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The News and Observer. VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 55 TKIE UfcDBfflEST GBOIMBIIL&TfDGDIKI ®F /&OOT STOOTO (MOmOGM [MOO 7 . THURSTON’S GOOD-BYE HAWAII’S MINISTER TO LEAVE FOR HIS ISLAND HOME TO- DAY. HIS CURT NOTE TO GRESHAM. His Absence is Generally Regarded as Permanent Though Many Believe it a Shrewd Diplomatic Stroke—Our Relations With Hawaii Left in a Peculiar Condition—Argument in the Debs Case—Minister Ransom off for Mexico* Special to the News and Observer. Washington, D. 0., March 27. The two topics which are entertaining the thoughts of the people here at pres ent are the foreign complications aud Attorney General Oiney's defense of the government in the proceedings against Debs and his associates. Minister Thurston left this afternoon for San Francisco, from which place he will sail on April 4th for his Hawaiian home. The announcement yesterday of Mr. Thurstou’s sudden determination to leave Washington occasioned a surprise in diplomatic circles. Mr Tnurston’s departure puts an end to previous comment as to his purpose to remain in Washington as a thorn in the side of the State Department. His statement yesterday does not make clear whether his absence is temporary or Eermanent. It is regarded as final, owever, in showing that he will not seek to remain in Washington as a source of any irritation. There have been reports, believed, however, to be baseless, that if he persisted in remain ing in a private capacity the law would be evoked to have him deported, but Mr. Thurstou’s departure is regarded as set tling that there will be no occasion for forcing him out of the country. In s >me quarters Mr Tnurston’s move is regarded as -■» shrewd diplomats stroke It is recalled that he left unex pectedly about fifteen months ago, when the question of restoring the Queen to the throne was at a critical stage in Hawaii. The Hawaiian government was on the point of reaching a decision, bnt had not yet done so. At this juncture Mr. Thurs ton suddenly left Wasgington, j his departure not being known until he was well on the way to San Francis co. He had full information as to the sentiment in the United States, and when he reached Hawaii bis advice had much to do in the final action of the gov ernment It is to be suggested, there fore, that h s departure at the present juncture, before it is known what action the Hawaiian government has taken on Secretary Gresham's demand may re sult in his b -ing at Honolulu when final action is taken. The departure of Mr. Thurs on from the Uuited States without lieing recalled by his gov. rnmeut will leave the rela tions between this government aud Ha waii in a peculiar condition. It cannot be said that there is a rapture of d plo matie relation, but they will certainly be severely strained. It is said that yesterday’s cabinet meet ing, at which, by the W&y, every mem ber was present, our foreign complica tions were considered. It is not known exactly the course which the new Span ish m : nister will take in regard to the Allianca affair. The special Star service from Car michael, Cumberland county to Dial will be di-conti; ued on March 81st. A special Star service has been es tablished from Skyco to Wanchese, a distance of four and a half miles, and j back to be carried three times a week. * A special order discontinues on March 31st the following Star routes: Glen, : Mitchell county, to Armstrong, office discontinued; "Hemlock, Transylvania! countv, to Ecusta; Skyuka, Polk county, to Lynn. Tue Star route from Smyrna to Ocra coke has increased its schedule to three times a week The official commission for John B Smith to be postmaster at Rome was is sued to day State Labor Commissioner Benj. Lacy and Mr. Josephus Daniels, editor of the News and Observer,' who have been here for the past few days, leave on the Southern train to morrow night for Ral eigh. E L, Harris, a commission merchant of Raleigh, is here. He will open up a brokerage office aud w ill make Washing ton his home. Judge Satn Phillips appeared before the Supreme Court in an important case to-day. Minister Ransom arrived to night. He will make farewell visits to departments to-morrow, and leave Friday for Mexico. Mrs. Ransom and Miss Esther will follow in September. Arrivals. Editor Campbell, Rocky Mount Ar gonaut. A. B. Andrews, Raleigh H. E. Fries, Salem. J. B. Vaughan, Winston. Henry Johnson, Tarboro. Fell aud Broke Ills Neck. Special to the News and Observer LouisbußG, N. C., March 27. A very sad accident happened in the upper part of this county last Saturday. Mr. Geo. Ayscue was building a tobacco barn and w hile Mr. Arch Stokes was as sisting in raising the logs he fell from the scaffold and striking on his head bloke his neck. Continued wet weather has very mnch retarded