Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — Page 6

JASPER coin DEMOCRAT. " F E. BABCOCK. Publisher. ~ fIcNSSEUER, - - inDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

More than 200 men were killed and more Ilian a score of others will be crippled for life as tbe result of an explosion in tunnel So. 4 of tbe I’leasaut Valley eoal mines, located at. Winter Quarters, 100 miles south of Salt Lake City, ••• Utah. ...g. , ... . ... Report* received by .John W. Springer, president of the National Live Stock Association, show that the spring storms have Ixs-n very destructive to cows and calves on the range. Some Colorado points report a loss" of 10 per cent in young stock. The house of Mrs. Katuruh Alldredge nt Mount Vernon, Ind., was wrecked by a dynamite Mrs. Alldredge and her 5-year-old daughter were tlirown from their lied, but neither was hurt. The police are at a loss to understand the motive for the crime. Near Howell’s, Neb., Joseph Slama went to the house of Frank Chndy, a neighbor, and shot the latter as he lay in bis bed ufter driving other inmates from the house. Slama then went to the Catholic cemetery nml killed himself. The men had luug been enemies. George liilderhrnnd, night watchman at the Vnl Blalx brewery, (Juion and Brie streets, Chicago, was seized and bound huiul and foot by five masked cracksmen, wlio dynamited the office safe and secured more thun S7OO in currency. They escaped with their booty. Tbe Chicago police are looking for Thomas Neveu, a 17-year old boy, who is alleged to have robbed bis widowed mother, Mrs. M. J. Neveu, of gold uuggets, diamonds and valuable papers said lo represent $70,000. after attempting to IHiison her in her apartments nt 200 1 111• unis street;"that city. Cincinnati architectural iron workers h ? vo decided to strike l>ecaose their demands had been acceded to by but one firm, the Stewart Company; whose employes are not tn the union. About 800 men nre involved. The demand is for a nine-hour day, with the ■same wages as is paid for ten hours. Fire broke out in the engine room of the Heaver Dam, Wis., Malleable Iron Works aud destroyed the plant, with n loss of over SIOO,OOO. The tire also cominniiieatod to tho freight depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. I’aul Railway. which, with live loaded cars and contents, was also destroyed with a loss of SIO,OOO. Jack Lynch, an employe nt Long Cliff, near Lognnsport, Ind., while returning to the hospital was assaulted and robbed by four tramps on the Wabash Railway bridge. The men rilled Lynch's pockets and then threw him into the river below, u distaTicc of thirty-five TeetrThowntvr was shallow, or Lynch would have been ~ ilrnwhtSn Secretary Long lias written a letter to Captain F. R. Chadwick, reprimanding bin* for bis criticism* of Rear Admiral Schley. After a careful study of the naval regulations the department official* were convinced that it was no offense against naval discipline for an officer to criticise another officer in a private conversation with'a friend. The standing of the clubs in the Na tionul League is ns follows: W. L. ‘ W. L. I‘hiladelphia. 0 5 Chicago 5 0 Brooklyn ... 7 4 Pittsburg ... 5 (1 Cincinnati... (i 4 New York... a 7 Hi. Louis.... (5 (5 Boston 3 8 In the American League the standings are: " W. To W. L. Milwaukee... 7 4 Kansas City. ti 7 Oevelend ... 7 4 Buffalo 5 (i Indianapolis, (i 5 Minneapolis., ti 8 Chicago .... 0 G Detroit -1 7

NEWS NUGGETS.

