Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK. PuMUhcr. |'.. «jU, ■:, l KNSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

The general passenger agents of all railroads south of the Ohio River have entered into an agreement to abolish secret rates, and to send out a notification to all agents wheu special rates for any pur* , pose are made. Net profits of the Pittsburg Plate (.lass Company for the past year were announced at the annual fleeting to have been more than $1,000,000. At the annual meeting of the stockholders A. W. Mellon was chosen ehairmnu. Electricity is to l»e installed as the motive power for the Manhattan Elevated Railway at New York, ami $18,000,000 of additional stock will be issued to meet the expense. It is expected that the change will save $1,000,000 a year in operating expenses. Private information has been received in 'Washington that Duke d’Arcos, formerly Spnuish minister to Mexico, is likely to be designated by the Madrid Government as its minister to Washington to exchange the ratifications of the treaty of Paris. A letter from Morgantown, Butler County, Ky., says an epidemic of spotted fever, or spina! meningitis, is raging there, old and young dying rapidly. It is imjK)ssible to estimate how many have died, and there is no one able to report the true condition. Right Rev. John Williams, 1). I>., LL. 1).. of Middletown, Conn., died of grip, aged 81 years. lie was bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, diocese of Connecticut, and senior member of the bouse of bishops of the Episcopal Church in America. A. C. Fowler, a well-known patent attorney, was attacked in an elevator in the Bank of Commerce Building at St. Louis by A. M. Leslie, a surgical instrument manufacturer. Fowler was dangerously stabbed with a pocket knife in the right side of the neck and in the abdomen. Fred Scott, a member of the Terre Haute, I ml., colored fire company, was shot and fatally wounded by Charles Clark, a barber, in the presence of the lire committee of the city council. Scott, it is alleged, while intoxicated, drove Clark and his wife fromtheir home at the point of a revolver. The President has caused to be promulgated the sentence in the ease of Gen. Charles P. Eagan. The court martial sentence was dismissal from the army and the l’residcut has commuted this to six years’ suspensiou from duty, which covers the remainder of the time prior to Gen. Eagan’s retirement in January, 1905, The Judiciary Committee of the House has by a unanimous vote decided to recommend the repeal of what is said to be the lust remnant of disqualification against men who served in the Confederacy, the section of the revised statutes which provides that such persons shall not serve as jurors in-4he United States courts. A fire at Prairie dn Chien, Wis„ destroyed eleven business houses. The following are the losses: I*. Uher & .Son, shoe store: Boucher & Mticket, grocery: Horace Beach, hardware; McFotlcr’s art gallery; Mrs. Kelt, millinery; John Koch, tailor; Zimmerman, jewelry store; Poehler & Bon, grocery; C. Greele, dry goods: 11. Beach, art studie. The total loss is SIOO,OOO. A desperate attempt was made to hold up the Jackson-lone stage. The stage left Jackson, Cal., with the driver, Peter l’odesta, Messenger McConnell and two workmen on botrrd. When about four miles out two robbers concealed behind rocks on the roadside opened fire, hitting McConnell twice in the shoulder and Podesta once in the hand. The horses were put to a gallop and they got beyond the range of the robbers’ guns. The stage had some treasure from the mines’ on board, but the shipment that day wits comparatively light.

BREVITIES.

Andrew Carnegie has offered Atlautn, Ga., SIOO,OOO for a free public library. Gen. Castellanos says that the evacuation of Cuba by the Spanish army is completed. Over 10,000 cans of bad beef, intended for Havnuu poor, was sunk in the seu the other day. William Laird of the famous shipbuilding firm of Laird Bros., at Birkenhead, England, is dcnd. Paris has a report that a vessel has been sent to Devil’s Island to transport Dreyfus to France. Theodore A. Havemeycr, Jr„ is serving on a petit jury at New York, Recorder Goff refusing to excuse hiui. Ore assaying 70 to 80 per cent copper and 050 ounces of silver to the ton is reported to have been found in Montrose County, Colo. s Rev. James Monroe Taylor, president of Vassar College, has been unanimously elected president of Brown University at Providence, R. I. Eight Jewish pupils have been required to leave the Catholic convent and school of the Sacred Heart at Omaha on alleged religious grounds. The great snow blockade on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, in the Colorado mountains, has been broken, and trains are again running as usual. The Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives has decided ta recommend the coustructiou of twelve powerful warships for the uavy. Alfred, hereditary Prince of 8a xc-Co-burg-Gotha, died at Martinsbruu, near Meran, after four hours of agony. Brain disease was the cause of death. He was 25 years old. The American Car and Foundry Company will sora be incorporated under New Jersey laws, with a capital stock of SOO,000,000. Jndge Hazen of the District Court at Topeka, Kan., handed down nn opinion in which he sustained the legality of the special session of the Legislature in every particular, i v At Hoopeston. 111., the large grain elevator owned and operated by the Hoopeston Grain and Coal Company was destroyed by fire, with between 12,000 and IQjOQO bushels of corn and oata. Two bom* ware burned to death.

