Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — Page 2

‘«R COUNTY DEMOCRAT. . E. BABCOCK, Publisher. ' ■■■■ SELA'R. INDIANA.

MMARY OF NEWS.

■Spear-end collision occurred on the Ijgrlvania Railroad, throe niilbs from pay, N. J., resulting in the loss two and aerious though not fatal injuries ui* persons. Thick fog is blamed for tccident. iiunissioncr Herrmann of the general I announced the logging of dead down timber will be resumed on the jtewa Indian reservation in Minnetbis winter, but will not be continued }. this year. en. Corbin has issued the prejary orders providing for the muster I at 50,000 volunteers in the nest pu This action marks the final pnssOf the volunteer army organized for war with Spain. le provincial court at Berlin has ac*d Frank Knnak of New York of the ge of lese majesty in referring to Era:|t| t William as a sheep's head, because, jjf Appears, Mr. Kuaak was drunk when |i ommitted the offense, v iliiatn Simms, a soldier, who murderlobert Norton, a citizen of Town f dt, six miles from Decatur, Ala., while country dance, was dragged from the ity jail by a nml* of 500 men and 1; hed. Ilis body was riddled with buly reports a fight near Flat Top, || I between revenue officers and moont ers in which Sam May of Coburn, one of the revenue raiders, nnd two ? Is companions were killed. The fataliamong the moonshiners arc not M *“• p4e hi the case of W. S. Jewett, ‘ lerly president of the Lake National • k of Wolfboro, N. H., charged with |j embezzlement of $25,000, said to have Butted while settling the affairs of the k, brought in a verdict of guilty at lon., ft |e Drake & Stratton Company of ... aburg has received a contract from t > United States Government for the Mjirnction of a great dock at Havana, |l and a short railroad to Morro Cas- ; Costing altogether about $500,000. The s>any has dispatched r.K) laborers to ' bland. : Iss Margaret Ytodgo, 50 years old, a kknowii literary worker, was found 1 in a gallery pew by the janitor of . Church of St. John the Evangelist in . | Ton, Mass. She had hidden in the ? rch after the evening service and end- ’ ler fife with cynnnide of potassium, a ’ by her side revealing this fact. avid Shea, an ex-convict, deliberately * imltted suicide in a rooming house in ; Louis by shooting himself in the head. ,' A pathetic letter left by Shea he says if was driven to death by a private dctecs|t agency ns a result of being hounded J: the agency. Shea declares he was un- <- i to obtain work to sustain himself ,|.j estly and he decided to die. - f fter a two days' meeting at Toledo, t : American Sheep Breeders’ Association , ourned. Following are the newly electj officers: President, John E. Webb, Ini napolis; vice-president, tl It. Hall Way. ia, Mich.; secretary-treasurer, E. V. f ‘pnham, Woodstock, Ohio; directors, j right 1 rincoln, Illinois; W. S. Ilnnson, s?th, and Mr. Benner, Belle Center, Ohio, j ; -ov. Johnson has offered substantial reIrds for the arrest of some Mississippi Hers who eommitted a cowardly deed | Alabama. The First Mississippi volun;rs had been mustered out of the ser- •: ;at Columbia, Tenn., and were passing j rough Alabama en route home. As the tin rolled through Entaw a number of | men fired through the coach windows a party of women nml children who 1 assembled ta»houor their return. One man was killed nnd a little girl’s eye .« shot o«T* The train kept on its way cpferidian, Miss., not many miles away, s difficult to locate the offenders and a ole company may be arrested.

BREVITIES.

