Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER DEMOCRAT. P. B. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • IHOIANA.

BOATS IN COLLISION.

RATHER EXPENSIVE DISASTER ON LAKE ERIE. The Bis Whaleback Henry Cort Die* able* the Paeeenser Steamer New Tork—Expedition Falla to Find the Fabled Golden Mountain. Crashed Together on Lake Brie. A disastrous collision took place on Uk* Erie, three miles from Cleveland (Ohio) harbor. As a result the jmssengor steamer State of New York is badly damaged, nearly all her upper works on the Fort aide having been swept away by the prow of the whaleback Henry Cort, bound la. The State of New Y'ork was bound for Toledo and carried about 200 passengers. The whaleback Henry Cort was due to arrive with a tow and the tug L. F; Smith left ttfc mouth of the river, following the State of New York. Capt. Ed Dalk, of the tug, heard a crash. He proceeded to the steumer, finding her disabled. The whaleback had struck the passenger boat near the paddle box, which It demolished, and then swept away the upper works some distance aft. There •was a wild rush of passengers to the deck, but the officers and crew acted with copb ness and order was soon restored. No one was injured. Soon after the collision the big passenger steamer began to list badly. Two tugs were sent to the rescue nnd she was towed into the river. The cause of the collision has not been determined. The Henry Cort belongs to the Rockefeller fleet. She is said to hgvo had burning her regulation lights. She* is not damaged. The State of New York is owned by the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company.

Chicago Bicycle Failure. The Chicago Stamping Company’s extensive plant for the manufacture of bicycles and japanned ware has been closed ’ because of the inability of the company to pay a judgment for $244,13-1.015, secured by Frank Sturges, father of Lee Hturges, the president of the corporation. The amount is the aggregate of fourteen judgment notes made for sums varying from $5,000 to $40,000 each, and representing cash advanced in the period between January, 1800, and December, 1897. Threats of Eastern creditors to press claims amounting to $70,000 caused the elder Stnrges to withdraw his financial support and protect his interests by securing the judgment. Kace for the Fennant. Following is the standing of tbs clubs la tbs National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Cincinnati .40 23 New York... .31 34 Boston .....42 25 Philadelphia. 27 33 Baltimore ...39 25 Brooklyn ....27 37 Cleveland ...39 27 Washington. 27 39 Chicago ~.. .40, 29 st. Louis,... .23 47 Pittsburg ~ .30 31 Louisville ~ .22 40 Following Is the standing of the clubs la tbs Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 39 24 Milwaukee . .37 28 St. Paul 40 20 Detroit 24 43 Columbus ...30 25Omaha 21 37 ' Kansas City. 39 27 Minneapolis. 21 40

Chased a Rainbow, The little schooner Free Trade, winch, under command of Capt. Moore, sailed from Ran Francisco about six months ugo in search of a mythical mountain of gold, has returned to that port. The money for the voyage was contributed by 11. Talbot Watson and several other wealthy Englishmen, who were ultimately deserted ob Kodnik Island, Capt. Moore getting away with the vessel, which remained in his name. Moore is at Tillamook, and the schooner will probably be libeled for the Seamen’s wages.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Frank O. Houston of Payne County, Ok., was shot and badly wounded at Guthrie, while pursuing horse thieves. A New York syndicate is said to have bought two Bremen Atlantic liners for $1,250,000, and the British steamer Monmouth for $750,000. It is announced that the salaries of all engineers and firemen on the Northern Pacific are to be advanced at least 15 per cent, commencing this month. At Toledo. Ohio. James M. Wilcox and "Willism 13. Munch were instantly killed while mixing materials for fireworks. Two others were hurt. The building where the explosion occurred was wrecked. Two Illinois Central freight trains collided on n trestle near Paducah, Ky. Several cars were smashed up and the engineer of one of the trains, the only member of the two crews who had not jumped, was killed. Misunderstanding of orders . caused the wreck. The town of Dnnsratiir, in Siskiyou County, on the line of the California and Oregon Bail way, was almost swept out of existence by fire. The fire started in the Arlington House, and in an Incredibly short time two blocks of the business portion of the town were ablaze. It is reported from Washington, IX C.. that excellent progress has been made ip recruiting for the volunteer signal corps. There is to be a company of signal men for each division hr the army. The organization of twelve companies is now in progress, and their captains have been •elected. A Spaniard, who said he was n Cuban, Arrived at New York on La Touraine. Hi* name was withhold by Commissioner Fitobie. Letters from Madrid were found on him, the contents of which, were not made public. The man was sent from the barge office to Ellis Island guarded by officers. La Bourgogne, a French line steamship which left New York for Havre, was sunk after * collision with the British ship Cromartyshire in a dense fog nbout'sixty miles south of the Sable islands. There were 716 persons on hoard when the collision oecnrred and of these 553 were lost. Fifty-three passengers and 110 members of the crew were rescued, Six masked meu held up a Texas Pacific train near Stanton, Texas, the other night, dynamited the express car mid robbed the safe of what money was in it. The extent of the haul is rumored to have been SIO,OOO or more. 7* »

