Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1901 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - • • INOiaNA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Safe blowers entered Frederick Coutu’ •tore at Patricksburg, Ind.; mid blew open the safe. The explosion wrecked the building. About $1,500 iu money and' motes was taken. Then the safe crackers stole a horse and hffitgy mid drove away. Having stolen $16,000 from the Wathena State Bank of Wathena,. Kun., •of which he was cashier, mid discovery being imminent, Jacob F. Harpstn walked into an undertaking establishment, lay ■down upon a coffin and shot himself dead. The Aberdeen apartment building, a three-story brick structure at Garfield boulevard and Aberdeen street, Chicago, was destroyed by tire, causing a loss of about $75,000. One man was burned to death and a number of others experienced narrow escapes. / A riot occurred at Corbin, Ky., as a result of the shooting Of .James Shotwell by Rollie White and several persons were killed and injured. The trouble grew out of the fact that White had been paying attention to Shotwell’s daughter against the will of the hitter.

Theodore Boellger, a Chicago musician, 71 years old. stepped from a South Side L train, missed the station platform and fell to the ground below, u distance of twenty-five feet. His nose was broken, his body was seventy bruised and he sustained internal injuries.* Scotland yard officials have been cabled to arrest in Liverpool as be steps from the steamer the defaulting confidential clerk of a large wholesale house in Walker street. New York, who is said to have absconded with $50,000 of the firm’s funds mfd to have embezzled $200,000 lie fore he was even suspected. The little town of McGill. Ohio, is aroused over a horrible outrage upon a boy. His stepfather, John Burrus,, is under arrest. Burrus is charged with whipping the child until great black welts appeared on his body and then setting the baby on a hot stove and holding it there nntil its body was horribly burned. A company is being formed to operate lines of ice-crushing stemnshi|is bet ween Duluth and Swedish. Norwegian and Itussian points. Contracts for the ships for that part of the route between Quebec and North Sea ports will be let in Europe at once and for those to ply between Duluth and Parry Sound on the lakes will come later. A masked robber at midnight surprised G. C. Shoemaker, cashier of the Greenwood County Bank at Severy, Kan., as hi* was working on his books and with a revolver ordered him to open the safe. When the robber learned that the safe had a time lock he bound and gagged the cashier and attempted to drill the combination. He was unsuccessful, aud finally made his escape after robbing Shoemaker of what little money he carried.

BREVITIES.

AL Maiche of Paris claims to have invented ii wireless telephone. Colombian rebels met a crushing defeat outside the city of Panama. “ British war office will enlist 5,000 more yeomen for service in South Africa. Johann Faber, founder of the Faber leail pencil factory, is dead at Nuremberg. George W. Vanderbilt lias bought an autograph genealogy of George Washing' ton for $1,750. Profs. W. 11. Hudson and ('. N. Little have resigned from the faculty of Stanford University. s Col. Roosevelt was charged by a wounded grizzly and fell down, but his guide killed the bear. English authorities have been asked to wrest a New Yorker who is said to have •mbezz.led as much as S2<HI,O<H). Mifflin Marsh, who sixty yearn ago. in i modest little shop in Wheeling. W. Va., niginatod the "Wheeling stogie" and who was known ns the "stogie king," lied there, aged S 3 years. Joseph <». Siefford, a marine attached to Company ('. in the Brooklyn navy yard, was killed in a bat room on the Bowery. Now York, by the bartender, who called himself John Henry of Brooklyn. Rita and Mamie Hoithoiise. aged 16 and IS years respectively, and their infant sister have Ih-cii missing from their home in New Orleans for several days. It is feared that they have been kidnaped. Ex Gov. .Tames A. Mount dropped dead of heart faillire at his room.in the Denisou Hotel, Indianapolis. He retired from the Governor's office only a few days ago. He had been well mid death was wholly unexpected. The People's Bank of Livingston, Tenn., was mitered by burglars iiud robIh.ml of $5,000 No trace of the burglars has been discovered. Livingston is a remote town, about fifteen miles from the nearest railroad point. The board of trustees of the Central Congregational Church of Topeka. Kan., increased the salary of the Rev. Charles AL Sheldon from $1,290 to SI,BOO a year. Mr. Sheldon refused an offer of SIO,OOO a year while in London. Policeman Charles W. Doss surprised nml routed a gang of four men attemptlug to rob the German Savings Bank in Cumberland, Mil. Hr is sure he hit two of the robbers in the battle with revolvers, but the men escaped. 1 Duchess of Marlborough wns thrown from her horse while limiting, but eacnp•ed aeriota injury. Train wreckers are Isdirvml to have •caused the derailment of n West Const Plant system train a few miles smith of Dunnell. Fla., causing the death of Engineer Tom Roach and injuring several passengers. President Johnson of the la-high Traction Compntry nt Bethlehem. Pa., anmnmces that the wages of .the motormen and conductors of that system. 2UO iu number, have been advanced nti an equal i.asis of $1.85 per week. ,

