Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — Page 6

JASPER COUNH DEMOCRAT. B? BABCOCK, Publisher. ’ hcNsseurh, ■ ihouiu.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The south bound Louisville and Nashville passenger train ran into a freight which was entering a switch at Cave City, Ky. The engine went over on Its side. Fonr freight ears were wrecked. Five passengers were hurt, none seri- , onsly. A discovery of coal has been made in the Laurentian mountains, province of Quebec, which is believed to be of considerable importance. The stratum bearing the coal is some forty or fifty feet below the surface and its extent remains to be seen. Ellsworth Evans, alias “Jocko Jones,” shot and instantly killed Assistant City (Marshal William llennecke at Boonyille, Mo,/ When shot Marshal Hennecke was attempting to arrest Evans after the latter had robbed a cigar store. Evans was captured. After experimenting for fifteen years, Thomas Burkholder of Hosensaek, I’a., Ims perfected a new method of tanning hides, and he has sold his secret to a party of Allentown capitalists for $25,000 down and a royalty of 2 cents on every hide tanned. The dead body of William Hootenbardner of Wapakoneta. Ohio, who was traveling through the country selling medirine, was found in the road near Beaver Darn with his pockets rilled. He had nearly SI,OOO when last seen. It is supposed he was murdered. Policemen George W. Kirkley and .1. 11. Adams were shot and seriously injured Within a block of the police station at Birmingham, Ala., by two men, supposed to be safe crackers. The men were suspected of theft, and were being taken to the station house for examination. Joseph Stahl was blown through a stone wall and instantly killed by the explosion of eleven dryers in a paper machine in the 11. F. Watson Company’s mill at Erie, I’a. Five other employes were so badly hurt that they may die. The property damage amounted to $20,000.

The huge Daniel Hcotten tobacco plant at Detroit, which became a part of the Continental Tobacco Company two years ago, by the payment of altout $5,000,000 to the Scottens, will be dismantled and removed. The 1,600 employes have been notified that their services will not Is* needed after May 1. Miss Elsie Tyson of Humboldt, Cai., has sailed for England with an Australian attorney to assist in establishing the claim of the children and grandchildren of John Tyson, who died in New Providence, N. J., thirty years ago. to the $13,000,000 estate of James Tyson, who died in Melbourne in 1888. An attempt wr made to rob the Doi Jar bank at FlusiP>ig, Ohio. The robbers blew o)K‘n the door with dynamite, but the explosion awakened the inhabitants, and upon the arrival of armed citizens the burglars fled. The door of the vault was blown off the hinges, and the buildlug was badly damaged. Mrs. Frances M. Wolcott, granted a divorce from Senator Wolcott of Colorado March 6, has lost jewelry valued at about $40,000. She carried her jewels to Faris in a specially constructed portmanteau, which she never trusted out of her sight. One day, however, she absent-mindedly left it in her carriage in front of her hotel and no trace of the jewels has since been found. Remarkable coolness was displayed by Albert Stedge, 17 years old, of Chicago, after killing William Hobson, a boarder in his mother’s house, in defense of his . mother. He struck Hobson in the head with a barrel stave in front of his home, And then calmly went into the house, told his mother what he had done and ■went to bed, leaving the itody of his victim lying on the walk. Stedge was arrested.

