The Buffalo Commercial from Buffalo, New York • 1

Ha I tonight and 'cold; brink N. winds. Established 1835. VEDNESD AY EVENING. APRIL 10.

1901 TEK PAGES. rvi fa Torably reported 'the Lancaster charter STARVATION STORY DENIED. chief speakers of the evening were Bishop Dudley of Kentucky and President Aogell KILLED DIVORCE 3HB nifpiii. I I "i-: I $50,000 BLAZt IN BOSTON. Several Business Houses Located on Arch Street Burned Out.

I Boston, April 10. The two upper floors of the five-story block extending through to Devonshire -from. Nos. 42 to 46 Arch street, occupied by HenryG. Whitcomb Company, electrotypers, was entirely gutted by fire last night.

i The, other occupants of tne block, in cluding the Smith-Premier Typewriter Company and Seth W. Fuller, electric goods, were badly damaged. The Forbea Lithograph Manufacturing Company occupied the third story. i The total loss will probably aggregate $50,000. MONEY Lieut.

Mapes Secures $40,000 of Rebel FundsNative Desire for Cpck-Ffghts to be Granted, i Manila; April 10. Lieut. Mapes of the 23d infantry has captured $40,000 of insurgent funds and has taken prisoner three officers belonging to Gen. Caillu's staff near Manila. Under the old cock-pits will be re-established in Manila, thej privilege of conducting them being granted to the widow of the late Captain Lara, who commanded the native police of the city; Formerly the municipal revenue derived from cock-fighting amounted to $00,000 annually.

.1 i It is stated that before Agninaldo is liberated he will be required to tie surrender of Gen. Tino, the insurgent leader. ''') 1 I. SOLD LIKE SLAVES Eight Hundred Dollars Paid for Two Girls, Members of a Gypsy I i Band, in Illinois. Chicago.

April 10. A special from Kankakee, says: The Bale of two girls, members of a gypsy band, at Mo- jnence, this county, yesterday, brought on a riot that for a time threatened serious results. So angry were the citizens: over the traffic that a mob was formed which drove the gypsy band from town. -f I 'I The dial which caused all the trouble was the sale of Juanita Costello anJ Margot Czesh. 16 and 17 years old, by their guardian, Nicholas a Russian, to a Brazilian, also a member of the band, the price -paid being $800.

The girls refused to recognize the sale and threatened their-prospective master. The Brazilian then swore out a. warrant for Karoptkin, charging the "obtaining of money by false pretenses, ft A squad of police was found necessary to, secure the who -4ew -eH volver on the i officers. The failure to secure an interpreter made it impossible to get evidence against the prisoner, and he was discharged During the trial before Magistrate Lloyd 'the' mob gathered', t- Threats of lynching" and -of tar and feathers were made. The gypsies hastily packed up their belongings and fled.

i DR. WILLIAM JAY YOUMANS. ath of ihe Former Editor of Popular Science Monthly. New York, April 10. Dr.

William Jay Youmans, for many years editor of Popular Science Monthly, today died at his home in Mt. rnon, N. a suburb of this city, of typhoid fever. When difficulties a year ago "came 1 upon' the house of Appleton, and the 1 Science Monthly was transferred, Dr. Youmans severed his connection with it and retired per- mahently from life.

He was deeply attached to a handsome farm possessed by him among the hills near Saratoga, N. where he was born October 14, 1838, and near which he began his education in a district school. A HONORS FOR RUSSIANS. President Loubet Aboard One of the Ville Franche, i April 10. President Loubet this morning paid his promised visit to the Russian squadron.

He decorated Admiral. Birileff and two of his officers with the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Admiral Birileff and his staff, contrary to usage; landed and conducted M. Loubet aboard the flagship. The whole squadron was dressed and manned.

President Loubet subsequently embarked on the St. Louis and sailed for Toulon. The Russian bands played' the Marsel-laise and their crews cheered and both French and Russian warships saluted. The Russian fleet will remain for a week. TRANSPORT IN FLAMES.

Her Cargo of Horse Feed Destroyed Total Damage of Abont $5 O.COO. New York, April 10. Fire was discovered in hatchway 7 In the second hold of the transport Rawlins early today. A quantity of hay was stored in the bold and the firemen endeavored to confine the flames to the one part of the vessel. The Rawlins was at the government pier, Brooklyn, and was to have sailed for Cuba this afternoon, The fire was.

under control after about two hours' work by the firemen; but the Rawlins listed to port from the immense quantity of water pumped through the port holes by the fire boats. She finally settled at her pier. The cargo, a large portion of which consisted of horse feed for army nse, will proW a total loss. The Rawlins sunk in the mud at her pier. The property loss will not exceed $50,000.

