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DTU, of $824,908; tobacco, *3.830,435. an Increase of $1,215,331; fermented liquors. $4.649.773. an ‘-crease of $2,213,414; oleomargarine, $197.%, an increase of $64,733; miscellaneous, ' .3t3. an increase of $3,453,244. Por the fit -i Jx months of the present llscal year the t ceipt from all source# uggreSted $138,322,471. a gain as compared with e same period vast year of $52,160,328. * * • A contest Is on for the assistant eornmissionership for the General Land Office, which Frank M. Mondell. of Wyoming, who has been elected to Congress, will vacate on March 4. Mr. Mondell will present his resignation very soon, and several candidates are In the field. Ex-Governor Richards, of Wyoming, who has the advantage of geographical location and of familitarity with land office work through some years’ experience as surveyor general of the State, has been urged on the President oi:d is strongly backed. Ex-Represent.ille Anderson, of Virginia, former chief clera <ff the chief office, is among the other candidates. * * * The secretary of the navy has :;t;bmi:ted to the Court of Claims another batch of claims for bounty money by United States sailors on account of Spanish war ships destroyed. There are about two score cases of ships so destroyed in this last lot. A misapprehension seems to have ai.:-en cn recount of the action of the Navy Der&Tlntnt in so referring these cases, anl the inftrcrce has been drawn that this course was adopted because the Navy Department whs Itself in doubt as to the conditions under which the Spanish ships were destroyed, and felt itself incapable of passing on the question as to whom the credit belongs. It is said, however, at the department that in the opinion of the legal authorities this reference is necessary to meet the statutes relative to the payment of bounty money. Therefore the attorney general has been notified of the reference of the cases, and requested to appear before the court in the interest of the United States, though, he has been told that, this request does not by any means signify hostility on the part of the Navy Department toward the claims. * • <■ The third annual session of the National Congress of Mothers will open In Washington Feb. 14. The souvenir programme has been Issued and gives promise of an unusually interesting meeting. Dess time than, heretofore will be given to formal papers and more to conference and discussion. The discussions will be led by such w’ell-known educators and people of the day as William T. Powell, superintendent of the Washington city schools; Dr. Samuel S. Adams; Mrs. .Joseph P. IveJdy, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Roger McMullen, of Evanston; Dr. Rebecca Cole, of Washington, Miss O’Grady,' of the Philadelphia Normul School; Rev. W. L. Worcester, of Philadelphia; Mrs. D. O. Mears, of Albany, N. Y., and Miss Deane Richards, of Washington. Mrs. He en Boyce ilunsleker, of Philadelphia, will give a recital of children’s songs Friday evening. Any member may become an associate member of the congress by an annual payment of $2, which entitles to a seat at ail meetings and to other privileges. * * * The postmaster general has ordered postoffice inspectors Irwin of California, Sullivan of St. Ixiuis and Leatherman of Ohio to proceed to Cuba, to assist Director of Posts Rathbone. Three other inspectors, it is understood also, will be dispatched to the island, with the view of assigning one to each of the six provinces. * • * The controller of the treasury has held that Sundays and holidays occurring during the time in which leav£ has been granted to government employes must be counted as a part of the leave. In some of the departments it has been the custom to deduct Sundays and holidays in making up the time on leave. • * * The President to-day sent the following nominations to the Senate: Mayer Cohen, to be coiner of the mint at New Orleans. Navy: Lieutenant (junior grade) Volney O. Chase, to be lieutenant: ensign William <Cole, to be a lieutenant (junior grade); Assistant Surgeon Moulton K. Johnson, to be a passed assistant surgeon. * * * Major General James F. Wade, IT. S. V.. has been directed to proceed to St. Paul, Minn., and take command of the Department of Dakota, relieving Brigadier General John M. Bacon, ordered to join his regiment in Cuba. * ’ * * To-day’s statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $272,558,240; gold reserve, $226,660,071. • • * Speaker Reed and his associates on the rules committee had an extended session to-day, considering the programme of the House, .but no plans were matured beyond these for considering appropriation and public building bills next week. A conclusion on the shipping, Hawaiian and Nicaragua car.al bills was not reached. * • * It developed to-day, in connection with the findings of the House judiciary committee declaring that General Wheeler and other members holding army commissions had vacated their seats, that the division in the committee was mainly on the question of including the House members of the Hawaiian and the Canadian commissions, Mr. Hitt and Mr. Payne, with the military members. The vote was unanimous that the members serving on the industrial and the postal commissions had not vacated their scats. At to the Hawaiian and Canadian commissions, Messrs. Jenkins. De Armond, Terry, and, it is said, two others, voted that these were "offices.” When the committee decided otherwise, Mr. Jenkins voted against unseating the members holding army commissions, on the ground that there should be no distinction between the Hawaiian and Canadian commissioners and army officers. In case a minority report is made it will be directed mainly to the point that no distinction should he made between these offices. • • * The House committee on invalid pensions to-day reported favorably the Senate bill pensioning Gen. John M. Palmer, of Illinois, the amount being reduced from SKO to SSO. The report says of General Palmer: "Nearly always an officeholder and always strictly honest, he finds himself now, in his eightysecond year, retired to private life without means or income, broken in health, blind in one eye and rapidly losing the sight of the other.” The report then refers to Mr. Palmer’s service at the head of the Senate pension committee, his liberal treatment of the old soldiers and yet his opposition to "large, sentimental pensions based on social position and political pull.” Under such circumstances. the report states, SSO per month is all that General Palmer himself will approve. Accompanying the report are letters and affidavits showing General Palmer's feeble condition. * * *

