Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — Page 6

JASPER com DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK. Publisher. WcNSSelaeh, - - - Indiana.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

An explosion of a tank in the gasoline storehouse of A. G. Wykoff nt Raritan, N. Y,, called out the fire engines. While the firemen were at work a second tank exploded and its flnniing contents enveloped and terribly burned A. H. Conyne and A. J. Chamberlain. In the United States Court in Boston Charles H. Cole, former president-of the now defunct Globe National Bank of that city, who recently pleaded guilty to charges of misappropriation of funds <st the institution, was sentenced to serve eight years in Greenfield jail. After a conference with the President, nt which an understanding was reached by which he will be appointed a brigadier general in the regular army, Gen. Joseph Wheeler gave out a Iptter announcing that he w'ould not stand for re-elect ion to the House from the Eighth district of - Alabama. A quarrel between children at Dunmore, Pa., was followed by Mrs. MaryPace, mother of one of the children, making a furious attack on Mrs. Sylvester Bellows, mother of the other child, -with a butcher knife. Mrs. Pace repeatedly slashed her with the weapon and inflicted a fatal wound. Becoming dizzy while in the steeple of St. Patrick’s Church at Lowell, Mass., Thomas McDermott, a painter, lost his balance agd fell 175 feet, striking a ridge of slate roof, bounding high in the air, striking again, then going downward-till his body struck a picket fence and was literally torn to pieces. The body of Charles N. Bertram was taken from the North river in New York. ' Bertram disappeared from his home at 6 West 104th street, April 27, while suffering from dementia. Frank Bertram, a brother, said the dead man was 43 jears old and that he was once manager of the Columbia Theater in Chicago. A terrible accident, resulting in th* death of from thirty to forty persons, took place at Roneiglione, on the Lake of Vico, Italy, during a celebration of the fete of St. Lucie, whose chapel is on the shore of the lake. Two boat* filled with young people capsized while returning from the chapel within 300 yards of the landing stage. The flag of the Thirtieth Louisiana Confederate regiment, captured before Atlanta on July 28, 18<J4, by the Fortysixth Ohio, was surrendered to the survivors of the latter regiment by the Governor at Columbus, Ohio. The flag will be returned to the survivors of the Southern regiment at a Confederate reunion in Louisville June 1. The standing of the clubs In the Na tional League is as follows: W. L. W. L. Philadelphia 14 6 St. L0ui5....10 11 Brooklyn ...13 8 Cincinnati ... 0 11 Pittsburg ...13 0 New’ York... 6 14 Chicago ....13 10 Boston 5 14 In the American League the standings are: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 14 6 Buffalo 8 11 Milwaukee ..14 7 Minneapolis. 11 13 Chicago ....13 10 Kansas City. 9 14 Cleveland ...10 9 Detroit 6 15

NEWS NUGGETS.

James J. Corbett is being urged to run for Congress. Eugene Lambert, famous painter of cats, is dead at Paris. John F. Antisdel, veteran hotel n an, is dead at Detroit, Mich. President Colombo was hooted out of the Italian chamber of deputies. Rev. Henry Granjon of Baltimore has been appointed bishop of Tucson, Ariz. Germany’s pavilion at the I’aris exposition was formally opened, as was that of Turkey. Four strike sympathizers were shot in St. Louis iu fights with non-union street car employes. Prof. Immanuel Schmidt, lexicographer and Shakspearean translator, died at Berlin, aged 77. 8. D. Shattuck, one of the founders of the Republican party, died at Knoxville, Tenn., aged 81. O. T. Yerkes’ plan for underground railways in London is Ix-ing considered by the London county council. John F. Gillon. who served in the British army in the battle of Waterloo, is dead at Weymouth, Mass., aged 97. Mrs. Rosalie Farley, the “cattle queen" and daughter of the last of the Omaha chiefs, is dead at Bancroft, Neb. Chicago city directory enumerators for 1900 have almost completed their work. An estimate by experienced and conservative exi>crts gives the city a population of 2,001,000. Estelle and Murphy, the burglars who broke jail nt Marysville, Kan., anti murdered Ed Roberts at Dunlap, were captured on a small island in the Neosho river, four mile* south of Hartford. Seven persons were severely Injured in a fire which destroyed the Hotel Helene at Fifty-third rtret and the Illinois Central track*. Chicago. One or more deaths may result. The hotel is a total loss. Ttjc grandstand, the famous gjass betting ring, and all the buildings of the race track at Clifton, N. J„ were entirely destroyed by fire. The total loss is SIOO,000. The fire was the work of incendiaries. Seven Filipino* made an attempt to burn a quantity of liny stored near the quartermaster’* storehouse on the Manila river front. The guards killed one of them and wounded another. The others escaped. The Peruvian Government has ratified the resolution of Congress, adopted Nov. 28, approving the extradition treaty with the United State*. The large warerooms of the CbicngoRockford hosiery work* of Kenosha, ’ Wis., were destroyed by fire, entailing n losa of over SIOO,OOO, which is entirely covered by insurance. The wife of A. J. McMichaels, a colored preacher of Marion, .Ohio, hacked him over the head with ■ corn cutter ten times, but the wontidt did not confine him In bed. It took forty stitches to close the Jm. <•