EASTERN.

At Scranton, Pa., as a mult of an explosion of dynamite, two Italians were killed, one fatally and several severely injured. The Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American War was organized at New York. Theodore Roosevelt was elected commander. The strike season among the east side garment workers in New York has begun. Fifteen hundred eloakmukers quit work in the shops of four contractors. At Lancaster, Pa., Miss Hester Parker, who was housekeeper for President Buchanan there and at Washington, is dead of old age. She was in her 94th year. The thirteen members of the Passaic County board of freeholders on trial before Judge Barkalow in Paterson, N. J., for malfeasance in office, were acquitted. Maurice E. Fagan, aged 55 years, formerly a well-known lawyer of Philadelphia, but laterly of Collingwood, N. J., committed suicide in Laurel Hill cemetery by shooting himself through the head. One man was instantly killed and three others fatally injured by falling a distance of fifty feet while working on a bridge on the extension , of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad, near Punxsutawney, Pa.

Gov. Roosevelt of New York has decided that he will not interpose official clemency between Mrs. Martha Place and the electric chair, in which she has been sentenced to die for the murder of her stepdaughter in Brooklyn. A terrible gas explosion occurred in Etna, Pa., completely demolishing the brick residence of Joseph Ackerman, it being blown to atoms. One woman was killed and four persons injured. The explosion was caused by a gas leak in the cellar. The York Farm colliery, operated by the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at Pottsville, Pa., has closed down indefinitely. Nearly 400 men and boys are thrown out of work. The colliery has been in operation seven years and, it is said, has lost money. Frederick Laubrau, of Chicago, jumped from the window of a hotel in Hoboken, N. J., where he was stopping, and sustained serious internal injuries. Laubrau went East intending to sail for Germany, but missed his boat. Since then he had been despondent. A fire which originated in the bakery of the Stewart Cracker Company at Thirteenth and Hamilton streets, Philadelphia, completely gutted that structure and destroyed thousands of dollars’ worth of adjoining property, the total loss being estimated at from $500,000 to SBOO,OOO.

WESTERN.

Elmer Hosner committed suicide by hanging himself at Relue, Ohio. James N. Holmes, a prospector, has been found frozen to death on Pike’s Peak, Col. The Cherokee-Dawes treaty has been ratified by the Oherokees by a majority of more than 1,500. An extension of the Great Northern Railway from Huron, S. D., to the Black Hills is practically assured. At Tekoa, Wash., Earl Bruner, aged 7, was frozen to death while going to school a mile and a half in the country. The Wellsville, Mo., flour mills were destroyed by fire, the origin of which is not known. The loss is placed at SIB,OOO, insurance SIO,OOO. At Wichita, Kan., Lewis A. Trexlcra, a fanner,dropped deud just as he was übout to place his signature to a mortgage covering his homestead. A. Myer of Cleveland, Ohio, jumped from a third-story window of the Cannon Hotel in Atlanta, Ga. Nearly every bone in bis body was broken. Frank Blair shot and instantly killed Edward Brevard and Mary Anderson at Westminster, Ohio, and immediately afterward committed suicide. At Los Angeles/ Cal., A. G. Branley, the old soldier who shot Gov. Smith of the Soldiers’ Home at Santa Monica, was sentenced to two years in San Quentin prison. The new brick poorhouse at Hastings, Minn., burned, with Its contents: The twenty inmates were removed to places of safety* The loss is estimated at $20,000, insurance $5,000. Three erfses of smallpox were discovered in the Vendome Hotel at Omaha, and the place was placed under strict quarantine by the health department. Several guests escaped through skylights. W. S. Pardee, assistant secretary of the Pacific States Mutual Savings Bank, was shot and probably fatally wounded at San Francisco by Christian Ileis, Jr. The shooting took place in Pardee’s office. The plant of the Clough & Warren Piano Company at Detroit was partially destroyed by fire. One workman was badly hurt by a fall from the fourth story of the building. The loss will reach $75,000.

