Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1900 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. * F.' E BABCOCK, Publisher.. ' RcNSSEIAER, ■ - INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWSRECORD

; The boilers of the 1 steamer Guthell, from Philadelphia, Exploded as the vessel was lying at anchor off Regia, in Havana harbor. .Two men were scalded. The explosion caused much excitement in Regia, visions of the Maine disaster rising before the people.* Richard J. Koch of Chicago, who is aaiil to be one of the most dangerous and clever swindlers in the country, was run down in Cleveland, but snecoe<l<*d in escaping. 1L is alleged he swindled the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad out of thousands of dollars. A complete house, built of steel, is n portion of the <-argo of the Dutch ship Wilhelmina, which recently sefled from Philadelphia for Japan and Russia. It is consigned to PrinceYoshibito of Tokyo. The steel house was built at Pittsburg, at a cost of >21,481. Squire D. J. Smith and W. Paris each polled 151 votes in their race for the mayoralty of Mount Healthy, Ohio. They agreed to toss a copper and abide by the result. Squire Rtauvemanu of Wyoming flung a cent into the air. Head was up and Paris is mayor of the village. The Anglo-American Rapid Vehicle Company has been organized with the object of gaining control of all the automobile and principal vehicle companies of the country. Philadelphia capitalists are largely interested in the enterprise, the capital stock of which is >75,000,000. The worst pneumonia epidemic in the Ijjstory of St. Louis is raging. March broke all mortuary records from that disease, with a total of 209 deaths. April promises to exceed that startlingly high rate. Doctors ascribe the prevalence of the disease to the extremely changeable season. The American Tin Plate Company has purchased from the Laughlin iron works of Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, several acres of ground south of its present tin mills, and it is stated unofficially tlint the tin mills now run in cohnection with the Aetna Standard at Bridgepart will be moved to the Martin's Ferry plant. Canada's efforts to secure industries have scored again in a big deal just entered into between Cupt. MacDougall of , Duluth, Minn.; the Cramps of Philadelphia, Pa., and the town of Collingwood, Ont., by which immense smelting, steel, iron and shipbuilding works are to be established on the Georgian bay. There was a riot at Mamaroneck, N. Y„ between striking laborers and men hired to take their places on local improvements. One striker, an Italian, was shot in the thigh and probably fatally wounded, another was shot in the knee ■nd several others received Cesser injuries. Several of the rioters were arrested. A syndicate headed by O. A. Robertson and Frank O’Meara of St. Paul and F. E. Kcnnston of Minneapolis has pur chased all the Northern Pacific lands in Minnesota, approximately 530,000 acres. The price paid is not officially made public, but it is said it was >1 an acre and other considerations, making the total cost to the syndicate about >1,900,000. Five thousand miners of the Georges fWOek region of Maryland struck the other Might for an increase of wages and the recognition by the operators of the United Mine Workers of America. The operators assert that they will not endeavor to work the mines, hut will let them remain idle until the men get tired of inactivity ami return to work of their own volition. Representatives of the National Iron Founders' Association aud of the Inter- * national Iron Molders’ Union, after a two days’ conference In Cincinnati, disagreed on the subject of a wage scale. The demand of the men was for an advance of 25 cent* a day on the minimum ( wages of >2.75 and for other concessions. The outcome will depend now on the action of loeai unions throughout the country. and may result in a combination to enforce the demand.

BREVITIES.

I Count tl'Arjuzon, chanilH'rlain to Napodwm Hi.. H dead. State Senator Rk-hard Hiffble of New York died at hi* home on l>uig lalaud. r Italy lias adopted for her navy a new aiitoniatk- rifle that fire* seventeen nbots ■ second. DiC Frederick Maasen. noted Austrian authority on eeeleriarticnl law, is dead at Imißpnick, aged 77. Five hundred pound* of plug cut tobat'co baa been wised In variotiH San Franris’-o store* by internal revenue agent* becaiim- the packages were insufficiently atainiM-d. The leaf tobacco factory of \V. G. Dun ijiugton & t’o. in Petersburg, Va., containing over 1.000.0ti0 pounds of tobacco, purchsM-d recently for the Austrian Government, was destroyed by fire. The lokh is estimated at >IOO,OOO. U The daughter of Jcnae Howard, a fanner living three mile* <-a*t of Springfield, Ark., left home to go to the field where she was working in their crop. The next luoruing her corpse wa* awinging from a niaple limb, dead and cold. ' Rnaident Janie* J. Hill of the Great *>Jiorfliern Railroad and a number of otb ; er official* of the road narrowly e*< - m>ed iM-ing killed hy the ditching of their special train on the Northern Pacific track In Silver Bow < a nyon, Mont. At Omaha the Trnn*p<>rtntion tmildlug cm the TrnnNini**i**lppi exposition ground* was entirely destroyed by fire. All the other large Ktructure* have been torn down by the- wrecking company. No one ffppc-ara to know how the fire started. 7 The six-story brick building of the H. B. Hunt StHtupiug Company in Ulcveland and eontc-nta were l totallv destroyed by fire. The loss I* >185.0(M). r Rev Dr. Joseph Hemphill committed sulfide near Balis rd, Cal., by blowing the top of bis head off with a shotgun. He is believed to have been temporarily mWhile |H-ie*t was administering the last AScminitit to a dying man. in the presence of hi* relatives, near Cortinna, SjNsin, th* floor of the room collapsed aud the dying man and four other persona Were killed ■nd fourteen were Injured.

