Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1899 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK. Publisher. RENSSELAER, - • INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS EECORD

At St. Joseph, Mo., Detective J, S. Billings of the Pinkerton agency recognized Janies Gilmore, John Allen and Harry Howard as the three men who robbed the Great Northern train in Minnesota last November. The Rev. Thomas Mac Adam, aged (18, late of Morrin Presbyterian College, Quebec, was drowned at Toronto. He went for a walk with his pet spaniel. The dog returned and search was made for the professor, when his body was found in the bay. Mrs. William Moncrief of Bridgeton, N. J., fell upon an icy sidewalk. She was unconscious when picked up and carried to her home. The physician’s examination showed that the unfortunate woman had fractured her skull. Paralysis set in and she is totally blind. A recent wedding in North Lebanon township, Pa., brought out a party of calithumpian serenaders, one of whom •was Amos Kreider, a lusty young hornblower. Kreider blew so hard that he injured his throat. Treatment in a Philadelphia hospital failed to relieve him and his death resulted. Official information has reached the general land office in Washington of extensive illegal cutting of timber for market by natives of Alaska, and Commissioner Hermann has directed Special Agent Grnggle, located at Juneau, to make a complete investigation and prompt report with a view to stopping the denudation of the forests. At Akron, Ohio, R. P. Marvin, receiver, sold the property of the Werner Publishing Company at public sale. It was bid in by a committee representing the creditors of the concern. The realty involved in the transaction was $550,000. The reorganization of the Werner company under the same name will take place as soon us the sale is confirmed. Special Officers Joel Necessary, Charles Necessary, Will Freeman and Kam Duncan went to arrest William Flannery in Scott County, Virginia, on a charge of killing a member of the Hatfield gang. Pat Flannery came to the assistance of his brother, when the Necessary brothers were killed and Freeman and Duncan fatally wounded. The Flannery* escaped. Johnson, alius "Harry the Valet,’’ who is considered to be one of the cleverest jewelry thieves in Europe, and who was arrested in London oh Nov. 28 with a man named Lippmann. having in their possession a considerable quantity of the jewelry stolen from the dowager duchess of Sutherland early in October last, on board a train running between Paris and Calais, was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. Scio, Ohio, College received a long-hoped-for endowment when the oil well being drilled on the school campus ‘‘came in” and flowed 150 barrels of the greasy fluid in less than twenty-four hours. Derricks are now being erected all over the college proiterty, the faculty, under whose direction the work is being deme, sparing neither baseball grounds nor tennis courts. It is estimated that the college, which is the largest Methodist educational institution in eastern Ohio, will soon have a daily revenue sufficient to maintain several chairs in honor of nature's benevolence. The Norwegian sealer Paanfagen reports that in July, 1898, while between Greenland and Iceland, an inaccessible ice floe was encountered on which was sighted a heap of ropes and rubbish. This was possibly the wreck of Andree’s balloon. Despite the almost universal belief that Andree has perished in his search for the north pole, Prof. Lachambre of Stockholm thinks that the explorer reached the pole in the balloon which he made for Andree. He says: "No reasonable conclusion can be found as to Andree's safety before the expiration of three years. Andree had plenty of provisions for three years or more.” William Martindale, vice»prcsident of the First National Bank of Emporia, Kan., which failed last November, owing depositors $500,000, has turned his holdings over to Maj. Calvin Hood under a deed of trust. Hood will settle with the depositors for Martindale's debts, and it is believed he can handledhe property so that it will pay dollar for dollar. When the bank failed its president, Charles S. Cross, shot and killed himself at his famous Sunny Slope Hereford farm, near Emporia. Cross left a confession saying he falsified bis reports to the Comptroller and exonerating Vice-President Martindale and the other bank officers.

BREVITIES.