It will cost perhaps $20,000 more to. raise the transport. RUSSIAN SENTENCED. London. Anril 10-A dispatch from St.

Petersburg announces that Lagow ski, the. provincial official who recently attempted to assassinate Privy Council lor Pbbiedonostzelf, procurator general Of the holy synod has been sentenced to six years' penal servitude, with depit vation of cv rights. pf the of Michigan. I Philadelphia. The 21st annual banquet Of the Young Republican Club was held here last night.

Among the speakers were men of national importance. London. The Odessa correspondent! of the Standard says that reports have been received there of politico-religious disturbances in Tabrix. North Persia. Berlin.

The big iron works at Coin-hausen were destroyed by fire yesterday. Damage; 600,000 marks. The fire is "believed to have been of incendiary origin. Watertown. This plumbers and sheet metal workers, numbering 50 I of this, city, went on strike yesterday.

The master plumbers refuse to sign the scale. Shedden, Ont. While crossing the jVIichigaa Central Railway track here yesterday, D. McKay, sectionman, was truck by an engine and fatally injured. Middletown.

Mrs. Margaret Ludliey of Warwick yesterday escaped fromJ a sick bed to the yard and swallowed a mixture of paria green. She died: I in agony. ill Berlin. A mutual agreement has ben reached between Germany and Great Britain Tegardin Germany's claims to indemnity for Germans evicted frotn she Transvaall i i Plattsburg.

The snow storm which started yesterday atill continues today throughout the Adirondacks. There id a depth of two or three feet of snow litft in the woods. i Saratoga. The 69th annual session! of the Troy conference of the Methodist Episcopal church began here todlay, Bishop John F. Hurst of Washington, D.jC, presiding.

i i Oswego. The carpenters and plumbers of (this city have prepared a schedule calling for a nine-hour day and increased It is expected the employers will sign it without trouble. Marietta. O. Walter Lancaster, for years a hotel clerk at Marietta and Park-era burg, committed snieide last night by shooting himself in the head.

He bad been ill and out of wprk. ij Albany. The Buffalo- Registry Com pany of Buffalo waa incorporated yester day; capital, $74W0; directors, William Keane of Brooklyn and Edward Harder and C. L. O'Connor of Buffalo.

London. The Daily Mail saya it understands that the Earl ot Halsbury is about to resign the post of lord chancellor, and that he will be succeeded by Baron Alver- stone, lord chief justice of England. Toledo. Analysis of the beer drank by Frank Kinney of Findlay shows the presence of strychnine. The man died within 20 minutes.

Several persons are thought to ho implicated ana arrests will follow. Berlin. Dietrich Weiland, the assail ant of Emperor William at Bremen, who is1 now' in an insane asylum, has stiffened severe epileptic attacks. In one of these he almost killed the. counsel retained 'for his defence.

LOOKING FOR PAPERS. A Stranger Digging in the, Yard of Whiteman'a House at Dansvitle. Rochester, April l6l A dispatch from Pansville says tftere Is considerable spec; ulation there over the' actions of a stranger who arrived from. New York yester day, Hired a number of laborers, and dag up the entire "back yardtof the Whiteman residence on Elizabeth street, the -home of Alonzo Whiteman, now in he Tombs at -ew i The stranger, who gave the name of Fred Vinmer, refused to be interviewed, but if is intimated he is looking for a box of papers which Whiteman has told him were buried in the yard. It is thought, however, by-residents of Dansville who know Whiteman best, that Vinmer will gO unrewarded for his trouble; thlat Whiteman is only trying to gain time be fore sentence is pronounced.

CLUE TO 'COR MICK. Providence Hack-Driver Believes He Had the Missing Boy as a'Passenger. Providence, K. April 10. Edward Costigan, a.

hack-driver in this city, he had the missing Willie Mc-Cormick and two other persons as passengers in this city about a week ago. He states that he is not certain just what day it was, but he has grown very confident in the belief that the boy was the missing son of Florist McCorinick. -i The trio comprised a boy of 16 years, a young woman about 22' and an elderly man. They called upon him at the Union station in the center of the city to take them to the station of the Providence, Fall Kiver Bristol railroad at Fox tr When the destination was reached and the cab man opened the hack door, he says the boy was looking at a picture of the missing McCormick boy in a news paper, and says tne Doy iie- marked: "They think I am lost, but I ain't; I'm going home." He says the boy acted dull and "dopey." i POLICE AFTER HINKEY DINK. Chicago, April 10.

