Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — Page 6

IASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. ap. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. ■ ■

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

J. Edward Addicks, president of the Bay State Gas Company, and Mrs. Ida .Carr Wilson were married at the home of the bride at Claymont, Del. Mr. and | Mrs. Addicks started south on a wed- | ding tour. C A $75,000 fire occurred at Coffeyville, | Kan., destroying the business houses of i' Bead Brothers, W. M. Condon & Co., the I Beader, Sloeson & Co. and tjie Jones-Bas- | «ett Company. Part of the loss was covI ered by insurance. | At the last meeting of the board of governors of McGill University in Montreal, Lord Strathcona announced his intention of endowing the new Victoria college for women, which he built at a cost of $250,000, to the amount of $1,000,000. , | Capt. James Nelson of the halibut sloop j Carolina and Barney Phale, a fisherman, | ment ashore on Kupriauoff Island, in I Portage bay, Alaska, to hunt for doer. I Phale never came back, and the captain |. tells that he was deliberately shot by Ing dians. Fire destroyed nn apartment house at | 223 Union street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Thirty I families were driven out in the cold and<t | is believed that George and Edith Griswold, young children of William Henry I Griswold, perished in the flanil's. Loss I $30,000. Henry Walke, a member of one of the | most prominent families in Virginia and a | Wealthy merchant in Norfolk, committed J jßiicide in New York by sheeting; - None ; of his many relatives in the city can asi sign any cause for his suicide, except pos- | tibly ill health. I The French Government has set apart t a site in Paris for the Lafayette monu- ; ment to be erected by the school children ; of the United States. The site is near the Palace of the Louvre, near Gambetta’s | statue, and was originally intended for a < Statue of Napoleon. I At the Old Bailey in London the trcas- | ury officials declined to prosecute Kate I Lyon and Mrs. Mills for alleged unlawful f conduct in connection with the death of I Harold Frederic, the American newspaper correspondent, and the defendants • were discharged from custody. ■ Fire at Maysville, Ky., burned out the whisky warehouse of J. W. Watson & I Co., and caused $20,000 damage to the | adjoining warehouse of J. 11. Bogers & ’ Co., besides causing n loss of $25,000 on ■ other buildings in the vicinity. Total loss, [ $60,000; insurance about one-half. j The Paris correspondent of the London Daily News says: “By influencing China . to delay the payment of the war indemnity to Japan the Russian Government will be enabled to acquire several Japanese warships now building abroad, which Japan will be unable to pay for at the stipulated time.” j- A combination of all the rubber coni cerns of Trenton, N. J., has been formed. . The companies consolidated are the Empire, Globe, Hamilton, Home, Mercer and ■ Trenton, with the United Rubber and the WhiteheadTompany. The capital is $5,000,000, and the object is to economize to meet competition. Fire at Winfield, Kan., caused a loss of $85,000. It started in the dry goods house of A. F. Dauber & Co., and spread to the adjoining building, occupied by P. H. Albright & Co., abstracts and loans; thence to the grocery stores of D. H. Sickafoos and M. E. Hanlon and the feed and seed store of 11. Silver & Co. Aggregate insurance, $20,000. . The Democrats won most of the places in the Boston municipal election. They elected their two board of apportionment candidates, the street commissioner, six of the nine members of the school board, six of the twelve aldermen, and forty-four of the seventy-three council men. The city gave a majority for license of 9,876, against one last year of 17,500. Princeton, N. J., is threatened with an epidemic of diphtheria. The first case reported was that of F. C. Goldsborough, *99, n student at the university. He was immediately transferred to the infirmary and all the members of the club were quarantined. They spent one night in the clubhouse and were bundled out of town by the faculty, three men being held as susi*ects.

NEWS NUGGETS.

