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BLOODTHIRSTY JAPS
Indications Still Point to Sang
Binary Conflict In Orient.
MIKADO MAY TACKLE CZAR
Japan Insists That Chinese Ruler
Return to Pekin and Send
Troops Into Manchuria.
A cable dispatch from Pekin says:
Komours Yutaro, the Japauese minis
ter, accompanied by General Yama
guchi, the Jaimriese commander, called
rip on Prince Ching Sunday and notified
him that the return of Emperor Kuang
Hsu was urgently desired. Prince
Ching was informed that the emperor’s
wishes would be respected by the for
eign troops and that every courtesy
would be shown him.
It was pointed out to the Chinese
plenipotentiary that the emperor’s re
turn was of the highest possible im
portance as affecting the maintenance
of the integrity of the Chinese em
pire, and that he should come accom
panied by every available soldier, by
at least twenty thousand men if possi
ble.
The troops, it was further contended
by the Japanese minister, must be sent
into Manchuria, as the Russians re
ported'great disturbances there quelling and it
was not right that the task of
the trouble should be thrown upon oue
nat ion. Finally, Prince Ching was as
tnl , nrtb :
could not suppress the disorders in
Manchuria, other powers would send
an international force to co-operate
with China, which all the powers re
garded as u friendly power.
No reply having been received to
this communication, Li Hung Chang
was notified to the same effect aud
told that Emperor Kuang Hsu must
give au immediate answer.
The preparations which the Japan
ese nre making here for an early start
indicate that they still expect war be
tween Russia and Japan. Vessels ar
riviug at Taku from Nagasaki report
the mobilization of the Jupanese fleet
and the continuance of preparations
ou board ship for the anticipated
struggle.
Prince Ching says all his reports go
to show that the missionary state
ments regarding a rebellion in Mon
golia are not supported by tho facts.
Neitbor does he believe that tho re
bellion of General Tung Haiaug
amounts to much.
“It is the object of certain ele
ments,” be asserts, “to make it seem
tliat China is in a condition of con
stnnt broil, rendering it unsafe for the
foreign troops to be withdrawn. Those
who have this in view will magnify a
village quarrel into a big rebelliou.
The missionaries, naturally timid, take
these reports iu good faith.”
MIN 1 STRRS ARE criticised.
The conduct . of e the . ministers ... of ... be
powers over the negotiations with the
Chinese t iinese plenipotentiaries plenipotentiaries causes causes ilium much
adverse comment among the military
authorities. Iheir dilatory tactics have
prevented what might have been ac
(V.midi coiiiplisln.it slier! two t.yo months months non ago. Fven Lveu
now the meetings of the ministers are
postponed for the most trivial causes.
Tor For instance, instance me the desire aesire of 01 one one minis- minis
ter to go on a picnic to the tombs
of the Mi«g dynasty prevented the
holding of a meeting for a number of :
clays V. rp, ihen M. n Do pi:„ triers r and 1 othe. .U _
ministers insisted tfms upon celebrating
Easter, and a week was con
sume sumo 1 i. i.u In n a third xuiru case case an an linneoes- unneces
sary visit by one minister to Tien isin
held up negotiations for fonr days.
These iui.se are an fair lai illustrations illustrations of oi what nuai has uas
been almost continuous from the be
ginning
Memorial services will be held by
order of the court in houor of the
members of the tsung-li-yamen who
wero executed last summer because of
their pro-foreign seutimeuts—Hsu
Ching Chien, Li Shan and Hsu Yung
Yi. The staff of the United States
legation lias been invited to atteuit.
Hsu Ching Chien, who was a mau of
considerable wealth, held at various
times the post of Russia, that of di
rector of tho Rnsso-Ohinese bank and
Hlmt of president of the Chinese Eas
tern railway.
BOOMING GASSAVA.
Recent Convention Iu Krnnawick, Ga.» Is
Havinir Wonderful Result*.