The Vice President to-day brought to the attention of the Senate a protest on the part of the executive committee of the National Live Stock Exchange of Chicago against “the agitation caused by unjust statements reported to be made by officials high in authority. notably those made by Major General Miles, which have created a feeling of distrust against the greatest industry of the United States.” They urge that foreign governments be invited to make a thorough investigation of the methods employed at the principal cattle market centers of the country. • • • The commission to investigate the conduct of the war is devoting all its energies to closing up its report. The rough draft is practically complete and fair copies are being made of the document so far as it is ready. It may be signed by the commission Monday and when signed will be promptly placed In the hands of the President. The latter, it is believed, will make the document public after he has had opportunity to consider it carefully himself, as this report will se-ve as a basis for whatever inquiry the President may order into tho charges made by General Miles and into the conduct of that officer himself. This projected inquiry Is the subject of a good deal of discussion among the friends of the two r-lements Into which the military service is divided and has developed no little acerbity of temper on the part of some officers whenever tho matter is referred to. • * * The collier Sterling, towing the disabled cruiser Topeka, has arrived at Port Monroe. It is the present intention of the. Navy Department to have the extensive repairs to he made on the Topeka's boilers and machinery carried on at the Norfolk navy yard. • • • The attorney general. In an opinion submitted to the secretary of the treasury, holds that under the provisions of the war revenue act what are known as reinsurance policies, issued by insurance companies, are not required to be stamped. A reinsurance policy is stated to lie an agreement between two Insurance companies to share a risk originaliy carried by one of them To require a stamp upon such a contract after tne original policy had been duly stamped the attorney general holds would have the effect of levying a double tax on a single transaction, which was not contemplated by the law. • * • In answer to a request from the secretary of the treasury to be advised as to whether, under Section 2 of the war-revenue act, In estimating the capital and aurplua

of banks, undivided profits are to be Included, Assistant Attorney General Boyd has rendered an opinion, which is approved by the attorney general, to the effect that when the law says In estimating capital the surplus shall be included It does not mean to include undivided profits, nor is It confined to the surplus amounting to 20 per centum of the capital stock required to be maintained by national banks, but that in making assessments upon which to estimate the amount of tax the actual capital of a bank is to bo included, together with the legal surplus, and, in addition thereto, such further amounts as have been set apart by vote of the directors or other authorlz.-d action of the bank, to be used in carrying on the general business of the bank. • * • At 4 o’clock this afternoon President McKinley presented to Mr. Charier A. Schott, chief of the computing division of the United States coast and geodetic survey, the prize recently conferred upon him by the Academy of France. The presentation took place in the library of the executive mansion, in the presence of Superitendent Pritchett, the superintendent of the survey, and about twenty-five of his associate officers. This prize of 4,000 francs was founded by an Englishman about two years ago. and was to be conferred by the academy on any person in any country whose discoveries in science or whose original investigations had been most valuable and had contr ! ted most to human knowledge in the directi i of mathematics, mechanics, physics, chemistry or geology. The Academy, after due consideration, conferred the prize on Mr. Schott for his investigations into the laws of terrestrial magnetism. • • * Senator Pettus to-day introduced a bill authorizing the secretary of war to provide for the reimbursement of States for the experses incurred in transporting troops to the places of muster in the late war with Spain and appropriating the funds necessary for this purpose. * * * Acccording to Consul Brush, at Clifton, Canada, the output of gold from the Klondike and British Columbia has raised Canada to the fifth place in the list of goldprodu#inPeountries. While the United States shows an increased output for 1898, it is still second to the Transvaal. According to the latest figures, the five, leading gold-producing countries for 1898 are as follows: Transvaal, $73,476,600: United States, $64,300,0U0; Australia. $61,180,763; Russia, $25,136.994; Canada, $14,190,000. * * * The chief signal officer of the army has just completed anew War Department cipher, which will affect a considerable saving in cable tolls in communicating with distant stations, where cable rates are high. It is an arbitrary word cipher, in which a single word stands for a long phrase or even for a full sentence. TREATY MAKERS DINED. Pence Commissioners Entertained nt Philadelphia—Letter from McKinley. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4.-The members of the American peace commission were the guests here to-night of the Union League at a dinner and reception tendered them by that organization. Senators Gray, Frye and. Davis came together from Washington this evening and Whitelaw Reid came from New York. Judge Day is in Florida and could not attend. The dinner, though a very elaborate affair, was of rather a private nature, covers being laid for sixty-eight. The reception which followed the dinner was, how’ever, attended by over five thousand members of the club and invited guests. The dinner party, In addition to the commissioners, included the president and directors of the Union League and distinguished guests who had been specially invited to meet the commissioners. There was no speech making, except of an informal nature. James C. Barlington, president of the Union League, who presided, read a letter from President McKinley regretting his inability to be present. The President said in part: "My Dear Sir—l find that it will not be possible for me to be present at the dinner in honor of the peace commissioners to be held on the evening of Feb. 4 at the Union League, Philadelphia. “Too much honor cannot be paid tfUthe eminent gentlemen who will be your guests next Saturday evening for the able, statesmanlike. negotiations conducted by them at Paris, which resulted in the signing of a treaty of peace honorable to both countries. As I have long enjoyed the personal friendship of all the commissioners and been closely associated with them in public life, I have uncommon regret that I cannot join in the dinner given in their honor. To the guests assembled please convey my good wishes and belief that the great work that the commissioners have achieved will redound to the good of the Nation and of humanity.”

