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Show nninr- - ..mrnmnmmmmn.- - ttih roi ASSCCU I ED PRfSS nutunnt Weather forecast fair Today sebvicl uilinri VOL. L OGDEN NO. 103. mm will V Will TUESDAY MORNING, 4 GOD FIGHTS ON 4 4 4 4 4 LEADERS WITH LIVES Corbett UTAH, SENSATIONAL DEVELOP MENTS. 11101)10. 4 Sheriff CITY. Have to Ffght for His Men Judge Stevens Would Like to claim that evidence of a sensational nature wax uneenh- Oil today in the Demoli kidnap- 4 ping case, and ii la stated that 4 a arrant a will be Issued against 4 seven men who are thought to 4 be guilty of the crime. A man 4 whose name the poiico refuse 4 to divulge, hip been found who 4 claims to have overheard the 4 discussion of the conspiracy 4 against the Dcmolil, but he is 4 unable to identify the men who 4 were talking. The victim of 4 ihe aasault Is recovering rap- - 4 Imprison Gov. Peabody Coin.. April 11- .- The polio Idly. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 STRONGEST SIDE 4 APRIL PRICE FIVE CENTS. 12, 1904. 4 .4 STREETS. 4 4 Si. rani. April 11. A special 4 to ihe Pioneer Press from 4 4 say: At midnight flood wafer from 4 the lied river is flowing down 4 Main street, and the barns 4 of ihe electric railway company 4 WATER RAPIDLY RISING IN. Yiu-uie- g 4 4 4 4 4 Ibis is Motto ViL:ch Russia is 4 are being washed away by tlm 4 spring current, and it Is will be swept away. The 4 Live to Be Iplj-- M Trying 4 water is rising rapidly and Is 4 4 4 4 4 4 Losing Faith in Ikons. 4 4 4 endangering ihe bridges. Since yesterday ilie Red river has risen nineteen feet and people along iis banks are fleeing to places (if safety. . 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Representavive Clark Says Money Spent on Foreign Possessions Would Reclaim Flood Devastated Districts at Home, HALF MILLION TO TAKE FIELD ll.-- en Telliulde. Colo, April ..n. ral Bell waa informed today that court lRe Stevens. In the District n r ouray, hail ordered himself and Cap-tiWells arrested and contlned in h ouray county Jail on the charge of "If Sher iintempt of court, he said: It wl I CurlH-t- t takes us to Ouray all ve lo be over the dead bodies of in this he soldiers under my command ouutv. He has not got men. enough TO ENTERTAIN MEMBERS. THE SMALL BILL Washington, April 11. The President has signed Joint resolutions extending the invitations of Congress to union and tue providing for the entertainment of Its members, and requesting the President of the United States to negotiate with the government of Great Britain for a revision of (he regulations governing the inking of fur seals in the 0en waters of the North Pacific ocean, and niluation demands j dJ that. inThe Tellttnde. we stay hit "Mr Moyer will never he produced Bering sea. s , court until Governor Peabody EMPEROR WILLIAM IN MALTA. he escapes unless so do to we nd goes over the range on snow Valetta. Island of Malta. April 11. Emperor William this morning visited Stev- the British fleet and witnessed torpedo Oursy. Colo, April 11. Judge He the nets, anchor and boat drills. Bulof the filing ens refused to permit lunched ou board the battleship General made by return to the writ or- wark. (flagship of Admiral Sir CompBell, and Captain Wells Issued an ton Edomvllle, nommandlng the Meder of attachment against them and diterranean fleet) and made a speech assessed a fine of $500 each and ex- of congratulation to the officers and waa Governor the that pressed regret crew. considered as he not before the court, During the afternoon the Emperor rehim equally guilty with General Bell ceived the Roman Catholic Archbishop and Captain Wells. of Malta, the most Reverend P. Pace, on board the imperial yacht Hohen-xoller- n, Governor 11. When Denver. April and later drove to Citta Veccha Tetbody was Informed of the action of and visited points of interest. or of Ouray, Judge T heron Stevens dering the arrest of Adjutant General Washington, April 11. Advices have Hell and Captain Wells, Issued an been received here of the arrival of the of court In not complying Japanese troops at the Yalu river. with the writ of habeas corpus In the said: he Moyer case, Vienna. April 11. A political meet"We will not recognize the writ of at Samovarner A gram, Croatia, ing authoritattachment and the military ended in serious rioting. A yesterday, ies will not appear In court. Neither mob of peasants stormed the town hall, will