EASTERN.

Th* Yale undergraduates have decided to take part in the inaugural parade in Washington next March. New Hampshire Republicans threw over Senator William E. Chandler and selected Henry B. Burnham. The arbitrators of the street car strike at Reading, Pa., have declared the strike off. The strikers won every point. Rear Admiral Thomas F. Phelps, U. 8. N,, retired, of Washington, D. G., died at the New York hospital of pneumonia. The President has signed the bill authorizing the placing of Congressman Boutelle of Maine on the retired list of the nuvy with the rank of captain. Miss Elsie 'l'. French ami Alfred Gwynrie Vanderbilt were married Monday in the Seubriskie Memorial Church Of St. John the Evangelist at Newport, R. I. Former Councilman Hurry F. Lesan of Cambridge, Mass., pleaded guilty to the charge of illegal naturalization und waa sentenced to one year in the house of correction. Servante Anderson, a Swede, shot and killed his wife and probably fatally wounded his mother and 5-year-old boy at their home in Jamaica Plain, Mass. He then killed himself. Winning the largest single wager ever made against roulette in New York, Michael Meagher on one roll of the ball took $10,500 from the Savoy Club. He had placed S3OO upon the number “11.” Abraham L. Stiydam committed suicide at New Brunswick, N...J. He ate a hearty supper witlr apparent relish. Then he took an apple, sprinkled it liberally with strychnine, ate the apple und died. At Bridgeton. N. J., Arthur, Frederick and Edward Lloyd, aged 5, 7 and 11 years, respectively, sons of a well-to-do family, disnppeare‘l the other day. A big hole in the ice iu a pond revealed their fate. Tlie "Buckingham.” one of the handsomest apartment houses in Buffalo, N. Y., was damaged SIOO,OOO by lire and Mary Spitzman and Clara Meyers, waitresses in the woman’s case, were burned to death. The New Jersey Council of the Junior Order «f United American Mechanics, with a membership of 32,000, has withdrawn from the national council because of the latter’s action in changing the basis of representation. Edward Bockus, one of the chief editorial writers of the Boston Herald for more than twenty years, was instantly killed in Dorchester, Mass., while crossing a railroad track ahead of an approaching train at a grade crossing. Charles Bellinger, who recently accompanied Wilson Wright to San Francisco to search for $190,000 of buried treasure, on the advice of a clairvoyant, has returned to his home near Middletown, N. Y. Wright did not find any treasure. Jacob Cole, a wealthy real estate dealer and an old-time resilient of Fordham, N. Y., died at the Fordham hospital just thirteen hours after he had been stricken while playing a game of pinochle at the Roosevelt Club. There fell to his hand the "suit of death.” James Millage, a 10-yeiir-ohl Pittsburg boy, is charged with causing the death of May Dieber, a 6-year-old girl. It was alleged that young Millage chased the girl with a burning broom, finally setting fire to her clothing. Before the flames were extinguished the little one was fatally burned.

WESTERN.

