Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1899 — Page 2

JASTER OODNTY DEMOCRAT. ’ F. E. BABCOCK. Publisher. ■ . .== HcMSEUE*, ... INDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

1b the bribery case of Attorney Genynl Monett against the Standard Oil Cteaapaay the Supreme Coart of Ohio •brows the ease ant of coon, giving as (he reason that the information does not «außret the coospany with the attempted Mtty. Mans Viola Horlocker. charged with the ■*lirep t ri l murder of Mrs. C. F. Morey person May 10 last, was arraigned in .the Dsrtrirt Court at Hastings, Neb., and toe case was continued until the spring tena. Her bead was renewed with the astpioal sureties. Four Englishmen hare been buying bane* for the London and Liverpool bane markets at the Grand avenue hone and BMde market in Kansas City. The Trn**vaal war has done as much for the hone trade ia Kansas City as it has for the trade in mules. Senator Jones, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has issued a caß fur a meeting of the committee to ■be brM at the Raleigh Hotel in Washington on the 22d of February next, to bx a time and place for holding the national Democratic convention. New* was received by the steamer Dan she of the finding of a wonderfully rich dtpaiiTt of free milling ore within ten mde* of the Klondike capital, which assay* SB«M to the ton. The find, said to be the greatest in the mining history of the world, was made a year ago. A secret meeting of grain dealers was held at Lima, 0.. over 100 being present from northwestern Ohio. They formed an organization to control prices and fight the increase of freight rates proposed by the railroads and to head off the demoralization of their business. A eave-in occurred in the cement asiae* of the New York and Rosendale Cement works at Rosendale. N. Y. Fourteen miners were buried, but after hard work all of them were rescued. Thousands of tons of rock and dirt caved in, carrying down buildings and machinery. The State of North Carolina has chartered the Appalachain National Park ftmoiistirr. with beadquarters at Ashe *Me. It is for the promotion and main traance by the Vailed States of a national pork and forest preserve in anti among the Southern Appalachain mountiiai The Colonial Sugar Refining Company, the alleged rival of the American Sugar Refining Company, was incorporated at Dover. DeL. its capital being sl< >0,001), with the privilege of increasing it to The company is chartered to engage- in the production of sugar in Cahn. Hawaii and Porto Rico. The Nebraska Supreme Court has suspended the judgment psssed on the three Omaha ministers fined by District Judge Scott on a charge of contempt of court. Judge Scott’s sentence was that the minshould go to jail if the fines were not paW The chief justice fixed the anpmedeas bond at SSOO for each of the mmistem. At Lincoln. Neb., the Supreme Court r« retard the decision of the Douglas Coanty Court holding the bondsmen of former State Treasurer Bartley liable on bis affinal bond. The decision holds thut that the Governor only approves a bond of a State official and that the same does not become binding until filed with the Secretary of State. The President has granted a full pardon to James 11. Bacon, convicted in IHBfi of making a false report to the CooaptroUer of the Currency of the condition of the National Bank of Salt Lake, Utah, of which he was president. Comptroller Dawes and his predecessor stated that they believed Bacon was innocent of any moral wrong and that he ought net to have been convicted.

BREVITIES.

