Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — Page 2

JASPER lim DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK. Publisher. R£MSIU», - - INDIANA.

SUMMARY OP NEWS.

At Rogers' pass. B. C_ on the liar of the Canadian Pacific Itailnad. a large ■ovdide swept away a roundhouse and bark'd nine employes a € the railway. Two were rescued alive. The nest perished. The pres*, mill of the Ohio Powder Company's works, located about four miles north of Youngstown, exploded with terrific force, lulling two employes. David Evans and Daniel Davis, and totally demolishing the building and ma«-hineiy. , The Columbus, ffdhtoa and Southern Railroad Company, writb a capital stork of has teen inrorporated in Columbus. Ohio. The line will run through Franklin. Fairfield. Pickaway. Hocking, Vinton and Jackson counties, Ohio. A Chinese per rent railway loan of ISAMMKW has been arranged, unconditionally guaranteed by China, and specially secured on the Chinese' northern railways. China has given Ureal Britain a pl*dg<* that these railways will not be alienated to any foreign power. Ex-Congressman Torn L Johnson, street railway owner and manager of the late Henry George's campaign for Mayor of New York, announcx-s that he intends to Hose up his vast business interests and devote lyiusrlf henceforth to carrying out the theories of Henry George. - Mayor Quincy of Boston says that in pursuance of the orders issued recently for a reduction in the salaries of all city depart incuts be will srt the example and will jwrforin the duties of Mayor at a reduction of 7% per cent from the schedule. The salary is SW.W, but he will work for $9,230. The most alarming reports have been received from It he Congo state. It Is rumored that the troops of Maj. Lothaire. the Belgian commander on the I'pper Congo, bare joined the rebels and that be himself is wounded and a prisoner. The Congo state aglWitin have received no definite news. The cruiser Philadelphia sailed from S»u I tiego, bound, according to the oHW-ial tinnoumemenl, for Samoa. She should, according to all calculations, arrive at Apia about the Ist of March. The Philadelphia is fully equal in offensive potter to the combined force of the two warships now in the harbor of Apia. The British Government has prohibited the withdrawal of the private fortune of the late Empress of Austria, amounting to fl.ttfMW#, from the Bank of England until the death duties are paid. It is claimed, on the other hand, that the empress having been a foreign sovereign, her estate is exempt from such taxation. At Wichita. Kan_ the other night seven convicts awaiting transfer to the penitentiary sawed their way through four steel barred doors and gained their liberty. Ed Stewart was sentenced to fifty years for murder. Bill Thatcher. Pearl Rhode. “Black Jim." Jim Murphy. Harry Allen and Charles Howard were grand larceny convicts. -Howard returned the next morning because of cold weather. There are now pending in the War Department six cases of American soldiers charged with manslaughter, and in two of these the* death penalty has been imposed ‘ They have not yet. however, passed under fiual review, si there is a possibility of a mitigation of the sv-ntcuies. There are a great number of case* of desertion on record, mainly among the volunteers, and it is said that the War Department has shown surprising leniency in dealing with these men, not cone lacing given a death sentence. Thomas Reynolds, a well-known resident of Belleville. X. J.. became suddenly insane and ran through the streets attempt ing wholesale murder. Two of Reynold*' victims, Mrs. Mary Coyne and a little girl named Manning, will die from wounds inflicted by the frenzied man. When the mania seized him Reynolds armed himself with a knife and a bale stick and charged down the main street. People- fled in all directions. Efforts were made to oren«ower hint, but for a time he successfully resisted. Mrs. Coyne Ml while attempting to get ant of his way and was struck twice. He next set upon the Manning girl with his cinb aqd left her unconscious. He struck a child or James Flanuigan and left her bleeding on the sidewalk. He next struck Mrs. Cumiskey and broke her arm. A score of men finally seized him.

NEWS NUGGETS.

