Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — Page 6

F. E. BABCOCK. PMHriiM. «t£N SSEU'R. - - mOIAIU.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Sews of th# total loss of the Norwegian steamer Fra nines with her valuable ears'• of iron and steel on Hog-Sty reef, north of Cuba, was brought to I’hHadel|.hia by the frnit steamer Admiral SchleJ* All persons aboard the steamer were eared. Judge Sherwood, in an opinion rendered in th« Supreme t’ourt in banc, at Jetferson City. Mo., awarded a writ of peremptory ma iidamus against Auditor Isaac M. Mason, in the St. Louis city election law ea>e, holding the law eonetitutioual. At Flinty Mich, the Armstrong steel works were destroyed by fire. The plant was established in 1889 and was employing 100 hands. Loss is estimated at $150,000, partially covered by insurance, Holden's brewery and eoojter shop were also destroyed. v ; A disastrous conflagration raged at (!arbondale, destroy jug the business plan-s of the Wihvell-Teeter Grocery Company. A. Starxinger’s meat market, Miller Bros.’ restaurant, Barth Shoe Company and Peak & Storm’s general jiten-handise store. A pitched battle, in which knives and pistols were used, was fought between Mexican and American laborers at the Helvetia eopj»er mines Tucson, Aria. The fight was precipitated by drunken Mexicans “shooting up’’ the camp. One jLlcncm was killed. • The Cologne Gazette announces that the Cxar has abolished the rule which provided that district governors of Finland should take a special bath ui>on Entering the Russian state service. This path was framed on the status of Finland as a grand duchy, and its abolition has crushingly impressed the Finns. Gov. I*ingree of Michigan has been deluged with letters from relatives of ooldiers serving in the army in the Philippines to get their discharges before Jheir terms expire. The other day he 'received a letter from Secretary of War Root, which states that no more discharge papers will be granted. lie says it sets a had precedent. In ludianaimlis four firemen were caught under a falliug wall, one, Frank Mankin. being badly crushed and horned at a fire which destroyed the building of B. t’ones A Son, clothing manufacturers. The tire started in the engine room and spread so rapidly that the watchman had barely time to turn in an alarm and save himself. When the firemen arrived nothing conkl he done to check the flames and the building was entirely destroyed. The loss to the Cones is $150,UtlO. iuMired for 85 per cent on building and stock. Adjoining property was damaged by fire and water. The ltev. Dr. Richard Hear Hobbs, wbo„ while associated with l>r. Klopsch, editor of the Christian Herald of New York, raised 90.000 bushels of corn in this conntry a few years ago and took it in a ship to Calcutta, India, for distribution among the starving Hindoos, has been asked by I>r. Klopsch to accept a similar task this year, and has consented. It will be bis endeavor to raise 50,000 bushels of corn, 10.000 each from the States of Illinois, lowa. Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, but he will not ask this time for the com itself, but for the pri<* of the corn. The com will lie purchased in New York and the Indian government will pay for the ship. l>r. Hobbs will begin work at once and will waul forty men in each of the States named. His headquarters will lie in Springfield. 111.

BREVITIES.

The Bachelors* Club of lamdun has expelled the Duke of Orleans. John F. Cowcjr, United States consul general at Yokohama, Japan, is dead. Hadedxe. daughter of the Sultan of Turkey, has eloped with Niedjar, a Turkish poet. Dr. Frank H. Fisher, husband of Maud Lillian Bern, prim.n donna, is dead in New York. Six hundred laborers on a military road in Porto Rico straek for an advance of 10 cents a day. Fire totally destroyed the brick high school building at Kirkwood, Mo. Loss $20,000, fully insured. Rhode Island Republicans put up a ticket headed by William Gregory of North Kingston for Governor. Merchants and manufacturers of Porto Rico have forwarded to Congress a plea for free trade with the Knifed States for the islaud. Cuba's exhibits for the Paris exposition reached New York on board the United States transport Buford front Havana. The exhibits comprised 100 large eases. Fire at Miamisburg. Ohio, destroyed the Big Rothschild tobacco warehouse and damaged adjacent buildings. A Chicago firm owned the warehouse. Loss estimated at $150,000. At Eiubreeville. Teuu.. tire destroyed the foundry, machine shops and blacksmith shops connected with the |dants of the Virginia Iron. Coal and Coke Company. Loss SOO,OOO. The United States Government, at the request of President Kruger and President Steyn. has offered to the British ’ Government its services as mediator, with the view of bringing about peace in South Arrica. At Grand Forks, N. D.. the City Council decided to accept SOOO from the bondsmen of the late city treasurer, M. L. Gordon. Suit had been begun against the bondsmen for $4,200, the amount of shortage claimed by the city. At Haaleton. Pa.. Frank Ward waa faatautly killed and several others seri- ’ oualy injured by an explosion of dynamite In n coal mine. , Kdward Pettinger. 08 years old, at one time one of the wealthiest residents of Mount Vernon and one of “Boss’ Tweed’s lieutenants, died in the almshonae at East View. X. Y. Ben. Higgins, one of the best known merchants of Cntlodeu, W. Va., had his throat cut almost from ear to ear by his only brother. Walter Higgans. The | grew oat of the election of town

