Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK. Publisher. ft£NSBELA£R, • - INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The regular summer shut-down of the flint and green glass factories will take place as usual this year, notwithstanding the eflforts of the manufacturers to have it abolished. The factories will be closed from four to eight weeks, beginning with June 15. The Bankers and Cattlemen’s Protective Association was organized at Kansas City by Western banks that handle cattle paper. The association will make a concerted tight to convict any cattleman accused of swindling a member of the organization. The seventh annual international convention of chiefs of police, in session at Cincinnati, elected the following officers: President, A. H. Leslie, Pittsburg; vicepresident, Philip Deitsch, Cincinnati; secretary-treasurer, Harvey O. Carr, Grand Rapids, Mich. At Atlanta, Ga., the factory of the Ware Furniture Company was burned. Forty cottages occupied by many people employed in the factory were destroyed, rendering families homeless. The loss io the factory and on the cottages will be about $200,000. Six men blew open the safe of the Farmers’ Bank at Sunbury, Ohio, and in doing so blew the entire rear wall out of the building. The safe, as well as the building, was wrecked, but the noise of the explosion aroused the people and the robbers escaped empty handed. The standing of the clubs in the National League is as follows: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 11 5 Chicago 8 0 Cincinnati. ..1) 6 Pittsburg . 7 9 Brooklyn ... 9 7 New York... 0 9 St* Louis.... 8 8 Boston 5 10 In the American League the standings are: W. L. W. L. Milwaukee ..12 4 Buffalo ..... 7 7 Indianapolis.. 9 5 Kansas City. 8 10 Chicago .... 9 7 Minneapolis.. 7 12 Cleveland ... 7 7 Detroit 4 11

BREVITIES.

Princeton defeated Yale in the seventh annual intercollegiate debating contest. Austria’s parliament ended its session in a violent row over the language session. Viceroy Curzon reports that the number of persons in India in receipt of relief is 5,017,000. Judge Richard Yates of Jacksonville has been nominated for Governor by the Republicans of TUTnbls? Sir Richard Webster, British attorney general, has been made master of the rolls and will be elevated to the peerage. At Trenton, Mo., William Ferguson ~ was found guilty of the murder of S. G. Wilson, a Trenton merchant, in March, 1897. Mrs. M. R. Tutt and Mrs. Eliza Flowerday were drowned-in the St. Johns river, Florida, while crossing the stream in a boat. Erastus Everett, at one time" president of the College of New Orleans, is dead at his late home in Brooklyn. He was 87 years of age. The Order of Railway Telegraphers has called off the strike of the Southern Railway telegraphers. The boycott against the road is still in force. John Francis Brice, scion of the famous house of Brice of Ohio, has secretly married a chorus girl and has sent in his resignation as a student of the Harvard law school. The Bingham faction of the Alabama Republicans, through its executive committee, nominated a State ticket headed by Charles P. Lane, editor of the Huntsville Tribune, for Governor. The Michigan Central freight house, near the union depot at Grand Rapids, Mich., was burned to the ground. Nine-' teeu car loads of freight were also destroyed and five cars burned. At Buffalo, N. Y„ Koerner & Hayes, lithographers, have filed a petition in bankruptcy, with liabilities aggregating $400,000. Herman T. Koerner and Chas. E. Hayes have filed individual petitions. Chalmers Martin, who holds the Elliott F. Shepherd instructorship in Princeton (N. J.) Seminary, has resigned bis chair to accept the presidency of the Pennsylvania College for Women at Pittsburg, Pa. . A force of Filipinos attacked twenty men of Company I of the Forty-fourth regiment stationed at Barotac, Iloilo province, -on the island of Panay. Three of the Americans were killed and seven were wounded. Second Mate Moore gud fourteen of the crew of the British steamer Virginia, wrecked on Diamond Shoals, off Cape Hatteras, have arrived at New Orleans on the Morgan liner El Paso, which rescued them. The Missouri Supreme Court has sentenced six murderers to be hanged on June 15, 1900. They are: Ernest Clevenger, Roliert Cushenlterry, John A. Holloway, Bam Waters, David Miller and Jack Bradford. During a riot between strikers and workmen at the Buttonwood mine of the Parrish Coal Company at Wllkesbarre, Pa., some twenty men were badly injured, Including Hupt. W. T. Smythe. The strikers dispersed the workmen. At Raintown. Pa., Samuel Brown’s 8-year-ohl daughter and two other children named Kirkland met their death in the flames, which destroyed nearly every house in the town. Several men were badly burned, two perhaps fatally. While hunting Charles Kisker of Loavenworth, Kan., was shot and instantly killed by the accidental discharge of u gun in the hands of Harry Kennett. Edward Clifford was banged in the Hudson County (N. J.) jail for the murder Of Division Superintendent W. G. Wattson of tin* West Shore Railway in, 1895. JX Four Ilves were lust at O’Neill sidetrack, sixteen mile* svest of Rawlins/ Wyo., oti the Union Pacific, when an east-bound fast fruit train, drawn by two locomotives, dashed through an open awltcb and down a high embankmeut.