’Jolorabla will grant an extension of six itrs to the Panama Gannl Company, yeveuteen of Baltimore's brewing compies have consolidated under the name i Ithe Maryland Brewing Cempany. ythn A. Henry, a proofreader and forrly an associate of the Chicago anarch1, committed suicide at New York. ■ original manuscript treatise on | js tides has been discovered in the Vatn library. It was completed in 1616. ; Alexander Nirnick, one of tlio oldest d best-known steel and iron mauufac•ers in I*ittsburg. died, aged 78 years. [*he Merritt & Chapman Company lias ,de a contract with the Government for . t f| t Mining of the Spanish warship Iteiua •rcedes. , Samuel Gompers was re-elected presiirt of the American Federation of I.alior I a practically unanimous vo*e at the tbteenth annual convention of that or- . ftaization iu Kansas City. Jk fire ruined the big dry goods ware- ' fuse of S. Greenshields’ Son & Co. at tmtreal, one of the largest dry goods |nses in Canada. Losses on building and pek amount to $500,000. fiProf. Irving Fisher, one of Yale’s most l»mising younger professor and an jj&erican authority on finance, has reamed from his professorship for a year wausc of a pulnionuijT trouble. »pbu Kerrigan and Walter 11. Holbrook Are killed in a collision between electric f|g|h# ill Leicester, Mass., and several oth- |, passengers were dangerously hurt. The JxHaion occurred during a dense fog. Steele, former cashier of the fjlecked Chestnut Street National Bank, liiladelphia, was sentenced to six years %d six months’ imprisonment and to pay |tae. He was convicted of conspiracy. Iliformer Queen Liliuoknlnni lias sent to jE- United States Senate i a protest Spoilt the appropriation of the cmwii Ijrolg of Hawaii by the United States, wkceordi^J9 Mu Rome dispatch the Pope ■I declined to receive Don Carlos, thus mdhift the pretender's hopes of getting bis pUness to rescind his decision to support .me Queen in the expected revolution. ®Che Postmaster General announces tb" ■tpiolntmrnt of Mnj. E. O. Itathbone of ex-fourth assistant Postmaster Gcnpal to take charge of and conduct the szrz'zii Caba ’ wltii tbe title of

EASTERN.

New York ia suffering from an epidemic •f grip. Henry A. Bice, ex-Gorernor of Massachusetts, died at Boston, aged S 2 years. George West, aged 55 years, who married a sister of the late George M. Pullman, is dead at New York. Funeral services for Harlan P. Halsey, the author known as “Old Sleuth,” were held at bis residence in Brooklyn. Former Police Captain John J. Mount died suddenly at New York, aged 80 years. He distinguished himself ia the draft riots of war times. As a result of a coasting accident at Turtle Creek, Pa., near Pittsburg, Joseph West, aged 30. is dead and eleven others are injured, two seriously, W. B. Madey and Joseph Conner. A Pennsylvania train struck a carriage at Allenwood, N. J., killing Jessie Allen, Allie Alger, Jennie Cramer. EUie Allen. David Allen and Kate Allen, wiping out the family of Thomas Allen. The conflict !>etween the sugar trust and Arbuckle Bros, is said to have been settled. It is reported on Wall street that the appearance of hostility was kept up in order to manipulate stocks. The Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union has issued a statement at Marlboro, M as<y that the employers have declined,to mm a committee from the anion with a view of adjusting the existing labor difficulties. Five robbers blew open the safe of the Seaboro oil works at Chester, Pa., after having shot the watchman in the leg and also binding and blind-folding him. The safe and office were badly damaged, but the burglars secured less than $10(1. About S7OO la spurious coin was captured in an Italian tenement-house in Buffalo. The supposed counterfeiters are under arrest in the persons of Frank Ferrol and I’asqunle Antonach, who were captured while engaged in passing the counterfeit money. During a fire in the stables at Fort Adams, Newport, It. 1., a gun shed exploded, killing Private Sullivan of Battery A, Seventh artillery, and injuring eight other soldiers. All the horses were saved, but the stables of light battery F, Fourth artillery, were destroyed. Benjamin Davis, aged 38, a night roller, was killed at the Sharon. Pa., iron works. He wns engaged in putting in a liner on the 12-inch mill, when bis arm caught in the boxing. In an instant his body went through the small space, horribly mutilating it. His head was crushed and his neck broken. Detectives of the Pennsylvania Railroad are endeavoring to get some clew to the vandals who destroyed the interior of several cars of the Chicago limited train while it was sidetracked in the railroad yards at Jersey City. Windows were broken, plush seats torn out and costly decorations mutilated. Lem B. Schloss, 28 years old, a theatrical manager and the husband of Lottie Gilson, the actress, shot himself ia his room in the Hotel Veudome, New York. He fired four shots from a revolver, but only one of them bit him, inflicting a slight scplp wound. Schloss declared the shoo?h*g was accidental. Preliminary plans have been laid at Philadelphia for the formation of a powerful combine to control the street lighting business, now in the hands of private, companies, all over that part of the Catted States east of the Mississippi river. George W. Elgins is to l>e president of the companv, which wll have a capital of $12,000,000. BaldwinsvHle. N. Y’., was visited by a disastrous fire. The fire started in the plant of the Kenyon Paper Company and spread rapidly to a building occupied by the New Process Kawlmle Company, the stone mill of Hotaling & Co. and the building of Clark. Mercer & Co. The loss, estimated at SIIO,OOO, is nearly covered by insurance.

