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THE STATE OF DAD VOL. X. 1,50# MASSACRED. A Big Engagement Takes Place in Central China. THE REFORM FORCES DEMORALIZED Leaders of the Reform Rabble Beheaded by Order of the Governor —Wholesale Butchery. Minneapolis, S*pecial.—A special to The Times, from Vancouver, B. C., says: News off a terrible nuaseacre of the reform forces in China, and the be heading of 27 of its loaders has been received here in a cablegram to W. A. Cumrow, secretary of the Chinese Re form Association in America. An engagement took place in the province of Cichili, a populous section olf the Yang-Tse Valley, in Central China; it resulted in the killing of 1,- 500 men and the complete demoraliza tion if the reform forces. The battle, into fhich the reformers were brought by treachery, occurred on December 18, aid the work of the movement has as a iconsequence been dropped in all that part of the country. The Chinese herelare loud in their expressions of disapproval of the conduct of the cam paign by the leaders. But few details givei in the cablegram. Race War in Idiana. Jeffersonville, Ind., Special. —A race ■waii is In progress at Comentville, a sniill station on the Pan Handle road, five miles north of this city, and seri ous trouble is expected. The negroes art, armed and the whites axe keeping wishiu doors to avoid them. The out break began Monday afternoon, when L'h Ranger and John Redmond, ne gipas, became intoxicated and started iij to initiate whites. When their in sults were resented other negroes join el Ranger and Redmond and captured rhmuel Kendall's saloon. Nearly 20 diots were fired, but no one was hurt, in appeal by telephone was made to ifheriff Rave for help and he drove ta <|enientville and to some extent quiet si the negroes while he was present. Aifter his departure another outbreak ook place and message after message ame to the local police to send men'to he town. Ranger was shot by Ken lall, but how badly is uot known. as le was canned away and secreted by his companions. Kendall's life was .hreatened. About midnight he man aged to escape from his store and came direct to this city, awakening Prosecutor Montgomery, and begging him to issue warrants and hale deputy sheriffs sworn in to serve them. It was almost daylight when the community became quiet, the negroes having ev erything their own way. The whites are intimidated to such an extent that they are using every possible precau tion to prevent a collision. C Killed in Street Duel. Offerman, Ga., Special.—A telephone message from Sallie, a town near here, says Dr. C. W. Dedge was shot and killed by Leon Roberts, and that F. M. Roberts, father of Leon, was probably fatally shot by Dedge. Dr. Dedge was a prominent dentist and a large naval storey operator. F. M. Roberts is a wealthy railroad tie contractor. Dedge and the elder Roberts had a quarrel. Young Roberts interferred. There was •promiscuous pistol firing, which re sulted as above, t Trolley Cars ColFde. Lebanon, Pa., Special.—Two trolley care on the Lebanon Valley Street railway, crowded with Christmas shoppers, collided between this city and Annville. A number of persons were injured, some seriously. An eighteen months old baby was tramp led upon by the panic stricken pas sengers and is not e-xpected to recover. The front part of each car was reduced to ,-rpi inters and the motormen saved themselves by jumping. .Miseiss'ppi’s New Capitol The new capitol building of the State of Mississippi, contracts for which have been let to Wells and Wells, of Chica go, a firm of builders, for $831,000, will be one of the most stately structures in the South. The style will be pure Renaissance. There will be four en trances but the principle front will face south. The length of the building will be 402 feet and the central dome will rise 175 feet above the grade line. The two legislative chambers will be placed on the second fioor and wil be handsomely decorated. The seats will be arranged in amphitheatrical order with their backs to the window. The walls of the structure will be partially granite and partly marble. Caleb Powers flay do Free. Frankfort, Ky., Special.—'The court: of appeals adjourned Saturday until the January term without rendering a decision in the case of ex-Secretary of State Caleb Powers, charged witn com pliclty in the Goebel assassination and sentenced to life imprisonment. This passes the appeal to the new court, which will stand four Republicans to three Democrats. HOLIDAY ADJOURNMENT. Congress to Re-Convene on January 4.1901. SENATE. Sixteenth Day.