EASTERN.

James 81oan, banker, died at Baltimore, aged 07. _— _ Rev. Dr. Latimer W. Ballou died at Woonsocket, R. 1., aged 89. Rev. J. P. Kiernan, vicar of the Rochester diocese, is dead, aged 44. Criminal charges against John W. Gates were dismissed by Magistrate Zella in New York op technical grounds. • The A. F. Watson Company’s warehouse, located on the bay front, at Erie, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Loss $30,000. Rioting has been going on at Turtle Creek, Pa.; because the board of health tried to use an abandoned schoolhouse for a smallpox hospital. Horatio It. Harper, a member of the famous family of publishers, is in a serious condition at his home at Sands Point, L. 1., having been terribly bitten on ’the face by a horse. ' ' Mrs. Allan Park ran a mile through flames and smoke and brought assistance that saved a train full of passengers that had been trapped by a forest fire and collision near Newton, Pa. 'Die chainmakers employed at the works of J. C. Schmidt & Co., York, Pa., ninety-t'wo in number, went on strike. A demand for an increase of 10 cents per 100 links was made and refused. The British steamship Cuzco, Copt. Dexter, has arrived at Philadelphia with a large cargo of silver ore. The silver comes from mines in the Andes mountains and was shipped from Callao. Two heavy freight trains collided in a tunnel on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Philadelphia. Two trainmen and five tramps are known to be dead. The property loss is estimated at $185,000. In the fastest, prettiest and closest heavyweight ring battle ever fought in New York James J. Jeffries decisively defeated Jim Corbett, once champion of the world himself, after twenty-two rounds of scientific fighting. Fire which broke out in the Farmers’ market house, Fifth and Federal streets, Camden, N. J., destroyed that building, ten stores and about fifty small dwellings, causing n loss of $125,000 and rendering homeless about 250 persons. It cost Aiderman Peter F. Rourke of Cambridge, Mass., SI,OOO to kick John Martin, a boy. Last May several boys annoyed Rourke, who is a large real estate owner, and he chased them and kicked Martin so hard that he ate off a shelf for two weeks. John W. Gates resigned the chairmanship of the board of directors of the American Steel and Wire Company and left for Europe. He is succeeded byAlfred Clifford of Chicago. John Lambert, the president of the company, resigned in favor of William P. Palmer.

WESTERN.