WESTERN.

At Hillsboro, Ohio, two girls have died from trichinosis, Contracted by eating pork. A receiver has been appointed at Butte for the Boston and Montana Mining Company. At their home near Jasper, Mo., William Lowenstein, a wealthy farmer, killed bis wife and himself. T. M, Wells, of Areola. 111., was killed and pleVen others badly injured at Guion, Ind., in an accident on the Indiana, Decatur and Western Railway. News has reached Durango, Colo., that three men have been killed in the Columbia mine, located in the La Plata district. It is not known what caused their death. At St. Louis James Nettles, colored, has been convicted of murder in the first degree of Samuel W. Mann, a suburban street car conductor on July 4 last. A new trial has been asked for, A successful test of wireless telegraphy hns been made at San Francisco, where Professor Albert Van dcr Nailen has invented an apparatus by which messages can be sent through solid brick walla without the use of wires. i At a mass meeting of citixens in Omaha the Greater America and Colonial Exposition Company was organized. More funds than the promoters desired before starting the organization was subscribed and paid up. The exposition will open in J uly. ~ A romantic wedding took place in the county jail at Milan, Mo. John Green, aged 19 years, under penitentiary sentence for burglary and larceny, married his 17-year-old stepmother, whose 50-year-old husband is in the penitentiary for horse-stealing. Thomas V. Beckwith, the self-confessed embezzler of $15,000 from Niles Brothers, meat dealers, who surrendered to the police of Chicago, was arraigned in court in Boston. He pleaded guilty and the court sentenced him to the reformatory for an indefinite period. John D. McCrellis, a retired business man, and for thirty years a leading citizen of Carthage, Mo., shot and mortally wounded W. J. Gilfillnn at the latter's home. Gilfillnn is charged by McCrellis with ruining his home. McCrellis gave himself up and was released on bond. t At Cincinnati Judge Taft issued an order for the sale of tbe Wheeling and Lake Eric Railroad on the claim of the Metropolitan Financial and Industrial Company. The sale will be for $1,096,000, subject to mortgages Of $0,000,000, and most be made within three months. Fire destroyed the large department Store of ,G. Ilartstein Sons at Milwaukee, entailing a loss of $70,000, of which $50,000 was on building and. $20,000 on stock. J«uei to adjoining property will make