BREVITIES,

Gen. Piet Joubert died at Pretoria, after a short illness. The British cruiser Terrible has sailed from Durban for China. Ex-Senator J. J. Coyle of Philadelphia was acquitted of the charge of bribery. > Liberia’s-navy, consisting of two gunboats, has been destroyed by accidents. Neither Carnegie nor Frick is on the board of directors of the new Carnegie company. r It is said the Duke of Orleans has bought an estate in Hungary and will live there. Lieut. Gen. Sir Arthur Power Palmer ■will succeed Gen. Lockhart as commander in India. L The President has appointed John I*. p ,V. Gridley of Pennsylvania a second lieu- ■ tenant of marines. • E. A. Ford, traveling passenger agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, died at his i home in Ocean Grove, N. J., aged 55. Burglars visited the postoffice at Mas con, Neb., ami blew open the safe. They | secured S2OO in money and some stamps. Alexander Jester, alleged murderer of £ Gilbert Gates, is again disappointed. His e trial at Mexico, Mo., has been postponed k until July 9. r Dr. Isaac M. Wise, famous Jewish H rabbi, is dead at Cincinnati, aged bl. J Cardinal Camillo Mazella is dead in k Rome, aged 07. unsuccessful attempt was made to ■Kb the bank of Bntro & Co. in San Frun- ‘ cisco, the robbers entering the bank by i cutting through the walls. fe The Chinese Empress Dowager has ? sent two cruisers to the Straits SettleKtownt to helpcapture or kill Ko tig lu Wei and other reformers. .Will Edwards, alias “Wing" Smith, the E-negro who murdered Edward B. Johnson Dulaney’s Levee camp, was hanged by In mob at Deer Creek Bridge, Miss, r w. h. Culton, after being held to the fraud jury along with Caleb Powers and John Davis for alleged complicity in k Goeliel’a murder, made a confession to # the State's Attorney at Frankfort, Ky. fe Dynamite was placed tinder the rear of Ktbe house of John Bude in Chicago and fcexpioded. The police believe this was feioue to kill Bude and his wife and three hildrea as they slept. They say it in Bhe result of a neighborly ood feud.

EASTERN.

Louis Harris, colored, was lynched at Belair, MJ.' Meal work on the New York $30,000,000 tunnel for underground rapid transit has bepti bpgun. Bachman & Forey’s planing mill at Columbia, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Loss over $75,000, uninsured. Coeducation is to be abolished at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., and a women’s College established. Fire entirely destroyed the Clinton Liberal institute building at Fort Plain, N. Y.. entailing a loss of $95,000. All the students have been sent home on account of diphtheria in the Lawrenceville Academy, near Princeton, N. J. The Paterson, N. J., Hobart memorial committee lias now $12,500 in the fund to ’build a monument to the late VicePresident. One man wits killed and five men injured by a eave-in at White Hall tunnel on the Baltimore nud Ohio Railroad, ten miles south of Pittsburg. One of the elevators in the seven-story factory building, 247 Center street, New York, broke its cable and fell seven stories, injuring three of its occupants. John T. Martin of Euston, I’a., has been awarded damages of $55,000 against the-Delaware and Hudson Railroad for permanent injuries received in an accident. One person was killed and four were seriously injured by a terrible explosion of collodion in the photographic supply house of Thomas M. McCollin & Co. in Philadelphia. A receiver has been appointed for the Joseph C. Godfrey Company, manufacturers of tissue paper nt Raubsville, Pa. The liabilities exceed $75,000 and the assets less than $30,000. The wage scale for the coal miners of the Pittsburg district was signed, to become effective April 1, the basis being a horizontal advance of 21.21 per cent. The (Settlement affects 20,000 men. William 11. House, former assistant city attorney of Pittsburg, Pa., serving a sentence in the western Pennsylvania penitentiary for alleged embezzlement of city funds, has been pardoned. Through the breaking down of the first floor in the factory building at 213 and 215 East Forty-fourth street. New York, which was totally destroyed by fire, three firemen were killed and two injured. A special from Washington says: "Lord Salisbury has apologized to the United States for the opening by the British censor at Durban of mail addressed to exConsul Charles E. Macrtnn at Pretoria.” At Oil City, I’a., Amos Elder, an oil well driller, shot and killed his wife. Elder was intoxicated at the time and tho shooting occurred after a terrible struggle in which the woman sought to save her life. The murderer escaped.

WESTERN.