The French imports for 1898 increased $84,633,600, and the exports decreased $90,500,000. Frederick E. Luthy, known as the “policy king of New York,” is dead. He was 66 years old. The eruptions of Mount Vesuvius are attaining great proportions. The flow of lava is unprecedented for recent years, and streams of tire are pouring in all directions. “Lucky” Baldwin has decided to erect an eight-story fireproof bujlding on the property occupied by the old Baldwin Hotel, which was burned recently in San Francisco. Mrs. Sam Smith of Lamont, Okla., blew out her brains with a revolver in the presence of her husband and children. Religious mania is supposed to have led to ; the suicide. K; Emmet Allen, Hugh Breen and John V Richardson, young men of Boise, Idaho, ‘“attempted to hold up an Oregon Short Line pay car near Mountain Home, Idaho, nnd were arrested and placed in jail. . John Russell Young, librarian of the congressional library, died at his residence in Washington, after an illness of several | weeks. J- ln Boston. Thomas W. Lawson bid | $<30,000 for the carnation that bears his | wife’s name and for the 6,000 plants which Floruit Galvip has raised. The offer was accepted. g Michael Rulinskl, who strangled his ’ t wife to death and then set tire to the body and house to cover the crime, committed t. suicide by strangling himself with a bed taken from his bed in the county jail

EASTERN.

Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis of Central Church has been formally called to the pulpit of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. Dr. Chauncey M. Depew was unanimously nominated for United States Senator by the representatives of the New York Legislature. Mrs. Emily J. Mosely, who would have been 102 years old had she lived until April, died at the Home for the Homeless in Utica, N. Y. Arthur Henry Dundon, vice-president of the normal college and one of the bestknown educators in the country, died at New York, aged G 7 years. Abraham W< and Frederick W. Leggett, comjtosing the firm of A. W. & F. W. Leggett, New York, cheese commission merchants, have filed a petition in bankruptcy. Captain A. Wilson Norris, assistant adjutant general on the staff of Gen. I. I*. S. Gobin, commander of the Third brigade, stationed at Augusta, Gs., died suddenly at the Harrisburg, Pa., Club. The Hartwell & Richards Company, jobbers of dry and fancy goods in Providence, 11, 1., has gone into the hands of trustees. Assets are $300,000; liabilities, $130,000, and all claims, it is stak'd, will be paid in full. In a collision between a freight train and a locomotive on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway at Glenside. Pa., several cars were overturned, and John Ruth, brakeman, was pinioned under the timbers and burned to death. Wilton P. Marchbauk, a stenographer, was killed in a fight with Michael McGowan, a conductor on a Thirty-fourth street cross-town horse car in New York. Witnesses declare the conductor kicked trim in the jaw, breaking his neck. The conductor says he pushed the man off and he fell, injuring himself. An attempt was made to burn Jerry Flynn’s hotel, a noted hostelry, at Ontario, Beach. N. Y. A few hours later John Curran, a one-armed constable of the village, was art-ested on the charge of setting fire to the building. Curran admitted starting the fire. Revenge is said to have been Curran’s motive. Judge Arnold in the common pleas court at Philadelphia, in a suit brought to determine whether the shipper or the Adams Express Company should pay for the war revenue stamp to be attached to bills of lading for express packages, decided in favor of the express company and that the shipper must pay for the stamp, Brig. Gen. J. W. Clous, secretary of the Cuban evacuation commission, has arrived in New York from Havana. He says that up to Jan. 1, 71,810 Spaniards had left the island. Seventeen thousand Spanish soldiers remain in Matanzas and 28,000 in Cienfuegos. These will probably all be out of the island by Feb. 15. One of the first actions of the new wire trust after securing possession of the New Castle, Pa., rod mill was to notify the men of a reduction in wages averaging about 10 per cent. The men were also notified that unless the reduction is accepted the rod mill as well as the wire and nail mills will be closed down indefinitely, and the mills nt Beaver Falls, where the men have been receiving less wages than paid in New Castle, will be operated. In Pittsburg the trust has closed the big Oliver mills. The 2,000 employes may be asked to accept a reduction before the plant resumes.

WESTERN.

