Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1900 — Page 2

JASPER coin DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. • teji ■' .. '■ :* ■‘ns.. I'iszs Hsnsselaer, * - Indiana.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The Bourbon Stock Yards Company of Louisville, controlled by the Cudahy* of Chicago, is to have a rival. -The Union Stock Yards Company, backed by the Illinois Central and Big Four railroads, has been organized with a capital stock of $200,000. 2 The highest court in Ontario has declared that ih«j Ontario Government hpd the right to prohibit the export of logs cut within the province and to compel their manufacture Into—hnnbe* within Ontario. The Michigan lumbermen will appeal to the privy council. Three Chinese, partners in a laundry at Morenei, Ariz., were found dead in their workroom. Two had been shot in the head while in their-beds, while the third had made a desperate fight for his life. The premises had been ransacked. Several thousand dollars in coin is missing. “Don't wake the children. Let us all go to Jesus together." These were the last words of Mrs. James Roberts of Goldsboro, N. C., before sending a bullet iuto her ligeast. She had given her two little children laudanum. Her husband came home in time to save the children. Jealousy was the cause. By the death of an uncle in Hungary, Mrs. Annie Stein of St. Louis has fallen heir to $1,000,000. Together with her husband. Marcus Stein, and their children, Mrs. Stein will sail early in May to take possession of her inheritance, $4,000 having been sent her to defray the expenses of the trip to Europe. The second railroad line ever built into Hot Springs. Ark., has just been opened. It is Little Hack. Hot Springs and Memphis Railroad, and it will run a through train service from Memphis tollot Springs. In connection with the Illinois Central, it will furnish a direct route between Chicago and Hot Springs. One man was shot and instantly killed, and six others were wounded in a riot which has been in progress at the BnkerVawter company in Chicago for the past few months. Hurry C, Baster, superintendent of the mills, iirod nine shots at an attacking party, with fatal result's to IVter Miller, a picket fur the union forces. Queen Victoria has granted 'to the Duke of Fife —son-in-law of the Prince ofWales —the dignitaries of an earl and duke of the United Kingdom, under the titles of Earl of Mac Duff and Duke of Fife, with the remainder, in default of a male heir, to the elder surviving daughter, and successively to the male heirs of the daughters by his wife, the Princess Louise of Wales. William Kuhn of Philadelphia, a former State Senator of Virginia, attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a pot-k----etknlfo. Soon after the removal of Kuhn to the hospital the police found his wife, Lulu, aged 24, lying unconscious in the side yard. After being revived she made a statement charging her husband with having attempted to kill her by throwing her from a second story window. Had tho earth opened to swallow her, the disappearance of Florence Leonhard t of St. Louis, It! years old. could not have been more complete or more mysterious. The last seen of her was when she took her little brother to u dentist to have hue tooth extracted. She sent him up to the dentist's otliee and said she would wait outside, but when be came hack in ten minutes she was gone.

BREVITIES.

Gen. Otis rabies the news of several defeats of Filipinos. Filibusters from Nicaragua have captured the town of David, Colombia. English capitalists have purchased 40,000 acres of oil-producing land in Indiana and Ohio. Berlin has a story that Russia will aid Turkey in event of conflict with the United States. Three persons were killed nud three injured severely in a fire in the six-story tenement, 74 Forsyth street, New York. Advices from the Orient received by the steamer Australia say that a powder magaxine blew up at Kum Slum, China, recently. Thirty |>ersons were kilhd and 1144 houses destroyed. David Haddington Shields, once one of the most admired pulpit orators in the central Pennsylvania conference of the Methodist Church, died in a Philadelphia hospital, poor and friendless. lie was a victim of drink. Maj. Evans and I'runk Norman, each serving a one-year sentence for larceny, engaged in a duel with sharpened corset steels in jail at Norfolk, Vn. Norman’s face was cut ojam from forehead to chin aud he will die. At Foxburg, I'a., fire started by the explosion of a lamp consumed the American Hotel, Thomas Grant's general store. Dale’s hardware store, the Allegheny Hotel and Johnson's men’s furnishing store. Dish 900,000. One raun was blown almost to atoms, two men received Injuries which will probnlily prove fatal and eight men and * girl reeelved serious injuries by an explosion of several cans of blasting powder and dynamite at Larimer, I’a. The will of Uelieera Young, a wealthy unmarried womnu of Twiiishurg. Ohio, required relatives to fire two bullets Into her brain and two through her heart after she was pronounced dead, and that her body be given to a medical college. At Youngstown, Ohio, Mr*. Lucy Christy shot hir husband, Hugh Christy, a roller at the mills of the Iron and Hied Company, and then placed the revolver against her right temple and sent a bullet into her brain, death resulting Instantly. Mrs. William Kapsser drowned herself, with her 0-months-old daughter, In the Hhamokln Water Company's reservoir at Hhainokin, Fa. No cause is known. The Printers’ Exchange, Minneapolis, was badly duntuged by fire. The building is occupied by several printing and publishing establishments. The loss la 973,000. In despair because her hair would not grow long, Mrs. Fredcrickn Blame attempted suicide at her residence In Philadelphia. Her husband found her lying unconscious oo the bath room floor, with a half-empty bottle of poison beside her.