EASTERN.

Acter John Z. Little Is dead at Brooklyn. A. C. Rand of the Laflin & Rand lewder Company died at New York, aged 59. The Kingsfortl boiler work* at Oswego, N. Y„ were destroyed by lire. Loss sßo,* 000. David W. ltceves, well-known baud : master. Is dead at Providence. It. L, aged 52. Fifteen persons, a majority of whom were children, were burned to death at a tenement house at Newark, N. J. Captain Silas W. Terry, Into in command of-the lowa, has been assigned to succeed Admiral McCormick as commandant of the Washington navy yard. Rev. Thomas I\. Beecher, brother of Henry Ward Beecher and pastor of Pnrk Church, Elmira, N. Y„ was stricken \\iUi paralysis on his return home from evening service Sunday. Edward John Phelps, Kent professor of law at Yale aud former minister tq England, died at hi* home iu New Haven, Conn. llis death was due directly to an abscess of (he lungs. The Smith Fuse manufactory nt Compton, N. J., blew up and four persons were killed and a numher iuore or less injured. A large portion of the works was wrecked and the loss will reach $50,000. Almost all the gambling-houses in New York were closed ns tight as drums all day Sunday. Even the live aud ten cent games hud their doors barred. • The city is undergoing a spasm of virtue such as it has not experienced in many years. Andrew J. Robinson, a New York builder doiug business under the firm name of Robinson & Wallace, assigned for the benefit of creditors. Mechanics'« liens have been filed against the firm of Robinson & Wallace aggregating over SIOO,OOO. Fire in the building of the Massachusetts Macaroni Company on North street, Boston, caused the death of one tiremuu, the probably fatal injury of another, and, the serious injury of three others, beside entailing a financial loss estimated from $75,000 to $150,000. A New York correspondent writes that he has learned on the best authority that Count Castellano succeeded in securing a loan from the brothers and sisters of his wife amounting to more than $1,000,000. It was not without much difficulty, however, that he did so. The biggest strike of cigariufikers in ten years has been declared against the firm of Kerbs, Wertheiui & Schiffer of New York. More than 5,300 workers, 1,500 of whom are girls, after making a demand of their employers for au increase in wages, quit work.

WESTERN.