The National Bank of Port Jervis, K- Y, has suspended. One person in every 3»x) is buried alive, ■mediae to the statements of a New York physician. Samuel ••otnpers has been unanimously re-elected President of the American Pederatioa of Labor. Germany is said to be anxious to buy St. Thnnrri, Danish West Indies, for a ■aval coaling station. The Columbian Catholic summer ■chooi aril! be held at Detroit from July--10 to Aug. 1 next year. The Government of the United States has adopted “Puerto Rfco” as the official spelling of the name of that island. San Jose has been having a two days' celebration of the golden jubilee of the fteondxng of California's government. The Alhambra, the famous convention hail of Symcnse. N. Y.. was destroyed by Sr*. The loss amounts to $50,000. At Richmond. V*.. United States Senator Thorn as Martin was re-elected for the term beginning March 4, 1901, by both hnuarj of the Assembly, acting separately. The British and American ministers at The Hague have asked permission to retire to Antwerp with a view of avoiding personal unpleasantness owing to the ■nti-Engfisb attitude of the Dutch. Antone GaDcsi. who was buried in the sMwtide at Silver Plume. Colo., last winter and was dug out alive, was killed within thirty feet of the scene by smoking while loading dynamite cartridges. The editorship of Harper’s Bazar has been offered to and accepted by Miss Bnabeth G. Jordan, formerly of Milwanfcee, who has been connected editormOy tor eight years with the New York Korman S. Pevarill has been arrested at Rochester. N. Y„ for enlisting men for the British aervic* in South Africa. A pititinn was filed by the Circuit Chart at Baltimore for the appointment sf a receiver toe the Columbian Iron "Wort* and Dry-liock Company, of -rtach far mi i; Mayor William T. Malster Whrie Waff street speculator bewailed the lasses by the shrinkage in the value of the storta they held, every one of them

EA&TERN. Col. Julias Walser Adams died at Brooklyn, aged 87 years. He was the pioneer engineer of the Brooklyn bridge. Fire completely destroyed the school annex building of St. Michael’s orphan asylum on Pius street, Pittsburg. Loss $90,000, insurance $50,000. The Republican national convention that is to meet next summer goes to Philadelphia. The convention will be held on Tuesday, June 10 next. Henry Landis, secretary of the Baltimore Board of Trade, committed suicide at the Union Protestant idttrmary by jumping from a third-story window. Three persons were burned to death and one seriously injured at a fire that occurred in a dilapidated tenement in the Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, N. Y. Lieut. Thomas ,M. Brumby, Admiral Dewey's flag lieutenant while the admiral was in command of the Asiatic station, died of typhoid fever at the Garfield hospital in Washington. A dispatch from Meriden, Conn., announces the financial embarrassment of the old carriage hardware house of the H. D. Smith company of Stonington, capitalized at $200,000. A general advance of 10 per cent to the 1,000 employes of the Bessemer steel department has been granted by the Jones & Laughlins Iron and Steel Company of Pittsburg, to take effect Jan. 1. Fire started in a big New York factory building. The flames spread with great rapidity and there was a terrific panic in many of the surrounding tenements. The loss will amount to about $75,000. What is probably the largest cargo of sugar which has ever arrived at Philadelphia on a single vessel came on the British steamship India from Samarang. It consists of 7,92(5 tons of cane sugar and is valued at over $500,000. J. Arnold Parsons, 23 years old, was literally blown to pieces at the United States slate quarry at Pen Argyll, Pa. Parsons was preparing to set off a blast when powder that had been scattered by the high wind became ignited. Chester W. Kingsley, former Mayor of Cambridge, Mass., has presented Brown University, Providence, R. 1., with a gift of $25,000. This sum is a contribution toward the $2,000,000 endowment fund which it is expected will be completed in 1900.

WESTERN.

Henry C. Niese was killed in the prize ring at St. Louis by Fred Bellerson. The private warehouse ot the City Elevator Company at Minneapolis was burned. Loss $50,000. The Brown & Hinman plant in the State prison nt Columbus, Ohio, was damaged $<5,500 by fire. Insured. Prosecuting Attorney Williams of Pawnee County, O. T., while arguing a case in court, fell dead with heart disease. At Fort Scott, Kan., Dr. F. C. Rainier, a physician, was accidentally killed by his own shotgun while hunting with u party of friends. Articles of incorporation for the M. C. Wetmore Tobacco Company of St. Louis were tiled at Jefferson City, Mo. The capital stock is $1,250,000. The Comedy Theater at San Francisco was destroyed by tire. The flames are supposed to have started in the scenery room. The loss will exceed $25,000. The Tacoma, Wash., Daily Ledger has changed hands, passing into control of the Tacoma Newspaper Company. It is understood the purchase price is $75,000.

