Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — Page 2

■ASPER Clll'NTV DEMOCRAT. K BABCOCK. Publisher. JpRSSELAcR • ■ - PI DI AHa.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Mgjftr '¥' J- Forney, a prominent physiof Cherokee. Kan-. «as found dead Kgn his office. On a table were bottles of aconite anti chlorotorm anti a ■ note saying: "1 had gather leap into the Bhnuknown than longer endure what I I know.”. ■ .In the Legislature at Victoria, B. ('.. it B was brought to the attention <>t Attorney KtJeneral Henderson that ii British flag B and portrait of the Queen hail been tram Kpled under foot hi a city sulixm. Ihe At’ ■rloruey General said he would prosecute ■*any parties guilty of treason. I g The automobile patrol wagon built by Kthe city of Akron. Ohio, and said to be ■ the first manufactured. has been put ini" B actual service. It is much like ordinat.t I covered patrol w agons in appearance. It KWeighs 5.5(H) pounds and is equipped with E’ two four-horse power motors. | Tile Toronto Presbyterian foreign mis [ aioli office has received a letter t loin its ■■ mission in II mi on. China, bet! ring news ft <>f complete failure of crops throughout F that region. Famine confronts the rta!R tives, who are greatly excited, blaming ft the missionaries for‘their misfortunes. || The new doctorate instituted by the ii' University ot Paris in IStii lor the benf. etit of foreigners has been conferred up I on Daniel I’olkmar. former lecturer in sociology at the I nit cisity of ( htcago ’ and now professor of anthropology at the ’ new University of Brussels. K- It is said Bussell Sage cleared Sl.OtfU.<MM> by the sale Of the'greater part of his holdings in the Standard Gas Light Coin- ' patty. It is understood that he pttrehaS; i cd his stock at 36. The price received for it is reported to be 1 10. ami at that figure he is said to have let go of IOJHHI ; shares. At Toledo, the grand jury reported an indictment against Lemont Bateman, manager of the Toledo Tube works, tor ' violation of the < >hio coercion law . Bate ! man discharged an employe because of his affiliation' with a bicycle workers union. The penalty is S.JHt fine or six f months' imprisonment or both. K- - At Ripley, Tenn.. Marvin Durham and « W. D. Turner, peace officers, were shot s down and instantly killed by two negroes | while taking a brother of one of the two murderers to jail. The white people immediately began a hunt for the nnirderF ers. Two negroes, believed to be the men who killed the officers, were ly itched at S 9:30 the same evening. * The State Bank of Plankinton. S. !>.. owned by D. L. Stevens, failed to open its doors the other day owing to his absence. Nothing could be learned as to how heavy the failure is. Mr. Stevens went East, presumably to secure assistance. ami wired his cashier not to open : the hank. Stevens owned a drug store which he transferred to his head clerk. It being the only hank there, nearly ev | cry business ma it w its .caught in the failure. Aurora t'oiinty. it is said, had about $3,000 on deposit. The tire losses throughout the I tided I States find Canada for the year 1899, just computed, have caused a sensation ill tire insurance circles, and underwriters are milch disturbed as to the condition of ? their business. There is already talk of L Increasing rates all over the country, esjteciiilly in the large cities. where the losses have been heavy. The total tire loss of $1311.773.201) exe Is by more than $17,0(H),000 that of 1 SOS. and by more than S26,(MM>.(MK» that of 1897. December shows that the pace set in the previous months of the year were more than fully sustained. There were 217 tires of a greater destructiveness than $16,000,

NEWS NUGGETS.

