Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1899 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BaBCOCK. Publisher. BOttSELAEIt. * INDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

A locomotive on the Grand Trunk express jumped tbe track east of la>nnox▼ille. Qne.. and the train followed. Three trainmen and four passengers were injured. The cause ot the wreck is not known. The Xavigaciom- Gent-rale Itnlinne, the largest steamship company in Italy, will establish a passenger service between Italy and the United States. The first boat will arrive, at Xew York the latter part of February. Fire destroyed the plants and stock of the Greer Machinery Company apd the Whittle Trunk Company, ip Knoxville, Tenn_ cansing a 10-s of Is-tween s7s,(ti>() ami Thref/fourths of the loss covered by insnram t/ Articles of incorporation have been filed in Xew Jersey by the American Radiator Company with an authorized capital of slo.**»MX*►. The company is empowered to manufacture and deal in radiators, boilers and other heating apparatus. At St. Joseph. Mo.. Christian Xeideck was burned to death while kindling a fire. Xeidevk's clothes caught tire and he threw himself on a,bed, which ignited. When assistance arrived his charred body was pulled from tin- house, which soon burned up. The Reading Coal and Iron Company has opened a number of Pennsylvania collieries, which Lave !>et*n t losisl because of. a shortage of cars. The collieries will not all run on full time and their working will depend upon the number of cars furnished by tbe railroad. George Woodmancy of Toledo loaned his gun t© a stranger, who said he wanted it for a neighbor, who desired to shoot rats. After getting possession of the tirearm the stranger drew a bead on Woodman cy and Compelled him to turn over his watch and cash.

, Inuring the progress of a colored Mardi Gras hall in St. Louis a quarrel arose.,be- - twvt-n two negroes and one of them drew ■ revolver anil fired. His intended victim dodge! and the Inflict struck Bedford Cunningham. an innocent bystander, inflicting a fatal wound. Jacob Van Ilusen. a well-known farmer of IVnfiebL. X. Y.. was brutally murdered, being dabbed ami then shot. His dead body was found lying on the floor of his home by a neighisn-. Robbery was the motive for the crins-. lint the murderer secured »nly a watch and a small amount of money. A plague panic has occurred in the soathern Kolar gold fields of Mysore, India. A boat 2.590 cooties have bolted, and it is feared this may lead to a susfionsion of the work. There have been sixty cases of plague in southern Kolar and fortyfiTe deaths from that disease have been reported. Henry Morse, a traveling man, aged 38, was found dead from asjihyxfation in his room at the Haulier House, Toledo. When be did not get up at the usual hour the clerk tried to rouse him. but let the matter drop. The man was forgotten until late in the evening, when another effort was made to arouse him, aud receiving no re apoose. the police were called. John J. Uomeilson. Louisville. Ky., died of apiplexy, agi-d 55 years. He became famous fifteen years ago. when in Mount Sterling he horsewhipped Judge Richard Retd of that city, a member of the Superior Uourt of Kentucky. In less than a week Judge Reid committed suicide by shooting, being unable to bear the disgrace of the w hipping. Tolstoi condemns the Tzar's proposed disarmament conference as “only worthy of contempt and derision.” declaring; “It will be impossible to reduce armament.* while nations not only persist in acquiring ■cw possessions, like the Philippines, Fort Arthur and the rest, but also keep what they hare acquired, like Poland, India, Alsace-Lorraine and the rest.” The City Council of Wurzburg, Bavaria, tie- seat of a university, has just taken action, accenting to Commercial Agent Stern at Bamberg, through which the teeth of the |KH>r pupils of the public sdjoeL of Wurzburg are to be examined and eared for. free of cost, provided the parents give their consent. It is also intended to treat diseases of the ear and throat in a like manner, should the teeth experiment prove successful.

MEWS NUGGETS.