Edward Galpin, an old soldier, was found dead in the street at Ashtabula, O. A divorce was recently granted in Dawes County, Neb., in exactly 35 minutes from the time proceedings were commenced. The marriage of Miss Edna Maxfield Whited and Fred T. Dubois, ex-United States Senator from Idaho, was celebrated in Chicago. Nearly every member of the Kickapoo tribe in Oklahoma has the smallpox. United States troops are maintaining an armed quarantine. The continuous mill department of the Aetna Standard steel plant at Mingo Junction, near Steubenville, Ohio, burned, with a loss of $50,000. Four children of George Laing of Toledo have died from eating diseased chicken meat. It is supposed the chickens were affected with cholera. Jacob N. Zook of Lawrence, Kan., v.is found dead in a room at the Blossom House at Kansas City, having taken morphine with suicidal intent. The gunboat Yorktown has sailed San Francisco for Manila. She will replenish her coal bunkers at Honolulu and then go to Guam before proceeding to Manila. The Woodman linseed oil mill in Omaha, the largest of the kind in the world, formerly the property of the trust, has been transferred to the reorganized company. In a fight between non-union white miners and negroes in the Springside mining district at Pana, 111., several men o? both sides-are reported to have been badly injured. The fight originated over a white miner taking exceptions to a negro loitering around his house. At Leavenworth, Kan., three hundred miners in the Leavenworth Coal Company's shaft went on a strike. They demand a reduction of the amount of waste deducted, which has been twenty pounds to the 100. The operators refuse to accede to the demand. T. D. Leader, aged 23, a school teacher and prominently connected at McComb, committed suicide at a hotel in Findlay, Ohio. He took a large dose of morphine, wrapped the bed blanket around his body and then shot himself through the head. 11l health was the cause. Four prisoners escaped from the Starke County workhouse at Canton, Ohio. They removed twenty bricks from the wall, making an opening about two feet square. After removing the bricks a sheet was tied to the heating pipes and the prisoners dropped to the ground. Walt£!>J?lade has served two terms in the New \fcxico penitentiary for burglary, but in pis long career he never met with just such experience as awaited him recently at Mrs. Little’s millinery store in Colorado Springs. He found 1 cent in the money drawer. He was so disgusted that he .reported at police headquarters next day and confessed. A bold attempt to steal twenty-one cars of wheat was nipped by clever detective work and prompt and decisive action on the part of officials of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. The grain was mostly the property of the 8. Y. Hyde Elevator Company and the W. W. Cargill Company of La Crosse, Wis., and

the cars were diverted from their original consignees by the substitution of bogus way bills. Just about the time the deal was nearing consummation the swindlers weakened. By the breaking of an 13-foot flywheel in the engine room of the Deering Harvester Company’s works in Chicago, one man was instantly killed and another narrowly escaped injury. Nels Ecklnnd, the assistant night engineer, was mangled by pieces of flying iron and was dead when picked np. There were several of the employes of the company in the building at the time the wheel broke. The breaking of the flywheel is unaccounted for. The wheel was comparatively new. Considerable excitement has been created by rich gold discoveries twenty-five miles cast of Vernal, Utah., in the Blue mountains, near the Colorado line. The discovery was made by “Doc” McDonald, a veterinary surgeon of the Ninth cavalry. He served in the Spanish war and while at New York recovering from fever met a man named Johnson, who had formerly lived in eastern Utah and who told him that he had found rich float, describing the location. When the Ninth cavalry returned to Fort Duchesne. McDonald commenced to search for the vein.

SOUTHERN.

At Curdsville, Ky.. Daniel Jennings, a tobacco grower, and his son Samuel were drowned in Cedar run. 1 The temperance advocates of Lexiugton, Ky., Who endeavored to secure evidence against saloon men violating the Sunday closing law were attacked and badly beaten by the liquor dealers. The Arlington' Hotel and Sanitarium at Marlin, Texas, was burned, causing a l-«s of about $60,000, with $20,000 insurance. There were a number of invalids in the hotel, all of whom escaped safely. In a street duel at Boyles, Miss., two men. Dr. Harris and a Mr. Allen, were killed and Mr. Dougherty fatally injured by John, Hace and Frank Williams. Allen was a bystander. The trouble was the result of an old feud. Joe Bates, a Mena, Ark., farmer, living near the Washita river, started to church with his family in a wagon. In attempting to ford the river the wagon was swept away and his wife, child and a young woman were drowned. At Memphis, Tenn., fire destroyed the wholesale and retail dry goods house of the J. S. Menken Company. The building, a five-story structure, was valued at $150,000. The stock was valued at about $030,000. Assistant Fire Chief Ryan was badly burned about the eyes in forcing an entrance to the building. John J. Irvine, colored, formerly Circuit Court Clerk at Chattanooga, Tenn., is at the bead of a movement among colored men to colonize the negroes of the South in the West. An application for a charter has been filed. It is the purpose of the promoters to ask Congress to set asi«(F public lands in the West for the use of the colony. A branch of the society will be established in every Southern city. It has become known that the Illinois Central Railroad Company, through its chief engineer, has as>ed one of the largest contracting firms operating in the South to make a bid on the cost of moving the Stuyvesant docks, wharves and terminals at New Orleans, including the sl,000,000 elevator, to Avondale, twelve miles up the Mississip pi river, and above the city limits. This action is the result of the freeze-out policy of the Orleans levee board and the City Council in refusing the Illinois Central adequate facilities for reaching its present terminals. The report has it that a $5,000,000 terminal will be established at Avondale.