EASTERN.

Fire destroyed the plant of the Reed Fertilizer Company at Eastwood, N. Y. Loss $50,000. Officials and strikers of the New York Central Railway have reached an agreement and the men will return to work. The Philadelphia City National Bank has decided to merge with the Philadelphia National Bank. Its capital is $400,000. A tierce forest fire has been raging in the woods between Cedarville and Center Grove, N. J. Thousands of acres of valuable oak and pine have been burned and the loss will be enormous. Burglars entered the First National Bank of East Brady, Pa., and blew bpen the safe, taking cverythintT in sight, including pennies. The loss is estimated at SIO,OOO. There is no clew to the robbers. William Crowuinshield Endicott, Secretary of War in President Cleveland’s first administration and one of the foremost lawyers and orators of the East, died at his winter house in Boston, of pneumonia. -The immense brick building of the Wakefield Rattan Company at Wakefield, Mass., caught fire, xt»d before the flames could be subdued the building and contents were damaged to the extent of $50,000. Oliver L. Stewart, secretary of the Laird malleable iron works of Huntingdon, Pa., was instantly killed by the bursting of an emery wheel at the company’s works. A piece of the wheel pierced his heart. Another leap from the Brooklyn bridge into the East river and to death was made by Edward M. Bryant. He did it at the behest of a newspaper in Park Row, which published the full , details simultaneously with the daring descent. A fire which started in the industrial school building on Randall’s Island, New York, caused a panic among the children in the children’s hospital, which stood next to the burning building. The industrial school was burned to the ground. No one was injured. Francis T. Watton, known- as "the plunger,” opened his new hotel, the Victoria, in New York, a few days ago and at the same time started in to starve himself. For twenty-one days he continued his fast. It was done to cure his rheumatism, and effected the object. The American Ax and Tool Company has purchased thirty-eight acres of river frontage at Glassport, near Pittsburg, and will erect thereon a $500,000 plant, the largest of its kind ever built. The works will employ 1,000 men and will begin operation before the end of the year. Passenger train No. 107 on the Wheeling division of the Baltimore and Ohio road was wrecked just cast of Gastonville, Pa. Patrick J. Horan, track inspector, was killed and two trainmen were badly hurt. None of the passengers was hurt. Investigation showed that some person had driven a spike into a tie in such a way that when the engine struck it it jumped the track. A fire that started at the river end of the Mallory line steamship pier, at the foot of Maiden Lane and the East river, New York, completely destroyed the pier and its valuable contents. The police place the loss at $1,000,000. Several barges which were moored near the pier were also destroyed. The 9-months-old daughter of Capt. Charles Lochs of the barge Sherwood was drowned.

WESTERN.