Experts of breadstuff's from the United States for January aggregated $2r*,020,44*1 * llarry Slupisky com ir.itted suicide in St. Louts iiy drinking himself full of p*l whisky. Fred Martc. his wife and child were Larned to death in a tire which destroyed the Arlington flats in Chicago. Fire destroyed the great machine shops In the Brooklyn navy yard, causing a loss to the Government of between $1,000,000 and RDWQ.nOO. James K. Graham, former jwrtner in the commission business at New Lisbon, Ohio, with the father of Mark Hanna, died at Daveu[H»rt, lowa, at the advanced age *>f 85 years. At Los Angeles. Cal., Eugene Kerendison. a traveling salesman for the Mam* moth Pottery Company of New York. Was found dead in his bed. It is thought he swallowed morphine. Lard Salisbury has sent a formal protest to the French end Italian Goveh>ments against the agreement wherebr Italy ceded a part of the Ilaheita coast iii east Africa to France. Fraacis W. Bergin, one of the largest mattress manufacturers jn the West, tiled a bankruptcy petition in the United States District Court at St. Louis. His liabilities aggregate s34,tf)o; assets, 1(30,100. The order recently issued by Gen. Brooke, military governor of Cuba, reducing official salaries in Santiago de Cuba 20 per cent, has been copntermanded. Bantam k. Bailey’s circus will remain in England, instead of returning to the United State*. The proprietors will form an English company with a capital of $2,000.000. The Bex parade in New Orleans was partly spoiled by the cold weather. The Comas parade in the ereniug was a brilliant affair, despite the fact that the participants were nearly frown. A ball at wwtaj

EASTERN.

He Tillage of Foreatport, N. Y. f was destroyed by fire. j Aa explosion In a still of tbe Atlas oil refinery at Buffalo caused a loss of about 125,000. Captain Janies Bryant, who aided “Boss” Tweed to escape to Cuba, is dead at Now York. Plans for a gigantic silk trust, with headquarters in Paterson, X. are being discussed by the manufacturers. At Pittsburg, Pa., Mrs. Agues Nctmer, 34 years of age, and her 9-tjmnth-okl baby were fatally burned at their home. l)r. Robert C. Stewart was found dead in his room at Shippotisburge Pa., having been asphyxiated by Uliiniluating gas. Two dogs in the j t ooth were also found dead. Mrs Ethan Allen, wife of Col. Ethan Allen, grandson of the revolutionary hero, died suddenly during a pertovniiinre of ••Lohengrin” at New York, from heart failure. Jeremiah Pingley, of A- iatrn. Maine, an unde of the late Congressman D.ngley, is dead, agetl 77. lie '-.'as a Lanher and a member of the Diugley-i'osa Mime Company. A tire which caused a loss variously estimated from to $ 1d*..(.000. and which threatened to dcs' l wy an entire block, started in the bag fact cry of Walter A: Hell. New York. The factory building of the Manhattan Brass Company (iiN.-n ion; ou* Oestroyed by tiro,’Together with a targe quantity of valuable stock of finished materia! and machinery. The estimated loss is $250,000. The Delaware and Hudson depot. Sweeney's Hotel, the Saratoga Company's annex and Schaeffer's case, in Saratoga. N. Y„ were burned. James V. Snyder, a night watchman, burned to deal It. The loss is $(’>0.00(1. partly covered by insurance. , The United States Varnish Company is being organized under the laws of New Jersey with a capital of $ 15.000.000 pre•ferred and $18,000,(100 cotiunqfi stock. The new company will consolidate the varnish manufacturing interests of the eountry. The five-story building. 212, 21-1 and 210 New street, Philadelphia, occupied by a number of linns, burned. The heaviest losers were the Technic Electric Company. $20,000; Handler Manufacturing Company, tinware, $15,000; American Pearl Hutton Company. $ 10,000. Masey hall, one of the newest campus dormitories of Brown University. Providence, R. 1., was gutted by fire., The fire started in one of the student rooms and gained great headway, owing to frozen hydrants and dilttcullios encountered with a foqt of snow ami the mercury at zero. The damage is about $15,000.

WESTERN.