Tire St. Louis and Iron Mountain Bailroad Company has tiled a mortgage in Sebastian County, Ark., for $40,000,000 in favor of the Metropolitan Trust Company of New York. The library of former United States Attorney General A. H. Garland, deceased, was sold at public auction at Little Boek for the insignificant sum of $125. It contained 2,490 volumes. Chief of Police Murphy of Moorhead, Minn., was shot while attempting to arrest a burglar of the name of Collins. Collins shot and ran, but fell, dropping his revolver, which Murphy secured and shot Collins in the head. .» At Mnrfa, Texas, a freight train ran into a hack at East Crossing. The hack contained Mrs. Lacey Duncan, Mrs. John Krupp and Mrs. William Coalson. Mrs. Lacey Dunean and Mrs. Krupp were thrown against the engine and instantly killed. Fire broke out in the broom department at the Stale penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb. The broom factory in which the fire started is owned by the Lee Broom and Duster Company, and their stock and machinery are a total loss, put at $25,000. covered by insurance. Representatives of Eastern wool firms, principally from Boston, have been canvassing the wool growing sections of Washington State in an effort to buy nest year’s clip. In the Banier reserve district advances have been offered at a full price when delivered of from 17 to 20 cents per pound. Chief of Police Corner of Cleveland has received a communication from the thieves who recently walked out of the jewelry store of Sigler Bros., in that city with about $20,000 worth of diamonds, and it is understood that negotiations have been opened which may result in the return of the gems. It is definitely announced that__the Armours have closed a deal for 240 acres just across the Toledo city line, upon wfiieh they will erect an enormous porkpaekiug establishment and stock yards/ second only to those in Chicago. N. B. Beam, tfie railway magnate, is said to have interested Mr. Armour in the city. Peter J. Studebaker. Jr., sou of the head of the wagonmaking firm of Chicago, died at San Francisco, of heart disease, aged 21 years. Young Studebaker had considerable literary ability and had recently finished a play entitled “Sword and Scepter,” which was to be produced at Fisher Opera House in San Diego Jan. 15. * Mrs. Aliev Palmer, .whose family lives in Alabama, was burned to death in a midnight fire in a boarding house at 1 Hubbard court, Chicago. The fifteen women boarders aroused from sleep were thrown into a panic and rushed, hither and thither for a means of escape, finally getting put in safety. The buildinjf was damaged to the extent of s4,<Mlp. , V Judge Wted Statt* UfreSt Opart at a decision in the case of the Detroit Photographing Company against Frank 8.

products of artists originally are pot subjects of copyright: Thia applies to all photographs of Rocky Mountain scenery. William Morganrath died at Dayton, Ohio, from the effect* of a blow on the head with a coffee cup, delivered by J. I. Jones. The young men were in a restaurant talking and joking, when Morganrath got the laugh on Jones, which angered him. Jones grabbed up the coffee cup and threw it at Morganrath, fracturing his skull. There was t fatal collision on the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus road at Newburg, Ohio. A passenger train, whose brakes refused to work, collided with a pony engine on a side track on the ground of the Ohio State hospital. Alonzo Sherman and Charles R. Ehlers,, en gineer and fireman on the pony engine, were fatally injured and died an hour later. At Litchfield, Minn., John Dougherty, Charles Brost, Philip Rowe, Casper Schmidt and William have been indicted for the murder of a man of the name of Miller in the Eden Valley jail. Miller had eloped with Schmidt’s wife and was found and locked up. The grand jury has discovered that a mob broke into the jail, choked him to death and left his body hanging In his cell. The coroner’s jury had returned a verdict that Miller committed suicide. The village of Bristol, Ind., has a new sensation. Mrs. Selin Setters received by express the other day a bright 0-months-old baby. She is completely mystified by the arrival of the youngster, which was delivered by the express agent, who refused to state whence it came, professing ignorance on that point. Mrs. Setters announces that she will adopt and rear the child. The infant was well clad, properly tagged and is believed to have started from a station on the Lake Shore road not far from Bristol.

IN GENERAL.