—ln the open session of the Senate little business was trans acted. A spirited debate was precipi tated over the resolution of Mr. Chan dler to discharge the committee on contingent expenses from further con sideration of the resolution authorizing an investigation of the Monatna sen torial case. The exchanges between the advocates and opponents of the resolution took a political turn and re sulted in some colloquies. No action upon the 1 evolution was taken. The army re-organization bill was re ported by the committee on military affairs. In the discussion of the Chandler resolution, Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, protested that the resolution was a rebuke to the committee. Mr. Chand ler said no politics had entered into the committee’s consideration of the case. Both Mr. Clark and Mr. Magin nis were Democrats and the question involved was seating of one Democrat or another. "If this is purely Democratic quar rel,” suggested Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina, “then the Senator’s interest in the matter is rather extraordinary.” Seventeenth Day.—No business was transactor by the Senate. The news of the death of Mrs. Wm. P. Frye, wife the President pro tem. of the Senate, was conveyed officially to the body, and out of respect to her memory, it imme diately adjourned until January 3, 1901. Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, then called the body to order. Rev. Mr. Mil burn pronounced a beautiful invoca tion in which he feelingly referred to the the demise. The secretary then read a letter from Senator Frye appointing Senator Fair banks pro tern, during his absence from the Senatefl. Tbs reading of the jour nal was suspended, and at 12.0’* the Sentate adjourned. HOUSE. ' Sixteenth Day.—Representative Hop kins, chairman of the committee on census, filed in the House the majority report on the re-apportionment bill re ported by his committee, fixing the membership of the House for the next decade at 357. Representative Bur leigh, of Maine, filed a majority report signed by six members in favor of a House to be composed of 386 members, and Representative Crumpacker, of Indiana, who signed the Burleigh re port, also, submitted an independent report in favor of reducing the repre sentation in the Southern States to the extent cf the abridgement of the suf frage. His independent report favors a House to be composed of 374 mem bers. Mr. Hopkins, in the majority report, cites many instances to show that the loss of seats by States under re-apportionment bills was not un common. Massachusetts, for instance, which, under the third census had 20 members, was reduced to 10 under the sixth, seventh and eighth, and Virgin it, whih bac.*lwer.ty-three in the third, had but nine under the ninth. The report says the committee followed the plan adopted under the sixth census and followed continuously since. It has the sanction and approval of 60 years of national existence. The plan is to divide the constitutional popula tion by 357, the proposed membership. The quotient 208,868, is the ratio of representatives to population: This applied the rate of population each State will yield in the aggregate a number somewhat less than 357, the number determined upon as the mem bership of the House. The differenco is made up by assigning to the States having the largest major fractions ad ditional representatives, until a suffi cient number having been assigned to bring the total up to 357. A member ship of more than 357, the report says, would make the House unwieldly. Seventeenth Day.—The House was in session only 25 minutes, when it ad journed out of respect to the memory of Representative Wise, of Virinia. Mr. Jones, of Virginia, who announ ;ed the death to the house, offered the custo mary resolutions, which were adopted, and the Speaker appointed the follow ing committee of 17 to attend the fun eral: Messrs. Weeks, of Michigan: Aldrich, of Alabama; KaJin, of Cali fornia; Roberts, cf Massachusetts; Minor, of Wisconsin; Brock of Indi ana; Jones, of Virginia; Swanson, of Virginia; Otey, of Virginia; Rixey, of Virginia; Lamb, of Virginia; Quarles of Virginia; Rhea, of Virginia; Lassi ter. of Virginia; Lloyd, of Missouri, and Gaines, of Tennessee. Then, at 12:25 p. m., as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the house adjourned until January 3, 1901. Auditor Killed. Washington, D. C., Special.