W. J. Bryan is out in an interview opposing territorial expansion. Gen. Ludlow has been designated to act as the first military governor of Havana. Mgr. Antonio, Count Renier, for fifteen years secretary to I’ope Pius IX., is dead at New York. The Union Tobacco Company has secured the entire capital stock of the Black Durham Company for $2,500,000. The Fourth regiment of United States infantry, now at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, has been ordered by Secretary Alger to proceed to Manila. Sir William Jenner, the distinguished pathologist and physician in ordinary to the Queen and the Prince of Wales, died at London, aged 83. At Sacramento, Cal., the Union iron works of Root, Nielsen & Co. have been destroyed by fire, which started in the engine room. Loss $60,000, insurance $20,000. Emil Marx, who lives at 365 Evergreen | avenue, Brooklyn, caught a burglar, found under his bed. The intruder was a well- ’ dressed woman. In her pockets were skeleton keys. Frank A. Graham, Mayor of Lincoln, Neb., has been acquitted by order of the trial court of the charge of accepting a SSO bribe from an employe of the city ! waterworks department. The private bank of the Tyler Banking Company, Tyler, Texas, has closed, on account of heavy withdrawal deposits. Assets, $40,000; liabilities, $20,000. Because the parents of Sopbronia Ford, a Bismarck, N. D., mulatto girl, would sot consent to her marrying him, J. W. Cole shot the girl on the street, causing ’ her to die instantly. ; ' Jay Gould’s millions have secured the Chicago and Alton Railroad, and a consolidation of all the southwestern lines owned by George Gould and the other K heirs of,the wisard, with the new acquisition, win be announced very soon. B •

EASTERN.

Stockholders of the Boston National Bank have voted to go into liquidation. At Norwich, Conn., Mrs. Ellen Augusta Wells, aged 70, widow of the late David A. Wells, died suddenly at the family residence from apoplexy. James Dickinson Rhodes, a wealthy car-wheel manufacturer of Pittsburg, Pa., and Miss Mehrs Edwards of St. Joseph, Mo., were married recently. Rev. Dr. Stuart Dodge of New York has been appointed president of the home missions board of the Presbyterian Church, to succeed the late Dr. John Hall. The United States survey steamer Pathfinder was launched from the Nixon shipyards in Elizabeth, N. J. Miss Ruth W. Crandon of Evanston, 111., christehed the vessel. Henry Mortimer Platt is dead at his home in New York, aged 76 years. Fifty years ago he established in that city the first gold and silver refinery in the United States. The hat factory of John W. Green & Co., Danbury, Conn., was destroyed by fire. Loss $125,000, insurance SIOI,OOO. Four hundred men are thrown out of employment. Three jurymen, who favored acquittal, prevented the conviction of 72-year-o!d Mrs. Margaret Cody, nt Albany, N. Y., on the charge of blackmailing the Gould heirs. The case will be tried again in February. The Baltimore and Northern Electric Railway Company, backed by a syndicate Of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore capitalists, has purchased the Baltimore City Passenger Railway property. There is involved in the transaction $12,600,000. At Savannah, Private J. E. Moore of Battery A, First Maine artillery, was fined SSOO and costs or six months on the chain gang for assault and battery upon Solicitor W. W. Osborne, and for embracing ar woman on the street while intoxicated. The battle ship Massachusetts, less than an hour out of her berth in the Brooklyn navy yard, struck the bottom or some obstruction off Governor’s Island, and was taken to the navy yard with her bottom stove in and three compartments filled wit,h water. Harmonie Hal), in Philadelphia, the headquarters of a number of German singing societies, was gutted by fire. The loss, which is estimated at $50,000, is partly covered by insurance. The janitor and bis wife and three children were rescued by the firemen. Carl Mcßride and his wife were instantly killed by an express train at Raccoon Station, Pa., on the Panhandle road. They were driving in a sleigh and were crossing the tracks when the train dashed into them, both being terribly mangled and almost instantly killed. At Philadelphia W. A. Steele, formerly cashier of the collapsed Chestnut Street National Bank, wns found guilty of aiding and abetting the late William M. Singerly in misapplying the funds of the institution and making false reports to the comptroller of the currency. Four persons lost their lives in a fire at 134 Prospect street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Three were burned while trying to escape; the fourth met death while trying to save others. The fire was in a five-story flat building occupied by five families. In the basement was a boys’ club, and the flames started there.