The I nion Savings Kiak of San Jaw. Cal.. has su^pt-ndol, v Sir Francis Clare Ford, recently British ambassador at itonc, is dead in Paris. By resolution the Missouri House declared for election of United Stales Bnators by i»]«ibr rote. The Comptroller of the Currency has received a telcjcrani announcing the failure of the First National Bank of Russell. Kan. A snowslide a mile lonic near CokeviUe. Wro., buried aeveral men and teams. All the men were taken out alive with the exception of Bart Handy, who was deml when found. Capmdn William P. Linn, who was in command of Company L, First Missouri volunteers, during the recent war. died in St. Lotus of a complication of diseases contracted at CUckamang*. Poet so Prince, Hayti. suffered from an earthquake shock and a fire. The fire originated near the president's palace and several dwelling blocks were destroyed before it could be checked. Bishop Santander at Havana has served notice that no Protestant print can take active part in the ceremonies over the graves of the Maine's dead who are bnried in the Cristobal Colon cemetery. Sixty -seven cadets of the mOHary academy at Chester. Pa_ were poisoned, presmnaMv from eating turkey. All are now The Sixty-ninth New Turk rolauiwr rr-ginwxL. whA has been a ramp at Haanfnle, AJa„ has returned to New York, where the men were gi ren anrai hoA boat brioaging to Abram Jnnna was Bner'ww'galng* «T Astoriiu •crons Tonne’s river, and Baer and Light were drowned. Jnnna climbed upon the

EASTERN.

Thuidm C. Search of Philadelphia has been re-elected president of the National ft marlatinn of Manufacturers. It in announced that the Federal Steel Company of Chicago has purchased the Puritan coke works, located at Latrobe, Pa. The Philadelphia North American has been sold to a syndicate represented by R. E. Dorr of the N>w York Mail and ExThe New York World says that the time fixed for the wedding of William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and Miss Virginia Fair ia Tuesday. April 4. The carpet factory of William Judge & Bros., Front street and Columbus avenue, Philadelphia, was gutted by fire. Loss estimated at SIOO,OOO, covered by insurance. Charles M t-Lean, who soys he Is the “healer'* known as Schlatter all over the West until bis disappearance and reported death in New Mexico in 1897, is now in Brooklyn. X. Y. Close competition in business and inability *o collect money due him from customers caused August Branding, a retail oil dealer of Carnegie, Pa., to commit suicide on his child’s grave. Louis J. Snore, who stole $20,000 from his employers in New York in order that he might surround bis dying wife with luxuries, has l»een sentenced to seven years in Sing Sing prison. Disabled by an accident to her steering gear during a trip up the sound, the steam ranalboat J. C. Austin of New York ran on the rocks off Norwalk, Conn., and sank. Fire persons lost their lives.Theodore Kirsehner, aged <SO years, shot anti instantly killed his wife Paulina, aged 45 years, in their house at Newtonville, N. Y„ by the careless handling of a gun, whirb was accidentally discharged.

At a meeting of the directors of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad in Boston the first dividend since 1893 was declared. It is of 1 per cent on the preferred stock. The net earnings for 1898 were about $140,000. - A gang of tr/enty'-six track repair men were working on the railroad at the western opening of the Galiitzin tunnel, near Altoona, Pa., when they were struck by a train. One man was Instantly killed, one died in the Altoona hospital and sixteen were seriously injured. While at work on one of the boilers of the cruiser New York, in dry dock at the Brooklyn navy yard, six men were scalded through the unexpected turning on of steam in the boiler. One of the men, Fireman John Shea, is perhaps fatally injured. The others are expected to recover. The curfew bell of Vineland, N. J., is ■ steam whistle. It blew for the first time at 9 o'clock the other night, nine consecutive times. The curfew law was not observed. Hundreds of children who ordinarily would have been in bed at that hour thronged the streets to laugh at the whistle. They were not arrested.

WESTERN.

At Fostorin. Ohio, Charles Stewart, aged 19, was killed by a tailing tree. William Hall Marlancl was consecrated bishop of the diocese of Sacramento, Cal. The Oklahoma Legislature has passed a bill changing the nape of “D” County to Dewey. A receiver has been named for the Cincinnati stork and grain brokerage tirm of W. J. Odell & Co. J. A. Wheeler of Chicago, a traveling man for Kami. McNally & Co., dropped dead at Cincinnati. Patrick Grady and his sister, Mrs. Anaa Clague. were killed by a Big Four train at Cleveland, Ohio. Julius Yortricde, aged 80, editor of the German Express, and probably the oldest newspaper man in Ohio, died at Toledo. In a snowslide, which occurred at Apex, Cok>., Mrs. IV. H. Kudolpli and her two children, aged 2 and 4 years, were killed. At Dayton,. Ohio, William 11. Snyder, aged 19. sent a bullet through his brain because Stella Seibold would not marry him. A valuable mahogany stock belonging to J. Kayner in Chicago was destroyed by fire-. The damage will amount to $200,000. Six prisoners escaped from the county jail at Canton. Ohio. They were aided by a trusty, who left their cell doors unlocked. At Newark. Ohio, Charles Moore, indicted for murder, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to the reformatory. At St. Clairvilic, Ohio, the Crossland building, occupied by a drug store and law offices, was destroyed by tire. Loss $15,000, insurance 910,000. At Canton, Ohio, Mrs. Charles Baum weat to the barn, leaving un 8-year-old girl in the house. When she returned the child was burned to a crisp. Jerome Colton & Co., stock dealers in Cincinnati, have brought suit for $75,000 damages against an association of stock dealers of the city for an alleged boycott. A south-bound fnight on the Valley Railroad was wrecked at Sandyville, 0., by the dropping of a brake beam. Grant Klutz, a brakeman, was crushed to death. Cleveland waiter girls have formed a union ami affiliated with the Knights of Labor. The name of their organization is the “Lady Waiters’ Industrial Association.”