TJib furnishing store of Grail Brothers, Delaware. Ohio, burned. Causing a loss of about SIO,OOO. At Massillon. Ohio,. .Joseph Ford shot at a dog, the bullet striking Valentine Eckert, killing hi in. In n snowslfde nt Silver Plume twentyfonr lives were lost. The dead are Italian miners with their families. The Goodrich liner lowa reached Milwaukee after battling for nearly three days with the ice in Lake Michigan. The business portion of the village of Pleasant Mills. Ind., was almost totally destroyed by Ore. The loss is about $lO,000. Seventeen women were burned to death in one of the cottages at the hospital for the insane, three miles north of Yankton, S. D. By an explosion nt an iron furnace in Youngstown, Ohio, Patrick Moore was instantly killed and five other employes badly hurt. The fine residence of M. O. Noil at Akron. Ohio, was'burned, entailing a loss of Fill 1.0(H). One of the firemen, named Scott, was badly frozen and may not recover. Six hundred and fifty miners employed by the Choctaw Coal Company, Indian territory, have gone out on strike. The* mines of the company are practically shut down. Mrs. Pamphilia Wolcott died at Akron, Ohio, aged 72 years. She was the widow of C. I*. Wolcott and sister of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War in Lincoln’s cabinet. At Deer Lodge, Mont., a colored convict named George Young, in the State penitentiary, made an assault upon a guard and was shot and killed by Guard Charles MeCollom. The Flint and Pore Marquette car ferry broke all winter navigation records by crossing Lake Michigan from Manitowoc to Ludiugton in twelve hours, through n field of unbroken ice. John L. Russell and E. L. Wright ■were killed by black damp in the Diamoudville mine, at Diainondville, W.vo. Ten others were overcome, but were rescued in time to save their lives. At Denver, Ilenry P. Rhodes, ex-assist-ant United States district attorney, died from wounds inflicted by himself with a razor. He was 31 years old. His reason for committing suicide is unknown. “Aunt Dicy” Bibbs* aged SO years, was fouud frozen to death in her home at Shawnee, Kan., where she had lived alone for years. She had apparently hurt herself by a fall and was unable to call for help.' Mr*. Genevra Johnstonc-Bishop, the well-known soprano, has. m Marion, Ohio, been granted a divorce from her husband, Dr. Bishop of Chicago, There was no defense, the petition of Mrs. Bishop alleging non-support. Engineer Jnmes C. Cowper was killed and Charles Truesdale and Jerry Crowley severely hurt in a head-end collision that occurred on the Chicago, jililwnukee nnd St. Paul road nonr Beaver Dam, Wis. Both engines were wrecked and eighteen loaded cars smashed. George Searles of' Chicago has found his wife at WicUita, Ivan., after three years of searching for her. She has lived there as the wife of I. B. Nichols, a local optician, who persunded her to run away with him while he was visiting the Searleu home in Chicago in Jauuary> 1805. The reservoir of the Big Dipper gravel mine, near Colfax, Cab, bnrst. The water rushed down the narrow canyon, swapping everything in its path. Joseph Ferfiet, jui emplo.Ce Of the mine, and five Chinese, who weiri working the Jrarel in the canyogs were drowned. The property loss.jg abAnt $20,000. An explosion in the Japanning depart-

