’1‘ H E I E vzgawa N G G A ZE’I‘ T E. ~ '. ‘ . / lluzuulplunu.‘ A Host of Documents Bearing Upon the Boundary Dispute. THE POSSESSION OF GUIANA. Statements \Vhich Are Decidedly Impor- mm if True—The. Secretary of the Commission Corrects a Widely Prevalent Impression. BOSTON. March 23.—-The Guianese junt- in this city has just received from George- town, Guiana. the following interesting matter concerning the Venezuelan bound- ary dispute: “Mr. James Rodway, the historian on the boundaries of British Guiana, to whom.was assigned the task of preparing and drawing up the case for British Gui— ana in the Venezuelan imbroglio independ- ent of England, has concluded his work. The first batch of information submitted by him is as follows: ' “First—From their own authorities the Spanish never occupied or possessed any portion of the territory betwoen the Orinoco and the Amazon rivers. . ‘ ‘ Second—Holland, England and France occupied the country because it was not in the possession of any Christian prince and as being in the same position as North America beyond Florida. “Third—Holland not only considered her territory to extend to 10 degrees north latitude, but went so far as to offer the Count of Hayna any place he might choose between that point and the Amazon. "Fourth—The Dutch established the mother colony of British Guiana on the west side of the Essequebo river, and by conciliating the natives controlled not only the northwest district, but that of the lower Orinoco as well. “Fifth—The actual possession of the Dutch on the west side of the Essequebo were Kyk Over Al and its neighborhood, the west bank of the river, the Pomeroon and Meomca and finally the Barima, while Spain had only the village of St. Theme, 15 days’ sailing from the last point mentioned.” _ The writer of the letter containing the above information states that a copy of Mr. Rodway’s stateinents‘has been sent to the Venezuelan government at Caracas, but that none will be sent either to the colonial office in England, the British em- bassador at Washington or the United States government. Continuing the subject of the dispute, the writer quotes at length from the works of John Jacob Hartsinck. LL. D., in which the possessions of the Dutch in Guiana are set forth with much clearness. The Dutch Possessions. ”Inthe sixteenth chapter of the work in question,” says the writer, “we find it stated: Guiana may properly be divided into four parts, according to the posses- sions established by the European powers: “First—Spanish Guiana, lying on both banks of the River Orinoco, stretching to the west as far as the Rio Negro and to the south as far as the River Barima, which is 8 degrees 5 minutes north lati- tude, letting itself out at the mouth of the Orinoco, or, as others have it, eastvof the Waini, about five miles east of the Orinoco. These form the frontiers divid- ing Spanish from Dutch Guiana. , "Second. — Dutch Guiana stretching from Spanish to French Guiana. “Third—French Guiana. “Fourth—Portuguese Guiana. “In the twenty-first chapter of this work we find Hartsinck says that the Span- iards shortly after their arrival incurred the hatred of the Indians by their cruel- ties and were driven away or murdered. so ,that at the latter end of the sixteenth cen- tury no possessions of Spain were to be found on the wild coast except at the Ori- noco. This authority further states that the Dutch also settled early on the Esse- quebo river, but the Spaniards, with the aid of the Indians, dislodged them in 1596. Shortly afterward, however, Jooste Van- der Hooge appears to have driven the Span. iards out, for he established another colo- ny on the river which was in perfect ex- istence in 1613. He found a fort there. afterward called Kyk Over A], that had been. built by Portuguese, which he demol- ished, erecting buildings on the compa- ny’s estates with portions of the material from the fort.” No Conclusions Yet Reached. WASHINGTON, March 23.—Mr. Malet Prevcst, secretary of the Venezuelan com- mission. has authorized the following statement: , “During the past week a report has be- come current to the effect that the com- mission has reached a decision with refer- ence to the boundary question favorable to Venezuela. This having been denied, the report has been circulated in another form, and it is now asserted that while the commission, as a body, has reached no such conclusion the commissioners in- dividually entertain the views referred to. “It must be evident to all persons that so long as anything remains to be exam- ined and considered the commissioners are not in a position to form an opinion respecting the merits of the controversy. As a matter of fact, neither the commis- sion nor the individual commissioners are as yet in possession of all the evidence. The papers presented by