Warrants were sworn out yesterday for the arrest of Alderman Michael Kenna, well known! as "Hinkey Dink," charged of violating the midnight closing vidinance at his saloon on Clark street The warrants were secured by Mrs. Kate Mills Boyd, a secretary and treasurer of the new Anti-Vice Crusade Society, who also requested war rants for Police Inspector Hartnett. These were refused. i CANADA'S BOUNTIES OPPOSED. si Washington, April 10.

The iron and steel bounties offered by the Dominion of Canad have grown to such propor tions as to create much 'discussion, and there is a growing disposition to demand from Parliament a repeal of the law granting them. Information to this effect has reached the State Department through a report ftenx Consul General Bittinger at Montreal. Li REIFF'S HORSE-THE WINNER. i London, April 10. At the first day of the Warwick Club's spring meeting today, the Warwick welter handicap of 200 sovs.

was wm- by fethelios, with Lester Beiff in the saddle. i I 'i r. OCEAN STEAMERS. -Antwerp. April 9.

Arrived; Noord- land. from New York. "i Havre. April 9. Arrived: La Gaar from New York.

i Southampton, April 9. Arrived: Kai ser Wilhelm der Grosse, from New York. Liverpool, April 9. Arrived: Etrnria, from -New York. Gov.

Allen" Shows that Prosperity is Making Progress in Porto Rico. New, York, April 10. Gov. Charles II. Allen of Porto Rico is1 quoted in a Washington dispatch as denying the accuracy of statements appearing in the petition said to be from workingmen of Porto Rico asking the President for work and asserting that the inhabitants of the island are at the point of starvation.

He said; "The facts will show that more persona are i employed in Porto 'Rico today than ever before, ex cept when government relief work was at' its height. "Civil government is established in Porto Rico. Much has been accom plished and every day marks progress. If. the people can be relieved of their agitators and allowed to work out their own salvation, and American capital, with the thrift and energy which follow it, be directed toward Porto Rico with the assurance that it will be welcome and given adequate return, then indeed will come prosperity and development which every American citizen hopes for, for every dweller under the American flag." GREEK SHOT GREEK.

Fatal Quarrel 1 of Partners in a Flower Business at Rochester-Excitement in a Candy Store, Rochester, April 10. Peter Punaritis shot his partner, George Humpatis, in a crowded candy store at No. 10 Main street East, shortly after 12 o'clock today and Humpalis will die. 1 i Both men are Greeks and partners in a flower stand at the corner of Main and State streets. Punaritis was arrested immediately after the shooting as he stood over his victim with the smoking revolver in his hand.

Humpalis was removed to the Homeopathic Hospital in a dying condition withf three bullets in nis bead and one in bis wrist. The men went into the candy store near their flower stand to settle a dispute over the settlement of their accounts. Hum' paHs claimed Punaritis owed him $5 by the sale of flowers during the day. Pun. aritiz became greatly angered, and with a quick movement drew 32-calibre re volver and began blazing away.) The first shot struck Humpalis in the back of the head and he fell to the A scene of great confusion' followed, which was only ended after Punaritis had emptied his revolver.

i At the police- station Punaritiz said he waa drunk when he did the shooting. COMMISSIONERS At IL0IL0, Banquet and Ball in Honor of the Americans. Iloilo, Island of Panay, April 10, 5.50 m. The United States Philippine Com mission, on board the transport Sumner, arrived here this afternoon, At meet ing of from the: villages of Ho llo province held, in the theater here, Judge. Taft -outlined, the purposes-f he commission.

The municipality of give. i ball and banquet tonight to the Commissioners. i All the provinces of. Panay island will be organized under civil government. IMPORTANT, IF TRUE." French Story That China's Minister in Russia Was Thrown Downstairs.

Faris, April 10. The Patrie today pub lishes dispatch from St. Petersburg which says the Chinese minister Yang-Ytv gravely insulted Count Lams- dorff, the Russian Minister of Foreign Af fairs, during a discussion of the Man- churian question, whereupon, the count ordered his lackeys to put, the Chinese minister out, and Yang-Yu was thrown downstairs and fatally injured in the head. This is a new reason for the illness of the Chihese minister. SUICIDE IN HOFFMAN HOUSE.

