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THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT 4 -r" NUMBER 209. LITTLE ROCK, ARK, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 30, 1901. VOLTUCB; 30. TRADE OF EUROPE ARE IN THE FINAL DAY Threatened by United States, Says Parle Paper. PARIS.

May 30. La Presse, In a leader on What it calls "the Yankee Peril." says that tbo Japanese war and the recent expedition to China have shown that the "yellow peril" rJilTLOOK NOT GOOD To-Pay Jof ft telephone have money to pay fr ither conveniences and necessities. They are the ones every, business man -wishes to reach. How can you reach themT Ask the local manager about the various form of service, The Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company. mJolmsoft4iOi Ample facilities for prompt and efficient negotiations In the flnancfal af fairs of persons, corporations, or estates.

Faithful management given properties or trusts. Loans, Rents. Sales. Interest orj deposits. in West Second Street THE POWERS' DEMAND Four Per Cent Interest and Indemnity Agreed to by Chinese.

NEW YORK, May 80. A dispatch to the Herald from Pekin says: The Chinese have accepted the demand of the powers for 4 per cent Interest and indemnity 'pending payment of the principal I JOINT DECORATION. AH Mannr of Veterans Took Part In Denver Exercises. DENVER, May 80. The G.

A. United Confederate Veterans, soldiers ot the Spanish-American -war, Govern nor Qrman and staff, the state National Guard and other military and civic- organizations participated in a parade here today in observance ot Memorial Day. Appropriate exercises DECORATION AT CHATTANOOGA. Flowers Placed on Union and 8panlsh War Soldiers' Graves. CHATTANOOGA, May The graves ot 13,500 dead Union soldiers and 400 Spanish-American war soldiers, burled in the national ceme tery here, were decorated today with fitting ceremonies.

A market, feature of the occasion was the tact that the programme arranged by the G. A. R. committee made the Spanish war men most prominent. with the view of filling with them the fast-dying ranks ot the veterans.

Two posts ot the G. A. the local camp W. the local national guard and many citizens participated in the ceremonies, 1 4 VILL ABIDE Cubans Are Inclined to quiesce in the MAJORITY'S WILL Radical Denunciation of Supporters of Piatt Amendment in Constitutional Convention Finds Llttl Popular Support. NEW YORK, May 30.

A dispatch to tba Tribune from Havana says, acquiescence in the will of the majority is dominant, but the convention's ac ceptance of the Ptatt amendment has been quickly followed by pleas for harmony. A minority of rabid radi cals were bitter against the supporters of the amendment, but their bitterness finds little popular support, especially since it has been shown that a majority of those who voted in the affirmative wens the class of revolutionists who did some fighting As an offset to the violent messages, General Manduley, one of the Santia go delegates who voted against the amendment, telegraphed to his constituents that the country should respect the action of the convention, and should strive for peace and good order. He condemned the agitation and announced that ho should co-operate with the majority in making effective the acceptance of the American condi tions. Others of the minority made similar statements. Mehdez Capote.

the presldtngoffloer, conferred with General wood on this future work ot the convention, and was told that the American authorities would like to have the, making of an electoral law expedited as rapidly as possible since It is the policy of the administration tcLjeneourage the early formation-of the Cuban government 4 CZAR'S DAUGHTER Much Regret Felt at St. Peters burg at News of Her Illness. ST. PETERSBURG, May 30. Much regret is felt here at the news published to the effect that the eldest daughter of the czar la 111, and that her malady is of the nature of typhus, 1 APPREHENSION AT BAILEY.

Mucn rear Feit at Missing of Boer Under Kretzlnger, QUEENSTOWN, CAPE COLONY May Boers are massing nn aer commander Krltzlnger to the northward ot Bailey. There Is much local apprehension and town guard remains all night the trenches. Passenger traffic to the north has been suspenaea ana freight Is proceeding under armed escort. The banks close at noon. TOWNE GOES TO NEW YORK.

Ex-Senator Will Drop Politics In En. deavor to Get Rich. DULUTH, May ator Charles A. Towne will remove to New York the latter part of June, and will make that city his home in the future. Politics will be a secondary consideration with Towne for the next few years, he says, for he Is now flred with the ambition to make a fortune, Towne left today for New York upon business in connection with the new company he Is promoting, and of which ha will be the head.