The President has appointed George it. Wauty to i>c Federal judge for the western district of Michigan. Seventeen cases of bubonic plague are said to have existed at Port- Towuseud, Wash., for nearly a month. Col. John Magrew of Lafayette, lud., has been appointed captain of the watch of the eapitol at Washington. In Indianapolis John B. Stout, a respected citizen, was robbed and shot by footpads on his way home. He died. K. E. Clark has been appointed temporary receiver of the Benton Power and Traction Colli pauy at St. Cloud, Minu. The threatened strike of the employes of the St. Louis Transit Company is oIT. An agreement satisfactory to both sides has been reached. Albert E. Davis and Samuel G. Brookcr, public works department clerks in Cleveland, Ohio, have been found guilty of defrauding the city. The Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago, built in 187:5 and 1874 at a cost of $150,000, was destroyed by tire that started in th% organ loft. The remains of Kate Chase Sprague have been buried beside the grave of her father. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase,' at Spring Grove cemetery, Cincinnati. L. C. Gilmore, former cashier of -the Kansas National Bank, who lias been on trial, charged with embezzlement, was acquitted by a jury In Ihe District Court. At Redfield, lowa, tiro destroyed all the business houses on the south side of Main street. The loss is estimated at about $20,000, only partially covered by insurance. William Pearce, a farmer living three miles west of De Soto, Mo., was accidentally shot and killed by a set gnu which be had himself placed in his corn crib for thieves. Anthony Hopkins was hanged at Beauinout, Texas, for wife murder in the presence of 5,000 people, who took Up a collection of SIOO for liis mother and seul it with his remains to her in Wnr;o, George Anderson Fowler, who has been in control of the packing plus* of George Fowler & Son Company, limited, of lvausas City, has transferred his entire interest to Anderson Fowler, his nncle. Three sons of Jacob Ziegler, a farmer living north of Champaign, 111., fell through the ice in a creek and drowned while looking for stovewood. The children were all less than 9 years of age. At Omaha, Neb., tire entirely consumed the stock of the Omaha Tent and Rubber Company, valued nt SBO,OOO, and gutted ihe building in which it was located. The loss on the building will be $75,000. At Colorado Springs, Colo., exteusivo buildiug enterprises have been temporarily stopped by a strike, innugttrated by the Building Trades' Assembly. Carpenters and painters to the number of 250 •re idle. The safe or the Bank of Hitchcock, 8. D., which was burned a few days before, was opened, aud it was discovered that SII,OOO known to have been iu the safe at the elose as business the day of the ire was missing. Cincinnati distillers mill export large quantities of whisky soon to avoid payiug the revenue tax of sl.lO. It will be stored abroad and when there Is a ready sale in this country it will be returned aud the duty paid. , The girl wife of Earl Goebauour was deserted at Fort Collins, Colo., by her husband, who ran away with the girl's mother, Mrs. Mary Taylor, Mrs. Taylor, her three children, the eldest 10 years of age. aud Gochnnonr caiue from lows. The board of directors of the Kansas penitentiary decided that the price of the product of i lie binding twine plant of the State penitentiary at Lansing will be 10 cents a pound, or as near that figure as U»e cost of production will permit. At Cincinnati Judge Taft issued a decree of foreclosure and order of sal* of

the Columbus, kiidusky 1 and Hocking Railroad on the suit of the Metropolitan Trust Company of New York. The court fixed the upset price for tiie road at $2,500,000. The Christian Cbfireh at Fort Recovery,: Ohio, 1* divided over the innovation of a regular choir, organ nOd missionary and aid societies. Borne of the members have asked the courts to appoint a receiver for the church property and have a final accounting rendered. United States Commissioner Douglass Wight aud Horace H. Blanton, an attorney of Nevada, fought a street duel with pistols. Wight received a scalp wound and Blanton was shot in the abdomen. The trouble arose over the approaching mayoralty election. Alexander Carter, 32 years of age, in a temporary tit of insauity, shot and killed Charles, a university student, aged £2 years, at the house of their parents in North Berkeley, Cal, Then placing the muzzle of the pistol is his mouth he blew ont his brains. Fuller E- Brown, 30 year* of age, committed suicide in the city jail at Helena, Mont., by dashing his brains out upon the cement floor. He was to have been arraigned for forgery, but when summoned by an officer jumped head foremost from the upper tier of cells. DeWitt Hurley; until recently teller of the Central State Bonk of Des Moines, iowo, fell from a window of the sixth story of tjie Youugerman block to the sidewalk, and was almost instantly killed. Hurley was sitting in the window and fainted. He was 33 years of.age. N. L. Michael, vice-president of the American National Bonk when it was robbed of SIB,OOO a year ago last Christmas, .was arrested at Dima, Ohio, charged with the robbery. The robbery has puzzled the best detectives in the country. Mr. Michael brands bis arrest as an outrage. Lead City. S. D„ was nearly destroyed by fire the other morning. It was not until afternoon that the tire was tinder control. Between forty and fifty buildings in the business district were consumed by the flumes. Tbe loss is estimated at $500,000, with insurance for about $150,000. Warrants for murder in the second degree were issued at St. Louis against Costello Doro and Charles Reynolds, colored, aged about 12 years, who are charged with shooting Harry S. Koehler, a white boy of the same age, Feb. 22, as the result of a race quarrel. Koehler died from his wounds. The receiver for and principal creditors of the Toledo Commercial have sold the paper to H. P. Crouse of the Findlay Republican and if John R. McLean agrees upon the cancellation of his lense the new owner will enter possession ou April 1 and make the property into an administration Republican paper. Encouraging reports continue to be received from the great cattle ranges in the western part of South Dakota. There have been comparatively no losses during the winter. This is remarkable, iu view of the fact that on Upper White river alone more than 1,000 young Southern cattle were last fall turned loose ou the range. M iss Maggie Carmody of Toledo has received a letter from an aunt in Australia, inclosing a draft for SB,OOO and asking her to go to that country in the spring. The letter contained the information that her aunt, Mrs. G. B. F. Bradbury, who is in poor bealtb, has willed her SBB,OOO In realty aud SBOO,OOO in securities. A Helena, Mont., special says: “For fear that the train bearing him to Helena might not arrive in time to catch the Butte mail train, upon which he desired to transmit to the sheriff at that place a respite for Joseph Schafer, the innocent man under sentence to be hanged there, Lieut. Hov. Spriggs telephoned the officials of his intention, and upon arrival in Helena he attached his signature to tbe temporary respite in order that the Supreme Court might have nn opportunity to pass upon Schafer’s appeal. The sheriff replied that he would respect the telephonic reprieve In case the papers did not arrive.” :