Fire which broke out on the top floor of the four-story Gaenesslcn block at Cleveland gutted that structure and badly damaged the Mayer & Bingham building adjoining. The total loss is estimated at $75,000. The Moultou Hill winery at Cloverdale, Cal., the property of I. Laudsberger, of San Francisco, has been destroyed by fire, together with 200,000 gallons of wine. The loss is estimated at between $75,000 and SIOO,OOO. Two buildings and their contents were entirely consumed by fire at Bolckow, Mo. Floyd, Wood &r Dysart, who occupied a double store, sustained a loss of $35,000. The loss to W. L. Chambers, hardware and buggies, will be $12,000. Fred Hess, Jr., who sued the San Francisco Typographical Union to recover $25,000 damages for having been forced out of employment by the union, he being a non-union man, has been awarded sl,200 by a jury In. the Superior Court. Six ministers of the gospel suffered the degradation of public ejectment from the Colorado House o' Representatives. They had gone there under the leadership of Presiding Blder Canine of the ministerial alliance to lobby against the Engley local option bill to license Sunday amusements. A local freight train west-bound and the pay car special passing east collided near Shn -Simon, Aria., while going through a sandstorm. Fireman Albert Favey was instantly willed, Engineer Ralph Fetterly badly injured and Engineer James Leavitt received injuries which caused his death a few hoars later. Indian Agent Walker, at Perry, Ok., has issued an order prohibiting persons entering the country of the tribes under filg cire tile Comanche, Kiowft and

Apache Indiana. Thi spread of smallpox caused the stringent order. John Johnson of Spring Grove, Minn,, died of obesity. Ht 1 weighed at his deat& 438 pounds. FiTe yean ago he weighed 200 pounds. His increase in flesh was attributed to his enormous appetite and the use of intoxicating beverages. Chicago & Grand Trunk passenger train No. 1, west-bound, plunged, full speed, into passenger train No. 6, east-bound, while the latter was standing at the fetation at Imlay City, Mich. The results of the crash were fatal and otherwise disastrous. Three ineu were killed and four seriously injured. Both trains were {ast mail trains. The east bound was standing near the station, waiting for the coming train to pass it, according to custom. The latter, instead of slackening and stopping, crashed into No. 0. The locomotives were, both badly wrecked and the mail cars are jammed across the tracks. The surety that oil in paying quantities has been struck at Scio, Ohio, has turned that little hamlet into a hustling oil camp of 3,200 persons, mostly men. As fast as derricks can be raised they are being erected and wells sunk. The Gibson well is showing at the rate of over one hundred barrels per day. More than 100 drills and pumps are now at work in the valley. A few weeks ago Scio was the center of an agricultural district. Now all the furms have been leased for oil purposes, and the craze has penetrated the village and every lot-owner either has already sunk a well or is preparing -to begin drilling. Wherever the eye turns are seen signs of oil.

SOUTHERN.

William Miller, 10 years-old, colored, was hanged at La Grange, Ky. At Mobile, Ala., Isaac Davis, colored, was hanged for the murder of Thomas Jones. Forty Dallas, Texas, lawyers were placed under arrest for failure to pay city occupation taxes. By a vote of 50 to 30 the Arkansas House killed a bill to consolidate State and Federal elections. A tornado spread devastation over ten miles of country, from Morris to Village Springs, Ala. Several persons were injured. The town of Stilesboro, Gn., was nearly wiped out by a cyclone, No lives were lost, but several people were injured. The Methodist Church, a new structure, was ruined and twelve families were made homeless. The Buckingham Theater at Louisville was destroyed by fire. The fire was caused by n live wire iu the scene room, and, although a general alarm was turned in, it burned so fiercely that the entire place was soon gutted. The loss is placed at SOO,OOO.