Bouor Mora has resigned as Mayor of Havana. Gen. Brooke is lo succeed Uou. Merritt as commander of the department of tl»e East. The jury iu the ense of Brigham 11. Roberts of Utah, oo trial for polygamy, has disagreed. A dispalch from Bonn says that Mi ehael Muukucsy, the celebrated painter, died lit nn asylum there. Democrats won in the St, Paul mutiici pal election, It. A. Smith being chosen mayor bjfn good majority. Detectives working on the Welland canal case say they have found evidence of a plot involving Fenian and iloer organizations. The mouth of -April was a record breaker for the making of eoiua at the Philadelphia mint. The total number of pieces of money made was 0.831,100, the value of which is (12,054,480. At Steubenville, Ohio, lire nearly destroyed the plant Of the Stcuhcuvillc Wall Paper (,'outpany mid machinery: also a half-million rolls of-wall paper. The loss Is (50,000; ful'a,' insured. Iu a quarrel near Niobrara. Neb.. Bird Head, a Pollen Indian, was killed by Harry Lara vie, same iriiic. I.nrnvie gave liiuaself tip to Bird Head's father, who first shot hiiu dead and then crushed his head with an ax. The total receipts for liquor licenses in New York City for the coming your are ft.Hfifl.lilS, This is $0,0(10 more than was paid last year, and includes the fees for licenses from saloons, hotels, restaurants, drug stores and clubs. Miss Anna Ehker. aged 2d. of l)Hyton, Ohio, committed suicide by hanging. Her faithful 'lag would not leave the set tle, but by howling attracted Miss Ebker's brother. Ills arrival, however, was too late to nave his sister's life. Kobert and William Chambers were shot und killed hy T. 11. Abbey at Webb, Miss., in an altercation with negroes for wlion■ they were searching. Edward O. former director of the mint, who underwent nil operation for npiH'iidlCltis In Mount Minai hospital. New York, oh April 12, died in Ibnt institution. At Findlay, Ohio, a rein of xlnc was found at a depth of IKK) feet by workmen drilling for oil. The vein is thirty feet thick, Great excitement prevails. Optimist* daim the Joplin field will lie rival. M

EASTERN.

James Sift McKean died at Pittsburg, Pa., aged 50. J Gea, Allan Rutherford, clerk of the Maryland Court of Appeals, is dead at Washington, aged tX). - -- - Carl Keruig, his wife and son were found dead near Cambridge, Md., having committed suicide by banging. Miss Vivian Clerise aud J. W. Cardowuie, variety actors, were drowned lu Lake Whitney, near New Haven, Conn. A passenger traiu struck and instantly killed two unknown men who were walking on the track near Bloomsbury, N. J. Claude M. Johnson, chief of tbe bureau of engraving and printing at W'ashfngton, has tendered his resignation to Secretary Cage, , In New York Marion Manoln Mason was granted a decree of divorce from Joha Mason, with $25 weekly alimony for life. , Thomas llarlaud, a well-known lawyer, is dead in New York, aged 70 years. He was the practical framer of our existing patent law. By the explosion of « portable boiler belonging to Drake & Stratton, contractors at Rankin. Pa.,' tive men were terribly injured and eight others cut, bruis_ed and scalded. The Fifth Avenue Hotel and Madison Square Theater properties in New York were sold nt auction for $4,225,000. Tho buyer was William P. Eno, one of the heirs to the Selling estate. At Philippsburg, N. J., a coal train rau into a shiftiug engine on the New Jersey Central Railroad and Michael McNally, fireman of the shifter, was crushed to death. The United States Circuit Court in New York City handed down an order restraining the Wilmore-Andrews Publishing Company from using the title “Oxford Bible.” Gramatan Inn, at Brouxville, N. Y., for several years the mecca of wealthy New Yorkers in summer, was burned. Loss, SIOO,OOO. The hotel had just been refurnished at a cost of $50,000. Judge Laeombe of the United States Circuit Court of New York appointed Henry W. Gays receiver of the New York and Ottawa Railroad Company. Mr. Gays has been the general manager of the road. ___ At Pittsburg the jury in the divorce suit of James King Clarke against Esther Bartlett Clarke failed to agree upon a verdict and was discharged, after having deliberated upon the ease for almost twenty two hours. The biggest oil well tapped iu the Pennsylvania fields since May 18, 18S2, is the Blossburg Oil Cofupany’s new strike at Gaines, on Pine creek, in Tioga County. The well began flowing at the rate of 100 barrels an hour.

WESTERN.