Atleiupts to form an oyster trust havifallen through. The Davis iron works al Denver. Colo,, burned. Loss SIOO,(MtU, insured. • .fudge William I‘. I low laud died of pneumonia at Jefferson. Ohio, aged 68 years. Natives of the Admiralty Islands Rilled and ate the crew and fifteen men of a British tratling schooner, Ada Behan has signed contracts with Klaw and Erlanger for a ten weeks' tour, beginning at Lord's Opera House. Balti: more. March 12. In the annual contest in debate for the ’94l.memoriii 1 prize al Cornell I rank 11. Hafner of Farmington. N. Y. v was awarded the honor of first place. At Montrose. Fa.. Cornelius Shew ami Janies J. Eagan, the murderers of Jackson Pepper, an aged and wealthy farmer of Kush Township, were hanged. A man giving his name as L. D. Chap-, man of Chicago was found at the Farm ers* Hotel. Columbus. Ohio, in an uucon‘scions condition, evidently from morphine poisonjug. He died shortly afterward. Henry C. Pavne, national Republican committeeman of Wisconsin., has received a letter from Elilitt Boot. Secretary of War, in which Mr. Boot says he is not and will not be a candidate for the office of Vice-President. Mayor Samuel M. Jones, of Toledo, ami Albert S. Dulin, of Philadelphia, have chartered the Association of Altruists and selected Moorestown. N. J., near Philadelphia, for the site of a co operative communistic colony. The torpedo boat destroyer Goldsborough was given another trial mi the Columbia river nt Portland. Oro,, by the Wolff & Sewicker iron works. During a short run she devolol>ed a speed close to thirty-three miles an hour. Bev. Charles M. Sheldon, author of •’ln His. Steps” ami other religious novels, has rewived notice from London to the effect that his work. “In His Steps," has been dramatized, and will shortly be put upon the stage in London. Mme. Bazaine. widow of the famous French marshal, who died some years ago in exile in Spain, died at a private : KbSpltaf fff Thret 'ity wF-Mex+eo-.- —. . The loving cup of silver, made from the melted dimes' contributed by over 70,000 Americans, the majority of whom were children, was presented to Admiral Dewey at Washington. William Wasco, a Hungarian, was hanged in the yard of the county court . house at Pittsburg. The crime for which ■ Wasco ww executed was the murder of Annie Sestak. a Hungarian girl, who had refused to marry him.

EASTERN.

By an explosion of dynamite at the Carnegie blast furnaces. Duquesne, Pa., six laborers were injured. Fire destroyed the brick factory build ing. 338 and 342 East Fifty-ninth street, New York t’it.v Loss $400,066. The Pennsylvania Railway Company's Juniata, Pa., blacksmith shop was burned. Loss $106,000, covered by insurance. The JohH V. Schaefer Company, mail ufacturets of cabinet work and interior decorat ions. New York, lias made an an signment. William 11. P ntniim, thfr undertaker Who conducted the funerals of Henry (.’lay and Daniel Webster, is dead at •New York, aged S,l years. St. George's Protestant Episcopal Cliiireh. Brooklyn. N. Y„ vvas burned out, the loss amounting to $56,000. A defective fltie probably started the fire. ('apt. Charles D. Sigsbee. commander Of the battleship Texas, now at the Brooklyn navy yard, hurt his riglit leg while alighting from a trolley Car in Nqw York. Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn, rector of St. Mary's Chitreh, Newburg. N. Y . died after an illness of aboilt seven weeks of heart failure, superinduced by Bright’s d isease. .lames ( 'a.lhouii, formerly resident manager of the Equitable Life Insurance Company at Harrisburg, Pa., committed suicide by shooting himself . He was ill poor health. Three boy s 1 were drowned at Hintons pond, near Raleigh. N. ('.. while crossing the ice. They were William Williamson, aged IS; Edwin Lee, 14, and .lames Hinton. aged 15. Chiara Cignnraie, who murdered her husband in New York City April 21), ISS6, and who was serving a life sentence iii Auburn prison, was pardoned by Gov. Roosevelt. Two women were burned to death in a fire, that occurred in a big New: York tenement house. '1 he bodies were recovered, but have not been identified. Sev eral persons were injured. Joel G. Tyler, late teller of the SafetyNational Bank of Fitchburg. Mass., was sentenced ill the United States Court to serve five years in Worcester jail for ein bezzlilig the funds of the bank. Ernest J. Lehmann, founder of the Fair in Chicago, and the originator of the department store idea, died at White Plains, N. Y. He had been for years at a private sanitarium in.the East. The committee having in charge the perpetuation of the Dewey nrch in NewYork City is assured a fund of $260,(MM1. John D. Rockefeller has pledged himself to give $5,00(1 and a New York banker subscribed s2,o<*o'.