In a quarrel at Ardmore, I. T., over a trivial matter, John Edwards shot and killed Richard McSwain. McSwain had attempted to stab Edwards. Both men are prominent. F. A. Toney entered Kessler’s saloon in West Toledo and shot down Thomas Black, a well-known employe of the Michigan Central Railway. An old grudge appears to have led to the crime. At Wrllsviile. Mo., Arthur Kempenski and George Williams quarreled over the former’s horses trespassing on the latter’s premises, whereupon Williams shot Kempraaki in the head, kilting him instantly. Practically all the apples west of the AHrghaaies. it is announced, are cornered in Indianapolis by J. L. Keach and his associates. The stock is in _cotd storage ddhd is being held for further advance in price. Vi ' The territorial statehood convention at Guthrie, O. T.. resolved for a constitutional convention in June and a State elect km in October on a proposition to go to Congress and demand admission in December. A marvelous strike of almost pure gold kt reported in the Isabella mine at Cripple Check. The vein in sight is said to be six fact wide, twenty feet long and six inches

thick, add tie ore assays nearly $300,000 to the ton. . h At Lon Angeles, Cal., A. C. Bradley, the old soldier who shot Gov. Smith, of the Soldiers’ Home, at Santa Monica, has been found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon, but recommended to the mercy of the court. William Drew (colored) died in a Cincinnati hospital from a pistol shot wound received from Daniel Barnett, a white man, who was Drew’s landlord. Barnett is under arrest charged with murder. A notice to quit caused tbe tragedy. A south-bound'Ohio Southern passenger train was wrecked near Coalton, Ohio. Engineer Wright was kilted, the fireman fatally scalded and six passengers hurt, Mrs. Rapp seriously. The whole train was derailed aild-rollcd down the bank. In Cincinnati, the store of L. M. Prince was robbed, and the proprietor foots up his loss at $3,285. The plunder includes $1,700 worth of opera glasses, a large amount of other merchandise and $25 in cash. In a raid the police took in eleven crooks after a desperate fight. Rev. Myron Winslow Reed, pastor of the Broadway Temple, at Denver, and at different times pastor at Milwaukee, Indianapolis and other cities in the East and South, died at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver, after a protracted illness due to a general breaking down of the system. Arthur Brown jumped from a sixthstory window of the building at Ninth and Washington avenue, St. Louis, after cutting his throat with a pocket knife, shortly before noon the other (lay. He died at the city dispensary twenty minutes later. He was married only the previous day.

Willie Nagengast, 11 years old, of Cleveland, died in great agony of lockjaw. Several days ago he was vaccinated. Three or four days before death the arm swelled painfully and symptoms of lockjaw set in. There is smallpox in that city and many people will now be afraid to be vaccinated. Dr. L. B. Tuckerman says the death was caused by letting the boy get dirt and filth in the vaccination sore. When John Connliin, a wealthy merchant of Fort Scott, Kan., died he left a will declaring that Miss Mary Margaret Connliin of Chicago was not his daughter, but the daughter of his divorced wife. In the will he expressed a desire that neither of the two should ever receive a cent of his property. Notwithstanding this, the young woman entered a claim for the entire estate as next of kin, and gets of the estate, city and mining property. The official count of the vote cast throughout the grand dominion of Ohio fdr Pythian grand lodge officers resulted as follows: Grand chancellor, John C. Geyer, Piqua; viee-graml chancellor, Josiah Catrow, Germantown; grand prelate, L. W. Ellenwood, Marietta; grand master of exchequer, George B. Donavin, Delaware; grand master-at-arms, Charles J. Deekmau, Malvern; grand inner gnard, S. N. McCloud, Marysville; grand outer guard, Charles E. Brown, Cincinnati.