Supposed Member of the Consolidated Exchange, Who Was Suspended. I. New York, April 10. The suspension of B. Fdrst of the Consolidated Exchange was announced today on the floor of the Exchange.

Later a body supposed to be that of J'orst was found in a room in the Hoffmatk House. The man had died from carbolic acid poisoning Forst is said to have been a man of means. He came to this city from the Pennsylvania oil regions in 1885. At thfe Consolidated Exchange it was said that although Forst had been suspended because of failure to comply with some of hia contracts, many of the stocks sold for his account under the rule show ed a profit. STRICKEN WITH SMALLPOX.

About '30 Inmates of a Children' Home in Albany Are Victims Albany, April 10. The State Board of Health was notified today that smallpox had obtained a foothold in the Lathrop Memorial Home, a charitable institution situated in the heart' of the residence dis- tnct of for the Albany. The home is intended care "of children whose parents are out at work for the but it par takes largely of the nature of an orphan age, and is supported by Mrs. Leland Stanford who came of the Albany family or Latnrops. I There are about 35 children in the home and nearly all are more or less ill with the dread disease, there being two well marked cases.

One or two of the children who had been vaccinated did not contract the disease, and only one of the attendant teachers is down with a mild case, the others having been vaccinated. The disease developed two weeks ago, and was not recognized by the attendants. They thought the child who came down with it had the chickenpox, and the physician who looks after, the inmates was not summoned at once. I i The home has been quarantined by the focal health board and a policeman stands guard over it to keep away the carious, THE RHINE AT DANGER POINT. Berlin, April 10.

The Rhine river has risen considerably above the normal stage. It is announced that at Cologne yesterday th river rose to 18 feet and that on the Swiss border villages are flooded and the people have fled from their houses. Only 15 Assemblymen Voted in Favor of Senator Davis's Measure, While 80 Voted Nay. LEADERS IN OPPOSITION. The Bill for Taxation of Mortgages After Amendment- Advanced, Other Legislative Affairs.

Special to The Commercial: Albany, April 10. Assemblyman Coek had to explain Senator' Davis's bill make conviction for felony a cause for ab solute divorce when it came up 'for third reading in the House this afternoon. He said it was along the lines of uniform divorce laws and had been adopted by a number of states. i Mr. Kelsey said it was a bill of doubtful authority i Judge Lynn) objected to allowing a husband and wife to take advantage of such a law as the bill proposed by instituting some criminal action for the very purpase of finally securing a divorce.

He suggested amending it to forbid either party being a witness in a case on which a subsequent motion was for annulment of a marriage. i Mr. Cook declined to accept the amendment. I' Mr. Duross did not think there was any sentiment in favor of the bilL Mr.

Morgan declared there was no sense in calling it radical legislation, since 33 states had adopted it. The present one-cause divorce law in New York state did not improve morals, as people wanting divorces went out of; the state for them. Leaders Frisbie and Allds opposed the bill. Mr. Allds said the state's standard of divorce law should not be changed except along the lines of a uniform divorce law, The bill was lost by a vote of 15 ayes to K0 noes.

Assemblyman O'Malley's bill increas ing the salaries: of court criers passed the Senate. 1 i Assemblyman Cook has introduced by request the bill! of Erie county to authorise the working penitentiary convicts' on the roads. Mr. O'Malley succeeded in substituting Senator Slater's health insurance bills for his own on third reading in the House. The Senate finance' committee reported favorably today the bill appropriating $400,000 for the preservation of the Palisades.

i The C. C. Do DUglass Claim bill passed the House. The Canal Bill Kept Back. Albany, April! 10.

Contrary to expecta tions, the $26,000,000 canal improvement referendum bill was not reported to Ihe" Assembly this morning, Chairman 'T D. Lewis of the canal committee fearing the activity displayed by the anti-canal ad who -have declared their, inten tions of moving fora change of reference to the ways and -means committee, as the bill cletmrearties an At' 2 o'clock; the Assembly adjourned until tomorrow at 11 a. ni. THE, MORTGAGE TAX BILL. Amended in and Then Favorably Reported to the Senate.

Albany, April 10. The mortgage tax bill as amended and in the form it will probably pass, giving to localities one-third of the one per cent tax collected, will result in giving to every county; in the state as much money as it now colj lects for personal taxation of all kinds. That means that over a million and a half of dollars will be given to the counties pro rata, land that in addition to that, the state (taxes will be largely reduced by the amount of money received from the two-thirds of the 'tax that will go into the state treasury. In addition, in the cities when mortgages are taxed sometimes as high as 2 1-2 per cent there will be great relief. The bill was teported favorably to the Senate this morning amended so as to provide that one-third of the one per cent tax go to the counties and two-thirds to the cities, LOWER NIAGARA COMPANY.