SOUTHERN.

George Dove, who killed Joe Janes last fall, was taken before the Circuit Court at Glasgow, Ky., and acquitted. The Montgomery County court house at Clarjksville, Tenn., was destroyed by tire. Most of the records were saved. Loss $125,000, insurance $75,000. Charles It. Morgan, son of Daniel Morgan, was shot and fatally wounded by masked burglar at Atlanta, Ga. Mounted police aud bloodhounds were put on the trail. Engineer O'Brien and the fireman of train No. 5 of the Queen and Crescent line were overcome by smoke while passing through the long tunnel at Kings uiouutaiu, Tennessee. No one was killed. At Frankfort, Ky., ihe Senate passed Scuator Bell’s bill making it a felony punishable by confinement in the penitentiary from tort to twenty years for an occupant of a State office to forcibly maintain possession of the office for more than five days after the Legislature or other competent authority shall have decided some other person entitled to the office. Jack Edwards, a Covington, Ky.. character, was subjected to u most distasteful dose of bis otvn medicine recently. He lias frequently been arrested for beating his wife, ami -was released from custody, having served sixty days for such an Offense. When he returned home he began to abuse bis wife, who called iu several of the women neighbors, and together they bent Edwards almost into inseusibility.

FOREIGN.

Sixteen luiuers have been killed by an explosion in a coal pit at Besseges, France. The galleries of the mine collapsed, burying the bodies of the victims. The British steamer Cavier, Captain Quinton, - from Antwerp for Brasil, was sunk in collision with an nnkuown steamer. The second mate and two seamen of the Cuvier were saved. The Supreme Court of Chili has revoked the order for the extradition of Frederick T. Moore, former assistant toiler of the National Bank of Commerce of Boston, and he has been set free. President Kruger of the Transvaal republic bus appealed to Lord Salisbury, the Knglisfa premier, for a cessation of hostilities, offering at length, by cable, the terms which he ie willing to accept. The Reichstag, by a vote of I<J» to W, passed on Its second reading the commit-

tee’s proposals prohibiting the Importation of foreign meats and American meats are thus barred out of Henna ay. The Theater Francois In Paris was destroyed by fire. The lire broke out about noon, but was not discovered immediately, with the result that tlic theater was burning furiously before the. &e brigade got to work. Many art treasures trcrc destroyed. The President has commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of death imposed by eoiirt martial in the ease of l’ri vate George Mflrpby, Company C, Twen tj -fourth infantry, convicted of the murder of another soldier of the same company in the Philippines. '■ Oriental advices say that permission to do general business in Japan has been refused sixty foreigu iusurancc companies, most of thorn American. Japanese officials say this results from the fact that the applications have failed to comply with the Japanese insurance laws. The Bank of the Republic at Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, has agreed to pay to the Government $50,000,000 cash in release of all obligations to the Government, amounting to $180,000,000, payable at different times and extending forward for a period of eighteen years. By this move the Government is released from all responsibility and obtains an immediate relief of the above amount.

IN GENERAL.

Gen. Wheeler has returned front Manila and will return to Congress. Suit has been commenced by the sugar trust to test the constitutionality of the war tax. - Gov. Davis reports that thousands of Porto Ricans are near starvation and the need of relief is pressing. All tbe employes of the National Tube trust will receive ads increase of It! per cent in wages, beginning April 1 next. Benjamin Idc Wheeler of the Philippine commission says the powers have agreed to abolish “spheres of influence” in Chinn. Social Democrats, in session at Indianapolis, nominated Eugene V. Debs of Indiana for President and Job Harriman of California for Vice-President. Five steamships, each twice the siae of the Lucania, will be built at once, and others will be constructed later by the Great Northern Railroad. They will ply between the Pacific coast ports and the far East. Gen. Pepin, ex-Govcrnor of Santiago de I .os Caballeros, who recently headed a revolt against the Government of Santo Domingo, has been arrested and the uprising has been suppressed. Tbe country is now quiet. Stanley Huntington Riggs, noted as a football player, committed suicide in a lonely camp iu the heart of Mexico. Stanley Riggs went to Mexico as a civil engineer two years ago with a party composed of Yale and Princeton graduates. Three chiefs of the Alberta bay tribes of Indians have been brought to Vancouver, B. C.. from northern British Columbia to be tried for their lives for eating Unman flesh. The offenses were committed at a potlatch given by Chief Gilhunk. &