Venezuela are but a part of What has been promised. The blue book of the British government, while remarkably full and detailed, does not include all the documents which may be adduced in support of its contentions. The commission has not and will not limit itself to the consideration of what those two governments may present. It has been engaged upon independent lines of inquiry and will continue to follow those linesuntil all its sources of informa~ tion shall have been exhausted. Then: and not until then, will it be in a position to form any opinion or to make any re-' port.” Venezuela’s Case. The last mail from Laguayara, just ar- rived in this country. contains the long expected addition to the case Of Venezuela as it will be laid before the Venezuelan boundary commission. The work was un- dertaken at Caracas by a volunteer com- mission, whose services were accepted by the Venezuelan government. It collected all of the material accessible in Venezuela bearing upon the boundary ”dispute. The matter so far collected was dispatched promptly by the home government to its minister here, Senor Andrade, and while the documents themselves are now in New York the advance mail has brought to Washington a complete list of the papers comprised in the first installment. There are 32 copies of original manuscript rec- ords in the lot, but these after all are of secondary importance in comparison with the large number Of maps and charts that have been gathered to sustain the Vene-. zuelan case. Advertise in ,the Gsznrrn. WILLIAM Q. JUDGE DEAD. He “’33 the Most Prominent Theosophfst In This Country. NEW YORK. March 23.-——William Quan Judge, president of the Theosophical so- ciety in America and the gentleman who has been regarded by the Theosophists in this country as the grand high priest and legitimate successor of the lamented and aWeinspiring Mme. Blavatsky, is dead. He had been ailing for more than two years, and he succumbed to the affection of the lungs, which change of climate had failed to cure. During his 20 years' work in spreading the gospel of the Theosophists and in in- terpreting the will of the Mahatmas Mr. Judge has become a well known figure in three continents. and his work under Mme. Blavatsky in Asia, Europe and America has attracted the attention of millions of people. His labors in the interest of the mysterious creed, however, broke him down, and more than two years he was WILLIAM Q. JUDGE. forced to seek rest. He consulted Dr. J. 13. Buck of Cincinnati. now vice president of the America Theosophists, and, though he has since been under the care of that eminent specialist. he could not shake off the disease. Two weeks ago he returned with his wife to this city and engaged apartments at 255 West Fifty-sixth street. His two sisters, who have resided at the Hotel Lincoln, joined him and were with him when he died. ‘ Mr. Judge was one of the original mem- bers and the first secretary of the first Theosophical society in this country. It was founded in apartments of Mme. H. B. Blavatsky, at 46 Irving place, Sept. 7, 1875, with 40 followers. Since then the creed has spread until at the present time it is said that there are 400, 000 Theoso- phists in America. The object of the so- ciety, about which ordinary mortals have wondered, was stated to be “to obtain knowledge of the nature and attributes of the supreme power and of the higher spir- its by the aid of physical processes.” Booths to Meet In Chicago. EIICAGO, March 23.—Commander Eva Booth of the Salvation Army arrived here to investigate the possibility of any defec- tion in the ranks in favor of her brother, Ballington Booth She will remain sev- eral days. Ballington Booth is expected in. the city this week, and the Chicago branch of the army will probably hear both sides before making any decision as to whom it will follow. The Manitoba School Question. OTTAWA, March 23.—Another attempt is to be made to induce Premier Greenway of Manitoba to restore separate schools. Lord Aberdeen signed a commission ap- pointing Hon. A. R. Dickey, minister of justice; Hon. A. Desjardine, minister of militia, and Sir Donald Smith, M. P.. delegates to visit Winnipeg, there to con-. fer with the provincial ministers. Death Delayed Thirty Years. TOPEKA, March 23—A case which baf- fles medical skill is reported from Pratt county, where Mrs. Robert Crist is dying in great agony because of a snake bite re- ceived 30 years ago. A rattlesnake thrust its fangs into the child’s leg, but prompt medical attention saved her. The wound healed, and the patient experienced no trouble until a week ago. Curfew For Married Men. OMAHA, March 23.