The recent agricultural conveution | !
held ill Brunswick iu the interest of
sugar ij»no and cassava lias had most
wonderful results, and is being talked
aliont a 1 over south Georgia.
A feature of the eon vent ion was the
free , distribution of a , large quantity ...
of cassava seed among all who ex- ;
pressed a desire to plant the impor- :
taut pro.lnot aud it is believed tli.t .
very large acreage of cassava will be
plauted this year, directly attributable
to the interest aroused by li.e Bruns
wick conveut»oiir
TRAGEDY IN COLUMBIA.
Captain Griffin Dies From Pistol
Shot Wound Inflicted By
Major Evans.
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock
Captain John J. Griffin, commercial
ageut of the Norfolk and Western
railroad, was shot to death in the
rooms of Major Bernard B. Evans in
Columbia, S. C. The arrest of Major
Evans subsequently created a pro
nounced sensation.
The two were alone, and occupants
of adjoining apartments were at din
ner. Major Evans summoned a phy
sician, saying that a man was hurt in
his rooms. Dr. R. W. Gibbes found
Captain Griffin lying in a dying con
dition and speechless on Major Evans’
bed. A 44-ealiber Colt’s revolver bul
let had entered just above the left
nipple.
When Dr. Gibbes announced that
Griffin was dying, he declares that
Evans, who had been drinking heavi
ly, became wildly excited and exclaim
ed that Dr. Gibbes lied; that Dr.
Gibbes and not he himself had killed
Griffin. The physician, under pre
text of replacing a broken instrument,
managed to get out of the room, al
though Evans declared that he should
not do so.
Dr. Gibbes summoned the police
and they were refused admittance un
til Judge Ernest Gary, a cousin of
Evans, arrived and demanded admit
tance and submission to the officers.
Evans struck Judge Gary and was
taken to jail in a state of hysteria,
having declared that Griffin bad taken
bis own life.
In the room were evidences of the
fact that one or both of the men had
j been drinking. Aside from this there
is no reason why Griffin should have
f or that Evans shou ld
have shot him. -
The dead man’s face was bruised on
both sides and there was an abrasion
of the skin on the bridge of the nose.
His walking cane, clotted with blood,
was several feet from where blood
marks indicated that the fatal shot had
taken effect.
The coroner’s jury Sunday after
noon rendered a verdict that to the
best of its belief the death of Captain
J- J- Griffin was caused by a gunshot
wound inflicted at the hands of Major
B, B. Evans.
Captain Griffin served in the confed
erate army with a company from Ma
con, Ga., and after the war entered the
railroad service. He had the position
of general freight ageut of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia at
Atlauta, Ga., for many years, and sub
sequently went to the Norfolk and
Western. Two years ago he was as
signed to the South Carolina territory.
Major Evans is a son of Brigadier
General N. G. Evans and a nephew of
Major General Mart W. Gary, of the
late Confederate army. He is a broth
er of former Governor Jobn Gary Ev
aud, who was adjutant general iu 1898,
and was himself iu the Havana post
office department at that time. He is
well known in militia and political cir
cles, having twice received a large vote
for railroad commissioner. He and
the present lieutenant governor, James
H. Tillmau, fought a bloodless duel in
Ed fiel( , 8ome ag0 .
Captain brrifhn had quite a large
faimly /. , He is survived by a wife and
8evfjn cbildren fonr 80I18 and three
^ ’ Hi ‘ „ iam f ami '/ i v contln continued ' le ‘ J to to
re8lde 1U Atlauta , U P to “ short time
? w h e n they joined him in Colum
,
'd., I here are ___ many theories for the
k ju ingi but noue i, ave much to sup
R ort themi It is kll0wn tkat Major
• a _.:„i
nl
Only a part oi the available , testi- t .
mouy A was brought ° out by the coroner,
, but . tb0 . unanimous ou thp the
. vote, and the verdict has oeen
genera ° n - v acO0 _f__ pted as proper. r
PROBING INTO CROOKEDNESS.
