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VIGOROUS PROTEST AGAINST VENEZUELA Case of United Staten Con sular Agent Baiz. INTERFERENCE MUST STO! s>ot llelng a < li iz-.-n of I his Count ry. Our G iiernmriu May Kxpi-riene 4 unsidei-abio O.iileull)' la IVolt-ci ill” llmi. VY ashinotov, March 18. —The star< departnieut, through Miuiiier L> nil receutlv lodged n. most vigorous protesi to uit- Venezuelan govi-riinieut again*, lurcher intent-relict wall Mr. Laiz, tut United Stares cuu-uli.r agent at Laree lotia, Venezuela. It kuows nothing oi the last reported ln.niigeuient sit ui liberty, but it is presumed that tin affair is connected directly with tin troubles which led to the tints protest Iguatio M. Haiz is not a cirizen of tin United States—a fact that may add to me difficulty which our guverimen: will experience m protecting him. as n is determined to ao. lie was horn in St. Thomas and is a Danish citizen, so tar as known here, bur having an ex equateur issued bv the Venezuelan gov eminent recognizing him as a Umtei States consu ar agent, tile, siare depart meat has decided that he is entitled to the protection of the United States gov eminent. It appears that he is engaged in busi ness and became involved m trouble with Venezuelan nuhtia by resisting au attempt to collect a forced loan from him. More than a mouth ago the state department forwarded us instructions to Minister Loomis to represent to tie Venezuelan government that these an noying interferences with our official must cease, but so far no Results nave appeared. MR. CARNEGIE'S LIBERALITY. Rev. Dr. McArthur I'ay* High I'rihuie to <■ re;t t I'll lianHiropist. New York. March 18. —The Rev. Dr. R. S. McArthur's sermon at Calvary Buptist Church, Sunday, was ou "Mis sions.” He urged a more generous spirit of giving, both among the rich and the poor, and commented on An drew Carnegie’s big offer to New York city. "Mr. Carnegie, in the generosity of his gifts, ” said Dr. McArthur, "has startled the world. He is certainly one of the most remarkable men in his ac quirement and distribution of money tue world has ever known. He has him self told me it required as much thought and effort to distribute money wisely as to acquire it freely. He is making heroic efforts to die poor. His act is a rebuke to many churchmen who proless a longer creed, but whose list of good deeds is shorter. Thousands will rise up to honor the name of this noble Scotch-American. ” MET WITH COOL RECEPTION. The Jlbslun ol' General V’on Wordcr . Practically Failed. Berlin, March 18.—Parliamentary cir cles relate that General Von VVorder, who was recently sent on a special mis sion to St. Petersburg, this time met with a cool reception at the Russian capital and that the private mission •with which Emperor William entrusted him, and which was intended to explain away all misunderstandings that have arisen lately, practically failed. it is understood that Count Lamsdorf, the Russian minister of foreign affairs, also keenly questioned General Yon Worder regarding the Germau agita tion in favor of the annexation of Aus tria’s German speaking provinces. •Statement of Temporary Receiver. Washington. March 18.—The comp troller of the currency today received from the temporary receiver of the failed First National hank of Niles, Mich., a preliminary statement of the bank’s condition. From this report it appears that the amount of defalcation was approximately $150,000, which had been covered up by forged loans and discounts. As the bank will be unable to resume business, a permanent re ceiver will soon be appointed to close up its affairs. Movements of the Royalty.. Copenhagen, March 18. Dowager Empress Alexandria of Russia will ar rive here tomorrow aud remain until after the celebration of the Bl’d anniver sary of her father, King Christian IX. The King and the Queen of England were expected to be present at the cele bration, but have postponed their visit until later in the year. King Christian will go to Wiesbaden in April. Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands and her consort are expected here shortly. Strange Burial I’iaee. Greenville, S. C., March If.—W. B. Webb, a plumber, while placing pipes in the courthouse between the ceiling and roof, fouiid a coffin containing hu man bones. The find was soon known aud crowds gathered. The loft where the coffin was found was a place of hiding for a ku klux gang during the civil war, and the supposition is that the bones are those of a member of the Shooting at Bessemer. Bessemer, Ala., March 18.