WASHINGTON.

The Government refuses to provide clothing for Nebraska soldiers returning from Manila. Commodore John W. Philip succeeds Rear Admiral Bunce in command of the Brooklyn navy yard.' Andrew Carnegie promises to give $250,000 for a free library for residents of Washington if Congress will spend an equal sum in purchasing a site. Secretary Long has ordered Captain Leary, at present commanding the San Francisco, to proceed to the island of Guam and assume the duties of naval governor. Nelson Dingley of Maine, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and framer of the present tariff law, died at Washington, D. C. His death was due to heart failure following an attack of pneumonia. Spain is preparing to resume diplomatic relations with the United States. The French ambassador has been charged with Hie duty of finding out how various prominent Spaniards would be received as minister at Washington. Favorable report has been made to the Senate on a bill providing for two revenue cutters on the great lakes to replace the Algonquin, Onondaga and Gresham, which were ordered to the Atlantic coast during the Spanish war. The cost is fixed at $165,000 each. President McKinley has appointed a special commission to investigate conditions in the Philippines and to keep him informed of the needs of the islands until Congress amftl have made some disposition of them. The members of the commission are: Rear Admiral Dewey, Maj. Gen. Otis, Col. Charles Denby, Prof. J. G. Schurman of Cornell University and Jlean C. Worcester of the University of Michigan. __________

FOREIGN.

A great battle has been fought in the Yemen division of Arabia. The Turkish troops stormed and captured the insurgent position at Shanel. About 4,000 insurgents and 2,000 Turks were killed or wounded. William Lapeer, a soldier of the South Dakota volunteers, was the victim of a queer revenge on the part of a rich Filipino with whom he had quarreled. The native had the blood of a leper injected into Lapeer's arm. Zola has been sentenced at Paris to pay a fine of 100 francs and 500 francs damages for accusing M. Judet, a writer of Le Petit Journal, of using forged documents in attacking M. Zola's father. M. Judet claimed 10,000 francs damages. Emperor Nicholas, according to a dispatch to the London Daily News from Odessa, is planning to meet Emperor Francis Joseph, Emperor William and President Faure early in the spring to impress upon them his disarmament proposals. Miss Stewart, a Boston girl who ried Count Rosemont de Rouge Aix and deserted him a few minutes after the ceremony, when she discovered that he

had only married her because her father bad agreed to pay" bis debts, baa been found in Vienna, where she was employed as a gov'erness. Hong Kong mail advices say the raising of large bodies of troops in China is taken to indicate that the empress dowager and her advisers are preparing some important movement next spring at the latest. So far, according to reliable statistics. there are some 130,000 men in and around Peking and Tien-Tsin. An imperial irade has been issued at Constantinople ordering the purchase of 102 Krupp field guns and 30,000 shrapnel shells. This is undoubtedly the outcome of the act of Emperor William on his return from' the Orient in presenting the Sultan of Turkey with a perfect model of the most modern Krupp field gun introduced into the German army.

IN GENERAL.