WESTERN.

Minnie Seligmati Cutting; the actress, has begun suit at St. Louis for a divorce from her husband, Robert Cutting of Xew York. Boss Haymond, formerly a well-known journalist, has been sentenced to the Milwaukee house of correction for sixty days for vagrancy. At Wellsville, Mo., a Wabash passen ger west-bound struck ft. cow. The engine was ditched and T iceman John Robinson was killed. J. E. Sutton, editor and proprietor of the Daily Reporter of Logansport, Ind., committed stiieide at St. Paul by shoot iug. No cause is known. At Belpre, Ohio, some one emptied two gallons of paris green into a large cis tern belonging to Samuel Wilcpxen. Detectives are working on the ease. Three men were killed by the falling of an elevator in the furnace room of the brass foundry in the branch works of the Illinois Steel Company in Chicago. The boiler house of the oil works on the Kisler farm, northwest of Lima, 0., was blown up by anTxplosion of natural gas. Frank Trembly, the plumber, was killed. The Hennessey Mercantile Company’s warehouse at Butte, Mont., was destroyed by tire. Loss estimated at $57,000. full insurance on stock and $20,000 on building. ~

George K. Nash has been inaugurated Governor of Ohio. A great crowd participated in the inauguration ceremonies, which took place in the rotunda of the , State House in Columbus. Commander Duncan Kennedy, inspee- j tor of the eleventh lighthouse district, stationed at Detroit, Mich,, has been ordered to take command of the cruiser Detroit, now at Key West. Hans Kavene, a well known German actor, who had been playing recently al the Cleveland Theater, was instantly killed by falling from a stairway at his boarding house. His neck was broken. As a result of a drunken* quarrel at a Piute Indian eamp near Pineville, Ore., Matthew Wewa killed his wife, fatally wounded his brother. Charley, and two squaws named Tyler and Susie and killed himself. A barn on the Fox farm, two miles south of Hamilton. Ohio, burned to the ground the other night. Eight tramps were sleeping in the barn. Only six have been found since the tire. Of these two are fearfully burned. Three men blew open the safe in the Lucky Bank at Wolf Lake, Ind., and robbed it of its contents. The amount secured is not known. It is believed a robbery at Noblesville the night before was committed by the same men. Suit was tiled in the District Court of Dallas, Texas, for the ownership of the land upon which Oak Clift', a suburb of Dallas with 5,000 inhabitants, is located. An alleged missing heir has been found. The property involved is worth millions. J. F. Crennan, manager of the Topeka. Kan., branch of the Standard Oil Company, was run over ami killed by a Santa Fe switch engine. Crennan was on his way to his office in the railroad yards and it is thought his foot caught in a “frog." \ Three men (Altered the branch office of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at 30th street and Stewart avenue, Chicago, and robbed the cashier, Louis D. Vitt, of all the money in his care and of his geld watch. Thelriax’sejUHtlL. Tilt* loss is about $350. Rev. J. 11. Morely of Minneapolis, has been elected president of the Fargo, N. D., College, to succeed P. C. Simmons, who recently dropped dead. Morely has been superintendent of home missions for the Congregational Church in Minnesota for fifteen years. ” As the result of a supposed quarrel Charles Root, a farmer 40 years of age of Texas townri.ip, Mich., and wife