The Bill Reported Favorably After Questionable Amendment. Albany, April 10. The Assembly has reported favorably the bill of Assenv blyman Lcggett incorporating the Lower River Power and Water Supply- Company of Niagara with a capital of amended so as to confine its operations to: Niagaife county. This amendment would not, it is believed, prevent it selling its electricity or water power to other transportation companies in that county for transmission to all the cities of the state. y'1 The incorporators are Commodore P.

Veeder, Tunis G. Bergcnr William Williams, Charles E. Hotch kiss and Dewitt V. D. Keiley of! New York, and Patrick P.

King, George W. Knox and James S. Simmons of Niagara Falls, N. Y. The company is to take its water, out of the Niagara iver below the Falls so as to avoid the I criticism of spoiling the natural beauty of Niagara.

it Final Adjournment Resolution. Snetlal to The Commercial: Albany, April 10. Leader Allds offered the final adjournment resolution this fixing the date at Tuesday, April 23d. This is subject to change for an earlier date if the New York charter returns in time to permit of a reconsideration. The Senate will hold the resolution till it is definitely determined whether the work can be finished on that date or before.

The final adjournment resolution was unanimously adopted at 11.23 by the Assembly. .1 i Assemblyman jB.f Gardner introduced a bill today extending-to Spanish-Ameri can war veterans the allowance of $35 for burial allowed by boards of super visors of counties. Assemblyman Bedell has re-introduced his amendment to the labor laws which provides for the licensing of steam engineers and the establishment of a bu reau in the office of the Superintendent of Public Works. It has been so changed so as to read that no unlicensed engineer shall be employed in any city, or elsewhere in the state outside of a city, if the indicated horse power of the Steam plant ahall exceed at any time 200. The House passed Assemblyman Schneider's Buffalo police matrons' pension bill.

The Senate village committee, has fa- Two Bars of the iPrecious Metal, Valued at $22,750, Missing From an Ocean Steamer. I sentbyaneWyorkbank! Believed to Have Been Stolen During the Voyage French Detectives at Work on the Case. Cherbourir. FrniM, (Anril 10. On fh.

arrival luwe yesterday tot the North Ger- man I okn mnw ITIbam TtriIknM I Grosse, Capt. Kngelhart. from New April 2d, it was announced that goia Dars, worth had been: stolen during the voyage. All thn hflCffiiflrA lnnrlcH fAib.wM oiuiueu wuu iu uiiuusc care Dy tne cus- 5 toma omcers and detectives, but the goldj was not discovered. One hundred and nrty passengers landed for Paris and aev- eral detectives traveled in the special train with them.

Sent by the Natioiial City Bank. New York, April 10. The stolen gold, I it was learned, was part of a shipment! of $300,000 sent hv thJ K.Hnn.i Bank to Germany on its Berlin account.1 April president James. Stillman, through his Usual messengers, obtained 23 gold bars from the assay office for shipment ion the Kaiser Wilhelm der ixrosse, which sailed the next -day. i These bars were taken Aboard the shipf on April under a guard.

They werei' packed in wooden boxes fitted with groves, in Iwhich the bajre lay. A strong unuuie anacnea to end the boxes permitted them to be babdled easily with- oui xne necessity of touching the gold. The boxes are madelf wood hecause the bars are so soft that much loss would result if they were brought In constant contact with metal." These boxes are locked and are suppose to be examined i occasionally on long voyagesvto see that! their contents are Once on board the Kaiser Wilhelm the gold was stored as usua) in the, money tank, or strong room, which is built in aU liners for the express purpose of carrying; such large shipments. This tank or storage room is fireproof and, as In the' case of the Nprth German Lloyd Uner, the ship's money is also kent there. AU this leads persons, who are aware Of the extrdorduisrv nrpnunf irin talron on shipboard to believe the gold may nave Deen stolen the boxes before they were put in the strong room.