—The opponents of the Curfew ordinance, recently passed by the city council, are incubating a new law. This one is very similar to the other, the only difference being made is that it is to be applied to married men instead of chil- dren. The councilmen say it would be no more of a burlesque than the former one. An Actor's Money Gone. NEW YORK, March 23.—Ernest Bost- wick, 23, was locked up, charged with stealing a $150 diamond ring and 815 in cash from William Beach, an actor at- tached to the company playing at Palmer’s theater. Bostwick was near the dressing room of Actor Beach just before the dia- mond and the money disappeared Tilton E. Doolittle Dead. NEW HAVEN, March 23.—Tilton Fl. D00- little, 73 years old, for the last 17 years state attorney in Connecticut, died here. Mr. Doolittle was known as the lawyer who prosecuted more murderers than any other state attorneyin Connecticut He was at the head of the prosecution in the Jennie Cramer murder trial. To ’Foreclose 8 Railroad Mortgage. CLEVELAND, _March 23.—-A_nother step in the foreclosure proceedings involving the Cleveland‘and Cénton railway was taken by the International Trust company of Boston. Suit for foreclosure of the. first mortgage of $2,000.000 was brought and a receiver asked for interest was de- faulted Jan. 1. Metal “’orkers to Meet. PITTSBURG. March 23.——The call for the annual convention of the Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Plate Workers of the United States and Canada was issued by President Garland The convention will meet in Detroit on May 19 and will probably‘be in session two weeks. _ A Marriage In High Life. CLEVELAND. March 23.-—Miss Daisy Ev- erett, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Sylvester T. Everett. is now the wife of Mr. Adolph Oppenheimer of Berlin. The ceremony was performed by Mgr. Thorpe at the palatial residence of the bride’s father, corner Euclid and Case avenues. A Big Purchase of Com. MANHATTAN, Kan, March 23.—-C. P. Dewitt, a wealthy ranch owner, has just finished buying 200,000 bushels of corn to feed to his cattle here. Yesterday he dined the farmers from morning until night, setting out mid fashioned oyster dinner. Advertise in the Gamma. .‘ .7: FUN AND FANCYI A young man. in a, crowded street car must always Nstand“ 'up for his lady friends—Dallas Ne s. . Tobacco Che-win Husband (after ascending stairs)‘—“I am all out of breath.” Wife—“Then kiss me, please.” ——N. Y. Weekly. Fuddy—“They'sa-y that. monkeys can talk.” Duddy—“Yes; but give them full credit by acknowledging that they don’t do it."—Boston Transcript. “I,” wailed the poetic young man, “am ever misunderstood.” “Then,” asked the practical girl, “Why do you not. try to talk United States ?”—Indianap0ilis Journal. . IIe—“So they were married at home, eh? What do you think of the serv- ice?” She—“Not much; it was marked ‘sterling,’ but I’ni sure it was plate.”— I’hiladelphia Record. ' Raising Funds—“I’ll give ten dol- lars,” announced the man in the third pew from the front. The converted counterfeiter rose with emotion. “And I," he exclaimed, “will make it $100.”— Detroit Tribune. As It Is in Paris—First Gendarme— “There goes the murderer of the man who was found dead on the bridge last night.” Second Gendarme—“That’s so, but what can we do? He’s not on our beat.”—Journal Amusant. ’ “I have here one divorce notice and one marriage announcement,” said the editor’s assistant. “What caption shall I put. over them ?” “Run them together and head them ‘Brakes and Couplings,’ ” replied the editor, who once had charge of the railway department—Judge. PEOPLE. Mme. Jules Favre, the widow of the politician who negotiated with Prince Bismarck for the capitulation of Paris. is dead. For 20 years ‘she had been at the head of the Ecole Normale for Women at. Sevres. It is declared by English genealogists that a monument in a church in East Sutton, Kent, to the second wife of Laurence Washington proves the lat— ter’s descent from the founder of Baliol college at Oxford, and the brother of John Baliol, king of Scotland. mitted suicide reccntl y, once described himself as “a chl‘ersonian, whose in- fluence politically is conservative, for safe measures and against radical, un- sound and meddlesome legislation, a quiet man in manners, a plain man in dress and a studious ll":ll by habitffl Morris M. White, of Cincinnati, and Francis T. White, of New York, broth- ers, and graduates of Earlham college, a Quaker institution in Richmond, Ind., have given the college $25,000, to be added to the endowment fund and to be known as the John T. White memorial fund, in honor of their father. 