are dead. The crime was committed Mr. Root, who first cut his wife’s throat with a razor and then killed himself in the same way. Two small boys survive. Mra. Mary Patrick Stanton of Cleveland left her two children, a boy of 5 years old and a girl, Mary, 3 years old, alone. 1 They played happily for awhile, when the boy. spying a pok<*r, seized it, thrust it into the tire, and when it turned hot thrust it into the girl’s eye, burning out the optic. Marshall Field, owner of the Woman's Temple trust bonds, has- consented to extend the time for the payment of interest to give Mrs. Matilda B. ('arse and her associate trustees an opportunity to make good their promise that the Temple in Chicago is to "be saved" as a memorial to Miss Frances E. Willard. The Pioneer Steel Elevator Company has been organized for the const ruction of a very large grain elevator at Duluth, Minn. The men back ot the enterprise are Walter Douglas. G. F. Piper, W. S. Archer and ('. E. Thayer, all but the last named being formerly linseed oil men, who sold out to the American I,inseed Oil Company lately. Dr. Theophilus F. I’ravel and wife, of Westville, Ind., died suddenly, the latter expiring within a few minutes of the time of her husband's death. Dr. Fruvel wits lying on a lotinge when stricken with heart disease. Ten minutes biter Mrs. Fravel was also stricken with heart failure, death resulting before the body of her husband hud grown eold. The power house of the Cudahy Oil Company, located north of Muncie, lud., in the Blackford County oil field, was demolished by an explosion, causing a loss of $10,606, in addition to the fact that forty producing oil wells must lie idle until repairs are made in the machinery. 'The fire originated from an attempt of an employe to thaw out a frozen gas pipe. The coroner's jury that investigated the death of Wiutieid Raitdletnan, the express messenger who was killed in the wreck on the Union Pacific Railroad at Brighton. Colo., has found that the collision was caused by the criminal carelessness of Conductor E. W. McAllister. This man lost his reason at the scene of thq accident, but is slowly recovering his mental balance.

At a meeting of the St. Paul stock exchange at South St. Paul. Minn., a formal protest was drawn up and forwarded to Washington against the passage of the Tawney bill for taxing oleomargarine. It is claimed that the passage of this bill would damage live stock interests, certain classes of stock being of value especially for the fat. which is used in manufacturing oleomargarine. : a

I'wo months ago. C. M. Neisou, a Swedish farmer livingteight miles northwest of Kearney. Nell., disappeared. It Was generally believed he had gone to Sweden, but Sheriff Funk thought otherwise and made a search of the premises. Nelson’s headless trunk, with one arm missing, was dug up. Theodore, one of Nelson's sons, confessed that he had killed his father by striking him on rhe head with a pitchfork. He then dragged the body away ami buried it. Louis Weisner Jr., a dealer in horses, was shot five times and fell dead on Main street at Stevens Point, Wis. The shots were tired by Gabriel Green, a man aged 70 years. Green’s sons are business rivals of Weisner. Several weeks ago Green's barn and fourteen horses were destroyed by tire the night after the Green'S had won an important lawsuit over Weisner. The Greens accused Weisner of being responsible for the fire and Weisner's death is a result. Willie Daggs, aged 8 years, sou of John Daggs, a farmer living near Ellsworth, Ind.. killed his sister Lena, aged 12 years. The children were playing in the yard and quarreled Over the ownership of a knife. The boy went into the house and returned with a shotgun, remarking to his sister, “Your time has come.” He shot the girl in the breast above the heart. She died. His brother, tins Daggs, shot and killed hi.s brother John four years ago. The family is prominent. ’

SOUTHERN.

Fire destroyed three business buildings at Miami, Fla. Loss $60,000. Rev. John G. Fee. Berea, Ky.. died, aged 84 years. He was the founder of Berea College. , The handsome home of the Liederkranz Society of Louisville. Ky., was destroyed by tire. The loss is about $45,000, on which there is an insurance of SIB,OOO. Four then on the Tennessee Central Railroad, eight miles from Rockwood, Tenn., were killed in a dynamite explosion. They were unloading dynamite when a quantity of it exploded. Richmond. V*.v suffered . severely by fire. The Merchants and Planters' tobacco warehouse and contents were destroyed and Kingan's cold storage plant was gutted. The total loss is estimated at $400,000, on which then* is $350,000 insurance.