Chief of Police McFarland of Kansas City, Kan., has offered u reward of $25 for every footpud or thug killed by a citizen. Artist Zorn has compelled H. Clay Pierce of St. Louis to pay $12,000 for three portraits, $1,200 interest and the court costs. The tire in the Cowenhuven tunnel, near the Smuggler mine at Aspen, Colo., was put out with small loss. The Smuggler sustained no damage. The Attorney General of Ohio brought suit against the Cincinnati Edison Electric Company to test the validity of perpetual franchises in that State. The main boiler of the Bedard Morency Mill Company’s sash and door factory at Oak Park, 111., exploded. The building was wrecked and three men were fatally injured. At . Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Fielding Hall, while preparing the supper, was taken with a lit ami fell across the stove. Her clothing took tire and she was found roasted to death shortly afterward. In Princeton, Ind., Joseph D. Keith has been sentenced to death for the murder of Norn Kifer. The verdict was brought into court after the jurors had had the case for three and one-half hours. At St. Cluirsville, Ohio, Barney Devine was found guilty of the murder of Clarence Warrick with a recommendation of mercy. The verdict sends Devine to the penitentiary for life, without hope of pardon. 1 he secund trial of, Jessie Morrison for the murder of Mrs. Olin Castle will be held at the March term of court iu Eldorado, Kan. The district judge has formally assigned the case to a place on tin- docket. Au all day riot in Wichita. Kan., following rhe throwing of a motorman off his car by hoodlump, terminated in a sixhnnded shooting affray in which several people were injured. Seventeen arrests were made. Philip H. Kennedy, agent for the Merchants’ Dispatch Transportation Company, was shot four times and killed by his wife, Lulu K. Kennedy, nt his office in the New Ridge building, in the heart of Kansas City. The business of the Denton Shoe Company, manufacturers of boots and shoes, at Columbus, Ohio, bus been placed in the hands of Hiram Bronson aa receiver. A suit to enforce the statutory liability of the stockholders has been filed, Jamie Cratx, (J years old, coasted over the brow Of the west bluffs at Tenth street, near the Union depot in Kansas City, and went down a sheer fifty feet before striking. He sustained a fracture of the skull, but may recover.Five persons were killed and scores injured in a panic folloU-ing a cry of “Fire” in the West Twelfth Street Turner Hull, in Chicago. A Yiddish play was in progress and an audience of 1,000 persons, mostly women and children, was present. The postoffice at Kingston, HL, was broken into by burglars and all the

stamp* and envelopes taken, S3O or S4O being secured byithe thieves. Entrance w*s gained a back window. A number of letters were rifled, and th* contents stolen. A new town to be known as National Point is being laid out in Greene County, Arkansas, by Chicago capitalists. The town is on the site of the mammoth box factory which is being erected by the Chicago Box Company to fight the box trust. Alice Wilson, 7 years old, has been returned to her poverty-stricken parent* in Detroit, Mich., almost as mysteriously as she was kidnaped one July morning in 1890, while playing with her older sister. A strange man brought her home and escaped without being seen. The grand jury at MeConnellsville, 0., indicted Walter Weinstock for assaulting Nellie Morris with a razor. Miss Morris is recovering and, now that there is no doubt about a speedy trial, the talk of lynching is no longer heard. Weinstock is held in jail there without bail. On the trail between Ouray, Colo., and the revenue tunnel a party of miners discovered the legs of a horse sticking out of the snow near the edge of a precipice. The dead animal was found saddled and bridled, showing that its rider had been carried over the cliff by a snowslide. Impressed by alleged* spiritual manifestations, Dr. C. Townsend of Madison, Ind., took a lamp and explored his cellar, uncovering a will made twenty years ago by his deceased wife giving him the bulk of valuable property which went to his children in the absence of a will. It is a court sensation. Five masked burglars robbed the farm house of Henry Stroke; - , near Versailles, Ohio, of SBSO. Mr. and Mrs. Stroke! - and their son, Grant, were bound and gagged till they told where the safe was in which the money was kept. Besides the money the robbers stole jewelry and horses and then escaped. Alarming stories to the effect that kidnapers had tried to burn E. A. Cudahy’s mansion were circulated in Omaha as the result of a small blaze in the basement of the building. Mr. Cudahy denies liimself to all callers, but the fire department reports combustion” as the cause of the fifteen-minutes fire. Judge A. R. Dewey of the sixth judicial district of lowa ruled to set aside the Titus amendment relating to biennial State elections, on the ground that it was not legally submitted to the Legislature, und was not legally adopted, and is now no part of the constitution of lowa. , The plant of Der Westbote Printing Company at Columbus,. Ohio, has been sold, the sale including the property and good will of the newspaper, to Charles A. Kochendorfer for $8,025. The property was involved in tin - failure of John and He.nry Reinhardt, bankers and publishers, and Was sold by the receivers. Alice Smith, a waitress, was seized in Hennepin avenue, .Minneapolis, while on her way to work by an unknown man. who attempted to carry her off. He had gone about two blocks with the struggling girl in his arms before her cries brought assistance. The kidnaper then set her down and fled. She was unhurt. Mrs. Mathilda Helstrom, wife of a janitor in a Minneapolis flat building, rose early the other morning and with a bottle struck her lli-year-old daughter Alice a mortal blow in the temple. The two were sleeping together. The girl died almost instantly. As the two were greatly attached to each other it is believed that the mother is insane. Two hundred girls participated in. a class rush at Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. The trouble was precipitated by a junior girl wearing a senior cap and gown in chapel. A lively struggle between rival class girls for possession of the cap and gown ensued, but was soon stopped by President Bashford and members of the faculty.