we give up Moyer. W'e will claim carried out the records and burned that the courts have no right to en them. Deputy Kipach and the town join or arrest the officers or member notary were severely beaten. A battery uf Ihe military while they are on duty. of artillery dispersed the rioters. to attachment not They are subject or injunction at this time. If the district court of Ouray is to .be allowed to Interfere In Ihe carrying out of the plans of the military tinder martin1 Isw. there la no reason why Justices of Ihe peace might not with equal authority intervene and render the So Levy's Sentence for Murder Is Commilitary absolutely powerless and 1m muted from Death to Life The court made known Jts latent. Imprisonment. wishes In the matter and we have stated our position. It Is now up to Boise. Idaho, April 11. The Slate the court to make the next move in Board of Pardons tonight commuted the matter. What that will be 1 m the sentence of George Levy to life unable to say. Imprisonment He was to have been Not having heard from Attorney hanged on Friday for the murder of General Miller, who Is representing David Levy in October, 1901. The feathe military In the habeas corpus hear- ture of the application for clemency ing at Ouray, the Governor could not was a showing indicating that another say what course the Attorney General man had committed the deed. Soon would pursue since Judge Stevens re- after was murdered the public Levy fused to allow his answer to the writ administrator received through the to be filed wfth the court mall what purported to be a will left by him. Denver, April 11. Governor The principal beneficiary under this today ordered all me remaining will was Harry Watkins. It ia claimed troops In the Cripple Creek district on investigation as demonstrated that about fifty in number, withdrawn and the document was written on a typereturned to their homes. . writer In the possession of Watkins, The unusually peaceful conditions also that he had -- evys signature on a prevailing in the district ever since slip of paper in bis desk. The latter the exodus of the main body of troops fact was testified to before the board has convinced the Governor that solmen who had been in Watkins' emby diers are no longer needed. ploy. The murdered man waa an old miser and was quite wealthy. STRIKE IS ABORTIVE. Watkins was Indebted to him at the time of his death. George Levy was Panama. April 11. The strike on not a relative of the murdered man. the Panama railroad was brought to He was a Frenchman who rented propan end today, most of the laborers reerty from the old man. turning to work under the old conditions. JAP8 MUST HURRY. or-er- GUILT IS DOUBTFUL Pen-bod- y HATI IN STATE OF 8IEOE. London. April 12. A correspondent of the Times with the Japanese bead I'url Au Prince, Ilatl, April 11. quarters sends the following, dated Hnr 1$ felt here of an attack by Wei exiles Hayden organized by April 11, by wireless telegraphy former of Jlminez, president die Dominican republic and now gath-- ' "At present information from the "''l in Dominican territory. The front mnst be belated, owing to land has declared a state of singe of the existing sea base distance the in nil departments of the republic and bc frontiers are guarded by strong from the advance guard, but this will fiirif;A soon be remedied. "It is doubtful whether the WANTS TO JOIN RUSSIAN FORCES. engagement on the Yalu river will ever take place, certainly not unfaris April 11. The Journal des Delates says Col. Marchand. of Fash-f'- d less the Russians have been reinforced fain more heavily than my information recently offered his reeigna-!1"to the minister of General Andre, leads me to believe. This is foreseer wished to accept an invita-J-o- n the Japanese, and hence their efuf Emperor Nicholas to follow the by to blockade Port Arthur so that forts k'lttdaii operations, but the minister be able to reduce the length may they ,,,f,IWl to grant him the necessary of their land communications. It must . . be remembered that aniens the Japanese secure the north side of the Yalu STRIKE ASSUMES GRAVE PROPOR- river with a new base by July, the TIONS. land movements from Korea will become practically Impossible. I at robe, April 11. The miners striks The rainfall of summer ia so heavy filiation la assuming grave propor-'i"n- a that all the flimRy bamboo bridges Kheriff Treai-ho- r will be