_
Investigation of Manila irauila Substan
stlatos Charges Made.
A Manila special says: The trial of
Sergeant Memsou, the first ease in the
Commissary scandals, began with the
startling disclosures expected. Two
wituesses testified that quantities of
flour were taken from a government
warehouse and sold by three commis
snry sergeants aud two others, who
divided the proceeds. Fiuuick, pro
prietor of an American bakery, was
incriminated, and other business men
wero also involved. The extent of
the illegal sales has uot been ascer
tained.
GOVERNMENT MILL REFUND.
Famous “Hut Trimming**’ Caso Com pro
mined For 1S4.000.000.
The famous “hat trimmings” eases,
involving about S20,000,000 and which
since 1884 have been the subject of a
bitter legal battle between the govern- 1
ment and a number of Philadelphia
importers, f have at last been settled.
It T . stated . . , on ... high authority ... .... that a
compromise which the merchants has beeu effected interested through will j 1
abou. Sl.000.000 l,„,a lb.
United States treasury in full settle
ment of the much larger amount they
claim to have been forced to pay iu ex
cess of le ^al duties,
DR.TALflAGE’S SERHON
Tb« Eminent Divine's Sunday
Discourse.
Kabject.: Cbvlgt Risen! — T.csson [Em
bodied in Our Saviour’s ResiirreoUow—
Awaiting the I)av When “All Who Ar«
in Their Graves Shall Come Forth.”
[Copyright ism l
WitSTTTNOTOX. I). G.-Thc -real Chris
tian festival celebrated in all the churches
is the theme of Dr. Talmaye’s discourse:
I Corinthians xv. 20. “Now is Christ
risen from the dead and become the first
.fruits of them that slept.”
On this glorious Easter moraine amid
the music end the flowers I give Vou
Christian sian meeting salutation. Russian This morning’ Bus
on the streets salutation! of St
"Christ Petersburg bails him with the
is risen indeed!” In some parts
of England and Ireland to this verv dav
there is the superstition that on Easter
mornimr the sun dances in the heavens
and well nav we forgive simh a sunersti
tion. which illustrates the fact that the
natural world seems to sympathize with
the sniritual.
Hail. Easter morning! Flowers' Flow
ers! All of them a-vnice. all of them a
tongue, all of them full of speech to-dav
T bend ocer one of the lilies, and I hear
it say: “Consider the lilies of the fie’d.
how they grow. Thev toil not. neither do
they spin, yet Solomon in all his glorv was
not arrayed like one of these.” I bend
over a rose, and it seems to whisper, “T
am (he ros» of Sharon." And then I
stand and listen. From all sides there
comes the chorus of flowers, saving, “ff
God so clothed the grass of the field, which
to-day shall is. and to-morrow is cast into the
oven, He not much more clothe you, ’
0 of little faith?” ‘
ve
Flowers! Flowers' Braid them into
thg bride’s them hair. Flowers! Flowers!
Strew over th» graves of the dead.
sweet Flowers! nvopheev of the resurrection. Flow
ers! Twist them into a par
land for mv Lord .Tesus on Easter morn
ing, and "Glory be to the Father and to
the Son and to'the Holy Ghost; as it was
be!” in the The beginning, is now and ever shall
women came to the Saviour's
tomb, and they dropped spices all around
the tomb, and those spices were the seed
that began to grow, and from them came
all the flowers of this Easter morn. The
two angels robed in white took hold of
the stone at, the Saviour’s tomb, and
Lthc-V. hu rled it with such force down the'
hill that it criisTTcaf~T’TTbfT’tToor~dr
world’s ssepuleher. and the stark and the
dead must come forth.