SOUTHERN.

The Senate of Texas unanimously adopted a resolution inviting David B. Hill to address the Legislature on the political issues of the day. A man hunting near Atlanta, Ga., discovered a large eave of excellent rock salt, which a party explored as far as they could without reaching its limit. Porch climbers broke open a private safe at the residence of Aaron Kohn, an attorney, in Louisville, Ky., and robbed it of $5,000 worth of jewelry and money. A tramp named Munson, dying in the Henderson, Ky., poorhouse, made a full confession to the murder of Mrs. William Gregg three years ago at her home in Union County. An incomplete examination of the books of Circuit Court Clerk Rainey of Nashville, Tenn., is said to have disclow ed a shortage of SIO,OOO. Rainey's whereabouts is not known. Captain John C. Brain of Mobile, Ala., is the promoter for a New York project to build a fertilizer works in Chattanooga. The works, will cost $1,000,000. Slag will be used us a basis of the fertilizer. Congressman Bailey of Texas is organizing a syndicate at Jacksonville, Fla., to control the cattle trade in Cuba. It is stated by those Interested in the plan that the recent visit of the Texas statesman to Havana was for that purpose. Sumuel Flanagan, formerly postmaster at Longview, Texas, committed suicide by drinking prussic acid, while in charge of United States Deputy Marshal Butler. Flanagan, who was a well-known politician, was charged with misappropriating postoffice funds.

FOREIGN.

Danish minister at Paris denies that King Christian is to abdicate. Russian newspapers have been ordered to cease criticising the French army. Ten persons were killed and many were injured ns the result of an explosion in a hat factory at Denton, near Manchester, England. The police of Nice, France, have arrested Victor Nakadchldes, a Russian, on the charge of plotting to take the life of the Czar during the latter’s approaching visit. The Loudon Daily Telegraph publishes the following from its Copenhagen correspondent: “The King of Sweden is better and will resume the''reins qf government.” t An official report current In diplomatic circles in Pektn says that the Chinese

plenipotentiaries have signed the join* note, thus concluding the preliminary stage of the negotiations, .. After a night of terrible suspense al! of the passengers and crew of the French steamer Russie, from Oran. Algeria, which stranded near Faraman, Bouches du Rhone, during a violent storm, have been safely landed. Gen. Kitchener sends new* of a serious simultaneous attack by the Boers on the British positions between points sixty miles apart, along the lines of the Pretoria and Lourenzo Marquez railway. The losses on both sides were heavy. According to reports the Boers were beaten off after prolonged fighting. The annual popular fete of Toshi-No-Ichi, in the Kanda district of Tokyo, Japan, was the scene of a terrible accident recently. Great crowds attended the festival, and when the affair was at its height a heavy rain began falling. A rush was made for shelter, and a panic ensued in which twenty persons wer* crushed to death aud 312 injured.

IN GENERAL.