EASTERN.

Altamont de Cordova is dead in New York, aged ,02. James Seely, a well-known maker of perfumes, is dead at - his home in Rochester.- - John Wright Dean, the “Quaker evan* gelist,” is dead at Pawtucket, R. 1., aged 70 year?. . Eily Cogh.lan, actress, sister of Rose and Charles Cogitlan, died at Stamford, Conn., aged 36. Fire destroyed (he .1. P. Mathieu Company’s glace kid works in Philadelphia. Loss >IOO,OOO. James B. Kellogg, formerly of the E. S. Denn Company, was convicted of swindling in New York. At Fitchburg, Maw., fire destroyed the hardware store of the Damon & Gould Company. Loss >90,000. The Sans Hottci Opera House block and the Schaffer building at Ballston Spa, near Saratoga, N. Y„ were burned. Loss >150,000. Negotiations are said to be in progress for u combination of the gigantic new Carnegie company and the Cramp shipbuilding concern. The physical one of the largest nnd finest buildings of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., was destroyed by fire. The loss probably will exceed >300,000. “Sapho” was officially declared a proper play by the New York jury before which Miss Olga Nethersole and her associates were tried for maintaining a public nuisance. John William Key, a famous minstrel forty years ago, is dead at his home in North Paterson, N. J., aged 77 years. He was the last surviving member of the original Christy minstrels. The wedding of Miss Ilunnah Walker Sampson, youngest daughter of Rear Admiral William T. Hampson, to Ensign Wat Tyler Culverlus, U. 8. N., took placeat the commandant’s residence at the Boston navy yard and was attended by many army and navy officers and their families. There are all of twenty new vessels being constructed by the leading steamship lines for the transatlantic service between New York and foreign ports. In addition to these there are at least five new lineYa that are nearly finished and will be placed in commission in the early part of the coming season, besides a large number of vessels that will carry freight exclusively. For the second time in three years the extensive department store of Joseph Horne & Co., at' the corner of Fifth street and Penn avenue, Pittsburg, is in ruins. .Shortly after midnight Policeman Sylvester Doyle discovered flames issuing "from the windows of th«« eighth floor and inside of an hour the big eight-story structure was destroyed, entailing a loss of nearly >2,000,000. The firm will resume business at once. Charles Hendrick, who claims Ilion, 111., as his home, is in jail at Binghamton, N. Y„ for brutally assaulting his sweetheart in their boarding place. He entered the dining room, and, pulling her from her chair, dragged her about the room by the hair, ending by grinding his heel in her face, bruising it into an unrecognizable mass, tearing off an ear nnd disfiguring her for life. When arrested his only explanation was: “1 gave her what she deserved.” He had been paying her attention, and, it is said, she rejected his suit.

WESTERN.

Woman suffrage was defeated in the lowa Senate by only three votes. At Waynesville, Ohio, tire destroyed an entire square in the business portion of the towu. Dr. David Tappan, president of Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, was banged in effigy on the college campus. Mrs. Marie Doble, wife of Budd D. Doble, the horseman of San Francisco, has filed suit for divofee on statutory grounds. A dispatch from Chico, Cal., announces the death of Gen. George Bidwell. Gen. Bidwell was the prohibition candidate for President in 1892. At Menominee, Mich., fire destroyed the Spies building, the largest business block in (he city. Loss on the building >60,000, insurance >12,000. A flood in the Colorado river carried away the-great dam at Austin, Texas, and caused >8,000,000 property loss. Forty-eight lives were lost. The Indianapolis carpenters' strike has been ended by the contractors recognizing the union and granting 30 cents an hour, 5 cents less than was demanded. It is announced that the coal miners aud operators of the Bellaire, Ohio, district have settled their differences, the Indianapolis scale being signed. About 5,000 men are affected. •