A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. Not the Slightest "Clue Yet Obtained. to the Kaiser Wilhelm Robbery. I New York. Anril robbery at sea of the specie room of the North German Lloyd Liner Kaiser der rosso.

seems a 'mysterious, crime. Apparently there has-been complete failure. to locate either missitiff arnlrl'. tralHotrcrthe men whofook Hriltbougu tne search of passengers and ship at Bremen again this morning may furnish material for the investigations. Tv.tf bars of gold, aggregating in value $22,750, shipped by the National City Bank of New York were stolen from cash box 4 of the specie room somewhere; between 'this port and Cherbourg The advices to Oelrichs Com-, pany, agents for the company, came in German, and on the point as to whether the specie room was broken' open or en-; tered by beating the lock admits of' translation either The specie room of the Kaiser i Wilhelm der Grosse is iron bound and almost as strong as a Its door was secured by a patent lock, for which there wefe but two keys.

One of the keys was kept by the chief officer, the I other by thej purser. -packed in oak The bars; of gold werei casks bound with iron hoops. Thou sands of dollars in gold ivere within the reach of the man w.ho. forced his way into the strong room, but only the sum named was taken. Reward of 0,000 Marks Offered.

-I April 10( It Is officially announced that two bars of gold were stolen during the last -Voyage of the) North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser' Wilhelm der Grosse. The company has' offered1 a reward of 10,000 marks for their restitution or for the discovery of the thieves. FRENCH RUMOR ON KRUGER. That Oom Paul Lecture In Tarn-' many Hall as Quest of Democrats. Taris, April 10.

Le It iff el, which hits already published sevetal remarkable statements ss to the plana oT Mr. displays the following dispatch from The Hague, this morning: "Mr. Kruger's departure for the United States has been fixed for May 31 He will lecture in Tammany Hall abont June 8 as the guest of the Democratic party." Gay Times at Toulon. Toulon, April 10. The town is filling! up fast and is gay with flags and festoons' of French and Italian colors.

The Duke' of Genoa visited the Mayor of Toulon this morning, and was everywhere greet-' ed With cheers. Enormous crowds on the quays watched the arrival of the" squad-! ron escorting President Loubet. FENCINCkCHAMPIONSHIPS. I M. De Diaz of Boston Swept All Be- fore Hkt) in New York Last Night.

Xew xorx. April iuh-xm' prelimi naries to the national fencing championships were held at the New York Ath- hietie Club last night. M. De Diaz of the Boston Athletic Association defeated fourj men with th. foils and the same number of competi-.

tors with the duelling swords, not su-er-irg one deCSt all the evening. In the De Diaz and Sa Garra were the only ones to qualify to meet: the medal men of last year A. V. Post, Charles Latham, M. D.

Lyon, B. Bothner and the champion, "Fitzhc. Townsend, in the final boots on 2Q. M. De Diss was the only one to qui' -fy in the duelling and be meet in this contest Lyon; Bothner an Latham.

In the sabres, A. V. Z. Post qualified and will meet L.I F. Blazer; i A.

R. Pope and J. E. Erring. A.

G. Anderson, W. D. Borne a- competed in the aing'e but none and that this contest for Slazenger, Irving to decide. Native Christians Suffered Martyr dom Rather Than Discredit i th Faith.

REPORT OF BIBLE SOCIETY The Plot to Painfully Extirpate All Foreigners" Had Imperial Approval 1,000 Converts Slaughtered. ew York. ADril ia The annual re port of the American Bible Society, relative to the situation in China, will contain the following interesting statements from'its agent in China, the ReT. John R. Hykes, D.

-S There was a deep and. cunningly laid plot, under imperial sanction, to extirpate Christianity, expel all foreigners and destroy all foreign interests. No one divined the full extent of the iniquity, which wa deliberately contemplated. la all, 183 Protestant missionaries, including 60 men, 73 women and if children, have been massacred. i With the exception of the massacres at Kui Chee.

in Che Kiang, in which 11 persona, were killed, and at Hengchee, in Hunan, all of the. deaths occurred in thej northern; provinces. question has been raised at home as Ho whether the Boxer uprising was anti-foreign! or anti-missionary its character. No doultt exists in the mind of any well-informed person in China. The" movement Was undoubtedly against foreigners, a such; and the crusade was directed againstf everything foreign Christianity, of course, included.

Hsu Ching Cheng and Yuen Cheng, two ministers of foreign office, weuld not transmit the awful edict which reiterated the crder to "painfully extirpate all foreigners," but changed so as to. read "Protect all foreigners," and then aent it flying over the wires to the remotest provinces. They wer sentenced to be cut in twojj Missionaries: were the class that benefited by this act of heroism. The facti that every missionary escaped from but of th0 18 provinces would indicate that the crusade was not specially' anti-missionary. i- In the provinces of Chihli and Shansi every school, hospital, Chapel, and dwelling was looted and burned by the Boxers for imperial troops, the only exception being the prbperty in the foreign settlement at Tientsin.