James Shearer & Co.’s big lumber establishment in Point St. Charles, Canada, was badly damaged by fire. Sir George R. Kirkpatrick of Toronto, Canada, died, aged 58 years. He was Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1892 to 1897, and was several terms speaker of the Dominion Parliament. J. Homer Bird, the condenined Alaska murderer, after being refused a new trial by Judge Johnson, will make an effort to prolong his life by an appeal to the United States Supreme Court, according to reports brought by the steamer City of Topeka. The execution of Bird will be the first legal hanging in Alaska during American occupation. D. B. Green, Col. John F. Gaynor and William T. Gaynor, the contractors with whom former Capt. Oberlin M. Carter was associated in the Savannah river and Cumberland sound improvements, surrendered to United States Commissioner Shields at New York. The men were indicted by th? United States grand jury at Savannah for being in a conspiracy by which the Government was defrauded out of $575,949. The statistician of the Department of Agriculture reports the wheat crop of the United States for 1899 at 54<,300,000 bushels, or 12.3 bushels an acre., The production of winter wheat is placed at 291,700,000 bushels and that of spring wheat at 255,000,000 bushels. Every important wheat-growing State has been visited by special agents of the department, and the changes in acreage are the result of their investigations. The newly seeded area of winter wheat is estimated at 30,150,000 acres, which is about 200,000 acres greater than that sown In the fall of 1898. The average of condition is 97.1.

Bradstreet’s says: “General trade in wholesale and manufacturing lines is quieting down, but it is worth nothing, if undisturbed by the money situation, the influences of which have been confined to speculative circles. Holiday trade, on the other hand, has been given a decided impetus and comparisons with the same period of preceding years are un , *ormly favorable, little doubt remaining that, although retail trade in seasonable lines has been somewhat affected in some localities by unfavorable weather, holiday specialties have enjoyed exceptional activity. As regards prices, it is a notable fact that as many staples have advanced this week as there have declined, while by far the larger number of quotations have remained steadj- or firm. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 3,258,649 bushels, against 5,133,331 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,017,185 bushels, against 3,815,699 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $8.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to '67c; corn, No. 2,30 cto 32c; oats, No. 2,22 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 51c; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 26c; eggs, fresh. 19c to 21c; potatoes, choice, 35c to 50< per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, com pion to prime, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No/ 2,66 cto 68c; corn, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $7.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2,24 ct< 25c; rye, No. 2,52 cto 53c. Cincinati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25.; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26to 27c; rye. No. 2,60 cto 62c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.75; ho/s, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; Corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, 56c to 58c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 68c to 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,55 c to 57c; clover seed, $4.90 to $5.00. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, ,64eto G6c; corn,-Bfi.-A- 3009 3gc; oats. No. 2‘white, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 1,55 c to 57e; barley, No. 2,43 cto 45c; pork, mess, SIO.OO to $10.50.' Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, co th mon to’ choice, $8.25 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, ss.oo to $4.50; lambs, romqpon to extfa, $4A> 4 to $6.75; hogs, $3.06-to »4Jp; -ahetft. $3.(0 to $5.00; wheat. No. atted, 74c to 75c; torn, No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; butter, creamery, 23c to 28c; eggs, westera, 16c to 25c.

LAWTON SHOT DEAD.

FAMOUS FIGHTER KILLED AT ' HEAD OF HIB TROOP& Falla While About to Assault Inaurgeah Wou HU Rank by GallantryHero of Civil, Indian and Spanish Wars—Sketch of a Noble Life. A Manila dispatch Tuesday reported that Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton had been killed at San Mateo. He was

GEN. LAWTON.