A chewing gnm trust, with a capital between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000, has been practically completed. An international thread trust, which will take in the principal mills of the United States and England, is reported to be nearly formed. The last year has been an unfortunate one for the Government system of railways in Canada, the net deficit of the year's operation being $212,460. A syndicate of bankers has been formed to buy the whole of this year's crop of Havana tobacco and eventually to purchase every Cuban tobacco plantation. A serious fire visited the town of Bridgewater, N. S. About thirty business places were destroyed, including the postoffice, music hall, savings bank, hotel and telegraph office. A number of residences are also reported burned. An extraordinary case of lethargy, or catalepsy, is reported from St. Jean Baptiste ward, Montreal. It is that of Miss Eva Roch, a young lady of 20, the daughter of Antoine Roch, a corporation employe in the road department. She has been apparently asleep about twenty days. There are 1,288,163 telephones in use in the world, the service covering miles. The number of instruments in the United States is placed at 772,627, while Germany has only 151,101; Great Britain and Ireland, 69,645; Sweden, 56,500; Canada, 33,500; Switzerland, 28,846; France, 27.736; Norway, 20,678. Michigan Central express No. 15, west bound, was thrown from the track at the interlocking switch at the (Rand Trunk crossing at Welland. Ont., on account of the air brakes on the train refusing to work. The engine, tender, two baggage cars and two passenger coaches were ditched, the engine being badly wrecked. Three train men were injured. Many Klondikers have been killed and at least three steamers wrecked by ice jams in the Yukon river below Dawson. A letter received from Fort Yukon states that John Dobbins of Victoria and Mr. and Mrs. Horsfall of Seattle perished while en route from Fort Yukon to a point thirty miles below there. The same letter states that three steamers are stuck on the bars and are partially wrecked between Fort Yukon and Circle City. They are the Robert Kerr, Seattle and Tacoma. All three will be total wrecks. W. J. Lyons of Sonora, Mexico, has gone to Indian Territory to escort the Delaware Indians and a portion of the Creeks and Cherokees to Mexico, where they will settle on lands conceded to them by the Government of that republic. All the Delawares will settle in Sonora, the Creeks go to Guadalajara and the Cherokees to Durango. On the arrival of the colonists at their destinations four representative men of each tribe will accompany Lyons to the City of Mexico for a visit to President Diaz, where the Indians will be welcomed with appropriate ceremonies and receive the concessions accorded them.

IL G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “Throughout, the country was never as strong financially, as even governors of London banks admit, one stating that as London had financed America heretofore, now for the first time New York> is financing Europe. Wheat and cotton stiH go out largely. Europe is buying because it has needs, and New York is lending to Europe nobody knows how many millions liecause there is for the present no need to call loans. The receipt of $2,500,000 gold from Australia is announced at San Francisco. Americans are in'the humor to invest in their own country, and have a great amount of money to put out without recalling any of their loans to Europe, so that the heaviest transactions ever known on the stock exchange hare occurred during the week. Failures for the week have been 318 in the United States, against 349 last year, and 24 in Canada, against 45 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle,' common to prime, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice; $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 72c; corn. No. 2,37 cto 38c; oats, No. 2,27 c to 29c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 20c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25;’ wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 81c; rye. No. 2,55 cto 57c. Cincinnati— Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 60c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs. $2.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 81c to 32c; rye, 56c to 58c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2,56 c to 57c; clover seed, okl, $3.95 to $4.05. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 67c to 60c; corn. Ns*. 3,33 cto 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 31c; rye, No. 1,56 cto 58c; barley, No. 2. 44dto 53c; pork, mess, $9.50 to SIO.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; ‘ wheat. No. 2 red, 80c to 82c; corn, No. 2,43 cto 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 36c; butter, creamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, Westera. 20c to 22c. ’ 1

MR. BINGLEY IS GONE.