SIOO,OOO, with only a fraction aa much Insurance. Within an hour nothing except the walla remained. f 7. In Webster Grove, a suburb of Et. Louis, the Allen building, containing lie opera house, S. Strauss’ bakery, Bredell & Coukling's meat market and F. W. Farrington's general store, burned. Loss is estimated at $33,000. The National Steel Company, which is to control the rolliug mills of Ohio, Pcnn--1 syivauia and West Virginia, has been in- | corporator! in Jersey City, it is not the : $400,000,000 trust which it was rumored j was about to absorb tbe Federal Steel ; Company. The People's Railway (Fourth street cable) of St. Louis, which has been in the hands of a rl-eclver the past two years, was sold at public auction by the sheriff. : Third mortgage bondholders hid $500,000 and secured the property, which will be | reorganized; .('buries Schultz, a Toledo machinist, aged 01. quarreled with his wife and a few i hours later he was found dead on a com- | mons with the top of his skull crushed in. The coroner says the man was murdered, as no trace's of Wood arc found beyond whore In- lay. | llenr.t I*. Rhodes, a prominent young i attorney of Ib-nver, Colo., died as the reI suit of wounds indicted by himself. Up- ; eii hearing of his death Mrs. Olga Lnvrenius, a .voting Russian widow, ttaderj stood to have been Rhodes' fiancee, shot | and Instantly killed her 10-year-old sou l and, then sent a bullet through Iter own I brain. The cause of Rhodes' act is not j known. ! John Visoeke, a Slav, was shot and | almost instantly killed in a saloon and j dance hall at the corner of Hill and Cross streets, Cleveland, by the saloonkeeper, John Skintyck. The killing was the result of a quarrel over a liquor bill, which it is alleged Visoeke owed the saloonkeeper. , Skintyck disappeared front the place before the arival of the police, but was captured. The other night burglars gained an entrance to the farm residence of M. L. Runsey, north of Tiffin, Ohio. They bound Rniisoy and his wife and threatened to burn them if they did not reveal where their money was concealed. Itanscy gave them SSO, but this did not satisfy them and they were about to set fire to his bed, when lie priKhteed a bank book showing the deposit of his money. Ransey had sold a large tract of land tbe day before and the burglars supposed he had the money in the house. One robber was captured.

SOUTHERN.

At Rippon, W. Va., William Dunn and George Ashby fought a duel with knives. Ashby inflicted two wounds on Dunn, causing bis death. At Frnukfort, Ky„ the Governor’s mansion was destroyed by tire. An early tire was extinguished, but it broke out again. Most of Gov. Bradley’s valuable personalty was saved. A triple lynching took'filace near Leesburg, Ua. The three victims are George Fort, George Bivins and Bill Holt, who were accused of attacking a woman. Cupid Redding, the principal in the crime, is in hiding somewhere, guarded by officers. The east and west wings of the Texas State penitentiary at Huntsville, containing prison cells and officers’ quarters, burned. There were no casualties, the inmates being quartered in shops and other buildings. The burned buildings cost originally} $97,000. In a shooting affray at Anniston. Ala., Colonel David G. Colson, Congressman from the Eleventh Kentucky district, was wounded by Lieutenant E. I). Scott, a proininent young attorney of Lexington, Ivy, .Colson had trouble with Lieutenant Rlakcmnn and pulled the latter's ear. Scott took up the quarrel in behalf of Blake-man aud the sliooting resulted. The steamer P. D. Staggs, Copt. Douglass Jones, was badly wrecked at the bridge over the Tennessee river at Johnsonville, Tenn. Iu attempting to go under the drawbridge the boat “sheered” and struck tho bridge, knocking the pilot house and smokestacks off. The boat then drifted helplessly down tlie stream and burned, Eight roustabouts lost their lives. The boat was valued at SIO,OOO.

WASHINGTON.

Brig. Gen. John H. Patterson has beeu placed on the retired list. Senator W. N. Roach of North Dakota and Mrs. V. E. Pollock were married quietly nt Washington, D. C. The President on Friday transmitted to Congress a special message, urging action upon the laying of a cable under the Pacific ocean. President McKinley has issued the order for a court of inquiry to investigate the charges made by Maj. Gen. Miles regarding “embalmed beef.” Secretary Alger has directed that a contract be made with Louis Gathmann of Chicago for an 18-inch gun. The qrdnance officers had reported against it. President McKinley has received the report of the board that has been investigating the conduct of the war. It exonerates the subsistence officials of the army and says the beef furnished the troops was up to the ordinary trade standard.

FOREIGN.

The American forces made a combined attack upon Galoocnn. Philippines, and reduced it in short order. Dreyfus has refused to reply to written interrogations of the Court of Cassation on the ground that his answers are inaccurately transmitted to Paris. One of the attaches of the Chinese legation in Paris, believing that he was being persecuted by the secretary of legation, Lien Young, killed the latter by shooting him with a revolver and then committing suicide. The Havana correspondent of the London Times says Gen. Maximo Gomez has agreed to refer to the Cuban assembly at Marisnno the American offer of $3.000,000 to pay off the Cuban army on condition of disbandment. A dispatch from Cayenne, capital of French Guiana, says Dreyfus, the Devil’s Island prisoner, is in good health, but declines to reply to the court of cessation questions ou the ground that his answers are inaccurately transmitted to Paris. Alexander McEtapfljd, the Dnwsnw <£ity (Alaska) gold mffter, pho is said to fce . worth more thanJts,oof>,ooo. waspmwfcd A# 'Margaret ,< liMtolm at Brixton, England. The bind# h*. tft* daunts* ot the superintendent of the Thames water police. General Otis cables that Agoneillo is responsible for the outbreak in Manila.