—Frank H. Morris of Ohio, auditor of the war department, was shot and instantly killed about 2:10 o’clock Saturday af ternoon by Samuel MacDonald, also of Ohio, recently a disbursing clerk of the treasury, 'ihe affair occurred in the former's office at the Winder building, cn Seventeenth street, Mac- Donald afterwards -hot himself, enl also slashed his throat with a pen knife. A Plausible Supposition. Bunting—Lsrkin is a man of weigh ty opinions. Gilroy—That must bo the reason that he expresses them. “What do you mean?'' “I suppose they are too heavy to go by mail."—Detroit Free Press. TRENTON, GA.. DECEMBER. TREATY IS RATIFIED. The Hay.Pauncefote Treaty en the Canal PASSES SENA' *Y Six Roll-Calls a al Viva Voce Votes, and at • of Amend* ments Voted Dov Washington, " ecial. —The Senate coms-umi * and ten minutes in amei, vtlfytng as amendment, the ' fate trea ty for the mo * Clayton- Bulwer cenvo; iere wfere six rollcalls at va vice rotes. All the 1 exedot those offered b. tken aw reported by the tomigji relations, wore \ ’ * ties averaging a atlfiu tiion resolution by a vote of 55 to 18. TL . as in ex ecutive session for a. i hour be fore the time for voting ived, lis tening to speeches by St r Thurs ton, Gallinger, Wolcott a ’*ard, ex planatory of their attitnd Tip two foreign relations commit ic.nd ments were read first and , ,• accept ed without division. Tine first roll-call was upel Senator Elkins’ aCMr.dTnent, declaring that “nothing contained in thig treaty shall be construed to prevent the United States from acquiring at any time suf ficient territory and sovereignty over the same, upon which to build, man age, operate, defend, fortify, protect and control said canal, or for any oth er purpose as the United States may deem best in its own interests. ”It wag lost by a vote of 25 to 45. Senator Foraker withdrew hia amendment, because they- were the same as those reported by the commit tee on foreign relations; Senator Pen rise his, because it was practically Senator Beveridge his which was identical with Senator Elkins,’ and covered by the second of tne commit tee amendments. The other amend ments wene voted down by decisive majorities. The vote on Senator Till man’s amendment, authorizing the de fence of the canal and the maintanance of public order by the United States ■was 27 yeas to 43 nays. The treaty was then read. The vote upon the treaty itself, as amended, resulted as fol lows: Yeas —Aldrich, Allison, Bason, Be re ridge, Burrows, Carter, Clay, Cullom, Bebo*e. Dillingham, Elkins, Fairbanks, Foreaker, Foster, Frye, Gallinger-, Hale, Henna, • Hansbrough, Harris, Hawley, Hoar, Jones, of Nevada; Kean, Kenney, Lindsay, Lodge, Mc- Bride, McComas. MeCumber, McEnery, McLaurin, McMillian, Mallory, Mor gan, Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, Pettus, Platt, of New York; Pritchard, Proc tor, Quarles, Scott, Shoup, Spooner, Stewart, Sullivan, Taiaferro, Tnurs ton. Turner, Warren, Wetmore, Wol cott—ss. Nays—Allen, Hard, Bate, Berry, Butler. Cockrell. Culberson, Daniel, Heitteld, Martin, Mason, Mooney, Petti grew, Teller, Tillman, Turley, Vest Wellington—lS. The pairs oa the treaty vote were as follows, two Sena,tors for the treaty being paired with one against iit. in accordance with custom: Depew and Sewell for, with Rawlins against; Clark and Stiraon for, with Chilton against; Deliver and Baber for, with Town* against; Caffcry and Platt, of Connecticut, for, with Jones, of Arkan sas, against, Kyle was absent and un paired. The text of the treaty as amended states i,te objects as: “To facilitate the construction, of a ship canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and to that end to remove any ohtec.tions which may arise out of the co- axtion of April ID, ISSO, commonly a. Clayton-Bulwcr treaty to the const, tsifon of such canal under the auspice, of the government of the United Stated without impairing the general princi ple of neutralization in article 8 of of that convention.” Its provisions fol lows: Article I. —It is agreed that the canal may be constructed under the auspices of the government of the United States, either directly at its own cost, or by gift or loan of money by indi