Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1900 — Page 6

JaStbr tullNTi O&MvuUl. F. e. BABCOCK, Publisher. R£«$«ELAfcR. ffIWAWA.

WEEK'S NEWS RECORD

On Marrowbone ereek, Kj'.. John Langley and Moses Sopher had an altercation In which Langley and Sopher were killed and a man named Johnson' 1 kits seriously wounded. Johnson claims be waS shot while trying to separate Sopher and Laugley. As a result of the recent increase in wages granted the Massillon, Ohio, millera the Massillon district coal operators assoeiatiou has decided to raise the price of coal 25 cents per ton. The advance in the price of coal is to take effect April 1. Col. Henry S. Bunker, a prominent Toledo attorney and military man, was found dead in his office with a bullet wound in the buck of his neck. A revolver lay on the door near him, but it is not known whether .it was murder or suicide.

The engine bnulipg the second section of a western expreps left the track at the cast end of the..Altoona, I’a., yard and fell over on its side. Engineer Adam Kauffman, aged 45. of Harrisburg, was crushed in his cab and died a few hours afterward. it has been estimated by the officials of the various northwestern railroads centering at St. Paul that the emigration movement now under way from the older States to the North western States from Minnesota west to Washington will ex-<-.-ed 20,000. Soon after <> o'clock on a recent morning a freight elevator in the building at 126 Market street, Chicago, fell from the third floor, carrying down thirty-one men employed by the Blakely Printing Company. All but one were hurt, yet it is not believed any of them were fatally injured. After a ferritic buttle with ice. the fireboat Clevelander, currying a large supply of provisions, succeeded in reaching two fishing tugs nnd the fireboat Farley, imprisoned in an ice field off Cleveland. The crews of the three boats had suffered severely from hunger .and cold Mtying their thirty-six hours' imprisonment. The State Department has received a telegram from Richard T. Greener, I’nit'ed States consul at Vladivoetock, Siberia, saying that estimates for the construction there of an electric trolley tramway twenty miles long, electric lights and water works bad been prepared, and that: pro|M>salH were desired from the United States. Men started from Leadville, Colo., by the dozens the other night for tin l scene of a reported big discovery of gold ore in Two-Bit gulch, just east of the Hayden much. Certificates of high assays made by Eugene Stevens were shown by prospectors who came up from the gulch with specimens which they declared were obtained from a new vein.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Prussian railways are- to experiment w »th' American automatic couplers. Gen. Zealous B. Tower, U. S. A. (re tired), died at Cohasset, Mass., aged 81 years. Ghazi Osman Pasha, the defender of Plevna, and Turkey’s greatest general, is dead. * Admiral Sir Henry Fairfax, British commander-in-chief at Plymouth, died in N aplfM. Police had to suppress disorder and’ free fights nt the national Irish banquet in Ijondon. The St. Louis Steel Barge Company has filed articles of incorporation, with a capital stock of SIIO,OOO. The famine expenditure in India for <899-1900 is £2,055.000, and that for 1900-01 is estimated at £3,335,000. _ Bulgaria and Roumapbi having disagreed over an island in the Danube, the former countrj has decided to submit the dispute to a board of arbitration. The Flint wagon works at Flint, Mich., were totally destroyed by tire, causing a toss of over S2OO,(MK). The plant was insured for $120,000. Five hundred men are thrown out of jvork. At Hartington, Neb,, 11m- jury in the Case of J. C. Harris, editor of the Beldcu News, charged with the murder of John Blinkiron, returned a verdict of not guilty. His plea was self-defense. The Constantinople correspondent of the London times announces that the '(Udltfal Mfctyifrld.ed “in all essential parflAmmds respcct‘lnjf AsiaElinor.President Caroline Hazard of IVclles: toy College announces that John D. hail, promised to give Wellesley SIOO,OOO when the college debt should l>e raised. The debt is about $96,000. The v jKumford medal of the American Avudeftyr of Arts and Sciences has been swarded to Charles F. Brush of Cleveland. JWr. Brush won the medal by the discovery am! development of the electric, arc lamp. The Jewett white lead works at Port Richmond, 8. 1., suffered to the extent of SIOO,OOO by fire. The company’s plant eonslsted of six buildings, three of which were destroyed, together with a large quantity of white lead. The Seine river water power in the Ontario gold region is to be developed for ■ mining purposes. ->lt is estimated at 6,200-horse power and the American-Ca-nadian Gold Mining Company will furnish the necessary capital. J. E. Davis of Roberts, Mont., was killed and Frank Wyatt and George Wisweil were injured by falling wnlls at a fire at the Red Lodge coal camp. Three •tores and two .printing offices were destroyed. The loss is placed at $200,000. While playing with a neighbor's dog at Lima, Ohio, the 2-ycar-old child of Noah Brennan was horribly and fatally wounded on the flee and head. Oapt- Stone and twenty-six men of the wrecked British ship City of Florence, which Struck a reef ten miles south of IM at Pedro. Cal., were picked up by the tug Alert two miles north of Point Pedro. F.rank W. Elliott, editor of the Troy, Kan., Times, was shot by an unknown man as he alighted from a train. His assailtnt fired from ambush. Elliott will recover. The bullets struck him in the