French troops have occupied Igli, near the Morocco frontier. Marguerite Couuctte. n Belgian, was sold at nuctiou for S4O in Galveston, Texts. • : • Burglars blew open the safe of the bank of Stapiehurst, Neb., securing $1,500 in booty. They escaped. One man was killed aud one fatally injured by the fail of a scaffold at the new State capitol iu St. Paul, Minn. A. S. Haliidie, inventor of the first cable car system in the United States, is dead at San Francisco, aged 73. Indianapolis police found a demented colored niuu chained to a stake in a she.l, where he had been tied five years. The fire-story brewery of the Atlas Brewing Company was burned in Chicago, an estimated loss of $250,000. Mother Mftry Annunciate. mother general of the Sister* of the Holy Cross iu America, dic'd at Notre Dame, Ind. lndiann Republican Slate convention nominated Winfield T. Durbin, a colonel of volunteers, for Governor, and a full ticket. The Government engineers have discontinued work at Sabine Pass, Texas. They ■ay the Government appropriation is exhausted. High school students nt Findlay, Ohio, removed the hands from every clock lu she building. Four youths have been suspended.

In u quarrel in a court room nt Paris, Texas, Lawyer E. P. Scott stabbed Justice J. J. Hooks in the stomach. Judge Hooks it badly injured. In Los Angeles, Cal., C. Cole took bts 8-year-old daughter front in front of her motjier’s eyes bee4use his wife would not return to his home It. Massachusetts. The Western Association of Princeton Clubs was organized at Bt. Louis with thirteen clubs as charter members. John D. Davis of St. I.ouis was elected president. Samuel I)e Witt Beals, the oldest educator iu point of service in Nebraska, died in Omaha, nged 74 years. He had been engaged continuously in avhool work In Nebraska since 1871. George M. Pullman, one of the twin sons of the late palace car builder, has token a second wife. The bride was Mrs. Iconise Bowers, of Chicago, divorced wife of Fred V. Bowers, the soi.g writer. The body of John Blagg, a prominent Farmers' Alliance lecturer; was found in the Solomon river uear Abilene, Kan. The body had evidently beeu iu the water for several days. Blagg was a prosperous fanner. A jury in Judge Baker’s court It. Chicago brought in a verdict of guilty in the case of Charles 1). Lamb, who shot and killed his father-in-luw Inst December, and fixed his punishment iu the penitentiary for life. In n resort in the western part of Galveston, Texas, a white woman was sold at auction for (40 by a man claiming to be her husband. The woman begged piteously not to be sold. A bartender purchased her. A battle was fought between union and non-union stonecutters iu the yards of the lluuipmnycr Stone Company in Chicago. One union man was shot in the left thigh by C. MncCreary, bookkeeper for the company. Seven persons were injured in the partial collapse of a double twq-story frame building at 1712-14 State street, Chicago. The building stood five feet from tbe street level, ami it struck the ground with great force. T. hi. Biiltlugtuu, chief of tbe Chero* kee nation, appointed Senator C. V. ltog ers of Clarenmre otid Wilson O. Brutotf of Muidrow ns expert accouutants.to investigate alleged crookedness in the auditor** office at Tshlequah. ▲ cloudburst, by a high

