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Japanese Position is Noiv
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United States
ACCEPTS REPLY
IN GOOD FAI TH
RUSSIAN PRESS ABAiNlDONS ITS
RESERVE REGAIRDINQ THE
. GOVERNMENT'S DECLARATIONS
TIONS. ; : ;
Washington, April' 10. Japamess
Minister Takahi-Ra today deceived ptf
ficial advidas Irani the foreign offices
at Tokio entirely dispelling' the a'arm
ing repoxts'&s to the Russian-Japanise
rupture, and .showing that ths Japan
ese govemmiemt accepted ttte latest de
claration of Russia on .Manchurda -with
'the same ense of satisfaction as It had
bsen crepeived hy tbe United &tate3.
The position of Japan, as now defined
im rt2je highest official quarter, is prac
tically the same as that of the United
.States.
A copy of the recsmt Rusisian -communication
was sept rtD Japan at the
same time it was (given &y this gov
ernment. Although the ittexls differ
sTirfctly, (they are alike in all material
0 points. The Japanese governanent ncrw
makes known that it aocpits this d:c-laration-as
made in. entire gocd f aith
and like the United States it is quite
satisfied to leave the Manchuria n. ques
tion in its xresent status.
St. Petersburg, April 10. The Rua
siaax press is abandoninig' the reserve
with which it finst diecusdeed the g;v
ernmenit's declaraticn lo.i the subject of
Ji Jkfjwwhuria.
It as mow declared that tha joy with
whieh 'the British press (greeted China'a
tref usal to sign the (Mhchuriah agree
jmeht merely postponed the signtog of
a na 'Undenstanding.-wi hi China, since
(the -convention -would be advantageous
to China. One paper says:
"Our JJondon friewdis. have overlook
ed the fact that in dissuading the s'gn
inig of the agre!ment they did not has
ten the evacuation of Manchura, but
strengthened Russia's pos'tton."
DEWET'S REASON WRECKED
BY BRITISH PURSUIT
In Consearcencs nf whih Botha Ben&ws
Peace Negotiatione.
Tjondon, April 10. A statemi'iit re
ceived from Capetown reaffirms the
previous reports that Oeneral CDefWet
'has lost his reason in. conisaquence of
his intense anxiety and inability to ob
tain reet or sleep becatiae of the inces
sant pursoiit of the CBiltisUi. It is fur
ther stated that General Botha having
satisfied himself of the truth of the re
ports of sDefWet's mental incapacity has
reopetaedi negotiation twith the Bnltish
for peace.
THE IHSAIIE DEED
OF A YOUNG HUSBAND
Header of Emotional Literature Kills
His Wife and Himself.
Louisville, April 10. Temipotrarl'y
crazed it is 'believed by the reading of
eome . emotional literature rwmcn us
thought to have aroused latent jeal
ousy, nenry 'Jevore, agea zv yeans, ax
l:S0i this mCtrndng cut Ithe throait of
Bertha Devore, aged 20 years,
jBertha Devore, his 10 j ear old brid ? of
two months. " After. jgffli'ng his -wife he
but his own WKroat and died alimiost in
etantly. The tragedy (took place at 'the
Biome of Mrs. jervore's father, James
flBMlen, 1410 Twtenty-seconkl treet. The
exact reaBonsi -wimcBi (prompted the
youthatn kill hfe wife will, lirobab'y
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JAPAN
SATISFIED
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Of
two novels in the- top drainer of him
dresser this anornirig.is thought to b
a partial expianatienr. One of these
oovels is called "Imprisoned' .with the
iDead" iand the other "T3se Fate ct
Bluebeard's Wife. "
In the latter the killing of . a Tife by
herjtiusbarad is detailed at considerabW
length." The indtcatlorB are'thst De
vore sat up last night reading- this book
and that it finally pirompted him to
murder and suicide. . "
He is said to have been jealous of his
wife. The -wife's family say Devore
must to have been mentally untnailane-:
ed for several' days past.
The young couple eloped! recently and
were married by a magistrate. The'
bride, who was a devout catholic, was
not satisfied rwith thia ceremony and
had frequently requested her - hushard
to have another marriage crr3imoiny"
performed by a priest. iDevore who was
a protectant did not relish this, and
some! believed that rather than be mar
ried by a priest he killed his -wife and
himself.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION
Discusses Prodosition to Send Commis
sion to Washington..
