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IN TWO PENINSULAS. MICHIGAN PEOPLE AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING. Cako Navigator Ilecomlug Alarmed Over the Low Stage of M ater la the I.nkos Kami I.nke Village Nearly Destroyed ty Fire. I.ir Watrr In tlie I-nkes. Lake levels nre playing somo pecu liar freaks this6pring. From, various reports of, low water mado since the opening of navigation it would seem as if the mean lake levels are a foot below the ordinary stage. Tims far this season continued northerly winds have kept up the stage of water in Chicago harbor to its usual height, but at the foot of Lako Michigan the drop is reported from two to three feet, more especially in Green JIny, whero It is said to bo four feet. At both the Welland canal and the St. Marys canal the limit of draft is materially reduced. Continual strandings on (Jro.sse Pointo, in Detroit river, have piven warning that cargoes must be materially lessened. The capacity of deep draft vessels, which do nearly all the lake commerce, has beeu reduced by the low water from 5 tc 8 per cent. ' Geu. O. M. Poo says: "I don't blamo them for being uneasy. There is a good reason for the" low stage of water, and it will get still lower unless there are abundant general rains soon. Since February 1 the rainfall has been four Inches short of the normal quantity in the entire lake region. Four inches all over the lakes and the country that is drained into the lakes means a con siderable difference in depth. Besides this, there is the evaporation and out flow going on all the time, all of which is lowering the lakes all the time." Sand Lake Suffers a Heavy Fire Every business place and many resi dences were wiped ofl! the earth by lire at Sand Lake. The lire started, probably from a spark from J. E. Uoul's lumber mill, in the livery barn Of Alfred Giddings. It was but a moment when the hotel and adjacent 6torcs wero in llamcs, with no possiblo means of checking the lire. Many people were homeless and without shelter for the night. The loss will run up to about $70,010. MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS. I'.ancroft is dry; saloonkeepers could not get satisfactory bondsmen. "Uncle' Harve Ilob sou, aged 75, and "Miss Lucy Ellison, aged CO, were mar ried at Clarksvillc. Game Warden Hampton has presented the Soldiers' Home at Grand liap'uls with two deer for the "zoo." Phillip Patters(i, aged 58 years, fell under a moving train on the F. & 1 M., at Flint and was crushed to death. Zachariah Taylor, a farmer near Yassar, was ariested on a charge of assault upon Kmma Miner, aged 10. John Morriarity and Frank Conley, aged 11 years, were drowned in the Iiiver Kouge at Detroit while bathing. P Two linemen working on the M. C. railroad near Athens, were poisoner by eating canned beef, but will re cover. Henry Fisher, aged 8, was drowned at Day City, lie was paddling about on a largo plank und fell into the water. Esty & Calkin's sawmill was burned at Finconning. Loss 817,000; partially insured. A lamp in the engine room exploded. Students of the Michigan mining school are getting a little experience by working in the Champion mines Aide by side with the grimy ore-diggers. Georgo II. 1 laugh and his wife of only nine weeks wero drowned off the foot of Twenty-fourth street, Detroit. Their boat upset while they were rowing. West Bay Cit3' aldermen sought to keep the Salvation Army off the street by an arbitrary ordinance. The sol diers kept right on, and Judge Max well has declared the ordinance un constitutional. Alex.- liobertson, of Silver Lake, has been missing since last September. He was 73 years old and demented. Boys fishing in the lake a few days ago Oshed up his body. Bertha Schwab, aged 20, attempted suicide at Traverse Citv. She took half an ounce of laudanum and left a letter saying, "tired of life." She was pumped out and may live. A man apparently about 33 years old was found dead on the Lake Shore tracks at Sturgis. lie was frightfully mangled. Iu a diary the uddress, 11. JI. lhomas, Ugden, la., appeared. An unknown tramp who was refused food at E. F. Armstrong s, at Is lies, tried to assault Miss Myrtle Arm strong, but she- seized a revolver and fired at the fellow. Ho was slightly wounded and lied. Three young men left Chelsea in a wagon for a trip overland to Calfornia They are Ransom Armstrong, West Armstrong and a j'oung man named Beckwith. They go by way of Chicago and will sleep in their wagon. John Swcedyko and Abram Do Meester, each 10 vears of age, were drowned while bathing in Grand river near the I)., G. II. & M. bridge at Grand Rapids. Ihey could not swim and ventured beyond their depth. Mary Liebolt, better