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«AWSV ITEMS PICKED UP THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. ■■ - Ballings and Doings of the Official Heads of the Government. Under the call of Chairman Bayers, {fee subcommittees of the house com ittee on appropriations in charge of - wM pension and fortifications bills, 3K* at the capital Thursday. r The proposed new treaty between Ikpaa and the United States was jpguml by Secretary Gresham ahd minister Korino, Friday morning, and M1I be sent to the United States senate §Nr ratification on its reassembling on Bwoember 3d. ’ It is understood in Washington that jnveril southern railroad companies, mntong others the Southern railway sgpatem, the Georgia railroad and the Month Carolina railway, have been making inquiries as to the require¬ ments necesssry to enable snch com paaiee to transport goods in bond te the Atlanta exposition. The navy department has an official cablegram announcing that the Chi¬ nese battleship, Chen Yuen, the most formidable vessel in the Chinese navy, was damaged by s torpedo on leaving Wei-Hai-Wei, on the 18th instant, and was beached, and is now useless. Commodore Lin, in command of the 0hen Yuen, committed suicide after Me disaster. Tbe oonrt of appeals of the District if Columbia has granted a motion of counsel for Chapman and Maartney, indicted as recalcitrant sugar trust Fitnesses, for sn appeal from the Jeoent decision of Judge Cole, bolding that they are liable to punishment for • refusal to answer questions put by the senate committee. The date for hearing the arguments oh the appeal has not yet bedn fixed. Pension Commissioner Lochren has explained bis estimates to the house appropriations sub-committee having -eharge of. the pension appropriation hill, and it was virtually decided to frame* tbe bill socording to the esti saates hetotofore made public by the pension commissioner, except that tbe Item of surgeons’fees will be reduced from $1,000,000 to $800,000. Mr. Lochren has modified his previous estimate on this item. The pension bill for the next fiscal year, as it will ha framed, wiU carry $141,381,670. Tbe postofflee department is satisfied Ski last with the character and appear¬ ance of the 2-cent stamps which are be¬ ing and turned oat by the burean of print¬ ing engraving. Friday the stamp that agaat of the department reported the new stamps are satisfactory. They or* properly old-time gammed and the Mr. eolor Kerr is •f tbs deep red. Oraig, the third assistant postmaster general, who has charge of matters per¬ taining to postage, said that greatly hastens ad orders for stamps from all parts of the oonntry showed that Bnsi reviving rapidly. As far as the treasnry department is 'iknaed no gold was withdrawn from Naw York snb-treasnry Wednes The Less gold reserve stands gold at $67, ,000. than $900 in has bo Car beea paid this month at New York foe anatom duties, which duties for days havs amounted to $4, ,$600 in excess of the oorre poadiag period last year. A mistake ras made by Treasurer Jordan Tuee kay in transmitting by telegraph New York tbe Mid withdrawn from the nbtreaaary. An item of $400,000 was Hpwlai. The gold withdrawn was kl,200,000, not $1,600,000, as stated. Mmelal Notwithstanding Mr. Cleveland’s ft massage and bis effort to side Mek silver, it has already become ap wrent that the silver men of both the intend to make a Kt effort to put through a free coin Mil at this session of oongreas and to the white house for • approval or veto. Mr. has written push to Washington that is to the silver bill with m. bran Judge Holman, of In* interviewed on the y» free silver will moo in the campaign of * dsaaoorstio party,” said . otherwise than da* the unlimited coinage of the at the present ratio, only can we win.” ry department circular ij 13th, inviting pro- 16,000 United States 6 on a 8 per cent, basis, offioe opened Saturday retary’s IS o'clock, st tire treasury it at noon, to the >f Secretary Carlisle, Asdat tory Curtis aad Chief Hunt end currency di¬ « clerks, represen name of the heavy bidders, The r ranged from $50 to $10, datod £Ld*»rfiJ» February • paid for to i)meats, or in at ’.to soon as he .M adtfe. ft* 1 .1 X • d «cmm of #l*.