wind, descended upon Waco, Texas, at noon tbe other day, and tbe result Is that eight people perished in the city limits and property valued at several thousand dollars was destroyed or injured. At the home of Luther Brewer, Beven miles southwest of Upper Sandusky,Ohio, William Bolyard, aged 34 year!*, shot his wife, 23 years old, and then killed himself. Both died instantly. The couple had been separated three months. The Columbus, Qfcfe, plant of the National Steel Company has been closed under orders from the general offices, the reason assigned being to make extensive repairs. Between three and four hundred men are thrown out of work. 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 tbe passenger motor was forced upon a flat car. Seven persona were injured. Oberlin M. Carter, former captain in the United States army, has arrived at Leavenworth, Kan., to begin his term in the army penitentiary for defrauding the Government. He was put at work as bookkeeper, aud later may be employed as civil engineer. Thomas Manning Rage, a wealthy St, lamia bachelor, died there recently, uud his will shows that he left a snug fortune to Miss Anora Blue, for many yenrs his stenographer. The will provides that she is to receive $2,500 annually from his estate. Mrs. Louise Ix>ttridge is again free at Chicago. The coroner’s jury after only a few minutes’ deliberation exonerated the woman from all blame in connection with the shooting of Rufus Wright, the wealthy tire manufacturer, who died at tbe Iceland Hotel April 15. W. I). Dickinson, a popular young farmer of Sharon Township, Ohio, shot Miss Edna Wilkinson, a young school teacher, on the streets of live Green. Then be turned the revolver upon himself and blew out his brains. A love affair, with extreme jealousy, was the cause. At Cincinnati Mrs. Jessie Adams was acquitted of the charge of murder in the first degree. She recently killed her husband, who was the ageut of the Union Pacific Railway there. The evidence showed that Mrs. Adams had suffered from cruel treatment and was acting iu sc If-deft'use. Board of curators of the Missouri State University at Columbia elected Prof. J. W. Kyle of the University of Chicago to the chair of Greek, Prof. A. F. Smith of Wisconsin University to the chair of agriculture aud Prof. Charles A. Ellwood of the University of Nebraska to the chair of sociology. Mindee Chowagee, the negro-ludiau who escaped from jail at Marshall, Mo., after assaulting Sheriff Joseph Wilton and his little sou and shooting the Sheriff's wife in the arm whet she came to their assistance, was lynched. The enraged citizens broke into the jail, dragged out the prisoner and hanged him on a tree in the jnilyard. D. Rosenberg, living at the South Side Hotel in St. Louis, and Miss Goldie Borland of Chicago, who has been visiting friends there, were married quietly by Rev. H. J. Messing. Iu order to marry without the knowledge of their parents or friends the young touple pretended to hnve had a quarrel. Both now explaining matters to their relatives.

Burglars secured $5,000 from ihe vaults of the Bank of CoulterviHe, 111., during the early hours the other morning and made their escape. The robbers are supposed to bo members of the gang which has operated throughout the State, Indiana and Wisconsin during the last mouths. Not the slightest trace has been obtained of their Identity. A. E. Calhoun, a well-to-do ranchman, living eighteen miles south of Whitman, Neb., was shot by Ancel Connor, a neighbor. They engaged in a quarrel about some land and when the dispute become heated Calhoun ordered Connor off the premises. During the disenssior. Connor pulled a revolver aud shot Calhoun iu the alMlomen, indicting u fatal wound. A south-bound St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern passenger train was held up by a negro bandit near Higgin sou, Ark., at 1 o'clock on a recent morning. The negro had no visible confederates and confined bis operations to one passenger coach, compelling the panic stricken passengers to band over their valuables nt the point of a pistol. The bandit escaped.

SOUTHERN.

George R. C. Todd, formerly of Kentucky, a brother-in-law of President Lincoln, died in Barnwell. S. C. Peabody Normal College trustees nt Nashville, Tenn., discovered that one of their pretty art students was a negress. She had been accepted as a Jewess. At Maybury, W. Va., John Hasbropk was killed while in an altercation with Walter Sweetniun. Both men used revolvers, but Sweetninu proved the better marksman. They had a falling out over a young woman. Fire destroyed the large tobacco warehouse of W. 8. Matthews & Sous nt Ixiuisville. Ky. Loss ou stock estimated at $125,900; on building, $50,000, fully covered by insurance. The origin of the fire is unknown. Eight uieu opened the vault of the Mnssanutten bunk nt Btrasburg, Yn„ and blew open three safes, securing $5,000. Negotiable pnpers and securities amounting to $75,000 were untouched. The men escaped ou a handcar ou the Southern Railway. Thomas J. Hunter, former auditor of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad Company, was found guilty of embezzlement at Atlanta, Qa., and sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. It was charged ngainst Hunter tbit he had misappropriated $20,000.