known as. Tcssie Lewis, awaiting trial in the circuit court, Ionia, on a charge of keeping a bouse of ill-repute, committed suicide near L-ons by taking ursenic. She preferred death to standing a trial. Miss Mary St. Dennis, an estimable young lady of 18 years, who has been residing with her grandparents ut Monroe, left her home, and a note was found on the bureau, stating she could no longer endure the false stories that were being circulated about her nnd had decided to drown 'herself, Sho bore a 6plendid reputation. Julia Curtis, 23 years old, daughter of a prominent farmer near Traverse City, left homo to gather trailing ar butus in the woods and did not return. Men searched for her all night, and found her body in a swamp A basket by her side contained a two-ounce bot tle of laudanum. Mrs. Ilendrika Gcukes. of Kalama zoo, aged 07, hanged htvself. James Colter, aire 1 10. was drowned while bathing in Muskegon river, near Muskeg.on. Wnodrni? l'armalce was held for trial for the murder of Julia Curtiss at Traverse Citv. Alfmn:i'K villnTn rouncil refused licenses to tha four saloons, but granted j one to a druggist. E. C. Warriner, principal of the F.at- tle Creek high school, has accepted a similar position at Saginaw. John II. Corliss, of Detroit, has ob tained a franchise for an electric road from Jackson to Vundercook lake. John McClellan, aged 21, stole his father's chickens at Battle Creek and now takes his meals at the Detroit house of correction. Peter Iedcrdam, aged 72, was found dead in his dirty little room at Muske gon, lie was a miser worth 420,000, and lived alone. Over C 1,000 was found in his room. Adam C. Arnold, who has been on examination for murdering his son George ut Battle Creek was held for trial to the circuit court on the charge of murder in the first degree without bail. The Michigan Trust company, of Grand Rapids, has been appointed re ceiver of the Buchanan Power and Light company on the ground that the assignee is not properly managing the property. The liabilities arc $'j7,000; the assets, 5100,000. Wyandotte citizens were justly in dignant when it was reported that the bodies of two victims of small pox had been brought from Koekwood and taken to the Old Western hotel on the orders of an undertaker. The hotel has been quarantined. A. P. Crell, of Ionia, claims to have perfected an electric mail car which will revolutionize; the present system of transporting the mails, lie says the car will travel 200 miles an hour, making the trip from New York City to Chicago in live hours. The poultry department is something new at the Agricultural college and is attracting much attention. Before the season closes there will be .100 lively incubator-hatched chicks, and in another j car 1,0.0 will be raised. It is the design to show the farmers that there is money in the business. In Monitor township, five miles from West Rav Citv. live wells have been sunk to determfhe the extent of the bodv of coal that was discovered there last fall. In each hole evidences of gas were discovered and in the last hole a pocket of gas was entered that made a blaze as large as a barrel. The law trivincr villages the omion of suppressing liquor business within their limits will be tested in the su preme court by Chas. E. Shafer, pro prietor of a hotel at Nortliville, whose liquor bonds were refused by the vil lage council. Mr. Shafer contends that a hotel with a barroom attached is not a saloon. Jackson is in the midst of a Francis Murphy temperance revival. The police and the Liquor Dealers' associa tion united in ordering all saloons closed on Sunday, and Tackson was dry. The few saloonkeepers who sold liquor will be prosecuted, lhis is the lirst time in years that Jackson has had a "dry" Sunday. The latest grand jury at Hay City has returned 5 4 indictments. The jurj' roasts the superintendents of the poor who, it is alleged, have conducted their business loosely and sold many goods to themselves contrary to law. Judge Maxwell instructed the county treasurer to collect from each superin tendent the $o0 line which the law speciiies. The residence of Mrs. Oscar Allen, an aged Coopersvillo widow, was bur glarized during her absence. The theives got Sl.;sO0 in gold and bank bills, Sl.'