all farm work in this section. MURDER TRIALS IN SURRY. Horrible Torture and Killing of a Lit tle Child by Negro Women. Special to the News and Observer. Winston, N. 0., March 27. In Surry court to-day the grand jury returned a true bill against two colored women for murdering a little child last Ml. Their crime was a most horrible one. They built a tire and placed the little girl over it. letting the blaze run in its mouth and throat until it died. The murder trial of the three Mcßrides aDd two Barnhardt broth ers was concluded in Surry court yesterday. They plead guilty of manslaughter. Two of the Mcßrides and one of the Barnhardt brothers were sentenced to jail for six months. One of the former brothers was set free while one of the latter goes to the penitentiary for two years Their crime was for killing Frank Mont gomery, of Virginia, last fall. The evi dence showed that the deceased, with his friends, was partially responsible for the shootiDg scrape which resulted in Mont gomery’s death. HE HAD LOST HIS POSITION. This i-i Supposed to Have Caused Young Collette’s Suicide. Special to the News and Observer Winston, N. C., March 27. James Collette, a promising young man, living near Cana, Davie county, committed suicide Monday by shooting himself with a shot-gun. The entire load entered his abdomen. Deceased had been married only two months His body was found in the woods in the afternoon by his mother in law, while en rovte to a neighbor’s house. Collefce had some trouble with his em ployer a few days before, and lost his position. This "i* the only reason as signed for bis rash act. Col. A. M. a prominent Mason and citizen of Mooksville died last night. BUSINESS MEN INDIGNANT. The New Mortgage Law W ill Work . Many Hardships on all Classes. Special to the News and Observer. Green boro, N. C., March 27. A great deal of excitement was mani tested here this morning when the news reached here about the mortgage clau&e o : the act,recently passed regulating, as signments Business men are very indignant and a president of one of our banks told yonr correspondent that he had 16.000 which had been sent him by a friend out of the State to place here, and he will send it back at once. This law will certainly work hardships upon both borrowers and lenders of money. THE WORK OF MOONSHINERS. A Fanner Called to His Door at Nigh! and Shot. Spetrittl to the News and Observer. Winston, N. C , March 27. In the Roaring River neighborhood of Wilk*»s county, Monday night. A crowd of whiskey bloekaders went to the home of a farmer and called him to his front dr, or and shot him through the thigh. The wound is dangerous. The crowd then went to the home o? the farmer’s s.m and tore it completely down. They then visited and burned an unoccupied house belonging to another son. The father and two sons were witnes ses in a case tried a few days before, against a moonshiner named Wiles. Two Negro Children Bunted to Death. Special to the News and Observer. Maxton. N. 0., March 27. The residence of J -e Jones, colored, was destroy* dby firo last night. Two of his children, aged four and six, per ished in the flames. OUR NEW TORPEDO BOAT. It Will Be the Fir>t Vessel of the Kind Ever Contracted For. Washington. D 0., March 27.—Sec re’ary Herbert has decided to increase the navy by a submarine torpedo boat. Proposals for this vessel were invited in May 1893, since which time the depart ment has made a thorough investigation of this type of vessel. The eontret was awarded yesterday to the John P. Hoi land Torpedo Boat Co , of New York The contra ft calls for a vessel 80 feet in length, diameter 11 feet and displacement when submerged 138 1-2 ton*. The ves set is to be constructed of steel of do mestic manufacture and fitted with en gines, boil rs and machinery of domes tic make, aud is to have a speed of 15 knots in light condition, 14 knots awash (partly submerged),) and 8 knots sub merged. This will be the first vessel of this kind ever contracted for. The French have made efforts in this direction but have not succeeded in building an effi cient submarine boat. NEW PASSENGER ASSOf I ATION. Mr. Finley, of the Great Northern, Elected Commissioner. Atlanta, Ga., March 27.— Mr Finley, the traffic manager of the Great North ern Railway, was today elected com m'ssioner of the new Southern S’ates Passenger Association. The Southern Passenger Association was merged into the new association, and Mr. Finley will take charge April 15. Finley was formerly chairman of the Western Passenger Association. His present head quarters are at St. Paul. Commissioner Slaughter, was voted a year’s salary and a resolution of thanks. RALEIGH. N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 28. 