Mr. Towne and those associated with him have an option upon 300,000 acres of oil lands in Texas, and they are organizing to pur- chase and operate them. Augustus Thomas new play, "Colo rado," will be produced by Charles Frohman. isurancc MM Byes Make or mar many a face; the other features may be ever so comely, a pair of weak, red, Inflamed or twitching eyee will spoil Its beauty. Properly-adjusted glasses will cure most of these troubles by removing the cause.

But don't get the Idea' that anybody or everybody can do the "proper adjusting." we have made a study of the eye and give you a scientific examination. Jewelers, The Citizens' (Incorporated.) We have several very pretty cottages for rent We have large sums ot money to 'loan on lmm proved property. The Citizens Investment and Security Company, tool E. Markham Street Both 'phones. pouring In that Island In ever Increas ing numbers, and at last Uncle Sam has smelted a rat Of course as long as the Cubans did not object, It made no difference to this country how many Chinese went to Havana, provided they stayed there and did not sneak over Into this country in violation of the exclusion laws.

This, however, It seems, Is exactly what they have been doing. Thousands have recently passed through this country In bond for Havana, embarking at New Orleans and New York. Once In Cuba, there Is little to prevent their being smuggled Into Florida. The Florida coast Is not patroled, nor Is the customs or lmml-Kratlon force large enough In that state to deal with this new condition. From Plattaburg, for the week ending on May 4, Chinese to the number of 111 passed through the state via New York City for Havana with no other purpose, offlulalB claim, than thus to evade the exclusion' act and return to the states through Florida and by the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

REPORT CONFIRMED. -BERLIN, May- 80. The German -minister at Pekin, Dr. Mumra Von Schwarzensteln, confirms the report that an edict was Issued by the Chinese emperor Monday, May 27, agree-in a In mi, an InHpmnltv of 450 000.000 taels, with Interest on the principal at 4 per cent. Sterling Silverware, when rightly mado affords every sat isfaction, alike to giver and user.

It cannot do otherwise, because its quality is the finest, and If combined with grace and style, greatly Improves the "tone" of the user and respect for the taste Of the. giver. Our silver is as rignv as utr, acivticu fiu, care from many reliable makers, and priced In keeping with' your purse. Tea or coffee pot, sugar bowl, gold-lined cream pitcher, gold-lined finished In French gray, three-quarter size, all sterling, Includes handles, $26.50 Six-extra deep -mviauaLau mond or salt dishes, oblorn two and one-half Inches long, Louis XIV border, com plete, In white satin-lined case Twelve coffee spoons, "Flowers of the Field," embracing rose, forget-mo-nots, calla lilies, In silk-lined case, $7.00 Cako or bread tray, fifteen Inches long, embossed -border, heavy weight We change tho rule to sell this by the Inch; fifteen Inches for $15.00 Twelve oyster forks, gold tines, handsomely engraved Twelve berry forks, berry spoon, all gold lined, In handsome. case $15.00 Two extra large Individual salts.V with spoons, in case $10.00 They are heavy and have feet, and are gold lined.

Corner Third and Main. At tne Corner. Chas. Sim EIGHTY-THREE West Point Students Found Guilty of Mutiny. MAHAFFEY, OF ARK- Receives Severest Punishment, Being Dismissed froni the Academy The Board of Inquiry's Finding Is Extremely.

Sweeping. KE.W. JTOEKMay-SA A epeeial to the Journal and Advertiser from West Point, N. says: The official finding nt the board ot inquiry into the recent mutiny at the military academy and the punish ments Inflicted has been given out Out of eighty-three students found guilty of mutiny fifty-seven received sentences ot punishment. All those concerned are reduced to the ranks.

The punishments, which are said to be the most severe and sweeping ever in flicted at a school, arc as follows: Guilty ot mutinous demonstration Mahaffey, Cleveland, Keller, Linton, Bowly, Alshlre, C. M. Allen, W. Davis. GoodsDeed.

Hefr. Neelly, Rob ertson, Sheridan, Stubbs, Telford, Giro-porting, Guild, Hawkins, Hawley, Montgomery, Wlmbcrly, Winfree, Zell L. G. Brown, K. S.

Gregory, F. Will iams, W. K. Wilson, Gallagher, Brooke, A. W.

Smith, Casad, Cowles, Edwards, Dockery, Foster, Frazler, Gilbert, McCain, McGInnls, T. Miller, H. E. Mitchell, W. F.

Morrison, Pegrara, Shanler, Stewart, Valliant, Griffith, Bell, Foley, MacArthur, Mars, Wuest, Gaston, Rose, Nichols, S. M. Parker, Dickinson, Maghoe, Jensvold, J. Burnett, R. C.