destroyed. This would indicame to today and Is placing additional cate that it Is not to the advantage of rntie on guard. Over 1.500 men are either belligerent to engaged in a oni. struggle In the vicinity of Yalu. The Russians desire to get the IMPLICATED IN LAND FRAUDS. Japanese forces Inland with the hope of enveloping them, while the JapaPortland. April 11. Henry Meldrum. nese want to get Inland because the formerly United States surveyor in this country affords a more suitable theater atp. was arraigned today on an inat operations. dictment returned by the federal graad "As the time is short, an effort of jury, for complicity in the land frauds the Jaiwnese must be developed al,n lhla state, and most immediately. pleaded guilty. . Hat-We- i: it d m n. IjS-iin- be harriman will take part. London. April 12. A correspondent of the Times at Seoul, cabling under SL Louis, April 11. E. H. Harri- date of April 7, says: dan of New York, president of the It la believed that the Russians New 1 urk World's Fair commission north of the Yalu are not sufficiently will deliver the address ou lehalf of numerous to withstand the Japanese he domestic exhibitors at the oiienlbg advance for any considerable distance exercises of the World s Fair. beyond the river. SAYS HE KILLED Plana of Magnitude Are Being Laid to Crush the Jap by Force of Numbers. Clean Money Crusade is Justified in House Report. St .Petersburg, April 1 1- .- Exceptionally reliable Information regarding the Russian military plan confirms the relies ted announcement made by the Associated Press that these plans will not mature until Is in ihe summer. They are of far great cr magnitude than is generally believe abroad, and take into account ail poa-ib- le contingencies. General Kiiraptkiu, retneiiilierliig the exiicrienca of Russia during her war with Turkey, when tlm Russian army of 30.000 placed in the field at Ihn beginning hail to be more limn doubled, has insisted that the men and guns to be placed at hls dlMxwal shall rover the extreme limit required to settle the fate of the campaign. The Russian plans are predicated niton Napoleon's maxim that God fights on the side of the heaviest battalion and they are being workel out and timed so ns to apply to a superiority of numbers on land and sea simultaneously. Ida' army Is designed to atiain the enormot'S total of half a million at the time .scheduled for the Makar-off- 's reinforcement of fleet with the Baltic squadron. The seventeenth an! tenth army corps now drafting are expected to reach Manchuria by the middle of June. The mobilization of four other corps at least two of which will tie from the VoU, will he annoo-p- d by tha middle of next month and will start eastward a month later, reaches their destination at the end of August Rear Admiral Rojestrensky will commander of the hoist hls flag formidable Baltic squadron early in July and will sail immediately for Port Arthur with the following vessels: The battleships Rlava, Borodino, Orel, Kulaz Rouvaroff, Alexander III, and Oallalila. the last, named being jiow en route here from Cherbourg: the rrulsera Aurora. Dmitri Donskol. Svlet-lan- d, an! lxumrud Alms., Jemti-huand the transports Kamtachatka and Ocean, each carrying 1,000 tons of coal. a he Temperley rimvoyers ordered In the United State are expectad soon and they will enable the squadron to coal at sea. The least possible difficulty regarding the passage of the Sues canal disappeared last week with the signing of colonial treaty ty the Anglo-Frenc- h which Great. Britain adheres to the convention of 1888 concerning the free passage of the canaL TO SAVE SELF Negro Confesses to Murder of Night Watchman ! Bill Wilj Likely Be Passed In Near Future to Improve Currency Condition A report Washington, April 11. from the House committee on banking and currency recommending the passage of the hill "to Improve currency conditions." was filed In the House today by Chairman Fowler. The first section of the hill repeals the law which prohibits customs receipts from being deposited in national banka The results of the present law in this matter the report says Is unnecessarily to tie up the money of the country. The report says that if states and municipalities should lock up the proceeds of local taxation as the national government locks up its receipts the effect would be disastrous and yet tnere Is as much reason for such a