Havana, April 10. Alt a private sesr
sion in ie constitutional convention to
day the proposal to send a comanission
to Wiasluingtaa was discussed, ibut no
aiotion 'taken. cruaJberto Gomez, a ne
gro delegate, spoke against the Piatt
resolution. . He did not oppose send
ing a commission to Washington jro-
Videdl the octavention first rejected the
POiatt amendment, which he declared
twouid always prevent iCuba from; at
taining imdtependence. He said (he feared
Attnerican influences would be 'niostile to
his race.
The recent stories of Cuibaia bandits
opemtimg. in the country distiricts . are
declared to be exaggerated.
SUIT AGAINST ADMINISTRATORS
AND HERS OF OILMAN ESTATE
Mrs. Hall of New York, Claims to be
an Adopted Daughter of Tea
Merchant.
.New York, April 10. Mrs. Helen
Potts Hall, one of the claimants for a
share of the estate of the late J. IT.
Gilman, today filed sudt against the
administrators of the estate, both in
th'9 state and Oonnecticut and
GilmanX heirs. She,aska that "thy be
restrained from interfering in any way
-with -the estate or with Geo. H. Hart
ford in. the conduct of the tea business
of the late Gilman.
In her complaint Mrs. Hafll asserts
that she is the adopted daughter of
Gilman. She values the estate at fif
teen hundred thousand and says Gil
man promised it all to her after he
adopted her as his daughter. She fur
ther asserts that she "verily 'believes"
services she rendered the deceased -were
of great value and benefit to him.
TRANSPORT BURKED
AND SUNK IH NEW YORK
(New York, April 10. n e was dis
covered in the second hold of the trans-
part Rawlins early today. A quantity
of hay was stored in- the hold. The
firemen endeavored to confine tfce
flamtesi Ito one part of the vessfel. The
Rawlins was at the government pier in
CEsrooklyn and was to have sailed for
Cuba this afternoon.
The fire was 'got under control aJfter
about two hours' work toy the flremein
rbut the Rawlins listed to port, for an
immense quantity of water had Ibeen
pumped through the port holes 'by the
fireiboats. She finally settled at her
pier and sank out of sight.
The cargo, a large port-ion oTwhich
consisted of horse feed for army use,
will prove a total loss.
The damage to the transport Is $30,
000, !to her cargo $80,000.
MONKS FIRE UPOfi
All ASSAULTING MOB
; Madrid, April 10. IA hostile deimion-
stration has taken place at the monas
tery of Paramos, near Oporto, Portu
gal. The monks .replied with gunshots.
whereupon the mob stoned the build
ing. A number of persons were
wounded. 1 .
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BOXER UPRISING
ANTI-FOREIGN
Reports of the American Bible
fJociety on the Chinese
Trouble.
40,000 Native Christians were
Murdered and Their
Homes Looted. .
OUTAGES MAI NLV CON FINED 5
I TO NORTHERN PROVINCES
i
BnnmujvEs destroyed imove-
iM3 HAD IMPERIAL 'SANCTION
New York, April 10. flhe annual i-
jorf of the American 03ible society rela
tive to the situation in, China wSH con-
ttjain the following interesting etate
metht from its agent in China, the Rev
John Rhykes, D. D.
"There was a deep and cunningly laid
plot, under imperial sanction to extir-pate-Christianity,
expel all foreigners
anfaestroy all foregn InttecesLs; No
oaefedivined the futtl extent of the la
iqud :which jwas deliberately con.em-
'flit all 183 protectant missiionarl.es in
cluding 60 men, 75 women and 43 chil-
drtn have been massacred.
tWith the exception of the. massacres
j)t Kuj Choo in Oba 'Kiaag in which
eleven persons we m killed and at Heng
iChoo in Hunan all of the deaths oc
curred -in the northern provinces. '
SThe question has baen raised at
home as to whether the Boxer uprising
was anti -foreign or anti-missionary in
its character. No douibt exists in the
mind of any well -inf armed xerejon in
"China.