«s*,«7d. Prior July 1892, the gold reserve wee little effected by withdrawals of coin, there never having been considerable demand for the re¬ demption of notes. Even where gold .exports were heavy the metal was - famished by bankers from their vaults or was obtained from the treasnry. as gold certificates, of coarse, without impairment to the re¬ serve fund. During the last two years, however, the treasury hna been called upon to furnish ne irly the whole of the requirements for exportation, and ■ b ,rpcnnriv been considerable withdrawals for other uses. The two important events of the public year affecting the condition of the debt were the issue of 860,000,000 of Q. per cent bonds to replenish the Rold reserve and the stoppage of the purchase of silver bullion by the issue of treasury notes. A NOVEL UNDERTAKING. A Great Company Furnishes its Em¬ ployes Free Medical Attendance. William L. Doudas, President of the W. L. Douglas Shoe Co., has always bad n groat personal interest in the ar ny of menan l women who inhabit the gnat fac¬ tory at Montello, Ma«s, H<*isairreat be liever lit the idea that manufacturers should hare this personal interest in the condition of their employes, and feels that i* the ilea Is carried out to the extent t’>at it possible, aklng that it Will resu t ultimately in the br down o' the barriers which have been built up b“t ween employers an I those wnom they err.p'ov. Dougins Is satisfied that scheme Sir. and a he has helms originated isa good on", now put it to pr tetie ti t<‘St. A few days ago he handed lo every p-TSun in his employ— and they form a small army—a card, which entitled the bearer “to|uH and fr -e me lieal attendance while employed by the W. and L. Douglas Shoe Company. A competent sktl ul physician will be »t the private office o the company at 12 tn„ daily, except Sun¬ day* and holiday*. If said employe should • >e detained at home by sickness, the phy¬ sician will give full and free medical attend¬ ance there.” the Blank spaces are left in the eard for name and res’dence of the employe, and it is si ne l by Mr. Douglas, as President ot tbe W. L. Douglas Shoe Company. The condi¬ tions printed on the curd are as follows: “The physician will not make visits outside the city limit*. This ticket is not transfer¬ able, and does not apply to the family of tbe employe, and must be relurned as soon ns the term of employment ceases. This privi¬ lege is a free gut of the company and Is no part of the contract for wages, and may be male void by the company, at its own Option, without notice.” A doctor him been engaged to attend sitk employes, and everything that medical skill can accomplish will be done for them dur¬ ing Illness. Illustration of the plan. This Is doubtless a practical appreciated by the hun¬ It will be dreds who receive the cards. Mr. Douglas bell ves there are hundreds of workingmen and woMtingwomen who lin t a doctor's bill a great burden alter a period of enforced idleness,land feel that that if their this is employer litted from is inter¬ them they must them in ether than ested in some way just sim¬ ply to get all the work he can for as lit¬ tle money a* he oan. Mr. Dougin* says also that there are men and women who keep at work when it would be better for their health If they laid off a day or two and received medloal attendance, Then again they will now feel free to consult the doctor tor slight tronbles, whioh heretofore they would not do because of the oost. Spanking of the W. L. Douglas 8hoe Co., It may be said further that In tbelr factory’ the principle of arbitration Is recognized. Mr. Douglas is a firm believer establishment in tbe principle of and has been since the tne State Board of Arbitration. The Arm obliges every employe to sign an agreement to sub¬ mit any Uwakreement that may arise, and Which cannot be settled by the interested parties, to tbe State Board of Arbitration, the dcoision 01 that Board to be Anal. NOT IN FAVOR. The Agricultural Department is Op¬ posed to Roddey’s Plan. The officials of the agricultural de¬ partment at Washington do not look with favor upon the Roddey plan, adopted at Atlanta, Ga., for the pur pone of restricting the outpi ut of ootton and thereby increasing th e valne of that staple to producers. In the sec¬ retary's report last year a strong plea was made for a redaction in tbe acre¬ age and it is understood that tbe sec¬ retary will renew that appeal in bis forthcoming building report. The up of an enormous reserva of cotton, snch as wonld result from the setting aside of one bale in every five gathered, would, the officials say, be a most powerful agency for the “bears,” who are constantly seeking to pull down the price of ootton, and the remit would be the same as that growing oat of the constantly over estimated invisible supply of wheat Those who have studied the question assert that the knowledge of the fact that this reserve supply of ootton was in existence would tend to keep the prioe down. The whole plan is, they believe, baaed upon a false premise. The only remedy the eottoo grower has is, they say, to be fonnd in the diminution of the acreage of ootton, and the. cultivation of other crops to alternate with ootton. By be this reduced means only oan the ootton crop ana the valne increased._ THE BROWNS ACQUTTIED. aad His Two Sons Were Trial for Murder. Tbe trial of Simon Brown and hie two eons for the murder of Constable Gribbeo, wee finished at BleekviUe, a a, Saturday and resulted in aa ae quitted for all of tike The jury out for fifty minutes and only to jury was at all dit¬ to a verdict of guilty Th.