.O in negotiable notes, a lot of silverware, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, two pairs of ladies' shoes and a dress waist. Mrs. Allan did not be lieve in banks and kept her money in the house. A post mortem examination and an investigation into the death of Julia Curtiss, who was found dead in the woods near Traverse City reveal the fact that the girl was about to become a mother and that she had been choked to death, instead of having suicided as at first supposed. Wood Parmalec. an old resident, was arrested on a charge of murder. Rein want's tailor shop, the Commer cial house and Keystone hotel were de stroyed by tire at Mani.stique while Thompson's meat market had to be torn down in order to prevent the spread of the flames. The total loss is about 523,000. The wind was blowing a gale, nnd for a time the entire business portion of the town was threatened. John F. Adrian, of Hertford Station, was arrested on the charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm. The complainant is Miss Io M. Weeks, who recently caused the arrest of Adrian's brother and had him fined on the charge of leaving a dead horse tin buried, lie drew out a pocket-knife and stabbed her in the side. Hut for her corset eho might havo received fatal injuries. Over 3,r00 factory workers are out on a strike at Sheboygan, Wis. Th 400 coatmakers of Baltimore, members of the United (Jarmcnt Makers of America, opposed to the sweating system, are out on strike. A lire destroyed tho large tobacco factory of W. C. McDonald at Montreal, in which 1,000 people, mostly girls, were employed. About 20) girls leaped from the fourth story and 30 were injured, at least 10 of them fatally. The loss was g:00,000. Governor Urown, of Maryland, has written a letter to tho governor of every stato in the union asking them to uso their best endeavors toward obtaining subscriptions for the erec tion of a monument to Francis Scott Key, tho author of the "Star Spangled llanner." A general fctriko among the blast furnace employes In the Sharon, l'a., ection is imminent. They nre not satisfied with tho advance of 10 cents a day all around offered bv tho operators, because the rate is lower than is paid in Newcastle. About 1, .!() men in j Sharon, Middlesex and Sharpsville will probably go out STATE LEGISLATURE. Senate. 71th day Dilla passnd: Amending the Halt shvito law; amending the drain law: tho Mt. Pleasant Normal school bill: providing for a cnmmUniou of three to locutounorm.il school In tho northern iiirt of tlio lower penin sula: impropriating fts.lo i for each of thH nxt two years for current expenses of tho MW-lil-i.'U!i Normal school ut YpniUnil, und :.'.(m) for t u 1 1 1 1 1 r )' u ir.iiiiiiitr ttcbool: appropriating tliM.UJ i for the industrial homo for boys: p.o vidn for tho Mlinir tip of abandoned halt wells: appropriating 1),47. for cottages nt the upper peninsula prison ut Marquette. Uouss oills pushed: Mt. Pleasant normal school bill: relative to records of judicial procnodin.'s in foreitfri countries: 17rt.'M0 appropriation for the SoHiera' Home; providing that decrees In divorce tuses shall not bo issued until :to days utter judgment in such cases is rendered: rela tive to tho examination of witnesses and their competency; appropriating Sii.notl for repairs a. id lor compensation of student labor ut tho Agricultural cohere; authorizing corporations to change their names; amending tho act rela tive to county school examiner and county commissioners of schools: repealing tbo rem nants ot the act of IrtJl establishing a central board for the control of penal and reformatory institutions: appropriating aii.MiO for tho Michi gan i'loiiter and Historical society. Senate. 7th day. Tho township unit school board bill was killed. In committeo of tho wholo tho bill repealing tho Detroit & .saline plan road charter a blow ut plank road companies throughout tho utato was passed. Tlio committee on taxation unanimously ro conuiioiKie I tho passage of tho bill providing that municipal frunchisei shall bo assessed and taxed us other personal property. Com panies paying les;i than 0 per cent dividends are exempt. An adverse report was made by tho judiciary committee on tne bill authorizing the re!e.io of convicts on parole. The Senate passed the general irame protection bill with amendments, inchtUing ono proMbitnig tho shooting of migratory ducks in tne spring. Holm:. The effort to commit the members to an early adjournment was successful, a resolu tion Uxing May l us tho day being adopted f7 to ii. llilis passed: Appropriating tfiu.o.x) for a statue to cx-i lov. Hlair; regulating veter inary practice and creating a commission to supervise such practice: appropriating floo.'.MO tor Improvements and cum nt expenses at tho industrial homo for girls: prohibiting the ex posure of poisons in such a way as to endanuer tho lives of unimais: reforming tho system under whicti stato publications uro issued. Senate. 