1895. MURDER AND SUICIDE A LOVER KILLS II IS YOUNG SW KK HIE AIIT AND Til K S SHOOTS HIMSELF. BOTH OF THEM WELL CONNECTED. The Young Woman Was Shot Three Times in the Head While Standiug at a Washfctand—The Young Man Abo Shot Himself in the Head—They Had Both Been on the Stage—No Reason is Known for the Awful Tragedy Ex cept That he Had Been Drinking. New York, March 27.—Murder and suicide were committed some tune to day in the furnished room house, No. 15 West 24th street. What led to the tragedy may be never known, for nothing was left to indicate any reason for the mad acts. The per petrator of them was John Bigelow, an actor, and the scene of the tragedy was the room of Miss Amy Thill, his victim, who was an actress. It appears that he killed the young woman by firing three shots into her head, aud then shot himself in the head. Miss Thill occupied a room in the house with her two sisters, Alice and Marie, and Bigelow was a frequent caller upon them. Shortly after 10 o’clock this morning Mar tha Coleman, wife of the janitor of the bouse, heard four sharp reports, and, thinking a waterpipe had burst, she summoned her husband, and they ex amined the pipes, but found no breaks. It was Miss Thili’s custon to rise about noon, but sue did not appear, aud dur ing the afternoon, it was decided to break open the door of her room. When this was done, a horrible sight was presented. On the floor, with his head near the foot of the bedstead and his feet in the alcove, lay Bigelow. In his right temple was a jo!e, from which the blood had ceased flowing, while blood was spattered on the wall. Clutched in his right hand was a revolver, with four of its five chambers empty. In the a ! cove lay the body of. Miss Thiil. Her head was near the door, while her feet were under the wash stand She was partly clothed. In one hand was a towel, near by stood a basin with water. Her face was covered with blood. There was one bullet hole under her left eye, another in her left cheek and a third in the left side of her head. She had evidently been wash ing and had been shot while stand ing with her left side her slayer. On one of the bureaus in the loom lay two letters in the woman’s handwriting-one addressed “8. S. Karsch, The Standard, 1155 Broadway,” and the other “Madame Thill, 813 Mill street, Minneapolis, Minn.” The second letter, it is believed, was for the dead woman’s mother, Her fam ily are s id to be well to do. The e roner, after being duly notified by the police, viewed the bodies and gave a pr-rmit for their removal to an uudert king establishment. Meanwhile, the two s ters of the dead women, Misses Alice and Marie, at present with a tbea rical company in Erie, Pa., were notified. It was learn >d to night that Bigelow was the son of J. Bigelow, a retired law yer, and ex Mayor of Morristown, N. J., and that he had claimed to have wealthy relatives in Brooklyn and in the South. It was said that Bigelow had been very gloomy since he lost his posi tion last Christmas and had been drink ing heavily. THE CUBAN REVOLUTION. The Government Troop* Defeat the Rebels iu Two Engagements Havana, March 27. —The Governor of Santiago de Cuba reports that the gov ernment troops have just overtaken a band of rebels, wounding one and cap turing a quantity of arms aud ammuui tion. He also reports that the tioops dispersed another band at Cuavatas. capturing their arms, provisions, etc. Seventeen rebels have surrendered to the authorities at Santiago. The Insurrection Rapidly Spreading. Madrid, March 27.—The despatches from Havanna have alarmed the govern ment as they indicate that the insurrec tion is spreading rapidly ar.d is already beyond tho control of the local com" manders. The decision was marie last night tin refore to send Martinez de Campos to Cuba with strong reinforcements. To day it is reported that 9,700 additional troops will embark with him. He will start probably on April 2d. The torpedo gunboats Pilipinas and Martin Alonzo Pinzon and the cruiser Cas s ilia have received orders to proceed with all possible speed to Cuban waters. The publication of this news, which completely contradicts the former san guine dispatches from official sources, has caused keen excitement here. It is announced this evening that Primo Rivera has been appointed Captain Gen er..l of Cuba to succeed Gen. Gallejas. Additional Rein force me nts from Spain Paris, Mamb 27 — A dispatch from Madrid to the Journal dcs Debats says the Spanish government has decided to send additional reinforcements of 6,000 men to Cuba. Cholera Among Japanese Troop*. London, March 27.—A dispatch to the Star says that cholera has broken out among tho Japanese troops at Port Arthur. Thirty-eight cases were report ed in one day. A MOST DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Over 91,000,000 Worth of Property Burned in Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wis., March 27.