The first lynching in the history of Newport News, Va., occurred the other morning at an early hour when \\. W. Watts, a white gambler of Lynchburg, was taken from the station house, carried across the corporate line, tied to an oak sapling and shot to death. Only seven men went to the jail. The Southern Presbyterian Board of Missions in Nashville has received letters from Rev. L. C. Vass and Rev. H. P. Hawkins, missionaries of the church stationed at Luebo, Congo Free State, Africa. giving accounts of the burning of fourteen villages and the killing of ninety or more natives by State troops. They report that some of the victims were eaten by cannibals.

FOREIGN.

Dr. Leopold Schenck, who announced the discovery of a means of influencing the sex of offspring, has been forced to retire from the Vienna University. The German minister at London has been instructed to demand ample reparation for the seizures of German ships at Delagoa Bay and the indignity offered to the German flag. The Great Western Line mail steamer -Ibex- atruck.. on . Black Rock, off, St. Sampson’s, Island of Guernsey, and sunk. All the passengers were saved, but one sailor was drowned. Dimitri Grigorowitch, the author and creator of stories of Russian peasant life and one of the uios' eminent representatives of modern Russian literature, died in St. Petersburg, aged 76. A landslip destroyed 500 yards of the Beftegarde tunnel, near Geneva, Swltxeriand. A train passing through the tun-

nel was caught iu the avalanche and many passengers are reported to have been wounded. News has reached Canton, China, that a battle occurred between natives near Wang Chauin and the French forces stationed there. It is said that the Chinese routed the French and pursued them for some distance. The French loss was thirty killed. The Chinese losses are not stated.

The Hamburg-American Line steamer Patria, which caught tire in the English channel Nov. 15. while on her way from New Y’ork to Hamburg, and was abandoned, going ashore ou the Kentish coast, was raised the other day. She subsequently foundered, however, and two persons were drowned. The Journal de St. Petersburg, the organ of the Russian foreign office, expresses the gratification of the Russian Government that all the powers have signed the acts of the peace .conference at The Hague within the stipulated time, and expresses the opinion also that ratifications will speedily follow.

IN GENERAL.

Carl Buenz. Germa n consul at Chicago, has been apiminted consul general at New York. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen has given notice of withdrawal from the Federation of American Railway Employes. Traffic on, the White Pass and Yukon Railway has l>een indefinitely suspended on account of snow and slides, which are from fifty to 200 feet deep ou the rails. Congressman Hopkins of the House ways and means committee states that there will be no revision of the war internal revenue tax law at the present session of Congress.

Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn is suffering from u mysterious growth on his right hip, which is sapping his strength, lie is too weak to bear an operation and a fatal result is feared. The movement to establish a national park on the ground made historical by the battle of Atlanta, (la . is indorsed by former President Harrison ami other prominent Northerners, "Lucky" Baldwin of San Francisco, who has only a remnant left ot a oner big fortune, proposes in the spring to gc to Cape Nome,The new mining camp un der the arctie circle, and start a dance house.