battalions of infantry daring the evening to capture San Mateo, where three hundred insurgents had entrenched themselves. The press dispatch announcing Gen. Lawton’s death, when received in Washington, was sent immediately to the White House, where the cabinet meeting was in progress. The news was received with expressions of profound sorrow and regret. At the War Department instructions had been received Monday from the President to prepare Gen. Lawton’s commission as a brigadier general in the regular army, to fill one of the existing vacancies and the adjutant general’s clerks were at work on the commission when the information of Gen. Lawton’s death was conveyed to the department. Geri. Lawton was a native of Indiana and won his commission in the army by signal gallantry’ during the war between the States and in the Indian wars. It comes only to a great nation that has been rent with civil war, menaced by frontier strife with fierce Indians and burdened with the responsibilities of a contest like the Spanish war and the subsequent actions in the tropical Philippines, to produce such a typical fighter as Maj.'Gen. Henry W. Lawton. Personally leading troops in battle, where it would appear that no soldier could escape the death-dealing bullet, Gen. Lawton went through an experience that would have covered his breast with medals had he fought beneath the flag of an empire. When death came to him it was as if a personal blow had been dealt to every loyal American who had read of the deeds of the brave man.

Geu. Lawton was one of the "born fighting machines” that the United States army acquired at the outbreak of the rebellion, from private life. Acts of heroism marked his honorable career in the volunteer army that saved the nation,, and, bearing the brevet of colonel for distinguished services in action, and proud in the possession of a medal of honor for signal acts of bravery before Atlanta in 1864, Gen. Lawton elected to make war his profession. He was made a lieutenant in the regular army, first serving with the Fortyfirst infantry, but subsequently joining the cavalry arm of the service. When President McKinley made him a major general May 4, 1898, he was a lieutenant colonel in the regular army. To millions the story of the “hero of El Caney” is much fresher and much more vivid than the work of the intrepid Indian fighter who clung doggedly to the trail of that wily chieftain of the murderous Apaches, Geronimo, until he had successfully carried out his plan for the Indian’s capture. '

QUEEN VICTORIA'S CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO TOMMY ATKINS.

Each of these boxes contains half a pound of fine chocolate. The Queen herself chose the design for the cover, which is enameled in red, with the embossed medallion in gold. As soon as the 90,000 boxes were made, the dies were broken, so that no one but Tommy Atkins-at the front may have one of the boxes. The present cost the Queen about $15,000.

“BLACK WEEK” IN LONDON.

Total British Losses Since War Began Are Now 7,630. “Black week,” as last week is now universally called in London, has evidently aroused the British Government and the war office to a full sense of their responsibility and of the magnitude of the task before them. The papers unanimously applaud this awakening, despite the fact that they recoghize that the heroic measures now decided upon savor rather of weakness than of strength. It was high time that something very energetic was done. The British losses in killed, wounded, prisoners and missing throughout the campaign now reach the enormous total of 7,630. As a result of the British reverses the whole South African country northwest is in rebellion. The natives there, *as well as those in Basutoland, are said to be much disturbed and losing heart respecting the strength of the British. A dispatch from Rome says that all the news of the British reverses have been telegraphed to Abyssinia as far as the wires go, and then rushed by couriers to Meuelek. It is believed Menelek is contemplating war against Britain and is only awaiting the opportunity when the British are weaker.

Church Row Prompts Crime,

As a result of a change of choirs at the La Fayette Methodist Episoepal Church south, of St. Louis, Frank I. Shaw, manager of the D. M. Osborne Company, has received two .anonjmqus .-of a JnreattnjAjf to& ago a box of eandy, said

Victory Without a Baţtle

have occupied Maracaibo, Venezuela, ousting Gen. Herwithout fighting. This has the republic.

standing in front of his troops, the dispatch stated, and was shot in the breast and instantly killed by a Filipino I sharpshooter. Gen. Lawton, according to a dispatch from Manila Monday night, started out with the Eleventh Cavalry and two

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

It is rumored in Europe that, in retaliation for the gathering of the English Channel and Mediterranean squadrons at Gibraltar, the French and Russians may attempt to seize the Spanish £ort of Ceuta, which lies across the straits in Africa. Cents, a town of 10,000 inhabtfanta, is well fortified and is important as a naval and military center. It is used by Spain as a penal colony and as head-

THE LOCATION OF CURTA.