—At 2:45 o’clock this afternoon one of the worst of the many destructive tires in the his tory of the city was finally gotten under control. At that time over $1,000,000 worth of property had been destroyed and t wenty business firms had lost their stock and bnildings. There were also many minor losses, including offices, flats and small shops. The fire originated at a few minutes after midnight in the wholesale clothing house of Umdauer & Co., on the corner of 4th street and Grand avenue. The spread of the flames was checked before 3 o’clock, but the engines were kept busily at work until 8 o’clock. The larger concerns are well insured, though the exact amounts cannot be ob tained, as the insurance policies in many cases are in safes and vaults that lie be neath the heaps of brick and wreckage wh ” ■ the buildings stood. Tuere was great excitement in the neighborhood of .the fire, especially among guests at the hotels. The manager of the Schlitz Ho tel was in the office when the fire started, and quietly awakened a large number of guests and advised them to be ready to escape if the blaze worked its was east. There was no panic, although it was a lively scene for ten or fifteen minutes, and trunks and guests were brought down byway of the elavators and stair ways in the hall. It was soon found un necessary to remove anything, and most of the baggage was left in the office. The Davidson Hotel guests bad more reason to fed uncomfortable as many of them occupied rooms next to the alley to the north in the rear of the Plankington building, and were in real danger all the time. They were notified by the Dight clerk and there was soon a scramble for the elevator. The office was filled with baggage and a few women and lots of men who thought there was no hope for the hotel. But little if any thing was removed from the house and the excitement was over as soon as the people got thoroughly aroused. In the buildiDg No. 318 Grand Avenue, there were a number of women. Some of these were paoie stricken when the fire swept across the avenue and stood on a landing on the side of the ouilding, wildly gesticulating and unable to move or do anything to help themselves Police Lieutenant How ard and some officers went to their as sis ance, but before reaching them two jumped from tho second story. Both stmek on a pole in the alleyway, and both were injured, but how badly or who they were could not be learned, as they were carried off by friends in the crowd. THE GEORGIA CENTRAL, The Work of Disrupting the System Has Already Begun. New York, March 27.— Prominent bondholders of the Savannah end West ern d and Chattanooga, Rome and Col umhus roads have decided to to take steps to withdraw from the Georgia Central system. The Fitzgerald Committee of* Savan nah aud Western has disbanded, and the securities returned to their owners. This company was organized in the in terest of the Georgia Central. The Borg Savannah and Western Committee was acting solely in the in terest of the security of that company. It is understood that Messrs. Colston and Lehman, formerly of the Fitzgerald Committee, wilt join forces with the Borg Committee. It was said yesterday that foreclose e proceedings would be pressed for the sale of the Savannah and Western in the interest of the fir t consolidated mort gage bondholders. A petition for foro closure has already been filed. The holders of the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus bonds also favor with drawing from the Georgia Central re organization. The road is now a part of the Savannah and Western, but the bondholders favor regaining indepen dence for their road. SUIT AGAINST SENATOR BACON. A Promineut Manufacturer Sues IHrii for the Recovery of $140,000. Macon, Ga.. March 27. A suit of inoie than local interest was filed in the Su perior Court here this morning. The parties to the suit are Major J. F. Hanson, one of the most prominent manufacturers in the South who is and has been for years one of the strongest protectionists in the country and United States Senator-elect A. O. Bacon. Tho Senator is the defendant. The suit grows out of the fact that Major Hanson was compelled to pay a bond which he signed three years ago for one of Senator Bacon’s clients, the amount of which was about $140,000 It is for this amount that he sues Major HaDson sets out that he was in troduced by Mr. Bacon to sign a bond on the ground of long friendship and that Senator Bacon assured him that he could not possibly lose anything. He says that Senator Bac n has repeatedly declined to indemnify him for the loss of the bond. The petitioner asks that the defendant be r< quiied to show cause on April 15, before tho Superior Court. The Plague Near tlong Kong London, March 27. —The Colonial Os fice has received official confirmation of the reported plague iu Kowloon, near Hong Kong. AFFAIRS IN HAWAII PRESIDENT DOLE NOT INVITED TO MINISTER WILLIS’ RECEPTION. THE EX-QUEEN IN CONFINEMENT. She is Comfortably Situated and Well Provided For--The Other Political Prisoners Have Been Put at Work on the Roads—No Reference Made to Minister Thurston’s Recall—The American Annexation League and Attorney-General Smith. San Francisco, March 27.