EASTERN.

At Quincy. Mass., thJfiifaslg hall build-, ing was burned. Los/gSK.OtM). ‘ New Hampshire Prohrbitiupfsp nomi-, nated Josiah M. -Fletcher of Nashua for Governor. f John G. MUrpfiy, a tfMLknown mining engineer, ir dead in New York from a stroke of apoplexy. Commander Richard' Wainwright has assumed his new duties m superintendent of the naval academy at Annapolis, At a meeting of the Yale corporation a gift was announced of $150,000 to Stale for the purpose of founding a school of ’ Sidney Pointer, the oldest colt by Star Bdihter, ’tile world’s fastest pacer, has been sold by W. H. Moffatt of Kemp* Jille, N. Y„ to McLaren of Ottawa for 6,500. Capt. Benjamin F. Crosby of Cotuit, Mass., was burned to death aboard the schooner John VV. Linnell, lying nt the pier of the Graffiin fertilizer works at Lower Canton, Baltimore. At least fifteen persons were injured in a rear-end trolley cur collision at Newark, N. J. A Belleville car crashed at full speed into a Newark and Paterson car which had stopped to let off passengers/ Fire destroyed five of the best- business buildings in Hopkinton. Mass. The -loss is estimated at $75,000 to SIOO,OOO. The local tire department was unable to eope with the conflagration, which ultimately burned itself out. The organization of the Standard Chain Company has been perfected In New York. Nine manufacturers turned over their properly to the company and elected officers aud directors. The company is capitalized at $3,000,000. Frank E. Bundy, who for the last six years has occupied the office of chamberlain of Elmira, N. Y., and for three years previously was clerk in the chamberlain’s office, has voluntarily confessed a shortage of $30,000 in his accounts. The American Tobacco Company discharged the entire force of employes at its cheroot factory in New York aud will discontinue work nt the factory, the lease of the building having expired. About 500 men and women were thrown out of employment. A $10,000,000 ice deal is announced at Augusta, Me., in the purchase of the Knickerbocker Ice Company by the American Ice Company. The Knickerbocker company controls the bulk of the retail output of natural ice in the cities of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington.

Walter Nishwitz, the proprietor of large agricultural implement works at Millingtoq, N. J., died nt his home in Baskingridgc, N. J., aged 70 years. Twenty-five years ago Mr. Nishwitz invented a mowing machine and sold this patent to the Walter A. Wood Company for SIOO,OOO. In a paroxysm of inexplicable rage or possible insanity Olof Pa liesen, a; Norwegian, stabbed and killed bis wife, Josephine, murdered little Julia Hengesbach, the 3-year-old daughter of Charles F. Hcngesbach. a mail carrier, and murderously assaulted the child's mother, Mary Hengesbach, in Washington, D. C. The Mohawk Valley Hotel block, at Mohawk, N. Y., was burned. It contain* ed, besides the hotel, five stores, the postoffice, the offices of the town clerk, justice of the peace, insurance office, Masonic Hall, and opera, house. Little except the mail was saved from the building. The total losses arc estimated at SIOO,OOO.