Fire that started in the old City Hotel at Everest, Kan., wiped out the main portion of the town, destroying fourteen store buildings. Duluth, Minn., has seven- incendiary fires within twenty-four hours and the authorities think an organized gang of incendiaries is at work. J. 11. Patten was killed instantly at "Joplin, Mo., by unknown negro highwaymen, and I. N. Glade, Patten’s brother-in-law, was wounded slightly. Near McLoud, Ok., Mrs. Nancy Demman and children went to a cyclone cave during a storm, but the cave had filled with water and her 2-year-old child was drowned. At Verndale. Minn., fire destroyed the following buildings: G. W. Gaslin & Co., sMloon; Smith Bros., warehouse; Dickenson Bros., general merchandise. The loss will be $30,000. f Mrs. W. J. Wilson of Tiffin, Ohio, smoked cigarettes in bed during her husband’s absence. The bed clothing caught fire and burned her face and eyes and she may lose her sight. At Tecumseh, Okla., twelve buildings burned, two hardware, two general merchandise and one millinery store, and the rest offices and residences. Loss is $30,300, with $4,500 insurance. Three persons were killed and two were seriously injured during a severe wind and rain storm at St. Paul, Minn. Many buildings in various parts of the city suffered by wind and lightning. At Piqua, Ohio, J. F. Cowan pleaded guilty to destroying monuments in the McKinney cemetery to the value of nearly SI,OOO and was fined SSOO. It means nearly three years’ imprisonment. A wreck occurred on the narrow-gauge road between Lordsburg and Clifton, N. M., in which Engineer Schlottman and Fireman MxAfee were killed. Four tramps are also reported among the dead. Maj. Charles Whipple of the pay department at New York City has been ordered to Chicago for duty as chief paymaster of the department of the lakes, to relieve Maj. William F, Tucker, paymaster. T. E. Stockdale, a traveling man, with headquarters in Chicago, committed suicide in the Union Hotel at Burlington, lowa, by turning on the gas. Papers found in his pockets showed he was in financial difficulty. Fire which started in an annex of the Chicago Cottage Organ Company’s factory, Twenty-second street and Dale place, Chicago, was soon extinguished. The total loss, principally on unfinished lumber, was less than $3,000. Kansas oat and wheat fields are alive with chinch bugs. Many fields of oats have been ruined by those pests. They have also attacked the wheat fields, but the growth of the plant is so advanced that no damage has resulted. The powder mill belonging to the Indiana Powder Company, located in a ravine near Fontanet, blew up with terrific force. The force of men bad quit work at the plant a short time before the explosion occurred. The property losa will bo heavy. Bishop Thomas O’Gorman, Just returned from Rosebud Indian agency, South Dakota, bring* the newa that he ha* baptised into the Catholic faith the fierce old Sioux Chief, Two Strikes. He is 81 years old and in his day scalped many a white man. While responding to on egrty morning blaze engine No. 15 of' St. Louis ran against an Iron post *upi»orting the guard gates at the railway crossing, Broadway and Poplar street, nnd was overturned. Driver Siebert was h ogled from bis seat and killed. - The Mellower Hotel, one of the largest and moat popular summer hotels on Delavan Lake, Wis., burned. Nothing was saved. The loss is estimated at

$15,000. The property belonged to H. W. Week. The fire is supposed to have been incendiary. , At Pine Bluff, Ark., J. S. Estes shot and probably fatally wounded Dr. J. O. Cook. Samuel Files, a bystander, received a wound' in the leg from Estes’ revolver. Estes fired six shots, three of them taking effect in Cook’s body. The shooting is the reqpit of a quarrel of long standing. At a conference held between the officials' and employes of the Suburban Railroad Company, the only system in St. Louis not controlled by the St. Louis Transit Company, an amicable adjustment was effected arid the men have returned to work. The union received full recognition. At Austin, Texas, fire broke out in a furniture factory in the center of a block of business houses on Congress avenue, the main part of the city. Owing to the disabled water power the department had to use the old system of cisterns, but in nu hour the fire was under control. Loss Is about SIO,OOO. The British ship Argus, in ballast, from Porf Angeles to Portland, Ore., collided with and sank the Hawaiian ship lolani, sugar laden, bound from Hilo to San Francisco, in a dense fog off San Francisco. The crew, numbering fifteen, and four passengers on the lolani were rescued by the Argus. Bryan and Towne were nominated by regular Populist national convention at Sioux Falls, S. D., the plan to leave second place vacant pending action by Democrats being rejected. Middle-of-the-road Populists at Cincinnati nominated Wharton Barker for President and Ignatius Donnelly for Vice-President. Fire started in the big lumber and cedar yards of the C. H. Worcester Company at Fisher, Mich., at noon the other day, and at night the town was in ruins. The loss will be over $200,000, partially insured. The C. 11. Worcester Company of Chicago, which owned almost everything in the place, is the heaviest loser. Seventy chairmakers from all parts of the United States organized the National Chair Association at Detroit. The officers elected were: President v G. W. Cann, New York: vice-president, Thomas McNeill, Sheboygan, Wis.; treasurer, Nels Johnston, Chicago; secretary, Albert Raabe, Chicago; assistant secretary, W. E. Murphy, New York. Mrs. Catherine Schwartz, living alone a few miles from Indianapolis, was robbed of s2,soo'in money and securities at midnight the other night. Two hours later policemen met R. F. Poenitz and Marion Caudell, coremakers at the Atlantic Engine works, acting suspiciously. After the arrest the money was found on them and they confessed. A desperate effort was made to burn the business portion of Duluth, Minn. Some unknown person started five fires in less than two hours, burning one man and five horses to death, and endangering over $300,000 worth of property. In a livery stable John Larson, a saloon attache, was burned to death, and five horses owned by the Hamm Brewing Company were burned. Miss Sarah Kapenburger, of Plymouth, Ohio, a guest at the Forest City Hotel, in Cleveland, jumped from the window of her room on the fourth floor of the hotel in an attempt to kill herself. She struck the sidewalk with terrific force and was badly injured. Miss Kapenburger, it is said, has recently been suffering from a deranged mind, caused by grief over the death of her mother. Grocers and merchants all over Ohio will be interested in a suit brought by wholesale grocers of Dayton, E. C. Harley & Co., through their agents, Rufus E. Waldron, Ira Jackson and Louis F. Wade, against the city of Bellevue for false arrest. The latter have been selling groceries from house to house in Bellevue without procuring a license and were fined quite heavily. They claim that the ordinance is illegal and void and the law creating the same is unconstitutional.