The .Ministerial Association of British Columbia, headed by Bishop Perrin, hat interviewed the Government urging leg islation against the recognition of Amer ican divorces granted for causes not recognized by Canadian liiws. While M’iss Rachel Ferguson, a wellknown young woman of Toronto, Ont., was on her way home the other night she was knocked down by an unknown man and robbed. The man used a club or sandbag and the blow was so severe that Miss Ferguson died from the effects. The Davenport, Rock Island and Northwestern road has been opened sot freight traffic, and a passenger service established. John W. Gates, president of the Federal Steel Company, is president of the road, which has a bridge across the Mississippi at Davenport, lowa, and owns forty-one miles of track. A man about 30 years old registered at the Rossin House, Toronto, as A. Finberg of Chicago, aud was assigned to a room. Nothing was seen of him the next day. and the day following the bed room door was forced. Finberg was found dead. He had shot himself twice, once in the mouth and ofice in the neck. He left nothing to explain his action. Bradstreet’s says: “Perhaps the most notable movement among leading staples is that developed in hogs and hog products, a better realization apparently being had of the features making for strength in those products, notably among which being the reduction in the supply of hogs. That the advance in hog products is beginning to attract more at tention seems evident from the extent t« which this advance has had sympathetic reflection in the prices of wheat and other cereals.” A complete revision and codification ol the postal laws has been completed by Acting Assistant Attorney General Barrett. The most important changes are to prohibit the establishment or mainte’nance of a postoffice for the benefit of any person or company where they arc enabled to obtain their postage at a nominal figure, a legislative confirmation of the official practice where irregularities are discovered of relieving a postmaster from duty and transferring the office of the bond sureties and authority for the Postmaster General to fix the compensation of fourth class postmasters in caqe« of boycott.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $4.75: sheep, fair to choice. $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, G4c to 65c; corn. No. 2. 30c io 3te; oats. No. 2. 21< to 23c; rye. No. 2,52 cto 54c; butter, choice creamery. 28c to 3Qe; eggs, fresh, 19c to 21c: potatoes, choice. 40c to 50c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.75: hogs, choice light. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,6 S- to 70c; corn. No. 2 white. 3O< to 32c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 27c. St. Louis- Cattle. $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to. $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to s*>.2s; wheat. No. 2,70 cto 72e: corn. No. 2 yellow. 30c to 32c; oats. No. 2,24 cto 26c; rye. No. 2 51c to 53c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $2.50 to $6.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. $2.50 to $4.25. wheat. No. 2. 70c to 71c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 32c to 33c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c: rye. No. 2. 61c to 63c. petroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2. 69c tb 70c; corn. No. 2 yellow. 32c to 33c: oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 28'-: rye. 57c to 5Dc. Toledo— Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 68c to 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 inixe<i. 23c to 25c; rye. No. 2,55 c to 57c; clover seed. $4.75 to $4.85. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 northern 63c to 65c; corn. No. 3. 31c to 32c; oats. No. 2 white. 24c to 26c; rye. No. 1,55 c to 56c: barley. No. 2. 44c to 46c; pork, mess, $10.50 to $ll.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers. $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, common to choice. $3.25 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.0(1 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.5(1 to $6.50. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $7.00: hogs. $3.00 to $5.00; sheep. $3.00 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 red. 75e to 76c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 41e; oats. No. 2 white, 31c tn 33ej butter, creamery, 25c to 31c; eggs, weak era, 24c to 26c.

GAGE MAKES REPLY.

TREASURY’S HEAD ANSWERS INQUIRIES OF CONGRESS. Gives Him Reasons for Placing Public Moneys in National Banka-Says He Simply Followed Law and Custbm Set by His Predecessors. Secretary Gage on Wednesday sent to Congress his replies to resolutions recently introduced in the Senate by Mr. Allen of Nebraska, and in the House by Mr. Sttlz<>r of New York. The text of his reply, which is an exhaustive exposition of the management of that branch of the treasury finances under his administration relating so national bank depositories, contains about t);OOQ words, supplemented by special reports from department officials relative to special inquiries iu the resolutions, including <-opiea of over 1,000 letters on the subject under consideration. The reply seeks tv exonerate the Secretary of the Treasury from every charge laid at his door, and endeavors to show that he has observed with rigorous fidelity the letter and spirit Of the law in the handling of public moneys placed under his direction. The history which he gives of the tnmsiiry practice with regard to the de]x>.siring of public moneys when the vaults become glutted, his friends say, is information that Congress should have presented to it every two or three years. The Secretary endeavors to be especiaL ly clear in his statement, of every detail

SECRETARY GAGE.

connected with the sale of the New York custom hmisJe site to the National ( ity Bank and to the disposition made of the prm-eeds. By the acts of his predecessors and the rulings of the Comptroller of the Treasury he would show that he had a perfect right to deposit the proceeds from this sale in qualified government depositories and that moneys so deposited to the credit of the treasurer of tly United States are iu the.treasury, just as much as though they were actually on deposit in the vaults at Washington.