7r.th day. rroviding that Detroit public school teachers, after 2 years' service, may retire on a pension of ?10) per year nnd creating a retirement fund from which to pay such pensions: for tho licensing of hawkers and peddlers: relative to Infants under guard ianship; amending act re.ativo to fraternal beuo.iciary societies; regulating l!hing in Sagiiiaw river and bay; relative to fees in the ofllec of tne secretary of ftato; relative to tho admission of pauper children to tho school nearest tno poorhouse; placing building and loan associations under the supervision of the commissioner of insurance. The bill was also passed to cbango the costiy system of county canvassers by providing that tho can vasses shall bo made by a commission of live tho presiding circuit Judgo, the pro bato judge, two county uuditors with the longest term to servo und one member of the board of supervisors. The bill was umended to apply only to Wayne eouuty for the present. Tho judiciary committeo favorably reported the bill prescribing that in cities of M.oihi or more inhabitants there shall bo police matrons to look after female offenders In custody. 1 lot's k Among the bills passed wero these: For tho protection of tish and encouraging the propagation thereof : regulating legal proceduro in tne case of assignments for tiio bencrlt of creditors and making such assignments void unless tho same shall bo without preferences bet ween creditors. The most of the day was spout iu committee of the whoic. Senate. 77th day Tho vote by which the bill was passed providing a new system of conducting county canvasses was reconsidered and reterred lU'ain to the jud.ciury committee. In committee of the whole a bill was agreed to pronioitiiig tne killing of polecats between April ana November. 11 r-r. The House passed two bills, uuthori :in ; tho establish ment of a munic. pal reform .school in Detroit, und compiling cert a la classes of juvenile offenders to receive instruction in an ungraded curriculum, in committeo of the whole there wero several hot contests. The bill designed to prohibit fences composed wholly of barb wlro on lines between farms, encountered a stubborn opposition, nnd the committee only ordered it printed. Tho bill providing that patrol wafons shall be covered vehicles was agreed to. Tho b.ll was taken up regulating tne employment of women und children in manufacturing establishments, and to provide for the inspection of factories. The provisions of this bill are not nearly as stringent as the requirements of the existing law In many par ticulars, as it places within the discretion of tho factory Inspectors many requirements wnich were made mandatory. The action rela tive to providing exhaust lans for tho purpose of carrying o:i dust from emery wheels wher ever deemed necessary by the inspector was stricken out, although existing law requires such fans in all cases. The section re-enacting a clause of tho present law, so as to make it mandatory ou prosecuting attorneys to prose cute to u tinlsh complaints preierred by tho factory in: poetor or any other person, was also modified no as to make it optional with prosecutors. Can ning factories, which operate during a ery short setson of the year, were exempted from the provisions of the bill. The sect ion prohib iting the employment of children under II years of ago In factories was stricken out. but further sections rc julre the consent of parent or guardian. The existing law requires such persons to attend school lor a certain number of months each year. Tho original appropria tion for factory Inspectors In the bill authorized the expenditure of .VJ.irtX). This was cut to ;K.ut)0 bv the Senate and was still further re duced by the ways and means committee of the Housh io S l.ooo. Th M-cUon re piiring the use of automatic openings ut elevator snaftswai stricken out, but the bill as it stands imposes tne duty of seeing that siu h shufts are ade quately secured. Hills agreed to: Prohibiting the killing of beaver until November. iMl ; to prohibit killing mink, otter und muskruts ex cept during t;.o months of September and ( H tober; lor the appointment by tho governor of a commission ot three to rcvUo all the laws relative to private corporations, their report to be submitted to tho next legislature. At Henderson, 111., Fred Conkhito was killed bv lightning during a storm, and at Fast i'rairie, 111., Herman Spandikow and his hon met the same fate. James Herbert, a clerk, killed his wife by cutting her throat with a razor nt New York City. Then he ll"ed from the house and his body was hauled out of East river with the throat cut. Jealousy was the cause of the double trugedy. News has been received from Kodiak island, Alaska, on the steamer Alki, that the bteamer George U. White, of Seattle, was wrecked in a gale on April 14. Seventeen of tho crew were either drowned or frozen to death. Fight reached shore. A cloudburst at Ilcrrington, Kas., converted Lime creek into a raging torrent, and houses, horses, cattle and hogs were swept down ttrcam. Tho house of Sumuel Mc.Manus was also carried away and wrecked by striking a bridge, and Mrs. McManus was drowned. Tho steamer N. K. Fairbank, from Chicago to Ogdensburg, with 50,000 bushels of corn, ran ashore on Mor gan's l'oint, nine miles west of Port Colborne, Ont. The boat caught fire and was burned up. The vessel was valued at ? 