case in the one case as In the other. The second section repeals the monthly three million dollar limit on bank note retirement. The report says the repeal of this restriction will give to the national bank note circulation all of the elasticity which it Is postd-bl- e for a bond secured circulation to have. The coinage of silver dollars into subsidiary silver coins Is provided in the third section of the bill. The limit of $100,000,000 as the total amount of auhaldiary silver coins that can lie in existence at any one time is repealed by this section. The reimrt says that on July 1st next the bullion from which subsidiary coins may be made will lie exhausted. There is in the treasury 578,012.099 silver dollars, or, says the report, according to Secretary Shaw, five hundred carloads of 20 tons each. It would coat. $101,000 to recount this money, and the secretary ays that it Is wonh In bullion leu than half of Its fare value in dollars. It is this money that the bill propose? (Continued on Page Three) Vice-Admir- al His Character In Other Matters Make Police Discredit Hie Excuse for Deed. Philadelphia, April 11. The mystery surrounding the murderer of John Thornes, the aged night watchman at the Houston Club of the University of Pennsylvania last evening, wss cleared up today liy the arrest and confession of Lawrence Gibson, alias John Oakley, who was for a number of years employe! ae a utility man at the Houston Hell. Olbson Is a West Indian negro, and says he ie a native of Jamaica. He waa arrested at hla horns early in the day and denied all knowledge of the crime uni II late in the afternoon. when he broke down an! conis fessed to the murder. his plra. The watchman, Gibson says, evidently mistook him for a thief and attacked him. In the struggle he unintentionally killed the old man. The police do not believe the story. of Polite Quirk Is of the opinion that revenge for bring discharged from Houston Hall waa Ihe motive for the murder. allbough he baa not entirely discrediied the theory of robliery. Gibson, whose complexion Is so light that he easily passes ae a while man, misrepresented himself as a student, at the University an! married a young while woman three weeks ago. When the deception was from discovered he wss discharged Houston Hall. How he expected to get revenge and hls reason fur attacking the watchmen the police decline to say. Self-defen- se NEW WOMAN TIRED OF LIFE. Berlin. April 11. Mra Eliza Schanf, aged 60 years, formerly a prominent advocate of Women's rights, committed suicide with a revolver at her home In Cholletenhurg tonight. The cause assigned Is that, the women's mind had become clouded. Jl Washington, April 11. The Culberson amendment to the postofflee appropriation bill providing for a committee to investigate the Postofflee department was before the Senate all day and after being ruled out of order In modified form wu pending when the Senate adjourned, Mr. Gorman made an earnest plea for an Investigation, saying the ifostoffice department had cut reflection upon members of Congress and that a thorough examination should be had. Mr. Aldrich answered that the amendment finally modified meant nothingand will if an Investigation wu to be had it should be A live one." He aid that if any specific charges were brought in they should be looked into by Congress, but that the demand should not be made a part of a general bllL appropriation speeches were made by Messrs. Teller and Simmons. Discussing newspaper statements that the Republicans have already selected their candidate for president and the platform on which he will stand, Mr. Teller criticised the program as one to which the masses had not the opportunity to contribute. He read a statement to the effect that reciprocity would be a part f the program and uked Mr. Aldrich what he thought of the program. "I believe as you do. said Mr. Aldrich. that such matters should he left to the convention. Mr. Simmons answered the recent sppech of Mr. Spooner, who defended Postmaster-Gener- al Payne from what he treated an attack by Mr. Simmons in previous remarks. Mr. Simmons declared today that hls remarks in relation to the reluctance of the Postofflee department to uniertake an Investigation referred to the hesitancy on the part of former Postmaster General Smith and not to Mr. Payne. He reiterated, however, his belief that the investigation had been delayed and