Moore, Walker, Grier, Klemm, Berkley, Kingman, Reynolds, Pettis, Hunter, Corbln, McClure, Al-faro, Butcher, Catts, Danford, Grace, W. R. Scott, Pratt The punishments Inflicted are as fol lows: Dismissed from the academy Hen ry L. Bowleby, Traugatt, F. Kellor, BIrchle O.

Mahaffey, John Cleve land, Raymond Linton. Suspended without pay until April 1, 1902 Olan C. Alshlre, Ben). Mo-Clellun," Jantes 'AUhiaflfon, Charles Telford, Thomas N. Olmperllng, Harry Hawley.

To be confined in barracks and area until next, eticarapmont, reduced to the ranks and suffer punishment tour three days a week, Including encamp ment time Sheridan, Stubbs, C. M. Allen, W. M. Davis, Goodspeed, Neelly, W.

K. Wilson, Pegram, Hell, Sell, Guild, Cowles, Edwards, Dockery, Gilbert, McCain, Stewart, Valliant, Grit-flthrGallagher, F. Williams, Hawkins, Winfree, Montgomery, Wimberly, J. J. Grace, Butcher, Gaston, O.

Brown, K. S. Gregory. R. C.

Moore, the' latter three to serve punishment tours only until June 25. To be confined to the barracks and to serve punishment tours until June 9 Klemm, Danford, Hunter, Reynolds, H. C. Pratt, Maghee, Walker, Kingman, Catts, Pettis, Barclay, Mc Clure, Corbln, Alfaro and Jansvold. With the report came an order from the secretary of war making the punishment for hazing or bracing summary expulsion from the academy.

The BIrchle O. Mahaffey mentioned as dismissed In the foregoing dispatch was appointed from the Third congres-slonal district of Arkansas. His home is at Texarkana. There Is a Valliant, a resident ot Pine at West Point, but as no Initials are given It Is not known whether he is the one referred to or not. He will not be dis missed, but punished.

PRESIDENT NEW YORK CENTRAL. Position Has Been Offered to W. Newman of the Lake Shore. H. CLEVELADN, May H.

Newman, president of the Lske Shore railroad, has been offered the presl dency of the New York Central railroad to succeed S. R. Calloway, who has resigned to become the president of the locomotive combination. He will likely accept and will take charge of his new duties July 1, Within the next month Mr. Newman wm go to New York and a new president will have to be appointed for the LAKe snore, it has been frequently suggested that precedent will demand the selection of W.

H. Canlff, now president of the Nickel Plate railway, and it Is generally believed that he will be called. BLOWN TO PIECE3. SCRANTON, May 30. A fright ful explosion occurred in a blacksmith shop at Avoca, by which three men were blown to pieces.

The men were employed by (a contractor blasting rocks. In order to prevent a quantity of Atlas powder from getting wet they carried it into the shop to get shelter from a rainstorm. While In the shop the explosion took No one knows how the explosion occurred. Grand Parade of Veterans Today's Feature at the MEMPHIS REUNION Many of the Delegates Returned Home on Last Night's Trains, but the Diminution In Numbers Was Scarcely Noticeable final day of the United Confederate Veterans reunion was devoted to a grand parade ot the old soldiers, all the business having been completed yesterday. A number of veterans returned to their homes on the night trains, but thousands who remained to once again touch elbows and keep step with their comrades of the battlefields and with the soldiers of the gray were in line, other organisations swelling the total to about 6,000.

An Invitation was extended to all unattached veterans who do not belong to organ ized camps or whose camp was not here in a body to participate in the Brunt oazeant. and every veteran in the city marched. The parade was announced for 10 o'clock and long before that hour the veterans thronged Confederate Hall, the general point of formation, while here and there about the city small companies of old sot dlers gathered and waited patiently for the signal tor marching. During the early hours of the morning a heavy rain swept the streets clean and tem pered the atmosphere, and at 9 o'olock the sun came out bright and clear and gave promise ot an Ideal day tor the parade. Crowds of people thronged the sidewalks and filled the grand stands, and even though the outgoing night trains were filled almost to their utmost capacity the diminution In the number of the visitors was scarcely noticeable today.

Promptly at 10 o'clock, to the strains ot from the bands, while cannon boomed on the river front, the parade started from Confed erate Hall, marching to Main street and down through the court of honor, being constantly swelled by the addi tion of companies stationed in the side streets. At the head of the column rode Oen. George W. Gordon, chief marshal of the day, his staff, and Gen. A.