It is reported there, he «(5X tWt the Philippine repceseatatave tnAqpripWl from Washington to TpHliay him to drive oat the Americans before reen foreements arrived. Twelve mounted and armed Cahus »W----tered the store of Antonio Garcia at. Das Catninos, a small Town two wales tfipewi Santiago, and Intimidated tbe peotple in the store. They then loaded * J**rk train they had brought with then# with $1,200 worth of goods and without hindrance made for the hills. A gold mine owner of the aaawe off Monastyrsebin has received a leli«r •saying that a tribe of Turgnsos, jwhabittiwg tlie Timur peninsula, north of Ssihwia. recently informed the Russian poiive <-hief of that district that lietwee® K«uw» and Pit, in tin- province -of Y-oidsci-st, they found a cabin const met cd of ami cordage, apparently belonging so> * balloou. Close by weix- tbe bodies -of three men. the head of owe badly vr-oshed. Around them were a number of insitraments. the uses of which were watt wnterstood by the Turgwws. It is. I'Kdieved that the bodies are those of the as-rcfluantt, S. A. Andree, and his companions.

IN GENERAL.

Fire in Toronto, ; OuL, ilesiroy'-cd the ’iiiilding on Front street.occupied by (tSvw>tns. Kent A: Co, crockery sod glass ware dealers. The loss is estimated at 4KSOA--090. The richest gold strike made fgw mtoaths is reported from McDonald cret-k. X-Mrtftt-west Territory. Surface graved gave ffresin $1 tos2 a pan. Tbe gold is -coarse and assays high. It was announced that a consodidatian | of all tlie Royalty shoe matliißery anterI ests centered in Boston had bet* [ mated in a corporation owgatiiza'd mider the laws of New Jerscy, with a -capital of $25,000,000. Arrangements are under way and partly completed for tbe amalgamation -of interests of all the leading wooden manufacturers in the United States. The -capital which will he represented in this <v>iufei~ nation will he at least SOO.OO'Y'OtJO. John W, Gates, chairman of The board of directors of the American Steeil and (Vire Company, confirms the report Shat March 7 the company would a-dvawoe She wages of its 3(1,000 employes. These increases in wages, Mr. Gates -said, will amount in the aggregate to between $750,000 and $1,000,000 a year. Tbe royal artillery regimental -quarters in the citadel at Halifax. X. were burned, causing intense cxciteaweat throughout the city. The fire started a® the basement and burned to the roof and extended for sixty yards akmg the range of buildings inside the fort. All the regiment a! papers were burned, and the lass will l>e several thousand dollars. Capt. D. W. Glenn, who is mow a® Washington on special duty in coßMaeictsi with the exploration of the Klondike «w» .try, has received a telegram annonaacing that Lieut. Castner, United States army, and two enlisted men, who disappeared in the frozen wilderness of the Klondike last August, have arrived safely at Wesie. a station at the mouth of she Tama®* river. Advices from the Klondike regi-osa ase that Dawson’s first dog frana rout-d is in successful opr rat ion. It runs froan Dawson to the forks of El Dorado and Bonanza creeks, and thence «i> Bonanza, a total distance of nearly twenty males. Thirty thousand dollars were expended in building the road and placing bridges over Bonanza Creek. The tram company charges 1 cent a pound for all freight passing over the road. Ten -dogs poll a sled load of 2.000 pounds. The following report is made hy Bradstreet’s: “That some favorable effects are likely to follow the atmospheric changes of the week is evidenced by report's <of improved distribution at retail of heavy ‘’winter goods, while the effect -on spring trade appears to be chiefly regarded as one of retardation rather than of positive injury. In leading staples the strength of prices is still a feature, all the gains made in January being sustained, if not further improved. Souse refii-et-kwa -of the cold wave is found in the advance a® wheat, showing an inclination to voneede some damage to the winter wheat crop, in view of claims that snow protection is lacking in many sections. Tbe strength of cotton, while to some extent ha-sod on -smaller receipts and a red net ion of the usual ‘winter’ crop, appears mainly d®e to the cheerful tone of the cotton goods market and the strength of demand and price manifested by those staples both at home nnd abroad. Wheat, imdndimg flour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,870,500 bushels, against tv585,418 bushels last week. Corn exports for tbe week aggregate 3,805,022 bushels, against 3,697,731 bushels last week.”

