Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E BABCOCK, Publisher. ” RcNSSELAER, - - IMDUNA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

While texting a filtering rank at Carnegie's Thirty-third street mill in Pittaburg, a hot-water pipe burst anil six men ■were terribly scalded. Engineer John Dickerson was thrown into another hotwitter tank and will probably die. The tubers will recover;- J The Atlantic Transport Company has awarded to the New York Shipbuilding Company of Camden, N. .1.. a contract J<>r tour ppssongor and freight stenmabips suitable for fast transatlantic trade. Tlie four' when completed will cost the company over s.*»,<MMt.OtMl Dispatches from I‘ara, Brazil, tell of misfortune that tins come to a British expeditiol) sent to that city from Livrrpool to study yellow fever. Dr. Meyers, ii distinguished physician, ntly conducted an autopsy on the body of a person who died from yellow fever. He became infected and died. Though innocent of any possible degree ’•if <■rithe a(id wl(li<int fi wh 1 sper rtf n cm? station against her, Mrs. William Death, the. girl wife of one of the three men ■who murdered Jennie Bowhieter, is •doomed to bear her convicted husband's 'n.ime and to remain his wife during the entire term of his imprisonment. James M. Kennedy, a prominent law yer of La Grange, Ind., was knocked down and robbed of $2.50, a number of valuable papers and his gold u: al tin Jtlfl •darted home nt 10 o'clock and was still within two blocks of the business center and half a block from an electric light, when he was accosted by two men. who pounded mid drugged him on the frozen ground until he was unconschmsr At Vicksburg, Miss.. Emma Marshall ran in front of an electric ear, was knocked down and the ear passed half way over her before Motorman Williams mureeded in stopping. Spectators who saw that the child was alive and safe so long ns the cur remained standing yelled to Williams not to move, but he misunderstood them and turned on all the power. There was a flash, a tongue of blue flame came out from under the ear and (lie little girl was burned almost beyond recognition.

NEWS NUGGETS

Mrs. Mary E. Lease has broken a knee • up by a fall in New York. Texas Legislature elected J. W. Bailey to the I'nited States Senate. Mrs. .Nation was released from jail iu W iehita and smuggled out of town to avoid n mob. One man was killed and live others in jured in a boiler explosion at the Ohio Falls iron works nt New Albany, Ind. Mrs. Carrie Nation demolished all the glassware and liquor bottles in a saloon at Enterprise. Kan., and is contemplating a raid on Abilene. Fire swept through business section of Montreal, destroying the Board of Trade, which cost S6OO,(MM). and over a dozen other buildings. Total loss is in the neighborhood of S3,tHHI,(MH>. The strike at Lewis Nixon's Elizabeth port shipyard is ended. The men wen. They demanded that the non union ship carpenters employed in the yard should either join the union or be dismissed. A dispatch from Havana states that the town of Banes, up the north coast of Cuba,' has been partly destroyed by incendiaries. upward of seventy houses and live large warehouses having been burned. Falling into a furnace on Blackwell's Island. New York, one of the old men of the almshouse lost his life iu a horrible manner, lie was Nicholas Ehrsen, 75 years old, for five years one of the city’s wards. J. W. Kelievnl, a former resident of Chicago and inventor of a coking process, was given nn eight year sentence at Knoxville. Tenn., charged with bigamy. Two of his reported three wives Were witnesses. Claude Hider, 19 years of age. shot Mrs. Emma Douglas, u divorced woman, and Harry IL Haley and then killed him self in the Hotel Saxon in Denver, Colo., where the three lived. Jealousy was the cause of the shooting. John H. Thomas, the millionaire ninnttfactliter of Springfield, Ohio, who became famous through bis contest with the bite Calvin S. Brice for a seat in the I'nited States Senate, dropped dead at his home from apoplexy, aged 74. Two freight train engines collided in the yards at Warren. Ind., on the Clover Deaf, because of misunderstood orders. One engine was overturned. Trainmen Vrillman, Brickenstaff, Mills and Hurmen were fatally injured. J. I*. Morgan & Co. of New York have purchased 75.000 acres of coal land in Greene County, Ph. The deal is one of the largest ever closed in western Penn sylvaniu. It is said that the Morgan syndicate paid S2OO an acre. The Porto Bican House has passed a bill authorizing the treasurer to fiont a loan of $3,000,000 in the I'nited States and Europe. The funds thus raised will Ite loaned by the government to planters to relieve agricultural depression.