So complete wasi. the demolition of property by these mad fanatics: that hot a vestige was to mark the site; even the foundations were dug up and Icarted There was also destruction of missionary property in the provinces of -Shensi, Honan, Hunan, Hupeh, Kiangsi, Chekiang and Kwantung. --i TJie native Christians have been' the' worst sufferers'. Those, who escaped-the general slaughter in the northern' provinces lost everything, and many of them are perishing 'from cold and TheBcriptnrea destroyed will aggregate! not less than JOO.OOtf volumes, an tne actual loss to the society wiU not oe less 8 than eight or ten thousand gold dollars, the necessary expense of- getting workers to places of "safety and -hack again to their statiohs. 1 All' of our foreign superintendents were saved.

We have to mourn the loss of many noble and devoted native workers, They were warned of the risk they were! running, but not a man of the noble band! of .18 flinched. Their reply was: We go on a Colportage tour. God will ibe done." Only 'four of the 18 re turned from, that The homes of these martyrs were looted and burn ed and their families exterminated. Those; who survived escaped to 'the mountains, where they suffered terrible privations and managed to get back to Pekin after it was captured by the al lied armies. Of the Colporteurs underJ missionary supervision I have not heard I of one who it In some other parts of China, teurs endured terrible persecution, and some of them' are only now venturing hiding.

MoVe than 40,000 native converts (in- cludihg Roman Catholics) met death with a heroism worthy of. the best age of the church. "While the total number of the Scriptures published is 37,700 less than the previous year, the number of pages Is slightly in eXcess. The number of pages printed in 1899 was, this rear it was about three-qaartersj of I million This, is the- largest number of pages ever printed' in one year by the China agency, and will give some idea i of the proportions to which the work had grown in common with all (other forms of Christian work, it was jSuddenly interrupted by the' events of the past year. i- The number of Mandarin Bibles man- ufatured is worthy of speial notice.

There were! received from the printers no less than 1 16,500 complete i Bibles, and 5,000 copies were in the press on December 31. Teii years ago an edition of 2,000 copies was thought sufficient to meet the demand for several years. This fairly indicates the growth of the native church during this: period, for it is from native that the demand for these Bibles comes, i CONDENSED DISPATCHES. i Saratoga. The conference of the Ep-wortn League held its anniversary last night; Cape: Town.

Five fresh cases of bub onic plague 'occurred here, one of which-is a soldier. )-: 1 Berlin. Advices received here announce the Opening of the railroad from Kiao Choul to' Tsin Tau. af Monterey, Cal. Apostle.

Cannon of the Mormon Church is rapidly sinking and death is hourly expected, i Kingston. The steamer Glen Erie, which i was sunk in the Rondout Creek, I has been floated and will be repaired. Utica. Patrick B. Byrne of Syracuse, grocer and coal dealer, filed a petition in bankruptcy yesterday.

Debts, assets. $735.65. Manchester. N. H.

Orlando H. Under- hill who shot -and killed his wife in this city on Monday, died at the Sacred Heart Hospital last night. fe Oswego. The Oswego Knitting Com pany was organised here yesterday to manufacture knit goods and to make specialty of sweaters. Utica.

Francis Lynch, formerly well known bookkeeper-of this city, Is charged with jending i obscene matter through the mail tohis wife. Chicago. The anniversary of the sur- render of Gen. Lee at Appomattox was celebrated by -the Hamilton Club, last evening with an elaborate banniiet. The V-4C 3 5 i 1 1 MilljonairiB Rice's Home Attorney, Capt.

Baker, Testified Against Lawyer Patrick, TWO FORGED SIGNATURES (Those on Checks Drawn in Favor of t' Patrick Were Not Genuine, Ac-. cording to Witness. 1': April 10. The taking of videnc in the commitment proceedings in the case of Albert T. Patrick, accused of having caused the death of William Marsh Rice, was resumed today before Justice Jerome.

i The first witness was Captain James -A. Baker, a lawyer of Houston, who was named as an executor in the Kice will of 1890. Captain Baker, In reply to question by Assistant District Attorney Osborne, said that Patrick had never acted as for Rice at any time. The will of Sirs Lizzie Rice, wife of William iM. he said, was offered for pro bate in Galveston, by Lawyer A.