CANADIAN INVADERS. Toronto Cadet* to Visit Chicago En Route to Florida. TORONTO, Ont., Feb. 4.—Cheering crowds lined the streets when the Toronto Cadets, fifty-six strong, preceded by their fife and drum corps playing national airs and carrying flags, marched to the Union Station today, where they took a train for Florida. The Pullman car in which the cadets travel was draped with flags, the union jack on the one side and the stars and stripes on the other. As the train pulled out the boys were given a rousing send off. The party will arrive in Chicago Sunday morning, where arrangements have been made for a big reception. They expect to reach Tampa on Tuesday morning. The boys are commanded by Major Thompson. PORT HURON. Mich.. Feb. 4.—The first company of armed foreign soldiers which has entered the United States in many years landed here to-night. The company is composed of fifty-six cadets from Toronto. who are en route to Tampa, Fla., via Chicago, on a trip combining pleasure and instruction. The youths present a striking appearance in their British red-coat uniforms, and armed with the latest Improved Martini-Henri rifles. The cadets were selected from one thousand cadets drilled in Toronto public schools, and their trip is paid for by popular subscription. The young men are in charge of Major Thompson, and with the party are inspectors Hughes, Burns, Godfrey and Hayes, Toronto public sc hool officials. Mayor Stevens, the Common Council and citizens met the cadets and escorted them to United States soil. In Chicago, where the cadets will arrive tomorrow, an Imposing ceremony will be the presentation of American flags to every member of the company. They are under strict military discipline during the trip. The cheers of the Canadian soldier boys upon landing on American soil was demonstrative of the friendly feeling existing between Canada and the United States. STEAMER RHYNLAND AFLOAT Failed Off Cotton Fateli Shoals nml in Good Condition. PHILADELPHIA, Pa,. Feb. 4.—The steamer Rhynland, which went ashore on Cotton Patch shoals on Tuesday night, was floated at 1 o’clock this morning. With the exception of the damage to her^ rudder and propeller she is apparently in as good condition as when she went aground. She will be towed to this city by the tugs which pulled her from her bed of sand. Movement* of Steamer*. NEW YORK. Feb. 4.—Arrived: Edam, from Amsterdam: Norge and Palatea, from Hamburg; Peninsular, from Lisbon; St. IvOuis. from Southampton: Edam, from Rotterdam. Sailed: America, for London; Aurania, for Liverpool; La Gascogne, for Havre; Aller, for Naples; Thingvalla, for Copenhagen. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 4.—Arrived: Campania, from New York. Sailed: Etruria, for New York. BREMEN. Feb. 4.—Sailed: Friedrich der Grosse, for New York. ANTWERP. Feb. 4.—Sailed: Noordland, for New York. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 4.—Sailed: Paris, for New York. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4.—Sailed: Italia, fer Liverpool. HAVRE. Feb. 4.—Sailed: La Bretagne, for New York. Will Jfo* Enter n Trust. CHICAGO. Feb. 4.—Thomas H. Wickes, vice president of the Pullman Car Company. when asked to-day regarding the proposed amalgamation of all the car-building companies in the country, said that the Pullman company has had no negotiations with any other company looking toward such a combination. Mr. Wickes declared that If such a combination was formed his comKecktnan. Bishop & Cos., a large leather concern, which assigned recently, at Boston, for the benefit of creditors, have tiled a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities, $172,803. of which amount $26,983 is secured, $116,168 unsecured. $4,500 in notes and bills and $23,617 in accommodation paper.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1899.