The scheme of F. L. Tappscott of New York to form a sewer pipe trust having failed, W. 11. Easthind of Toronto has proposed a sales agency combine, which shall have the handling of the product of all factories, including the fixing of prices. It is probable that the organization will be effected before Jan. 1. Andrew Smith of Pharsalia, N. Y., who front West last spring and was reported drowned, has returned to his home. His brother was arrested in Baldwin. Mich., charged with robbing a grave and palming off the body to an insurance company as that of Andrew Smith, but was acquitted for lack of evidence. •

WESTERN.

Co!. W. J. Bryan lias resigned his comma nd. At Croton, Ohio, six-members of M. C. Parson's Ipmily are suffering with trichinosis. At Paola. Kan., John Roberts, charged with the murder of his father, was found guilty of manslaughter. At Dayton, Ohio, Margaret Isabel Wolf, wife of John Wolf, has sued for divorce. He is 80 years old and she is 35. Kansas negroes are pushing a movement for the deportation of 2,000,000 negroes to Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and Africa. At Upper Sandusky, Ohio, fire destroyed the business block owned by Mrs. Van Marter. The origin of the fire is unknown. George Howard and Frank Howard, miners, wandered off the road # in the mountains,'near Ironton, Colo., and froze to death. At Pierre, 8. D., the official count for Governor was completed. The totals are: Lee, fusion, 37,319; Phillips, Republican, 36,949; Lewis. Prohibition, 891. The postoffice at Clifton, Cal., was robbed by two masked men, who held up A. T. Wilkinson, the postmaster, and secured everything of value in the place. Federal Judge Seaman of Milwaukee has upheld the federal bankruptcy law, declaring the State courts are entirely without jurisdiction in such procedure. At Hyannis, Mass., the engine house and carpenter shop of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad were burned, with four locomotives; loss, $75,000. At Seattle, Wash., United States Attorney Gay has filed a libel against the noted Cuban filibustering steamship Laurada, accused of smuggling whisky into Alaska. Miijs Hildegard Poppe, a former school teacher of Burligbton, lowa, has begun a breach of promise suit for $6,000 against F. T. Mills, a wealthy bachelor of Springfield, Mo. The United States transport Newport, bearing Gen. Miller and staff and the First battalion, Twentieth Kansas regiment, with the Wyoming light battery, has reached Manila. The whaling bark Alexander, the last of the Arctic fleet to return this year, has arrived at San Francisco without making a single catch. She came from Plover bay by way of Dutch harbor. Harriet O. Evans, a Cincinnati Christian Scientist, who attended Thomas McDowell, a typhoid fever patient, in his last illness, has been found guilty in the police court of practicing medicine without a license. OU la being thrown at the rata of fifty