By direction of Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn instructions have been sent to Maj. Gen. Otis to return to the United States some time in May one battalion each of the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-third infantry. The withdrawal of these troops was recommended by Maj. Gen, Miles several mouths ago. Bradstreet’s has this to say of the business situation: “Relieved from the hamperiug effects of stormy weather, tbe general trade distribution has shown a tendency to expand this week; prices of many staples arc firmer or higher, and generally there is a better toue than noted for some weeks. Easily bolding first rank in the matter of speculative activity, cotton early in the week touched the highest level for at least six years. A sharp break due to realizing has brought -the level down again, however, to a point where new buying by sold-ouf bulls is invited. Wool is rather weaker, following the drop in prices at the Loudon sale and the rather slower demand ftbm American manufacturers, who, being apparently well supplied for the present, are content to let the raw staple take care of itself while obtaining a good market and fair prices for the manufactured product. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4.208,758 bushels, against 3,863,387 bushels last week, and 4,398,821 bushels the same week of 1890. Corn exports aggregate 2,187,824 bushels, against 4.533,780 bushels Isst week and 3,736,586 bushels a year ago.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, SB.OO to $0.00; hogs, shipping grades, SB.OO to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, SB.OO to $8.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 05c to 00c; corn, No. 2,37 cto 39c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 25c; rye, No. 2,50 cto 58c; butter, choice creamery, 24c to 25c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 35c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.2&; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, white, 35c to 30c; oats. No, 2 white, 27c to 29c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.25 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $0.00; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2,24 cto 20c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 57c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep. $2.50 to stk2s; wheat, No. 2, 73 cto 75c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 39c to 41c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye. No. 2,03 cto GGc. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, -71 c to 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 36c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 58c to 60c. TWedo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71e to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye. No. 2,57 c to 59c; Mover seed, old, $4.90 to $5.00. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 04c. to 00c; corn, No. 3,36 cto 37c{ oats. No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye. No. 1,58 c to 59c; barley, No. 2,44 cto 40c; pork, mess. $ll.OO to $11.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.75; lambs, common to extra, $450 to SB.OO. New York—Cnttle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, SB.OO to $5.25; sheep. SB.OO to s6£o; wheat, No. 2 red. 78c to 80c; corn. Me. *, 43c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 32cj butter, creamery, 20c to 20c; eggs, western. 14c to 16c.

CONGRESS

On Thursday the Senate ketri sl#. Foraker in rapport of the Potto Rican tariff bill and Messrs. Deltas, Tillman and Hoar against it. Mr. Mason made his motion to discharge the committee on foreign relations from further consideration Of his resolution expressing sympathy ter the Boers, and it went over tor one day under the rotes, i The House unseated Gaston A. Robbins, a Democrat. from tbe Fourth Alabama district and seated in his stead William K. Aid rich, a Republican, who has been three times a contestant from the same district on the ground of fraud, and who is now given his seat for the third time by a Republican House. Tbe vote was a strict party one. A new role was brought in to set aside the day sessions on the second and fourth Fridays of each month for pension legislation. The role limits debate on each Mil to ten minutes on a side, but this provision was withdrawn upon the assurance of Mr. Richardson. the minority leader, that his side of the House would not Indulge in filibustering. Mr. Overstreet (Ia«L). in charge of the conference report upon the financial bilk gave notice that he would call np the report on the next Tuesday. By unanimous consent It was agreed that the vote on tbe report should be taken at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon.