EASTERN.

In Philadelphia Thomas Fitzgerald, aged 22, was overcome by heat while in bed and died.

Clarence Cavanaugh, an escaped prisoner, from Warreu. Ohio, was caught at Harrisburg, Pa. In New York, Unities Brothers, manufacturers of pianos, assigned to John A. Jarvis, without preferences. The company has a capital stock of $50,()00. The liabilities are reportefyto be less than $35,000.

- Edward Bender, n prisoner in the Tombs, New York, awaiting trial for the killing of Richard Bennett in April last, committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell. He made a rope of medical bandages and carefully souped it in order that the noose should slip readily. The small excursion steamer Surf City, with about sixty passengers on board, while half way over from .Salem Willows to her wharf at Beverly, Mass., a distance of about two miles, was struck by a terrific squall and capsized. Of those on. board a large majority were rescued by boats from the Salem and Beverly shores. Six bodies have been recovered. One life was lost and two persons are lying at the point of death os a result of a fire in the dwelling Patrick H. Flannery, 3002 Locust street. West Philadelphia. The fire was started by the ignition of coal oil, witli which Mrs. Flannery was bathing her arm to relieve rheumatic pain. The flames spread rapidly and a child was burned to death before it could be rescued.

WESTERN.

Fire at McPherson, ICnn., destroyed the First National Bank Ruiiding. Loss, $75,000. At Abilene, Ivan., Thomas J. Kirby's bank, a private institution and the oldest in the county, was taken in charge by State Bank Commissioner Breidenthnl. It has $218,000 on deposit and $70,000 cash on hand. Elijah T. Bennett, aged 85 years, a veteran of the Mexican and Florida wars, was run over nnd instantly killed at Centralis, Mo., by the Columbia branch train. He was hard of hearing aud did not hear the train, although walking toward it. Robert H. Day, a young lawyer of Massillon, Ohio, brother of Secretary of State William R. Day, and Mrs. Mary H. Corns, a wealthy young widow, were married recently. Score:ary and Mrs. Day were guests at the wedding, which was private. A severe north wind did considerable damage to grain and fruit in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, Cal. The greatest loss wiil fall upon the growers of wheat. Some conservative farmers estimate that 40 per cent, of the wheat has been thrashed out by the storm in certain localities.

The wheat c-rop of Kansas is not nearly ns large ns it promised a few days ago to be. Nearly every county in the eastern section of the State, and many in the central part, report serious damage from rust and excessive rain. In most of the counties in the western section wheat has escaped damage and some of the big wheat counties will have large yields. Miss Anna Forrester, a charming young lady 23 years of age, living in Cleveland, selected a horrible method of ending her earthly existence. She vikited a pleasure resort near town, and, entering the barn near by, saturated her clothing with coal oil and set herself afire, kneeling in the midst of the flames, apparently praying that her life might be taken away. Farmers and their wives witnessed the awful deed, but could not rescue her. Only a mass of charred flesh and hones was found in the smoldering ruins. A bridge crossing the Mohican river at Shelby, Ohio, fell with 1,000 people. Four were killed outright and 100 injured, some of them seriously. A public wedding was being celebrated on the bridge ns one of the features of the Fourth of July celebration. Just as the ceremony hnd been completed the bridge went down with a crash, precipitating the people a distance of eighteen feet. The panic which ensued after the bridge fell was Indescribable, and it was impossible to get anything like a correct list of the wounded.