SOUTHERN.

At Lexington, Ky., Charles Foushee, a merchant, stabbed George Chilton in an altercation over a small amount of money. The wounded man may die. A negro at Augusta, Ga.. killed Alexander Whitney, a society leader, In a street car and was taken from officers and hanged while on the way to Atlanta for safe keeping. The south-bound passenger train on the Plant system and the north-bound train of-the Southern collided at Hardeville, 8. C. John Jackson, colored, fireman of the Southern, was killed. Miss Maud McDaniel, whose father, R. P. McDaniel, was minister to Chili under President Cleveland, eloped from her home at Braidentown, Fla., with H. G. Reed, manager of the telephone system at that place. Reed has a young wife and one child. Diamonds worta SIO,OOO which are said to bear a striking resemblance to the gems stolen by porch climbers from Orrin W. Potter’s residence in Chicago last month were seized by the police nt iugton, Ky. A young couple who registered at the Phoenix Hotel Wednesday afternoon as T. F. Wilbert and wife, San Francisco, who were endeavoring to dispose of the diamond* for-$6,000, were taken in charge by the officers.

FOREIGN.

Cholera is sweeping the India famine camps. The military auti-Republican party has Control of the Paris council. A Hanover paper announces the discovery of an English, French and Russian alliance against Germany. Another extensive Russian purchase of land in Corea has been disclosed at Port Chin Nan, on the west coast. Martial law has l>een proclaimed in the provinces of Barcelona and Valencia, Spain, on account of the anti-tax demonstrations. The British Government is trying to force the Jewish Colonisation Association to pay death duties on the $40,000,000 left it by Baron Hirsch. After four years* negotiations the United Presbyterian Church synod of Scotland has unanimously resolved in favor of a union with the Free Church. News has reached Berlin that the antiforeign society known as the Big Knife is spreading among the population of the Hhan-Tung and is favored by the Chines* officials. A peasant named Mencci, In a fit or insanity, murdered hi* entire family, consisting of nine persons, at Rome, Italy.

The murderer injured several men wh« attempted to interfere with him. , ' . A valuable painting of the Madonna, by Carlo Dolci, the painter of “Ecce Homo,” which hung in Cardinal Vaughn’s residence at Westminster, Eng’ land, was stolen on a recent night. There was a brilliant gathering at’ the formal opening of the American pavilion on the Paris exposition grounds. Nearly all the leading Americans now in Paris were present and took part in the exercises. Cable dispatches from Tokio announce thiit Yoshihito Harunomiya. the heir apparent to the Mikado of Japan, has been united in marriage with Princess Sada, a pretty little daughter of the great house of Fujiwara. The publication of the will of the late John Ruskin shows that his personal estate was only £IO,OOO, all that was left of his father’s bequest of £200,000. In a codicil Ruskin revoked the bequest of his art treasures to the Bodleian library of Oxford, and the treasure will remain at Bra nt wood. Advices received from Samoa announce that the American flag has been hoisted over the island -of Tutuila, amid great native rejoicing, and that the chiefs have made a formal cession of the island to* the United States. The inhabitants of Manna, it is also announced, request the formal hoisting of the American flag over that island, which will likewise be ceded. Siberian exile, so long a blot on Russia, is finally to be abolished, by order of the Czar. A bill for the abolition of deportation to Siberia was introduced into the council and passed unanimously. The worst side of deportation to Siberia—exile without trial—is to be abolished altogether, and the transportation of criminals in mass will cease, while the construction of central prisons for their temporary reception will be hurried forward.