Harry Deffinbaugh, agod 28, was shot and instantly killed on the most prominent streets of SistaflPlUe, W. Va., by Miss Ella Bowen, aged 20. Miss Bowen is in jail and alleges that Deffinbaugh pursued her, tearing her clothing and threatening her if she left him. The body of n dead woman was found on the Hydes ferry turnpike bridge, over the Cumberland river, near Nashville, Tenn. The body was identified as that of Mrs. J. D. Clark, or Minnie Cox. J. D. Clark, the alleged husband of the woman, was arrested charged with the murder.

W. C. Griffin, State superintendent of agencies and manager of the Dallas, Tex., office yf Bradstreet’s, was found in a dying condition in the Windsor Hotel in that city. He registered under an assumed name, and before going to bed he took morphine. He died shortly after being found. His accounts are straight. A family of five was entirely wiped out in the Uttle town of Bowman, Ark., within the last two days, all dying with pneumonia. Esquire Gwynn, his son Charles, his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nobles and Mrs. Dot Carpenter, another daughter, were all buried at the same time in the same plot of ground.

WASHINGTON.

James A. Sexton of Chicago, command-or-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, died at Garfield hospital iu Washington.

The Republican House caucus at Washington has decided to refer all currency reform legislation to a committee to report at the next session of Congress.

The last of the supply of postage stamps issued in commemoration of the Omaha exposition has been shaped from the Postofflce Department and all that remain of that immense series arc now scattered about the postoffices throughout the country.

The House Committee on Judiciary at Washington has decided that the members of the House who accepted commissions in the army vacated their seats. They are Wheeler of Alabama, Campbell of Illinois, Colson of Kentucky and Robbins of Pennsylvania. Members serving bn civil commissions are held not to have forfeited their seats.

FOREIGN.

General Gome* has published a letter at Havana declaring that “forced guidance is hateful to us” and offers his services to assist the natives in erecting a republic in Cuba. Attempts to enforce the nse of the Russian language ip the schools and iug service in the Russian army is bitterly opposed by the Finlanders, and an uprising is feared. M. Durand, formerly a lieutenant of French infantry, has been arrested in Paris on a charge of communicating military secrets to a foreign power. Another arrest of a similar nature has been made at Nancy. Prof. Frank of the Agricultural University of Berlin has reported to the Prussian Government that the San Jose scale is non-existent in Germany, but that a similar, insect,'the “aspidiotus ostrae formis,” is indigenous. Gen. Henry wili place the religious orders in Porto Ricp in possession of the buildings from which they had been ejected and will restrain any further proceedings to dispossess them until their rights are judicially determined. At Marseilles, in a meeting of the antiDreyfus League of Patriots, a hostile demonstration on the part of some Dreyfusites led to serious fighting in the streets, during which revolvers were fired. The police repressed the disturbances, but a number of people were injured. Many •nests were made. Australian colonial premiers have agreed on a federation plan. The legiala-

and two houses of parliament, the members of each to be elected on the basis of manhood suffrage. Seven ministers will form the executive government and a aew federal capital is to be established at New South Wales. Valiente’s gendarmes, searching the woods between Mayari and San Lnis, Cuba, for the missing postal courier, Antonio Arturo Varios, who’ left Mayari for San Lnis with a mail poach, intending to (traverse the entire road, have reported the finding of the body. The courier was evidently murdered, as many wounds from machetes were fontid on the body. His horse was wandering two miles off, bnt no trace of the mail pouch has been found. Advices from the Orient say that a Canadian woman, who joined the China inland mission as the wife of Rev. Mr. Itynhart, a Belgian missionary, has reached Taehieulu with a terrible story of cru-r city and suffering among the fierce mountain tribesmen of Thibet. Her husband -was brutally murdered after their son had died from exhaustion. She was chased like a hunted deer for two months through the mountains on the border of China and Thibet. She was shot at time and again and pelted with bowlders from the cliffs overhead, but finally succeeded in reaching a mission. She and her husband were attacked while attempting to cross into Thibet.

IN GENERAL.

Jockey Tod Sloane is reported to have •cleared' $400,000 by the recent boom in stocks.

Dr. A. W. Hitt, of Chicago, who spent several years in India, says there are 532 oases of leprosy in the United States, ten of which are in Chicago. The American Steel and Wire Company has advanced the price of wire and wire nails $2 a ton, making the price $1.45 a hundred base M. mills to jobbers and wire nails $1.60 a hundred.