barrels an hour from a welt in which ft was struck, one mile above Marietta, Ohio. It is the best well in all the region, and was put down for experiment in new direction. John Tongass has served eight years in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, for the murder of Albert Van Riper, who is now alive and working at Kenton, Ohio. He was convicted upon purely circumstantitl evidence. A special from Debequc, Colo., says that 150 hunters assembled there to participate in a grand hunt for mountain lions, bears and other wild beasts that prey upon the live stock of the ranchers in that vicinity. George Perry, a colored school teacher, and his daughter Eunice were struck by a Chicago and Alton train at Higginsville, Mo. The girl’was killed and the man will die. They were crossing the track and did not notice the train coming. The members of the Columbus, Ohio, chapter of the Phi Gamma Delta, who were arrested and later acquitted on a charge of desecrating a cemetery, have preferred charges of blackmail and condoning a crime against the cemetery trustees. A north-fiound extra passenger train and the east-bound overland crashed together on a curve in a canyon two miles from Prescott, Ariz. Engineer W. H. Wade, of the extra, was instantly killed, and Engineer Thomas Gatfield and Fireman George Walker, of the overland, fataly in juried. Ernest Clevenger, of Missouri City, Mo., shot and instantly killed George Allen and fatally wounded his cousin, Della Clevenger, at the Clevenger schoolhouse, four miles east of Missouri City. 'Clevenger was jealous of the attentions Allen had been paying bis cousin. A church meeting had been in progress, and just as the congregation was dismissed Clevenger stepped up behind his cousin and Allen, who was her escort, and fired. Two shots took effect in Allen’s bead, one bullet entering at the base of the brain, causing instant death. After shooting Miss Clevenger the murderer was disarmed. He escaped. .... J. Pierpont Morgan and President Mellen of the Northern Pacific are making the greatest railroad fight ever known in the Northwest to compel the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company to come to terms regarding the division of Idaho territory. Unless the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company agrees soon the Northern Pacific proposes to- build branches paralleling every Oregon Railway and Navigation line through the rich wheat districts of Washington. Idaho and Oregon. The Northern Pacific filed at Olympia its official notice of the location of eleven such branches, having a total mileage of 556. Navigation through the great ice field at the head of Lake Erie in the dense snowstorm led to the stranding of the steamer C. A. Black, wjth wheat from Duluth, below Bar Point. The big barge Aurania, also with wheat from Duluth, went aground within one-quarter of a mile of the Western Transit liner Commodore at Bar Point. While the steamer Aurora was dragging the Aurania through the ice fields, flames broke out on the steamer, and her captain had to scuttle the ship to prevent her total destruction. She went down in eighteen feet of water. Her cargo will be a totaHoss, but it is thought by the underwriters that there will be enough left of the steamer to be worth the raising.

SOUTHERN.

The Kentucky State Board of Valuations reduced the tax on whisky in bond from $8 to $7 \per barrel for the year 1899. At Chattanooga, Tenn., David W. Hughes, a lumber dealer, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities at $250,000 and assets at SI,OOO. In a terrible duel with knives at Mount Vernon, Ga., between Charles Darley, on mule.back, and Thomas Jennings, on foot, the former was killed and Jennings badly wounded. Jennings is in jail. Sam Hall, the negro saloon-keeper of Newport News, Ya., who shot and killed Private Alonzo Andrews, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Regiment, has been acquitted of the murder charge against him. At Owensbofro, Ky., Mary Glover, aged 1 year, was burned to a crisp. Her mother left three children at home while she was at work. Smoke was seen issuing from the house and the neighbors, not knowing that any one was in the house, made no effort to save the child. Lindsay Freeman, a wealthy Trigg County, Ky., planter, and his son Charles, aged 19 years, became involved in a quarrel, which resulted in the son shooting the father, the ball taking effect in the left side near the heart, producing a wound that will result fatally. Fire did considerable damage at the Government yards on the Illinois Central Railroad in New Orleans, where are stored great quantities of oil, rosin, turpentine, etc. The fire broke out in the warehouse of A. Vizard & Co. and <lestroyed $30,000 worth of turpentine and rosin.

Henry Nelligan, cook, and George W. Beverly, bugler, of the First Florida Regiment, were killed nt Huntsville, Ala. They were on bad terms and had a fight in camp. Private Porter Weisnant, troop D, Tenth Cavalry, was found with a bullet wound in the throat in West Holmes street. He said only that he had been held up by two white soldiers and shot. Then he expired.

WASHINGTON.