Cuban constitutional convention has voted in favor of universal suffrage. Alexis E. Frye has resigned his position as superintendent of Cuban schools. News was brought by the Amur of a fire at Dawson which destroyed three buildings and did damage'to the amount of $50,000. American commission at Havana has determined that yellow fever is not contagious, and that it is propagated by mosquitoes. An explosion of gas in coal mine No. 5 at Hondo, Coahuila, Mexico, caused the death of four men and the injury of upward of twenty others. Montana cattlemen are interested in stocking the grazing lands of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. The purpose is to furnish a supply of beef near at home for the Alaska trade and also to care for the growing trade of the far ■East. The Alaska movement is already under way. Its volume is surprising even th* transportation managers. Three vessels, the Excelsior, Cottage City and Ruth, sailed from Seattle for the north with an aggregate of 175 passengers aud 1,500 tons of freight. The national electors met at the capitals of the several States Monday, east their votes for President and Vice President iu acordance with the result of the balloting last November, aud selected messengers to carry to Washington the' certified records of their proceedings. Banes, a small town between Gibara and Holguin.' on'the north Cuban coast, was completely destroyed by tire. Sev-enty-six houses and four stores were lyirned to the ground and numerous families are homeless and in distress. It is estimated that $60,000 damage*was done. Alaska advices state that the Sitka Indians, including the Eagle, Crow and Frog clads, who' have been quarreling over the use of totems and other emblems of their respective clans, have decided, after a long conference, to put aside their differences and make the American flag their tribal emblem. The American Cigar Company, with a capital of $10,000,000, was incorporated at Trenton, N. J. James B. Duke is among the incorporators. The company is understood to have been formed for the purpose of taking charge of the manufacturing department of the American Tobacco Company’s business. Tlie Russian government is charged by the postoffice officials of Milwaukee with confiscating money sent by registered mail. They charge that where the letters are believed to contain money the persons to whom the letters are addressed are sent for and compelled to open the letters in the presence of the officials, who confiscat the money when found. R. G. Dun & Co.’s review says: “Only in the textiles is special hesitation shown. Staple products are firm, iron and steel prices are held without trouble, boots and shoes and wool are steady, and all with fair demand, so that manufacturers are busy. Throughout the country distribution of merchandise continues on a good scale, and collections are unusually prompt. Wool has ceased to decline, and sales at the three chief Eastern markets increased slightly to 3,308,700 pounds, against 3.121,000 pounds in tlie week preceding. Manufacturers purchase with extreme caution, and domestic fleeces suffer by increased competition of cheap wool from Australia and China. Failures for the week were 324 in the United States, against 274 last year, and 37 in Canada, against 25 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, S3.OU to $5.35; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 70c to 77c; corn. No. 2. 30c to 37c; oats. No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 18c; potatoes, 43c to 47c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.60; bogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.35; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2,76 eto 77c; corn, No. 2 white, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.80;. hogs, $3.00 to $5.20; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2, 35e to 86c; oats, No. 2,24 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 50c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.40; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,79 cto 80c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 38c to 31)c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 53c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $5.35; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat. No 2, 79c' to 80c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 38c to 39c; outs, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye. 52c to 53c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 78c to 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 86c to 87c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye. No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $6.00 to $6.50. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 • northern, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 3,35 cto 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 1,53 c to 54c: barley. No. 2,60 cto 61c; pork, mesa, $14.00 to $14.25. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.43; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.75. New York —Cattle, $3.25 to $5.60; hogs, $3.00 to $5.65; sheep, $3.00 to $4.65; wheat. No. 2 red, 79c to 80c; corn. No. 2, 45c to 46c; oats. No. 2 white, 82c to 33c; butter, creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, westera, 20c to 21c-

Congress.

The assaults upon the river and harbor appropriation bill, which were begun the previous day in the House in a speech delivered by Representative Corliss of Michigan, were continued with vindictive emphasis Thursday afternoon. Representatives Grosvenor, Hepburn and Cushman were the principal member* who spoke in opposition. Mr. Hill of Connecticut announced the death of Representative Frank G. Clarke of New Hampshire and at 4, o’clock the House adjourned. Considerable progress was made by the Senate with the army reorganization bill, but the final vote upon the measure seemed to be still far off. An appeal was presented by Mr. Teller of Colorado from more than 2,000 persons in Manila urging the United States government to cease its operations against the Filipinos. The appeal is sensational in its statements and so unusual iu form that Mr. Hawley of Connecticut made a vigorous objection to its publication as a document.