- »■———————' i ii- ™ ■!■'' Che total Imb teat op in the neighborhood of sloo,ool*. partly wwtrf by insurance. Wittes McDonald. manager of the Old Front Fora ia Howell County, Mo„ and formerly a booker o Kansas City and former owner of the Kansas City Times, has filed a pet it 100 of bonkroptcy. He alleges that most of his assets are worthless. and places Ms liabilities at $168,158. At Chillirothe. Ohio, two boys, Elmer and George Bat ler. aged, respectively, 20 and 13, were foftrd goilty at manslaughter and will serve a term in the penitentiary for the killing of Daisy Browser. In the trial it was proved that the girl had Uea shot down from amfaash for no cause whatever. The car famine became so serious that the entire grain trade of St Louis was crippled, and exporters found it almost impossible to obtain cars to carry their grain to the seaboard. Every railroad running into the city suffers from the shortage of equipment. At one time the roads were I,'WJ cars behind on orders. The flour trust scheme is dead so far as Minneapolis is concerned, and without Minneapolis it is futile. At a meeting of representatives of the big milling concerns of the city it was unanimously agreed that none of the~Miniieapo>lis properties should go into the scheme. The mills in Milwaukee and Duluth will be obliged to follow the lead of the Minneapolis millers. At Stillwater. Minn, an attempt is being made to break the will of Isaac Staples, who died last May. leaving an estate valued at more than SI.<KKMMKX. To two of his sous, who were alleged to be spendthrifts, he gave one-half his estate, and the other half was equally divided among three others, leaving the descendants of two of Ms daughters but a few thousand dollars each. The death of Edward Johnson occurred at Zanesville. Ohio, alter a protracted illness incident to a stroke of paralysis sustained several months ago. The deceased came from Syracuse, X. Y_. and embarked in the pearl barley and oatmeal business and shortly afterward patented a ptopcss for pearling the barley, which enabled him to control the market of the United States, and he became known as the barley king. The Kansas State canvassing board decided a tie between A. E. Scott. Republican. and L M. Marks. Populist, candidates foo the Legislature from Jefferson County, by ordering the drawing of lots. Mr. Scott won, but did not demand his certificate, going home with the expectation that It would follow in the maiL The next morning the mid-PacifiC ocean vote cast by the Twentieth Kansas, en route to Manila, was received. Upon examination one vote was found for Mr. Marks. Accordingly the State canvassing board reversed its deeisaoa and issued a certificate to Mr. Marks. James Poster of Cleveland, detective for the Panhandle Railroad. caught two men robbing a freight car at Columbus, and was shot twice. He returned the fire, but fell from loss of blood. An hour later Fred Dec-ring, a special policeman, went to August BrokavrskFs home, suffering from a pistol shot which passed through bis stomach. He was taken to a hospital. where be died without making a statement. A revolver with three empty chambers was found on him. Bnokawski was afterward arrested, a lot of stolen goods being found in his house. Deering was 45 years ohl and previously bore a good reputation.

SOUTHERN.

Unknown-men entered the store of Mrs. Ida Meyers, in J«ie, Ah. and after fatally wounding Mrs. Meyers, killing her married daughter and badly beating an employe named Cook, stole $3,000 and then burned the store. Nearly the whale of the baseness part of the t<#wa of Tifton. Ga_ was burned the ether night. An oil lamp In n board-ing-house exploded. The Masonic hali and ten stores were destroyed and a hotel and large lumber mill were damaged. Thomas Jones, living near Greer, W. Vs. attempted to light a fire with crude oil. An explosion occurred and the clothing of his twin daughters, aged 6 years, ignited. Jones was too badly burned to assist them and the children were burned to death. Dr. Frank T. A. Borcek of Fayette County. Texas, was murdered while asleep in his led by some one who entered the house and shot him through the head, without awakening, so they say. any of the occupants of the boose. J. It. Comics. a fanner and lumberman, was shot dead in his house at the village of Garrison by an assassin, who fired through a window.

WASHINGTON.

Mrs. Mary T. Throckmorton is dead at Washington, aged 88. Ferdinand W. Peck of Chicago, commissioner general of the Paris expostion. has teen confirmed by the Senate. Joseph W. Pearson, a printer, who objects to an Anglo-American alliance, bombarded the British ambassador's residence at Washington with brickbats, smashing doors and windows. Ah immense order for coffins has been placed by the War Department with tbe National Casket Company of Pittsburg. The coffins will be sent to Caba and Porto Rico for the remains of United States soldiers buried in those countries. The bodies will be brought to the United States and turned over to relatives or friend#.

FOREIGN.

Bolivia is again in the throes of a revolution. The Spanish Government has agreed to pay the January coupon on the Cuban debt. Lord Charles Reresfotd urges British occupation of Kiang-Xiag. China, in order to control rise Yangtze valley. Japan and Russia are said to he trying to negotiate loans in the United States aggregating $400.0001,000. The Russian Government has ordered ten new destroyers for the Pacific squadron, to be completed within taro years. Chinese rebels are said to have massacred a French priest and 100 converts in the town of Chnng-Yang in Hoo-Pe province. George O. Larson, corporal Company A. Utah Artillery, and James Healy. private Company I. Eighteenth Infantry, are dead in Manila. The Spanish evacuation comaaiaafenrs have informed the Americas commission era that the Havana suburbs. Gem and Jesus del Monte, have been evacuated.