Senator Teller has come out as a candidate for Governor of Colorado. Union miners took possession of Booneville, Ind., and captured a number of non-union men. The pbstotlice at Nogales, Ariz., was looted by burglars the other night of $5,000 in Mexican money. One hundred and fifty persons were poisoned at Lima, Ohio, by chicken salad served at a’ church dinner. George N. Wiswell of Wisconsin has been selected as sergeant-at-arms of the Republican national convention. Three Chinamen have died within a few days in San Francisco of what is officially declared the bubonic plague. ■ By the burning of the family dwelling four children of John Borden were burned to death in Houston County, Texas. Emil Corson, member of the largest business firm in Gayville, S. D., shot and killed himself on the graves of bis wife and child. Reindeer E, VVekman, an immigration agent of St. Paul, Minn., has tiled a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities of $51,020.58 and no assets. The lowa House of Representatives unanimously declared by resolution against the Porto Rican tariff bill now before the United States Senate. At Lawrence, Kan., tire destroyed the office building and warehouse of the seed firm of Barteldes & Co. The building contained $50,000 worth of seeds. An explosion at the Hercules powder works at Lamotte, Mo., wrecked the separating house and killed two workmen. Edmund Carter nnd Peter Buck. The explosion of a boiler in a sawmill near Lancaster, Ohio, instantly killed Louis Neubauer, owner, and terribly scalded his four sons and his son-in-law, William Young. J. B. Schweitzer, a young artist of Reno, Nev., has fallen heir to a fortune of about $500,000, bequeathed to him by his uncle, John Bryan Griffith, who recently died in Indin.

Mrs. Charles Pise! was bound ami gagged ami robbed of a watch ami money at her residence in Bloomdale, Ohio. She was prostrated by the severe treatment she received in her battle with the robber. A prairie fire started near Houghton, S. D., and spread over a large tract of country. Thousands of acres of fine range were burned over and several farm buildings were destroyed. The loss is heavy. Vito I‘aoletto, a young Itblian, shot ami Giavito, his partner in the saloon business at Chicago, and, while fleeing from the scene of the crime, was stricken dumb. His case puzzles the physicians. Three girl students of “The Western, a College for Women,’’ at Oxford, Ohio, were expelled and ten others suspended as the upshot of'a faculty raid on an initiation by a society that was in progress about midnight. Christian Gntherl, one of the oldest German residents of Houghton, Mich., was bur ped to deaih. It is supposed that Gutherl, who was almost helpless from rheumatism, accidentally set fire to the bed while smoking. Lawrence Walsh walked ,into .a till-’ cago police station and coolly -announced that he was the man who shot down Robert Gilchrist in the latter's bauber shop in that city. He is reticentjyoncerning tjie motive. M It. J. McFarland, chief of the Kaftsas City, Kan., police department, has hung up a bounty of $25 each for the bodies of all highway iTriibcrs killed in the city while-in the act of committing robbery directly thereafter. At La Crosse, a meeting was held of