viduals or corporations or through subscription to or purchase of Stock or shares, and that, subject to the pro visions of the present convention, the said government shall have all the rights incident to such construction, as well as the exclusive right of pro viding for the regulation and manage ment of the canal. Article ll—The contracting parties desiring to preserve and maintain the gcn*ral principle of neutralization establish etl in article VIII of the Clay ion-Bulwer-convention .which conven tion is hereby superseded, as the best? Of such neutralization, the following rules, substantially as embodied in tho convention between Great Britain and certain other powers, signed at Con stantinople in 1888, for the free navi gation of the Suez Maritime Canal, are adopted, that is to say: 1. Tbe canal shall be free and open, in time of war as in time of peace, to the vessels of commerce and c*f war of all nations, on terms of entire equal ity. so that there shall be no dieerim ta.union against any nation or its citi tons or subjects in respects of eoodl- Rions or enarges of traffic or other irise. Z'EMOCRATIC. 2. The canal shall „c'" sd, nor shall any rig l eroised nor any act a* tnlbted within it. 3. Vessels of war of shall not revictual nor ta. in tbe canal except so fa strictly necessity; and 1 each vessels through the *ffected with the least £n accordance with th. force, and with only su as may result fir, " v the service. Prizes , spocts subject to the same •els of war of the belli* 4. No beligerant shall disembark troop®, munitWnb warlike materials in tho ci> r in case of accidental him’ _ of tn*> transet, and in -> the transit shall be resumed . _ all possible dis patch. 5. The provisions of this article shall appl yto waters adjacent to the canal, % within tnree marine miles of either end. Vessels of war of a belligerant shall not remain In such waters longer Jdian 24 •hours at any time except i r se of distress and in such case oh i,art as soon a® possible, but a • dof war of one belligerent sh- iot 4, vrt within 24 hours P I- de pa re of a vessel o t vraidof the other bel ment. It is agreed, however, that none of the immediately foregoing con dition and stipulations in sections numb* 11,2, 3, 4 and 5, of this ar ticle. s. ’ apply to measures which the Unii States may find it neces sary to i v for securing by its own force® the offence of the United States and the maintenance of public order. 6. The plant, establishments build ings and all works necessary to the construction, maintenance and opera tion of the caual, shall be deemed to be part thereof, for the purposes of convention, and in ah© time of war as in time of peace, shall enjoy complete immunity from attack o r injury by beligf.rents and from acts calculated to impair their usefulness as part of the canal. 7. No fortifications shall be erected commanding the canal or the waiters adjacent. Th© United States, however, shall be at liberty to maintain such military police along the canal as may be necessary to protect it against law lessness and disorder. Article 111. —The convention ehall be retifled by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by Her Britannic Majesty; and the rati fication shall be exchanged at Wash ington or at Ixrndon within six months from the date hereof, or earlier if pos sible “JOHN PI AY, ‘•PAUNCEFaTE.’’ .-iy- Alive With a Bullet In His Heart. Chicago. Special.—The Chronicle of Wednesday, says: “Proof that a man may live with a bullet in his heart was recorded by the use of X-ray on Charles B. Nelson, of Cadillac. Mich., formerly a Chicagoan, who was in 1896. the central figure in a sensational shooting that nearly resulted in his death. Under the fiurlseope the ball in Nelson's heart could .be plainly seen rising and falling with each pulsation of the vital organ. The bullet had been there since the night of July 1, 1896.” To Have a Steel Car Factory. Birmingham, Ala., Special.