MOST SEVERE IN YEARS THIS WINTER LIKELY TO BREAK ALL RECORDS IN COLORADO. # Seventy-One Consecutive Day# of Snow and Storm—The ••Beautiful*’ Seven Feet Deep on the Level. # DENVER, Col., Feb. 4.—Trains are again running on regular schedule from Denver to Como, on the South Park road, but beyond Como the rotary is still bucking the snow drifts in efforts to open the roads to Kokomo and Leadville. Between Dickey and Leadville are twenty-five snowslides, each two hundred to five hundred feet in length and eight to ten feet deep, and at the present rate of progress Kokomo will not be reached until to-morrow. At Wheeler, a freight train, loaded with merchandise, and two locomotives, stalled since last Thursday, was discovered on a siding, with the train crew still its occupants. Slides before and behind had penned it in. The train had been snow-bound for ten days Division Superintendent Zenninger, of the South Park branch of the Colorado & Southern road said: "We have had seventyone consecutive days of snow and storm between Como and Leadville. In all that time there has not been a single day free from snowstorms and high winds. The old settlers state emphatically that this winter has been by all odds the most severe in twentyfive years. The snow is seven feet deep on the level from Boreas to Climax, and in many places drifted to more than twenty feet. The snow is slight and granular and drifts easily. The altitude being so great there has not been sufficient moisture to form a crust and there will be continued danger and annoyance from drifts until we have a week of sunshine and mild weather to thaw the surface. There has been no suffering from lack of provisions or fuel, unless it be at Kokomo. They are supplied at Breckenridge now since we brought in our train of supplies, so that there can possibly be no danger of suffering for some time to come. To-day is the first really good day we have had, there being no wind and a clear sky. We have the road open between Denver and within twenty-five miles of Leadville.” It is reported that most of the live stock from Breckinridge and mines thereabouts has been driven to near Keystone, w’here ample water and some bare places may be found for feeding. Ranchers there have shed room for 2,000 head of stock. Os the three snow-bound theatrical companies, "Gay Coney Island” in reaching Grand Junction and went to Salt Lake via the Rio Grande Western. West’s Minstrels and "Shaft No. 2” are still at Glenwood Springs, missing dates but enjoying every comfort at the hotels. The Denver & Rio Grande and the Colorado Midland railways are taking the best possible care of their snow-bound passengers. There is little danger of further snow slides along these lines, a crust having formed over the snow. Slightly warmer weather is predicted for to-morrow. The coldest point in the State to-day was Greeley, sixty miles from Denver, the thermometer there registering 38 degrees below zero. First Break in tlie Cold Spell. BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 4.—To-day occurred the first break in the extremely cold weather which has prevailed throughout Montana for more than a w’eek. The thermometer went up at 2 o’clock this afternoon to 18 degrees below zero. Last night it registered 35 degrees in the city and 38 degrees in South Butte. This evening it was down to 22 degrees below again in the city. Notwithstanding the aw’ful severity of the weather no deaths have been reported in the State on account of the snow and cold. Great loss on the cattle ranges is feared.

Coldest in Eight Years. LINCOLN, Neb. Feb. 4.—Last night was the coldest for eight years in central and northern Nebraska, the mercury registering 32 degrees below zero at Valentine, 22 degrees below at Beaver City and 10 degrees below at North Platte. There was an absence of wind, and Valentine, which is the center of the north Nebraska cattle ranges, reports that stock is standing the cold weather "well and that there have been no losses. Bridge Span Contracts and Falls. DAVENPORT, la., Feb. 4.—A span of the high bridge over the Mississippi river at Muscatine, la., fell this afternoon, owing to contraction due to the cold. Patrick Curry was injured and four horses were killed. Snow-Covered Pavements. The cold wave predicted for Friday night was followed by fair weather until 6 o'clock last evening, when a snowstorm began. The snow' fell for several hours until unused shovels were brought out by the evident necessity. Three inches of snow was on the ground at midnight, but the white covering had not drifted on account of the absence of the brisk wind that for the past few days had prevailed. For the time being the walking was made more passable, the icy covering of the pavement being protected by the snow; but the indications afford little hope for pleasant things in the way of underfoot conditions, inasmuch as a light rain is expected to convert the snow into slush to-day. ♦ FORECAST FOR SUNDAY. Fair Weather in Northern Indiana— Snow in Southern Portion. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 8 p. m.