Capt. George Ritchey died at the soldiers’ home at Fort Leavenworth. Kan., aged 62. The Y. M. C. A. at Lenvcnworth, Kan., dedicated a new hall, built especially for its use at a cost of over $15,000. Ex-Congressman David B. Culberson, father of United States Senator Culberson, is dead at Jefferson, Texas. Frank Rockefeller has left the Euclid Avenue Church of Cleveland because of a quarrel with his brother, John D. Smallpox has broken out at Butler College at Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis. Five young ladies have the disease. Grantsburg, 111., was almost totally destroyed by tire. Only two business houses, the postoffice and a suloou were left standing. In eastern Ohio ice formed in some localities the other night and killing frosts were general. The damage to fruits aud early crops is heavy. The Kansas railroad law, which is the result, of ten years of Populist agitation in Kansas, was declared unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court. Walter Scott Kuniler, 49 years old, former Mayor of Oxford, Ohio, fell in a fit in the street in Oxford. His head struck a eeineut pavement and he died instantly. The Stebbius Bank at Creston, Ohio, was entered aud the vault blown open. The burglars secured about SIOO, but failed to secure $14,000 in the strong box. Emma Stelz, 34 years qld, was shot aud almost instantly killed by Mrs. Albert Hodst in the latter's saloon at 1626 North. Clark street, Chicago. Jealousy, it is said, was the cause. A bulletin issued by the Ohio State Board of Agriculture estimates the prospective wheat crop of the State at only 41 per cent of an average, or about 16,000,000 to 18,000,000 bushel*. Fred Bortzmeycr, a young man who arrived at San Francisco from Cleveland, Ohio, a few dny* ago, was shot aud fatally wounded by a highwayman who secured S9O before he fired at his victim. Harry Burke, a student in Cincinnati University, received a fatal injury while vaulting over a ten-foot barrier. The pule broke aud he fell buck, striking the upper part of hi* spinal column on the top of the broken pole. Six masked robber* held up a Northern. Pacific freight train east of North Ynklma, Wash., robbed five passengers and threw them from the moving train. The robber* used their revolvers freely and two passenger* were shot. Half a dozen distinct tornadoes occurred in central Kansas following a day of exceedingly high temperature. Two pcr•*on» ore known to have been killed and three Injured, while the loss on house*, cattle aud other property it very great. Joseph Bays, a young farmer, who lived n few miles southwest of Hopkins, Mo., died of eating eggs. He made a bet with a friend that he could ent three dozen eggs. Ho did it. Ile-wa* taken ill a few hours later, and the doctors were unable to relieve hitu. A street car, filled with Dewey celcbrator», wa* blown from the track and wrecked on the outskirts of St. Loui* in a lonely spot. k Ad examination of the track

I showed that it had been coated for a distance by a‘layer of nitroglycerin and some , other substance. Officials of the Northwestern Elevated Railroad Company in Chicago have announced that the .153 union workmen who went on a strike on the road a few weeks ago have been taken back to work under an agreement conceding every point to the -unions. The through passenger train from the east on the Great Northern was thrown from the track in the yards at Great Falls, Mont. Passengers in dne ear were badly shaken up, but no serious damage was done. Striker? claim that they had nothing to do with it. J. F. Valentine of San Francisco, first vice-president 'of the Molders’ International Union of America, has succeeded in effecting a temporary settlement of the trouble in the foundries of Akron, Ohio, and the men who hftvh been out on strike have returned to work. The small town of Barrett, Minn., was burned away the other night'. Fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. There was no fire protection, and twenty-three buildings burned to the groutfd. The combined losses are nearly $60,000, with light insurance. The Ebinger Grand Opera House at Fort Madison, lowa, was destroyed by tire. The insurance will not cover half the loss of $25,000. Frank Threener, a fireman, was struck on the head by a falling brick aud sustained a fracture of the skull, necessitating trephining. A washed-out trestle leading to the Black bridge, south of St. Charles, Mo., caused the wreck of the “Katy flyer," a fast passenger train on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway, and resulted in the death of John Boyle, fireman, with the fatal injury of L. D. Palmer, engineer. A three-story brick building at 1302 Grand avenue, in the business center of Kansas City, occupied on the ground floor by Jacob Goodman as a second-hand store and above by Mrs. Mary Sonn as a rooming house, collapsed, burying seven persons in the ruins. It is believed none of the injured will die. Four men were wounded, one probably fatally, during a labor riot on an Archer avenue car in Chicago. A dozen shots were fired, every window in the car was shattered and passengers fled, panicstricken. The fighting was between coal heavens employed at the E. L. Hendstrom & Co. coal docks and seven strikers. The Mississippi Valley Hay Storage Company and the lumber yards of the Hofiper-Lothman Manufacturing Company, located at Branch and Second streets, St. Louis, were destroyed by fire. The total loss is estimated at $350,000, of which the hay company sustains about $40,000 and the Hofner-Lothman Manufacturing Company the remainder. Judge Lochren in the United States Circuit Court at St. Paul remanded Rafael Ortiz, the Porto Rican, back to Stillwater prison. In his decision Judge Lochren held that by the cession of Porto Rico that island became an integral part of the United States and that the Federal constitution thereupon, ex propria vigore, extended over the island and its people. A call has been issued for a national convention of farmers, to be held at Topeka, Kan., July 2 and 3, for the purpose of forming a gigantic trust to control the price and sale of grain and live stock. The call is signed by Walter N. Allen, president, and James Butler, secretary of the Farmers’ Federation, a mutual co-operative association recently chartered under the laws of Kansas, with an authorized capital stock of $20,000,000.