EASTERN.

Bishop Tobias Mullen is dead at Erie, Pa., aged 82. ( The Blaekstone National Bank of Boston has gone into liquidation. Pennsylvania Railroad has secured control of the Westeru New York and- Pennsylvania road. Fire destroyed ten buildings in the business portion of Lewiston, Me., causing * loss of $50,000. The International Navigation Company is to buikl six big ships for service on the great lakes and the Atlantic ocean. Napoleon J. Haines, aged 70 years, founder of the piano firm of Haines Brothers, died suddenly in New York, of apoplexy. President Patton of Princeton University says if the Presbyterian creed is changed or revised it will be the doom of the church. The Carnegie Steel Company, it is stated, will build the viaduct and elevated structure of the Rapid Transit system in New York. Nearly alt the master painters and decorators of Boston have acceded to the demand of their workmen for an advance of 25 cents per day ih wages. The Merchants’ Association of New York petitions for an nbolition of the stamp taxes on express, railroad and steamboat shipments and ou telegrams. It is admitted in New York that Miss Helen Bertram of the Bostonians is engaged to 8. George D’Essaucr, wanted in Chicago for connection with a bogus bond deal. The Republican State convention of Vermont pronounced in favor of the siuglc gold standard, indorsed McKinley’s administration and nominated uniustructed delegates to the Philadelphia convention. The second woman to leap from the Brooklyn bridge is Marie Rosalie Diuse. She jumped and was but slightly injured. She remained unconscious four hours and then, in a hysterical manner, told a story of financial difficulties. Dick, a vicious elephant belonging to the Sells & Forepaugh circus, was strangled to death in Madison Square Garden, New York, in a futile attempt to subdue him. He was one of the eight original Forepaugh dancing elephants. Bartholdi’s statue of Washington and La Fayette, the gift of Charles Broadway Ilottss to the city of New York, was unveiled with fitting ceremonies in Lafayette square in the presence of more than 3,000 people. Gen. Iloratio C. King made the presentation speech. An unknown man committed suicide at the foundry works of the 11. U. Frick Coke Company at Connellsville, Pa., by diving into a coke oven. In less thau a minute what had been a man apparently in the full vigor of lift* had*mingled with the curling smoke of the ovens. William Russell of Wallingford, Conn., 20 years old, was found guilty of robbery and attempt to murder Thomas Ennis. He broke down on the eve of his departure to the penitentiary and confessed that he had lied to the judge and jury in order to save his father from a convict’s ceil. . John Hughes, aged GO years, shot and killed his wife, Hannah Hughes, and seriously wounded Elizabeth Lyons, aged 10 years, as the women were leaving St. Vincent de Paul’s Church at Syracuse, N. Y. He then went to the house of a friend and attempted to commit suicide. His married life was unhappy.

WESTERN.