—Forecast for twenty-four hours: For Ohio—Snow in northern, rain or snow in southern portions; winds becoming brisk north. Foy Indiana—Fair in northern, snow in southern portion; north wands. For Illinois—Fair, except snow in extreme southern portion; north winds. Weather Conditions and General Forecast —The storm which was central Friday night in the Ohio valley has continued northeastward by way of New England and is to-night off the extreme northeast Canadian coast. The secondary depression which w T as in southern Texas shows an unexpected development to the northeastward and is central to-night in southern Louisiana. Rain has continued generally in the gulf and Atlantic States and snow in New England, followed by clearing from Virginia northeastward. There were also light snows in the lake regions and scattered snow’ flurries in the Southwest and extreme West. Cold weather continues in the Northwest, but with a rise in temperature of two to eighteen degrees in the Dakotas and Montana. In the,central valleys and the lake regions the temperatures have fallen; decidedly so in the west gulf States and the Ohio valley and the zero line reaches to the west shore of Lake Michigan. In the east gulf region and Atlantic States the temperature changes have been unimportant, except in extreme southeast Virginia where there was a fall of sixteen degrees. On the Pacific coast the weather has generally clear except for slight snow flumts In the extreme northern portion, and the temperature changes were slight. The low area in Louisiana will probably move northeastward and cause rains through the west and central gulf States and Tennessee and rain and snow in the Ohio valley and lower lake regions. Over the remainder of the country generally fair weather will prevail. It will be much colder from Louisiana northeastward through eastern Tennessee and ■western North Carolina. In the Northwest the temperature will rise. Brisk northeast winds are indicated on the New England and middle Atlantic coast and fresh to brisk cast winds on the south Atlantic coast except in Florida, where they will continue southerly. Cold wave signals are displayed at San 'Antonio, Vicksburg, Meridian and ! Elkins. Yesterday’s Temperatures. Stations. Min. Max. 7p. m. Bismarck. N. D *26 Calgary. N. W. T *2B Cairo. HI 22 22 Cheyenne. Wyo ...*l4 8 2 Chicago. 11l 0 14 12 Cincinnati, O 28 30 28 Concordia. Kan *lO 6 6 Davenport, la *4 12 8 Dos Moines, la *6 10 8 Helena, Mont *lB Kansas City, Mo *2 12 i Little Rock. Ark 20 30 20 Memphis, Tenn 28 210 80 Mlnnedosa, Man *34 M

Moorhead, Minn *lB Nashville, Tenn ~32 34 34 North Platte, Neb *l4 10 * Oklahoma. O. T 16 16 Omaha, Neb *lO 6 4 Pittsburg. Pa ... * *. 28 32 28 Qu’ Appelie, N. W. T....*34 Rapid City. S. I> *l4 *2 *l4 Salt Lake City, Utah .... 4 10 6 St. Louis, Mo 10 16 16 St. Paul. Minn *l2 Springfield, 111 2 14 12 Springfield, Mo 6 14 14 Vicksburg. Miss 48 54 62 *Below zero. Local Observations on Saturday. • Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pro. 7a. m.. 30.22 16 83 North. Lt. snow. T. 7p.m..30.21 18 90 North. Lt. snow. .03 Maximum temperature, 21; minimum temperature. 15. Following is a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation Feb. 4: Temp Pre. Normal 27 .12 Mean IS .03 Departure from normai —9 —.09 Departure since Feb. 1 —2l —.29 Departure since Jan. 1 —2B *2B •Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS. Local Forecast Official. UNCONFIRMED RUMORS. No Verification of Repored Fight Between Americans and Filipinos. WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—No confirmation can be had here of certain published dispatches from Manila reporting that a conflict had occurred there between the American forces and the Filipinos. At an early hour this morning it was given out in official quarters that no advices had been received from General Otis or any of the American officials at Manila. The offices at the White House and those at the War Department, through which any communications from General Otis would be received, w’ere closed at the usual hour. THE “BLACK DEMON” WON. Australian Jimmy Ryan Whipped by Joe YVolcott. CINCINNATI, Feb. 4.—The largest crowd since John L. Sullivan and Dominick McCaffery fought here in ISBS witnessed the boxing contests at the Stag Athletic Club arena here to-night. The main attraction was a fifteen-round go between Australian Jimmy Ryan and Joe Wolcott, "the black demon,” at catch weights for a purse of $1,500. Several hundred people were unable to g;dn admittance. Tom O'Rourke was Wolcmt’s chief adviser and second. John Murphy, of Cincinnati, was referee. Wolcott was the aggressor during the entire contest, Ryan continually clinching. The contest was tame, as Ryan laid back for a knockout with his right. In the fourteenth round both men rushed at each other and landed hard body blows with the right. In the breakaway Wolcott landed .a hard left swing on Ryan’s chin, flooring him. Ryan took nine seconds of the count, and upon rising rushed to a clinch. Wolcott pushed him from him, and, swinging a hard left, landed on the jaw and again sent Ryan to the floor. The latter got to a sitting position, but the referee, seeing he was helpless, stopped the contest and awarded the decision to Wolcott. “Fitz’s” Reply to Sliarkey. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 4.—Before leaving for Milwaukee to-night Fitzsimmons said, in reply to Sharkey’s announcement that he will not fight in less than a year: "He will fight now, within a reasonable time, or not at all. Six weeks is time enough. If Sharkey will not agree to that he will be dropped and we’ll take on Jeffries.” Knocked Out in the Eighth. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 4.—Eddie Lally, of St. Louis, knocked out Billy Lambert of Davenport, la., in the eighth round of w’hat was to have been a fifteen-round contest tonight. The men boxed In the Business Men’s Museum. Prof. Mika .Mooney was the referee.