R. Taylor, chairman ot the pa rade committee. Then came a band, and following It Gen. John B. Gordon and George Moorman.

Despite his years General Gordon rode his horse with ease and grace aa with- hat in hand he bowed from sids to side in acknowledgment of plaudits from the crowds. Then came the car riage containing general headquarters sponsors and maids of honor, followed by two more carriages, Inscribed Southern Mothers Women Who Wept as They Worked Forty Years Ago." In these rode Miss Emily Ball, Mrs. Mary E. Cummings, Mrs Elolse Wormley, Mrs. J.

H. Hum phreys, Mrs. Phoebe Frazer Edmonds, Mrs. Joseph Bruce, Mrs. M.

C. Gallo way and Mrs. Bettle Yancey. Then came the department of the Army of Northern -Virginia, led by the carriage bearing the sponsor and maids ot honor and comprising the divisions of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia. The trans-MlsslssippI de partment came next with the old sol dlersjllvlslons ot Texas.

Ar kansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and the division of the Pacific coast The largest of the three depart ments, that of the Army of Tennessee, was next in line, comprising divisions of Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee and the colored division of veterans. Two. dlvlsions-flf -Forrest's -Tavalry corps, with a carriage bearing the corps' sponsors and maids of honor, terminated the line of veterans and preceded the Sons of Veterans. This body was headed by Comman der-in-Chief Blscoe HIndman and his staff. Then came the.

three depart ments of the Sons of Veterans, each being preceded by carriages contain Ipg sponsors and maids of honor, the third department also being accompanied by a carriage with the sponsor and maids of honor of Nathan Bedford r-orresi uamp of Memphls. A long line of miscellaneous carriages ended the parade. CANNOT ENTER TURKEY. Armenians, Who Have Become Amer- leans or Russians, Must Stay Out. UUASTANTINUFLB, May 30.

An official order prohibits Armenians who have become naturalized Americans or Russians from entering Turkey. 4 A Cincinnati minister recently sur- prlsc4 his hearers by audibly praying for those of his congregation who were too proud to kneel and too lazy' to Arbitrators Trying to Settle Dispute at Chicago. Machinists ialary Increase of 12 1-2 Par CentHvhlch Manufactgr-ere- lay la Excessive Likely That Strike Will Result. CHICAGO, May 30. A secret Be slbn of the six arbiters selected to set-1 tie the local Issue between the Inter national Machlnsts' Association and Metal Trades Manufacturers and upon whose action- may depend the settlement of the trouble throughout the United States, was held this W.

ot Chicago, Arthur Holder, of Sioux City, and Walter Rebblng; of St. Louis, represent the machinists. Rebblng was selected because of his success iu effecting a settlement In St, Louis. Holder is labor commissioner of Roderick Is business agent of the Chicago district. The members of the metal trades are the local officers ot the Manufac turers' Association.

The first point discussed was the demand of the machinists for an Increase of 12 1-2 per cent. The manufacturers contend that this Is excessive. An Increase of 10 per cent was suggested as a substi tute, but members of both committees objected. The manifest disposition of the manufacturers Is not to grant any Increase and the machlnsts not to ac cept less than 10 per cent, if they accept that. Indications are not encouraging, and It Is probable a strike will be the out come.

Several large firms, employing two-thirds of the 6,000 machinists in the city, will abide by the action of the representatives of the Metal Trades Association. All of these concerns are in the trust. WILL STRIKE TOMORROW. Today Being Holiday Is of Advantage to Machinists. CHICAGO, May 30.

"If today were not a holiday the machinists' strike would be In full blast before the manufacturers had eaten their morning meal," said Business Agent Roderick of-Dlelrlct No. 8 -of the IntarnatianAl Association of Machinists. 1t -lSvrjM garded as an advantage by union men that they have a holiday preceding the strike, which was ordered here yester day, as all the wrokmen can be so rounded up In the Interval ot one day that the tie-up of tho local machinery plants will be made practically com' plete tomorrow." 1 PENSION FRAUDS. Important Investigation to Be Set on Foot In San Francisco. WASHINGTON, D.

May 30. The pension bureau has been forced to take steps to investigate the pension abuses arising In San Francisco In connection with the retiring volunteers. The sharpers are not all representatives of the large pension law firms here, but many of them are, and their methods are characterized as Illegal and outraficous. They meet returning soldiers af the docks and often persuade them to file applications for pensions, even before they have been discharged. Fees have In many cases, collected without any service rendered, and the sharper often threatens to take up his case In Wash ington 'ami make trouble for the sol dier unless lie pays his fee.