PASSING OF THE REPUBLICAN LEADER. Author of the Existing Tariff Law Dies at Washington of Heart Failare, Resulting from PneumoniaSketch of His Life and Services. Nelson Dingley of Maine, leader of the Republican side on the floor of the House of Representatives and representing the Second congressional district of Maine in that body, died at Washington, D. 0.,'0f heart failure, resulting from extreme weakness due to pneumonia. He was unconscious for many hours, and death came quietly without consciousness being regained. There were present nt the time Mrs. Dingley, Miss Edith Dingley, Messrs. E. N. and A. H. Dingley, sons of the deceased; James C. Hooe, an intimate friend of the family; Dr. Deale, one

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of the physicians who had been attending him through his illness, and the two nurses. To within a few hours before his death the family firmly believed, as it has throughout his illness, that Mr. Dingley would recover, and it was only when it became apparent that he was dying that its members gathered at his bedside. (■'ketch- of His Life. Nelson Dingley, Jr., Governor of Maine 1874-5 and member of Congress from the Second congressional district of Maine since 1881, was born in Durham, Androscoggin County, Me., Feb. 15, 1832. Entering Waterville college (now Colby university) in 1851, he remained there a year and a half and then became a student at Dartmouth college, from which institution he was graduated in 1855 with high rank as a scholar, debater and writer. After leaving college Mr. Dingley studied law in 1855-6 with Merrill & Fessenden, in Auburn, to which city his parents had removed while he was in college, and in the latter year he was admitted to the bar. Instead of entering upon the practice of law he decided to become a journalist,„ for which profession he always manifested a decided taste. In September, 1856, he purchased the Lewiston Journal, of which he had been practically the editor while studying law and to which in 1861 he added a daily edition. The paper rapidly increased in circulation and influence under his management. In 1861, at the age of 29, he was elected Representative from Auburn to the State Legislature, in which body he at once took high rank; was re-elected in 1862 and chosen Speaker of the House at the session of 1863. In 1863 he removed to Lewiston, .vhere a few months after he was elected to the Legislature, and with the opening of the legislative session of 1864 was unanimously re-elected Speaker. In 1873 Mr. Dingley was nominated as the Republican candidate for Governor of Maine by a vote of two to one against two popular opponents and was elected by about 10,000 majority. In 1874 he was re-elected by over 11,000 majority, declining a third nomination in 1875. He was one of the delegatcs-at-large from Maine to the Republican national convention in 1876 and served on the committee on resolutions and was one of the sub-commit-tee of five who drafted the platform. He actively participated in the presidential campaign of 1876 and in the State conventions of 1877-8-9. In 1879-80 he was chairman of the Republican executive committee. In 1881 Mr. Dingley was nominated by the Republicans of the Second congressional district of Maine to fill the vacancy in Congress caused by the resignation of William P. Frye. He was elected by a majority of over 5,000, nearly twice as large as ever before given to any candidate in that district. During his early terms in the House Mr. Dingley was active in work for the revival of American shipping.

In June, 1886, Mr. Dipgley was re-elect-ed to the Fiftieth Congress and again elected to the Fifty-first Congress in 1888, to the Fifty-second in 1890, the Fiftythird in 1893, the Fifty-fourth in 1894 and the Fifty-fifth in 1896 by large and increased majorities. In the Fifty-sec-nnd and Fifty-third Congresses he was an active member of the Committee on Appropriations. In forming his cabinet prior to entering on the duties of chief executive March 4, 1897, President McKinley tendered the position of Secretary of the Treasury to Mr. Dingley, but he declined the offer, preferring to remain in his position a* chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and floor leader of the Republican majority of the House. Under his lead the House within sixteen days after the Fifty-fifth Congress was convened in extraordinary session on the 15th of March, 1897, by President McKinley, passed a bill revising the tariff. Mr. Dingley was a Congregationalist in religion. He was married June 11, 1857, to Miss Salome McKenney of Auburn’ Me. They have had six children—Henry M., Charles L. (deceased), Edward N., Arthur H„ Albert G. and Edith Dingley.

Tuck Cartoon Suppressed.

The last number of Paris Figaro received at Berlin has been confiscated by the police. It contains a reproduction of a cartoon from the New York Puck, representing the Czar’s peace conference as a congress of animals, one of whom bears the features of the Kaiser.

Money for Chicago Postoffice.

Secretary Gage has recommended that an appropriation of $35,000 be made by this Congress for the purpose of building an annex to the temporary postoffice at Chicago. // ■> ■

THE STATE LEGISLATURES.