Advertisements have been issued for the sale of all lands -remaining of the land grant of the Union Pacific Railway Company. The sale is to take place at Omaha on March 6 and is held under a decree of the United States Circuit Court entered in Omaha on Dee. 2, 1892. The promoters of the hew cereal trust announce that the enterprise will be a success. The company will have a capital of $15,000,000 preferred and $18,000,000 common stock. It is said that control has been secured of every plant but one which manufactures breakfast food.

Ambassador Powell Clayton has notified the State Department that the Mexican Government has consented to grant the application of the United States authorities for the delivery to them under extradition proceedings of James Temple, an American railroad man, who is now held under arrest in Mexico for killing a Mexican on the American side of the border in Arizona. Capt. Delos Hayden, keeper of the lighthouse on West Sister Island, Lake ‘Erie, and a companion named Brown attempted to eross to the mainland over the ice. Brown died from being frozen. The two men set out with a small boat and they had not .proceeded far when their craft became fastened between ice floes. Cutting wind picked up great sheets of water, which froze oh them as it fell. Fishermen on the mainland saw the two men in distress and they went to the rescue. Hayden and Brown were unconscious. The boat was half filled with Ice, into which their feet were solidly frozen and their ice-incased hnnds held the oars. Brown was so badly frozen that he died and Capt. Hayden suffers intensely. It. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of

trade says: “Failures iu January were smaller than in any previous month except August, 1898, and July, 1897, and the proportion of solvent payments to clearing house exchanges is smaller than iu any other mouth of which records exist. Iu January there were but 80 cents per sl,000, clearing house payments, and the smallest in auy previous month had been about SI.OB per SI,OOO. The defaulted liabilities were $7,721,897, against $lO,451,513 last year, a decrease of 26 per cent, and 58 per cent smaller than in 1897, 57 per cent smaller than in 1896, 50 per cent smaller than in 1895 and 76 per cent smaller than in 1894. The manufacturing failures were the smallest, except August, 1898. There were only seven failures for SIOO,OOO or more, and the average of liabilities per failure is smaller than in January of any other year, and the small failures are not only fewer in number but smaller in average liabilities than in any previous year. Considering that January is usually one of the largest months of the year in failures, the return is surprising as well as encouraging. Failures for the week have been 224 in the United States, against 335 last year, and 25 in Canada, against 39 last year.”

THE MARKETS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime; $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2,37 cto 38c; oats, No. 2,27 c to 29c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 50c;'butter, 'choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 18c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; bogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to wheat, No. 2 red, G9c to 71e; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c. St. Louis—Cattle, S3J>O to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2,27 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheeg, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 2,63 cto Gse. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $2.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; rye, 59c to 61c. j Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye. No. 2, 55£ to 57c; clover seed, new, $3.75 to $3.85. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 3,33 cto 34c; oats,JR o. 2 white, 29c to 31o; rye, No. 1,55 c t<Pß7c; barley. No. 2,45 cto 53c; pork, mess, $9.50 to SIO.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 jp $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to 94J25-, sheep, fair to choice weth-. era, $3.50 to $4.50: lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.25. New York—('attic, $3.25 to $6.00: hogs. $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; corn, No. 2,48 c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 37c; butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs, West19c to 20c.

CONGRESS

A notable sphech was made in the Senate oa Thursday by Mr. Spooner of Wisconsin. He took for his text the anti-ex-pansion resolution offered by Mr. Vest, but did not confine himself closely to that proposed declaration of policy. The executive session of the Senate was merely a continuation of the legal argument which started with Senator Spooner's speech, in the open Senate. The river and harbor bill, carrying slightly more than $20,000,000, passed the House by a vote of 160 to 7. A bill was passed to pay the heirs of John Smith SI,OOO in satisfaction of a judgment against Gen. John R. Brooke for trespass and false imprisonment while he was lieutenant colonel, of the Third infantry in 180). The controversy iu the Senate over the vote upon the various resolutions interpretive of the peace treaty took an acute turn late on Friday. The opposition to a vote first came from the friends of the treaty, who held to the theory that it could be ratified without compromise. Those who apparently were then willing that a vote should be taken that day, held an opposite view and absolutely refused to ngrfce to a time for taking a vote. The contest occurred in the executive session.