—A con tract was signed here by President J.' M. Elliott, of the Southern Car •>* ' Foundry Company, with the r_ Coal and Iron Company by former company is to erect steel car works here with „ capacity of 6,000 complete/cai portion of the cars arc/to structed from the steel and ducts of the Birmingham di; ear plant is later to be e make passenger cars as wel Open to Foreign Tr London, By Cable—The * _ publishes the following ■Shanghai correspond^ * of an * int v\'u Chang, op for n trade. Wu Cl g of J. imported trade"and thfMerminus of the Canto. Wholesale Proclamation W London, By Cable. —From i Town corespondent. The Dai has received the following. “ ond invading force w designed ‘cupy Bristown. Being checked b DeAar troop©, it has disappeared the Ceaderberg mountains. An en moua coueentrutlOQ of troop© ie made upon the vsldt country oetiu by the Invaders, but it is not-•Ilk* that the Boers will offer bat:le4n lan numbers. There is a renewed demai for the wholesale proclamation of mar tial law.” Brief rieation. / Germany has 33 citi wiUy'popula tions exceeding l@ft,Cso. Dan Keegan, said to ne a resident o£ Cincinnati, 0., while attempting to board a freight train at Alton, N. Y., was struck by a west-hound Delaware &Hudson train and killed. A hand-ome young man stole kisses from three women in Harlem, N. ¥., on Tuesday evening. Thpmas Parker, a British gold-hunt er, was found frozen to death near -the mouth of the White River, in the Klon kike. Most of the Berlin papers will raise their pricea in January, owing to the high price of paper. -—* ~e 1 having remover the was f ,ned Eat—u ay by : eign ministers, including fr*y • tbe Netherlands, v oy.y recently. The note y cered to Li Hung Chany the Chinese pier os soon as the former ah ciently recovered from tion. The Chimes© close to I a still prefer to believe, deep ing of the note, which they Have would take place, that cipal negotiation® must be <%. in Europe or America. They the British modification of the tor, as they say, some power or p era might not. be satisfied until the im demnity has been paid in full, which would mean the occupation of Pekin for an indefinite time, as it cannot be expected it hat China can raiße what would be required—possibly one bil lion taels —at once. A® a matter of fact it will take several years. TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT. Washington, D. C., Special.—The st%te department has made public the text of th© joint, note of the powens to China. The official statement fftter reciting China’s ,offenses proceeds aa follows: Inasmuch a® China ho® recognized her responsibility, expressed regret, and evinced a-sdesire to see an end put to the situation created by the afore said disturbances, tne powers have de termined to aaced© to her request upon the irrevocable conditions nu umeratod below, which they deem in dispensable to expiate the crime® com mitted &M to prevent their recur rence. JR fe* 1. (a) The dispatch to Berlin of au extraordinary mission, headed by an imperial prince, in order to express the regfete of his majesty the emperor of China and of the Chinese government for the assassination of hia excellency th© late? Baron vyn K&tteler, minister of German ” i. (b) The n on tbefepot of the assaeeinat •' a commemorativ© monumci bting .the rank <*f the deceased, inscription 'n the Latin, Glj nose lair ages expreaßi peroi .of China n. (a) V for the persona "iai decree of Se k ose whom the rep w * ftr® shall euboiA ueei (b) The soattgu m for all official executions in where fofeigners have be* or have been subjected to ment. TII. reparatiu caii in ah s decree: J (a) Bjbi'bo tion, under ualty bershipj in any anta (b) linumerating that have been guilty, TOgf ther with y . of all official execution, in th* where foreigners lu|ve been of.have been subjected to err treat; and (c) Furthermore, an imr cree to be issued and throughout the empire, order*., the governors goneral iViCroy> . New. Clever Burton, than $4,00 $3,000,000. ern Pass, t sippi, wa a l PORTRAIT r One ExponljW Chicago clhliximl Ci.meo cutter in There *may be other but portrait c ameo out yond ordinary cameo e. trait painting beyond pho> Is an art in itself. Tlie only portrait cameo cutter i Hylen. a native of Sweden, who learned the art of engraving on i whic h is Ihe basic- art of c-amef ting. He learned cameo cutting . Vienna, hike other tiiw arts. ■ cutting requires infinite path* 'artistic sense, and it wa., ~oi until Mr. Hylen had worked for some think like 40 years that he considered himself a competent portrait cameo cut ter. Cameo cutting is one of the, oldest fitie arts. It probC,ly originated in India, but was c arried thence to Egypt, where it flourished before tlie’tlpie of Moses. It was carried fromr pt to- Peril. In those early - eli<-v that the: art of y us' ste tas a part of if •M- -rather " air