- The movement- was undoubtedly
against foreigners as such; and the
crusade was directly against every
thing .foreign Christianity, of cou.se
(Included. Hsu Ohing Chen and Yun
iChangj . two ministers of the foreign
would not transmit tte awlu2
edkt which reiterated the order to
;painf uEy extripate all foreigners' bu
changed so as to 'protect all foreigners
and 'then sent it flying over the wires
to remotest- provinces. They were sen
tenced to he cut dn two. Missionaries
were the class that benefited toy this
act of heroism. The fact" that e -y
missionary escaped .frcm fouitee i cut
of the eighteen provinces would indl
cate that the cru&ade was not specially
antt-'missionary .
"In the provinces of 'Shah Li and
Shan fit every school, hospital, chapel
and dwelling was looted and bumed'by
the Boxers or imperial troops, the only
exception the property in the forcijn
settlement at Tien Tain. So complete
was the demolition of property by Ihese
mad fanatics .that not a vestige -was
left to mark 'the site; even the founda
tions were dug up and carried away
There was also destruction of mission
property in the provinces of Shen Si
Hotan, Hunan, Hupsh, Kiang Si, Che
Kianer. and Kwan Tune. The native
Christian have been the worst suf
ferers. ,Those who escaped the geaeial
slaughter in the northern provircas
lost absolutely everything and many of
them are periShiog ifrom cold and star
vation .
'Tina scriptures destroyed will aggre
gate not less than 100,000 volumes and
the actual loss to the society will not
Ibe less than $8,000 or $10,000 gold, in
cluding the expenses of getting worker!
to places of safety and back egaln to
their stations.
"We have (to mourn the loss of 'many
noble and devoted native workers. They
were warned of the risks ithey were
minning, Ibut' mot a maim of the noble
band of eighteen flinched. Their reply
wias, "We go on a colportag1 i tour. God's
rwffi ibe done.' Only four of the 18 re
turned from that journey. The homes
of these miairfyrs .-rwere looted and toura
ed and1 their families exterminated.
Those who survived escaped to the
mountains -where they suffered terrible
.privations and manaiged to get back to
Pekin after the ' dty was oapturedi
oy the allied armlesi Of the colporteurs
Hinder missionary suiDervision I lhav
not heard of dae who escaped. In flome
other parts of , China coiaxorteurs en
BELOW VALUE 1
A building 6t on
Merrimoa ave. (near
North Main street) is
offered for 15 daj
at S6S0,: si?6 75x130.
f :, Other lots' adjoining,
but much smaller are
held? at 2$?50.y nand
owner considei s'them
- cheap;. . f s ... v. j
I IVilkie &LaBarbe, :
I 9 . . . .. in i mf
dured terrible j ersecution and some of
them are only now venturing" out of
hiding'.
"More fchaiw forty thousand native con
verts (including .Roman Catholics)
met eath with a heroism worthy of the
best age of uie church.
":While the itotal numiber of volumes
of the scrip-cures published is 37,700 aess
tlhan the previous year the number of
page is slightly m excess. The num
ber of pages printedi in 1899, (was 76,-
932,300; this year, it was 77,646,700, or
about vhree quarters of a imiSlioca more.
This is the largest toiuimfber of pages
ever (printed, in one year by the China
agency .and .will .give some idea of the
proportion to which! the work had
grown, when in common with a'J other
forms -of -Christian . work. . lit was sud
denly interrupted hy "the events Of the
past yef - -
The number of Ibjafadairln Bibles
manuifiactured is worthy of special no
tice. 'There were received from the
printers no less than 16,50y complete Bi
bles, amd 5,000 conies were in press on
Piecemiber 1., Ten years ago an edition
of 2,000 copies was thought sufficietot to
meet the dieaniamd for several years.
This fairly dandtoates the growtth of the
naftirve church aurdns this period, for
it is from 'the native Christians that
the demand for htese Bibles comes."
WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA
AilD JAPAN AVERTED
LBussia willWithdraw from Manchu
ria when Order is Established.
Washington, April 10. War hetiween
Russia and Japan over 'Manchuria ap
pears to have been avierted. The Jap
anese minister iniformed Secretary Hay
today vnat he had received advices that
his government u. acceDted Russia's
assurancd. that she would not insist on
China consenting 'to t e ;Manch'Uiria,i
agreement and would withdraw from
uianchuria as soon as' order was estab
lished there. The course of Japan is
gratifying to 'the United (States. While
he attitude of the other powers has not
beebf disclosed it is (believed the action
of two strong nations like" the United
States and Japan 'in accepting Russia's
assurance will induce the other powers
to do likewise .