I care not how labrinthine the mau
soleum or how costly the sarcophagus or
however beautifully parterred the family
grounds—we want them all broken up by
the Lord of the resurrection. They must
come out. Father and mother—they must
come out; husband and wife—they must
come out; brother and sister—they must
come out; our The darling children—they closed must with
come out. eves that we
such trembling fingers that must open again
in the radiance of morn; the arms
we folded in dust must join ours in an
embrace of reunion: the voice that was
hushed in our dwelling must he retuned,
Oh. how long some of you seem to be
waiting for the resurrection! And for
cool these bandage broken hearts of to-day Easter I flowers. make a soft,
out.
This morning I find in the risen Christ
a prophecy setting of forth our the own idea resurrection, that Christ my
text as
has risen so His people will rise. He, the
first sheaf of the resurrection harvest. He,
“the first fruits of them that slept.” will Be
fore I get through this morning I
walk through all the cemeteries of the
dead, through loved all the country buried, graveyards, and I
where your ones are
will pluck off these flowers, and I will
drop a sweet promise of the gospel—a
rose of hope, a lily of joy on every tomb,
the child’s tomb, the husband s tomb,
the wife’s tomb, the father’s grave, the
mother's grave, and. while we celebrate
the resurrection of Christ we will at the
same time celebrate the resurrection of all
the good. “Christ, the first fruits of
them that shouid slept ”
If I come to you and ask you
for the names of the great conquerors of
the world, vou would sav Alexander,
Caesar. Philip, Napoleon J. Ah! You
have forgotten to mention the name of a
greater conqueror than all these-a cruek
a ghastly conqueror. He rode on a black
jj 0rse across Waterloo and Chalons and
1 Atlanta, the bloody hoofs crushing the
hearts of nations. It is the conqueror
Dcath - He carries a black flag, ahd he
takes no prisoners. He digs a trench
across the hemispheres and fills it with ;
the carcasses of nations. Fiftv times would
the world have been depopulated generations. had Fifty not
( *od kept making new
tj mes the world would have swung life
less through the air—no man on the moun
tain, no man on the sea, an abandoned
shin plowing through immensity. Again 8
and again lias he done this work with all
generations. He is a monarch as well as
a conqueror; his palace a sepulcher; of world, his
fountains the falling tears a
1!lesse(J be God in the i ight 0 f this
Easter morning! shall be I broken see the and prophecy his palace that
his scepter
8ka ll k e demolished. The hour is coming
when all who are in their graves shall rise,
deans, “the first fruits of them that of the slept.”
Now tj’ around this doctrine res
, j !rree on there are a great many mvs
eHes Yo u come to me and say, “If the
bodies of the dead are to be raised, how ask
is this and how is that?” And you
me a thousand questions I am incomne
tent to answer. Hut tnere are a great
many things vou believe that you are not
able to explain. You would be a very
foolish man to say, “I won’t believe any
thing I can’t understandWhy, putting there
down one kind of flower seed, comes
up this flower of this color? Why, there putting
down another flower seed, comes up
a flower of this color? One flower
white, another flower vellow. another flow
er crimson. Why the difference when
the seeds look to be very much alike—are
very much alike? Explain these things;
explain that wart on the finger; explain
the difference—why the oak leaf is differ
ent from the leaf of the hickory. Tell
me how the Lord Almighty can turn the
chariot of His omnipotence on a r ose leaf,
You ask me questions about the resurrec
tion 1 cannot answer I will ask vou a
t | lousand quest ions about everyday life
y ou cannot answer.