WESTERN.

At Lexington, Neb.. Frank Dinsmore, charged with the murder of his wife and John Lane, has been sentenced to be banged. A row occurred in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho., in Pheiffer’s saloon, in Which two colored soldiers named Hayes and Hayden were shot. The body of William Brown, a rich cattleman of Hood County, was found on a high mountain near Granberry, Tex. Brown disappeared a year ago. John R. Haines, the Topeka ticket broker recently convicted of murdering Charles Watson at Kansas City, was sentenced to fifty years in the penitentiary. By a vote of 15 yeas and 16 nays the Ohio Senate defeated the Clark bill giving local option on the liquor traffic to municipalities and wards in municipalities. While undergoing initiation into the secret order of Eagles at St. Paul, James Morrison was seriously injured by the discharge of a cartridge used in the ceremohy. William Cunningham, a wholesale dealer in woolens at St. Paul, Minn., filed a petition in bankruptcy. The liabilities are placed ut $113,1)41.93 and assets at $106,844,52. • ’ A vicious horse snapped at Dr. J. C. Tritch, one of the most prominent physicians in Findlay, Ohio, and nipped, off th? end of his nose. He will be distiguferfkor Mfti. Tbv gement of the Topeka Capital has.decided to adopt the methods of the Rev.‘Charles M, Sheldon and continue perinanently to publish a strictly Christian daily newspaper. Four business blocks were burned at Southwest City, Mo., at a loss of SIOO,000. Among the losers are: J. D. Georgian. hardware; postoffice, two hotels and a livery barn and several grocery stores. At Fremont. Ohio, Louis Billow, charged with the murder of Jacob Hess, with whose daughter Billow was in love, has been pronounced guilty. Billow killed Hess because Jhe latter refused to allow his daughter to marry, Frank Cass, 18 years old, was killed at Levi Lakes, Cal., in a friendly boxing bout with Bert Whidden. In the eighth round Whidden struck Cass with a sixounce glove on the left side of the neck. Death resulted in half an hour. Henry A. Mclntosh of Lima. Ohio, a brakeman on the Lake Eric and Western road, hastened approaching death by cutting his throat iq the presence of his wife and several friends who were nursing him during his dying morinents. A gasoline explosion occurred at the residence of James Weaver in Columbus, Ohio, when George White attempted to start a fire with gasoline, resulting in the death of one child, fatal injuries to five other persons and serious injury to another. The millers of Kansas, Oklahoma and Kansas City, have decided to handle their surplus output through a stock company to be known as the Kansas and Oklahoma Milling and Export Company. The