When an appllcatlon'is made before a discharge has been granted It Is void, but soldiers do not always know that their attorney can get them a pension on trumped-up (Usabilities, whether they are entitled to one or not, and In many cases soldiers have signed documents swearing to aliments and perjuring themselves at the request of the pension shark. Commissioner Evans said today that for the most part these men knew the law and kept just within it, which mado it all tho harder for the legal department to put an end to the abuse. CUBAN-CHINESE PROBLEM. It Daily Presents More Problems. Perplexing WASHINGTON, May 30.

The Cuban-Chinese problem Is growing There have always been a good many Chinamen, In tho Island who have always found good and remunerative work there, taking tho place of the haughty Cubans white and black who usually stop work as soon as they have enough laid away to live on for a week or so, and who are also much hampered by Saints days which are holidays. Since the United States gained control In Cuba, the Chinese have been ly the commerce of, France. It declares England a that it Is France's interest to raise the duty on all American goods. William Barrow, the timekeeper at Glllow'a cabinet works, Lancaster, England, has been In the employ of the firm for sixty-six years. GOES TO LACUNA Senor Dancel Will Negotiations With GENERAL GAILLES For the 8urrendsr of the Lattr Prof.

Ids Describes the Nw Judicial System to American and Fill' plno Lawyers and Judges. MANILA. May 30. Senor Dancel will go to Laguna to reopen negotiations with General Callles for the lat- ter's surrender. He will be accompanied by Callles' former Mr.

Ide, of the Philippine commission, addressed a crowded meeting of American and Filipino judges and Filipino lawyers on the subject of the new Judicial system that is to be established. He described the system which had been decided upon as combining simplicity with expedition, and with the smallest possible expense to litigants. The Filipino lawyers, backed by the law college, requested an Indefinite postponement of the public discussions of the new code until they have been able to study the new system. This was not granted, as the Filipinos have been discussing civil matters of this kind for eight months. The public discussion of the code will proceed by sections, and will probably not be concluded inside of tWO W8PK8, A SOCIALISTS SPLIT UP.

Section In France Opposes Remaining of Mlllerand In Ministry. LYONS," May Socialist-con gress in session here has rejected by a vote of 910 to 286 a motion declaring that M. Mlllerand, minister of commerce, by accepting office In a bourgeois ministry, had placed himself out side the Socialist party. M. Mlller- and's acceptance of a portfolio In the mlnlHtry has always been a sore point with the revolutionary section, and the support given to him today by a ma jority of the delegates has caused a split In the party.

As soon as the result was announced the revolutionists left the hall in a body as a. protest amid the most ex cited cheers and uproar. M. Jaures, a member of the chamber of deputies, shouted: "Now the masks have fal len," and when the plaudits allowed him to continue he added: "The only answer to make to those who have left us Is to achieve unity. You will create the great.

Socialist unity and all the proletariats will Join it. Under the red flag we will riot fall." The congress, however, took precautions to prevent the world from thinking that the Socialists were represented by or supported the present or any bourgeois ministry. A resolution wss adopted by a vote of 904 to 42 to lhft.rifflct.that M. Mlllerand'a member-ship In the ministry was In no wise conected with the Socialists, and that the party's attitude toward the cabinet would be governed solely by the Interests of the proletariat. STUDENTS' CLA88 FIGHT.

Forty-five Scholars Arrested, Charged with Riot COLUMBU8, May 30. Forty-five students of the Columbus high school, most of them members of the class that was graduated last night, were arrested yesterday afternoon, by Deputy Marshal on warrants sworn out by Deputy Prosecutor Al-bort' Phillips, charging them with participating In a riot on a public street. The arrests are the result of a stub born class fight that took place In front of the high-school building Tues day afternoon. The preliminary, hearing of the young men will take place before Jus tlce Stador tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. The punishment for riot In this state Is a fine not exceeding $500, to which may be added one year Imprisonment were held in the cemeteries and flowers strewn upon graves of the dead.

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A. M. More-land, president of the Moreland Trust Company, and formerly secretary and treasurer of the Carnegie Steel. Company, Is defendant in an equity suit filed by Secretary Blackburn, of the Carnegie Company, who asks that Moreland be restrained from turning over $2,376,000 of Carnegie stock to anyone hut Blackburn. Moreland admits that he has the stock as trustee for sale to capable, deserving employes and officials, as -premiums-for services, -but he wants, half a million compensation.

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