Terry, husband of the former opera singer, Sibyl Sanderson, left his entire fortune to his widodr. The first train from Merv, Russian Turkestan. 300 miles southeast of Khiva, arrived at Kusk, in the Jamshidi province of Afghanistan, the line thus being completed to within ninety-five mites of Herat. Advices by the Empress of India soy that Russia has sold 500,000 obsolete Berdan rifies to China at a large price thcongh the Itusso-Chinese bank. Mancha troops throughout the empire are to be armed at once with the rifles, f Count Casa Sola, in an interview, has confirmed the reports that savage cruelties have been applied to the Carlists arrested at Bilbao, Spain, in order to extract information from them regarding, the armament and designs of the Carlists. According to a dispatch from Shanghai the rebels have seized the town of Chung Yaag. fifty miles southwest of Ichang, province of Hoo Pe, on the north bank of the Yang-tse-Kiang, 200 miles above Chin Kiang Foo. They have massacred a French priest and 100 converts. In the Italian chamber Signor del Baono asserted without ministerial contradiction the existence of an agreement, equivalent to a treaty, between Italy and Great Britain for the maintenance of the statu qno in Africa along the Red Sea and the Mediterranean as well as in the Sondan. According to a dispatch to the London Morning Post from Hankow, on the Yaagtse-Kiang, about 700 miles from the sea. a French expedition has been dispatched np the river to Kwei-Chau, and ©ue gunboat is already above Nanking, the “southern capital” of China, about ninety miles from the river’s mouth. Captain General Castellanos has forbidden the letting of any important contracts for public improvements in • HaTana while he remains in office. This action was taken at the request of the American commission, the object being to prevent the railroading Jhrough of big contracts before the time of American occupation. The British steamer Pierremont, which arrived at New Castle-on-Tyne and subsequently sailed for the Mediterranean, has been in collision with the British steamer Ilios. The collision took place in the North Sea under conditions not explained. The Ilios foundered and the Pierremont was badly damaged. It is beßeved that twenty persons were drowned. News has come from Major McDonald, who is at the head of an expedition from the south, that shows the last link in the British chain “from the Cape to Cairo" is complete. The Major has established stations all the way northward from Uganda to Lake Rudolph. He is now about to descend the River Sobat, which empties into the Nile, and make his way toward Fashoda.

IN GENERAL.

General Shatter says the Cubans are not fit for self-government. Salaries of $75 and over are to be cut 10 per cent Jan. 1 all along the Quincy branch of the Port Arthur route. Train and yard men are not included. General Manager Hays of the Grand Trank Railway has recognized the Railway Telegraphers’ Association by deputing General Superintendent McQuiggan to discuss the grievances of the employes of the road with them. The Mexican Congress has confirmed one of the largest concessions for many years. The concession was granted to Cat tain A. B. Smith of Los Angeles, Cal., and his associates, for colonizing, steamship and railway enterprises of the first magnitude. The colony lands include many leagues of the Gulf of California, with conditions that a railway be constructed at once from tho lands to Yuma, Cal., and a steamship service be placed from the head of the gulf to the southern Mexico boundary. R. G. D,un & Co.’s weekly review of trade says? “December is adding a surprising close to the most surprising year •>f American history. November surpassed all other months of the century in volume of business and production, and thus far December is doing even better in payments through clearing houses, in railroad earnings, in foreign trade, in output of pig iron, in activity and strength of securities. The woolen industry also ciime* to the front with very extensive purchases of wool by large houses and small. In cotton the foreign demand is really inexplicable, considering its volume ia comparison with movements of goods fr»m Great Britain. Failures for the week have been 261 in the United Statps, against 329 last year, and 31 in Canada, against 28 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, 53-00 to 50.25; hogs, shipping grades, 53.00 to 53.t0; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to 9-LSO; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 67c; corn. No. 2,34 cto 35c; ; oats. No. 2,25 c to 27c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c; butter, choice creamery, 13c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 21c to 23c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, 53.00 to 55.30; hog?, choice light, 52.75 to 53.75; sheep, coMiuon to choice, 52.50 to 54.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 06c to 67c; com. No. 2 white. 31c to 32c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. , St. Louis —Cattle. 53.00 to 55.50; hogs, 53.00 to 53.75; sheep, 53.50 to 54.25; wheat. No. 2,68 cto 71c; cofn, No. 2 yellow, S2c to 34c; oats. No. 2,27 cto 28c; rye. No. 2,50 cto 52c. Cincinnati —Cattle. 52.50 to 55.50; hogs, 53.00 to 53-<o; sheep. 52.50 to 54.25; wheat. No. 2. 68c to 70c; com, No. 2 mixed, S4c to 35c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 29c to ."Wt; rye. No. 2,56 eto 58c. Detrsit—Cattla, 52.50 to 55.50; hogs, 53.00 to 53.50: sheep and lambs, 53-00 to 95.50; wheat. No. 2,68 cto 70c; corn, No. 2 yellojr. 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to SOe; rye, 54c to 56c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 mixed. 69c to Tie: (era. No. 2 mixed. 34c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye. No. 2,54 c to 55c; clover seed, new, $4.55 to $4.60. Milwankee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 65c to 67c; corn. No. 3. 32c to 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 2Sc to SOe: rye, No. 1,54 cto 56c; barley. No. 2. 44c to 49c; pork, mess, $8.09 to $&56. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, 53.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, 533£> to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice wethers. $3.50 to 54.75; lambs, common to extra. 55.00 to 5550. New York-Cattle. $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, 53.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5,25; wheat. No. 2 red, 77c to 79c; corn. No. 2. 41c to 43c; oats. No. 2,32 cto 33c; batter, creamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, Western, 25c to 27c.

SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW* MAKERS. A Week’s Proceedings in the Hallo of Congress Important Mcaanrea Din cussed and Acted Upon—An Impartial Resume of the Business. On Thursday the Hou|e surpassed all records in the expedition with which it passed the pension appropriation bill. Usually one of the most fruitful themes of acrimonious partisan debate, it was passed in twenty minutes without criticism. although carrying $145,233,530, $4.000,000 more than the act for the current year. The House then began consideration of the bill to incorporate the International American Bank. This project was recommended by the Pan-American Congress in 1889. An agreement was effected for a vote at 3 o’clock Friday. It was supported in debate by Messrs. Brosius (Rep., Pa.), Adams (Rep., Pa.), Lacey (Rep., Iowa), and Walker (Rep., Mass.), and opposed by Mr. Cox (Deni.. Tenn.). Jenkins (Rep., Wis.), Driggs (Dcm.. N. Y.), nnd Bartlett (Dem., Ga.). In the Senate the urgent deficiency appropriation bill making provision for the army and navy for the next six months displaced the Nicaragua caual bill, preventing even the taking of a vote on the question of the postponement of the latter measure until after the holidays, as had been intended. The deficiency bill was passed after a spirited discussion, turning principally on the point of keeping the volunteer soldiers in the service. The bill to incorporate the International Atnerlcan Bank was buried under an overwhelming adverse majority of the House on Friday. The debate upon the measure, which opened Thursday, was concluded at 3 o’clock.. Mr. Dingley, the floor leader of the majority, made an argument in its support. The other speakers on Friday were Hill of Connecticut in its support and Messrs. Bell (Pop.. Colo.), Sulzer (Deni., N. Y.), Maxwell (Pop., Neb.), Maddox (Dem.. T3a.) and Swanson (Dem., Va.) in opposition. The vote by which the bill was defeated stood 103 yeas to 148 nays. The bill to extend the customs and revenue laws of the United States over the Hawaiian Islands was passed without opposition. The bill. Mr. Dingley explained, carried with it the civil service laws relating to appointments in the customs and revenue service in Hawaii.