lup. t W i WilllartAJueumb. ex-deputy inspector of W4>rk*Uop».flfi<J faeturiea. was severely EmJlay. Ohio, by a loaded .cigar that had been presented him by a practical joker. The cigar exploded while be held it in his mouth. “He may lose the sight of/pae eye. ' . ;■*: The fa the ease of lite. Henrietta Bamberger, die St. Lotds fnidwife. returned a verdict of guilty-of the charge of inansli'ngbter and fixed her punishment at five years iu the penitentiary. It was charged that she caused the death off Wilhelmina Spoeri. The Chicago-Denver flyer on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Hailway, known as “No. 1,” had a slight accident at Tower 310, twenty-five miles west of Ottumwa, lowa. The engine and front truck of the baggage car left the track. No person was injured. Detectives in Chicago arrested six burglars and recovered about SBOO worth of stolen property, which is said to be the proceeds of many burglaries. Isaiah Lindsey, colored, one of the prisoners, confessed the gang bad roblied fifteen stores within ten days. . An unidentified man. presumably a tramp, was struck and instantly killed by the Baltimore and Ohio No. 7 fast line at noon, near Spring Mills, Ohio. The engineer stated that the man had stepped off the track, and then deliberately stepped in front of the engine. An attempt was made to wreck the Lake Shore fast rtiail at Olmsted Falls, O. A rail had been laid across the track. The engineer saw the obstruction in time to apply the air brakes. The front wheels of the locomotive struck the rail, but the engine remained on the track. Annie Strother, night cashier in Ixiuis Swan's restaurant, No. 150 Twenty-sec-ond street, Chicago, was shot and instantly killed at 1 o’clock the other morning by a well-dressed, heavily veiled woman. The murderess escaped. Jealousy is thought to have been the motive. All the vessels of the revenue fleet' will' leave San Francisco about May 2, and will assemble at Seattle May 20. They will then start for Alaskan waters. The fleet includes the Bear, Rush. Grant, McCulloch and Manning, the latter vessel now being on her way from New York. Thomas Dooley, a saloonkeeper at Butte, Mont., shot his son-in-law, Thus. Littlejohn, ami the Jatter’s wife, Lyda, during a difficulty on the street. There had been bad feeling between Littlejohn aud Pooley since the former married the latter’s daughter without the father's consent. v

The rapidly increasing interest in the breeding and raising of Angora goats in the Southwest has resulted in the formation of the American Angora Goat Breeders’ Association, which will have its headquarters in Kansas City. A herd book will be provided as a means of guaranteeing pedigrees. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shops at Zanesville, Ohio, are tied up by a strike in which 225 out of 300 men employed have joined. In the past three years there had been several cuts in the rates for piece work. The scale last established was such that the men could average about sl.lO per day. By order of Sheriff Porter four Steubenville, Ohio, builders went to Mingo Junction and, under instructions from the common pleas court, appraised the town hall preparatory to a sale of the property to satisfy a judgment of $l4O. The town hall is quite an imposing building, nearly uew, and was appraised at SB,OOO. The jury in the Hepp murder case in Chicago returned a verdict of guilty and fixed the punishment at fourteen years in the penitentiary. Hepp shot and killed his brother-in-law, Frank A. Anderson, at the home of the latter, Nov. 14, 1899. The shooting grew out of a quarrel between Mrs. Hepp and Mrs. Anderson. License to incorporate Armour & Co. of Chicago was issued by the Secretary of State of Illinois to J. Ogden Armour, P. Anderson Valentine and Louis U. Krauthoff. The capital stock of the corporation is $20,000,000. The object of the corporation is to engage in all industries incident to the packing house business. "Fire broke out in Orr’s linseed oil mill at Piqua, Ohio. The flames Spread rapidly until Gray’s woolen mills were soon enwrapped. The blaze spread across the street and became so threatening that the departments from Lima, Sidney,- Dayton, Urbana and Springfield were called. The loss will reach several hundred thousand dollars. John 8. Bratton, the well-known horseman, and A. C. Hunter, a buyer for export trade, from Chicago, engaged in a fight at the National stock yards, East St. Louis, over a transaction in the auction ring. After the sale Hunter went to Bratton's office find the men soon engaged in a lively quarrel, during which Bratton drew his revolver and tired two shots at Hunter, but. fortunately, neither took effect. The men were separated by those present and a truce was patched up, for a time nt least.

SOUTHERN.