The town of Edoubnrg, N. D., was wiped out by tire and two lives are lost. Senator Thurston thinks a Western man should he McKinley's running mate. C. I'. Casgrnin of Chicago committed suicide by drowning in Mountain Lake, M i ii u. ■<Mrß. Elixa Ohrismau has left S2SO,UUU for the founding of a uuirersity at Topeka, Kan. Grand jury at Cincinnati Indicted \V.' W. Thomas and Harry Walters, business men, for arson. The report thnt the St. Louis and San Francisco road would build a line Into Denver ia denied. Matt Parrott, publisher and former Lieutenant Governor of lowa, is dead at Battle Creek, Mich., aged (33. The damage to fruit trees near Canyon City, Colo., from the late heavy storm and frosts is estimated at 9500,000. The late Philetus Sawyer of Wisconsin leaves an estate of 93,000,000. Relatives get it all, except 910,000 for charity. By direction of President McKinley the military post near the city of Bismarck, N. D., hereafter will be kuown as Fort LiaColu. Railroad, express and telephone companies have combined to test the Nebraska law creating a State Board of Transportation. Andrew CordifT, an Ohio fanner, was about, to wed Miss Lucy Cole when he discovered by accident that site was his daughter. An underground thugs' den was discovered by the Chicago police in a basement vault iu the ruins of the A. C. McClurg book store. The steamer Doric sailed from Han Francisco carrying fourteeu Tyrolese white slaves to serve five years in the Hawaiian sugar fields. / Mrs. Caroline A. Cantwell, a wellknown Chicago woiuuii, sues her husband, David C. Cantwell, for n divorce in the District Court at Perry, Ok. N. L. Michael, ex-vicc-presidcnt of the American National Bauk of Lima, Ohio, which was robbed two years ago of 913,000, has been indicted for the robbery. Attorneys for six Western land grsut railroads decide to sue the United Htatesc fol nearly $300,000 for transportation of soldiers from Chicago to Ban Francisco. Middle-of-the-road Populists at mass couveutiou in Kausna City, Mo., condemned W. J. Bryan aud adopted as their new name the progressive people’s party.’ James Harris of Ottumwa, Kan., charged with the murder of J. 11. Allen, n wealthy merchant, implicates in a written coufcssiou the wife of the murdered man. The Supreme Court of ludlaua has decided thnt shaft's iu uattottul banks must be taxed at their marketable value without regard to debts which holders may owe. The Light and Heating Company of Leavenworth, Kan., learns that s fraudulent Issue of its bouds for 9140,000 Is In circulation aud offered for sale in Ckk, CJgo. President John Henry Barrows of Ob

erlin University announced tqat Dr, Alice 11. Luce of Wellesley College has accepted election as dean of the woman’s department St OborlinJ A strike of 153 union workmen occurred on the Northwestern Elevated road in Chicago, and in case the line is not in operation by May 31 it may involve a forfeiture of another SIOO,OOO. > ' Albert J. Deady, aged 28, and his wife, aged 10, locked in each other’s arms, leaped farm the Apple street bridge into the canal at Dayton, Ohio, and were drowned. t Both bodies were recovered, i Mrs. Amber Feeker, who is fighting with her husband, Charles Conrad Fecker,- for the possession of a 5-yoar-old boy whom she says she adopted in Milwaukee, has sued her husband for divorce. The plant of‘the St. Louis ~ Chronicle, occupying the three and four-story buildings at 11 to 18 North Sixth street, St. Louis, was practically destroyed by a tire. The fire is supposed to have.originated in the boiler room. The will of the late Philetus Sawyer, disposing of an estate valued at $3,000,000, has been filed at Oshkosh, Wis. Relatives get it all except SIO,OOO, which is given to the Ladies’ Benevolent Society of that eity. In St. Louis John Marienthai accidentally shot and killed his friend, Joseph Opperman, in a saloon. The bullet was intended for John McGahn, who was attempting to rob Opperman, when detected by Marienthai. It is rumored in St. Louis business circles that P. D. Armour & Co. are backing the wholesale purchase of real estate surrounding the old Union stock yards there, with the view of establishing an immense packing plant. Garfield McDonuld confessed to the Chicago police that he had stolen 100 bicycles from the basement storerooms of flat buildings on the South Side during the last three months. He disposed of the wheels to regular bicycle dealers. At Los Angeles, Cal., Joseph Hildner, formerly of Chicago, was shot to death by ttyo footpads. Hildner was escorting his mother to her home. Both were commanded to surrender valuables. As they both demurred, the fatal shot was fired. The epidemic which is carrying dozens of citizens of Butte, Mont., to their graves hag been diagnosed as pneumonia. As an illustration of the terrible fatality of the disease, out of forty-eight cases in one of the hospitals forty-four deaths resulted. Charles G. Fieisehmaun, secretary of the Trust Security and Safe Deposit Company of Detroit, hanged himself in n barn in the rear of his residence.- No reason for the deed can be given unless a recent illness hud unbalanced his mind. An electric passenger car on the Shore Line Railroad collided south of Mount Clemens, Mich., with some flat cars which were being pushed by a motor car. In the shock the passenger motor was forced upon a flat car. Seven persons were injured. At Terre Haute, Ind., George Cowell, a 50-year-old widower, shot and fatally wounded Annie Hartley, aged 14, with whom he was infatuated. Cowell tried to kill several other persons before he was overpowered and restrained by his grown sons.