quarters for a large part of its African t roops. It is built on the end of a peninsula which extends out from the mainland of Morocco. Since 1415 the town has been held successively by the Portuguese, the Spanish, the English, and again by the Spanish. Ceuta has been several times attacked by the Moors, but has always been successfully defended. Dr. Charles Smith, who for fifty yean was a physician in practice in New York, has found in New Jersey a fountain of

DR. CHAS. SMITH.

and a man's life can be prolonged indefinitely.” Dr. Smith was born near Cairo, Hl., on Sept. 26, 177 G. In 1822 he took the degree of doctor of medicine, and with his sheepskin he went to Persia, where for nearly ten years he studied advanced medical science as the Orientals understand it. With fifty men Lieut. James N. Munro approached Bayombong, notified the insurgent commander that he was coming

with a big force, and demanded the surrender of tne 800 insurgents and the Spanish and American prisoners. The insurgent commander surrendered to “a superior force” and Lieut. Munro agreed to enter with but fifty

men of his mythical army. Lieut. James N. Munro is a Minnesota boy. He went to West Point in 1893 from the Minnesota State University. During the Cuban war he was stationed at Fort Walla Walla. Lieut. Munro was sent to Manila last June, reaching there early in July.

Lord Ardilaun, who has purchased the Muckross estate, with its famous lakes of Killarney, is the head of the celebrated

LORD ARPIOAUN.

length and breadth of Ireland for his philanthropic character and his public-spir-ited deeds.

In spite of the announcement that Irish colonists have formed a corps to fight with the Boers against the English it is

an Irishman who has been chiefly interested in preventing the invasion of Natal. Sir Walter Francis HelyHutchinson, born in Dublin in 1849, has been the Governor of Natal and Zulu 1a n d since 1895. He was educated at Cambridge

and has been in the colonial service of Gregt Britain ever since. He has served in the Fiji Islands, in New South Wales, in the Barbadoes, in Malta, and in the Windward Isles.

The Rev. Dr. Benjamin De Costa, who

DR. DE COSTA.

will devote himself to literature and lecturing.

Will Invade Russian Fields.

The Vienna Politsche C-orrespondenz has been informed that a Philadelphia firm is negotiating with the Russian Government for the construction of'a large locomotive factory at a suitable point on the Siberian Rajfcrtlft and also for a rail mill« ajjgpsffif ssooo,ooo, which will be praridM V Anwican capitalists. was Lieutenant Governor of Ohio under the Campbell administration, died suddenly in the pOto o< Jtep,Chalfant at Bellefontaine waa the cause of death.

eternal youth. At the age of 123 years he lobks Uke a man of GO. He drinks nothing but his secret water of life, and he has just married a wife onethird his own age. Said Dr. Smith: “In Persia , both men and women often live for 200 years; it can be done right here,

LIEUT. MUNRO.

family of Guinness in Dublin. . Lord Ardilaun is very rich, but is as generous as prodigality itself. Lady Ardilaun, his wife, was before her marriage the Lady Olivia Charlotte White. Kiliarney’s present proprietor is loved and respected throughout the

SIR H-HUTCHINXSON.

resigned three months ago as presbyter in the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, has been received into the communion of the Roman Catholic Church. Being a married man, he cannot assume priestly robes. He

CONGRESS

In the Senate on Friday Mr. Aldrich presented < special order fixing the standing committees and their personnel for the Fifty-sixth Congress. The order was adopted without dissent. Adjourned until Monday. Debate on financial bill concluded in the House. 5 ' In the House on Saturday the currency bill was read for amendment under fiveminute rule. Senate resolution adopted for the appointment of three the Senate and five of the House to maw arrangements for the unveiling of the statue of Daniel Webster, presented to the Government by Stilson Hutchins, on Jan. 18, 1900: I Numerous petitions expressing sympathy with the South African republics in their war with Great Britain were presented in the Senate on Monday by Mr. Mason of Illinois. Resolutions in opposition to the retention of the. Philippines introduced by Mr. Tillman and Mr. Bacon. Speech by Mr. Morgan in favor of his resolution to prohibit trade combinations interfering with interstate commerce. The House passed currency bill providing for gold standard by vote of 190 to 150, eleven Democrats voting with Republicans in affirmative. Committees announced by Speaker.