IN GENERAL.

Secretary Long opposes the purchase of the Gathmann gun for the navy. A collection of Porto Rican animals has been made for the National Museum. Fannie - W ard, the actress, has married “Diamond Joe” Lewis, South African millionaire. The United States Supreme Court rendered a decision holding the inheritance tax law to be valid and constitutional. The steamer Quito sailed from New York for Bombay with 200,000 bushels of corn for the famine district in India. The report of the commission appointed to inquire into the state of the finances of Manitoba states that the amount of liabilities unpaid to be $150,013.78. Four hundred Japanese immigrants have been landed at Victoria, B. C. A large number are weavers coining under a contract to work in some New England mills. The American Cotton Company, with a capital of $1,000,000, has been incorporated. The incorporators are officers of five big textile labor unions. The labor leaders will be directors of the corporation. At Toronto, Ont., little Arthur Mclntyre, aged 12 years, drew a revolver from his pocket and deliberately shot his father dead, the ball passing just over the heart. The father had refused him permission to absent himself from work. Commissioner Wilson of the internal revenue bureau has decided that if a State bank, in accordance with the provisions of section 5154 of the revised statutes, becomes a national bank under certain conditions it is not subject to another tax. The sealing schooners have made a wonderfully good catch on the west coast this year. Should the strikes on the revenue cutters continue they are in hopes of doing still better, as they will have Bering Sea all to themselves for a few weeks to come.

Bradstreet’s says: “The trade situation this week may be summed up in the phrase: Inactive demand and weaker prices. While in many respects the industrial situation is easier than it was, the unsettlement in the building trades continues marked, the reflex action being exhibited in unsettled demand for building material and weaker prices for lumber and for many products used in the building industry, in speculative, markets dullness has been the feature, wheat, after considerable steadiness, weakening on the favorable Government crop report. Wheat, including dour, shipments for the week aggregate 3,480,574 bushels, against 4,537,022 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 4,638,140 bushels, against 3,411,015 last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hoga, shipping grades. $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to 66c; corn. No. 2,36 cto 37c; oata. No. 2,21 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,53 cto 55c; butter, choice creamery, lt)c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; new potatoes, Bermuda, $7.25 to $7.75 per barrel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 40c to 41$; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3 00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 36c to 38c; oats, No.'2, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; rye, No. 2,60 cto 62c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; bogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 20c; rye, 60c to 62c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 38c to 40k; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2,56 c to 57c; clover seed, new, $4.85 to $4.95. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 3,39 cto 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye. No. 2,56 c to 58c; barley, No. 2. 42g to 44c; pork, mesa, $11.25 to $11.75. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $6.00; lambs, common to extra, $4.00 to $7.25. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs. $3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75? wheat. Nd. 2 red, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 2, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; butter, creamery, 16c to 21c; eggs, western, 18c to 14c.

CONGRESS

In the Senate on Thursday the case involving the seat of Mr. Clark of Montana was postponed until Tuesday. Mr. Gallingcr addressed the Senate at length on his resolution, declaring -that ‘/the present phenomenal prosperity of the country is due to the policy of protection as embodied in the Dingley tariff law.” Bill appropriating $1,250,000 for the erection of a public building at New Orleans was passed. Joint resolution concerning certain Chippewa Indian reservations in Minnesota, the project being to preserve< forests on the reservations as a national park, was passed. It creates a commission to investigate the question whether it is practicable and desirable for the United States to create a national park upon and within the lands known as the reservations of the Mississippi, Chippewa, Leech Lake, Winnebagoshish and Cass Lake Indians in Minnesota, the said lands comprising an area of about 830,063 acres, including Leech, Winnebagoshish, Cuss and numerous smaller lakes, together with the Mississippi and other rivers and streams, comprising about one-fourth of the entire tract as water area. Eulogies on the late Representative Baird of Louisiana were delivered by Senators Caffery, Chandler, Berry, Sullivan and McEnery. The House by the very narrow margin of two votes unseated Mr. Crawford of North Carolina, a Democrat, and seated in his place Mr. Pearson. The minority resolution declaring the sitting member entitled to the seat was defeated by one vote.