Holt. This will was contested ly children of Mrs. employ- Mr. llojt and Patrick as attorneys The witness appeared in these proceed iSngs as "attorney for William M. Kice, ithe te'siniony in the case being taken in 1 New -York City.

He also said be had 'acted as! Mr. Rice's attorney up to the time of his. death in September last. He knew Patrick, in Houston," as far back as ,1881. The first news he re ceived of the death of the aged million aire was'; In -a telegram sent him by the valet, lie Immediately telegraphed Jones to confer with M.

S. Meivin maintain the status quo until he (the witness) arrived in 'New York, He reached this city on the Thursday following1 the death of Rice. He went to Berkshire apartment house at once and met Patrick there. Mr. Mel-Yin' was with the witness.

"When il met Patrick," said Baker, "he asked: me to step into another room as he wanted to speak to me alone. I aid Mr. Melvin should accompany us, but I went into a back room with Patrick, "I was surprised to find Patrick in charge there," said Captain Baker, "but he explained to me that he had been trying to effect a settlement with Mr. Rice in regard to the litigation over Mrs. Rice's will, and that he had agreed with Mr.

Rice, with ywbdin he said he had established friendly relations, that Mr. Rice was to pay Mr. Holt $250,000 in settlement after his death. He also informed me that Mr. Rice had lost faith in me and for that reason he (Patrick) was then acting as Mr.

Rice's attorney." Baker said that Patrick Informed him of Rice's having made a will in ,1000 in which Patrick was appointed residuary legatee and that Baker was cm executor. told me," said the, witness, "ihat it was Mr. Ric'e wUh that I should look after the WoiCL Texas, -and that Mr, Rice had some assignments of property to him, as -Rice to dispose of the property during life: Patrick also said that he was to exploit Rice's all, over -as a philanthropist. He, also asked me about the cremation of the body, but I said that was a matter for Mr. Rice's brother to decide, "I asked him to show me the will of 1000 and the assignments of property," 'continued the witness, "and he showed them to me.

He demurred to giving me a copy of the will of 1000. He finally me one, but refused to endorse it as a true Papers Handed Over to Capt. Baker. Captain Baker then on to tell of Patrick's having handed him several pa-. prs, for which he gave Patrick a receipt, and.

these papvrs were subsequently lodged in. a safe deposit vault. Patrick also turned over to the witness checks for $05,000 and $25,000 made payable to Patrick and drawn on the banking-house of Swenson Company, and he invited Bakers to investigate everything fully. In addition to these papers, Patrick handed over to him Rice's watches and $10 in cash. Baker said he suggested to Patrick that in view of ther being two wills it would be better have a temporary administrator appointed.

Patrick replied that he was indifferent as to whether either will was probated, but he, Patrick, wanted to see that he got what was He also informed me that it was Mr. Rice's wish that his relations with Patrick were not made known, and that no person other than Jones, the valet, had seen him in conversation with 'Rice. Speaking of bis talk with Patrick, Captain Baker -said: "Patrick me that if there was to be any over the wills that we had better fight it out in Texas, where we were both known, as the lawyers in New York were too grasping." "Did Patrick ever tell you -the cause of -Mr. Rice's death?" asked Mr. Osborne, "Yes, -he said that Mr.

Rice had eat'en too many bananas, was the reply. The will of 1896 was then produced and Osborne asked the witness if "Mr. Rice's signature to that will was in Mr. Rices handwriting. Captain" Baker replied in the affirma tive, and added that for 20 years he had been: amilrar with Mr.

Rice handwnt ing and had seen him write on many oc casions. The witness was then asked to look at the two checks on Swenson Company for $25,000 and $65,000, drawn" in Patrick's and he said that the signatures purporting to be Rice's were not "I asked Patrick to show me some let ters and papers," said the witness, "but he. refused and told me that his reason for doing so was on account of my atti- tude towards him, which be said was hostile." This, ended the direct examination of Capt. Baker, and Mr. Moore to cross-examiue.

"Did you hear any ugly rumors about Mr. Rice and his. wife?" he asked the witness at one "No, I did "Were there any rumors that Rice killed his wife?" "I never hearM of such rumors," replied the witness. Recess. Just before the recess, Morris Meyer, who with Short and Patrick was accused of forgery in connection with a will of 1900.

and who were admitted' to bail in $5,000, was re-arrested and his bail raised to $10,000 by Justice Jerome. Short's bail also was raised to $10,000. This was the aniount asked for in the first by Asst. Disk Atty. pyep w-hs then taken to the Tombs in with Short and Patrick.

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