Ex-Postmaster G. W. McKinzie died of heart disease while making a speech at a Republican ward meeting at Kokomo, Ind. He was a member of the Ninth Indiana battery in the civil war. Fire guttwl the four-story brick and atone Hagerman block in the business center of Colorado Spring*, Colo, entailing SIOO,OOO loss on the building and twenty or more limit occupying it. The Ohio Senate passed the Toledo centennial bill, after cutting the appropriation fronr $1,000,000 to $750,000, and providing for a new commission of eleven members to be appointed by Gov. Nash. Anthracite coal of excellent quality has been found In the Wichita mountains. Au El ICeno coal merchant declares that the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche country will result in giving access to an Immense coal field. After a week's Illness Milas B. Cobb, who had been prominently identified with the more important business Interests of Chicago nearly seventy years, died at the home of his son-in-law, William B. Walker, in that city. Albert E. Davis and Samuel G. Brook er, convicted of robbing the city of Cleveland. Ohio, ha\e been sentenced to the penitentiary for four years each. Execution of the sentence has been suspended until May 15, pending an appeal. The country southwest of Austin, Tex., was visited by a cloudburst. The Nueces river aud other streams Were converted almost instantly Into raging torrents that overflowed and swept away thousands of acres of growing crops in the valleys. Three miners were crushed to death by a fall of slate in the Superior Coal Company mine No. 3, at Wellston, Ohio, There were Jacob Tucker, John VVilllams aud David Davis. The bodies were crushed into an almost unrecognisable mass. Wll'iatn Claybonrn, one of the most

notorious criminals that Indianapolis has produced, and an escaped convict from the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville, was shot in the arp> by Detective John Morgan at the home of his grandmother. At Petroit Harry Hornberger, the youth convicted the other day of the murder of Jolifi 11. Reindell, attempted suicide by slashing Jkl* throaU with a razor, which he had procured from a fellow prisoner. Jail officials interfered In time to save his life. Arthur F. Marsh of Allegan, former inspector general of the Michigan National Guard, tried on an indictment charging him with feloniously conspiring with certain of his official associates to de’frnud the State, was found guilty by the jury at Lansing. Shoughnassce, the famous chief of the Pottawatomie*, died at Nadeay, Kan., at the age of*DO, and was buried in his dooryard, with Indian rites, by the side of his wife, who died a year ago. Death was due to quick consumption, following an attack of grip last winter. At Proctorville, Ohio, the flouring mill of G. D. Pugh caught fire and from this a conflagration resulted which destroyed half the town, clearing squares of residenees and business house®. But two stores of any importance are left. Loss >200,000. Insurance >OO,OOO. Judge Pangsley in Common Pleas Court at Toledo, declared that provision in the Ohio statutes unconstitutional which prohibits an employer from discharging a workman because the employe is a member of a labor union. The court held that the statute is class legislation. At Omaha Judge Keysor handed down an important decision on a question of law in a case that has been watched with interest by labor organizations in nearly every locality. It established that the resolutions of public officials to use only union made goods have no legal validity. L. Lemmon, a master printer of Lincoln, Neb., a member of Col. W. J. Bryan’s Third Nebraska regiment during the war with Spain, committed suicide by taking poison. His body was fqmd on the State fair grounds. He is caid to have been despondent over business reverses. A passenger train on the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad was wrecked near Channing, Texas. The coaches caught tire and the entire train except one coach burned. It' is reported six or seven people were killed, among them the Wells-Furgo express messenger, Chapman. Henry Hurlburt, a workman in the Lyons Paper Company’s mill at Clinton, lowa, met a horrible death. He fell against a swiftly revolving shaft, which caught his clothing and hurled him with great force against the side of the building. His body was crushed into a shapeless mass. In the Union Pacific land department at Omaha there is in progress one of the heaviest land deals for several years—a proposition made by a syndicate of Chicago capitalists to buy 140,(MM) acres in Lincoln County, Neb., extending on either side of the railroad from Gothenberg, Neb., to North Platte.

SOUTHERN.