SOUTHERN.

The old Kentucky association race course has come under the control of a syndicate. The collector and other officials of the Charleston, S. C., custom bouse have been illegally secreting liquors. Gen. Joseph Wheeler has written a letter to Gov. Johnston resigning his seat as a member of Congress from the Eighth Alabama district. The Illinois Central and the Yazoo and Mississippi valley railway systems south of Vicksburg were completely tied tip by the floods. Bridges and houses were carried away. A resolution favoring a waterway from the great lakes to the gulf by way of the Chicago drainage canal was introduced in the transmississippi commercial convention. Ex-Congressman David G. Colson, who has been on trial at Frankfort, Ivy., for the murder of Lieut. Ethelbert Scott and Luther \V. Demaree, was acquitted by the verdict of the jury. Cissy Loftus, the divorced wife of Justin Huntley McCarthy, the author, was rescued from drowning at Old Point Comfort, Va., by a sailor. She denies that sbb attempted to commit suicide. The largest siugle foreign shipment of cotton cloth ever made from the South was forwarded recently by a firm at Alabama City, Ala. The shipment comprised seventeen car loads and is destined for points in the Chinese empire. William Loug was called to the door at his home, near Tracy City, Tenn., and shot dead. The affair is shrouded in mystery. This is the eighth murder in the Tracy City section within the last year, and not one of the murderers has been apprehended. P. A. Summcy, an ex-Confedernte soldier, who is insane, had plunncd to assassinate Admiral Dewey on the arrival of the latter and his wife at Macon, Gn„ March 22. In a lucid interval the day l>cforo the admiral's arrival Summcy realized what he had arranged to do, aud went into the country. He was preparing to kill himself when arreated.

FOREIGN.

Boca* del Toro, Panama, Is in the bunds of the rebels and Colon is threatened. Multan of Morocco has protested against the French advance to the oasis of Tuat. The Chinese Government has ordered severe puulshmcut for those attacking native Christians. Two Russian admirals nnd forty-two other officers nv said to be tiuder arrest for swindling tAc Government. During n recent week the Filipino insurgents lost 378 killed, 12 officers huJ 244 captured aud iffShy wounded. Kcrious riot resulted from a demonstration made In favor of the urmy at the memorial service for Col. Yillcbois Marcuil in Paris. The Turkish Government, despite protest of ambassadors, resolved to adhere to policy of increased duties. Serious results are threatened by the protesting powers. A report has been received at Constantinople, Turkey, from Bcyrout, Hyria, to (he effect that the Turkish torpedo boat Hcbuiayl blew up in thnt harbor, resulting in the loss of twenty-throe lives. Three hundred Nigerian troops have been dispatched overland to the Gamaa

country, uorthwest yf Ashanti, West Africa, where the British resident reports a recrudescence of the troubles whicli ne- ; cesskated the expedition of last year. ! German Engineering Society has invited the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the Amerkan Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Electrical Engineers to visit Berlin and Hamburg nfter the close of the engineering congress in Paris. The London Mail publishes a letter from Yokohama describing the “growth of anti-American feeling’’ in Japan. The writer says: “This development is due to the harsh treatment the .Japanese have received in Hawaii and to the bslief that the United States'will stop Japanese immigration to Hawaii.

IN GENERAL.