The hoard of directors of the I’ullipan Palace Car Company has adopted resolutions for a quarterly dividend of $2 per \hare, payable on and after Aug. 15, and also a. special dividend of S2O per share. The board recommends that the surplus assets of the company to the extent oC $18,000,009 existing at the end of th * .-m----reut fiscal year should he distributed to the stockholders of the company, and that for such purpose the capital stock should be increased to tlie sum of $34,000,000, and that increase on stosk should be issued to shareholders in the ratio of one share for each two held By them. The Kansas City Stock Yards Company, which has heretofore handled the live stock business at Kansas City, Mo., went out of business, and nil its property was turned over to two new corporations. This transfer simply means that the capitalists interested in the concern have found a way to defeat the purposes of the law passed at the last session of the Kansas Legislature relating to feeding and commission charges and dockage at the stock yards. The plan is to withdraw most of the stock business from the Kansas side of the State line and turn it over to the Kansas City Stock Yards Company of Missouri, to which all the property lit Missoori has been deeded. The property on the Kansas side of the line has been deeded to the United States Quarantine Stock Yards Company, and it is said to be the intention to handle only the quarantined cattle front the southwest In these yards. The stock yards are controlled by Bostou capitalists. ;

SOUTHERIN.

A special from Sherman, Texas, says: Tim first bale of cotton ioj this season's growth has been ginned at Pearsall, Frio County. It was sold at auction at Kan Antonio and will be shipped to President McKinley to be made into gunasoiton for (he battleship Texas. The Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad Company uud the Bloss Irouand Steel Company at Birmingham, Ala., have granted nu advance of 2*4 cents a ton, equal to 7 per cent in wages, to their 8,000 coal miners, and a strike 'which was threatened will be averted. The preliminary examination of the lynchers of the postmaster at Lake City, 8. C„ last March, when the post office was burned. Baker killed and bis famiiy wounded, began Friday. Four privates of flie South Carolina volunteers, charged in Columbia with complicity Were urraigned with others arrested. The People’s party' parer of Atlunta, Qa H publishes an address from the no-

tional organization committee calling for a national convention at Cincinnati, Monday, Sept. 5, to nominate candidate* for President and Vice President and outline a plan of campaign to cover the next two years In anticipation of the election of 1900.

WASHINGTON.

Victor Mason, of Washington, D. C., has been appointed private secretary tq Secretary Alger. \ A Washington correspondent says that* the total proposals for the new government loan of $200,000,000 aggregate $790,000,000. Of this amount there have been received nnd absolutely accepted subscriptions for amounts of SSOO aud less $40,000,000. Subscriptions in amounts over SSOO, subject to future allotment, are $250,000,000. A proi>osal for a round lot nt a premium of 1 per cent., $100,000,000. Two syndicate propositions for any part or all of the bonds offered, $200,000,000 each, $400,000,000. Commissioners Harlow and Brewer, of tlie civil service commission, had a long conference at the White House wfth the President, Attorney General Griggs and Secretary Bliss in regard to a number of proposed changes in the civil service rules. It is understood that the heads of a number of the executive departments bad recommended the extension of the rules so as to include certain specified places in the service and that other places be exempted. No definite decision was reached on aH of the questions involved, but it is expected tliat\a conclusion will have been nrrived at wkhin a few days, when the President will issue an order covering the enses under discussion.

FOREIGN

The French cabinet has decided that the full duty on wheat be restored. An incipient insurrection in which many prominent islanders were concerned, was discovered by the Spanish authorities in Porto Rico. The headquarters of the rebels was destroyed and two of the ringleaders have been put to death. It is officially announced that Queen Victoria has appointed the following to be high commissioners, in pursuance of the agreement signed at Washington on May 30, for a joint commission to adjust the Cunadinn-Americnn differences: Baron Herscholl, lord high chancellor; Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Canada; Sir Richard Cartwright, Sir Louis Henry Davies und John Charlton.

The following cabinet has been formed at Rome to succeed tbe ministry of the Marquis di Rudini, which recently resigned: Premier and minister of the interior, Gen. Pelloux; foreign affairs, Admiral Canevgro; finance, Mr. Carcano; treasury, Senator Vacchelli; war,"Gen. San rnrzauo; marine, Admiral Palumbo; public instruction, Mr. Baccelli; agriculture, Mr. Fortis; posts aud telegraphs, Mr. Nuuzionasi.

