Show THIS FROM 1 WASHINGTON i Active negotiations are In progress between the United States and Great Britain relative to the isthmian c cfinal treaty tf 1 > v I The Chinese Minister lias gone to Atlantic City for a few days recrea lien where he Joins Madame Wu who has been there for some time The Secretary of the Treisqry yes i terday afternoon purchased one million dollars short term 1 per cent bonds at 1136rT tho same price ho paid for thc last bonds purchased Col Grecnleaf Goodale recently promoted has been assigned to command com-mand the Seventeenth Infantry and Col Sumner II Lincoln also recently promoted Is assigned to the Tenth Infantiy I SurgeonGeneral Van Reypen of thc I navy said yesterday that he had received re-ceived no report relating to prevalence of smallpox aboard thc Monterey as I reported by Consul McWade J In ljI news I dispatch It has been the business polloyof thc I firm of John Wanamaker to keep clear combinations and It Is hot believd that any tangible result will follow tho I overtures already made on behalf of the associated merchants combine I Two wellknown oHcers of tho German Ger-man military service Capt Khpherer of the Hussars and Count Arnlm of thc guard du corps will arvlvo Jn a I America shortly and will be Informally connected with the German embassy AValtcr II Chamberlln of Chicago has tendered his resignation as United States Assistant Commissioner of Patents The resignation will take effect May 1st when Mr Chamberlln will resume the practice of patent law Thc report In a Paris paper that the Chinese Minister at St Petersburg was thrown downstairs fit the Instigation Instiga-tion of Count Lamsdorff not credited In Washington Chinese officials look upon lljns a statement doing Injustice to Count Lamtfdorff rather than to Minister Yang Yu There Is a disposition quarters not Immediately connected with the Isthmian Isth-mian canal negotiations to believe that Great Britain leading up to the nub mission of a proposition that In re turn for an abrogation of the Clayton rUilwer treaty this Government will make concessions In Alaska I |