Miss Annie Early Wheeler. Hceond daughter of Gen. Joseph Wheeler, wlui nerved UK (I Red Cross nurse in the Cuban mid Philippine campaigns with her distinguished father, is slowly recovering from mi operation for appendicitis. In a buttle between n posse of officers mid citizens and a bund of robbers ut Flippin. Ky.. Ker. 11. K. Dempsey. a Presbyterian preacher. was shot and in Htuiitly killed and his son George, 18 years of age, was mortally wounded. Walter 11. Reinstock of Ilackcy. Ohio, who recently rtlurderoiiHly* assaulted Nellie Morris, was sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary. C. E. Cox shot his brother-in law. Geo. M. Galbraith, demi in front of his residence ut Colorado Springs. Galbraith wum mi ex-pugilist, addicted to drink mid quarrelsome when intoxicated. The Rev. Father J. Lennart of Chh-ugo was waylaid by footpads hi New Orleans and dangerously stubbed in the back. He encountered the footpads in a dark place. They were three in number and all nejgroea. ,

EASTERN.

Sigmund Hertz, alleged forger of Naw York, was arrested on landing nt Queenstown. John Wiser was swept (over Niagara Falls and his companion, Joseph Marsh, narrowly escaped the same fate. Schooner A. T. Coleman was wrecked at Atlantic City, but the officers and crew were rescued by the life savers. 1 Elias. Masuras, a Greek, has revealed to the officials of Yonkers, N. Y., an alleged, anarchist plot to kill prominent Apicrieans. Miss Alla Rockefeller, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil monarch, and E. Pnrmalee Prentice of Chicago, were married Thursday in New York. , Frederick A. Gilbert, president of the' Boston Electric Light Company and a millionaire, dropped dead of apoplexy while dining with friends at the New York Club. Ati old five-story building in East Twenty-third street, New York, which was being reconstructed and modernized, cotTiipseil” ii tnL tWo men were instant ly killed by being buried under falling bricks. Prof. J. G. Gerberich, owner and priu cipal of the Lebanon Business College at Lebanon, Pa., is missing and there is evidence of foul play and Suicide. It is known that FroL G.-rberi< li ts heavily in volvcd financially. A head-on collision betweeli freight trains on the Grand Trunk Kailroad near Locks Mill, .Me., resulted in the death of four meu and serious injury of several others, and four locomotives ami twelve cars were demolished. Frank Hartley and Forrest Hawkins, two young electricians of Greenport, L, 1., claim to haw discovered a method of telephoning without wires over a long distance. The inventors dbeliuo to go into details at this time. Fire in the three-story structure .at 8)7 silt Fourteenth street, Northwest, Washington’, cause I a loss of sl2<t,(mo. The building was owned and occupied by the Pope Bicycle Manufacturing Company. which used the first floor. Henry Mayhew's store at Grund Mapa isr-<»m I he -uor-tli shore of Lnke-Hapto-rior, one of the famous landmarks, was destroyed by tire. Mr. Mayhew had made a very vi luable collection of Lake Superior stone- which went in the fire. ‘'Didn't I' bounce, though?” said 6yeiu old Anthony Hall when a terrified passerby pickid him up after a fall from the third-story window of T 26 East Tltif'ty eighth street, New York. The little fellow has a tinctured skirfl, but there is chance for his life. George A. 1 tiller A Co., the Chicago contractors, have secured the contract for the erection of the big H. C. Frick office building at Pittsburg, Pa. Th<* building will Le twenty-two stories high ami the contract price is between sl,500,000 and s2,oon,otM). The four story factory of Darby & Sou. inanufm titiers of wire work, in Philadelphia. and the tinware manufactory of C. E. Porter, adjoining, were damaged by fire, causing an estimated loss of S7S,(MM). William Mills, a fireman, was seriously injured by falling bricks. More than SO.otM) pension claims in the oilice of Milo B. Stevens A Co., Washington. D. <'., were destroyed in the lire. Many of the papers were to he used us evidence in a!tempting' to secure favorable action by the pension office on claims, and cannot be replaced. Iu New Haven. Conn., Henry Lie Root was found lifeless in the snow, his hands clutching a bottle of carbolic acid, the contents of which he had swallowed, lie is the third Yale man whose life has been sacrificed in two weeks owing to severe mental strain and insomnia.

WESTERN.