SOUTHERN.

Ten years ago H. T. Steffey of Rising Fawn, Ga., was stricken with paralysis and completely lost his faculty of speech. The other day while handling an electrical ajiparatus he received a severe shock which entirely restored his speech. Marshall Jones, a negro, implicated in the murder of Allen Crosby, a white man, at Gillis’ still in Coffee County, Ga., was taken from jail at Douglas and lynched. The negro was tied to a small pine tree and his body riddled with bullets. At Louisville, Ky., George E. Holman, a printer, cut his wife’s throat, possibly fatally, and rushed from his house and shot Leonard Holstein, a neighbor. But for a button on Holstein’s coat, which turned the course of the bullet, Holstein would have been killed. At Logan, W. Va., more than 500 persons witnessed a fight between a wildcat aud a bufldog. Several hundred dollars was bet oh the mill. The dog was killed at the end of thirty minutes and the cat was uninjured. The fight'occurred in a wire cage fifteen feet square. Joseph W. Morey, a young society man and athlete of Louisville, Ky., and for several years cashier for a large wholesale hardware firm, committed suicide by shooting himself through the breast and turning on four gas jet* at his home. The motive for the suicide Is unknown. Robert and William Chambers, two prominent young men of Webb, Miss., went to the plantation of T. B. Abbey to search for some negroes. They met Abbey, and in an altercation Abbey shot, and killed them both. Abbey has the reputation of a qnict and peaceful citizen. At Pamberg, 8. C., Rev. W. E. Johnson, pastor of the Baptist Church, shot and almost instantly killed W. T. Bellinger, stenographer of that Judicial district. Trouble between the two began over the painting of a fence between the premises of Bellinger and the Baptist parsonage. At Glasgow, Ky., fire destroyed the business part of town, causing a loss of $150,000. It began in Ranbould’s store and residence, and extending southward destroyed everything, including the Methodist Church, the telephone exchange, the Republican newspaper office and both telegraph offices. On th*4jhrine»ville, Jefferson and Southern Railway, at BelmoaUjGa., a passenger coacty became detached from the train nnd ran down the track four mile* across the high trestle over Walnut creek. Beyond the trestle on a sharp curve thelar jumped the track. Several people in the coach received serious injuries.

FOREIGN.

Sir George While 1* to be made governor of Gibraltar. French troops have occupied Igli. near the Morocco frontier. A new cable la to be laid between Ireland and the Faro Islands. Kir Henry Stanley will not seek re-

election to parliament, hi* health being po<fr. Three persons were killed and many injured by a railway collision near Chaville, France. . t. A plot has been discovered to blow up one of the electric lighting plants of the Puris exposition. According to London advices negotiations for the sale of the Danish West Indies have been broken off. Bribery in tho granting of concessions at the Paris exposition has been revealed and Director General Picard is said to be implicated. With impressive ceremonies the crown prince of Germany took the oath and received the congratulations of many foreign rulers. There are persistent rumors that Aguinaldo has been killed by the Igorattes. There is no proof that he has been alive since Maj. March pursued him into the Benquet mountains. . Gen. Pantelon Garcia, the highest insurgent officer except Aguinaldo, was captured by Lieut. E. V. Smith of Gen. Funston’s staff in the town of Jaen, three miles northeast of San Isidro, province of New Ecija. Consul General Holloway at St. Petersburg reports to the State Department that Russian trade last year showed a decrease of $68,134,500 as compared with the preceding year. This is attributed to the reduction of export trade in consequence of the bad harvests. Telegrams received from Gen. Young report that Aguinaldo has rejoined the rebel general, Tino, in the north, and that they have reassembled a considerable force in the mountains. Gen. Young desires to strike them before the rains and asks for re-enforcements from Manila.

IN GENERAL.