egg dealers and produce mets representing western Wisconsin, southern Minnesota and northern lowa, An organization wns perfected, to be known as the Interstate Egg Shippers’ Association. At Lawrence, Kan., fire destroyed the plant of the Pierson Flour Milling Company, valued at $150,000. In addition to the mill, several thousand bushels of wheat and several hundred barrels of flour were burned. Insurance, SBO,OOO. lii accordance with the decision reached at a big mass meeting, the machinists employed In more than fifty establishments at Cleveland laid down their tools. It is stated that about 1,500 men are out, including union and non-union men. William Miller is a martyr to truth telling. He spent over 100 days in jail at Omaha, Neb., because he could not conscientiously promise to appear as prosecuting witness for one Hulzman, charged with highway robbery, Miller being the victim. The National Bank of Hardy, Neb., was looted by four robbers. The entire front of the building was blown out and the vault thrown in pieces into the middle of the street. The thieves secured SIO,OOO and SSOO in gold was picked up in the streets. At 2 o’clock the other morning fire broke out in the C. C. Ayers & Co.’s lumber yard at Red Key, Ind., and this with other property was destroyed. There were four large warehouses in the yard and property valued at $35,000, with but $13,000 insurance Frank Smalley, a Chicago letter carrier, shot himself, dying instantly. He was in the basement of the station at the time. Despondency, caused by long illness, is said to have caused Smalley’s suicide. For a long time he had been brooding over his ill health. The James Nickum sawmill, six miles southwest of Muncie, Ind., was destroyed by an explosion. Three men are dead, one more will die and three others are injured. The explosion resulted from the water pump breaking when the boiler bad on a full bead of steam. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Flemrey, an aged couple at Cheyenne, VVyo., quarreled and when the officers arrived Mrs. Flemrey’s clothing was in flames and her husband was standing over her with a lighted candle, and apparently delighted by her agonizing shrieks. The man was arrested. James Dunlap, prince of bank robbers, and the most expert safe cracker that ever handled a drill, who was concerned in the blowing of the Northampton bank safe when the vaults were robbed of many thousands of dollars in currency, has been arrested by Chicago detectives. Attorney Charles Sparks, wh<y has offices in the Lincoln Inn court, Cincinnati, Ohio, was the victim the other night of what appears to have been an attempt on his life. Vitriol was thrown upon him in such a quantity as to completely cover his head, face and the left side of his coat. He was terribly burned. The Wichita, Kan., electric street railway was attached for back taxes amounting to $3,700, according to the county’s claim. All ears were tied up until shortly after noon, when Mayor Ross arranged a temporary settlement by allowing W. B. McKinley, formerly of Chicago, to take charge as agent for the sheriff. Judge Munger granted a writ of habeas corpus at Omaha in the case of Fair and Joekens, the two members of the Tenth Infantry at Fort Crook held for trial in the State court for the shooting of Deserter Morgan. Judge Munger ordered their release on the ground that it was a private’s duty to obey his superior’s orders. Clifford Jones, elevator man, and HarrySchoen, doorman, fought in a runawayelevator in the Olive Studio building, St. Louis, where both were employed. Upon reaching the sixth floor the elevator was checked automatically, but the men continued to tight. Finally Jones caught up a monkey wrench and beat the doorman into insensibility. John Faber of Chicago, representative of a school book establishment in that city, was ridden on a rail by students at Columbia, Mo., and seemed to enjoy the experience. When the students released Faber he politely thanked them for the splendid advertisement they had gratuitously given the books he was handling. The laugh is on the students.

SOUTHERN.

The date of the Southern industrial convention, to be held at Chattanooga, Tenn., has been changed to May 15, 10, 17 and 18. William Glover and Tom McCain, colored, arrested at Hopkinsville, Ky., have confessed that they wrecked a Louisville and Nashville passenger train near there recently. Tom Jones, a negro, murdered Ella Jones and five of her children, and then cremated the bodies, also destroying the woman’s residence, at Garner, near Raleigh. N. C. The .murderer was arrested. Particulars have been received of the torture and killing in Chesterfield County, N. C., of Cassie Boone. Four men carried her to the woods, gashed her with knives, and then set fire to her clothing. She ran screaming through the woods until she fell dying. The men are now in jail. In the heart of Ripley, Tenn., the body of a negro, Louis Rice, was found dangling from a limb of a tree. The lynching grew out of a trial in the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County, during the course of which Rice testified in favor of one of his color who was charged with the murder of a white man named Goodrich. A mob which for thirty-six hours had surged around the little jail at Emporia, Va., dragged two prisoners forth and hanged them to the same limb, filling the body of one with bullets as he hung writhing and gasping in the air. The two men were Walter Cotton, a negro, who shot two officers who were attempting to arrest him for burglary, and a white man who aided Cotton in the robbery.

FOREIGN.