SOUTHERN.

Tbe school house and church at Sumner City, Tenn., were burned to tire ground. Five residences and the large store of Babbington Brothers were destroyed by fire at New Orleans. Loss about $20,000, little insurance. At Hillsboro, Texas, the Windsor Commercial hotels were destroyed by fire. Two guests, Ross Leary and John Grizzle, perished in the flames. Emil Messingschlnger, 35, living at Moruingview, Ky., while nnder the influence of liquor, shot and fatally wounded N. Baker at Kenton Station. To escape being run over by a train, Mrs. T. Herbert and Mrs. Thomas Woodford jumped off a twenty-foot trestle at Cardiff, Ala., and both were badly hurt. The memory of Franklin Buchanan, who commanded the first iron-clad, the Merrimac, will be honored by the erection in Norfolk, Va., or Baltimore of a magnificent monument. The home of James Skeens on Gnyandotte river, not far fsoin Hamlin, W. Va., was attacked last midnight by four masked and armed men. Black Skeens was killed, James Skeens was mortally wounded and his wife and babe and Ambrose Spurlock were seriously wounded. Tbe tragedy is the result of an old feud in that mountainous district.

WASHINGTON.

The Senate has passed without opposition from any quarter, Senator Culloua’s bill placing John M. Palmer of Ifltnois on the pension roll at tile rate of SIOO per month. Former Attorney General Augustus H. Garland was stricken with’apoplexy while addressing the United States Suprem£ Court at Washington, and died within ten minutes. “Guilty under both charges; sentence, dismissal from the service; no recommendation for mercy or executive clemency.” This is the verdict of the military court before which Brig. Gen. Charles F. Eagan, commissary general of the United States army, was tried.

FOREIGN.

News has been received from Teheran, Persia, that the shah is much alarmed in consequence of the famine that prevails in the interior provinces. Measures of immediate relief nre under consideration. A Constantinople correspondent says: “A plot to assassinate the Sultan has been denounced by a conspirator, but the police, by too precipitately arresting four of the plotters, enabled several others to escape.” Passengers on the mail steamer Aorangi, from Australia, say that the steamer Southern Cross, with her band of intrepid explorers under Captain Borchrevink, has. left Hobart on her voyage toward the Antarctic. The robbery of over £OO,OOO from Parr’s Bank in London took a dramatic tuen when the chairman of the bank announcf,ed at a meeting of the shareholders that £40,000 in the biggest notes had been returned to the bank by post. The Bulgarian, cabinet has resigned, owing, it is believed, to the discontent aroused by the adherence of Stoiloff, the premier, to the schemes for Macedonian autonomy, which are considered to be antagonistic to Bulgarian aspirations for obtaining predominant influence in Macedonia. ' The Norwegian bark Danea, from Cardiff for Pernambuco, was towed into Queenstown harbor disabled, after battling fifty-one days with storms in the Atlantic. Five different steamers had had her in tow, but in every cose the hawser broke and the would-be rescuer was

obltped to abandon the bark. The ere# was almost dead with exhaustion when finally succored. The steamer Aorangi from Australasia brings details of a terrible cyclone which swept -the south seas, devastating villages, wrecking shipping and causing many deaths. At Samara), tn-New Guinea, the gale w n terrific. Cocoa palms went down by hundreds and were carried to sea. Torrents of fain fell. Twelve vessels were wrecked. The ketches Bebem and Baidan were lost off Goodenough Island and Mr. Kennedy, manager of the New Gninea Development Company, was drowned, together with his crew, save one boy. The cotter Ivy was lost in the Kossman group and Captain Godel and crew were drowned. In the Solomons the hurricane did most damage, whole villages being destroyed. Hundreds of cocoa plantations were-uprooted and yam patches leveled. Over five hundred natives are reported to have been killed.

IN GENERAL.