Henry M. Flagler, the Standard Oil magnate, has sued for divorce from his insane wife. Twenty-five thousand employes of the Standard Oil Company have had their wages raised 10 percent, _ The contract for supplying the Government military forces on the American Yukon with beef supplies has been awarded to Jack Dalton, the noted Alaskan pioneer and explorer. It involves about SIOO,OOO. A combination to be known as the American Sheet Metal Company is being organized with a capital of $50,000,000. The combine takes in twenty-nine corrugated iron and cornice plants throughout the country, the total number being thir-ty-ti vc. . r _ The chief portion of the mining town of Sandon, East Kootenai, was destroyed by fire. The railway station and telegraph office were burned. Sandon is in the center of the silver-lead mining district of British Columbia and was a thriving town. The Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern has a strike on of large proportions. AU the section men and extra gangs from St. Louis to Parkersburg, W. Va., have gone out. About three thousand men refused to go to work on a recent morning. They demand $1.50 a day. The section men have been receiving $1.15 aud extra men $1.25. Jacob De Haven loaned the Government of the United States $50,000 123 years ago, and now Uncle Sam is to pay the money to his heirs after litigation which has been carried on for generations. The claim against the Government, with interest, amounts to $3,000,000, and this is to be divided among the De Haven heirs, of whom there are several in Chicago. Bradstreet’s says: “A further subsidence of demand and of the level of prices is noted in several lines, this process being no doubt aided by the unsettling effect of the rather more than usually disturbed conditions in labor circles. The net result is something approaching dullness in many channels of distribution, increased conservatism in the ventures and a disposition to digest business already arranged for before making new engagements. That the basic condilions of general business, such as the outlook for the crops, the export demand and the increased purchasing power of the people at large, have not been much reduced, but on the contrary actually Improved, seems evident from the advices received. Business at wholesale is rela-tively-quieter. Flour shipments this week ore very large. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,537,022 bushels, against 3,863,863 bushels last 'week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,411,015 bushels, against 3,620,664 bushels last week."

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cuttle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to ÜBc; corn. No. 2,38 cto 40e; oats, No. 2,22 c to 24c; rye, No 2. 53c to 54c; butter, choice creamery, 10c to 20c; eggs, frcsu, lie to 12c; new potatoes, Bermuda, $7. is) to $8.25 per barrel. V Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 t® $5.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.50> sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 white, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.5i); sheep, $3.00 to $5.70; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c: corn, No. 2 yellow, 38e to 40c; onta, No. 2,24 ct® 26c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 50c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hcgs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 42c to 44c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,60 cto 02c. . Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to $6.25; wheat. No. 2,72 cto 73c; coin, No. 2 yellow, 40c to 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, 00c to 62c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 2,56 c to 58c; clover secd( old, $4.70 to $4.80. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 65c to 67c; corn. No. 3,39 cto 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 2,57 c to 50c: barley, No. 2,43 cto 45c; pork mess, $11,75 to $12.25. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to pri*e, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.78. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.75; hogs $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. N0..2 red, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2, 45c to 46c: oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; butter, creamery, 16c to 21c: eggs, wealera, 13c to 15c.

POPULISTS AT WORK.