FOREIGN.

All tbe South Germany sugar refineries hare united iu a syndicate. Miss Laura Ilaygood, Methodist. missionary, Is dead at Shanghai, China; Nationalists of France have elected Paul Kruger department councilor of Pas de Calais. , Queen Victoria made the lord mayors of Dublin and Belfast baronets of tbe same rank with the Lord Mayor of Lon-* don. .The Nlcnyigua Government has dnttlly canceled the concession to the Maritime Canal Compnu/ to construct a ship canal across Nicaragua. James XI. Barrie, tbe novelist, has accepted the invitation of a committee to conteet tbe vacancy in the represent alien

in the house of commons of Edinburgh an.d St. Andrews universities. -A serious explosion occurred at the Begbie works at Pretoria, used by the Government as an arsenal. Teu workmen were killed and thirty-two were injured.The cause of the explosion is unknown. An accident within the exposition grounds in Baris caused the death of nine persons and injured forty. A temporary bridge, although closed to traffic, collapsed, burying scores under the broken timbers and heaps of debris.

IN GENERAL.

Gov. Allen of Porto Rico i» to be installed May 1. Smallpox is rife iu Winnipeg and an epidemic of great proportions is feared. Canadians suspect a Fenian plot in the attempt to blow up tbe Welland Canal locks. Experts figure that the Government loyt $2,000,000 through the frauds of Captain Oberlin M. Carter. Allison V. Armour’s auxiliary yacht Utownna nrrired at Hartn, Island of Azores. All on board are well. The taxation of railroads on a gross earnings basis is to become a part of the conservative administration’s program in Manitoba. Many Japanese are leaving Vancouver and Victoria for tbe Klondike, in the hope of securing work for wages or to wash abandoned ground. ■ -— r~ Fire destroyed Hull, Out., leaped the river to Ottawa and burned half the latter city. Homeless persons number 15,000; property loss is $20,000,000. American salmon cauucrs, operating at Anacortes and other near-by places, have offered the dominion government to establish and maintain- a first-class hatchery on the Frazer river. Telegraphic advices from Dawson state that the census of the Klondike has been completed. The population of Dawson is ,044, and of the Klondike 3,397. The district has 2,707 British subjects and 5,539 citizens of the United States. Tbe State Department at Washington has notified Mrs. Rita L. Ruiz, widow of Dr. Ricardo Ruiz, who was murdered in prison at Guannbacoa, Cuba, while a captive of the Spaniards, that the chair on which he wrote his last message, In his own blood, would be forwarded to her. The wife of Maj. Gen. James 11. Wilson, military governor of the department of Matanzas-Santa Clara, Cuba, died from the effects of burns accidentally received while driving with her daughter. While alighting from her carriage Mrs. Wilson stepped on a match, which ignited her dress. That satisfactory terms have been agreed upon by the owners of the railway systems of Cuba was foreshadowed by the incorporation of the Cuba Company, backed by some of the most powerful capitalists in the United States and Canada. As a result the railways of Cuba will become one system. Siegel, Cooper & Co., who organized as a firm in 1887, will turn over their large department stores lu Chleago and New York July 2 to the Siegel-Cooper Company, which has incorporated in New Jersey, with provision for a co-operative enterprise, in which the employes and the public are given opportunity to participate. The capital stock is $24,000,000, $14,250,000 being li per cent cumulative preferred and $9,750,000 common stock, par value. SSO. The company will place $2,000,000 common stock in trust, the same annual dividend to be distributed among employes who have served with satisfactory results. Bradstrcct’s has this to say of the condition of business: “Evidence of the fact that there are uow two sides to the general trade situation, where for a year past there was but one, come to sight each week. Different sections of the country and lines of business return differing reports, bnt that the situation as a whole is a favorable one aud suffers merely by comparison with the enormous and almost feverish activity of some time ago is also evident. Crop prospects, except in the wheat area of the central west and in some flooded sections of the South, remain all that might be wished for. Retail demand is improving, and nothing of a definitely depressing character ha* yet developed. One of the most favorably situated industries is that of shoes. Paints, oils aud drags nre also in good distribution. In agricultural products the situation is generally one of sustained strength. Wheat (including flour) shipments for the week aggregate 3,(183,9G3 bushels, agaiust 3,989,451 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 8,G20,0G4 l>ushek, against 158.747 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, (3.00 to (0.00; hogs, shippiug grades. (3.00 to (5.75; sheep, fair to choice, (3.00 to (5.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 05c to Otic; corn, No. 2,39 cto 41c: oats, No. 2,22 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 10c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; new potatoes, Bermuda, (7.00 to (8.50 per barrel. 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. 2,70 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 20c. Bt. Louis—Cattle. (3.25 td (0.00; hogs. (3.00 to (5.75; sheep, (3.00 to (0.00; wheat, No. 2, 7lc to 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 40c to 42c; oats. No. 2,24 cto 20c; rye; No. 2,54 cto 50c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $2.50 to (0.00; hogs, (3.00 to (5.75: sheep. (2.50 to (3.75; wheat. No.-2, 73c to 75c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 42c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rje, No. 2,61 cto 03c. Detroit—Cattle, (2.50 to (0.00; boga, (3.00 to (5.75; sheep. (3.00 to (0.25; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 40c to 42c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, 00c to 02c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 42c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, No.-2, 50c to 57c; clover seed, old, (4.70 to (4.80. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern. 05c to 07c; corn, No. 3,40 cto 42c; oats. No. 2 white 20c to 28c; rye, No. 2,57 c to 58c: barley, No. 2. 42c to 44c; pork, mess, (12.50 to (13.00. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, (3.00 to (0.00; bogs, common to choice, (3.25 to (5.73; sheep, fair to choice, (3.00 to (0.75; lspibs, common to extra, (4.50 to $7.50. New York—Cattle, (3.25 to (0.00; hogs, (3.00 to (5.75: sheep, (3.00 to (0.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 77c; corn, Nn. 2, 45c to 47c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; hotter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggs, weatern, 12c to 14c.