According to Mexican statistics that country is enjoying great prosperity. Great masses of gold have been found in the Atlin district in British Columbia. It is reported Mrs. James Brown Potter, after securing her divorce, is to marry Geu. Kitchener. The United States has completed arrangements to substitute American currency for Porto Rican money. The population of Cuba is 1,572,71)7. This is the finding of the Census taken by the American administration of the island. A company of the Seventh United States infantry, stationed at Columbus, Ohio, lias been ordered to Alaska to protect miners. A discharge in bankruptcy has been grauted to John 11. Haverly, the theatrical and minstrel manager, wiping out $327,749 of debts. The murder of an American in charge of railroad construction at Aeathan, Mexico, by a bandit may cause international complications. The strife between Rear Admirals Sampson and Schley is settled, Schley taking precedence over Sampson and to rank next to Dewey. It has developed that Earl Russell’s new wife is really Lady Somerville, a Scotch countess, who obtained a divorce Saturday at Genoa, Nev. The big steel bridge of the Quebec Central Railway over the Etcbemin river at St. Anseiiue, built in IS9G, was carried away by ice. The loss is heavy. A resolution passed by the continental congress in 1779, providing for a monument to Count Pulaski, has been unearthed, aud Toles are to petition for $120,000 to erect a statue. An attempt was made to blow up lock No. 24 of the Welland canal at Port Colborne, Ont., with dynamite by two men who made their escape. The lock was badly damaged. Fierce forest tires rage in Manitoba, the Dakotas and’Minnesota. Laves of many lumbermen sacrificed and great loss of property. Dramatic flight from ttaines of a young girl and her baby twin sisters. The Tyrell exploring party, with whom is Archdeacon Loftbouse, reached Fort Chipcwyan, on Lake Athabasca, March 19. They covered the 430 miles from Lac La Biebc on snow shoes in seventeen days. Prices of steel products will be cut so as to dispose of the surplus stock aud reopen the idle mills. This conclusion was arrived at at a conference between President Lambert of the American Steel and Wire Company and President Gary of the Federal company. At Fredericton, N. 8., James Little, a carpenter, GO years of age, has been arrested charged with the murder of Edward Lawrence, Mrs. Lawrence and three children. The tragedy occurred at Lakesville Corner on Feb. 21, when the Lawrence house was burned in the night. Bradstreet’s views the trade situation thus: “More rather than less irregularity in the trade and price situation is to be noted this week, partly the result of weather conditions, but partly as in the case of the iron and steel trade, because of the continuance of those missionary efforts in the direction of lower prices which hare been such a feature of the iron and steel trade of late. That the basic conditions of trade remain on the whole favorable, is, however, evidenced by a number of features. Railroad earnings continue heavy, and the decrease noted in bank elearinga is chat-geable largely to religious and other holiday observances and to restricted stock speculation. Heavy rains and cool weather early in the week had a depressing effect on trade and collections. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregated 3.898,451 bushels, against 2,896,G 53 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,158,747 bushels, against 2,799,444 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

'Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, 93.00 to $8.00; hogs, shipping, grades, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, fair to choice, 93.00 to $0.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 2,37 cto 30c; oats, No. 2, 22 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; potatoes, choice, 25c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to 90.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to 95.75; sheep, commou to prime, $3.00 to 95.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c. Mt: Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to 90.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 39c; oats, No. 2,24 cto 20c; rye. No. 2,65 cto 60c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to 10.00; sheep, $2.50 to 90.25; wheat. No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 41c to 43c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 20c to 27c; rye, No. 2,00 cto 02c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $0.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to 90.25; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 40c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; rye, 00c to 02c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 72c: com. No. 2 mixed, 3De to 40c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2,07 c to 59c; clover seed, old, $4.70 to 94.H0. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 05c to 07c; corn. No. 3,38 cto 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, No. 2,57 c to 59c; barley, No. 2,42 cto 44c; pork, mess, $12.75 to $13.25. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, commou to choice, $3.25 to $0.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $0.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $7.75. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to 90.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep. $3.00 to $0.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 78e to 79c; com, No. 2, 40c to 47c; oSts, No. 2 white, 2»c to 80c; butter, creamery, 15c to 19c; eggs, westera, 12c to 14c.