Grand Chief Powell, of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, who has been attending the arbitration at Toronto of disputes between the Grand Trunk Railway and its operators, says that all the questions have been practically settled in a way decidedly in favor of the men. Five of the crew of the halibut fishing schooner St. Lawrence, which was wrecked off Piper Bay, Alaska, were brought to Victoria, B. C., on the Rosalie. The seven men aboard the St. Lawrence got ashore and managed to live for ten days, when they were rescued by the sloop Nora. According to a dispatch from Port Arthur, the Russian post in the Liau-Tong peninsula of China, bad water is causing terrible mortality among the Russian troops. Two hundred and fifteen men died during the mouths of November and December, and the nverage mortality is now four deaths daily. The accounts of the contributions from various countries to the Pope’s Peter’s pence during 1898 have been made public. They show that the United States led in the subscriptions, with $142,200; Great Britain and her colonies, $125,000; France, $39,000; Italy, $74,000; Austria, SOO,OOO, and Germany, $30,000. On oue of the Bass islands, in Lake Erie, has lived a family named Robson. A young child died. Preparations were made to convey the remains to the Canadian mainland. The entire family, with the hired man, set out iu a small boat. The boat has been found badly battered and this leads islanders to believe •that the little craft was jammed to pieces by an ice floe and that the funeral party went down to death in the lake. The fact that the United States armored cruiser Brooklyn did not enter port at St. Thomas, D. W. 1., after appearing off Charlotte Amalie, was a great disappointment to the people there. The pilot who informed the Brooklyn that the health regulations provided that she would be quarantined for fourteen days, which is said to have made the warship return to Cuba, is blamed for his unauthorized action. It is added that there is no doubt the Brooklyn would have been passed by the doctor if she had entered the harbor.

R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “The country is in a stronger position than a week ago. Remarkable strength in its industries is an important but not the chief element. Public confidence in the business of the' country and in its securities has been tested to an unusual extent by the sudden fall in stocks and the subsequent rise. Confidence in the value of wheat, corn and cotton has been shown by the markets, and at rising prices the world buys because it has to buy. The vast supply of unemployed capital has been shown impressively and the new and startling independence of foreign money markets fixes attention. The lumber movement is unusually large for the season, with prices of low grade sharply advancing. Railroad earnings and tonnage have shown surprising gains. Wool grow* weaker because forced by speculation a year ago to prices which the market for goods could not sustain and has been much embarrassed in trying to sustain ever since. The sales of wool are still small. Cotton is higher %c and goods have been strong. Pig iron has risen at Chicago because higher freights from the South and at Pittsburg a shade for Bessemer and gray forge because of growing demand, but for tbe moment the rise of 2 per cent in pig is exceeded by the rise of 2 per cent iu products. The demand is heavy in nil lines. Wheat has risen 8 cents, with much buying based on extraordinary exports. Failures for the week have been 224 in the United States, against 342 last year, and 33 in Canada, against 34 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, 13.00 to 36.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.65; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2,38 cto 39c; oats, No. 2,28 c to 29c; rye, No. 2. 58c to 59e; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17e; potatoes, choice, 30c to 37c per bnshel. 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, 72c to 74e; corn, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.80; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00> sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,79 cto 80c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 57c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 30c; rye, N% 2,63 cto 64c. Detroit—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $2.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,75 cto 76c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; rye, 59c to 60c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 3Gc to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; rye, No. 2,57 c to 50c; elover seed, new, $3.90 to $3.93. Milwaukee—W’Heat, No. 2 spring. 73c to 75c; corn, No. 3,33 cto 34c; oats, No, 2 white, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 1,58 cto 59c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 53e; pork, mess, $9.50 to SIO.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3425 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $1.75; lambs, cotnmoa to extra, $5.00 to |5.25. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.20; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.35; wheat, No. 2 red, 84c to 85c; corn, 2,45 cto 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; batter, creamery, 14c to 19c; eggs, Western, 18c to 19c.