‘^11 comclortU”
I do not pretend to make the explanation.
dklj Tn’thfs^atT NvUen^he
was j n China, years’after his foot England, was amputated, and there
He lived in
* ie an arn ] amputated. He is buried
to-dav in , vonder cemetery. In the res
urrection ,vM the foot come from China.
will the arm come from the England body be and
will the different parts of re
"» »
You say that “the human body changes
every seven years and by seventy years
^"^^iXwtirt^wiu'come'up'r qi d i and..his body Yo!
sav; ^ mau w e crura-
ble into the dust and that dust be taken
up into the life of the vegetable. Men An
animal may eat the resurrection vegetable, that body, eat
the animal. In the how
distributed in so many directions,
shall it be gathered this upHave style ask? you Come any
more questions of to
on and ask them. 1 do not pretend the to an
swer them. I fall back upon an
nouncement of God’s word, forth.” “All who are
in their graves shall come read
You have noticed, I suppose, in
ing the story of the resurrection, that
almost every account of the Bible gives
‘, he id ¥“ ‘ hat the characteristic of that
^ w, “ be a ^ ea t sound -, d ?,
, K know now A that ha . t ll ‘ t W '*, ‘ U ll > , be vel Very ? penetrating. THA ln In
the mausoleum, , where silence has reigned
a thousand years, that voice must nene
trate - 1,1 tbe coral cavp of the deep that
v ” u ’ e Tm,s t nenetrate. Millions of spirits
W1, J c P me through the gates of eternity,
an eartl ‘ they come to the tombs of the
V a " d thev will cry: “Give us back
our bodies - We gave them to you in
corruption Surrender thmn now in m
f or ™rt'on. Hundreds of spirits hover
about the fields buried. of I.attysburg. hundred for
there the bo ’’’es are A
thousand spirits coming to Greenwood,
I or t / iere tb R bor ! ,i r s are hnrieil waiting
for the I . of body and son'.
reunion
to A-H Llv along «rnool. the at, sea everv route few from miles New where York a
garner went down, departed spirits oom
! n K bac,; ' hovermg over the wave. There
where the City of Boston nensned.
Fom y I at last. There is where the
President, perished. .Steamer found at
! aat - There is where the Central .Amur
'can went down. Spirits hovering-hun
dreds of spirits hovering, waiting for
the reunion of bodv and soul. Out on
Prairie traveler a spirit died alights. There Crash is where
a in the snow. goes
Westminster Abbrv. and the nocts and
the orators come forth! Wonderful inin
gling of good and bad. Crash go the
pyramids of Egypt, and the liionareiis
come forth.
Who can sketch the scene? T suppose
that one moment before that general ris
mg there will be an entire silence, save
as you hear the grinding of a wheel ov
the clatter of the hoofs of s procession
Passing into the cemetery. Silence in all
the caves of the earth. Silence on the
side of the mountain. Silence down in the
valleys and far out into the sea. Silence,
But in a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye. as the archangel's trumpet comes
pealing, tain and rolling, the crashing earth across will the moun
sen. give one
terrific shudder, and the graves of the
dead will heave like the waves of the
~.nTi4 VM l y j , td-w e4 ~Se- - .rt -cnrt4- r ; . , yfl
Ions will stalk forth in the lurid air. and
the drownpd will come up and wring out
their wet locks above the billow, and all
the land and all the sea become one inov
ing mass of life—all faces, all ages, all
conditions gazing in one direction and
unon one throne, the throne of resurrec
tion. “All who are in their graves shall
come forth.”
“But.” you sav, “if this doctrine of
the resurrection is true, as prefigure.1 by
this Faster morning, can you tell us
somethin'- about the resurrected bodv?”