Saturday in the House was devoted to the Indian appropriation bill, which was passed substantially as reported. This is the third of the appropriation bills to pass and it clears the calendar of the big supply bills. The Senate was not in session. Monday was suspension day In the House, and several bills were passed, the most important of which was the bill appropriating $330,000 for the Philadelphia exposition of 1599. The vote wns exceedingly close. It had but two votes more than the necessary two-thirds. Bills were also passed under suspension of the rules to authorize the distribution of the assets of the Freedmen’s Bank, to enlarge the scope of the Fish Commission to include game birds, for the relief of the Fourth Mounted Arkansas Infantry and for the relief of John W. Lewis, of Oregon. The Senate had a busy day, and there were several Important speeches. Mr. Platt, of Connecticut, spoke against the Vest resolution, which declares that the United States has no power to acquire territory. Mr. Proctor, of Vermont, and Mr. Hale, of Maine, exchanged divergent views upon the subject of a commission of Senators to visit Cuba. The conference report on the urgent deficiency bill was agreed to. The Senate then took up the Nicaragua canal bill, and Air. Berry (Ark.) spoke upon his amendments to the measure.

The House resolution providing for adjournment of Congress from Dec. 21 to Jan. 4 was adopted by the Senate without division on Tuesday. Mr. Gallinger favorably reported Mr. Proctor’s resolution providing for a committee of Senators to visit Cuba and Porto Rico with a view to ascertaining the conditions on the islands and reporting on them, with recommendations. Senator Teller then addressed the Senate upon Mr. Vest’s resolution declaring that under the constitution no power is given to acquire territory to be held and governed permanently as colonies. Several private pension bills were disposed of, after which Mr. Elkins called up the bill relating to the registry of foreign built vessels in this country. At 2 o’clock the Nicaraguan canal bill displaced the registry measure, and Mr. Caffery spoke in opposition to it. The debate on the agricultural bill was signalized by the first speech in the House on the question of annexation of the Philippines. Mr. Williams of Mississippi submitted a general argument against their annexation. After Mr. Williams’ remarks the agricnitural bill jvas passed. It carried $3,696,322, or $187,120 more than the current law. Before adjournment for the day the conference report on the army and navy deficiency bill was adopted. The last session of the House before the holiday recess was held on Wednesday and lasted but an hour. The Bailey resolution Jdirecting an investigation of the right of the members who volunteered in the Spanish-American war to seats in the House was adopted, and several bills of minor importance were passed. One of these provided for holding terms of the District and Circuit courts at Hammond, Ind. The absence of a quorum of the Senate saved Senator Proctor’s resolution providing for the appointment of a committee of Senators to investigate the conditions in Cuba and Porto Rico during the approaching long recess of Congress from decisive defeat. An effort was made by Mr. Daniel of Virginia to obtain ation for the resolution, but his motion mustered only eight of the thirty-eight votes cast. No business of importance was disposed of at Wednesday’s session. Only some routine business, including the passage of a few private pension bills, was transacted. Adjournment was taken to Jan. 4, 1899,

Sparks from the Wires.

Prince Henry of Prussia opposes the building of railroads in China by Americans. The United States cruiser Raleigh sail-' ed from Manila for New York, Tia the Suez canal. Fifteen thousand silk operatives at Colfeld, the German silk manufacturing center, are on a strike. Marqnis Ito of Japs? is reported to have said that there is no man in China capable of saving the empire from collapse. J

BIG FIRE AT TERRE HAUTE.

laass of Property by Conflagration Estimated at sl,ooo*ooo, The worst fire in the history of the city of Terre Haute, Ind., occurred Monday night. The blaze started in the big ahow windows of the Havens & Geddes Company, wholesale and retail dealers in dry goods and notions. It is supposed flint n live electric wire set fire to the cotton with which the window was decorated, and before the blaze could be extinguished the firfe spread to’the decorations of evergreens in the store and the building was wrapped in flames in an incredibly short space of time. A conservative estimate of the damage is $1,000,000, and the following firms are the losers; Havens A Geddeg c0mpany...,,,.,5500,000 Brelnig & Miller, furniture 25,000 Plxley & Co 100,000 Terre Haute Shoe Co., wholesale... 150.000 Albrecht & Co., retail dry g00d*..,. 150,000 United States Hiking Company.... 80,000 Thornran & Schloss, clothiers...... 50,000 There were a number of small concerns which were utterly annihilated in the fall of the rear wall of the Havens & Geddes wholesale house, and the loss in their case will more than bring the total losses up to the $1,000,000 mark. The fire started at 5:30 o’clock, when half the employes of the establishment were at their homes for supper. There is a force of 300 or more iu the retail department of the establishment and bad the entire force been present the loss of life would have been frightful. As it is, Kate Maloney, a clerk in the notion department. sprang from a window In the second story and sustained injuries from which she will probably die. Miss Lnelle Ferguson, a clerk in the same department, jumped just before Miss Maloney, but was caught by some meu who were watching for her. She is internally injured, but will recover. Louis Kramer, the trimmer, who was In the show window when the blaze started, is frightfully burned about the head and arms. When rescued from the burning building he was insane from the pain and begged to be killed. Firemen Anaterloo. Walsh and Sha.v were badly injured in the falling of a floor in the Albsscbt building and are now in the city hospital. The fire department worked admixably and there were many narrow escapes among the men.