30,000 and tho cargo about tho same, and both were insured. She was owned by J. XV. Moore, of Cleve land. It is stated, upon what seems to be pretty pood authority, that Secretary (ircsham has been offered tho presi dency of the Pullman Palace Car com pany, and has an inclination to accept the position. The salary, of course, would be much better than that ho is receiving at tho present time, and it need create no surprise If Mr. Pullman retires and Greshatn Is elected to suc ceed him. The Hippie house, a hotel and saloon at Ilroad Kipple, a suburb of Indian apolis, was wrecked Vy a natural gas explosion. Four men wero fatally burned. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS CniEF CHRONICLE OF VARIOUS OCCURRENCES. Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, Missouri und Illinois Visited by Awful Cyclones and Scverul Towns Devastated I' ully 10O I'eople Killed. Dispatches from Sioux City, la., Hal stead, Kas., and other western towns, tell of frightful destruction of life by a series of cyclones which visited sev eral states. Telegraphic communica tion was so interrupted that it was somo time before the damage could bo estimated with any degree of accuracy. The storm, widespread as it was, ap pears to have beeu a true cyclone in places and in other parts of its terri tory partook more ol the nature of a tornado, and in others, even where tlamago was considerable, was not more than a gale of wind, with severe hail and rain. The severest cyclone had its course for 13 or 13 miles in Sioux county, la. The same storm, or another one, touched at Sibley and did great damage there. In South Dakota, even where there was severe destruction, there appears to have been no real cyclone with the swirliug funnel-shaped clouds. From Sioux Center and other places in Sioux county, estimates como that no less than L'6 have been killed and two or three times as many injured. As tho path of destruction was alto gether in tho country, detinito infor mation is dillicult to get. Everett Arnold, aged 17, was struck by light ning and killed at Creston. North of lreton, George and Anna Marsden were killed. Tho schoolhouses in which they wero teaching, two miles apart, were demolished. Four miles north of Sioux Centre "7 homes were demolished. A curious feature of the cyclono was tho accompaniment of electrical violence and many deaths by lightning aro reported. The towns of Sioux Center, lreton, Orango City, Perkins, Doon, Hull, Sheldon, Alton, Ashton, Sibley and EeMars wero in the path of tho cyclono and all were damaged more or less. The storm was followed by furious wind and rainfall. A pitiful feature of tho disaster is the number of youthful lives lost. Three school houses near Sioux Center wero destroyed, while school was in progress, and at each one from three to ten children were killed or injured. Many of the children were carried from n quarter to a half a mile before they were dropped. Two little daugh ters of John Koster, a farmer near Sioux Center, were picked up as they wero leaving the school house and dashed into a wire fence, where both wero killed. The two sons of C. II. Haggle, at the same school house, had their legs broken and received other injuries, from whidi they will die. In Osceola county, la., Mrs. John Watterman was killed. A joist fell on her neck. She held her baby in her arms, and the baby escaped injury. John Coughlin, wife and ten children were all saved bv taking refuge in a cyclone cave. They lost their house, household goods, barn and had a horse killed. The village of St. Charles, 111., was visited by a cyclone with fatal results. The old stone postotlico building, oc cupied by Mrs. Church as a millinery, store, was blown down and Mrs. Church was killed. Two young ladies had apartments in the building and one of them, who is missing, is sup posed to be in the ruins; the other, Miss Augusta Anderson, was killed. The falling walls caught and killed a passing horse, and the driver was seri ously injured. A fearful cyclone devastated a strip of country several hundred j-ards wide and at least 10 miles in length, near Halstead, Kas., killing 10 persons out right and seriously injuring several others, while many have received