CONGRESS

In the Senate on Thursday almost the entire session was devoted to consideration of the right of Nathan B. Scott of West Virginia to retain his seat in the Senate. Mr. Pettns (Ain.), who alone of the member of the committee on privileges and elections is opposed..to the claim of Mr. Scott to a seat, made an elaborate argument to sustain his views. Mr. Morgan (Ala.) spoke in favor of his colleague’s contention. Mr. McComns (Md.), Mr. Turley (Tenn.), Mr. Chandler (N.-H.), Mr. Teller (Colo.), and Mr. Allen (Neb.) supported the resolution declaring Mr. Scott entitled to his scat. The case went over without action. The House after four days’ discussion, passed the postoffiee appropriation bill. The attempt to strike out the $190,000 for special mail facilities from New York to New Orleans and from Kansas City to. Newton, Kan., was defeated. The amendment providing for pneumatic tube service was defeated. The one allowing extra compensation for letter carriers for work iu excess of forty-eight hours a week was adopted by a big majority. The bill to increase Jhe salary of the director of census to $7,500 and the salaries of supervisors of census by 2 per cent, of the amount received by their enumerators was passed. On Saturday lu the Senate Mr. Pettigrew asked immediate consideration of a resolution extending sympathy nr.d hopes for success to the Boers in their war with Great Britain. A motion to refer the resolution to the committee ou foreign relatioiisowas carried l»y 31 to 11. Efforts to secure a quorum fnileffi and the resolution remains subject to call at any time. A resolution was adopted providing that tbe exercises appropriate to the reception ar.d acceptance from the Grand Army of the Reputitic of the statue of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, to be erected in the capitol. be made the special order for Saturday, May If), nt 4p. m. The following bills were passed: For the establishment, control, operation and maintenance of the uorthera branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, at Hot Springs, in South Dakota, and appropriating $150,000 for the purpose*. The House passed a number of bills of importance, and the mnjor portion of the sessiou was devoted to the Senate bill to create a commission to adjudicate the ctoiims of citizens of the United States against Spain, assumed by this country by the treaty of Paris. The bill was finally recommitted to the committee ou war claims, with instructions to report back a bill to refer the claims to tbe court of claims. The Senate bills to recognize the services of Lieut. Newcomb and the officers aud men of the revenue cutter Hudson, which rescued the torpedo boat Winslow at Carnedas, Cuba, by conferring gold and silver medals upon them and to retire Cnptnin Hodgsdon of the revenue cutter Hugh McCulloch, for meritorious services, were passed. On Monday the Senate, by a Tote of 29 to 20, ref list'd to consider tbe pro-Boer resolution introduced by Mr. Pettigrew. Agreed to the conference report on the amendatory Porto Rico resolution. Passed bill appropriating $40,000 to enlarge and improve tbe public building nt Burlington, lowa. Agreed to the conference report on the bill in behalf of northwestern inmliermeu, authorizing the Secretary of War to make certain regulations on the management of loose logs ou several Specified rivers. The House sent to the committee ou judiciary the joint resolution for u constitutional amendment to disqualify polygamists for election