COASTS. The Story Is Dsnied at Washington, But a Confirma tion of It Is Reported From the American Embassy at Paris. LONDON, July 15.— A dispatch from Paris 'to a news agency here says that inquiry at the American embassy there has elicited a confirmation of the rumor that the governments of Spain and Japan have arranged an offensive al liance against the United States. The terms of the understanding, which is for the mutual protection of Cuba and Hawaii, provide that, in the event of an active aggressive movement on the part of the United States, tending toward interference in Cuban affairs or persistence in the annexation of the Hawaiian islands, both Spain and Japan shall declare war simultaneously against the United States and shall make hostile demonstrations along both the Atlantic and Pacific coast lines of that country. WASHINGTON, July 15.— Little cre dence is placed in official circles here in the statement that the Spanish and the Japanese governments have enter ed into an offensive alliance against the United States for the mutual pratec- Coal Strike Coming to Its Close. Arbitrators Hope to End It Soon on Uniformity Plan. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 15.— This has been a day devoted to hard work on the part of the joint arbitration com mission in their efforts to secure true uniformity in this district, as suggest ed by W. P. Dearm.itt, and all express themselves as well satisfied with the progress made. Two of the largest op erators in the district. W. P. Dearmitt and Francis L. Robinson, have con sented to head the List, and the com missioners feel satisfied that the other operators will soon fall in line. It is claimed by the miners' officials, how ever, that the understanding was that the agreement meant 95 per cent of the output of the district, whereas, it is now said to mean 95 per cent of the operators. They say it will be abso lutely impossible to get 95 per cent of the operators, as there are a great many operators mining on a small scale. President Do.an said that, while he would do all in his power to assist the commissioners to secure the signa tures of the operators to the agree ment, he thought tn^ proposition was a scheme of President Dearmitt's to keep his men at work and prolong the strike. COLUMBUS, 0., July 15.— President Ratchford and Secretary Pierce have issued an official bulletin to the min ers, it being a review of the situation. The bulletin says: Our fight for living wages now covers, In whole o-r in part, eight states of the nUlon. It is a general suspension, and no local set tlements will be authorized or recognized. The second week and the eighth -day of our suspension brings with it greater assur ranec of ultimate victory than any previous day. Our forces are increasing ever hour, our determination is unflinching and our actions are law abiding in every particular. The Eiipply of coal Is fast becoming ex hausted at the various distributing points. Railroads are confiscating shipments, cities are almost without supply; in fact, a coal famine is near at hand. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 15— Foreign coal is beginning to cut quit a figure in the Pittsburg market and the miners' officials recognize its importance. They are, for the time being, satisfied with the small amout of coal that is being dug in the Pittsburg district and from now on will look after what they term outside encroachments. President Patrick Dolan said today that the Cambria and Clearfield men See that the Coupon is In this paper before you buy it. tion of Cuba and Hawaii. Indeed, ec far as could be learned tonight, no in. timation of such an agreement has evei reached the staite department. Secre tary Sherman was indisposed when a reporter called at his house in regard to the matter, but Mr. Day, the firs I assistant secretary, discredited the re« port and regarded it as too Improbable to d/iseuss. "The state department h.is no information concerning the reported alliance," he said, "and I don't belk that there is any foundation for the statement that one has been ent> i ir.'to." * Both the Spanish and Japanese min isters are away from the city. LONDON, July 15.— The Standard'? Madrid correspondent says: "Senoi Canovas del Castillo, the premier, will go to San Sebastian tomorrow to con fer with the queen regent on the rela tions between Spain and the United States and other questions. I under stand that an interesting and delicate correspondence has lately passed be tween the Spanish and American gov ernments regarding Cuba." would undoubtedly join the strike in a few days. He also has hopes of get ting the New York and Cleveland men out. There is very little change in th? situation and it is practically as it has been for the last few days. Quiet reigned today throughout the Pitts burg district, a truce seeming to pre vail pending the outcome of the peacs negotiations. TURKEYS TERMS. They Are Xot Yet Those Dictuteil hy the Powers. CONSTANTINOPLE. July 15.— 1t la understood that the council of ministers today agreed upon a greater reduction in the demands of Turkey for a settle ment with Greece, but still insist, d that all of the passes, Plasson, half oi! the Trikhala district and other terri tory, shall belong to Turkey, while Thessaly shall be evacuated gradually as the installments of the indemnity are paid. DAVIS EXPECTS ANXKXATIOX. Hopes to Get Action on the Treaty This Session. WASHINGTON, July 15.— Senator Pav!s, chairman of the committee on foreign rela tions, said today that he had by no moans abandoned the hope of securing the adoption of the Hawaiian annexation treaty at this session. "There may be an opportunity to bring thi3 matter up in executive sesj-ion." he said, "while the conference committee is at work on the tariff bill, and put it through. At present there are only two or three contest ed nominations, and it is possible that we may have considerable time to give to this subject. It all depends upon circumstance*, however, and if the senate is compelled to devote any amount of time to the considera tion of nominations, the tivaty must go over until next session. The developments of the next few days will settle the matter." m Ku nil ern in Xee«l <>f Aid. AITKIN, Minn., July 15.— There is great loss here from floods. The river is still ris ing and the dams above are all open, in suring the present water so long that the bottom land crops will all be ruined for a distance of fifty miles. The rich bottom lands of the Mississippi have been settled but a few years, and farmers had just begun developments. Las-t year the high water pre vented much a crop, and left many in bad shape. This year, by dint of mortgaging most of their goods, seed was secured, and indications pointed to a bounteous yield, but the rushing waters have swept away all hope, and over 200 families are without the means to sustain life.