A report submitted to Congress by the commissioner of fish and fisheries shows an expenditure of $187,800 for the propagation of food fishes during the fiscal year ended June 30 last. The Treasury Department is considering a request by the St. Panl collector of customs to have a tea inspector stationed there. The plan is opposed by Chicago and New York importers. The President has pardoned Amanda V. Grierson, now McCarty, the aged actress convicted in the southern district of Ohio and sentenced to one year in jail for violation of the pension laws. She is said to be about 70 years of age and in feeble health. Maj. Gen. Wheeier has recommended to''the President that the sentence of death imposed by court martial upon Stephen Lindsay, a colored soldier of Troop F, Tenth cavafry, for killing another soldier in a brawl, be commuted to imprisonment for life. Dr. Wines, secretary of the Illinois State Board of Charities, has received a letter from the commissioner general of immigration at Washington, stating that

any alien Immigrant who may become a public charge within one year from the date of landing in the United States shall be returned to the country in which he belongs at the expense of the immigrant fund of the United States Government

FOREIGN.

The Prince of Wales has decided to visit America next summer. A Chicago packing firm is arranging to erect cold storage warehouses in Cuba. Henri Laveden, the author, has been elected a member of the French Academy. The treaty of peace between the United States and Spain has been signed al Paris. Le Soir of Paris says the French Government has decided to bring Dreyfus back to Paris. The death is announced of William Black, the novelist, at his home in Brighton, England, at the age of 57 years. Sir William Anderson, director general of the royal ordnance factories and part inventor of cordite, died in London in hil sixty-fourth year. Dispatches to London papers from Berlin and Madrid give conflicting reports regarding the Carolines, the former declaring the negotiations for purchase of the islands are at the point of completion, while the latter deny that Germany is negotiating for the Carolines. Oscar Strauss, United States minister to Turkey, had an audience with the Sultan. Assurances were given to the American minister regarding a satisfactory settlement of all pending questions between the United States and Turkey, including the payment of indemnity for American losses in Armenia. General Castellanos accuses the Cuban general, Julio Sanguilly, and Jose Lacrot of a plot to cause an uprising and seize the city at a time when the Spanish garrison is greatly weakened and before the American troops have arrived In numbers sufficient to enforce order. He declares that the recent riot was provoked by Sanguilly and Lacrot and he issued directions for their arrest. ConsulSkinnerat Marseilles has informed the State Department that if America,® coal companies can supply the right kiul of coal at the right price—namely, at about $7.72 per ton delivered into the coal bunkers at Marseilles, they have before them the opportunity for a new and important market. The high price at Marseilles is ascribed to the shortage in the British output owing to the strikes. Joseph Chamberlain, in a speech, said Great Britain had failed to reach an agreement with Russia touching China, and that France’s plan of exasperation had prevented a settled policy in Egypt. He intimated that nn entente has been reached with Germany that may make for peace and for extended trade; but the sig* nificant fact was brought out that unless an agreement is effected with Russia there are dangers of grave complications.

IN GENERAL.

Dr. J. J. Walter, pastor of the Centenary Methodist Church of Portland, Ore., has been appointed missionary in charge of all Methodist work in Alaska. Naval Constructor Richmond P. Hobson will probably go to Hong Kong to superintend the reconstruction of the three Spanish cruisers recently floated at Manila. A smooth gang of counterfeiters is at work in the Mississippi valley. The counterfeit is of standard silver dollars, and all that have so far been discovered bear date of 1890. It is believed that something like 200.000 of them have gained circulation. They have the same ring, apparently the same weight and the same external marks as the genuine. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “The most significant thing this week has been the entire absence of the customary nervous fright before or after the meeting of Congress, the President’s message and the treasurer’s report. No one showed the least alarm, and nobody could find a reason for any. Money and stocks and grain markets moved on exactly as if the Government were automatic, certain to do or say no more the people had already decided and expected, and so the gradual betterment since October continues. There is a larger demand for products in nearly all the great industries, larger export demand for foreign needs, a more healthy domestic demand since seasonable weather arrived, and a comforting conviction that November business, the biggest ever done in this country in any month, was but a step toward something better. This week’s failures have been 248 in the United States, against 312 last year, and 22 in Qanada, against 29 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4»50; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 65c; corn, No. 2,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,25 c to 27c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 54c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 22c .to 24c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $3.50; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $3.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,26 cto 28c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 53c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, $250 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,66 cto 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c. Detroit—-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep and lambs, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,68 cto 69c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c: oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 80c; rye, 54c to 56c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 2,53 c to 55c; clover seed, new, $4.35 to $4.45. Milwaukee —W’heat, No. 2 spring, 63c to 65c; corn, No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 53c to 54c; barley, No. 2,43 cto 49c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 io $5.75. > New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to’ $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2, 40 cto 41c; oats, Nd. 2,30 cto 82c; butter, creamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, Western. 34c to 26c.