also that the present postmaster-genera- l had not treated fairly the offer of S. IV. Tulloch to give testimony in regard lo conditions in the department. This act of discouragement, said Mr. Simmons, was calculated to deter the Semi-politic- al u -- work of unesrihleg the scandals la the department Mr. Simmons said he had been charged with admcaUng the selection of a neutral man for President. He (Simmons) had demanded a calm, well poise! disposition and mind. Judicial and conservative temperament and asked whether that would lie regarded a neutral man. Turning to the Republican ride, he said he supposed the canone who would didate wanted wu overturn affairs uf the twentieth century, make npw la we when the present ones did not suit, and treat treaties with foreign counlrlea wl'fmut the advice or consent of the Senate. He said the country has witnessed the spectacle of a President holding forth one , hand as a anl on the other as a safe man for business interests. We have had the spectacle of tho r, the attorney-gonly original who has acted as Lord eneral. High Ex ecui loner, and a score or more assistants, sh:! Mr. Simmons, and they have managed to find two trusts to prosecute. Continuing, Mr. Simmons asked: "What do the people want a man who will execute their will, or a man who will bend them to hia will? He urged an Investigation of the Postofflee department and declared the Bristow report showed that Macfaen'a lniriguing was not bold until Mr. Heath became first assistant trust-buster- trust-buste- iioalmas-ter-gener- al. Mr. Simmon sai-- I that only three of the persons found lo have been mixed up In the posiufflce frauds were appointed under Democratic administra- tion!. At the conclusion of Mr. Simmon's rpeech Mr. Lodge urged hia point of order against, the Culberson amen and Mr. Gorman Insisted that under a liberal construction of the rules the chair or the Senate could bold anything in order. The point of order was austalnel. but Mr. Gorman persisted and made various modifications of the proposition In order to bring It. within the rule and finally eliminated all provisions for appropriations. Mr. Gorman in the Post office de said Washington, April 11. The House today passed the bill reported by the committee on rivers and harbors, appropriating $3,110(1,0110 for the restoration of maintenance of channels, or uf oilier river aud harbor Improvements. Mr. Burton, chairman of the committee, in explaining the hill, urged the adoption of settled prtnc.iEes with regard to river aud harbor work. Messrs. Burgess (Texas) and Ranadcll (La.) favored Increases In the appro prist Ions for river and harbor Improve menu, the former urging they sliouK lie doubled and the latter regarding $100,000,0110 as not too much. Quite a large number uf hills of minor Importance were iMsaed. Mr. Burgess fTbnn.), a member of tho river aud harbor committee, declared that the Industrial life of the United States is dependent on quicker transportation, and hnjied the next general river and harbor appropriation hill will provide a total sum double that of any heretofore granted. Mr. Hansdcll (La.), also a member of the committee, said that lie would supimrt a bill carrying $100.(110.(100, because the people now are ready for it and would applaud its passage. He regretted the present measure simply was an emergency one. The American people, he said, are nut afraid of large He sums, hut rather like them. charged that tha Republican bad been lavish and even relentless of expense In ail matters except river and harbor Improvement, and called attention to the hundreds of millions which, he said, had been spent In connection with the war with Spain and on "criminal aggression and passive warfare. Mr. Humphreys (Miss.), also a member of the committee, sisike of the fallacy of the levee system of Improving the Mississippi river and said It was not possible for a levee or a system of levees to withstand floods tuck as occurred In 1897 and 1903. Mr. Clark (Mo.) said the river and harlmr cotninlUeo was made up entirely of mcmliera living on the gulf coast., the great lakes or the ocean. Seven of the States through which the Missouri flows, or which it touches are without a single representative. Ho alluded to the aequision by the United States of the Hawaiian islands, the Philippines, Guam and lorto Rico, on the pretext that homes are And yet, wanted for our