^ Ol the in to to the of _ BRIEF TELEGRAMS. A CONDENSATION OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT DISPATCHES. Short and Crisp Morsels of General Interest to Our Readers. ** The Italian parliament haft been con¬ voked for December 3rd, by royal de¬ cree. j General Nelson A. Miles, on Wed nesdsy, took command of the depart¬ ment of tbe east. A private dispatch received at Lon¬ don from India says that the condition cf Lord Randolph Churchill is very unsatisfactory. The foot and mouth disease has broken out among cattle at Falmouth and SiUingbourne, England, and the boards of agriculture have been notifi¬ ed of its existence. Relief funds for the earthquake suf¬ ferers have been opened throughout Italy and the military commanders in the afflicted districts have been order¬ ed to give every assistance to the suf¬ ferers by providing them with tents, bread, etc. At Barcelona, Spain, Salvator Franch, the chief conspirator in the bomb throwing plot which resulted in tbe death of thirty persons and the wound¬ ing of eighty others in the Lyceum theatre.# little more than a year ago, was executed Wednesday morning. Fart of a freight train on tbe Santa Fe road went through a trestle be¬ tween Blum and Kopperi, Tex.,Thurs¬ day. The engine passed over the bridge safely. It is not known wheth¬ er any of the train creyr were injured. Several cars were destroyed by fire. Advices of Thursday from Yokohama state that the Chinese Pie Yang squad¬ ron is reported to have shelled the Japanese troops marching on Port Ar¬ thur. A desperate battle between the Chinese and Japanese fleets is said to have followed. The result of the en¬ gagement is not known. Upon complaint of tbe “Committee of Seventy,” Governor Flower has no¬ tified John R. Fellows to show cause why he should not be removed from the offioe of district attorney of New York county for neglect of duty. The complaint is made by Preble Tucker, Fulton McMahon, Charles Taber, R. W. G. Welling and Clarence Goodby, of New York. Governor Fishback, of Arkansas, in answer to an invitation to join the sil¬ ver party, to be organized at St. Lou¬ is, wrote a letter to the chairman of the Bi-metallio League, in which he said: “I will not follow any set of im practicables into a new party. The democratic party is the only one through which we can ever secure free and unlimited coinage of silver.” A New York special says: Professor Charles A. Briggs has issued his latest book, “The Messiah of the Gospel.” It has been ready for publication sinoe 1887, but he delayed giving it to the public, owing to the heresy trials through which he has passed in the past few years. The book will attract greater attention than any he has written, and for a time will set all orthodox Christians almost wild. Captain Philip B. Cooper, the new superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Md., issued an order, which was read to the battalion of cadets, condemning hazing and announcing that in the future ex¬ ecutive clemency will not be exercised in behalf of those dismissed for this offense. Acting on the assumption that each student will tell the truth, the signing of conduct reports certify¬ ing to having told the tinth will be diaoontinned in the fnture. An Omaha special says: The repub¬ lican fight for the United States sen atorsbip has become very fierce and bitteT. Senator Manderson has no following for re-election. The lead¬ ing candidate is John M. Thurston, of Omaha, general solicitor of the Union Paoifio. The other candidates are Governor Ciounse, ex-Senator Pad dock, Church Howes, Tom Majors, inti defeated for governor; .G. M. Lambertson, of Linoolti, ex-assistant secretary of the treasury, and John L. Webster, of O mah a. Mayor Gilroy, of New York, has ap¬ pointed Congressman Amos J. Cum¬ mings subway commissioner to snooeed Theodors Moss, whose term has ex¬ pired; Jsoob Moss sabway commis¬ sioner to snooeed himself and 8. Kearney to snooeed Walter Storm, term expired. The term of the com¬ missioners is three years and the sal¬ aries are $5,000 a year. The mayor ako appointed Joseph B. Smith, M. Dennet to snooeed Solomon whose term is nine years and the salary $8,000 a year. The seven miners eharged with spiney to barn, end burning the tip¬ ple at tbe Paine mines, Ridgeway,Pa., tost Jane during the strike, were found ty to tbe eharge c* ‘ nnder a building, i all - Frank Was Of 72 _ --------- <*» -i x - 1 •. A BOOKK BKP EE