CONGRESS

In aocordance with the recommendation of the President in his message the Senate on Thursday passed a joint resolution providing for the administration of civil affairs in Porto Itico, peudlng the appointment of officers under the Porto Rican Government taw recently enacted; The Alaskan civil code bill was again under consideration, the debate continuing on the Hansborough alien miners’ amendment. Mr. Carter presented formally bis substitute for the Hansbrough amendment and delivered a speech in support of it. Mr. Spooner antagonized both the original and substitute amendments, holding that the courts ought to settle the conflicting claims without interference by Congress. The House spent the day considering the naval bill in committee of the whole. The most important action was the striking out of au appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the use of the navy in making surveys aud charts of the waters of our new island possessions. The regular appropriation of SIO,OOO was put in the bill, the work to be done by the coast and geodetic survey. On Friday the Senate had under consideration the conference report on the Hawaiian civil government measure. Final action upon it was postponed until Saturday. The Alaskan civil code bill was considered for a brief time. Mr. Foraker pronounced a eulogy on Lorenzo Danford, a former Representative from Ohio, and the Senate adopted resolutions expressive of its sorrow. Iu the House after protracted discussion of the naval appropriation bill the provision enabling the Secretary of the Treasury to contract for Krupp armor for the battleships Maine, Ohio and Missouri, at $545 a ton, was ruled ont of the bill. Also the provision to repeal the S3OO limitation placed upon the price of armor by the current law. Two amendments to modify the provisions for the increase of the navy, which authorizes two battleships and six cruisers, were defeated. One proposed to add provision for six gunboats and the other to strike out the provision for the battleships. The Senate on Saturday agreed to the resolution of Mr. Bacon asking the Secretary. of War for information relating to the extra allowance, for army officers stationed in Cuba and Porto Rico. The Quay resolution was taken up and Mr. Perkins (Cal.) 6poke in favor of seating Mr. Quay as a Senator from Pennsylvania on the appointment of the Governor. At the conclusion of Mr. Perkins’ speech the Quay case was laid aside until Monday. The House passed a naval appropriation bill without a record vote. As adopted the measure provides for two battleships, three armored cruisers and three protected cruisers. The $545 figure on armor was stricken out. After 1 p. in. the House devoted itself to eulogies of the late Representative Settle of Kentueby> On Monday the Senate began a two days’ debate on the right of M. S. Quay to a seat as a Senator from Pennsylvania. Speeches in favor of seating Quay were made by Chandler, Kenney and Penroae. Those speaking in opposition were Platt of Connecticut and Quarles. The House entered into general debate upon the postoffice appropriation bill. The minority •dissented from the provisions relating to extension of the pneumatic tube service, special fast mail facilities and the cost of railroad transportation. The Senate on Tuesday by a vote of 33 to 32 refused to seat Mr. Quay. Passed the bill in tly? interests of northwestern lumbermen, authorizing the Secretary of War to make regulations governing the running of loose logs, steamboats and rafts on certain rivers. The House passed the Senate Foraker resolution to provide for the continuation, iu office of the present military administration in Porto Rico, with amendments providing that franchises shall be approved by the President and placing certain restrictions upon charters, corporations, etc. Amended postofflee appropriation bill so as to authorize the employment of temporary clerks in first-class offices at 25 cents an hoar; also adopted an amendment providing for extra compensation for letter carriers when they work in excess of fortyeight hours a week, work on legal holidays to lie counted as eight hours. On Wednesday the Senate agreed to the conference report on the Hawaiian civil government bill, the provisions relating to the right of franchise and imprisonment for debt having been amended to conform to the ideas of the Senate. The agricultural appropriation bill was passed, carrying a little over $3,000,900. The Alaskan civil government Dill was under consideration for an hour, but no progress was made. Mr. Platt (Sf. Y.) moved into Mr. Quay’s old. seat. The House considered the i wist office appropriation bill, and after loug debate struck out the entire approprlation-for pneumatic tube service.

At the National Capital.

Octagon Bay Railway award will be accepted. A 20,000-acre buffalo reserve In Now Mexico Is favored. No more superimposed turrets are to be used on warships. Our Philippine army consist* of C3,585 officers aud men. Havana and Pinar del Rio departments hare been consolidated. Pure food legislation it expected to be considered this session. Colorado Republicans are poshing Wolcott for Vice-President. Tawney’s repeal of war tax proposed will only cut off $304,904 a year. Mall- bag repair shops may be moved to Columbus, Ohio. More central. Secretary Hitchcock declines to pny the Cherokee* $4,500,000 under the Slade Beudee award. Ways and means committee'will consider removal of check aud receipt tax in view of growing surplus. Gen. Joe Wheeler has asked Gov. Johnston of Alabama to call a special election to elect his successor to Congress. Secretary Root declines to make changes in the army canteens. Malt liquors will still toe sold by civilians*' Representative Gillette will introduce a bill barring-from statehood newly acquired dependencies of the United States.