children. he said, there is more farming land cut of which to make such homes that it overflowed and destroyed and made barren by the floods of the Missouri river than could be found in aU those Islands. Instead. he vigorously declared, amid applause, of squandering money, to hold the Filipinos in subjection, to educate the Ilawallans and to carry the mail at an exorbitant price to the cannibals of the FIJI Islands, you bet ter take care of this land you have got at home. Mr. Cowherd (Mo.) referred to the crying necessity for the improvement of the Knw river at Kansas City, whlrh elicited from Burton the statement that the Kaw river was not now and had not been navigable for twenty yean, and no one interested in that river had sought to promote navigation on it. The bill then was passed without amendments. Under its provisions the money appropriiAd becomes immediately available and is to be expended under the directions of the Secretary of War and the supervision of ihe chief engineers. were also The following bills passed: For the relief of certain settlers on the Dalles military road land grant, in Oregon, to restrict the unlimited transfer of merchandise in bonded warehouses; to authorise tho Secretary of the Interior lo correct the records where double allotments of land have been made to Indians and to correct errors in land patents, granting to the Stale of Oregon certain lands to be used by it fur the purpose of maintaining and operating a fish hatchery. A Senate Joint resolution was passed authorizing the Issue of duplicate medals for distinguished and meritorious service where the originals have been lost or destroyed. Mr. Williams, the minority leader, rising to a question of privilege, called attention to last Saturdays vote and proposition to lay on the (able the Cockran resolution regarding the President's pension order. He said that the Congressional Record showed that both Mr. Morgan of Ohio and Mr. Dovener of West Virginia, were recorded as voting "Aye and at the Mine time appeared as being paired with Messrs. Snook of Ohio and Trimble of Kentucky, respectively, which would have made the vote 101 to ion. He said that as neither Mr. Snook nor Mr. Trimble voted the names of Messrs. Morgan and Dovener should be taken from the list of yeas. Several Republican members took this as a reflection on Messrs. Morgan nd Dovener. and declared that if they were paired and voted, they did so under a misapprehension. The Speaker informed the House that Ihe stating of pairs In the Record is purely a matter, but the statement of the vote itself is official. Pairs, he said, frequently were declared off without clerks being noti- partment were auch as to make an Inquiry imperative. The report of the fourth assistant postmaster-generpractlrally charged members of Congress with being confederates of Beavers and Machen and on this account Congress could' not In Justice to itself refuse to make an Inquiry. The President's memoranda in the Machen case, he said, also raised a question as to the conduct of members and unler these charges Congress could not afford to let the matter real. The. department's reflections upon Congress be denoun-eas an "outrage and said that Instead of there being a question of politics involved, Ihe honor and Integrity of Congress were In question. He pronounced the postmaster-generas an honest man, hut said he was to he criticised for falling lo demand a Congressional Investigation. With only four Democrats out of nine members of the committee nothing would be permitted to get out. If the matter was to have any efferi in the present campaign it was now In the best conJit ion to accomplish that, end, because as it now stood, he said, the Republican party refuses to permit an inquiry. Senators on the other side, he Mid, may regard their case as so desperate that they will net permit, any peep into the books. Well, you have the power of course, and yon can prevent an inquiry if you wish to do so. as of the members of yon have the Renats." Mr. Aldrich replied, raying: The amendment In He present shape shows the folly uf aftemptlng such legislation as this on an appropriation bllL Mr. Gorman has emasculated It so that it is of no effect whatever. If we are to have an investigation let. It he a live one. Then let. us' have one. suggested Mr. Gorman without rising, and Mr. Aldrich continued: "Give us an explicit charge an! we will take It tip. though not on an appropriation bill. There never has been, and I hope to God there never will be. a time when this Rena'e has refused to invextigaie a charge of misconduct fied. i Continued on Page Three) After Mr. Williams announced that al al two-thir- non-offici- le was not criticising anybody, tha matter was dropped. At 5: 15 o'clock the House adjourned. ANGLO-FRENC- TREATY. RL Petersburg, April 11. 