After an all-day discussion in the Senate on Friday an agreement was reached to vote on the armor plate section at 3 o’clock, May 12. During the discussion a notable speech was delivered by Mr. Ixtdge upon the necessity of building up the United States navy without delay. Mr. Daniel presented an extended argument in support of the immediate construction by the Government of an armor factory, while Mr. Allison opposed the project of a Government factory on the score of economy. In the House Mr. Esch (Wis.) called up and had passed the bill to amend the law so as to provide for the commutation of travel and subsistence allowances of discharged officers and soldiers. He explained the bill proposed to allow a uniform rate of 4 cents per mile for officers and enlisted men. The House then went into committee of the whole to consider private pension bills and broke all records, passing 180. On Saturday the Senate by a close vote rejected the proposition to erect, without reference to the price at which the Government could secure armor plate for its warships, an armor plate factory. The vote upon the direct proposition was 22 to 24, and subsidiary amendments were rejected by about the same vote. When the committee’s proposition was about to be voted upon a filibuster was organized, the quorum of the Senate was broken and the question is still in the air. During the debate Mr. Chandler delivered a sensational speech, in which he charged that the Government had been defrauded in the adoption of the HarveyizM armor. He declared a similar fraud was proposed in the attempt to force the -Government to adopt the Krupp armor. Mr. Spooner and Mr. Hale made notable speeches deprecating the war talk Friday by Mr. Lodge. Neither the Senator from Wisconsin nor the Senator from Maine was fearful that we might become mvolved in difficulty with Germany on account of the Monroe doctrine. Mr. Hoar protested against the “wretched imperialistic business” and the talk that this nation had only recently become a “world power,” asserting that it had been a world power since the war of 1812. , The Senate on Monday passed naval appropriation and “free homes” hills. The House passed the general deficiency appropriation bill. The bill carried $3,839,021 and wa* passed substantially without amendment. The general debate was devoted principally to political topics, the feature being a severe arraignment of the administration by Mr. De Armond (Mo.). On Tuesday the Senate received the resignation of Mr. Clark of Montana. Devoted the rest of the day to consideration of the bill of Mr. Ross, providing for civil service in the country’s new island possessions, refusing, by a vote of 10 yeas to 35 nays, to indefinitely postpone the measure. The House sent to the Senate the military academy bill, the last of the general appropriation measures, and agreed that the bill providing a civil government for Alaska should next be taken up.

In the Senate on Wednesday Mr. Bacon spoke at length on his resolution directing the committee on relations with Cuba to make fen iuve»tigution of the conduct of financial affair* of the island. The following measures were passed: House bill repealing the provision of law allowing merchandise passing through the United State* from any foreign country to be transported free of duty, so far as the Mexican free zone is concerned; a resolution offered by Mr. Lodge calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for information in regard to the influx of Japanese laborers into the country nnd whether there had been any violation of law; bill granting a pension of SIOO per month to the widow of Gen. Lawton; bill for the erection of a public building at East St. Louis. The House passed the Senate bill to Incorporate the American National Red Cross. No progress wa* made with the Alaskan code bill owing to the inability of the two irides to agree as to the time to be allowed for general debate. The conference report on the District of Columbia appropriation bill wa* returned after extended debate.

National Capital Notes.

The Philippines civil bill, it is believed, will not become a law at this session. The naval amendment abolishing some of the sea service of the cadet* wa* named by the Senate. John Surratt’* sweetheart is In Washington, going over the scene* of the Lincoln assassination.' House Judiciary committee passed resolutions of respect on ths death of Judge Culberson of Texas. The Senate committee favorably reported the bill giving the widow of the Ifite Gen. Lawtoqf SSO a month.

It Was a Fist.

“I thought you. were satisfied that that palmist was a fake. Yon haven’t been to see him again?’ “Yes, and as soon as he looked at my band he saw trouble In it.” “So?’ ’ “Yes, I shook it under his nose.”— Philadelphia Press.

Proposed Alliance with England.

If the United States and - England should form an alliance there would be little chance for enemies to overcome us. When men and women keep up their health with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, there is little chance of attacks from disease, as it steadies the nerves and increases the appetite. Try it.