Utilizing the Phonograph.

A Philadelphia lawyer of considerable note received a visit recently from a man equally well known In the world of affairs. The latter had under his arm a parcel which proved to contain a talking machine. After the usual greeting* this was placed upon a table and without any Introductory explanation began to give vent to a volley of choice abuse; “Ypu scoundrel! You low beast! One of these days I’ll-—”, well, something very unpleasant Indeed. The lawyer was surprised, of course, but Ills amazement was increased-because he thought he knew the voice thus reproduced. "Be calm,” gald the visitor. “These insults are not addressed to you. On the contrary, they are flung at me—by my wife.” “But I thought you were po perfectly happy," cried the lawyer. “Exactly. She enjoys her present life too much to misbehave in the presence of witnesses. But these outbreaks are habitual with her in private. Of course, I could convince no one of the truth of this. So I concealed this machine just where she'd talk Into It unknowing, and, after several failures, I’ve succeeded In getting one or two good records. Now, I don’t want a divorce or separation or publicity. But I’m beginning to fear for my life, and, at any rate, I must have these threats stopped. What do you advise V” The lawyer advised a variety of things and now the wife has been placed under bonds to keep the peace.—Philadelphia Press.

Effect of the Mirror.

“I have been noticing a curious little circumstance at my store,’’ said a Canal street business man the other day. “There Is a very fine plate glass In the side casing of my show window, and right behind it Is a handsome mirror. One day not long ago I observed what seemed to be a lot of white dust on the window ledge and told the porter to wipe it off. Next day the ledge was as dusty as ever, and after having It cleaned half a dozen successive times I discovered the cause of the trouble. The mirror was certain to catch the eyo of every woman who passed, and every little while one would step up close and make some mysterious motions over her face. They always did it when nobody was in sight, and every time the operation -was performed the accumulation of white dust increased. It wan a blend of several varieties of face powler.”—New Orleans Times-Demoerat.

Libby, McNeill & 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 i* abundantly supplied in the superior meats put up by 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,” is offered free on application.

A Poetic Han[?]man.

In bis recently published “Recollections’’ Sir Algernon West tells a story of Marwood, the executioner, who preceded Bllllngton, which will bear retelling. One of the officials at the colonial office had occasion to consult Marwood as to the most rapid way of putting a man out qf existence. Mar wood expressed himself in favor of what he professionally called “the long drop,” and drove home his argument by remarking: “There was a Mr. Peace, now, a small man; I gave him a six-foot drop, and I hassure yon, sir, he passed hoff like a summer here.”—Collier’s Weekly.

Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh U s blood or constitutional disease, and In order to cure It you must take Internal remedies. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, aad acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by oae of the best physicians 1* this country for Ei. and is a regular prescription. It Is comd of the best tonics known, combined with best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two Ingredients Is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Bead for testimonials. free. F. j. CHENEY A 00., Props., Toledo, a Bold by Druggists, price 79c.

Memorial to Caedmon.

Caedmon, “the morning voice of England,” the monk who first sang of the creation of the world’s growth, Is to have a memorial in the form of a Gothic cross erected on the old abbey height* on the chalk cliff* of Whitby. The Inscription will be line* from his poem in Runic letters, with a translation in modern English.

What Do the Children Drink?

Don’t give them tes or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-07 It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-0 you give the children the more health you distribute through thebr systems. Graln-0 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. 15# and 26c.

Pensions in Franco.

France pays In pensions every year 70,000,000 francs, of which 25,000,000 are subtracted from the salaries of officials. Ask Tour Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease, ▲ powder to shake Into your shoes. It rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swoltes, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating reot and legrowing {Sails. Allen's Foot-Base makes new or tight aboaa eaay. Hold by all druggists and shoe stores, Z>c. Ha tuple mailed Fit KB. Address Allen H. Olmsted, be Uoy, N. t.

Demand for Ivory.

It takes each year, tt la said, the tasks of 75,000 elephants to supply the world's piano keys, bill aid halls and knife handles.

Lane’s Family Medicine Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this ia necessary," Acts gently on the Uver and kidneys. Cares elck headache. Price 25 and 50c. Electricity Employs Millions. Electricity In 111 various applications Is said to give employment ta, 5,000,000 poopie.