The Vienna correspondent of the London Standard says: “There have been terrific thunder and hail storms with cloudbursts in Hungary, especially in the north and northwest districts. Property and crops to the value of 40,000,000 francs have been damaged or destroyed. Many persons and innumerable animals have been killed. There have been similar storms in Austria, where also there hjiye been fatalities and the crop losses serious.”

IN GENERAL.

Three young man —Charles Searley, Roy Siunet and Charles Williams, were drowned in the bay at Hamilton, Ont., during a storm. The race at Vancouver, B. C., for the single sculliug championship of the world Gaudapr and Bob Johnson was a fiasco owing to the fact that Johnson struck a snag. Miners who arrived at Seattle from the, Klondike report that scurvy has marked hundreds of men in the Klondike for victims. Typhoid fever and pneumonia have already begun a harvest of death in] the camp. The unhealthy season has begun and the one hospital in the camp was crowded with victims of the diseases peculiar to a new and thinly settled country. The deaths average about three per day. When K. A. Hall, who worked on the Berry Bros.’ claims, Eldorado Creek, left the diggings, the miners were in the midst of their annual spring clean-up. Gold dust was being brought into camp from the mines, hut when Hall left Dawson not more tjiiin S2OO,(XX) of this season’s cleanup had been carried to storehouses at Dawson. Geo. M. Irwin said that of 1.500 claims that have been recorded In Dawson district, - less than 200 have proved to be paying property.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.30 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 80c; corn. No. 2,31 cto 32c; onts, No. 2,21 c to 22c; rye. No. 2. 43c to 45c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 10c* to 11c; new potatoes, choice, 70c to 80c per bushel. . Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2,74 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; outs. No. 2 white, 27c to 28c.

St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.75 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2. 76<* to" 7He; corn. No. 2 yellow. 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2,22 cto 24e; rye. No. 2,30 cto 41c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 84e to 85c: corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 25c to 20o; rye, No. 2. 40c to 42c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.25 to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2. 84c to 86c; corn. No. 2 yellow. Sic to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c: rye. 43c to 45c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 83c to 85c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye. No. 2,43 c to 45c; clover seed, $2.95 to $3.05,

Milwaukee— Wheat. No. 2 spring. 87c to 89c; corn. No. 3,31 cto .'l3c: oats, No. 2 white, 24e to 20c; rye, No. 1,44 cto 45c: barley, No. 2,30 cto 30c; pork, mess, $9.25 to $0.75. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to' $5.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.25: sheep, fair to choice wethers. $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra,. $4.25 to $5.75. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 82c; corn; No. 2. 35c to 37c; oats. No* 2 white, 27c to 29c; butter, creamery, 13c to 18c; eggs, Western, 12c to 14c.

HAWAII IS TOTED IN.

SENATE ADOPTS HOUSE RESO* LUTIONS FOR ANNEXATION. ‘— Vote la Reached Fooner than Expected - Galleries Greet Result with Applause-Amendments Defeated by the Annexationists—Six Democrats Aid the Republican*. Final Vote Stands 42 to 21. The annexation of Hawaii was accomplished Wednesday so far as the legislative branch of the Government was concerned. Quite unexpectedly the resolutions providing for the annexation of the islands were brought to a vote in the Senate late in the afternoon, and they were passed by the decisive vote of 42 to 21. Early in Wednesday’s session of the Senate conferences of the leaders on both sides of the chamber were held and a tacit agreement was reached that a vote should be taken Thursday. The opponents of annexation had concluded their arguments, and us they had no desire to keep the Senate in session by purely dilatory tactics, they announced their willingness that a vote should be taken as soon as Mr. White, Mr. Pettigrew and Mr. Allen had finished their speeehes. Neither Mr. White nor Mr. Pettigrew spoke at great length, hut Mr. Alien did not conclude until 4:15.