THE PANAMA CANAL English Engineer Mays It Will Take Ten More Years to Finish It. NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—The Herald says: "Reports of extensive W’ork on the Panama canal are brought by Charles M. Dobson, an English civil engineer, who has just arrived here from Colon. Mr. Dobson says: ‘I have visited the canal on several occasions since 1891, but I have never seen anything like the activity visible at present. The French are evidently in earnest and are progressing at a wonderfully rapid rate. They are concentrating their energies on the great Culebra cut, the most serious obstacle along the whole route. The company has from 1,700 to 2,000 laborers at work, with about fifty locomotives, each of which hauls a train of from ten to fifteen cars. At the rate at which they are now excavating the great cut will be completed within nine months. My impression is that the managers, having finished this cut, will declare that they have solved the greatest problem of the canal, and that additional funds are all that is needed to carry the whole work to completion. Water is actually in nineteen miles of the canal on the Atlantic side and seven on the Pacific side. Up to the present about $137,000,000 in American gold has been spent, and I believe the canal can be finished for $125,000,000. The company appears to suffer from no lack of money, for the men are promptly paid. The concession given by Colombia expired last October, but I am informed that arrangements have been made for its extension for a period of six years. My impression is that it will require about ten years more work before the canal is ready to receive ships.’ ” HIS WIFE ASKED FOR MONEY His Reply Was a Fusillade of Sliots, and Then He Leaped to Denth. NEW YORK, Feb. 4.—James McMahon, a night timekeeper employed by the Western Union Telegraph Company, attempted to murder his wife and killed himself today. He had been married only two years, and had a child eleven months old. The shooting arose over a demand on his wife’s part for money. "I have none,” said her husband, and, snatching a revolver out of a bureau drawer, he fired four shots at her. Three struck her—two entered her head and one her body. Thinking he had killed her, McManon threw open the. window and jumped out. His wife is seriously wounded, but is expected to recover. She Would Not Live With Him. CHICAGO, Feb.. 4.—Because his wife threatened to bring divorce proceedings against him Ernest Haywood, a grocery clerk, turned a revolver upon her. to-night and fired two shots at her, the second bullet penetrating the heart. *The shot which killed the woman was fired after Haywood had wounded himself In the head in an attempt to end his life. As his wife fell dead he made a second endeavor to kill himself but both attempts were failures and Haywood is now in the hospital. He will recover. The family came here recently from Sandusky, O. THREE BURGLARS CAPTURED. They Had Raided an Ohio Postoffice and Wounded a Watchman. LEIPSIC, 0., Feb. 4.—At an early hour to/ day three burglars gained entrance to the postoffice here and dynamited the safe. The night watchman, Peter Bowman, discovered the cracksmen just after the explosion and opened fire on them. The burglars returned the fire. Bowman was shot twice through the leg. The cracksmen got about $290 in money and S6OO in.stamps. At daylight the thieves were tracked to the Nickel-plate Railroad by stamps w’hich they had dropped. They had taken a freight train and were apprehended at Bellevue a few hours later. To Cure Pneumonia In a Hurry Take two of Haag's Cold and Fever Capsules and a dose of Haag’s Cough Byrup every three hours and Haag's Liver Pills at bedtime.

COL. J. A. SEXTON DEAD ♦ COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF' OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. + Former Font master of Chicago and n Brave Soldier Daring. the Late INar of the Rebellion. WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—Colonel James A. Sexton, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, died at 3:15 o’clock this morning at Garfield Hospital in this city. Colonel James A. Sexton was born on Jan. 5, 1844. Ha enlisted as a private in the Nineteenth Illinois Volunteers April 19, Is6l, and after three months’ service enlisted in the Sixty-seventh Illinois, being commissioned as first lieutenant of Company E. He was subsequently transferred to the Seventy-second Illinois and was made captain of Company D. He served in Ransom’s brigade, McArthur’s division of the Seventeenth Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, and participated in nearly all its campaigns, seiges and battles. He was commander of the regiment in the battles of Columbia, Duck River, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville, and throughout the Nashville campaign. In 1865 he was assigned to duty on the staff of Major General A. J. Smith, commander of the Eighteenth Army Corps, and remained with Smith until the close of the war, being honorably discharged in August, 1865. He remained two years in Alabama ufter the war, working a plantation which he had purchased near Montgomery. In 1867 he returned to Chicago and entered into business. He was appointed postmaster of Chicago by President Harrison in ISB9 and was retained by President Cleveland until he resigned, Jan. 1, 1895. Colonel Sexton was an active worker in the Grand Army of the Republic, the military order of the Loyal Legion and other soldier and army societies. He was past commander of the Department of Illinois, G. A. R., and had been a presidential elector, park commissioner and was interested in the National Guard. At the last meeting of the G. A. R. he was elected commander-in-chief,- and held this position at the time of his death, as well as that of a member of the board of commissioners appointed by the President to investigate the conduct of the Spanish war. -**..*. Dr. T. S. Hoyne. CHICAGO, Feb. 4.—Dr. T. S. Hoyne, one of Chicago's veteran homeopathic physicians and a grandson of Dr. John T. Temple, the first homeopathic physician in Chicago, died to-day. Dr. Hoyne was the author of several well-known medical works, among them being “Hoyne’s Materia Medica,” “Clinical Therapeutics” and “Encyclopedia of Homeopathic Biography.” Hon. David Armstrong. JACKSON, 0., Feb. 4.—Hon. David Armstrong died at his home here to-day. He was formerly president of the First National Bank, of Jackson, later receiver of the Fidelity Bank in Cincinnati and afterwards receiver of the Farmers’ National Bank, of Portsmouth. His remains will be buried at his old home near Waverly, O. Edmond Aylburton AVilll*. NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-Edmund Aylburton Willis, a well-known landscape painter, is dead at his home, in Brooklyn. His bestknown picture is probably “The Prairie Fire.” It represents people fleeing before a fire on an American prairie. Mr. Willis painted many pictures of landscape scenes in the Western States for private galleries.