Glenwood Inn. one of the finest hotels in southern West Virginia, burned at Kenova. Loss $30,000. The Port Gibson, Miss., compress, in which was stored 2,000 bales of cotton, was burned, causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Thh'lponnment erected by the citizens of Key'lWpst to the victims of the battleAip Maine was unveiled at Kev West, Fla. At Frankfort, Ky„ Garland Breeden, aged 70, was shot and killed by James Norton, aged 24, in a dispute over a load of wood. A disastrous track slide occurred on the Illinois Central one mile south of Jackson, Miss., and all trains were delayed several hours. The worst to be feared by fruit growers of eastern Tennessee and North Georgia was realized in the recent cold wave. Reports show that the mercury dropi>ed to 24, and fruit is frozen over the entire section. '' \ At Chester, W. Va., a suburb of East Liverpool, Ohio, a free-for-all tight took place, in which James Cumming* was fatally hurt. He was pounded on the head with a neckyoke and a whiftietree, in the hands of John Purvis and Joseph Wilkie. The fast mail on the Plant system was wrecked about a mile and a half from Oxark, Ala., resulting in the injury of a number of passengers. The train was slowing up for a bridge when the rear trucks of the tender jumped from the

i A mob of 6 masked men. numbering 1 about 150. marched to the jail in Mari- | etta, Ga.. battered down the door with crowbars, rudely awakened John Bailey, a negro, marched him to the center of the court bouse square, in the heart of the city, and fired fully fifty shots at hhn, leaving him Tor dead in the spot where 'be fell.

FOREIGN.

Lady John* Scott Spottswoode, writer of “Annie I>aurie,” Is dead in London, aged 91. The German flag was hoisted at Apia and Mataafa and Tamasese were publicly reconciled. Nansen has agreed to lead an expedition tp, search for the Duke of Abruzzi in th<* arctie regions. Gcji; Sir William S. A. Lockhart, eooa-mander-in-chief of the British forces -in India, is dead in Calcutta, aged 59. Russia’s calendar commission recommends that thirteen days be omitted to even up with the Gregorian calendar. It 'is stated that 160,000 Russian troopp have been concentrated in the ciscaucasian and transcaucasiau governments. Flores. Aguinaldo’s secretary of war, has surrendered to Gen. MacArthur. Aguinaldo’s Infant son. who was captured in November, aud who tons been suffering from smallpox, is dead. NatEan Musher, a passenger from New York on the Lucania, was arrested in Queenstown on information that a warrant for his arrest has been issued In New York City upon a charge of forgery. .The Right Hou. William St. John Brodrick, under secretary for foreign affairs, stated that the costs to Great Britain of the Anglo-Venezuelan arbitration tribunal amounted to £65,625. British Guiana will not pay any portion of this expense. Prince Anandsing Ajeetsing Advani of Bombay, India, claiming to be the son of a wealthy banker aud nobleman of that city, was sentenced to serve a term of three months in jail and pay a fine of SSO in the city court at New Haven, Conn., Cor passing a.worthless check.

IN GENERAL.