The Senate on Tuesday substituted Senate for House financial bill and received notice from Mr. Aldrich that he would call up the former Jan. 4, 1900, and press it to passage. Received from Mr. Stewart a resolution granting the Commercial Cable Company the right to lay a cable to Cuba. Passed a bill creating a commission of five to revise and codify the pension laws. Mr. Allen, appointed from Nebraska, took the oath of office. The House referred the President’s message to the various committees and listened to speeches by Mr. Grow (Rep., Pa.) in support of the administration’s policy in the Philippines and by Mr. Bell (Pop., Colo.) criticising the President’s utterances on prosperity. Received from Mr. De Armond (Dem., Mo.) a resolution declaring against retention of the Philippines.

On Wednesday the Senate laid upon the table resolution from regents of Smithsonian Institution asking that Richard Olney be appointed to vacancy on the board. Mr. Hoar saying Supreme Court justices might as well suggest who should fill vacancy on that bench. Referred to judiciary committee resolution by Mr. Butler for constitutional amendment providing that chief justice and United States judges be elected by popular vote. Received from Mr. Hoar resolution declaring in effect' for withdrawal from the Philippines. Passed resolution requesting the President, if not incompatible with public interests, to communicate to the Senate all the testimony and findings of the commission which investigated the conduct of the Spanish-Ameri-can war. Adjourned to Jan. 3, 1900. In the House no quorum was present and time of brief session was occupied by humorous filibustering prior to adjournment to Jan. 3, 1900. y

Odd and Ends.

Louisville school board condemns golf skirts. Georgia’s prohibition bill was killed in the Senate. Mountain Valley Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark., burned. 1 Augusta. Ky., school building, worth $20,000, burned. Charles Grey, Wellston, 0., blown to atoms in a mine. James McConnell, editor of the Philadelphia Star, is dead. John Fritz. Celina, 0.. fatally stabbed his wife in the breast.

Rumored that the P.. C. & T. has been acquired by the B. & Q. Edison and Columbus, 0., electric light plants will consolidate. Half the business portion of Cumby, Tex., burned. Ix>ss $25,000. Eight firemen. Montgomery, Ala., were injured by a gasoline explosion. Union Pacific people deny that the Northwestern has leased tfiat road. Two men were asphyxiated by gas in a little shoe repairing shop in Brooklyn. Mexicans are still pursuing the Maya Indians. A long campaign is expected. Mayor Robinson, Canton, 0., paid $l3O for two bloodhounds, Chattanooga, Tenn. Chicagoans arc figuring for cheaper coal by having it brought via water from Erie. Pa. Se’-ls Bros.’ circus may remove headquarters to Bridgeport. Conn., from Columbus, Ohio. Texas health board has established quarantine at Galveston against ships from Santos, Brazil, where plague exists. Willis J. Abbot, well known in newspaper circles, will take charge of the press bureau of the Democratic national committee. Minnesota railroads have concluded contracts for the delivery of 600,000,000 feet’ of pine logs to mills in the vicinity of Dublin. The pilot boat "James Gordon Bennett was struck by a dummy shell fired from the Sandy Hook proving ground and badly damaged. Pete Thompson was killed at El Rentfl Okla., by John Curtis? sou of Robers Curtis, a wealthy white man, who married into ,the Caddo Indian tribe. Jailer Wm. Shockley and his son, Harry Shockley, Columbus, Ohio, were indieted by the United States grand jury on the charge of aiding Capt. 1. T. Jobe to escape from jail. United States will haveau irrigation exhibit at the Paris .sfcow. Cotton mills of New Hampshire have increased wages 10- per cent. Conductor Howard, Newark. 0., was killed in a collision near Mansfield. Engineer Peterman badly Injured. Many negroes are said, to have been doped into leaving for Mlssis?F* e tomi<rant .Steph C. -~>s. fhnhder of the Royal BqkftJß»ler Company, died in New-bdablfr wfe several times a mil- ' ’• -a * ‘