Business is almost suspended in Budapest owing to prevalence of influenza. The Sultan of Morocco has objected to the French occupation of the Oasis of lusalnh. Many houses were destroyed and several persons killed by a landslide at Bondeno, Italy. President Loubet will pardon Baron Christiani, who assaulted him at the race track last June. Gen. Otis has suppressed' the Manila paper, La Patriß, and imprisoned its editor for sedition. Sacred documents and archives of in-

estimable value were imperiled by a blaze in the Vatican. Officers and crew of the United States cruiser Prairie were entertained by the municipality of Rouen. ' Ras Mangascia is leading another attempt to overthrow the authority of Menelek in northern Abyssinia. A Scottish expedition is to be sent to explore the antarctic regions under the leadership of William S. Bruce. The Norwegian three-masted schooner Triton has been wrecked at Dunkirk, France, and ten of her crew drowned.„ The Sultan’s reply to the collective note of the powers protesting against increases of duties is merely a categorical statement that the increase will be made. The Brazilian minister to the court of St. James, Chevalier de Souza Correa, was found dead in bed in London. He wns an intimate associate of the Prince of Wales and was quite well the previous day.

IN GENERAL.

Chief Moore of the weather bureau has forbidden employes to smoke cigarettes during business hours. Kuskonook, a railway town on Kootenay lake, B. C., terminus of the Bedlington and Nelson Railway, was swept away by fire. Many hundreds of families were ’made homeless. Ice floes in the Exploits river have swept away the railway bridge at St. John’s, N. F. t which cost SIOO,IXIO. The express and mail trains on the way to that city returned to Port Aux Basque. One of the large buildings of Hand 4b Co.’s fireworks factory in Hamilton, Ont., was wrecked by an explosion. Walter Teale, son-in-law of Prof. Hand, one of the partners in the concern, was blown to atoms. Secretary of State Hay and Ambassador Cambon have signed a protocol extending the time allowed for the ratification of the French reciprocity treaty. It provides that the treaty is to be ratified within twelve months. • A serious riot occurred at the works of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company at Sydney, C. 8., among a large number of Italian employes who were brought from New York and Boston. James Beckman, the chief of police, was fatally stabbed. An engagement between the Yaqui Indians and Mexican troops took place in the Bacatete mountains. The Indians made a sortie. They drove in the Mexican outposts and threatened to attack in force, but after brisk tiring that lasted for two hours the Indians withdrew. Judging from reports already received, the total number of seals actually taken by the Canadian seal fleet thus far is about 296,000, and the prospect is that as four weeks of the fishing season have yet to run this total will be increased by some 60,000. As the entire catch last only 247,000, this year’s figures promise to be the best within twenty years.

The several Mormon colonies in Chihuahua, Mexico, have been increased in population by the arrival of over 5,000 Mormon immigrants from Utah during the last two months. Wealthy Mormons of Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah, have purchased several thousand acres of land near the Dublan colony, and will divide it into small farms for the new settlers. Immense corporations arc backing the promoters of the Uniontown, Waynesburg and West Virginia Railroad Company. They see in it a short route to Chicago and the West, which to them means cheaper freight rates. Chicago is brought thirty-eight miles nearer to the coke regions of Connellsville, and the distance between the Fayette fields and Cincinnati is reduced seventy-one miles. Bradstreet’s views the business situation thus: “Some few irregularities are visible in the general trade and industrial situation, the results of the workings of counter currents in various lines, but taken as a whole the general outlook rex tains most of the encouraging features noted for some time past. Favorable reports as to retail distribution and as to collections come from Southern, Western and Northwestern markets, due to better weather. Continued good railroad returns, record-breaking merchandise exports from New York, with signs of resumption of heavy shipments of iron to Europe, and good wheat and fruit crop reports, except from the central West, are also features. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 2,903,495 bushels, against 2,727,450 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,123,848 bushels, against 3,729,291 bushels last week.”