I ea- 1 . There are mvsteries about that,
hut I shall tell you three or four things
in rpgard to the resurrected bodv that
are take. beyond guessing and beyond mis
In the first place. T remark in regard
to vour resurrected body, it will be a
glorious body. The body we have now
is a mere skeleton nf what it would
have been if sin had not marred and de
faced it. Take the most exquisite statue
that was ever made hv an artist and
chin it here and chip it there with a chisel
and hatter and bruise it here and there
and then stand it out in the storms of a
hundred vears. and the beauty would be
gone. Well, the human body has been
chipped and battered and bruised and
damaged with the storms of thousands
of years, the physical defects of other
generations coming down from genera
tjon lieities to of generation, we inheriting the infe
past generations,
— > . n the , morning . of , the ,, resurrection
‘ le * be adorned and beautified
according to the original model. And
there is no such difference between a gym
? ast and an emaciated wretch iu a lazaret
a s ^? ere a difference between
our bodies , as they are now and our resur
jected °J forms. e ft* There wa you ^ r * will see death the have per
T]* er vo^Ul^raTheIrfeet > 011 ^ T l s * . tne R enecc hand nan 5 affe attei
*}* e , knots of toil , ., , have been untied from
^ knuckles: there you will see the
[<>rm erect m,d elastic after the burdens
bav e gone off the shoulder-the very life
of Hod in the body. Tn this world the
most express,ve thing is the human face.
but that face is veiled with the griefs of
n thousand vears. But m the resurrec
t' . on morn that veil will be taken away
f™!" H? e /ace, and the noonday sun is
dull and dim and stupid of compared the with
the ontflaming glories emmten
ances of the saved. hen those faces of
Hm righteous, those resurrected faces turn
toward the gate or look un toward the
throne, it. will be like the dawning of a
new morning on the bosom of everlasting
dav! O glorious, also resurrected body! that
.But I remark in regard to
body which you are to get m the resur
rection, it will bean immortal Somebody body. These has
bodies are wasting away.
"»»] that as soon as we begin to live we
begin to die. Unless we keep putting the
fuel into the furnace the furnace dies out.
The blood vessels are canals taking the
breadstuffs to all parts of the system. v\ e
must be reconstructed hour by hour day
hv dav. Sickness and death are all the
time trying to get their nrv under the
tenement or to push us on the embank
ment of the grave, but. blessed be God,
in the resurrection we will get a body un
mortal,
Sometimes . this world feel
m we we
would like to have such a body as that,
There is so much work to be done for
Christ, there are so many tears to be
wined away, there arc so many burdens to !
lift, there is so much to be achieved for !
Christ, we sometimes wish that from the
first of January to thy last of December
we could toil on without stopping to
sleep or to take any recreation or to rest
or even to take food—that we could toil
right on without stopping a moment in
our work of commending Christ and
heaven to all the people, but we all get
tired. It is characteristic- of the human
body in this condition : we must get tired.
Is.it not a glorious thought that we are
Gladly wea&?° will h 'o' e I glnrfoL^resiTrrectfoT fling aside this body day!
poor
Th/'biddirtf wearies. T^shairhavfa That is splendid ^“dy ’that
never a resur
rection hymn that we have all sung:
. o . esus s ep . ,o< » c \ ing ^on
Passed through the grave and blessed
the bed. His
Rest here, blest saint, till from
throne
lKgrT!S&Ji'Xlg£i& shipwrecked at The
others, were climbed into sea. the rig
father and the son
awhfle f losrhis'hold^in^the'rfgging The father
and was dashed down. sup-
posed he had gone hopelessly under the
wave. The next day the father nraa
brought ashore from the rigging in an ex
hausted state and laid on a bed in a
fisherman's hut, and after many hours
had passed he came to consciousness and
saw lying beside him on the same bed his
Gh. my friends, what a glorious thing it
will be if we wake up at last to find our
loved ones beside us, coming up from
the same plot in the graveyard, coming
up in the same morning light—the father
and son alive forever, all the loved ones
alive forever, never more to weep, never
more to part, never more to die.
May the Cod of Peace that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that
great Shepherd of the sheep, through the
blood of the everlasting covenant make
vou perfect in every good work to do
His will,and let the associations of this
morning transport our thoughts to the
grander assemblage before the throne.
The one hundred and forty and four
thousand and the “great multitude that
no man can number,” some of our best
friends among them, we after awhile to
join the multitude. Glorious anticipation!
Blest are the saints beloved of blood. God;
Washed in their robes in Jesus’s
Brighter than angels, lo, they shine,
Their wonders splendid and sublime.