BRYAN ON ISSUES OF 1900.

Declares that the Money Qncstion Will Be the Issue. Col. W. J. Bryan arrived in Washington from Savannah. In an interview concerning the Democratic issues of 1990, he said: “I should say the money question, undoubtedly. I believe the Chicago platform stiil embodies the sentiments of the mass of the American people. I can see no reason for a popular change of mind on any of the issues defined in the last national platform. The fact that people are talking about the war does not necessarily indicate that they have abandoned former ideas which have no reference to the war. People can discuss matters of temporary interest without forgetting their political views and abandoning their political principles.”

KISSER HOBSON BUSY.

Merrimac Hero Indulges In Whole* ■ale Oscillatory Exercise. Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac episode, who is now becoming better known as a kisser than he is as an officer of the United States navy, kissed 417 maids and matrons at Kansas City, befoie journeying west for new fields to conquer. The kissing bee took place at a public reception. Iu Chicago, Lieut, Ilobson was kissed by 163 Chicago gifl.s at the Auditorium. Incidentally he lectured about the war and and the sinking of the Merrimac. The osculatory ordeal followed the lecture, when the announcement was made that any one who wished to greet the lieutenant could coine up on the stage.

CLAUS SPRECKLES GIVES AID.

Subscribes $20,000 for Destitute Farmers of California. The terrible destitution among the small farmers in the southern part of Monterey County, Cal., has led to a general public movement for the relief of the suffering. The farmers are not only out of food, but out of seed to grow crops and have no means of getting relief, as dry weather Vor two years has completely ruined their crops. They have appealed to Gov. Bndd tor aid, but as he has no fund from which he can render aid a special fnnd will be subscribed. Sugar Millionaire Clans Spreckels gave his check for $25,000, and others are contributing in proportion to their wealth.

WOMEN KILLED AT FIRE.

Fatal Blaze in Fashionable Residence District of New York City. Two women were killed and another so severely injured that she will die as the result of a fire in the mansion of CJ» H Raymond at West End nVenue and Sev-enty-third street, New York. Mrs. Raymond, who jumped from a second-story window with Mrs. Underwood, is fatally hurt. C. H. Raymond and the sertants were rescued remen.

Raleigh Is En Route Home.

Admiral Dewey has cabled the Navy Department that the Raleigh started from Manila for New York by way <tt the Suez. • ,

Telegraphic Brevities.

Many discharged soldiers have been employed in New York shoveling snow. The estate of Iceland Stanford of San Francisco' has paid nearly $7,000,000 in debts and legacies. -i The next national encampment of the G. A. R., will be held at Philadelphia Sept. 4 to 9 next. Kate Holden, colored, who was said to * be 117 years old. died in the almshouse at Hartford, Conn; John tVallace, after a year’s imprisonment at Sing Sing, N. Y„ under a ten years’ sentence on a charge of robbery, of which he was innoceut, has been released. It is reported from Chicago that Joseph Letter is at the bottom of a movement for the organization of a milk trust, which is “to regulate the price of milk on the price of butter.” Dnring the first nine months of 1898 there were 2,220 miles of new railroads constructed in the United States. This exceeds the total mileage of any entire year since 1893. A. H. Long, a tenant on the Adam Decker farm, near Nittany, Pa., this year raised 1.228 bushels of corn on scant eight acres of ground. This would be 153)4 bushels to the acre.