The legal prohibition against depositing public funds in bank depositories secured by government bonds, the Secretary deciares, applies only to customs receipts. This statement Mr. Gage tries to strengthen by letters, opinions and memoranda showing that for thirty years the Secretary of the Treasury has exercised the right conferreti upon him by the law of placing any such part of public receipts, except customs, as in his discretion he might deem best, with duly (ptalified government depositories. The Secretary tails attention to the fact that tinder his management the Treasury Departme'nt has received since June. 1898, SLI(KhHH»JMMI ami distributed it xvithmit . disturbance to the financial or commercial, equilibrium of the country.

BEVERIDGE MAKES HIS SP[?]ECH.

Senator from Indiana Voice* Praise of McKinley’s Philippine Policy. Senator Beveridge in the Senate Tuesday made his long anticipated maiden speech, sustaining the administration in its Philippine policy. Senator Beveridge opened his speech by the statement that the times call for candor. He said the Philippines are “territory belonging to the United States” forever. The speaker argued that if it proves a mistake to hold the territory, "the error can be corrected when we will: every other nation stands ready to relieve us. lit* went on to argue that the Pacific is our o«ean: that China is our national customer and the Philippines is the door of all the east. With a long prelude as to the resources of the islands, the climatic character of the people and Agiiinaldo. in which he said they were "a barbaric race modified by three centuries of contact with a decadent race." the speaker began his arguments on "true military policy." He referred to the proposed cessation of hostilities as "a false peace w hich will betray ns; a sham truce that will curse us.” Then he argued that in the efforts to secure peace the mistake has been kindness on the part of this nation. "No,” he said, “friendly methods have la-en thoroughly tried only to make peace more difficult. There is not now. nor never was. any possible course but ceaseless operations in the field and loyal support of the war at home.” In the beginning of his address he had referred to the unlimited resources of the islands and cited the fact that “Spain's export and import with the islands undeveloped was $12,175,549 annually." He continued with the statement that the jieople were indolent and offered no competition with the labor of the Fritted States. Mr. Beveridge next branched off into suggestions as to the "plan of government neisled in the Philippines: it should be simple and "strong, for in dealing with the Filipinos we deal with children.” He recommended a "Philippine civil service, with promotion for efficiency." In flowing language he concluded his address with an api>eal to uphold the flag, and an appeal for continued hostilities. No case of contagion has been traced to the use of the telephone, a scientific commission in Paris having thoroughly investigated the matter. Parisians were so alarmed over the re]K>rts that the exhaustive inquiry was made. The Government has finally adopted “Puerto Rico" as the official spelling of the name of that island, and hereafter all official documents will adhere to that form. There is no duty of any kind upon sugar or its products in the United Kingdom.