PRELIMINARY DOINGS OF RIVAL CONVENTIONS. Sioux Falla Assemblage Completes Its Organization, Choosing Thomas Patterson of Colorado Permanent Chairman—The Cincinnati Body. At Sioux Falls, S. D., on. Wednesday ’Thomas Patterson of Colorado was selected for permanent chairman of the national Populist convention after a session lasting for over two hours. J. 11. Curren of Kansas, Leo Vincent of Colorado and William M. Deisher of Pennsylvania, who served as temporary secretaries at the afternoon session, were named as permanent secretaries. The selection of Patterson was made by acclamation. Several names were considered before the final selection was made. Gen. James A. Weaver of lowa and Senator Marion Butler of North Carolina were among those urged for the place. Senator Pettigrew’s name was also presented, but later withdrawn, Pettigrew stating that he would not under any circumstances allow his name to be considered. The convention began business at 2:20 o’clock. There were probably 500 delegates in their seats, and surrounding them there was a fringe of alternates and visitors numbering 600 to 800. From the arrival of the Minnesota delegation bearing Bryan and Towne banners there were outbursts of applause at every convenient opening and upon the least provocation. United States Senators Butler, Allen and Heltfield received liberal greeting, while Senator Pettigrew was overwhelmed by the cordiality of the welcome accorded to him. There was also generous applause when the name of Mr. Bryan was mentioned by the speakers of the day. Many sentiments were cheered to the echo, and this was notably the case with Gov. reference to the Boers and the Filipinos. Before entering upon the regular order of business prayer was offered by Bishop O’Gorman. Chairman Butler then introduced Gov. Lee of South Dakota, who on behalf of the State welcomed the convention. Gov. Lee was given Iclose attention and was frequently interrupted by applause, his reference to the “splendid heroism of the South African republics” bringing a burst of cheers. His allusion to W. J. Bryan, however, the first time his name had been pronounced, brought the delegates to their feet in a hurricane of cheers and waving of flags, sonic enthusiastic delegates climbing on their chairs to voice their approval. Senator Butler responded for the convention. At the conclusion of his address proper Chairman Butler introduced the temporary chairman of the convention, P, M. Ringdal of Minnesota. As Chairman Ringdal ceased his speech there were heard cries of “Pettigrew,” “Pettigrew,” but the Senator, who sat upon the platform, did not respond. The roll call of States was begun and a loud laugh was raised by the annoufivemeut of J. J. Chambers, representing Alaska. “I am the only one here from Alaska, and I will have to name myself.” The same condition confronted I. N. Burdick of the Indian Territory and Ernest Kroner of Oregon. The evening session was devoted entirely to singing and music by the band.

MEET IN CINCINNATI. Middle-of-the-Road Populists Hold * National Convention. Four hundred aud seventy men and women occupied delegates’ seats when National Committeeman D. Clem Deaver called the national convention of the middle-of-the-road Populists to order In the opera house in Cincinnati at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Former Congressman M. W. Howard of Alabama was named as temporary chairman and J. C. Allen of Oklahoma as temporary secretary, with Earl Richardson of Illinois as secretary. The committee on credentials was appointed and the remainder of the session taken up in listening to speeches. Ignatius Donnelly made an address denouncing the fusionists at Sioux Falls and W. J. Bryan. A recess was then taken until 8 p. m. At the. night session Wharton Barker, the leading candidate fur the presidential nomination, made a lengthy speech. The committee on credeutials reported the delegations and refused to recognize proxies. This allowed Kansas only two votes instead of eighty-six, as only two delegates from that State were present. On the convention’s vote on the proxy question a wrangle ensued. Barker and Donnelly opposed allowing R. M. Chenault to cast forty-three votes or half of Kansas’ quota. The result of the balloting was disputed, but finally verified, and the committee’! report was amended so that the delegates could cast the full quota for their respective States. The report as amended was adopted. jyhe committee on permanent organiza--riogjreported in favor of Col. W. L. Peck otWrorgia for chairman. A minority report favored Judge 8. W. Williams of Vincennes, Ind., for chairman. The majority report wns adoffied. The convention then adjourned till 8 p. m. Thursday.

Brief News Items.

Many Japs nre going to Cape Nome th engage in mining. Prince of Wales will visit the Paris exposition in Juno. Wm. Edmunds, Chicago, fatally shot his wife and himself. A native Eskimo has been ordained as a Swedish minister in Chicago. Chicago sochtliats have indorsed the Debs-Harrininn national ticket. Dr. G. R. C. Todd, a brother-in-law of President Linco'.n, died at Barnwell, 8. O. The floods in Mississippi and Louisiana have caused damage estimated at $3,000,000. The will of tin* late Rufus Wright, shot to dentil at Chicago, bequeaths nearly $1,000,000 to hh family. The attempts of the Australian authorities to stamp out the plague at Sidney have so far proved Ineffectual. Gen. Funston led an expedition into Baler and left there a garrison of the Thirty-fourth volunteer infantry. W. K. Freany, New York, was found dead Sitting in a seat in a park. Had taken carbolic acid. Nude body of Miss Fannie Abbott was found with her throat cut, near South Bcrwyck, Me. Believed to be murdered.