Thursday. In Montana W. A. Clark gained in the senatorial contest, receiving 21 votes, while Conrad fell to 35. In New York the Republican legislative caucus unanimously nominated Dr. Chauncey Kl. Depew for United States Senator. In Michigan the Pingree and administration legislators clashed over appointment of committee and result was compromise. The fourth ballot in California was taken, leaving Burns and Grant tied, with 26 votes each—Burns having gained two. A deadlock is predicted. . In West Virginia the wrangle for seats to gain balance of power began. Committee appointed which will in all probability unseat two Republicans in House. Republicans will retaliate in Senate. Friday. In Kansas the House of Representatives had a heated debate over the proposition to build a fence to keep off lobbyists. The Montana Legislature voted again for Senator without effecting a material change in the relative position of candidates. In North Dakota the Republicans were unable to select senatorial candidates in caucus, votes being divided among five candidates. In California the Legislature in joint session took four votes on United States Senator without changing result of the day before. State Senator Potter introduced a bill in Minnesota Legislature dividing insurance companies into three classes and fixing license rates. In the Massachusetts House of Representatives resolutions of confidence in the administration, urging ratification of the Paris peace treaty, were introduced. Saturday. In the Nebraska Legislature six candidates in the senatorial fight claim they have a fair chance to win. In Michigan Gov. Pingree announced his intention of holding up appropriations until the Atkinson bill is passed by the Senate. In the California Legislature the senatorial deadlock remains unbroken. Four ballots were takffl; with a gain of only one vote for U. S. Grant. In the West Virginia House of Representatives the Democratic plan to unseat Via failed because of defection of two members. The senatorial situation is still chaotic.

Monday. In Tennessee Benton McMillin was inaugurated as Governor. In Michigan a resolution to delay the Atkinson bill was defeated. The Nevada Legislature convened at noon. Six candidates are announced for senatorial election. The California Legislature appointed a committee to begin immediately an investigation of the bribery charges against U. S. Grant. In Wisconsin the supporters of all the candidates for Senator make confident claims and are working energetically securing pledges. In Montana the grand jury took up the bribery charges in the senatorial fight. On/the joint ballot taken W. A. Clark of Butte gained two votes. In the New York Legislature Senator Raines announced his intention to amend the liquor law so as to prohibit the sale of liquor with food on Sunday. T uesday. Chauncey M. Depew was named for Senator by the Republican majority in New York. Julius Caesar Burrows was chosen United States Senator by the Legislature of Michigan. Cushman K. Davis was elected to the United States Senate by the Minnesota Legislature. At Jefferson City, Mo., the Legislature re-elected Francis M. Cockrell to the United States Senate. At Augusta, Me., Eugene Hale was reelected Senator by concurrent vote of the two branches of the Legislature. The Indiana Legislature elected Albert J. Beveridge as United States. Senator, the two houses voting separately. Both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature balloted for United States Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge being' their choice. Votes were taken, but there was no choice, for Senator in North Dakota, Utah, Montana, Washington, California and Delaware. Wednesday. In Arkansas Gov. Dan W. Jones and * other State officers were inaugurated. In West Virginia the Senate and Governor continue to ignore the organization of the House. Ip Minnesota the Legislature in joint session passed a resolution urging early ratification of the peace treaty. In Michigan the Pingree and anti-Pin-gree forces had a fight over increasing an election committee. The result is claimed as a victory by the anti-Pingree faction. In Wisconsin the Republican caucus took three ballots for nominee for United States Senator and adjourned. Quarles led on the third ballot, with Stephenson second. In California, Delaware, North Dakota, Montana, Washington, Utah and Nebraska joint ballots for United States Senator were taken, without material change in the standing of the candidates. In Pennsylvania the first joint ballot for United States Senator was cast, without gain for Quay. The opposition became indignant at the rulings of Lieut. Gov. Gobin and formulated a protest. In New York, Indiana, Maine, MisMassachusetts, Minnesota and Michigan the Legislatures in joint session formally elected the Senators chosen in separate sessions the day before.

News of Minor Note.

The Philadelphia mint has begun the coinage of $40,000,000 of gold bullion. An Austrian inventor has discovered a method of exploding bombs by the action of light. , Commercial bodies of California have decided to ask Government tariff protection for the fruit industry of the United States. , ' . The North Carolina Legislature has passed resolutions demanding that ho colored men be given political positions in that State.