Robert Bond has formed a new cabinet for Newfoundland. Fire destroyed the Academy of Music at Quebec, causing $50,009 loss. Charles Auburn, the stage manager, saved his wife and children with some difficulty. Secretary Long has cabled instructions to Admiral Watson, at Cavite, to send a warship to Taku, China, at the mouth of the Tieho river, to look after American missionary interests that are threatened, The Supreme Court of the United States rendered an opinion in the case of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company against the State of Texts, affirming the constitutionality of the anti-trust law of Texas. Passengers arrived from Costa Rica announced that President Iglesias, taking advantage of the threatened war with Nicaragua and the attempt of the Nicaraguans to precipitate a revolution in Costa Rica, has proclaimed himself dictator and has declared martial law. At Wiarton, Ont., George McAllister assaulted his wife. She retaliated, threw him on to a sleigh, bound him with ropes and drove him to the magistrate’s house, where she asked that he be tried for assault. The magistrate was away, and she drove to the police -station and turned him over to the police. The Standard Oil Company recently disbursed $23,000,000 in dividends. The directors declared a few weeks ago the regular quarterly dividend of 3 per cent on the $100,000,000 common stock and 20 per cent in an extra cash dividend.This probably is the largest cash disbursement ever made at any one time on the stock of a single corporation. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “The new monetary act, which was signed and took effect on Wednesday, has not affected business perceptibly as yet. Designed as a barrier against future harm, it was by some expected to have immediate influence through provisions regarding bank circulation. While $2,100,000 will be added to New York circulation, the Increase thus far indicated will be mainly interior, affecting the chief monetary centers only by lessening reliance upon them when more currency is wanted. Sales of wooj have bgen only 7,323,500 pounds in two weeks. Prices of leading goods have not declined, but others, both plain and fancy, are somewhat Weaker. Failures for the week have been 198 in the United States against 189 last year, and 28 in Canada, against 30 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 2,37 cto 38coats, No. 2,24 e to 25c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 25c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 15e; potatoes, choice, 30c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.23; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 36c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs.. $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $6.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn, No; 2 yellow, 36c to 38c; oats. No. 2,26 cto 28c; rye* No. 2,55 cto 56c, :: Cincinnati—Cattie, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25: sheep, $2.50 to $6.25; wheat. No. 2,73 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 39c to 40c: oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye. No. 2,61 cto 63c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs. $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 38c to 40c; oats, No. 2. white, 27c to 29c; iTe. 58c to 60c. 7 Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 mixed; 24c to 25c;. rye, No. 2,57 c to 59c; clover seed, old, $4.95 to $5.05. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 65c to 67c; corn. No. 3,36 cto 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, .No. 1,57 c to 58c; barley, No. 2,42 cto 44c; pork, mess, $11.25 to $11.75.. ’ Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steen. $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice. $8.25 to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.75. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; bogs. $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $6.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 79c to 81c; corn, No; 2, 44c to 45c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; butter, creamery, 20c to 20c; eggs, westera. 19c to 21c.

CONGRESS

The Senate devoted most of the day Thursday to discussion of the $2,000,000 Porto Rican appropriation bill. Heard Mr. Wellington io opposition to the seating of Mr. Quay. When Mr. Penrose asked to have time set for a vote on the Quay case Mr. Gailiuger said be desired to speak on the subject. Mr. Penrose said the New Hampshire man had told him he did not wish to speak thereon, and Mr. Gailiuger replied by passing the lie direct. The proposition to fix a time for a vote was postponed one day. The House passed the District of Columbia appropriation bill carrying $6,098,378, and also a bill granting the abandoned Fort Hays military reservation to the State of Kansas for experimental station ' and normal school purposes. On- Friday the Senate passed the $2,000,900 Porto Rican appropriation bill ‘without division. Agreed to take up the Quay case Tuesday. April 3, and to discuss it until disi>osed of. the discussion not to interfere with the unfinished business, the Spooner bill authorizing the President to govern the Philippines until otherwise directed, the appropriation bills or conference reports. Voted to adjourn to Monday. March 19, In the House it was first private bill day under the new rule. About two hours was spent in the discussion of a bill to pay Representative Swanson $1,769 for extra ex|»enses incurred by him in his contest in the last Congress, but the bill was ultimately abandoned. Six bills of minor importance were passed. The Senate was not in session Saturday. In the House members pronounced eulogies upon the late Monroe L. Hayward, Senator-elect from Nebraska, who died before taking the oath of office. No other business of importance was transacted. On Monday th.e Senate passed the legislative, executive nad judicial appropriation bill, carrying more than $25,999,099, and the measure providing for the appointment of a commission to adjudicate and settle claims of the people of the United States growing out of the war with Spain. For a brief time the Porto {lican government and tariff measure was under consideration. Mr. Foraker, in charge of the bill, submitted some committee amendments. A few of them were agreed to, but the important ones were left pending. A free trade amendment to the bill was offered by Senator Beveridge. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the Porto Rican tariff bill and conferees were appointed. Rest of the day devoted to District of Columbia business.