It we.B evident instantly that a vote was at hand. The word was passed swiftly t through the corridors and committee rooms aud in a few minutes every Sena-

CONGRESSMAN NEWLANDS. Father of the Hawaiian Annexation Resolutions.

tor at the capital was in his seat. The galleries filled rapidly and members of tin*.. House of Representatives, learning that a vote was to be taken, came hurriedly to the Senate side of the great marble pile to witness proceedings that will be historic. The test vote came on an amendment offered by Mr. White of California. It was offered with Do expectation that it would be adopted, bnt merely to place the ideas and opinions of the opponents of annexation on record. It was rejected by a vote of 40 to 20, indicating that the annexationists were strongly in the majority. Amendment after amendment was offered, but the advocates of the resolutions stood solidly together, gaining rather than losing strength on the successive votes.

Finally, at 5:30 p. m., the resolutions themselves, in precisely the form in which they acre received from the House of Representatives, were reported to the Senate and the roll-* all began. Intense interest was manifested by every spectator. Not a sound was to be heard in the chamber except the call of the clerk and the responses of Senators. When the Vice-President announced the vote by which the resolutions were passed a tremendous wave of applause swept through the galleries, which the Vice-President made no effort to cheek. Those who had advocated the resolutions expressed their pleasure by shaking hands with one another. and on all sides evident relief was shown that the end had come. For a few minutes so much good-natured confusion existed that the dignity of the Senate was threatened, but Vice-President Hobart quietly reminded Senators that the session was not yet at au end. Mr. Morrill of Vermont was the only Republican who voted against the resolutions, although Mr. Thurston of Nebraska and Mr. Spooner of Wisconsin were paired against them. Six Democrats—Mr. Gorman of Maryland, McLaurin of South Carolina, Money of Mississippi, Morgan of Alabama, Petlus of Alabama and Sullivan of Mississippi—voted in favor of annexation.

Told in a Few Lines.

Napoleon Valcam of Hudson, Mass., eloped with his stepmother. James Pittenger, aged 40, who recently had charge of the county farm near Lamar, Mo., committed suicide. The Government survey of the Indian Territory has been completed and the last stake driven in the Cherokee Nation. Charles Guilkey was drowned in Elk river, near Independence, Kan. He was swimming, when he was taken with the cramps.

There is great, excitement at Orlando, Okla., over the disappearance of the pretty 2-year-old daughter of George Kinier, formerly of lowa. John Auld of Atchison, Kan., fell from a second-story window at the residence of his brother-in-lHw, C. D. Walker, while walking hi his sleep. J. P. Ballinger fell from a ladder while painting the oil tanks in the Springfield (Mo.) Wagon Company’s yards and was instantly killed. 13. 8. Fry, one of the largest land owners at Plattsburg, Mo., made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. His liabilities are estimated at $65,000. > Kdward Silk, who killed John Heller Smith, a 17-yenr-old boy, at Moberly, Mo., in June, 1896, has been taken to the penitentiary to serve a 20-year sentence. The phosphate camp at Ponpon, S. C., is wildly excited over the finding of $30,000 in gold by two negro diggers, who dug np a large chest and divided the contents. Gov. Barnes of Oklahoma has pardoned from the penitentiary Cole Martin, a young Guthrie attorney, serflpqg a twoyear sentence for embezzling money from a client. * The board of managers of the Omaha exposition have notified the members of the Kansas commission that Sept. 1 has been designated as Kansas day at the exposition. .L- • The Attorney General of Kansas takes the position that whatever live stock quarantine regulation the State sanitary boards make can be enforced, and it was proper to keep out Texas cattle.

WHO PAYS THE WAR TAX?

Kerchants* Association Proposes to Go to Law on tbe Subject. The war tax law in Its entirety ia ia force. The schedules relating to beer and tobacco became operative June 14; the other schedules took effect July 1. There is a great scarcity of stamps. The government, with all its equipment, was able to furnish only a fraction of the supply needed. There was a demand for over 40,000,000 stamps of all classes at the fiev York office at the outset, bat applications were cut all along the line. The banks were most favored, because stamps will, be sold at alt banks, and the public will thus have easier aceess to them.