CONGRESS

The opposition to the army reorganization bill on tbe Republican side of th* House had become so strong that on Friday Chairman Hull, after Mr. Henderson of- lowa, one of the floor leaders of the majority, had threatened to vote to recommit the bill, decided it would be wise, in order to secure its passage, to abandon the idea of providing directly for a regular army of 100,000 men. Speeches were made by Congressmen Henderson (Iowa), Prince (Illinois), Cousins (Iowa), Hall, and Robinson (Ind.). This ended the general debate, and several amendments were considered. At 5 o’clock the House recessed until 8, the evening session being devoted to private pension legislation. Particular interest was manifested in the Senate in a brief speech delivered by Senator T. _C. Platt of Now York on the general subject of expansion. Under the arrangement concluded the previous evening consideration of the pension appropriation bill was resumed, Mr. Gorman of Maryland submitting some remarks upon it. Mr. Perkins of California, in charge of the measure, replied briefly to Mr. Gorman. The pension bill was then passed. The House on Saturday continued the consideration of the army reorganization bill until 2 o’clock, when the members paid their tributes to the memory of the late Representative Simpkins of Massachusetts. Very little progress was made with the army bill. • The time before the eulogies began was chiefly devoted to a continuation of the debate on the advisability of retaining the Philippines. A spirited debate was precipitated iu the Senate while the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was under consideration. The Appropriations Committee was sharply criticised for not providing adequate salaries for some of the consular officers anti secretaries of legations of this Government in foreign countries, and the parsimony of the nation in this respect was denounced as a disgrace. The bill, which appropriates $1,710,533, was finally passed. A bill amending the law relating to the apportionment and election of representatives in Congress so as to permit the use of voting machines was passed. The House put in a hard day’s work on the army bill Monday, and when it adjourned thirteen of the twenty pages had been completed. Much of the time was occupied in short speeches on the general proposition to increase tbe army and annex the Philippines, and there were several lively personal controversies. At the opening of the session of the House Mr. Hopkins (Rep., III.) reported the census bill and gave notice that he would caR it up the next Monday. An effort on the part of Mr. Allison to obtain consideration in the Senate for the Indian appropriation bill precipitated a running debate, which occupied all tbe time until the Senate, at 2 o’clock, went into executive session on the peace treaty. The President sent to the Senate correspondence on file in the State Department bearing upon the peace treaty, and it was read in the executive session.

The bill to reorganize and increase the standing army to about 100,000 men, but giving the President authority to reduce the size of infantry companies and cavalry troops to sixty men each, thus fixing a minimum of about 50,000 enlisted men, passed the House on Tuesday by a vote of 108 to 125. Mr. Burton (Rep., O.), chairman of the Tlivpr and Harbor Committee, called up the river and harbor bill. The House went through the form of going into committee in order to put the river and harbor bill under consideration. The committee then rose and the House at 4:35 p. in. adjourned. During almost the entire morning hour the Senate had under discussion the policy of this country to be pursued in the Philippine Islands. Mr. Berry (Ark.), in a speech upon the resolution offered by Mr. Vest, discussed the policy of expansion. An attempt by Mr. Bacon (Ga.") to secure a vote upon his resolution which, in brief, declares that the United States Government will not make war upon a people seeking for their freedom, precipitated a lively debate, which was participated in by Mr. Platt (Conn.) and Mr. Teller (Colo.). No action on the resolutions was taken. A bill was passed at the opening of the Senate session granting extra pay to the officers and men of the temporary force of the navy—two months’ extra pay to those who served beyond the limits of the-United States and one month’s pay to those who served within the United States.

The House entered upon the consideration of the river and harbor bill on Wednesday, and made rapid progress. Fifty of the eighty-eight pages of the bill had been completed when the House adjourned. The bill appropriates directly about $12,500,000 and authorizes contracts to the extent of $18,000,000 additional. The general debate was unusually brief. Its feature was a speech in opposition to the bill by Mr. Hepburn of lowa. Practically the only amendment adopted was one striking out an appropriation of $250,000 for a channel from Galveston to Texas City, Texas. Mr. Rawlins (Utah) addressed the Senate upon the Vest antiexpansion resolution. Mr. Lindsay (Ky.) offered a resolution declaring that territory not a part of the continent of North America shall not be admitted into the Federal Union as a State or States. During Mr. Rawlins’ speech a message was received from the House transmitting the army reorganization bill. It was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. At the conclusion of Mr. Rawlins’ speech the Bacon resolution was laid before the Senate. Mr. Sullivan (Miss.) then offered his own resolution as a substitute fur the Bacon resolution. Senators Teller and Hoar were the speakers In the executive session of the Senate. Mr. Teller made a set speech in support of the treaty, and Mr. Hoar replied.

Connnbialities.

A Kansas City couple gave as an excuse for marrying suddenly that both had the “blues.” Baron Rolf Zederstrom, who is to marry Madame Patti, is only 28 years old. The diva is 55. > The “marrying squire” of Jeffersonville, Ind., is dead and his books show that he had performed 9,000 marriage ceremonies. Miss Pauline Astor, »the only daughter of William Waldorf Astor, is reported to be engaged to marry the young duke of Roxburgh. Miss Astor is 10 years old.