WORK OF CONGRESS.

THE WEEK’S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of the Pro* cecdinge in the Legislative Cham* hern at Waahington-Mattera that Concern the People. On Thursday the Senate held a short session and adjourned until Monday, after making the Niciraguan Canal bill the unfinished business before that body. Mr. Morgan called up the measure, whereupon Mr. Pettigrew moved to adjourn. This motion failed—l 3 yeas to 42 nays—and the bill was brought forward. Adjournment was immediately taken. During the session Mr. Vest stated his opposition to the hurried manner of passing pension bills in the Senate, and gave notice that he would insist upon a quorum being present when pension bills were being acted upon. At the other end of the capltol the general deficiency appropriation bill was passed; and the House adjourned until Monday. When the Senate reassembled on Monday Senator Vest made a speech in opposition to teritorial expansion, and Senator Morgan began the debate on the Nicaragua Canal bill. The House spent the larger part of the day on District of Co* lumbia affairs. The bill to relieve the condition of American seamen was taken up, but nothing was accomplished. Representative Hepburn of lowa introduced a bill authorizing the President to acquire by purchase from the State of Costa Rica and Nicaragua full ownership, jurisdiction and sovereignty of such land as may be desirable and necessary to construct and defend a ship canal. The President is also directed to construct such a canal and the bill appropriates $140,600,000 to complete it. In the Senate on Tuesday the Nicaragua Canal bill was discussed, Mr. Turpie making the principal speech in opposition, Jeclaring it is in the interest of the Maritime Company, which he characterized as a fraud and bankrupt. He moved a postponement until after she holiday recess. Mr. Morgan defended the bill and the Maritime Company and opposed the motion to postpone, Messrs. Berry and Rawlins both offered amendments materially affecting the bill. Mr. Morrill supported the bill authorizing the purchase of a site for a Supreme Court building, and this and several other bills were passed. In the House the District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed without a single amendment. The bill carries $6,359,950. The House also passed the Senate bill to amend the laws relating to seamen. All the amendments were rejected.

On Wednesday Mr. Danford (Ohio), chairman of the Immigration Committee, tried to secure consideration of the Lodge immigration bill, but the House declined, 100 to 103, to take it up. Mr. De Armend (Mo.) make a speech on the decadence of the privilege of debate in the House, and held Speaker Reed responsible. The Speaker replied with a sarcastic speech, in which lie referred to the complaints of John Randolph in the early days of the century to show that the same remonstrances were made then that were being heard to-day. In the Senate the Nicaragban Canal bill held its place as the principal subject. Speeches were made by Messrs. Harris, Money, Stew art and Morgan. An agreement was reached to take a vote on the Turpie postponement motion on Thursday. Other questions before the Senate were: The government’s pension policy and the bill regarding registry of foreign built vessels wrecked on the American coast.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