Alfred C. Green, a New Orleans real estate man, committed suicide by shooting himself. F. O. Dickensheets of the Kansas City Journal killed himself at the Jackson Hotel. Atlanta, by taking morphine. At Claremont', Va., the house of a negro on James river was destroyed by fire aud five of the family of seven children perished in the flames. At Middlesboro, Ky„ William Mosley, a special policeman, shot Charles Cecil, deputy sheriff, and later Mosley was killed by an unknown person. The trouble grew out of political disputes. Sylvester Storrs, who nursed cx-Secre-tary of State William 11. Seward when he was almost stabbed to death at the time President Lincoln was assassinated, is dead of cancer at Berea, Ky., aged 76 years. By decree of the State Court of Ap peals J. C. W. Beckham, the Democratic nominee, is Governor of Kentucky, in its decision the court holds that the Legislature has sole power to pass upon any contest for the office and that hence its findings cannot be overridden by the judicial branch of the government. In Birmingham, Ala., Joe Scott, a negro, was murdered and his home set on fire by two unknown negro men. The house was located in Enon Ridge, aud before the tire department could reach the place the building was completely destroyed, together with adjacent houses. Robbery is supposed to be the motive for the crime. Members of the Georgia Sawmill Association, representing some 300 yellow pine mill plants in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, at a meeting recently decided that after May 10 all mills lielonging to the members of the association would run on two-thirds time. Thia will affect thousands of operatives and decreases the output of yellow pine in the State nearly one-third. It is understood that the limited supply of yellow pine timber in sight is largely the cause of this action.

FOREIGN.

Dr. Johannn Alton, «-miueut philologist, and his uicce were inurdercl at their home ut Roveredo, South Tyrol. A Ruasian cruiser is said to have discharged a toriu-do at a Japanese warship, which fired several shots in return. Another war has broken out iu Ashnuti and Gov. aud Lady Hodgson are at Coomassie, cut off from communication. M. Maillard, who was accused aud acquitted of high treason, has sued Premier Waldeck-Rousseau and two other officials for 25,000 francs each. It is said that by the deal re of Quceu Victoria the son that was born to the Duke and Duchess of York a few days ago will be christened Patrick. Gen. Otis will retire from his command iu the Philippines at his. own request May 1 or shortly thereafter, uud will be succeeded In chief command by Gen. Arthur MacArthur. An agreement has b»*en concluded whereby Russia disavows auy d<>vfgii to obtain .1 port iu the Island of Quelpart and Corea promises not to concede lire same to any other |»ower. A dispatch from Jebuti stales that as a result of n religions war there was u buttle in which Jlggiga, the Christian governor of Harar, Abyssinia, waa victorious. Two thousand Mussulmans were killed. The military -court at Sebastopol, Rus-

sia. has concluded the hearing of q»a naval scandal and convicted twenty-«s officers and civil servants of defrauding the Government in connection with the naval supplies. t .- -K’ The British steamgr Mexican of the Union Line, Captain Martin,, which left .Cape Town April 4, Jias been sunk in colHslbn with a cattle transport. The Mexican’s passengers returned to Cape Town, on board the cattle boat. Both Boers and British have suffered a reverse at different points in the Orange Free' State. The Boers captured five companies of British soldiers at Bethany, while British troops under. Gen. Methuen surrounded nnd captured a force of fifty Boers near Boshof. It is now admitted that the disturbances in Panama, Colombia, are serious, and the authorities are beginning to pay attention to them. Mail service has been interrupted in consequence of the operations of the troops. A revolution in Colombia, Is of especial importance to the United States because of the guaranty made by this'Goverumeut to preserve free transit between Colon and Panama.

IN GENERAL.