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 $6.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 2,38 cto 39c; oats, No. 2,24 c to 25c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 55c; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 24c; eggs, freah, 10c to lie; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c 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 $5.25; wheat, No. 2,70 c to'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. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 36c to 38c; oats. No. 2,25 cto 26c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 55c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $6.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 2,59 cto 61c. Detroit —Cayle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn. No. 2 yellowy 38c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, 50c to 61c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2. mixed, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 38c to 40c; oats, No. 2 niixed, 24c to*26e; rye, No. 2,57 c to 58c; clover seed, old, $4.85 to $4.95. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 3,37 cto 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, No. I*, 56c to 58c; barley, No. 2,44 cto 46c; pork, mess, $11.75 to $12.25. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to SB.OO. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $2.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to S6J)O; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 80c; corn, No. 2, 44c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 83c; butter, creamery, 21c to 26c; eggs, western, 15c to 16c.

CONGRESS

On Thursday the Senate passed a resolution by Mr. Butler asking the Secret tary of the Treasury for information as to the bank charters granted since the passage of the currency bill, and for other information concerning the operations of the new law. Devoted the rest of the day to debate on the Porto Rico problem. The House by a vote of 148 to 96 recommitted to the committee on post office the Loud bill relating to secondclass mail matter. It is not thought the; bill will reappear in the present session. The Senate on Friday agreed to send the diplomatic and consular bill to conference. Passed the I’orto Rico $2,000,000 appropriation bill as amended in conference by a vote of 35 to 15. The House passed the bill, introduced at the request of northwestern lumbermen, authorizing the Secretary of War to make regulations permitting the running of loose logs, rafts and lumber on streams in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Passed 142 private pension bills. Agreed to vote on the conference report of the Porto Rican appropriation bill at 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon, March 24. On Saturday the Senate recommitted the bill providing for a civil government for Porto Rico. Accepted a statue of Oliver P. Morton from the State of Indiana to be placed in Statuary Hall. Passed bills to equalize the duties of district federal judges in Alabama; to pay James Drake, marshal of Washington, $1,529 expended by him, and appropriating $75,000 to pay the expenses of a commission to study commercial conditions in the Orient. The House agreed to the conference report on the Porto Rico relief bill by a vote of 135 to 87. Passed the bill appropriating SIO,OOO for -plans for a Grant memorial to be erected in Washington. Mr. Foraker, in charge of the I’orto Rican bill in the Senate, on Monday announced that, beginning with that session, he would press the measure to a vote as soon as possible. The Alaska civil code bill was under consideration during the greater part of the session. An amendment was agreed to fixing a license upon almost every kind of trade and commerce in the district of Alaska, the licenses ranging from $lO to SSOO per annum. The measure had not been disposed of at the conclusion of the session. The House entered upon the consideration of the army appropriation bill. Mr. Jett (Ill.) criticised the policy of rushing officers through the high grades of the army just prior to retirement. Mr. Cox (Tenn.) and Mr. Ridgely (Kan.) opposed generally a permanent increase of the army as prejudicial to the best interests of the country, and Mr. Meyer (La.) discussed the Philippine policy, opposing the retention of the islands.