The telegraph and express companies will mako customers pay the tax of 1 cent each on telegrams and bills of lading by compelling them to buy the stamp and cancel it. The Merchants’ Association has decided to fight the express companies on this issue, and will probably appeal to the courts if common carriers refuse to give a receipt with the stamp tax duly paid when a package is offered for shipment. A committee of the association in each of the large cities visited each express company to announce that merchants would not pay the tax. The express companies replied that they had been advised by counsel that they were not obliged to pay it. The railroad companies have practically agreed to pqsr a part of this impost, and the Merchants’ association proposes to bring the express companies in line. Under their contracts with the railroad companies the express people are obliged to pay a certain percentage varying from 40 to 50 per cent, of their gross receipts as compensation for express facilities upon the various reads. The adoption of the first of these measures would therefore have necessitated an increase in the rates of the express companies to a sum nearly double the amgunt of the tax. It was therefore decTOfci that the most feasible proposition was the adoption of the rule that only the exact amount of the tax shall be collected. The shipper would be required to pay this tax, plus the express companies’ rates.

CAMP ALGER WATER.

Its Whalcsomeaes* a Matter of Dispute Between Army Officers. The fear of typhoid still prevails in Camp Alger, and Majors Pnrke and Devine, acting surgeons, have been investigating conditions tending to produpe this malady. One of these surgeons said that “one patient could put the whole camp on its back.” The water supply is looked upon as the principal source of danger. Some of the wells are sunk to a depth of sixty-five or seventy feet, but it is said to be possible for the germ of typlioiu to reach that depth, owing to the sandy nature of the soil. The surgeons making this investigation say that if when their report is made Chief Surgeon Girard persists in holding that the water is pure they will forward their report to the war department. General Gobin has promised to see that this is doue in case Colonel Girard maintains his position. A special commission has been appointed to investigate conditions in the quarters of the New York cavalry, which now has five men at Fort Meyer suffering with typhoid. Complaint is made that the government has supplied uo lime or other disinfectants.

CURRENT COMMENT

“How does that strike you?” said Sampson to Cervera, as he fired another shell. —Boston Glober ■*■*■

Cervera would like to get some kind of medicine to stop that Vesuvius cough.— Salt Lake Herald.

Uncle Ram’s braves not only deserve the fare but the very best he has in stock. —Pittsburg Tost The Spanish now have fair idea of what our marines can do when they bunch their hits.—Washington Post. When we take Havana there will always be a hammock struck for your Uncle Gomez.—Memphis 'Commercial-Ap-peal.

The fleet has at last sailed, its destination being Wherethedeuce, on the east coast of Itsallabluff.—Kansas City Journal.

Spain reiterates that it’s so full of hope that even if its ship of state goes down it will swim nore on the anchor.—Philadelphia Times. •

If Aguinaldo proceeds at his present gait he will be able to bag the Manila postofflee, or something equally as good.— Washington Post. It is very much easier to revive the grade of lieuterianJ general than it is to find a man fit to be lieutennnt general.— Salt Lake Herald.

Being deprived of his freedom .must be extremely irksome to Lieutenant Mobson. He has never been married.—Kansas City Journal. Besides the shady side of the street, other popular summer resorts are ths thermometer and the bulletin boards.— Philadelphia Times. With 6nch a rush of bona fide offers for the new bonds, the dummy-bid brethren should be put out of the line with scant ceremony.—Boston Globe.

W'hatever rash things have fallen to the lot of some in this trouble, Mr. Aguinaldo, in the Philippines, is trying not to loec his head.—Philadelphia Times. .

And yet it is not all plain sailing to Hawaii. The annexationists have yet got to ebcountef vast and billowy waves of senatorial eloquence.—Boston Herald.

Later on vfe may be disposed to sell Germany a coaling station in the Philippines, but at the present time we ave too busy to talk shop.—Washington Post. The war poets should be happy now. Victor Blue’s name rhymes to lots of things and there’s his highly appropriate first name, besides.—Philadelphia Ledger, u' The Spanish having threatened so flippantly to destroy our Cities, we will now fee how they like the bombardment business themselves in Cadis and Barcelona. —Boston Globe, An appropriate subject for n commencement pert would be some considerations as to why the fresh water colleges develop better oarsmen than the salt water instF tutions.—Bpston Herald. The day is coming with a hum, When high In air, we hope, « Oor flag will catch the breezes from A stout Manila rope. V , -CIeTCIWUI Plf Indealer, ifc