The Burleigh reapportionment bill will probably become a law within ten days. The Senate committee on census reported the measure favorably without a dissenting vote and the Senate late Friday afternoon passed the bill as it came from the House. A House of Representatives of 386 members, twenty-nine more than there are in the House at present, is the meaning of the reapportionment measure. Not since the Fifty-first Congress has the House passed.as many private pension bills at a single sitting as it did Friday. In all 170 special pension bills were passed at the session. The tnos( important was one to increase the pension of Gen. Americus V. Rice from $36 to SIOO. Gen. Rice was wounded several times during the Civil War and lost a leg at Vicksburg. He was formerly a member of Congress from Ohio and was the author of the arrearages of pension act. The Senate had passed a bill to increase his pension to S6O and the House raised the amount to SIOO. Representative Loud of California, from thepostoffice, committee, reported to the House a bill revising and codifying the postal laws. No radical changes in existing laws are proposed in the bill. The Senate bill relating to the accounts of United States marshals and clerks of the district courts of Utah was passed. The Senate devoted Saturday to eulogies of the late Senator Davis of Minnesota. In the House the river and harbor bill again occupied nearly all the session. On Monday the Senate again devoted the day to consideration of the army reorganization bill, but made no progress. Messrs. Teller and Pettigrew resorted to. filibustering tactics. The House postponed District of Columbia business until Monday, Jan. 21, and proceeded with the river and harbor bill. Good progress was made, fifty-nine of the ninety-seven pages of the bill being completed. Many amendments were offered, but all failed. Some progress was made by the Senate on Tuesday in the consideration of the army reorganization bill. One amendment that has created much debate was disposed of and a tacit agreement has been ruached for a “vote very soon.” M-r. Cockrell (Missouri) emphasized his opposition to the increase in the army proposed by the bill and his intention to vote against it, but expressed his opinion that the bill ought to be disposed of speedily. Mr. Sewell (New Jersey) also urged speedy action on the measure on account ot the serious embarrassment the government was laboring - under iu preparing for the return of the volunteers from the Philippines. The principal speeches against the bill were made by Mr. Berry (Arkansas),'Mr. Bacon (Georgia) and Mr. Teller (Colorado). Mr. Warren (Wyoming) delivered an extended argument iu support of the bill. Bill granting pension of SSO a month to Horatio N. Davis, father of the late Senator Davis of Minnesota, was passed. Mr. Davis was captain iu commissary■ department. In the. House the day was devoted to consideration of river and harbor bill. The Senate on Wednesday decided to take final vote on reorganization bill at 4 o’clock Friday. Speeches in opposition to the bill were delivered by Messrs. Allen, Teller and Butler, while Mr. MrCumber made argument in support of the measure. Feature of debate was denunciation of practice of hazing nt West Point Military Academy. The House passed river and harbor appropriation bill substantially ns it came from committee, It carries slightly less than $60,000.000, of which $23.0<M).000 is in direct appropriations. Scttiou empowering the President to negotiate with Great Britain for maintenance of suitable levels on great lakes was broadened so as to provide for joint commission to conduct negotiations. De Armond resolution calling upon War Department for all information relative to alleged action of Gen. Chaffee in protesting against looting in China was laid upon the table

This and That.

Some Polynesian languages have only seven consonants. Coral, lioth white ami red, is found on the Florida coast. Five negro prisoners escaped from Quitman, Miss., jail. Green crocidolite, or “cats eye,” is found in New Mexico. In the year iiMkt the manufacture of silk began in England. (’. T. Yerkes will build a $5,900,000 palace on Fifth avenue, New York. Health authorities estimate that 10 per cent of the men who go to Cape Noma never come back stive. All the trig Canadian furniture makers, numbering twenty, have formed a combine. Capital, $5,000,000. In 1890 the mineral production <rf the United States umoun>ted to $619,000,000, and in 1809 to $976,000,000. St. Joseph, Mo., is to follow Boston’s example and provide portable schooi 'houses for the overflow from the regular schools. 'Hie Russian nuinwrtry of communications has decided to adopt petroleum for generating motive power on the locomotlves of ail the railways. • In the year* 1800 tbe territory of the United States was 815,244 square miles; in 1900 it is 3,768,521 square miles. This is an expansion of nearly 3,000.000 square miles in 100 years. It is the moat nmaniug record of territorial growth ever made by a nation.

Something Rare.

“Ottr new neighbor seems coarse.” ‘‘ln what way?" “I saw him the other day eating with his knife.” “What was he eating?” “An apple.” “Great Caesar, woman, did you evex see a man eat an apple with a fork?”— Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Typhoid Fever.

Inquiries made in Polynesian Islands In New Guinea and West Africa Indicate that typhoid fever does not occur In those regions, but seems to be a byproduct of civilization.

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