—The steamer Australia arrived from Hono lulu shortly before 9 o’clock this morn ing. She left Honolulu March 20th President Dole on the 18th inst., de dared martial law to be at an end and the writ of habeas corpus restored. U. 8. Minister gave a reception last week to Admiral Beardslee and officers of the Philadelphia, for which a large number of invitations were issued. Pres ident Dole and wife were not invited and only two members of the cabinet. This caused asensation. Interviewing the Pres ident on the subject, he said: “I attach no importance to it. The reception was a very informal affair.” To a question as to w bether his relations with Mr. Willis were strained, the Pres ident replied: ‘‘Not at all; notin any way. ” It was further learned from the Attor ney General that Mrs. Willis gave invi tations by telephone in a most informal way. The stories published in San Francisco to the effect that the government is op posed to annexation and has quarreled with, the American League, which is urgent for annexation, and that, being afraiu of the League and its leader, Tim Murray, the government is enlisting 300 men in San Francisco to fight for it; also that W. O. Smith, the Attorney General, had a severe altercation with Tim Mur ray on the subject of annexation, have no foundation whatever. No one in Honolulu needs to be as sured that the government has always been thoroughly aud heartily for aun x ation, and continues so. William Smith denies that the government is enlisting men abroad or lias thought of doing so. [t has iiO differences whatever with the American League. Mr. Smith did have sharp words with Murray on the 17th of January upon a totally different subject. The Attorney-General expressed much vexation at the release of the schooner 11. O. Wahl berg, three days before his lawyer and witnesses reached the o ast, although they were sent for with the knowledge of United States officials. He thinks the Wahlbergwill be seized again. The ex Queen was observed yesterday morning sitting at her window in the executive bui’ding. listening to the gov eminent baud play ing in front. She is as comfortably situated as possible, aside from her confinement to one part the building. H. B. M. gunboat Nymph arrived hereon the 17th from Santiago. She will sail in a fortnight for Esquimault. A battalion of marines aud sailors from the Philadelphia landed on the 12th for shore drill, and will do so every Tuesday. The German steamer Braunfels is due about April Ist from the Azores with six hundred Portuguese laborers and three women and cbildern. This immigi ation will steadily continue as the result of Minister Thurston’s visit to Lisbon. Nine hundred Japanese immigrants arrived on the 14th on the steam; rlu dependent. Seven hundred were con tract laborers. It is expected to sup plant this Japanese immigration by that of Portugt ese. Nine native rebels were sentenced on tl e 13th to five years each. These vee the last of the cases. A large number of political prisioners have b :en put to work ou the roads iu Hawaii. Among them are the leaders: Wilcox, Greig, Widemanu and Marshall The Englishmen Rickard and Seward, Ashford and Gulick, will be kept m prison for the present at least. Seward i-s said to be quite ill. The Honolulu irou works have be-m awarded the cou tract for repairing the engines of the Philadelphia. No Reference to i’o uis ton. San Francisco, Match 27 — Advices from Honolulu per steamer Australia contain no reference to Minister Thurs ton’s recall. Thurston’* Note to Gresham. Washington, March 27.—Minister Thurston’s formal note to Secretary Gresham announcing his intended de parture from Washington, which reach ed the Secretary this morning, is under stood to be brief almost to the point of curt ness. It contained no reference to a leave of absence or cause of departure, but under yesterday’s date simply state d that he intended to depart for Honolulu this afternoon, leaving Mr. Hastings in charge of the Hawaiian Legation. The note is said by those familiar with diplomatic communications of its class, to .have been remarkable for its omission of the customary courteous explanations and absolutely unique in failing t > an nounce whether his government had or not given him leave of absence. Dupuy de Lome Appointed JMiuixt' D London, March 27.—The despatch from Madrid to the Central News says the Washington government having ca bled an exequatur to Senor Dupuy de Lome, that gentleman has been appoint ed Minister to the United States. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TRAIN ROBBERS ROUTED. Twool Them Were Killed and a Third Mortally Wounded by Detectives. Chattanooga, Tenn., March 27. South bound passenger train No. 3, on. the Cincinnati Southern railroad, was held up at 2:35 o'clock this morning at the south end of Tunnel No. 9. The train was ascending a steep grade between Greenwood and Alpine, Ky., in the midst of the wildest mountain sec tion of Kentucky, when a white lantern in the darkness ahead brought it to et stop. A man with a cocked revolver in hano F climbed into the cab and covered engi neer Tom BpriDgfield and Fireman Daisy Rankin, who were ordered to standstill. Three other robbers wearing broad brimmed slouch hats and dressed like mountaineers, withal desperate locking men, boarded the baggage car, which they mistook for the express. Three road detectives were sitting m the smoker, and when the train stopped Detective Will Algood stepped out on the platform. A fourth man on the ground ordered him to throw op hie hands, but he replied with a pistol baß which brought the robbtrto the ground The bandits on the baggage car stamp eded at bearing the shooting and jumped down. A sharp battle of small arms eDsued in which the other detectives William Eddy and Thomas Griffin, took a hand. At the finish two robbers were found lying dead and a third mortally wound ed. At Cumberland Falls the officers telegraphed the news out, and alighting set out on the trail of the tw o fugitives If is thought that the wounded man was a tramp and shot by one of the robbers who mistook him for a trainman. The road officials were aware, of the plot to hold up the train and the pres ence of the officers was not accidental although such is denied. lIJ E SUGAR TRUST CASES',- Mr. Ilavemeyer Asks that they b* Tried Before April 15. Washington, March 27.—1 n criminal | court No 2 this morning, Nathaniel Wilson, attorney for 11. O. Ilavemeyer | aud John A Searles, made a motion to advance for trial the cases against them for refusing to answer certain questions asked by the Senatorial Sugar Trust in vestigators. Mr. Wilson said it wa3 imperative to Mr. Havemeyer’a business that his trial should take place before April 15. District attorn* y Birney could not promise to set a date, but Judge Colo said he would give Mr. Bir ney a week in which to fix a specified date. Mr. Birney announced his inteu tion of try ing the eases against the sngat trust officials, stockbrokers and newspa per men consecutively on trials of other cases intervening between the first and: last of these. IIUNG HIM IN THE RIGGING, A Captain Convicted of Brutnllty t«*- a Negio Seaman. Baltimore, March 27.—Captain Jef ferson Wears,of the oyster schooner Gen, Hancock, was found guilty by the jury in the United States District Court to day on the charge of brutality toward Edward Merrill, a colored seaman. The verdict was accompanied by a re commendation to mercy. Judge Morris fined Mcars SIOO, and sent him to jail for three months. Mears is the man who strung Merrill up naked in the rigging of the General Hancock, while the boat was ice bound iu Breton bay, St. Mary’s county, dur ing the February blizzard, slashing hint with a tarred rope till the blood ran. ; HE VICEROY’S WOUND. ; Great Care Being Taken Lest Blood- Poisoning May Set In. London, March 27. —A dispatch from* Yokohama to the Standard says the Japanese Diet closed bs session this moruing. In a secret session held prioi to the adjournment the Diet passed res olutions deploring the assault upon L: Hung Chang. The greatest care is being exercised iD the treatment of the Chinese envoy V wouud lest bl lod-poisoning should su pervene. A dispatch from Kobo says that the Japanese loan of 3,000,000 yen to Corea, has fallen through owing to tlm refnsat of Japan to grant Corea’s request that the loan be kept standing for fifteen years. Admiral Meade’s Squadron. Washington, March 27.—The Navy, Department did not learn until this morning that Admiral Meade's squadror arrived at Kingston on Sunday where the New York, Minneapolis and Cincinnati will remain a week being j ined by the Columbia. The fleet will be coaled a* K'ngstou from the three coalers de spitched from Baltimore for them. Tht cruiser Marblehead left Puerto del Gada Azores, this morning for Gibraltar or. her way to report to Admiral Kirkland now at Corfu, in the flagship San Fran cisco. The gunboat Machias left Hong Kong this morning tor Amoy. No Verdict In the Pannill Cate. Lynchburg, Va., March 27.—The Paunill case was submitted to the jury at 11:20 o’clock this morning. At 6 o'clock they came iuto court and stated they had not reached a verdict, and were adjourned over until 10 o’clock to mor row. The jury is said to stand 11 to 1 for conviction.