'GLEANED ABROAD. Henry Furniss, whose political cari- catures have hitherto been drawn from the conservative point 6f view, is now making pictures of parliament for the liberal Daily News. ' Large deposits of platinum have been discovered at Fitfield, in New South Wales. One bed of platiniferous lead ore is a mile long and from 60 to 150 feet wide. The crude metal contains about '75 per cent. of platinum and sells on the field for six dollars an ounce. A Druidical dolmen has been trans- ported from Brittany and erected again in its original form over theg'rave of an archaeologist named Piketty at Mon- do-n, outside of Paris. It is called the dolmen of Kerhan, comes from the neighborhood of Lochmariaquer and consists of 14 blocks of granite. Dr. “'eldon, head master of Harrow school, makes a plea. in the Church Monthly for the severance of sport from gambling. He describes horse racing as “the sport of kings, the noblest exercise of the physical pow- ers of the noblest of animals,” and as- serts that in ancient. Greece no one made a bet at the Olympian games. ODDITlES IN EYES. Many kinds of fish see equally well in every direction, their eyes being so prominent as to command a wide field of vision. The common leech is said by natural- ists to be provided with from two to ten . true eyes, having all parts in compara- tive perfection. - Many creatures of the lowest order of animal life are provided with eye spots, which probably give only an im- pression of light. - The owl’s eyes have no muscles by which they can be moved. This dc- ficiency is: atoned for by extraordinary flexibilityain the muscles of the neck, by which the owl can move his head with incredible rapidity in any direc- tion. The eye of the cat, like that; of the horse, is provided with a- false eyelid, which may be moved independently of the outer or true lid. It is often cm- ployed by a eat when obliged to face a very bright light, and is believed to act as a shade. THE SlLK INDUSTRY. As long ago as 1878 the silk industry in Italy employed 16,000 men, 120,000 women and 76,000 children. From the German colony of Ebenez- er, near Savannah, in the year 1749, over 1,000 pounds of silk were exported. Russia is not a large silk producer. The amount of the product in 1887 was 900,000 pounds, valued at £1,800,000. The silk product of Austria in 1887 was 1,800,000 pounds, and its value was £3,700,000. Italy in 1887 manufactured 800,000 pounds of silk, worth £1,600,000._ In 1887, according to the “Dictionary of Statistics,” the United States manu- factured 3,500,000 pounds of silk into various kinds of fabrics, chiefly ribbon. The latest available statistics, from France, collected in the year 1887, make the silk product of that year 14,800,000 pounds, worth £29,400,000. , Advertiw in the GAZETTE. . o l Ex-Congrcssman Harter, who com- lH BUSlUN Sllllll " = ifiimm,“ - . \ ‘ - . V ' 5 ........n: ; :stfw . - . N O RWA L K. _ ’ . Atwlli 'ADVERTlfiEfls. _ c3552.??? '1 NEW YORK OFFIGE, 442 BROADWAY. We are always advancing, no balling, always going ahead. “For lhis reason we are compelled lo sacrifice one of our Deparlnienls. The increased sales ln'our Suil ‘ and cloak Boom has made il necessary for us lo_ lake the; whole floor for our display of Ladies’ and Misses’ Suils, Ladies’ and children’s Spring capes and Jack‘els, Ladies’ Shirl Waisls, elc. Therefore, we shall close oul all our Sarpels and llallings al a price. We Wanl lo clots oul all our carpels THIS WEEK. Here are lhe prices 'lhal wjlldo ll: . ‘ - . - . . 75c» Best Tapestry Brussels, 55 Cents. 75c All-Wool lngrain, 50 Cents. . 75c Stair carpets, 55 Cents. 25c Mattings, l5 Cents, 49c Mattings, 25 Cents. if you are going to gel a carpet lhis Spring, now is your lime. ‘ Hassocks, 29c ones for I9 Cents. Hassocks, 500 ones for 3| Cents. $2.25 Moquette Rugs for $l.75. _ $2.00 Velvet Rugs for 75 Cents. Hair Rugs at Half Price. SlLKS—4 ‘ Weiihear. a great many Ladies say they never bought a Silk' Dress in Nor- walk. To let those know that we can sell silk with any house in New York, here is a . ' 22-inch BLACK DUCHESSE, $1.00 quality, for 89 Cents. 24-inch BLACK DUCHESSE, $l.25 quality, for '98 Cents. 2l-inch BLACK INDlA, large figures, 980 quality, for 69 Cents. 22-‘inch BLACK CROS-CRAIN, $l.50 quality for $l.00. Examine this line and you will say that it is the best value you ever saw. I Silk' Waist patterns in great variety‘, lHE 303nm sun. Eur. Main and Wall 33. Is your plate glass or safe, insured? . If not, call on me and I will write you a. policy in the Mutual Plate Glass and Safe Insur' ance Company. Class will break and burglars use dynamite. l n Case of Fire , 5 'You should be insured. A policy in the Reliance‘ot Philadelphia; ‘ Phoenix ,of Hartford; Scotland Union of Scotland; New Hampshire of Manchester; Rochester German of Rochester; United States and Pacific 01 Ports- \ of New York'; Security of New Han'ipshire or Granite State mouth will protect you against the ll's'i: fiend. W. H. BYTENGTQN, ., Real Estate and General Insurance, ROOM 1. Gazn-r'rn BUILDING I \ LOANS NEGOTIATED AND INVESTMENTS MADE. ———,,CORRESPONpENc E Sonora; _‘
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