Hugh L. Children*. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 4. - Hugh L. Childress, superintendent of the Southern division of the Postal Telegraph Company, with headquarters in Birmingham, Ala., died here this morning, after a long illness of meningitis. Mr. Childress was formerly manager for the Postal at Cleveland, O. Porter Warner. RAPID CITY, S. D„ Feb. 4.-Porter Warner, receiver of the United States Land Office, is dead from heart disease Mr. Warner was one of the oldest pioneers of the Black hills. He established the Daily Times at Deadwood in 1877 and leaves a large family. FIGHT IN ’SQUIRE’S COURT. Two Men Fatally Wounded and Half si Dozen Other* Injured. CHICAGO, Feb. 4.—'The Chronicle’s Webster City, la., special says that a fight occurred to-day in Justice Smith’s courtroom in Drew, Wright county, resulting in two men, Charles Hall and Fred Bartfleld, being fatally wounded, another shot throughthe arm and five others more or less injured by blows from pokers, clubs and chairs. Differences over the location of a bridge had divided the townspeople into factions, the dispute finally culminating in a riot. The courtroom was crowded at the time, and a panic ensued when the firing began, many people jumping through the windows in their efforts to get out of the way. WARNED SHE MUST DIE. Mr*. Martha Place Notified of Her Impending Electrocution. SING SING, N. Y., Feb. 4.—Warden Sage to-day notified Mrs. Martha Place, the Brooklyn murderess, that the Court of Appeals had refused to grant her a now trial and that she would have to meet death in the electric chair during the week beginning March 20. When Mrs. Place heard the news she cried bitterly. She will beg hey lawyers to urge the Governor to exercise executive clemency. If her sentence is not commuted she will be the first woman in this State to die In the electric chair and the first woman since 1887 to pay the penalty of death.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. The senatorial deadlocks in Pennsylvania, Nebraska, California and Utah continue. Warren Sago, a New York insurance broker, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities $102,798 and no assets. San Francisco is to have a world’s fair in 1901. It is to be known as the Pacific Ocean and International Exposition. The Union Tobacco Company of America, of New York city, has filed with the secretary of state of New York a certificate of increase of capital from $19,350,000 to $24,-a 000,000. Adolph Smith, an ex-convict, was found fatally wounded in a lodging house on the outskirts of Chinatown, San Francisco, yesterday. He is supposed to be a victim of Highbinders. George W. Grubbs. Mrs. Mary Sullivan and Miss Alice Sullivan were arrested at Decatur. 111., yesterday for alleged complicity in the murder of Mrs. Mary Mclntyre at Pana a week ago. At Williamstown, Ky.. yesterday, J. Brent Dejarnette. deputy United States marshal, and son of a leading lawyer, shot and fatally wounded Jesse Kinman. The shooting is said to have been justifiable. Richard C. Bartholdt, member of Congress from the Tenth Missouri district, who has been ill at St. Louis for several weeks past as the result of a severe attack of grip, has sufficiently recovered to resume his duties at Washington. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the New Jersey secretary of state for an artificial rubber company, with an authorized capital of $1,000,000. The company is authorized to manufacture and deal in artificial rubber and rubber substitutes. The American Missionary Association has made public its fifty-second annual report. A summary of receipts shows a grand total of $390,171. Os this amount the State of Massachusetts gave the largest sum, $90,230, with the State of Connecticut second with $65,112. Ned Hanlon, manager of the Baltomore club, announced last night that the deal whereby the cream of the Baltomore baseball talent was to be transferred to Brooklyn had been as good as consummated. As things are now. the understanding is that Ebbetts is to remain president of the Brooklyn club. Hanlon is to be manager. The California state bank commissioners have made a careful investigation of the affairs of the Union Savings Bank of San Jose, and find its assets $491,411 less than a statement taken from the books showed two days before, and have directed Attorney General Ford to bring suit in the proper court to have the hank declared insolvent.