CONGRESS

On Thursday the Senate received resolution from Mr. Beveridge declaring for American retention of Philippines, with notice that he would speak thereon the following Tuesday. Received from committee ou foreign relations amended bill for government of Hawaiian Islands. Received from President McKinley copy of testimony before and findings by war investigating eommissioh. Adopted resolution by Mr. Hoar reducing fees of witnesses in Senate cases to actual traveling expenses and $3 a day while in attendance at hearings. Adopted modified Allen resolution calling upon Secretary Gage for information on government deposits iu banks. Postponed consideration of Mr. Pettigrew’s Philippine resolution to the following Monday. Adjourned to that day after listening to speech by Mr. Aldrich opening debate on currency reform bill. The House adopted Sulzer resolution calling upon Secretary Gage for information regarding treasury deposits in New York banks, after making it general in its. scope. Listened to speech thereon by Mr. Levy (Dem., N. Y.l. Received resolution on same subject from Mr. Lentz (Dem., N. Y.), and then adjourned to the following Monday. On Monday the Senate passed resolution by Mr. Allen calling upon each cabinet officer for itemized statement of amount of SS(),IM-M),(MK) defense fund each department expended. Passed Mr. Pettigrew’s resolution calling for Admiral Dewey's report, in which he said he could take Manila at any time. After debate postponed until Wednesday Mr. Pettigrew's resolution calling on Secretary of War for information as to alleged interview between Gen. Torres of the Filipino army and Gen. Otis, also Mr. Lodge's substitute therefor simply calling for general Philippine information. Democrats wishing to speak on the financial bill, it went over for a day. Mr. Morgan made speech on racial question in South. General pension debate on bill amending dependent act of June 27, 1890. The House passed resolution introduced by Mr. Lentz for investigation of charges that John ('. Graham, postmester of Provo, Utah, and Orson Smith, postmaster at Logan. Utah, xvere guilty of polygamous practices, investigation to be made by committee on postoffices and post roads. Passed resolution introduced by Mr. Lentz for investigation of action of Gen. Merriam and militia in Wardner. Idaho, mining riots in spring of 1899, and their course in preventing employment of union miners, investigation to be made by military committee. Thursday, after 1 o'clock, was set apart for eulogies upon life and character of late Representative Danford. of Ohio. Wednesday for eulogies upon late Representative Greene, of Nebraska, and Friday, after 2 o'clock, upon late Vice President Hobart. Adjourned till Wednesday. The Senate on Tuesday adopted resolution by Mr. Allen calling upon Secretary of War for data on purchase of transports. Listened to speech by Mr. Beveridge in favor of American retention of the Philippines ami by Mr. Hoar in opposition thereto. The House was pot in session.

Wednesday in the Senate was devoted to speeches of tribute to memory .of late Vice-President Hobart. The House adopted resolution offered by Mr. Tawney iMiun.t calling Upon Secretary <>f Treasury for information as to States in which oleomargarine is shipped and distributed, amount in pounds and number of licenses for its manufacture. Eulogies upon life ami public services of late Representative Greene of Nebraska. Adjourned until Friday.

Odds and Ends.

Sydney, N. S. W., was recently visited by a hot wave. Almost 3,000,000 persons are receiving famine relief in India. The prospects for the Australian wheat crop are most favorable. A great avalanche has done considerable damage'at Glacier. B. C. Great Britain estimates that the war will cost at least $31X1,000,000. A bloody civil war is raging among the natives of Kerewani, New Guinea. An attempt was made to assassinate all the missionaries in the New Hebrides. Smallpox has broken out among the Indians of the Colville reservation, Washington. Four hundred farmer boys are on the auxiliary cruiser Dixie for a cruise round the world. The Liberty Alliance, a pro-Boer organization. has been formed in Chicago with 500 members. While playing near a fire in Roekwoo,!. Tern., a little son of Mr. and Mrs. Connor o>f Chicago burned to death. The London papers say that the health of Florence Nightingale is so enfeebled that sire cannot live muq£ longer. The plague was reported to be raging in New Caledonia. The governments of Australia have taken elaborate precautions. Charlton T. Lewis of New York, who has investigated the prisons of Cuba, says they are in a deplorably disgraceful condition. Under a liberal interpretation of the peace treaty we will transport to Spain all Spanish soldiers and their families in the Philippines.

The two great material conquests which mark the nineteenth century are the building of the Pacific railroads and the digging of the Suez, canal. Lord Bennet, evangelist, who married Miss Leonora van Marter, of Tacoma, Wash., succeeds to the title and estate of the late British Earl of Tankerville. John D. Sargent ,who was at one time suspected of killing Robert Ray Hamilton in Wyoming, and who has since been charged with wife murder, is insane. JSxperiments recently made in Europe with forty-nine different kinds of German, French and Austrian sugar beet seeds show that German seed is by far the best. The discovery of the operations of a band of counterfeits in Cuba is leading government officials to consider the advisability of applying the United States laws against counterfeiting to the island.