In the Senate on Friday a speech in opposition to the Porto Rican tariff hill was made by Mr. Lindsay. Mr. Mason's resolution expressing sympathy for the Boers discussed In executive session, the question being the discharge of the committee from consideration. Mr. Allison reported from the committee ou appropriations - the House bill making appropriations of customs does exacted from the Island of Porto Rico from Oct. 18, 1898. to Jan. 1, 1900), amounting to $2.095.455. and gave notice that he would call np the measure Saturday. At a night session reading of the Alaska code bill was resumed. In the House the first day pension session provided for under the new rule proved a great success. There was comparatively little friction and ninety-seven bills were favorably acted upon in committee of the whole and subsequently passed. The only incident of tbe session was a brisk exchange between Mr. Loud of California and Mr. Sulloway of New Hampshire apon the general policy of special pension legislation. in which the former attacked and tbe latter defended the system. The Senate on Saturday passed the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, after defeating an amendment to give former Queen Lilnokclaai of Hawaii $20,000 and an annuity of $16,6611. The House agreed to take up-the hill providing a government for Hawaii on April 3, the final vote to be taken on April 5 at 4 p. in. Consideration of the WiseYoung election contest was resumed. Speeches were made by Mr. Weeks (Rep.. Mich.!. Mr. Burke (Derm. Texes). Mr. Hull (Rep., Iowa), and Mr. Linney (Rep.. N. C.l. Mr. Rawlins occupied the floor of the Senate most of the day Monday in a discussion of the Philippine question. He went deeply into tbe constitutional phases of the question. His argument was largely legal and technical. He is opposed to tbe holding of tbe Philippines. Eightysix private pension bills were passed. The House by a majority of seven voted to unseat W. A. Young. Democrat, Second Virginia district, and seat R. A. Wise. Passed an urgent deficiency bill carrying $1,439,580. In the Senate on Tuesday personal explanations were made by Mr. Allen and Mr. Butler of their positions ou the financial question, both announcing their .belief In the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Mr. Turner began an extended speech on tbe Porto Rico bill, maintaining that the pending measure is dearly unconstitutional. The House passed the coaference report on the currency reform MR by a vote of 166 to 120. Tbe report bud previously been accepted by tbe Senate. Two speeches on tbe Philippine question consumed tbe day Wednesday in the Senate. Mr. Teller maintained that tbe constitution could not extend over trtritory acquired by tbe United States, Mr. Turner took a view precisely opposite. In tbe House tbe I Hat net of Columbia appropriation bill was taken np and under the latitude allowed Mr. Adamson (Ga.) discussed the Nicaragua canal. Mr. Cowherd (Mo.) the Philippine question. Mr. Howard (Ga.) questions relating to the Philippines and the ’’open door" policy in the Orient, Mr. Rucker (Mo.) the advisability of electing Senators by the people, and Mr. Boutell (111.) replied to Mr. Cowhenl. A resolution setting aside alternate Fridays for the consideration of private bills reported by the war claims committee was adopted. Bills were passed to settle the title to real estate in the .city of Sauta Fe, N. M~ aud for the relief of Thomas Pan!.

This and That.

Peru will become* member of the PanAmerican congress. The receipts of public foods of the Philippine Islands, beginning Aug. 13, ISJS. and ending Dec. 31, 1809, amount to ¥G»<590,090. Green Coekcrham was hilled and Wallace Cockerham and a man named Boyd seriously injured by a boiler explosion. Magnolia, Miss. A single wild tribe of Western Indians is using forty-one kinds of vegetables which are absolutely unknown to the majority of cooks. The oldest note in the possession of the Bsnk of England is dated Dee. 19, 1090. for £555. In the bank library is a note for £25. which was not presented for 111 years. Eighty per cent of the cattle of Uruguay are used for the purpose of making “tasajo.” or jerked beef, for exportation to Brasil. Cubs and Porto Rico. Mrs. Taylor, wife of the Governor of Kentucky, was in no way intimidated by the exciting times in Frankfort. She visited the soldiers each day, and carried to them baskets of cake and sweetmeats. Spain lost 125.000 soldiers in Cub.. The Wart" rated the tag of February. 1805. American intervention pation began lan. 1,1880 i/ ,l, * ri ***

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India has perhaps a greater variety of plants titan any other country in tbe world, having 15,000 native species, while tbe flora of the entire continent of Europe only embraced about 10,000.

Try Grain-0! Try Gratn-0!

Ask year Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O. the new food drink that takes tbe place of coffee. Tbe children may drink it without injury as well as foe adult. Ail who try it like It. GRAIN-O baa that rich sqal brown of Mocha or Java, but it ia made from pore grains, and foe most delicate stomach receives it without distress. % foe price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold by-all grocers.

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You Gan Get Allen's Foot-Ease Free.

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