On Tuesday the Senate agreed to the conference report on the pension appropriation bill. Devoted the rest of the day to debate on the Alaskan civil code bill and the Porto Rico problem. In the House there was lively debate during the consideration of the army appropriation bill. The charge that the Porto Rican tariff bill was the result of a deal for raising a Republican campaign fund was again referred to by Mr. Pierce (Tenn.), but Mr. Hull declared the anonymous author of the charge would never dare to avow himself and be branded as a falsifier.- Mr. Sulzer (N. Y.) made an appeal for the extension of official sympathy to the Boers in their struggle for independence, and Mr. Lentz of Ohio delivered a scathing denunciation of militarism and the war in the Philippines. This attack aroused the indignation of Mr. Marsh (Ill.), who declared Mr. Lentz’s speech was a disgrace to Congress. The Senate on Wednesday agreed to vote on the Porto Rico bill Tuesday afternoon, April 3. Listened to a speech by Mr. Davis in support of free trade. Amended the Alaskan civil code bill by declaring void all permits heretofore given to mine for gold in tide waters under the jurisdiction of the United States and allowing all citizens of the United States to do such mining under regulations imposed by organized mining districts. Defeated the Morgan free coinage amendment to the Porto Rican bill by a vote of 15 yeas to 33 nays. In executive session the Democrats broke a quorum and prevented confirmation of the appointment of William D. Bynum as a member of the board of general appraisers at New York. The House devoted the day to consideration of the army appropriation bill. Several minor amendments were adopted, and about half the bill was considered. Mr. Driggs (N. Y.) created a diversion by charging reckless extravagance in the fitting up of the transport Sumner aiid precipitated a lively tilt upon the subject. He gave notice that later he should ask the House to investigate the subject. The conference reports on the urgent deficiency and the pension appropriation bills were agreed to.

Odds and Ends.

Lebanon Gevers, the new minister of the Netherlands to Washington, is a grandson of Senator Wright of Now Jersey. Monthly summaries of the commerce of the Philippines, Cuba and Porto Rico will hereafter be made, in pamphlet fprm, by the War Department. Secretary Long has made an interesting collection of the naval flags and signals of all nations. Many of these flags are the gift of famous sailors of this and other countries. The "bloodiest battle of the century” was that of Borodino, a Russian village, where Napoleon fopght the Russians on Sept. 7, 1812. Nearly 80,000 men were placed hors du combat. Dr. John P. Wood of Coffeyville,"Kan., insists that he is the oldest practicing physician in the world. He is 99 years ohl, and still makes daily visits to his patients. Miss Estelle Reel, superintendent of Indrau schools, is preparing a bill to present to Congress which will have for its object the compulsory education of Indian children. Gov. N. O. Murphy of Arizona has been in Washington to urge action for the admission of Arizona as a State. "1 think the prospects for Arizona becoming a State next year good,” he says.

What Do the Childern Drink?

Don’t give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink calMd GRAIN-O? It ia delicious, and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. a Tho more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure graUß, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costa about %as much. AU grocers aell IL 15c and 25c.

Sunflower in Commerce.

The sunflower is cultivated in many European countries. In Russia the seeds are parched and eaten like peanuts In the United States. The oil it used for illuminating and often for cuUnary purposes.

Libby, McNeill A Libby.

Housekeepers frequently feel the need of luncheon meats Which are either ready to serve or can be prepared for the table at a moment’s notice. Such a need is abundantly supplied in the superior meats put up4>y the old reliable house of Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago, one of whose specialties is advertised in another column of this paper, and their booklet, “How to Make Good Things to Eat,” ia offered free on application. The bite of the mosquito would scarcely be noticed, were It not for the fact that the insect Injects into the wound an acrid juice, which causes the itching and painful sensation.

To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails tooure. 25c. E. )¥■ Grove’s signature is on each box. The small boy will make music In proximity to either a born or a hornet

From Washington How a Little Boy Was Saved Washington, D. C.—“ When our boy was about 16 months old be broke out with a rash which was thought to be measles. In a few days be had a swelling on the left side of his neck and it was decided to be mumps. He was given medical attendance for about three weeks when the doctor said It was scrofula and ordered a salve. He wanted to lance the sore, but I would not let him and continued giving him medicine for about four months when the bunch broke in two places and became a running sore. Three doctors said it was scrofula and each ordered a blood medicine. A neighbor told me of a case somewhat like our baby’s whiib was cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. I decided to give it to my boy, and in a short while his health Improved and his neck healed so nicely that I stopped giving him the medicine. The sore broke put again, however, whereupon I again gave him Hood’s Sarsaparilla and its persistent use has accomplished a complete cure.” MRS. NETTIE CHASE, 47 K St.. N. E. ,

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