THE STATE LEGISLATURES.

Thursday. A bill was introduced in Minnesota to protect policy holders in hail insurance. The New York Assembly appointed a committee to investigate the surrogate’s office. In Wisconsin seventeen fruitless ballots were taken in Republican caucus and one ballot in joint session. Michigan House adopted resolution indorsing course of Secretary Alger. Senate ignored Pingree’s junket message. In Delaware, Nebraska, Washington, California, Montana, Utah and Pennsylvania joint ballots were taken without results. In Montana Senator Whiteside denounced all men voting for Clark as bribe takers, and is unseated after a scene verging on riot. In Wisconsin bills were introduced reducing legal railway charges from 3 to 2 cents a mile and putting license fee on express companies.

Friday. In Arkansas a measure was introduced appropriating money to fight smallpox. In Indiana the House of Representatives killed Gov. Mount’s anti-lynching bill. In Colorado a resolution was introduced opposing the ratification of the peace treaty.' Charges were openly made at Olympia, Wash., that opponents of Senator Wilson were trying to buy votes. In Delaware, Nebraska, Utah, Montana, Washington and California ballots were taken without breaking the deadlock. In Wisconsin the Republican caucus took its nineteenth ballot without chosing a senatorial candidate. In the Senate an' anti-pass bill was introduced. In Michigan the to Feb. 7. A bill was providing three intermediate courts of final jurisdiction. Notice was given of a bill to punish failure of electors to vote at elections.

Saturday. In Montana W. A. Clark of Butte was elected to the United States Senate. In Wisconsin the week closed without material change in the senatorial situation. In Nebraska charges looking to the impeachment of Judge C. R. Scott were filed. In Utah, Delaware and Washington the Legislatures voted without breaking the deadlocks. In Idaho the adoption of a memorial advocating the seating of B. H. Roberts of UTah was indefinitely postponed. In Arkansas the Legislature is seeking a way to prevent Colorado using all the water in the Arkansas river for irrigation. In Pennsylvania the Quay opposition, fearing a plot, remained away from the session, so that only thirty-two ballots were east when the vote was taken. Monday. In Kansas a bill was introduced to regulate undertakers. In Indiana a new bill to punish lynchers was introduced by Representative Noel of Indianapolis. In New York the Assembly unanimously adopted resolutions urging the Senate to ratify the peace treaty. In Nebraska, Utah, Delaware, Washington and California the senatorial situation remains unchanged. In Pennsylvania there were only thirtynine votes cast when a ballot for United States Senator was taken. In Wisconsin the Republican caucus unanimously nominated Joseph "V. Quarles of Milwaukee for United States Senator. Tuesday. In Minnesota two new bills regulating insurance companies were introduced. In Wisconsin Joseph Very Quarles was formally elected United States Senator. In Missouri resolutions were adopted advocating election Of Senators by direct vote. In Washington the Republican caucus nominated A. G. Foster for United States Senator. In Utah, Delaware, California and Nebraska the senatorial deadlock remained unbroken. In New York amendments to the Sunday laws making them more liberal were introduced. Gov. Sayers of Texas has sent a special message to the Legislature indorsing measure to punish freight discrimination by railroads. The Arkansas House of Representatives refused to appropriate $5,000 to check the spread of smallpox, not wanting to acknowledge it existed in the State. Wednesday. In Kansas the Assembly was flooded with amendment of prohibition law^ In Pennsylvania the Senate adopted amendments to the jury laws favorable to Senator Quay. In Montana Republicans explained their reasons for voting for Clark for United States Senator. In California, Utah, Nebraska and Delaware the Legislatures voted for Senator without a choice. In Washington Addison G. Foster was duly elected United States Senator by the Legislature in joint session. In North Dakota the bill making a year’s residence in the State necessary to secure a divorce was passed. In Pennsylvania a resolution Was intflf duced providing-for investigation of railroads yiolatiug State revenue lawO. In Wisconsin a memorial to Congress was adopted in the Senate urging election of United States Senators by popular vote. v ; ' \

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Mr. Choate is the fifth citizen of New York to be honored with the English mission. William B. Cox, secretary pf the Senate, is said to be one of the swiftest writers of “long hand” iu the country. J. J. Lowery, who owns an orchard of $»000 peach trees in Pettis County, Mo„ reports that the buds are all killed. Yee Deu, said to be the only Chinese frofessional burglar in New York, has Iteen sentenced to one year in the penitentiary.