—Ed White was shot and severely wounded by Dan Dondley at this place. The men had o quarrel in a saloon while drinking Dondley was bound over to the grant; jury in the mayor’s court for assault, and was also fined S3O for carrying con cealed weapons. Both men were labor ers. Met Deitth Under the Wheels. Savannah, March 18.—Ed Rhodes, a negro switchman, was run over by a pusher engine in the Central railway yard and almost instantly killed, hav ing both legs crushed. Rhodes at tempted to cross in front of the engine, stumbled and fell, aud was run over be MINISTERS MEET KING EDWARD VI! CTioate and Others Present Their Credentials. WERE IN LEVEE DRESS Khcli Member of the Corps Arrived in a Kt-yal 4 itrriagi IJrawn by Two Horses and Was Attended by Three Koyal Servants. London. March 18. —United Stares Ambassador Choate and other ambassa dors and ministers to Great Britain pre sen ted their credentials to King Edward at Marlborough House at noon today. Each member of the diplomatic corps arrived in a royal carriage drawn by two horses and was attended by three royal servants attired m long scarlet cloaks. The diplomats wore levee dress, with orders and decorations, with the exception, of course, of Ambassador Choate, who wore ordinary evening dress. The foreign secretary. Lord La.iis downe, introduced the visitors to the , king, who was attired in a field mar shal's uniform. FIGHT AT A NEGRO DANCE. In Trying to Suppress Kiot County ( l*olice Have Lively lime. Atlanta, March 18. —ln attempting to suppress a riot and arrest the rioters ; at a negro dance 1 mile from East Point | yesterday morning a squad of county police had a desperate hand to hand 1 tight with a crowd of drunken negro j men and women and pistols and knives j were used indiscriminately. One of the county police had his baud j severelv slashed with a knife and au- I other was felled to the floor with a J heavy piece of timber. Two negroes were cur, one shot and three clubbed into submission. The negroes had shot and cut each ether before the arrival of the police. Ten arrests were made and the rioters are occupying cells at the Tower. The affair is said to have .been quite exciting while it lasted, and for a lew minutes ip looked serious for the offi cers. It required quick and euergetio work to subdue the drunken negroes, who seemed determined to kill the po lice and each other. NO SEWERAGE FOR HAVANA. Unsettled Condition of Affairs Makes a Loan Impossible. Havana, March 18.—It may be put down as almost a certainty that Havana will not be sewered this spring or sum mer. Owing to the present unsettled state of affairs it will be impossible for the city to negotiate a loan. Capitalists who have been offering to lend the city money are now said to be viewing the situation with a great deal of timidity, and there appears to be no doubt that the city will be unable to negotiate the loan for several months. The committee which was appointed by General Wood to ascertain what source of revenue could be set aside by the city to meet the interest and form a sinking fund for a loan of $15,000,000 has practically reported that there is not a source of revenue to the city of Ha vana which could be set aside for such a purpose. Attempt to Wreck Train. Savannah, Ga., March 18. —An at tempt was made to wreck southbound passenger train No. 83 on the Southern railway, just north of Barnwell, S. C. The attempt was partially successful, the engine being derailed. Rocks and iron were piled upon the track. When No. 33 arrived within view of the ob struction the speed was too great for Engineer Broom to bring his engine to a stop, aud it crashed into the rocks and iron with a force that caused it to leave the track. Fortunately no one was in jured. Bastinado Extorted Confessions. Constantinople, March 18. —At the first trial of the 19 Bulgarians accused of belonging to the revolutionary com mittee at Sofia and of fomenting disor der at Salonica, Monastir and Kossove, recently begun at Salonica, a sensation was occasioned by a declaration by two of the accused that the confessions pre viously made by them were extorted by the use of the bastinado and by other ill treatment to which they were sub jected while in prison. They now deuv the charges against them. Pullman Cars Burned. Palatka, Fla., March 18.