GOBS WRONG. He Steals *854,000 From the Shoe end Leather Bank. John M. Crane, the president of the National Shoe and Leather bank, at New York, gave out the following statement at the bank Saturday after¬ noon: “To the Public—A bookkeeper of this bank has disappeared, and the re¬ sult of a thorough investigation, made at our request by tbe national bank examiner, has proven him a defaulter to the amount of $364,000, to meet which the directors have called on the stockholders for an assessment suffi¬ cient to amply cover any deficiency. We append a statement by the clear¬ ing bouse committee. “John M. Cbanb, President.” The clearing house committee, which visited the bank, makes the following statement: “The recent examination of the af¬ fairs of the National Shoe and Leather bank by the national bank examiner developed a defalcation by of $354,000, and upon investigation the clearing house committee this loss is confirmed. The committee is unanimous in the opinion that notwithstanding this loss, the bank is in a Bound condition and able to pay its depositors. “George F. Baker, “W. W. Sherman, “E. H. Pkbkins, Jb., “C. G. Williams, “Committee.” The following officers were present and have pledged, the bank their as¬ sistance if required: George F. Ba¬ ker, F. D. Tappen, C. G. Williams, H. W. Cannon, J. Edward Simmons, E. H. Perkins, Jr., and W. A. Nash. Piesident Crane, of the defrauded bank, in speaking of the affair, said: “The defaulting book-keeper is Sam¬ uel C. Seley, of 422 Halsey Btreet, Brooklyn. He has been in the employ of the bank for the last fourteen years and was one of our trusted employes. On last Friday afternoon Seley applied for a leave of absence over Saturday, promising to return Monday morning. A substitute was put to work on his books on Saturday and as Seley failed to appear on Monday morning the same substitute resumed work on tbe books. These were discovered to be in such a condition that an examina¬ tion of them was immediately made by the officers of the bank. “This was finished and the amount of the defalcation known by Tuesday night. On Wednesday we sent for the national bank examiner, E. 8. Kim¬ ball, who finished his labors and veri ified our statement this morning. Seley was guaranteed by the United States Guarantee Company for $7,600 and the officers of that company con¬ sidered him one of their best risks. Seley was a man of very quiet habits. He has a wife and two children. The whereabouts of Seley are unknown. His wife is prostrated by the shock of his crime and subsequent flight. She is very ill, we have been told.” The fact has developed that Seley had an accomplice in the person of a depositor whose identity the bank of¬ ficers will not reveal at present. He, as well as Seley, is a fugitive. This confederate on the outside had been a depositor in the bank for thirty years. FEMALE SUFFRAGE ENDORSED. The W. C. T. U. Comes Out for Woman’s Rights. The Woman’s Christian Temperance union convention was brought to a close at Cleveland, O., with a meeting in music hall nnder the auspices of the Federated Unions of the city. The convention has been the most success¬ ful in the history of the nnion. Next year’s convention will probably be held in Baltimore. Among the reso¬ lutions adopted were the following: “Resolved that we look with alarm at the increasing desecration of the Sabbath and the demands of the liquor traffic for the open Sunday saloon and call upon the executives of the law and others to authority, as well as upon moral and religions people, to unite in the enforcement of such laws as do not exist and to prevent farther encroach¬ ment on this day of rest. “We resolve in favor of combined and persistent efforts for scouring the enfranchisement of women. “Resolved, That the National Wo¬ man’s Christian Temperance Union endorses with pride the heroic action of the Kentucky women in their deter mined overthrow of imparity in high political places, and in their demands for the annihilation of sex in moral standards. “We*T deprecate the social smose meats of eard-playing, theater-going and promiscuous dancing. “We disapprove of such exercises or saoh games of football aa require the preaenoe of a physician, aa being inju¬ rious to physical well-being and brut¬ alising in their anotal tendencies. ' “We protest against the euetom of inter-collegiate work of ooUege life. “While friendly to all institntions having drunkard, for their object the restoration of the we do not recognize to them a cure for tbe saloon evil. “We do not encourage local unions to adopt this work M any eolation of probiem to^long as the unitedly employer and decide what la best for the enterprises which esc succeed only by their, united ef forta, theae to the : * , T ._ . wr /fmk i of Jeto : THE LATEST BY GIVING THE NEWS UP TO HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS. Brief Mention of Daily Throughout the World. At Nashville, Saturday, Malone appointed Thomas S. to be clerk and master. This is position held by the late George Whitworth, and is estimated to worth $18,1)00 a year. A Chicago dispatch says :■ James J. Corbett has issued, on of Steve O’Donnell, a challenge fight any heavy weight in the Jim Hall, Denver Ed Smith and Maher being especially referred to. Associate Justice W. A. Johnson, the supreme court of Arkansas, was re-elected November 6th, for term of six years, announces that has returned his passes and will no more from railroad corporations. Advices from Palermo, Sicily, that severe earthquake shocks large districts of that country Sunday. The small villages of Sciatra.Campieri, Milan, Acqnacalida and San were destroyed. The homeless inhab¬ itants have t ncamped in the fields. Thirty-one houses and every but one at Marion, N. C., were de¬ stroyed by fire Sunday morning. timated loss $125,000; insurance small. The flames started in a building to the jail. Twenty-eight were removed in safety, The town no fire apparatus. Marion is forty east of Asheville. It is accepted at Jackson, Miss., a fact that the seven defeated popqjist candidates for congress will contest tbe seats of the seven democrats. They will rely chiefly upon the allegation that the franchise clause of the new constitution disfranchises more than half the citizens of the state. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: On his wedding day the new czar will issue manifestos remitting arrests of taxes and some sentences, and record¬ ing other act* of clemency. When he received the ministers Saturday he welcomed M. de Giers, of the foreign office, with special courtesy and cor¬ diality, saying that he hoped they would work together for a long time. Some 600 peasants and their wives, with flags and clubs, attended the town hall in Alatri, near Ferentino, Italy, Saturday, shouting that they would pay no taxes. The police, to frighten them, fired in the air. They were beaten and Btoned by the mob and driven into the hall where they re¬ mained inactive while the peasants threw stones through the windows. Eventually troops dispersed the mob. Tbe tax aggregate for the state of Tennessee has been completed and shows a valuation for all property of $319,822,197, a decrease from lastyear rf $18,909,529, with a consequent loss in revenues of $57,298. Only twelve of the ninety-six counties in the state shows an increase. Shelby county show the heaviest loss, being $4,685, 954; Davidson next vvith $3,282,480; Hamilton third with $2,287,230. The loss in Knox is only $793,497. Hunter & Stevens have proposed to the penitentiary farm commission of Mississippi to settle the difference be¬ tween them and the commission in the matter of tbe sale by accepting $5.50 in lien of $6 heretofore agreed on. The commission accepted the proposition and made a supplemental report to the governor recommending the Hunter & Stevens land. This ends the lawsuit. The commission adjourned to await the governor’s action. FORT ARTHUR CAPTURED. The Japanese Take Possession After a Hot Conflict. The Central News correspondent at Shanghai says that the fall of Port Arthuf has created great excitement in the native quarter of Shanghai. The news of the eaptnre of Port Ar¬ thur by tbe Japanese was brought from Chee-Foo Saturday by a British steamer. The Star publishes a dispatch say¬ ing that the Japanese torpedo boats engaged the attention of the forts while tiie troops closed around the forts st the rear. Then the torpedo boats made a sadden concerted dash and sue ceeded in getting inside the harbor. Tbe Japanese artillery in the rear kept np a oontinuous fire upon these Chin ene forts and the infantry made a suo cession of attacks upon the outer de fenses which they captured. After the firat onslaught by the Japanese, the resistance of the Chinese is said to hare been feeble. Finally the Chinese troops became panic stricken and fled, CAR STABLES BURN And Forty-Nine Horses Perish In the Flames. Fire broke out-Friday morning in the Allegheny Traction Company’s barns, at Pittsburgh, Pa. There were fifty hones in the barns, forty-nine of •hush were burned. Seven old horse cars and seven new etatrie motors were also burned. In the r-ar of the barn, on Emanuel street, four single aad two double hon-es were destroyed. The lorn of the street ear company is at $75,000. Tbe tosaiv ance is not known. THE STORY A FAKE. The story aei out from Knoxville, of the ------ VJ - ABOUT COTTON. A Si - COMMISSIOMER LANE'S ADDRESS TO SOUTHERN FARMERS. Believes in Reducing the Crop ana Thorough Organization. Commissioner