8:15 p. m. The news of the signing of the Anglo-Frencolonial treaty was cordially received here. In reeKinatlila official circles the understanding between tha allies uf the two belligerents Is regarded as the best guarantee against and when the war is over and if Russia is victorious, as an that Great Britain will not try to prevent her from mailing tha fruits of her triumph. The Korean government has not compiled with Japan's reported demand for tha recall of the Korean minister at Si. Peteraburg who continues in official relations with the Russian foreign office. In an interview with the correspondent, the minister raid: "I have not the slightest intimation from Seoul confirming the reports that Jaimn is Insisting on my recall. Hia Japanese could not make such demand a without violating the treaty pledging Korean Independence. General Kuropatkln is proceeding pa an insiiectiun tour of the outposts along Yalu river. General Rennenksspoff's Cossack division, numbering 10,000 men, haa on the upper Yalu. The fourth army corpa reached Harbin ten days ago. Vladivostok is held by 13.0UO riflemen An officer and thirteen Cossacks, who were left south of the Yalu to reconnoitre after the Russians retlred.'sue-ceede- d in locating the Japanese positions without discovery, swimming their horses a mile and a half la the river. ch ns, Anglo-Japanes- is ar-alv-ed MURDERED AT CHURCH DOOR Negroes Shoot White Enemy as Ha Enters Church to Get Drink. . WarHempsteal, Texas, April rants have been Issued for two negroes, charging them with the murder of Tucker Pinckney, brothers of Congressman John 81. Pinckney, at a church eight miles from here. It la expected that there will be a number of other arrest. There Is much excitement over the entire county. Pinckney and George Groce rode up to the church late in the afternoon. There had been trouble between Grooa and some of the negroes who were at the churrh at the time and as Pinckney entered the church to get a drink of water, shooting was opened by tha negroes in the church. Seven shots were fired and .all of them took effect In the body of Pinckney, who fell dead just outside ihe door. Groce shot two of the negroes who were outside, but neither is fatally wounded. The blacks scattered and they are keeping close to their homes. Congrereman Pinckney and bis sister are to arrive here Friday and the funeral of the tissd man will be held at that time. If there ia to be any farther tremble, It is not like?? to happen until after the funeral. Washington, April 11. Senator Patterson today proposed an amendment to the sundry civil bill, for the purpose of making an amendment to the Chinese exclusion art. He proposes striking out of the first section of the set the words so far as the same are not Inconsistent with treaty obligations. FURTHER FLOODS IN CANADA. Winnipeg. April 11. Both the Red and Assiniboine rivers are rising rapidly and residents on their banks are preparing for floods. Oxbow, N. W." T.. April 11. The Souris river le the highest known in years. The greater part of the Canadian Pacific railway bridge west of Oxbow has been swept away. EXPRESSES SATISFACTION. Paris, April 11. The Russian ambassador, M. Nelideoff, acting on instructions from Foreign Minister Lamedorff. has expressed to Minister Deles ne the satisfaction of Russia at th econcluslon of the Anglo-Frenc- h colonial treaty. NO PUNISHMENT PROVIDED. Denver. April II. Judge Palmer, in the criminal division of tha district, court todai, decided that there Is ro punishment prescribed by statute Is this state for fraud committed at speo-lelections such ss ths recent chapter elections In this city. This derision frees 18 election officials who were charged with stuffing the ballot boxe al STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS. Washington. April 1L Col. Jobs Hancock, brother of the late General a Winfield Sott Hancock, suffered Mroke of paralysis today at his counr try home at "CollingswtiML Ml. . |