My soul anticipates the day.
Would stretch her wings and soar away
To aid the song, the palm to bear.
And bow, the chief of sinners, there.
LABOR WORLD.
Velvet mill workers at Mystic, Conn.,
have won tlieir strike.
The Brazil soft coal district, in In
diana, will be indefinitely tied up by
a strike.
In Italy children of either sex under
nine years of age are not permitted
to work in factories.
Wages of puddlers at the rolling
mill at York, Penn., have been ad
vanced tweBty-tive cents a ton.
Fifty thousand citizens of Indiana
are employed in wood industries, and
receive annually #15,000,000 in wages.
The coal workers at Marseilles,
France, decided to resume work, and
the prolonged strike is finally at an
end.
Five hundred carpenters and paint
ers at Sharon, Penn., struck, causing a
genera) suspension of building opera
Two hundred and thirty-two thou
sand eight hundred and twenty-one
women are employed in English cot
ton factories; only 147,245 men.
Four hundred coal miners who have
been on strike at Blossburg, Ala., on
account of a difference regarding the
charges for yardage work, have re
turned to work
Over 550 union painters and deco
rators at Cincinnati, Ohio, struck
because of the refusal of the Mas
ters’ Association to sign the scale de
manding J'J.SO for an eight-hour day.
The refusal of bosses to grant an
increase of two and one-half cents
per hour and that eight hours should
constitute a day’s work has caused
a strike of 100 painters and decora
tors at Auburn, N. Y.
The Northern Pacific and Great
Northern companies have placed or
ders in the East for 2000 Italian labor
ers to do construction work in Wash
ington and adjoining States this sum
mer. They will take the place of
Oriental laborers. It is the largest
order ever sent from the West for
white labor.
SPORTING BREVITIES.
William C. Whitney announces that
Ballyhoo Bey’s wind .'s affected.
A trotting match has been arranged
between 'Che Abbot and Boralma.
The Shamrock II. will have the larg
est mainsail ever carried by a racing
yacht.
The Toledo Golf Club lias taken the
initiative toward organizing a rival
association in opposition to tlio United
States Golf Association.
Never before has the Irvington-Mil
burn (N. J.) road race course been in
as grand shape ns at present. It is
predicted that records will be lowered
in the great race of May 30.
The majority of college teams are
against any change in the baseball
playing rules, and will probably fol
low the lead of the American League
in using the old regulations.
For middle-aged persons who find
the vibrations of a pneumatic tired
wheel objectionable a new style of
cushion tire has been devised and ' f
meeting with distinct approval.
The styles in bicycles for this sea
son have not changed particularly,
and the styles in bicycle costumes will
also stand, so, that last year’s out
fits will not be at all behind the times.
Eight American yachts anxious for
the privilege of defending Canada’s
cup, now held by the ( hieago Yacht
Club, are in sight. The Canadians up
to date have uncovered only two chal
lengers.
Odds on the teams in the race for
the National League baseball pennant
are Brooklyn, 2 to 1; Pittsburg, 2 to
1; Boston, 4 to 1; Philadelphia, (i to
1; St. Louis, 10 to 1; Chicago, 15 to 1;
Cincinnati, 30 to 1; New York, write
your own ticket.
The revival of interest in lawn ten
nis which was noticeable last sum
mer after half a dozen seasons of par
tial neglect bids fair to take on new
life tins summer, judging from the
extensive preparations that the clubs
in New York City are making.
AGIINALDO SIGNS MANIFESTO.
Document I. Plea For Peace—Two Clause.
Were Objected To.
A Manila special says; Althongh
the officials are uncommunicative, it is
nevertheless sai l that Aguinaldo siga
ed the peace manifesto Tuesday morn
ing. Chief Justice Arellauo drafted the
document. Aguinaldo strongly ob
jected to two clauses of the manifesto,
and considerable argument was re
quired to overcome hit objections.