THE MARKETS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to -choice. 53.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red. 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2,30 eto 38c; oats, No. 2,28 e to 29c; rye. No. 2. 55c to 56c; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 21c to 23c; potatoes, choice, 35c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping. s3.®® to $5.75; hogs, choice light. $2.73 to $4225; sheep, common to choice, $230 to $4225; wheat, No. 2 red, <s9c to 71c; coma. No. 2 white, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c. iU. St. Lonis—Cattle, $3.50 To $023; hags, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep. $3.00 to $450; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; c©ra. No. 2 yellow, S4e to 35c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 3tJc; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 ta $5.73; hogs, $3.00 to $425; sheep, s23® to $450; wheat. No. 2,74 cto 76c. coca. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; o*us No. 2 mixed, 30c tc 32c; rye. No. 2, (72c to 64 c Detroit—Cattle, $2.5® to $5.73; hogs, $2.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3 90 to $4.73; wheat, No. '2, 73c to 74c; coma. No. 2 yellow, 30c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; rye. 61c to 63c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 ocix-edL, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oat*. No. 2 white, 29c to Sic; rye. No, 2. s®c to 58c; clover seed, »ew. s4.l® tes $4.13. Milwaukee—AVtoeot. No. 2 spring. 7®e to 72c; corn. No. 3, ssic to 34c; oats,..No. *2 while, 30c to 32e; rye,-No. 1,36 cto 58c; barley. No. 2,45 cto 52c; pork, mess, SIO.OO to $10.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers. $3.00 to $(*.00; hogs,- cowjm.>a to choice, |3-.25 to $-LSO; «be«H Rh to chhKW.wrth•sTs. $3.*41 to $4 75: lambs, earn to exua, to $5 25. yffovr York—CattVe, to S6.M; tegs. ss.o® to $4.75; sheep. tSf® to $4713; wheat. No. 2 red. 83c to 85c; coco. No, 2,43 cto 46c; cats. No. 2 white, 36c to -**'*• ***-'*'