UNION REPRESENTATIVES
CMEET PA1LWAY OFFICIALS
Prospects that a Strik? wil be Avoid
ed in Jersey Central.
New York, April 10. John V, .Waite
representing the engineers, and Tim
othy Shea, ''representing the firemen
visited -ne oces of the Jersey Central
at Jersey City today with the object of
renewing? Negotiations for the settle
meat of differences between the em
ployees tamd the company.
They said they (believed the matter
could! he settled as far as their organiz
ations ere concerned. The question was
put to itnem: -"What about the train
men? "Oh, ibother the traiinimen," one
of them replied. -
It was finally decided that trainmen
and Others should foe represented and
that a conference should be called to
morrow morning with Superintendent
Wentz. Viive-President 'Warreni has al
so decided to meet ihe committees of
the road in conference today, and the
outlook is there will be no strike.
The grievance oomimittee of the
Wilkesbarre ivisioa received a telegrtum
tonigiht signed Warren, Wentz & Co.,
in this city, asking them to leave on
the first train tomorrow morning to
meet -Warren Sor a discussion of the
demands. T.ihe general belief now is that
the chances of a strike, are very slim.
G0EBEL MURDER JURY
ALL DEMOCRATS
Frankfort, Ky., Airil 10. The wo-k
of selecting a jury in ihe case cf Oar
nett Ripley, accused of complicity in
thte Goebel murder," was completed to
day. The jurors are all democrats and
are farmers living outside this city.
Ripley entered a plea of not guilty
and Judge Williams began the onanlnR
statement for th e common wea' th. T e
first point which !the state would prove,
he claimed, was that a conspiracy was
formed to kill Goebel and that Ripley
was connected with it throughout.
LARGE DRY GOODS STORE
BURRED AT RICHMOND
Richmond, Va., April 10.The larga
retail dry goods store of Julius Meyers
Sons was destroyed by fire today. The
iloss Is not known. The stock and fix
tares are insured for aiboufc $10,C00.
The .building which was owned by E -Raab
and M. E. Eisf eldt was Insured
for $40,000.
'Every woman to beautiful
at some time ot net lite.9' :
"Victor Bingo. '-
Every woioSan Is flire beautiul
In some ishts i'Xid positions than
others.liW fiAd the josf ?ecom
4n: ligl.j.ad position $ffjta&xi ;-j we
we makeiyour portraitllW6
to findfjthe most hecchafln: ex
pression (the natural- one) but
there 4s where .ire are dependent
upon your help. We have a
pencil whiols .wiill 'Wjdrk wonders
.ML .af rti4ett."if 3 , irregWSax r fea-.
, 'tures-BJOd itounditngr thin bosomsr
Our pdcttrres. for 1901 shall he bet
' ter than" ever hefone. . ' .
13 mr A Photograph ff
Di'llLil 9i patton we, . I
' If we db not snake ybur por
trait beauftffuSi it (Will be because
. it -was taken - at the wroag time
Dtlife." . - -
P.1YSTER0US
ROBBERY
No Clew to the Means bv
which three Bags of Gold
were Stolen
Taken from the strong Room '
on the Steamer Wiliiam
dr Grr-sse.
AGENTS, AT NEW YORK
ISSUE STATEMENT
AMOUNT STOLEN 19 $22 7KftffP
CIE ROOM WAS BROKEN OPEN
WHILE THE VESSEL WAS
SEA.
AT
New York, April 10. The iobfoaiy at
isfca of the specie, .room of the Noith
German Lloyd liner Kai'ser Wilhelm
der Grosse seems a mysterious crime.
Apparently there has ib.en comDl te
failure to locate either the missing gold,
'ouiinon or the men who tcok it. The
advices to Oelrichs & Co., agents for
the company came-5n German, anl on
the point as to whether the specie room
.was broken open or er.terel by pkking
the lock admits of translat on either
way. The bars of gold iwere pa.kei ia
oak casks bound with iron hoops.
Thousands of dollars in gold were with
in the reach of the man 'who forced his
(sSEd qaanoj uo panuniuoo)
Gold Vate s
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We have for sale a valuable
gold mining property fifty miles
from Ashevi'lle.
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comprisiijg ranch,' agricultural,,
mineral and timber lands.
Prices are reasoriiabie and) the
attention of capitalists is called'
to these properties.
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Real Estate Dealers,
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