CONGRESS

The Senate on Friday passed the army reorganization bill, which practically revolutionizes the present staff arrangements of the army. The bill provides for an increase in several branches of the service. The fortifications appropriation bill, carryipgfcs7,733,62B, an increase of $640,140 over the House measure ,was also passed. In the House seventy-three of the 132 pages of the sundry civil appropriation bill were completed. Members of the naval committee made efforts to crippje the coast and geodetic survey in retaliation for the refusal of the House to place the survey of waters of our insular possessions in the hands of our navy. A message from President McKinley vetoing the bill authorizing the adjustment of settlers on the Navajo Indian reservation was laid before the House. An order was made giving the day following the disposition of the sundry civil bill to the committee on claims. The Senate held no session Saturday. In the House the Senate amendments to the army appropriation bill were disagreed to and the bill was sent to conference. The House resumed the consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. There was a protracted contest over several propositions to buy 140 acres additional for the St. Elizabeth insane asylum at $1,500 an acre. Although it was urged that the land was badly needed for additional quarters for the insane, every proposition was defeated. _ A few minor amendments were adopted. The committee then rose and the bill was passed. The fortifications appropriation bill was sent to conference. On Monday, in the Senate, Mr. Teller delivered n speech in which he strongly urged the Senate to extend its sympathy to the Boers in contest With Great Britain., ’Hie adoption of his resolution of sympathy, he maintained, could not be considered as qn unfriendly act by the British Government. During most of the session the Senate had under consideration the naval appropriation bill. Mr. Chandler's amendment to curtail the increase of the marine corps created some debate, and finally was laid on the table, 30 to 14. The bill was not completed. Notice was given that the armor plate provision would be considered in secret session, on account of certain facts that were to be called to the Senate’s attention. A bill was passed to provide for a survey of the Illinois river. In the House it was suspension day and a number of bills were passed. The most important was the Senate bill to amend the general pension laws so as to provide for aggregating disabilities under the act of 1890 without regard to service origin, and to increase the net income a widow may have without destroying her righf to a pension from $96 to $250. The purpose of the bill is to modify rulings of the pension office in accordance with the recommendations of'the G. A. R. It was passed without a dissenting voice. The bill to Increase the appropriation for the National Guard from $400,000 to $1,000,000 was among those passed. Mr. Sulzer (N. Y.) attempted to secure action upon his resolution expressing sympathy with the Boers, but was cut off by the Speaker. On Tuesday the Senate concluded consideration of the naval appropriation bill, with the exception of that section relating to armor and armament. This went over until Wednesday. A number of minor bills were passed, among them one to reimburse various collectors of internal revenue for internal revenue stamps charged against them, but not accounted for. The debate on the mrml bill was practically confined to the paragraph relating to the commissioning of naval cadets. The committee’s amendment striking out the proposition in the House bill which sought to commission the cadets at the expiration of the four years’ term at the naval academy, abolishing the preliminary two years at sea, was carried after a warm debate. The House devoted most of the day to the consideration of private bills recommended from the committee on claims and ten bills were passed. The most important wns one to remit the penalties imposed by the Government on the Union iron works of San Francisco, the builders of the monitor Monterey, for her failure to make contract speed. Resolution was adopted calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the House of the material used in the manufacture of oleomargarine.

PractiraHy the entire session of the Senate on Wednesday was devoted to the section of the naval appropriation bill relating to armor and armament. The debate largely binged on the proposition that the Government should erect nn armor plant of its own. Senator Tillman presented, nu amendment limiting the price to be paid for armor to S3OO per ton, and providing also that the Government should erect a plant of its own. Senators Tillman. Money nnd Chandler advocated the erection of a plant, while Mr. Hale supporhMl the committee amendment providing for a plant in the contingency that armor could not be produced for $445 per ton. No action wa* taken on the proposition, the bill going over until Thursday. The House considered the contested election case of Pearson versus Crawford from the Ninth North Carolina district. The report of the majority was against the sitting Hiember, a Democrat, on the general ground that Mr. Pearson’s election was prevented by fraud, intimidation, bribery and bloodshed. The minority deny all the allegations of the majority. The debate wa* on party lines.

Odds and Ends.

Charter of New York City will be revised. Kansas has 300 flour mill®, with a capacity of about 10,000,000 barrels a year. Charles B. Aycock was nominated by the Democrats of North Carolina for Governor. Secretary Gage, in response to the House resolution of inquiry, reported that the estimated surplus fur this flkcal year was $70,000,000 and for next year $82,000,000. The old home of Chief Justice Marshall, at Bichmoud, Va., is to be preserved as a memorial by an association incorporated recently by the Legislature of .Virginia tor that purpose.