CONGRESS

Chaimziaa Cammxwai of the Appropriations CVmuswilttee «ff the- House, in the course of the ®ewM*S <*cfeaiße «a the sundry eivil bail «m Thmrsstsy. swindled a note of varni#Wi agiinust extravagant appropriations, and pns'ftiiKafiily setndnj notice that neither the shiv *®bsidty bfikk nnr the Nicaragua vernal ham <cwtsW he |x*s»eii at this session. The swwusill ide&ate tnpwo the sundry eivil bill was ®®B vmacludedL Before it was take® Ep qicite- a ui-imbev of rtf nor biHs were pmsseid hy etas ui mo os consent. Thrwagbiwit its session the Senate had mawb-r vsnsjAderatiran: the legislative, -nawwaiw aswi jirodieiail appropriation bill. The fmnO-.imring- Wilts, were- t*a-ssedr Szcinagr the Siwwfix Chtty scad Oeraha Railway Owjwsmy to contstnoct and oferate a railway throHScgh s&f- Ousab&a ana Winnebago tvservaitSoiffi Bn Thmirstooi Coenty. Xeb., and ?«» rcss-fice t»> Shetr original status as J* '■ TScevs the- navy and matriine verpts who Botst ncuitMtiers by reason of the o-ff other officers for exa.n«t aaeiritiiisrions service during tine war with Spain. Danrimg the emtiiire q-petc session on Friday the Senate had under consideration the legsdatiiTe. exen-ntive ami judicial appaeiffaiasiwffi M3IIL little progress was made, the ifiimne largely beiag «wvupk-d with dehqte ana annnEwc- nwpccs-. A bill amending an a-ct #o> pewriide fw the reimbursement of Goiverawms; ksS States and territork-s for ‘KHPemsics. jwmirafd by theta in raising aud eqatpipigsg the volan'evr army tn the war with Spaiffi was repwarted b-y Mr. Warren (ffycu fSrwmii the Cocanitettee t>u Military Affairs. The fcißl uretst over to be printe<l. Mr. Alllle® «XeV) offered a jioiat resolution jwevwflEmg fw the siibcitssiou to the Legislatficres «#ff aa amwaxlateat to the constitutiena jwwialßißg for the- etection of United Staitvs Setters b-y dtrv-.-t vote of the people. The- ws>datieoc eras laid on the taMe. A special] Baessagac ft'-u®; tbe l*residwnt nrgirng en the Pacific cable was recme-l. tScssera! debate on the sunsflty civil aiypfflwgxriiatioa ftrtt was concluded a® the Ivoiois*-. The speakers during the day tvsw-hed! a variety of topics, but asi * raif the tfiebsste lacked spirit and iOie-i-cst.. Mr. IWhery of Missouri, who is at the head ®f the aauaioriTy ot the ApTWvqariatwari- OwstEffittee.. rv-enforved Mr. £swre« as t<r» the deficiency in the rej-enaes; Mr. De Arcnvnd @f Missouri, Mr. Giißiirttt of Massachnsetts and others dfecTßssed the pwEicy of expansion, amt Mr. Lvntx wff severely criticised the adsatlfmastratwiin for exeevistng clerucncy in the vase of Gen. Kagan.

After a gw*? deoil off debate- t» the Senate- cm Sataunday. the CesrisHatixe, executive a-r.d jtdkiall apfl'topmaibia titt was pasted, Jk &U to. saw-ad aw act entitled. “An act ff<» leisiibwKrse the- Gove-caucs. off, State* a»<B *ltarit«rieß ffw expenses incurred by tlbeffiß a® aids®* the United States to raise wad yargaaiae and soppily, and equip the ooltanteeraiuny off the United States in the exasrinas war with Spain”’ was passed. The Hknbsv passed several bridge bills Sod other nnneasnnvs off atinor importance At no tune dating the session of the Senate os Monday was a quorum present, a majority off the ntenabert being snowhpandat thgir horses. A sharp- debate over the laatiiiaiiiiowas consent agreement traded Saturday atftemwe® to Tote on the MeEwty twsudntie® was precipitated early in the session. The agrienttoral approigriatwa b«l!! was called up,, considered ara-i passed with ertly a few unimportant awcaadaw-sts. A bclE removing the disabilities -tiff certain persons engaged in the csvj war was passed. The raging blizzard eaased practicality a suspension of bmsiaess at the Hwsse. At Clerk McDowell coiled! tfce Hoo.se to order. There vw abniwt sixty meailiers on the tftwar. On Eaw'Cjk'B! ts.ff Mr. Gn-xivenor (-Rep.. O.r Mr. Payne off New Tort was elected Speaker ffflw less. oawd an outburst of aj >j>ia®se. I® exeemtive session the sundry e-srii haH was agrtin taken up. After haTomg eenspleted ffitfey-nine pages off the bain the eoaaaaittee sose. and the House ndjeanwfd. The UDBaunitnouis consent agreement reached hy the- Senate on Saturday to vote Tuesday affternwa on the- resolution of Mr. MeEnesy (Dem_ La.) deviating the pedae-y off this Government in the Philippines was not vacated. In accordance with that agreement the vote vras taken on the icsolotian. ami it was adopted—--36 t© 22. The Nicaragua canal bill was off-owd in the House as an amendment to the snndty civil appropriation bill by Mr. Hepburn off lowa, chairman off the committee that repotted it. and the leaders on the respective sides are engaged in a desperate straggle which involves the fate off the measure at: this session off Congress. The debate lasted two hours and was not concluded!. The IL-ss.se- oa Wednesday settled the fate off the Nicaragua canal bill in this Congress hy seffhsiag to override the devisee® off the chair, occupied by Mr. HopIkiTi*. in committee off the whole, when the chair held that the canal bill offered as an amendment by Mr. Hepbont was out off order. The reading off the sundry civil boil was coat Bn wd. The appropriation i for the viicep waterways commission was in creased from SMiMXMt to $90,000 on motion off the Appropriatsens Committee. After compiSeting tea addUtkmal pages off the ball the committee rose and the House adjourned. A bill extending the "cordial appsreciation" wff Congress to Miss Helen Miller (Mi ffwr her patriotic services during the recent war and providing that the President should present to her a gold medal was passed by the Senate. A bill was passed providing (or the admission to the naval academy as a cadet of Oscar W. Drignaa, one off the Memmae heroes. Senators CuUom. Sewell and Teller were named as conferees on the legislative aprpewpriation hiE.