There are four Smiths in the present and there will be five in the next. Four of them are Republicans and three come from the State of Michigan. The only Democratic Smith is David Higlibaugh Smith of Hodgensville, Larne County, Ky., who represents the district in which Abraham Lincoln was born. Mrs. Dominis of Honolulu, formerly queen of the Hawaiian Islands, arrived in Washington from San Francisco. She comes to present , a claim to Congress through the Secretary of State for the crown lands in the Hawaiian Islands, which are said to be valued at $4,000,000 and to produce an annual revenue of $160,000. Gen. Garcia and his Cuban associates are pleased with the President’s message, and declare that his references to Cuban independence are in effect, if not in words, a recognition of the republic. It is doubtful, however, whether the President intended that such a construction should be placed upon his words. A communication received at the State Department from the cofisuls general at Berlin and Frankfort places the total value of all exports from Germany to the United States for the quarter ending Sept. 30 at $19,789,007, an increase over the same period of 1897 of $5,110,093. The monthly statement es the director of the mint shows the total coinage at the United States mints during November, 1898. was $7,845,910. of which $5,006,700 was gold, $2,755,250 was silver and SBB,Q6O minor coins. The standard dollars coined amounted to $1,402,000. Bishop Hurst of the Metbodlat Church returns to Washington from a tour of the cities, with assurances of contributions of $1,000,000 from the rich Methodists of that State for the American university in this city. The President did not offer a plan for a government in the Philippines in his message, simply because be desires first to ascertain how far the people Are capable of self-government. The Secretary of the Navy has added to the ornaments of his office the figurehead of the cruiser Cristobal Colon, which was destroyed in the battle off Santiago. A canvass of the Republican Senators discloses only two votes on that side against the ratification of the Paris treaty, those of Messrs. Hale and Morrill.

MR. DOOLEY.

Territorial Expansion. “Well,” said Mr. Dooley, “we’ve got ’em.” < “Again?” said Mr. Hennessy, with a faint attempt at a joke. “Niver mind,” said Mr. Dooley. “We’ve got th’ Ph’lippeens. Th’ Spanyards withdhrew to th’ anti-room an’ says wan: through.’ Says another: ‘I say so, too. If let another dinner I’d bust. What do they want?’ ‘Th’ Ph’lippeens.’ ‘Will they take thim?’ ‘We’ll thry an’ see,’ An’ they come out, an’ says the chairman, Senyor Monte Rice, he says: ‘Oh, crool an’ avaricious foe,’ he says, ‘wretched vampires.’ he says, ‘that wud suck th’ las’ dhrop iv blood fr’m th’ fallen form iv poor Spain,’ he says. ‘We have no other recoorse,’ he says. ‘We must surrinder to ye,’ he says, ‘th’ brightest flower in th’ diadem iv lovely but busted Hispynolio,’ he saysf, ‘th’ Peril iv the Pass-ific is yours,’ he says. ‘Take it,’ he says, ‘ouless,’ he says, ‘ye’re such monsthers iv croblty that ye’d rayfuse,’ he says. An’ we’ve got th’ Ph’lippeens, Hinnissy; we’ve got thim th’ way Casey got the bulldog—be th’ teeth. “What’re we goin* to do with thim, says ye? That shows, Hinnissy. ye’re a mugwump. A mugwump’s a man that always wants to know what’s goin’ to happen nex’, an’ hopes it won’t. What d’ye think we’re goin’ to do with thim? Sthring Giim an’ vvear thim fr beads? Hinnissy, if all th’ people in this counthry was like th’ likes iv ye, they'd be on’y enough iv ye to hold a rayform meetin’ an’ ye’d be livin'in a baloon off th’ coast iv Maine. “As Hogan an’ McKinley both says: ‘Th’ nation’s in th’-hands iv th’ Lord, an’ll give -him what assistance it can spare fr’m its other jooties.’ Th’ first thing to lie done is to appint a sthrong ar-rmy iv officials that we can’t find annything f’r in this counthry. An’ ye think they’se no wan fit to conthrol a popylation iv naygurs.. I tell ye, anny man that’s sthrong enough to even think he can get a job turrnin’ a bridge in this counthry has force enough to be king iv th’ Ph’lippeens in wan year! ’Tis so. Well, some iv these la-ads ’ll be kilt an’ some’ll come home an’ thin wan day a la-ad that’s been bumped again in th’ sthreet car’ll sthretch himsilf an’ say: ‘Glory be, but this is a small counthry afther all,’ an’ he’ll sail away an’ he won’t have anny job to eat off an’ he’ll have to make a livin’ be lickin’ th’ poor, benighted haythens that we've got to lift up, an’ others like him'll go along afther him an’ whin th’ party con-vintion meets Aguinaldo O'Brien an’ Perforated Don Carlos Cassidy ’ll be contistin’ which ’ll cast th’ vote iv th’ imperyal state iv Ph’lippeens. “That's what’ll happen, Hinnissy. ’Tis not th’ la-ads th’ govmiut’ll sind out. but th’ la-ads that go out on their own hook, an’ have to fight to eat. Be hivins, Hinnissy, they’ll be great doin’s down there whin wan iv thim opprissed an’ tortured people that f’r hundhreds iv years have been undher th’ ir’n heel iv th’ tyrant gets gay with a la-ad that’s r-run a Bohemyan prim-ry in this counthry. ’Twill be like th’ foolish German man that escaped fr’m jail be jumpin’ frim th’ roof onto a picket fence. We’re a gr-reat civilizin’ agent, Hinnissy, an’ as Father Kelly says, *so’s th’ steam roller.’ An’ bein’ a quite man, , I’d rather be behind thin in fr-ront whin th’ sthreet has to be improved.” “ ’Twill cost a power of money,” said Mr. Hennessy, the prudent. “Expand, ixpind.” said Mr. Dooley. “That’s a joke, an’ I med it.” Copyright, 1898, by the Chicago Journal.