as Senators or Representatives. By a vote of 144 to 20 passed the Lacey bill to prohibit the transportation by inter-state commerce of game killed In violation of local law*. Agreed to tbe conference report on the Torto Rico amendatory resolution. In committee of the whole considered the Senate bill for the creation of a commission to study and report upon the industrial conditions in China and Japan. Struck ont the enacting clause by a vote of 58 to 54 after amending it by reducing the number of commissioners from five to three, providing that not more than two of these shall be ol the same political party, and that none shall be members of either braueb of Congress. Motion to strike out enacting clansc was pending in open session when adjournment was voted. Alaskan civil code bill passed the Senate on Tuesday, amendments being withdrawn. Harris’ resolution passed concerning conservation of the water or the Arkansas river for the benefit of Colo-" rado and Kansas. Tillman’s resolution concerning tests of Krupp armor at Indian Head was agreed to. Consideration or army appropriation bill, carrying $114.951,590, was resumed. Lodge’s amend meut forbidding establishment of telegraph or cable lines in Alaska not owned and operated wholly by citizens of tho United States was adopted. Berry's amendment giving preference so non-trust bidders ou army contracts >jas defeated. 18 to 21). Stewart's amendment, “intended to prevent a Cuban cable monopoly,” was rejected, lu the House the entire day was devoted to consideration of the Nicaragua canal hill. The Senate on Wednesday passed Mil for the creation of linked memo rial parks on the battlefields of Fredericksburg Chnneellomille. the Wilderness aud Spottsylviiuia, in Virginia. Received notice from Mr. Hoar that on Thursday lie would call up the Clark contest case for consideration. Heard Mr. Mason lu support of his proposition to enact legislation to prevent the adulteration of food. Devoted the rest of the day to dcbntq on the army Appropriation bill, with the treatment of American soldiers iu the Philippines as the chief subject. The House by a vote of 225 to 33 pa«sed bill providing for the const ruction of n protected but not n fortified Nicaragua canal.

This and That.

Dewey will visit Columbus, Ohio, early in June. Queen Wilhchniua of Ilollaud is lunch grieved over the war In Booth Africa. Both she and her mother are constantly contributing funds in aid of the Boers. She Is fully persuaded that the English people are In the wrong. On a train running between Ghent and Brussels a fierce discussion about the Month African war arose among the passengers. An njann was given, the train stopped and tbe disputants were forced to finish the dispute on the ground.

That Tired Feeling Just as surely Indicates that tho blood is lacking in vitality and tho elements of health as does the most obstinate humor that the vital fluid Is full of Impurities. Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures that tired feeling by enriching and vitalizing the blood, creating a good appetite and Invigorating every organ of the body. Hood’s Sarsaparilla "I had that tired feeling all the time. Was as tired in the morning when I rose as I was when 1 went to bed. I took four bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla and it made me feel like a new man. I could work hard and not feel tired.” A. P. ' Charter, Creston, lowa. > 7 7 . Hood’s Sarsaparilla is sold by all druggists. Get llood’s and only Hood’s.