Notes of C[?]re[?]t Event[?].

’ The array apswwpriatian b£9 this year ea®s for MQywwNA. At Geo. Brooke* is saggsbrieifc. the eoilectk* of taxes in Cob.* will be takes away ffivtuaa the Bpmk off Havana. The New Haaiipslakr- has passe# a .fciß prtdnibiitlpjc the dissection of la*a'!.»rablV' dssc4ppge#| Foitcd States soiIVter Holt of Dickinson County. Teas, was shot front aaobnsh in his yard, the bring emptied into his right ride, fatally wounding hum. .

Oa Canada'* Free Homestead Lssdh Wetaskfwln, Alta., April 5,1888. W. F. McCreary, Government Immigration Commissdon«r, Winnipeg: Dear Sir—l like the country very much so far. Have Been a great number of farmers from tbe States, and every one seen so far saye tH done well and like It hereAx better than where they came fremind all claim R to be the best country for a poor man; that they were ever in, and with good crops this season I predict a great rush. There are some nice claims to be had yet, but will not last long. 1 do not find It any colder tbaa In lowa and am feeling much better than when I left there March 1, I think this a great country for those who are suffering with throat amLlung troubles. I have seen men that had as high as 51% bushels wheat per acre and sear 100 bushels oats, but they weigh from 45 to 51 pounds per bushel, but tbe general run Is 25 to 50 wheat, 50 to 75 oats, and stock looking fine; some cattle running out were nearly in market flesh. V expect to return to the States lato this fail for stock, etc. Will write yon when 1 want to go. Thanking yon aU for past favors, I remain, most respectfully yours, (Signed) DR. D. E. STREVELIi.

Sunday night, Feb. 19, will be iaaogurated at McVicker's Theater in Chicago the run of “Sporting Life,” the most remarkable success of tbe theatrical season. Early in September this play yra* produced at the Academy of Music in Xew York and it has been running there ever since to the capacity of this the largest theater in America. But for Jacob Litt’s promise to his McVicker’s Theater patrons it would be there still. It is acknowledged the best melodrama ever brought from England, and it is certainly the most magnificent production of a play ever made in this eountry. There are sixteen scenes in the live acts which are necessary to the telling of the story and scene was painted by a master of the craft. Two hundred people are used in the production and the cast of over fifty speaking parts is made up of the very cream of the actors and actresses of America. As the title suggests, the play is based on the sport loving proclivities of the English speaking races. The is a young English nobleman, the Earl of Woodstock. His passion for racing has brought him to the verge of bankruptcy and only the victory of his great mare. Lady Love, in the historic Derby can save him. How the evil genii of the pla.V try to prevent this victory and how they strive to bring disgrace on the fine old family name forms a story of great strength and interest. Lady Love finally runs the race and wins it in a most Impressive fashion, but the spectators have been through three hours of hairbreadth escapes, tremendously stirring events and thrilling complications. “Sporting LifeV’ engagement at McVicker's Theater -will be the most important event theatrically iar the city of Chicago. “

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