Strikes have been declared at several of the works at Guadeloupe, Island of Martinique, and night work has been suspended at the Bohncnwre worlds, belonging to the Credit Foncier. The strikers invaded the works, extinguished the fires aud stopped all work. Joseph Chamberlain, imperial secretary of state for the colonies, has notified the Newfoundland colonial cabinet that the British and French governments have renewed the Anglo-French modus vivendi covering fishery rights on the Newfoundland treaty shore until the close of the present year. Miss Margaret Riley, known as Marjory Lee, has sued Arnold Lawson, son of Thomas W. Lawson, the Boston copper magnate, for breach of promise to marry. Miss Riley, who is a petite blonde, places the damages at >20,000. Mr. Lawson makes a complete denial of her allegations. A party of forty Doukhobours has left Winnipeg for California, where they were taken by an American employment agency to work for 50 cents a day. They said they wanted to go to a warmer climate. The immigration authorities are becoming alarmed at tlfe movement, as it is said the whole colony will leave in the course of two or three years. A duel was fought in the outskirts of the City of Mexico by two women connected with prominent families of the capital. Pistols were the weapons and one of the participants was seriously wounded. The victor and the two seconds on the field of honor have been arrested. The affair has created a sensation. General Manager Hawkins of the White Pass Railway brings news of what he considers the greatest gold find ever made in Alaska. Seven men gathered nearly >30,000 since the first week in January from the bed of a hitherto nameless creek. It is a tributary of the Yukon, joining it a few miles below Closeleigh. The directors of the Butte and Boston Consolidated Copper Mining Company elected 11. H. Rogers president aqd William G. Rockefeller treasurer. This, it is said, confirms the long-continued reports that amalgamated copper capitalists had secured large interests in the Butte and Boston, and also strengthens the opinion that the latter company w ill eventually be merged in the Amalgamated Copper Company. Bradstreet’s says: “Favorable features continue in the majority in the general trade situation. The hopes for the advent of seasonable spring weather have been realized, and nearly all market's report an improved distribution at retail. This, as explained heretofore, is really the key of the general merchandise situation. The industrial situation is a rather spotted one. The price situation is encouraging, farm products easily leading in the upward movement. Wheat crop advices are on the whole favorable, except from the central want. Nothing like the speculative interest in corn has been seen for some years past, and the price now is little below 50 cents at New York. Ilog products are very strong statistically. E’ork is 30 per eent and lard is 25 per cent higher than a year ago. The iron and steel situation shows some effects of the recent missionary work in aid of lower prices, but results ns yet are rather in the shape of unsettled feel ing than of actually lower quotations. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 3,836,963 bushels, against 2,902,349 last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,361,591 bushels, against 3.193.638 last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, >3.00 to >6.25; hogs, shipping grades, >3.00 to >5.75; sheep, fair to choice, >3.00 to >6.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; coru, No. 2, tAtc to 40c; oat*. No. 2,24 c to 25c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c; bntter, choice crepmcry, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 10c t<£ 12c; potatoes, choice, 25e to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, >3.00 to >6.00; hogs, choice light, >3.00 to >5.75; sheep, common to prime. >3.00 to >5.00; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 white, 40v to 42c: oats, No. 2 white, 29e to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle, >3.25 to >6.00; bogs, >3.(M) to >5.75; sheep. >3.00 to >0.25; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 39c to 41c; oats. No. 2,25 cto 27c; rye, No. 2. 55<- to 57c. Cincinnati—Cattle, >2.50 to >6.00; hogs, >3.00 to >5.75: sheep, >2.50 to >6.25; wheat. No. 2,73 cto 74c: corn, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 30c; oata, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c. Detroit—Castle, >2.50 to ><1.00; hogs, >;t.oo to >5.75; sheep, >3.00 to >6.25; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 42c to 43c; oata, No. 2 white. 28c to 29c; rye. 59c to 61c; Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 39c to 41c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; rye. No. 2,57 c to 59c; clover seed, new, >5.15 to >5.25. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, iUh- to 67c; corn. No. 3,39 cto 41c; oata. No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2,58 c to 59c: barley, No. 2,44 cto 46c; pork, moss, >12.75 to >13.25. . Buffalo— Cattle, good shipping steers, >3.00 to >6.00; hogs, common to choice, >3.25 to >6.00; sheep, fair to choice, *3.00 to >7.00; lamb*, common to extra, >4.50 to >K.SO. New York—Cat tie, 43.25 to >6.00; hoga. >3.00 to >6.00; sheep. >3.00 to >6.75; wheat-. Nd. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn. No. 2, 46c to 47c; oata, No. 2 white, 81c to 88c; butter, creamery, 17e to 21c; eggs, western, J2c to 14c.