—Two Pull man sleeping cars of train No. 32 of the Plant system, Tampa to Jacksonville, were completely burned at an early hour yesterday morning at Buffalo Bluff, 7 miles from this city. All that remains of them is a mass of twisted iron, the wheels aud trucks. The sleepers were filled with tourists and all of them were asleep at the time of the fire. They es caped, but most of them lost their cloth ing and valuables. Fatally Burned. Anniston, Ala., March 18. Mrs. Mary Morris died today from effects of being burned at Oxanna. She has been blind two years and was unattended at the time of the accident. She reached for a comb ou the mantle and her dress caught on fire from au open grate. Parrs of her body were burned to a crisp. She leaves a husband aud baby. Broke World’s Record. San Jose, Cal., March 18.—Joseph Downing has broken the world's mile amateur road record over the Gilrov course. His time was 8.48. The record of 9.01 was formerly held by Bunt Smith. Will Not Use Belleville Boilers. London, March 18.—A Berlin dis patch reports that the German navy, like the British, has decided to abandon the use of the Belleville bo** on war- THE WEEKLY NEWS. CAKTERSVI LLFI, G A NATIVES ANXIOUS FOR PACIFICATION Ifftv-induqua Ready to Accept American Sovereignty. i INSURGENTS NOT ACTIVE I Tiie Island Will Not Ise Attached to Tayabu', as the l*eople 1-nvor a Sepunte Province-—Major Johnson to He Governor. Romblov, Island of Romblon, March 17—(By mail from Boach, Island of Mariuduque, March 18.) —The question of attaching this island of Mariuduque to the province of Tavabas, discussed by the American Philippine commission during their arrival here, was decided in the negative. The sentiment of the people was wuolly in favor of forming a separate province. A population of /0,000 was represented during the dis cussion and the commission has met in telligent representatives from all the towns. There are 800 insurgents still in tiie mountains of Marinduque, bur otherwise the inhabitants are anxious for the pacification of the island and to accept American sovereignty. Judge Taft has announced Captain Baudholtz to be chairman of the various commit tees of natives formed to organize mu nicipal law in the town of Mariuduque. Judge Taft has promised that the com mission will return and organize the province of Marinduque Major Smith, commanding the Amer ican garrisons on this island, has issued an order requiring ail natives to live in the five principal towns where Ameri can troops are stationed. Those natives who continue to live in the country will be considered insurgents. A few insurgents have recently been killed or wounded near these towns and their supplies have been destroyed. The inhabitants of this island favor a drastric policy toward the insurgents. The American Puilippines commission will soon prepare a communication to President McKinley on the character of the civd government, to be established in the archipelago. Tne matter has yet received only informal consideration. This port ill be the capital of the newly formed province, composed of ad jacent islands. It is situated at the mouth of a deep valley and has a splen did harbor. The people are thrifty and prosperous and there are no insurgents here. Major Evan M. Johnson, Jr., of the Twenty-ninth volunteer infantry, will be governor and Captain Albert S. Wil liams of the same regiment will be treas urer of the new province. TO GROW COFFEE IN SPAIN. Experiment on Commercial Seale to Ue Made. Washington, March 18. —So long as Cuba and Porto Rico were Spanish pos sessions the cultivation of coffee iu the peninsula of Spain was forbidden. Un der the change in the condition the gov ernment shows a disposition to make no objection to an evacuation of the law, which has practidally become a dean letter and according to a report received at the state department from United States Consul Rodgely, at Malaga, an experiment ou a commercial scale for the home production of the bean is about to he undertaken for the first time in the province of Malaga at the little village of Oampanilla, some 5 miles from the capital. Don Quirico Lopez, a rich merchant of Malaga, will begin by setting out from 20,000 to 50,000 coffee plants on liis plantations there. Senor Lopez has al ready made some experiments, and is convinced that coffee can be advantage ously grown in this province and else where in Andalusia. Others who have examined the question say that there is not sufficient humidity iu the Andalu sian climate. Practical experiments on a large scale will be made and the re sult is awaited with great iuterest. No Knowledge of the Deal. New Y'ork, March 18. —A report wa current in this city today that an au thority ou Manhattan affairs had stated that the New York Central had secured control of the Manhattan Railroad com pany of a guarantee of 6 per cent divi dends. Prompted by that rumor it may be stated as a fact that none of the offi cials of the New York Central rsilroad, including Mr. Depew aud President Galloway, has any knowledge of such a consummation aud that the officials of the Central believe the report to be ab surd. Terrific Explosion of Chemicals. Cleveland, March 18.