NEW YORK IN GLOOM.

Bursting of Big Gas Tank Brings Death and Ruin. By the bursting of a huge gas reservoir in New York seven persons were killed and at least twenty were injured. The gas tank, one of the largest in the world and 209 feet in'diameter, was new. Ten workmen were testing it, and for that purpose had filled it with water. When almost fulldhe great steel structure burst and an avalanche of water overtook the workmen, crushed the adjoining buildings, one of them a tenement, and deluged the streets with torrents of water waist deep. Iron and steel beams, bands and plates were thrown great distances, and in the flood and debris men and women and children struggled for life. Immediately the explosion was reported the gas was shut off from the mains in that part of the city to prevent explosions and the mains from filling with water. Streets were in darkness as well as homes and stores. No one has an explanation to offer for the catastrophe. The contractor and his chief engineer were taken into custody by the police, to be held until the responsibility for the accident should be determined. They professed ignorance of the accident.

WARSHIPS GO TO HAVANA.

Sent to Protect American Interests and Preserve Order. In consequence of the danger of serious trouble in Havana between Spaniards and Cubans, the administration decided to send warships to Havana to protect the lives and property of Americans, and to assist in preserving order should occasion demand the interference of this Government before Spanish sovereignty in Cuba ceases. Orders were issued by the Navy Department directing the armored cruiser Brooklyn, Captain Cook; the battleship Texas, Captain Sigsbee, and the gunboat Castine, Commander Berry»Jo proceed tft. Havana. The armored cruiser New York,' Captain Chadwick, and the cruiser peka, Commander Cowles, are already at Havana. While the recent affrays in the Cuban capital had much to do with the decision of the administration to send the Brooklyn, Texas and Castine to the Cuban capital, there was another reason why the President and his advisers believed that a strong naval force should be assembled The open disregard which the Spanish authorities are showing for the agreements between the American and Spanish evacuation commissioners concerning Government property that shall not be removed from Cuba, doubtless had a great deal to do with the determination to the three vessels to Havana.