CONGRESS

Mr. Gallinger presented an argument in the Senate on against the seating of M, S. Quay as a Senator from Pennsylvania. He devoted himself almost entirely to the constitutional phases of the question. Most of the day was spent in executive session op the llnyPauncefote treaty, in the House when 4 o’clock, the hour fixed for taking a vote on the bill to provide territorial government for Hawaii, arrived, loss than half the bill had been covered and so many amendments remained that it wns agreed to continue the consideration of the bill under the five-minute rule until it was finished. Several important amendments were agreed to, among them the following: To nullify al! labor contracts in the islands, to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquor in saloons, to limit the land holdings of corporations to I.UOO acres, to substitute for the House provision relating to the appointment of judges and other officers of the island the Senate provision. The Ilonse provision lodged the appointing power in the Governor, the Senate placed it in the President. Mr. Deboe gave notice in the Senate on Friday that he would move to refer the credentials of former Senator J. C. S. Blackburn as a Senator from Kentucky to the committee on privileges and elections. During the greater part of the season the Senate had under consideration the Indian appropriation bill. Mr. Sullivan delivered a speech in favor of the seating of M. S. Quay. The House passed the substitute for the Senate bill providing for a territorial form of government for Hawaii.During almost the entire session of the Senate on Saturday an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill offered by Mr. Jones (Art-.) providing for the continuance of the Government’s employment of the contract Indian schools, in certain circumstances, was under consideration. The debate took a wide range, the whole question of sectarian schools being gone over at length. The notable feature of the discussion was an eloquent speech delivered in support of the amendment by Mr. Vest. The amendment was pending when the Senate adjourned, the vote upon it disclosing the fact that no quorum was present. The House paid tribute to the memory of the late Richard Parks Bland of Missouri, popularly known as “Silver Dick” Bland, who was a member of the House for twenty-six years. Splendid eulogies of the life and career of the great champion of silver were offered by members on both sides of the political aisle. At the conclusion of the ceremonies the House, as further mark of respect, adjourned. A resolution was adopted calling npon the Secretary of War for information as to whether Charles E. Magoon, the legal adviser of the insular bureau, had ever rendered an opinion that, by the treaty with Spain, the Constitution was extended over Porto Rico and the Philippines. After some further discussion the Senate on Monday rejected the sectarian school amendment to the Indian appropriation bill offered by Mr. Jones (Dem., Ark.) by a vote of 30 to 16. As has been the practice for two or three years, the free homes measure was offered as an amendment to the bill, but it was ruled out on the point of order that it was general legislation and therefore not germane to an appropriation bill. Without division, the bill was passed. The measure carries about >8,414,000. An unsuccessful effort was made to agree upon a date for a vote on the resolution relative to the seating of Mr. Quay as a Senator from Pennsylvania. During the last two hours of the session the Alaskan civil code bill was under consideration. An amendment offered by Mr. Hansbrough concerning the title to mining claims in the Cape Nome district provoked a warm debate. In the House the agricultural appropriation bill was under consideration and was made the vehicle of considerable desultory debate on irrelevant political topics. Good progress was made with the bill after the close of general debate, twenty-five of the thirty-seven pages l»eing covered before adjournment. In the Senate on Tuesday unanimous consent was given for a vote on April 24, 4 p. m., on a resolution relative to seating M. 8. Quay as a Senator from Pennsylvania. Eulogies were pronounced upon Richard Parks Biand, late member of the House of Representatives. On m<>flon of Mr. Cullom the Senate non-con-curred in the House amendments to the Hawaiian civil government bill, nnd Senators Cullom, Lodge and Morgan were named as conferees. In the House agricultural bill passe<l substantially as reported. Objections to free distribution of seeds and vaccine were voted dowu. Mr. Hepbirn said Nicaragua bill would be brought up for passage if he could effect it. A bill passed to create a commission to make a settlement with the Rioux City and Pacific Railroad of its indebtedness to the United States. On Wednesday the Senate with little debate of importance passed the Pacific cable hill, a measure appropriating >.'!.- OOO.OOtrsfiir the construction of n cable line between San Francisco and HouaInln. The bill was unanimously reported by the committee on naval affairs, and that it was passed without serious objection is regarded as a compliment to the committee. During the greater part of the session the District of (,’oluinbin appropriation bill was under consideration. As passed it carries nearly >B,000,000. The House passed the Porto Rico tariff bill ns amended by the Senate by a rote Of 161 to 153.

Odds and Ends.

Ex-Congressman Owens, Newark,Ohio, is dead. The bubonic plague is rapidly spreading in India. Minnesota’s schools coat about $5,000,000 annually, and that is one-third of the money raised by taxes in the Atate. Imuipoc, Cal., grows mustard for the whole nation. In that region iJ.OOO acres arc cultivated to the seed, the industry employing about 200 farmers. A victory for American ship owners 1s the Treasury Department’s decision that American goods shipped to Nkaguay in Canadian vessels must pay duties. It was reported that the Prince of Wales intended to challenge for the America’s cup, but that he was interfered with by the South Afrkjau war

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