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pany would not enter it. but would continue to run its business as at present. THREE VICTIMS OF FIRE. Two Women and an Old Man Domed to Death in a Hoarding House. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 4.—ln a board-ing-house fire to-day three persons were burned to death. The dead are: MRS. EVA WITHEY, proprietress. MISS HELEN ROSE. J. C. HALL. When the fire broke out the house contained eighteen boarders, nearly all of whom were asleep. Mrs. Withey, after arousing the boarders and getting her four children out, went back into the house to assist J. C. Hall, an old man of about eighty years, who occupied a room on the second floor. She was not seen afterward until her charred body was removed from the ruins. Mrs. Eva Withey was well known throughout the State, having been state president of the Daughters of Rebekah. Miss Helen Rose was sister of Mrs. McCreary, wife of the proprietor of the St. Nicholas Hotel. J. C. Hall was a retired merchant. The origin of the fire is supposed to be a defective flue. The loss is probably $10,009, partially insured. Oliio Town Suffers. SHELBY, 0., Feb. 4.—The town of Shiloh, on the Big Four Railway, was almost burned out this morning. The fire originated in the bakery of C. Obey and spread to and burned the remainder of the block, containing the principal establishments of the town. The loss will be heavy, as all the firms carried large stocks. The only protection of the village is a bucket brigade. ST. LOUIS WOMAN’S STORY. Say* She Ha* Received Threatening; Letter* and Poisoned Candy. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 4.—This afternoon the Post-Dispatch prints a story to the effect that a Mrs. F. M. McVean, of this city, has received numerous threatening letters, and later a box of poisoned candy. Mrs. McVean denies that she sent the letters and candy to herself. She says it is her opinion that a young woman W’ho is in love with a prominent Western man with whom Mrs. McVean is said to be in love mailed the letters and candy. An analysis of the candy by City Chemist Tichman revealed large quantities of arsenic. Two Soap Trn*t* Probable. CHICAGO. Feb. 4.—lnstead of one soap trust being formed by soap manufacturers of this country, it developed to-day that there are two plans before the leading dealers of this city. Charles H. Scott Johnson, formerly secretary of the Western Mutual Life Association, is said to be promoting one trust, which will represent a. capital stock of $100,000,000. The other trust being organized represents a capital stock of $29,000.000, and is being promoted by Boston capitalists. Twenty Smallpox Suspect*. LEXINGTON. Ky.. Feb. 4.—News comes from Nicholasville, Jessamine county, that there are now twenty suspects of smallpox at the post farm. Ten more were sent out to-day. Smallpox was brought to Nicholasville by a negro fugitive from justice from Covington. ltisliop Warren Goes to Chile. LIMA. Peru, Feb. 4.—Bishop W'arren, accompanied by his family, proceeded for Chili to-day, after an interesting meeting here of English-speaking residents. f\ m * _ I A Disgusted ILL ► wonder that / / r,l raL some women / get d i s ? usted // U/W with medicine // J \\t and lose faith in Ojs CVn vil the doctors. 3-£<”v,-vSi. When a woman complains of feeling weak, nervous and despondent, and suffers from headaches, pains in the back and stitches in the sides and burning, dragging-down sensations, the average physician will attribute these feelings to heart, stomach or liver trouble. For years, possibly, she takes their prescriptions for these ailments without receiving any benefit, then, in final disgust, she throws away drugs, and hopelessly lets matters take their course. A woman who suffers in this way is almost invariably a sufferer from weakness and disease of the distinctly feminine organism. There is an unfailing and inexpensive cure for all troubles of this description. It is Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It acts directly on the delicate organs concerned, making them well and strong. It heals all internal ulceration and stops debilitating drains. It takes the pressure off the nerves and makes them strong and steady. Under its marvelous merits thousands of women have been made healthy, happy and robust. The “Favorite Prescription’’ restores weak, nervous, pain-racked women and makes strong, healthy, capable wives and mothers. With its use all pain and suffering disappear. All good medicine stores sell it ana have nothing else “just as good.” Constipation and torpid liver will make the most ambitious man or woman utterly good for nothing. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellet 6 cure them. One little “Pellet” is a gentle laxative and two a mild cathartic. Dr. Pierce’s moo-page illustrated book, “People’s Medical Adviser” sent, paperbound, free for the cost of mailing on/v, 21 one-cent stamps; or, cloth-bound 31 stamp*. Address Dr. R. V. Pietce.' Suffalo, N. Y.

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A Worthy Cause A Good Cause! The WALT. U. OF MARION COUNTY, Will Hold an AlLDay Reception AT— Geo.J.Marott’s Shoe House ••••OX • • • • Next Wednesday, Feb. 8 It will be a day in which every one can contribute to the work being done by the Union, and at the same time confer a benefit upon the contributor. Five Per Cent. Os the Day’s Sales Will be given the committee of IBS’ ladies, who will be JKL present during the day—the money to be used in furthering the cause of temperance. wLf shoes will cost no more on that day than ■MjRjfH on any other, and Rvß® those in need of footl/XlB wear can show their appreciation of the la* -IP dies £‘ ve their Kmh time to the work withWi 1 11 ,i Jr out c h ar S e b y buying &****& shoes when they are Jfir assured that the promLlgSr ceeds will go for a high, moral and charitable cause! The sales will, in a degree, measure the public’s unselfish interest in aiding the W. C. T. U. The Committee on Reception will comprise the following ladies: Mrs. A. B. LECK, Mrs. H. MOORMAN, • Mrs. BOGART, Mrs. M. A. TARLTON, And Mrs. E. M. DESSETTE. Make note of the time (next Wednesday, Feb. 8,) and of the place! An ample stock of new spring style Shoes await your inspection, and callers and buyers will be rewarded by a visit! A Charity Day!—A Worthy Day! —A Day for Public Good! —February 8. GEO. jTmaROTT Mammoth Shoe Store 22,24,26 & 28 East Washington St GREAT REDUCTION IjisS-S 10.000 GOLD FISH, ic ami upward. 300 HARTS' MOUNTAIN CANARIES. Fine singers, $1.30; extra Arse. ?L< • Best Bird Seed. 7c per package, or 3 for 25c. _ Parrots, Mocking Birds, Red Birds and all other cage birds. Cages, Fish Globes. Aquaria. , Mooic-ing-bird Food and all other goods cheapest and best. A $1.25 Brass Cage at 80c. 433 Massachusetts avenue. C. F. KLLPPJw** Between Vermont and Michigan.