At the opening of Saturday’s session Mr. Allen (Pop., Neb.) offered a resolution declaring thafthe United States, in ratifying the treaty of Paris, does not commit itself to the doctrine that the islands acquired through the war with Spain are to be annexed to or become a part of the United States. Mr. Chilton (Dem., Tex.) addressed the Senate on Mr. Vest’s antiexpansion resolution. Senator Wolcott made a strong speech in favor of expansion. The Senate went into executive session without voting on any of the pending resolutions regarding expansion. . The time of the Senate behind closed doors was ccusumed almost entirely by Mr. Morgan. Aftec disposing of a few routine matters the House took up the bill making appropriations for the expenses of the military academy at West Point for the year ending June 80. 1900. It carries a total of $601,817. The bill was reported to the House and passed.

The treaty of peace with Spain was ratified by the Senate Monday afternoon, the vote being 57 to 27, only one more than the two-thirds majority required. Monday Was suspension day in the House and quite a number of bills were passed, some of them of importance. The census bill prepared by the House committee went through by a vote of 147 to 42. The bill differs in several essential features from the Senate bill, particularly in that it makes the census bureau entirely independent of any existing department. A bill was passed to extend the anti-con-tract labor Jaws over the Hawaiian islands, nnd another bill was passed to refer forty-four war claims for stores and-sup-plies to the Court of Claims.

In the Senate on Tuesday a bill granting a right of way through Indian Territory to the Choctaw* Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company was passed. Mr. Spooner of Wisconsin presented the credentials of Senator-elect Quarles. Mr. Tillman of South Carolina, in accordance with notice given, addressed the Senate on the McEnery resolution. Tuesday was the first of two days set aside for the consideration of public building bills. The committee had reported seventy-eight bills for buildings in thirty-five States, authorizing in the aggregate an expenditure of $14,060,900. Uttle or no opposition developed and bills were favorably acted upon almost as rapidly as they could be read. There was, however, more or less good-natured chaffing throughout the session. As a result forty bills, carrying or authorizing appropriations aggregating $11,364,000, had been laid aside with favorable recommendations before adjournment was reached.

In the Senate on Wednesday the Indian appropriation bill, which has been pending for several weeks, was completed and passed. The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was taken tip, but after twenty-four pages of it had been disposed of it was laid aside for the day. A few measures of minor importance were passed. The net result of the work during the two days allotted for the consideration of public building bills in the House was the passage of a single bill providing for the erection of a building at Newport News, Va., at a cost of $75,000. Sixty-five bills in all, carrying or authorising the expenditure of about $12,000,000, wore favorably considered in committee of the whole wjien the committee rose, but because seventeen other bills reported had not been acted npon in committee all efforts to advance the bills favorably acted npon in committee were blocked. Mr. Corliss (Rep.) of Michigan called up the Senate bill to amend the law requiring ballots for members of Congress to be written or printed, so as to permit the use of maclyncs where authorized by the laws of the State. The Gill was passed—94 to 44.

News of Minor Note.

Russia sells to other countries 1,500,000,000 eggs a year. The Illinois State fair will increase its purses this year SIO,OOO for trotters aud pacers. The best three in five style of raciug is a horse-killing system, says a veteran of the turf. Customs receipts at Havana hnve nearly doubled since the Americans took possession of the city. What is known as “Mission Rock,” San Francisco Bay, has been officially set apart for a coaling station. It is reported that G. G. Gillette, the defaulting cattle king, will return to Kansas City and face his creditors. It is estimated that 40,000 tons of cucumbers are raised and eaten within the limits of the United States every year. The Farmers’ Club of San Jose, Cal., is forming an association to control the dried prone trade of the Pacific slope. Representative Payne of New York will snccieed the late Mr. Dingley as a member of the joint high Canadian commission. The working hours at the Missouri Pacific Railway shops at Sedalia, Mo., have been reduced from nine to eight a day. For the past two years each convict in the Missouri penitentiary haaemraed $c

“Kit and Kit's Sister.”