Lane, of Alabama, has issued his address to the cotton ers of the south, which was authorized by the late meeting of the catton grow¬ ers, held in Montgomery. He says: “This convention was called by my. self for the purpose of considering and devising means through which south¬ ern cotton growers might protect themselves from the many unfair de¬ vices used to depress the value of our chief staple. The most prominent one being ficticious reports fabricated in the main cotton markets sent out by cotton exchanges and emanating from the minds of men who make a precari¬ ous living as the bears on the cotton market.” He then quotes largely from printed estimates sent out by interested par¬ ties as to the size of the present crop, and shows by figures that it will not amount to anything like that what j 8 claimed. He shows by the following statement the benefits to be derived from the producers coming together and acting in harmony. Consequent, upon the enormous crop produced in the season 1891-92 a cotton conven¬ tion was held in Memphis under the auspices of the Mississippi Valley Cotton Growers’ Associa¬ tion. The recent convention at Mont¬ gomery was eminently satisfactory to all engaged in it. The express purpose of this meeting was to take action to¬ wards the reduction of the cotton acre¬ age. How well it succeeded in its ef¬ fort, history of cotton will bear us out. A decrease in acreage followed the en¬ suing season of ’92 and ’93 of 3,456,- 439, an acreage that is larger than is planted in any one state with the ex¬ ception of Texas. THIS MAKKKT ADVANCED. Pursuant to the Memphis cotton convention cotton advanced seventeen points in three days. Pursuant to the Montgomery meeting cotton values ad* vanced twenty-seven points. Whether these two occurrences were coincidental or whether they were caused directly or indirectly by these farmers in conven¬ tion assembled, it is for the country to judge, but to my mind it is a practical demonstration of the fact that the vi¬ brations of the cotton market are as lensitive and responsive to the touch of a convention of practical farmers as they are to manipulations of metro¬ politan fakirs. * ‘The dominating questions confront¬ ing the farmers, first, is to refute the iniquitous reports being sent out by unscrupulous persons, and bearing down present prices, and, secondly, to co-operate in an endeavor to again de¬ crease the acreage by planting the same in and producing, more ‘home consnmpi.ion’ crops. “Over production encourages and fosters manipulation, and it should be the effort of every intelligent and pat¬ riotic citizen of the south to enlist all the instrumentalities available to re¬ sist this current that is insidiously day by day drifting ns into the vortex of poverty and destitution. AS TO THE VISIBLE SUPPLY. There is less visible supply on hand than for years. Mills have less on hand, people have less clothes on ac¬ count of the enforced economy of hard times. The total visible supply of cotton in the world is 222,265 bales less than in 1893, and 605,414 less than 1892. The currency and tariff questions are virtually settled and all the indi¬ cations at present point to a speedy retnrn of general prosperity, and cot¬ ton prices mast naturally rule higher. “We are of the opinion that after all this matter can only be accomplished by independent invidnal action, stim¬ ulated by intelligent argument, and I shall undertake to* prove that to a great extent it is the over-production of cotton in- excess of its consumption that is cansing the falling off in values an til it has reached that point which makes it less than can possibly be pro¬ duced by southern planters.” He concluded his address by saying: “The convention at Montgomery ad¬ journed to meet at Jackson, Miss., on Be< ? ond Wednesday in January J to 895 f° ’ wh J? f to a “ * P^m^ent d where we will organization endeavor the °* th « Southern Cot tijnGrowers Protective Association, v * noM ff°™rnors oftbe states . requested dfcle W,J to appoint four 8*tea from each congressional district aad *^ ree from the state at large. The commissioners of agriculture were elected vice presidents for their re¬ spective states. I urge upon all farm¬ ers and others interested in this move¬ ment to attend the meeting at Jackson, ss it is a question of the gravest im¬ portance to the common country.” CHINA MAY COMB DOWN. A Report That She to For Peace. In accordance with tbe suggestion of Japan the state department at Wash¬ ington has notified Minister Dub, at Tokio, and Minister Denby, at Pek¬ ing, to transmit such direct offer as China may wish to A< tbe oable direction, were sent onIf • few days agq, suffici time a not will consent to and definite, as ington ia sot its Die of