CONGRESS

Late Thursday afternoon the Senate cleared the legislative decks for what may be the final action upon the Hawaiian annexation resolutions. The last of the appropriation bills that have been pending in conference were disposed of and was a law before midnight. After a debate lasting three hours the Senate finally receded from its amendment to the sundry civil bill and adopted the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill. Mr. Bate (Dem., Tenu.) and Mr. Tillman (Dem., S. C.) discussed at length the Hawaiian annexation resolutions. The latter discussed the race problem from the standpoint of n Southern man, / and was characteristically vigorous in his remarks. An attempt to secure passage of the bill to incorporate tbe international American bank met with determined opposition in the House. Filibustering was indulged in, but it was not effective in preventing the consideration of the bill. Adjournment, however, was forced before a vote upon the measure could be reached. The House adopted the report upon the Indian appropriation bill, insisted unanimously upon its disagreements to the Senate amendments to the sundry civil bill and sent the general deficiency bill to conference.

In the Sejiate on Saturday bills were passed as follows: Amendatory to the law regarding fraudulent affidavits in pension and bounty land cases; to pay the owners of the ship Achilles for expenses incurred in rendering service to the wrecked American ship Arabia. Mr. Pettigrew tS. D.) then resumed his speech upon the Hawaiian annexation resolutions. The Senate passed withnmeudment the House bill to increase the force of the ordnance department. Mr. Cockrell (Mo.), from Committee on Military Affairs, reported and the Senate passed the House bill fixing pay of volunteer soldiers from the date of enrollment for service. The bill was amended so as to include all officers. The Senate passed the House bill directing the enlistment of cooks in the regular nnd volunteer armies. Also a hill to change the times for holding courts iu the eastern district of North Carolina. Also the House bill to amend the statutes relating to the bonds of vice-consuls and the quarterly returns of business by consular officers and the Senate bill amending tbe laws relating to American seamen for their protection aud to promote commerce. The chief features of the bitter are the elimination of all imprisonment provisions in the coastwise trade, including Mexican nnd West Indian, tbe reduction of penalties in the foreign trade; the improvement of the provision scales, nnd the reduction of allotments to one month.

In the Senate on Monday Allen of Nebraska began his speech in opposition to Hawaiian annexation. At noon Turpie read the declaration of independence. During the session a large number of pension bills were passed. The debate upon the Hawaiian resolutions continued in the Senate on Tuesday. Three speeches were made. Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts in ndvocuting annexation made a notable appeal against any policy of general territorial expansion as a sequence to the war. Mr. Lindsay of Kentucky opposed the resolutions, directing his attack principally against their constitutionality. Mr. White of California resumed his speech iu opposition.

The annexation of Hawaii is now accomplished so far as the legislative branch of the Government is concerned. Quite unexpectedly the resolutions providing for the annexation of the islands were brought to a vote in the Senate late Wednesday afternoon, and they were passed liy the decisive vote of 42 to 21. Many amendments were offered by opponents of the resolutions, but ail were defeated." The House, after a debate of four hours, concurred in the Senate amendment to the 11 general deficiency bill, authorizing the Secretary of the Interior, the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury to settle, with the approval of the President, the indebtedness of the Central and Western Pacific roads to the Government. The amendment was concurred in by a vote of 90 to 86. An amendment was offered and adopted to the Pacific Railroad amendment providing that unless settlement was reached within one year the President should begin foreclosure proceedings to collect all money due the Government.

Odds and Ends.

A gallon of water holds 231 solid inches.

A struck bushel contains about 1% solid feet.

A horse’s respiration Is performed entirely through its nostrils. Fifty pacers and nineteen trotters joined the 2:10 class In 1897.

Don’t think because riches have •lings that they’re bound to fly your way.

Candles of an extra-special make are the favorite illuminant of Queen Victoria.

In Japan coins are generally of Iron* and In Slam they are chiefly of porcelain.

Don’t believe that the kick of a cow Is the most acceptable form of milk, punch.

Mexican tailors bring the new clothea of their patrons to their offices or homes to be fitted.

Emperor William of Germany has taken up lawn tennis for exercise and discarded mechanical rowing.

The trumpet upon which Trumpet Major Joy of the Seventeenth Lancers sounded the order for the charge of the light brigade at Balaklnva, with Joy’s four medals, was sold at auction in London recently for 750 guineas. Miss Charlotte Yonge, the writer, is 75 years of age and bus written more than eighty books. Her admirers, beaded by the Princess of Wal«Care collecting money to endow three free scholarships to be known by her name. The* will b$ for girls. ; _ —. — u