The Senate on Tuesday received majority report from the committee on privileges and elections declaring Senator Scott of West Virginia entitled to his seat. Listened to extended speech by Mr. Morgan on the Porto Rico bill. In the House Mr. Sulzer of New York attacked administration in a speech upon his resolution calling upon the War Department for information as to what fortifications Great Britain was erecting on the Canadian border. The committee on military affairs submitted a reply of Adjutant General Corbin, saying such information was secret, but that Great Britain was erecting no works which threatened American rights. The committee recommended that the resolution ,lie upon the table, and this was done by a vote of 110 to 97. Consideration of the Loud bill to restrict the character of publications entitled to pound rates as sec-ond-class mail matter was then taken up. Mr. Loud defended it in a long speech. The other speakers were 11. C. Smith (Mich.), in favor of the bill, and Messrs. Little (Ark.), Bell (Colo.). Henry (Miss.), Stokes (S. C.) and Brown (Ohio) in opposition to it.

In the Senate <>n Wednesday Mr. Turner (Wash.) stated he was informed by the Governor of Alaska that exclusive concessions for gold mining in the bed of the sea near Cape Nome, Alaska, had been granted by the Secretary of War, and upon that Statement he based a resolution of inquity. Senator Turner said jf such a grant had been made it was “a shame, a reproach and a scandal.” The resolution was agreed to. The additional urgent deficiency bill was passed. During the debate in the House upon the Loud bill relating to second-class mail matter Mr. McPherson (Bep., Iowa) charged that Mr. Lentz (Dem., Ohio) was the attorney of the lobby which is fighting the bill. Otherwise the debate was without incident. Mr. Loud agreed to accept amendments to increase the number of sample copies which newspapers can send out at seeopd-class rates from--000 to 2,000 and to limit the provision requiring newspapers to separate their mail to those having in excess of 5,000 circulation. The speakers were Messrs. Bromwell (Ohio), Griggs (Ga.), McPherson (Iowa), Burke (Texas), Bingham (Pa.), Hentwoie (Minn.) and Latimer (8. C.) in favor of the bill and Messrs. Moon (Tenn.), Lentz (Ohio), Vandiver (Mo.), Snodgrass (Tenn.), Cochran (Mo.) and Neville (Neb.) against it.

This and That.

Two years ago the zinc mining companies of Missouri numbered about a dozen; now they exceed 200. The director of the census expects to have the main reports of the twelfth census publnshed nqt later than July 1, 1902. . .' . Caught ih n snowslide near Eureka, Colo., Chris Ihmsen. one of the owners of the Lucky Friend mine, was swept to bis death. Mrs, Henrietta Snell, widow of Amos J. Snell, the Chicago capitalist, whose murder has not been solved, died from heart disease. J. M. Dobie of Ramires, Live Oak County, Texas, owns a steer whose horns from point to point measure 9 feet 7 inches. It will be sent to the Paris exposition. * Col. Schwartzkoppen, military attache of the German embassy in Paris, who figured extensively hi the Dreyfus affair, ha? been promoted to the rank of major general. v '•. Recent investigations have* shown that there are In the State of Maryland at least 28,000 voters who could not meet an educational test, should one be required, as has been proposed.

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Race with the Trains.

A common sight in Cape Colony is a herd of ostriches accompanying a railway train as it speeds on its way. There Is more catarrh tn thia section of the c<w iß tr T ‘‘‘f® otber dresses P«t together, and until the last few years was supposed to be Incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced It a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, apd by constantly falling to cure with local treatment, pronounced It incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease. and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Clieney & Co.. Toledo. Ohio, Is the only constitutional cure on the market It Is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case It falls to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, a W-Sold by Pfngglsts, 78c. /

Anthracite in North Carolina.

Anthracite coal, discovered at historic King’s mountain. North Carolina, shows an analysis of 95 per cent, of carbon.

What Do the Children Drink?

Don’t give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? ’lt is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give tbe children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costs about %as much. All grocers sell it. 15c and 25c. He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the .evil of which one can be guilty.—Swift.

Coughing Leads to Consumption.

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