slight injuries. Twenty-four houses and one school were completely de molished, and but for the cyclone cel lars of the farmers tho death list would have been very large. Dead stock was scattered everywhere. The loss in that locality is fully 5300,000. Sutherland, la., Manitowoc, Wis., and Neillsville, Wis., were visited by death-dealing cyclones, and in each place no less than live houses were de stroyed and from two to five lives sac rificed. In summing up tho results of these storms a careful estimate places the number of lives lost at 103. The prop erty damage can only be roughly guessed at. Probably So00,000 would cover it. Make a State of the Mosquito Country. Washington: The Niearaguan gov ernment has done away with th Mos quito reservation, which has been tho cause of recent trouble, and has incor porated it as a Ftate with the name of "Department of Zelaya," after the president of the republic. Ofilcials are turning their attention to what Great llritain will do toward Nicaragua's course in creating tho new state and thus indirectly terminating all liritish authority of influenco in the old Mos quito country. Faithless Wife-Double Murder. Archie llrown, the son of the gov ernor of Kentucky, and Mrs. Fulton Gordon, a woman of famous beauty and prominent because of her family connections, were shot and killed after a desperate struggle, by Fulton Gordon, tho wronged husband, at Louisville, Ky. Gordon found tho guilty pair oc cupying a room together in a houso of ill repute and fired six bullets into Urown and three into Mrs. Gordon. A fierce fire is raging in the woods on the bluffs south of llaraboo, Wis., and considerable property has been destroyed. The aphis, an insect of tho family hemipoora, is playing havoc with young wheat in California. Hundreds of acres are ruined. James Young shot and killed his wife at IIoosierTllle, Ind. He then drovo to llrazil went to the court house and shot himself dead. One of the powder mills of tho American Powder company at South Acton, Mass., blew up. A few minutes later a second mill situated 100 yards distant also exploded. Firo caused by the explosion spread to the third mill, and in a few minutes it was also de stroyed. Five persons wero killed. ECHOES OFTHE EASTERN WAR. Japan AVIU Make Concessions to Satlsf the Towers, but ltussla, YVaut More. Washington: Information has been received to show that, in responso to Russian intimations, Japan has abated her claims to tho cession of Chinese territory in Manchuria, and now offers to demand only the absolute cession of the extremity of the Port Arthur pen insula as far north as and including Talienwan. In return for this re linquishment of territory Japan will demand a considerable increase of the war indemnity originally lixed at 200, 000,000 taels. It is feared that this concession will not be sulllcient to meet tho demands of Kussia. which will insist upon an entire abandon ment of tho Lao Tung peninsula. The Russian reasoning is that ly the occu pation of Port Arthur tho Japanese will dominate Manchuria as effectually as if she held tho nominal title to the province. It would also bo impossible for Russia to locate a western ter minal port for tho Siberian railroad anywhere in Manchuria as it would bo easily closed at a moment's notice by the Japanese from their powerful base at Port Arthur, which would dominate from a military point of view not only Manchuria nnd the Gulf of Pechili, but also Wei-Hai-Wei, only 10 miles across the straits. Japan would also bo in a position to control the commerce of Manchuria. Mr. Poultney Iligelow, ono of tho best posted writers on European politi cal questions, has written a splendid articlo setting forth the reasons for the attitudo of the various powers. It nifty bo summed briefly as follows: Russia wants the territory which the Japs have won; Germany's ruler de sires to secure a friendship with Russia and cause a coolness between that country and France; the republic of Franco weakly supports Russia's de mands because of other entanglements with her; John Hull does not wish to incur the displeasure of either side, and Cnclo Sam is always neutral in foreign scraps. BRITISH LEAVE CORINTO. Nicaragua and (ireat Itrltaln Come to an Agreement at Last. Managua: The Rritish and Nieara guan governments have reached an agreement, thanks to the good ofllces of the United States, and the liritish marines have evacuated the port of Coriuto. Nicaragua has agreed to pay the S77,r00 demanded by Great liritain for the expulsion of pro-Consul Hatch and for other alleged damages to Rritish subjects arising from the recent troubles in tie Mosquito reser vation, but instead of paying the money at the cannon's mouth, as