Southern Politeness.

“I was given a good example of southern politeness the other night,” said a gentleman from the north. “I had gone to the Coraus ball, and had agreed to escort a lady home. She was also a stranger In tbe city, and was stopping with some friends on Bourbon street, about three blocks the other side of the opera house. As it was only a short distance, we decided to walk. I was, of course, totally unacquainted with the street, and when we had left tbe lights of the opera house I felt very, much at sea. The houses were dark, and I could not see tbe numbers, and it was only by number that the lady could identify her boarding place, as she had only been there once. Ahead of me was a small man. 1 asked him If he knew where.the number was. He answered very politely that he did not, but was going that way and would help me hunt. He told another man in front of him about it, and that man told some of his friends. In a few minutes these gentlemen had formed an advance guard in our interest. We walked calmly behind, while they went in front, on either side of the street, striking matches and looking for the number. There were eight of them, and their matches would go off one after the other. It was a regtilar flambeau parade. I was overcome. ‘Here it is,’ shouted an advance scout. We approached the house rapidly, and found the eight gentlemen standing before it It was almost with emotion that I raised my hat and thanked them for their efforts. ‘Nothing at all,' they said politely, and the entire eight raised their hats and walked Into the darkness.”—Ntewr Orleans Times-Democrat.

Perils of the Engiish Language.

Imagine yourself a foreigner striving to master tbe construction of tbe English language. Perhaps you may be gaziug at a number of vessels on tbe water, and exclaim, “See what a flock of ships!” Y'ou are at once told that a flock of ships is called a fleet, and that a fleet of sheep Is called a flock. It might also be added for your future guidance that a flock of girls is called a bevy, while a bevy of wolves is called a pack; yet a pack of thieves is called a gang, and a gang of angels la called a host; but a host of porpoises Is called a shoal, and a shoal of buffaloes Is called a herd. Still, a herd of children Is called a troop, but a troop of partridges is called a covey; a covey of beauties la called a galaxy, while a galaxy of rufflona Is called a horde; further, a horde of rubbish Is called & heap, yet a heap of oxen la called a drove; a drove of blackguards Is called a mob; but a mob of whale* Is called a school; a school of worshipers Is called a congregation, while a congregation of engineers is called a corps; a corps of robbers is called a bond, though a band of locusts Is called a swarm, and a swarm of people is called a crowd; a crowd of pictures Is called a collection, but a collection of money is called a hoard, and a board of people Is called a company; a company of minister*, however, Is called an assembly, and an assembly of soldiers Is called a muster. “Stop, stop!” mcthlnks I hear you cry. “I cannot remember half of It.”

Humility ana Honesty.

Of the late Dr. N. J. Burton, pastor of the Park Church, Hartford, his son, tbe poet, Richard Burton, tells this beautiful story; “Among my father’s effects was found an old check, yellowed by ago and torn across, the date 1870 or thereabouts. It had been sent by the editor of the Independent, with an urgent request for a contribution, tbe amount of the honorarium to be written in according to tbe contributor’s Judgment and pleasure—a rather dangerous liberty to allow some of tbe literati. But the check remained, never filled out, la ills poeketbook.’’ The Incident In typical. It wan fairly pathetic to ace how distrustful he was of his own accomplishments, how nelfdcprcclatlug. Yet at rare Intervals, he realised he liad done something not ordinary, and then. In fitting privacy and with a beautiful frankness, would fay so.

One of Egypt’s Wonders.

The most magnificent work or architecture is deemed to be the palace Temple of Karaak, In Egypt, occupying on area of nine acres, or twice that of Saint Peter’s at Rome. The templs space Is a poet’s dream of gigantic columns, beautiful courts and wondrous avenues of sphinxes.

The Turkish Turban.

k A Turkish turban of tbe largest slab contains twenty yards of the finest and softest muslin.