The Colonel’s Definition.

“A Southern colonel’s definition of a gentleman is a man who never permits anybody else to shave him and who never blacks his own boots.” “In Kentucky it’s a man who never permits any one else to do his shooting and who never mixes hla own drinks." —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Westfield, Mass., Nov. 27,1899. The Genesee Pure Food 00., Le Roy, N. Y.: Gentlemen Having used your GRAIN-O for the past three months I thought I would write and let you know how much good it has done me. When I was away on my vacation last summer the people I visited asked me to try some GRAIN-O, and I drank some, but I didn’t like it at all, but the more I drank it the better I liked it, and now I wouldn't drink anything else. I never weighed over 106 pounds and last winter 1 was down to 103 pounds, and now I weigh just 120, and I never felt better in my life. It gives me an awful appetite, and makes me strong. It is doing me more good than anything I ever took, and I would recommend it to everybody. Yours truly, MRS. GEO. R. BROWN.

Retort Courteous.

Miss Elderly—What, your baby nine months old and can’t walk yet! Why, I could go It alone at the age of eight months. Mrs. Youngwiffc (Indignantly)—Yes, and I notice you have been going It alone ever since.

Stats or Onio, Crrr or Toledo. i .. Lucas County. Frank J. Cheney make* oath that he to the senior partner of the flrm of F. J.Cheret&Co_ doing business In the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm Will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot bo eured by th* use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence. this 6th day of December, A. D., I&SC. . A. W. GLEASON. Notary PuMia. Hall's Catarrh Cure to taken Internally and sot* directly on the blood and mucous surface* of th* sysUun. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY A CO..Toledo. O. UF“Sold by Druggist*. 75c.

Living Without Water.

Rome animals can live many yean without water. A paroquet lived fiftytwo years In the London Zoo without taking a drop of water. A number of reptiles live and prosper In places where there Is no water.

Very Low Rates.

The 8., C. R. & N. Ry. will make very low rate*’to Sioux Falls, 8. D., for th* A. O. U. W. meeting in June. Call on your ticket agent for rates, limits, etc., and zee that your tickets read via this line. Jno. G. Farmer, A. G. P. & T. A., C. R. Jc N. Ry., Cedar Rapid*, lowa.

Posed.

“Belinda says her photograph was taken when she wasn't looking, but I don’t believe-it’’ “Why don’t you?’ “She had her head on one aide and ner eyes rolled up.”—lndianapolis Journal

The Lake Shore’s New Train,

The New England express. From Chicago every day at 2 p. m., reaching Bo»ton next day at 5 p. m. Through sleepers, dining car, buffet, smoking and library car and coach. Full informatioa will be of interest to those contemplating an eastern summer trip. Write F. M. Byron, G. W. A., Chicago. A. J. Smith, G. P. & T. A., Cleveland.

An Irrational Diagnosis.

Doctor—l think you contracted this bad sore throat by running about tha neighborhood with slippers on your feet. Fair patient—Nonsense, doctor; 1 had on my heavy cloth suit and my fur boa. —lndianapolis Journal.

Try Graln-O! Try Graln-O! Ask your Grocer to-day to show yoo a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury a* well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-0 has that rich seal browp of Mocha or Java, but It is made from par* grain*, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. >4 the price of coffe*. 15c and 25c per package. Bold by all grocers. You can credit a liar’s statements, but be will not consider himself your debtor. Don’t tamper with a temper, especially If It is a woman's.

A Blood Trouble In that tired feeling—blood lacks vitality and richness, and hence you feel like a laggard all day and can't get rested at night. Hood's Sarsaparilla wilt cure you because It will restore to ' the blood the qualities it needs to nourish, strengthen and sustain the muscles, nerves and organs of the body. It gives sweet, refreshing sleep and Imparts new life, and Felt Tired— "ln the spring I would have no appetite and would feel tired and without ambition. Took Hood’s Sarsaparilla In small doses, Increasing as I grew stronger. That tired feeling left me and 1 felt better in every way.*) W. E. Baker, Box 96, Milford. Ohio. Remember Hood’s Sarsaparilla I* the Beat Medicine Money Can Buy. Prepared by O. I. Hood A Co.. Lowell. Masa Bold by all druggist*. Price $L