I Kitty Riley and her ai«et- Maggie had been married on tpe same day newly tthTjhenf* ago. Both bad married honest workingmen, with ateady positions, and the wages of both husbands were about equal. Each had been presented with a son and belr, and both the sisters ought to have been happy, bnt while Kit and her husband were always In good spirits, light-hearted, contented and pleased with tbeir lot, there seemed to be a shadow hanging over thb household that was ruled by Kit’s sister. It was not that any trouble or misunderstanding existed between Maggie and her husband. Far from it. They loved each other dearly, and were always happy In each other’s society, as true wives and husbands ought to be, but there soon crept into the young wife’s eyes a careworn, worried look that betokened secret sorrow of some kind. Between care for her baby and her household duties her time was fully occupied—lndeed, It was noticed that she did not take her infant out for an airing anything like as often as did her sister Kit. At first her husband, John Clarke, was too -busy to notice any change in bis wife, and If was only when Kit’s husband, Tom White, began to ask if Maggie was ailing that poor John directed his attention to his wife’s appearance. “Maggie,” be said one evening In a self-reproach ful way. “1 have been rather neglectful of you of late, I am afraid, and I haven’t been taking care of your bealtb and comfort. You are beginning to look pale and thin, and, now I notice It, the baby is not as healthy looking as he onglit to be. You’ll have to go out more. You don’t get enough of fresh air, and neither does the child! Why don’t you put him in the baby carriage and take him out for an hour or so in the mornings and afternoons?” “I haven’t time, John,” replied Maggie, In a sad tone of voice. “There Is so much to be done in tbe house, you know, and between that and the baby I don’t have a minute to spare.” “Well, your 6lster Kit has Just the same to contend with. She keeps her house clean and attends to little Tommy, and yet she finds time to take a run In the park every day with the boy, and she is as blooming and fresh in appearance as a new-blown rose.” “I know she is. John, and 1 can’t understand It.” (Here a tear crept into the little woman’s ey£ and her lip trembled.) “It Isn’t that I don't feel well, but somehow or another I am always tired. lam trying to keep things clean and straight all the time, and yet I never seem to get ahead. God knows I would often like to take baby out for a Mow of fresh air, bnt I don’t seem to be able to afford tbe time!” “Well, see here, now, Maggie," said her bnsband kindly. “Your health and the child’s Is of much more importance to me than the bouse work. Don’t do so much cleaning! It isn’t a bit necessary. I’ve noticed you scrubbing and robbing many a time when I couldn’t see tbe use of it. Take more healthy exercise and do less hard Work." “No, John, that will never do,” answered Maggie; “I’m quite willing to have some restful exercise, but not at the expense of a dean house. I like my home to be scrupulously clean at all times.”

“Well, It Is clean; I’ll give yon credit for that,” said her husband quickly, “but then you are too particular. Give as much care to yourself and the baby at you do to the housework, and you’ll feel better and so will I! Now just get baby and yourself ready, and we'll walk over to yoilr sister's—there’s a good girl.” g Maggie rose and dresfsed the baby and handed him to papa while she prepared herself. In the midst of her preparations she said: “Really, J4hn, 1 don’t see how I can afford the time to gol That kitchen floor ought to be scrubbed to-night and I was going to clean up all the door knobs and brasswork." “Let the brasswork be—photographed!” exclaimed John, somewhat testily. “You’ll keep on rubbing and scrubbing, and brushing and cleaning until you drop into the grave! Hereafter you'll hare to go out every day for at least two hours. I insist on It, and I’m going to ask Kit to come over and take you with her regularly from this day.” At Klt’g house they naturally met with a cordial reception from Tom and his wife. The house was as trim and neat and straight as busy hands could make It, but Kit and the baby had been out in the park nil the afternoon! John Clarke sighed as he noticed the different complexions of Kit and her sister. The one was ruddy with health, the other pale, wan and sickly looking. “You poor dear!” exclaimed Kit, com* miseratlngly, “I’m sure she must be 111, John, or she would not look so tired an<| weary.” “I am not 111, Kit—lndeed I am not, and you know is never was laay, but somehow I don’t seem to keep up with my work, and yet you get ahead of' yours always. I was always as strong as yon were, and naturally as quick, but I honestly cannot understand how you manage to get through all your housework and yet hare so much time to yqurself.” “Perhaps,” said Tom White, as a light gleamed in his eyes, “perhaps this secret Is easily solvable after all. Tell os, Maggie, do you use Sapollo In your housecleanlng?” “Why noT I use almost anything I can buy at the store.” “There,” cried Kit, triumphantly, “that Is really the secret of your troubles! You Just use Sapollo as I do. Maggie, and you’ll find tjie work easier in every way. You’ll have lots of time to yourself, and therefore you’ll feel better, and enjoy good health!”

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