—A terrific ex plosion of chemicals in the laboratory of the National Carbon works at West ! Madison aud Highland avenue early to day partially wrecked the largo brick building. Fire broke out immediately after the explosion, but was soon quenched. Two men were caught uu der the debris. Both were rescued with out serious injury. Loss $70,000, par tially covered by insurance. Opened to heftier*. Phenix, A. 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WE ARE PROUD of our new spring line of STVUSH BIGS 11§ ANGLG-RUSSIAN DISPUTE UNCHANGED London Thinks Too Much Made of Incident. A MORE HOPEFUL VIEW Officially Stated That Great Britain Has No Intention of Resorting to Hostilities Whatever the Outcome of Negotiations. Tien Tsin. March 18.— The Anglo Russian dispute is unchanged. Tin French troops are quieter. Over 40 ur rests have been made. London, March 18. —There is a dispo sitiou here to think too much has been made of the Anglo-Russian incident at Tien Tsin and a much more hopeful view of the affair is taken today. This is aided by the statement iu Morrison’s dispatch from Peking yesterday to the London Times which is taken to mean that the combined efforts of the allied powers are haviug the effect of causing St. Petersburg to check any tendency to any undue aggressiveness ou the part of the Russian representatives in China. The comments of the afternoon news papers has repeated the news of the majority of the morning papers, namely, that diplomacy will be able to smooth the friction. The officials of the British foreign office have not yet received offi cial confirmation of Russia’s alleged backdown iu regard to Manchuria Tues day, aud Mongolian inquiries on the subject are now beiug made at St. Petersburg. The British foreign office is not relaxing its efforts to secure a more "Satisfactory statement of the in tentions of Russia, but the officials deprecate the action of the British press. It is officially said that Great Britain has not the slightest contempla tion of resorting to hostilities against Russia, whatever may be the outcome of the present negotiations. Hun Down by a Train. Columbus, Ga., March 18—Ou the double track of the Central and Sea board railroads, 2 miles southeast of the city, an old negro man and two negro girls were caught on a trestle by a train. One of the girls was badly mangled, one of her arms and a foot beiug torn off. She is still living and the two others were painfully but not seriously iujured. Hay aud Morgan Confer. Washington, March 18.—Secretary Hay conferred today with Senator Mor gan in regard to Nicaragua canal mat ters and the advisability of reopening negotiations for a treaty with Great Britain ou the subject. Supreme Court to Take Recess. Washington, March 18.—Chief Jus tice Fuller of the United States supreme court today announced that the court would take a recess from next Monday for a fortnight. KNIGHT HARDWARE CO] MISSOURI TOWN IN FLAMES. UiMiiarck Vlsiinl by it Isi” ( oof! i "rut ion. Dk Soto, Mo., March 18 —Bismarck is on tire and indications are that ha;f of the town wili be burned, including the hotels, about ten business houses and the Iron Mountain railroad station. All telegraph and telephone communi cation is cut off. 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The Nor ham Castle burst her cylinder when 500 miles north of Ascension. Minister Conger Sails. London, March 18.—A dispatch from Shanghai announces the sailing today of United States Minister Conger. The condition cf Li Hung Chang has im proved. New Dervish Movement. London, March 18. —A special dis patch from Cairo, Egypt, says anew Dervish movement is said to have oc curred in the southern part of Soudan. Trouble in Shah’s Country. London, March iß.—The Vienna Neue Freie Presse reports a serious rising m Teheran, Persia, because certain re forms have been attempted by the sham Oow is the timj when croup and lung troubles prove rapidly fatal. The oniv harmless remedy that produces immediate results is One Minute Cough Cure It is very pleasant to take ane can be relied upon to quickly cure coughs, colds and all lung dis eases. It will preuent consumption. Hall & Green. 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