the Rritish government originally de manded should be done, she will pay it in London 1.1 days after the last vessel of the liritish licet withdraws from Coriuto. Two of the three ves sels promptly left the harbor after the marines were on board, but tho Royal Arthur remained. The action of San Salvador in guar anteeing the payment of the indemnity as, in faet. her course throughout tho whole dispute, is very favorably com mented upon in oflicial circles and it is believed that an entente will be estab lished that will lead to results benefi cial to both countries. It would not be at all surprising if this trouble with Great Rritain should result in the formation of an alliance between the Central American states for defensive and commercial purposes. In fact President Zelaya ha3 received numer ous letters from neighbor states sug gesting a commercial union. Not for j-cars has there been such unanimity of opinion among tho Spanish-American republics. Mora Trouble In Nicaragua. New York: A cable from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, says fighting has begun in Granada, Nicaragua. Disorder is also reported from Leon. The Hondurian troops concentrated at Capo Gracias will remain there, as it is feared that the threatened outbreak on the Mos quito reservation may extend here. Gen. Ronilla will take 4,000 men and go to President Zelaya's aid if requested. Washington: The fact that tho rev olution is along the east shore is re garded as significant. This is tho Mosquito region in which Rritish in iluence has long been dominant. It has been apprehended by Central American diplomats that if the Mos quito natives made further trouble it would alTord opportunity fjr further Rritish intervention and probably un attempt to restore Chief Clarence. Japan Surrenders the Fruits of Victory. Tokio: Japan precipitate aban dons all Manchuiih. Even the whole peninsula of Liao Tung, including Talienwan and Port Arthur, is to be given up. It is doubtful whether there will be any increase in the cash indem nity. The facts are being kept secret here, but when the truth becomes known a universal public revulsion is certain. The present ministry is as suredly doomed. The government is anxiously guarding tho foreign en voys. The diplomatic situation is unparalleled. Tho American op portunity is immeasurable. It is apparently not realized at Wash ington that supremo influence in the east for the next half century is eafily obtainable through prompt, energetic action. Tho ratification of the treaty by China is still deferred but is promised. Che Foo: The warships of several ol the powers are fast assembling here. The situation is regarded as ominous. Already eight Russian warships includ ing three torpedo boats have gathered here and more are expected. In addition another Rritish, French and American and two German warships have ar rived. Toulon: The French cruisers Sfax and Cecille will accompany the French crvisers Tage and Suchet to China seas. Thoy wero loaded with ammuni tion and provisions. ' Stockholders of the T., A. A. A N. M. railway filed a petition in tho U. S. court at Toledo to annual tho recent foreclosure sale of that road to R. C. Martin for 5300,000. Tho petition claims that the consolidated mortgage which was foreclosed was never prop crl.7 authorized by the stockholders, and that it and the bonds it socuret aro absolutely void; hence the sale under it is null. Isaac Jope, night clerk at the First Avenue hotel, Pittsburg, was found murdered in the basement of the hotel. Ho had been beaten on tho head with an iron bar and robbed. FOREIGN. The Rritish warships have evacuated Corlnto. The indemnity demanded by Enjrland will be paid In fifteen days. There seems little doubt that China and Japan have both ratified the treaty of Shlmonosekl, which complicates tho position of the 1'uropean powers. Ja pan's answer to the protest of Ilursla, France and Germany has been made. The officials will not disclose the text, but those officials who expected Japan to yield express surprise at the answer. The return of George Nathaniel Cur zon and his bride, formerly Miss Letter, of Washington, has caused general re joicing among the people at Mr. Cur zon's estate, Kedlestone, near Derby. Lady KImberley, wife of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is dead. She was a daughter of Richard Hobart. third Earl of Clare, a title which is now extinct. She was married to the Earl of KImberley In 1874. The leading event socially in Derlln has been the opening of the Art Exhi bition by Dr. Uosse, the Minister of Public Instruction, representing tha Emperor. The American exhibit U placed separately in two large halls, and is universally conceded to outshine the rcFt. even the French section being eclipsed. A revolution Is threatened In Nicar agua on account of the government ac ceding to the demands of England. SPORTINQ NOTES. The trotting association organized at Elyrla, Ohio, .will give a June meeting. The Woodstock Driving Park asso ciation has been organized with A. S. Wright as president and George Itlch ards as secretary. The first meeting will occur June 26 and 27. Frank Dwyer, champion heavyweight wrestler of Grand Itaplds, Mich., chal lenges any wrestler in the west except Whitman and McLeod to meet him be fore the Elwood Athletic club for a for feit 1 he falls to throw his opponent three times in an hour. Jake Kllraln's friends are putting up their money on hfs ability to best Steve O'Donnell in the coming contest, May 6. before the Seaside Athletic club at Coney Island. The Baltimore pugilist now weighs but 21S pounds, and by tha day of his fight he expects to be down to 200. CASUALTIES. J. II. rirlno and wife of Williams burg, Colo., were killed In a runaway near Ilockvale, in that state. Two engines were wrecked but no lives lost In a head-end collision of freight trains at Albla, 111. Luther Smith, 21. while stealing a ride on the cowcatcher of an engine at Logansport. Ind., was killed. Clarence Hough of Sandwich, 111., was was klled by being kicked over the dashboard by the horses he was driving. The steamer I. W. Nicholas, down bound, went ashore on Caribou Island. She had to Jettison considerable flour before she was released. It Is thought the amount was about l.COQ Jarrels. The boat is not injured. Forest fires are causing grave un easiness In Pennsylvania. Many towns are threatened with destruction. Victims of the Iowa cyclone were burled with much solemnity Sunday. Ten lives were lost by drowning in various parts of the country Sunday. The grocery store and bakery of J. H. Shadrlck & Son at Anna, 111., was burned, causing a loss of $3,500, Insured for $3,000. The family lived over the store and barely escaped. The steamer Porter, which was sunk oft the piers at Ludlngton, Mich., was pumped out and towed Into the harbor. Sioux county, Iowa, was the center of a cyclone that wrecked houses and barns and laid farms waste. Two school houses were blown down and many children killed. It is feared two hundred lives have been lost. The Mississippi steamboat E. Ti.' Wheelock ran into a snag seventy-five miles above New Orleans and was sunk. No lives were lost. The boat Is valued at $10,000. LABOR NOTES. Ohio miners are steadily holding out for an Increase in wages. The molders strike in Cleveland, O., has ended, every shop In the city hav ing fully conceded the advance ot wages demanded by the men. Milwaukee union street railway em ployes have asked for u. 20-per cent in crease in wages. There is talk of a strike if the increase is nofgranted. The plumbers and fitters' strike at Racine was settled. The Master Plumb of eight hours work a day and fixed the of eight hours' work a day and fixed the scale of wnges at $3 and $2.50 per day. Notices have been posted at all the blast furnaces in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys of an advance in wages from 15 to 20 cents a day In com pliance with a promise that wages would b- restored to their old place as Boon as the times warranted it. CRIME. Thlllp Stabler was arrested In Can ton, O., for making the molds used in the recent counterfeiting there. He confessed. Clara Ford, who has been on trial at Toronto charged with the murder last October of Frank Westwood In Tark lale, Ont.. was acquitted. James Henry Is the name of the man vho is being sought for by the United States marshals in Colorado and who s wanted In connection with the loot ng of bullion from the Carson mint. Dr. Samuel P. Schwlng killed Dr. ;mllo Ilerlat at New Orleans. The al 'ged infidelity of Mrs. Schwlng led to he tragedy. Further bloodshed among Natives of the men Is feared. United States deputy marshals are oklng in Colorado for the assayer, vho, it is paid, escaped from Carson, s'ev., with $SO,000, stolen from the mint. Ie Is thought to havo been at Kokomo, "oo., about five weeks ago. Conrad Fay, a retired farmer while isane, killed himself at Ottumwa, Iowa. Homer Cruco while intoxicated shot nd killed Taul Johnson, 16, at Bedford, nd. W. S. Refse, editor of the Journal at Kearney, Neb., has been arrested, hargod with forging county warrants. James Main, 75, committed suicide at Clinton, Iowa, by cutting his throat. He was dispondent because ot Ill-health. Tho grand Jury at Charlotte, Mich., has returned Indictments against tnlrty elx men of the county for violating the local option law and keeping gambling houses.