Five Chinese girls were sold at auction in San Francisco by a merchant who was returning to China. Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland is said to have bought the Baker street underground line in London. Immigrant inspector seized twenty-two Japanese contract laborers and a British sloop at Waldron Island, Wash. Elmer Peterson was killed in a fire at the Comuiereial House at Kewanee, HI. Two ol).»ru are dead ami two badly hurt. The Kansas woman suffrage law will stand. Tire House judiciary committee has recommended that the repealing act be not passed. Both houses of the Oregon Legislature have passed a resolution submitting to a vote of the people an initiative and referendum amendment. Frank Kester, aged 40 years, was shot and killed nt his home in Kansas City by Policeman Silas Shumate, whom he attempted to assault. The steamer Buckeye State burned to the gunrda at Barfields Point, Ark., and is a total loss. One negro roustabout was lost, inline unknown. Mhry E. Lease has filed suit for divorce from Charles L. Lense in the District Court of Sedgwick County, Kan. The petition charges non-support. The Missouri State Federation of Labor has adopted u resolution forbidding tiie appropriation of any money by the Legislature for the State militia. At Brazil. Ind., Cynthia Rose, aged 18, while preparing breakfast, in some manner got her clothing on fire. She was so badly burned that she died in a short time. a The big barn of the Wisconsin Lakes lee Company at Third and Poplar streets, Milwaukee, was burned on n recent night. Twenty horses perished in the tlamcs. At Wichita, Kan., the county attorney has dismissed the charge against Mrs. Currie Nation. He says: "The mind of the defendant is much impaired and she is irresponsible.” Because a majority of the city council men refused to leave a revival meeting and attend the regular weekly, council meeting. S Hunter, Mayor of Hiawatha, Kan., tendered his resignation. Cush amounting to $250, a large quantity of stamps, and a baggy with a twohorse team, was the result to thieves of a rai<| on the postoffice, general store pil'd livery stable of Richwood, Mo. The new blast furnace of the American Steel and Wire Company in Cleveland was "blown in” the other day. It cost about $1,00y.000 and it has a capacity of 500 tons of Bessemer pig iron dally. The heirs of the late Samuel J. Harris

hnve Just been notified of a claim of S3OO being due him as unpaid balance on his salary, when postmaster of Columbus, Ohio, from July !, 1865, to July 1, 1860. Lawrence Copnell died at his home near St. Joseph, Mo., aged 115 years. Ji - had led an active outdoor life for more than a century. He left a numerous progeny, down to great-greatrgrandehildren. Marvin Kuhns, escaped convict, who for weeks has terrorized northern Indiana and defied the officers, is in jail in Cass County, Ind., where he made such a desperate fight for life and liberty Dec. 10. The Sandusky Furniture Company’s factory at Sandusky, Ohio, caught fire in the engine room and the establishment and contents were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $50,000, insurance about $12,000. The big safe in Harold Vegoes' store at Perth, Ind., was rent asunder by a charge of dynamite and robbed of SIOO in money mid several hundred dollars’ worth of notes and jewelry. The robbers escaped. The east end of the Ohio river bridge connecting East Liverpool, Ohio, and the town of Chester was attached to secure payment in a suit against the East Liverpool Bridge Company for SIB,OOO on a promissory note. Moses Fowler Chase, 22 years old, and heir to SSOO,(MM), is being detained in an asylum in Paris, France, and his father, a jnoniinent. lawyer of Lafayette, Ind., is taking steps to have him brought back to the I’nited States. The Kelly Nail and Iron Company of Ironton, Ohio, has declared a 50 per cent semiannual dividend. This makes 220 per cent in eighteen months. The Belfont Iron Works Company has declared a 6 per cent dividend. •‘George Alexander came to his death by having been burned by a party or part ies •unknown" wasthe substance of a verdict rendered by the coroner’s jury that sat on the ease of the negro lynched recently nt Leavenworth, Kan. Cleveland is the place and Sept. 9 the date fixed by the executive committee of the nati< tjil council of administration of the G. A. IL for the annual encampment of that organization. The encampment was to In ve Inen held in Denver, Colo. The Ohio State Board of Pardons refused bj Tiiterfeie lii tile case of Bosslyn 11. Feri ell, in the penitentiary annex under sentence to be electrocuted on March 1. Ferrell was convicted of the murder of Exp» 'ss Messenger Charles Lane. A dispatch gives meager details of the holding up of the Bank of Bristow, ln-dian-'XutriUiry,. by xmthrws, amLstates that tie president of the bank was shot five tiiiies and mortally wounded. The uddiei s got away with the bank’s cash. The State pardon board denied the application for a pardon for James H. Southall, who is serving a term in the Minnesota penitentiary for the famous government time cheek swindle, the aggregate of which was estimated at $450,000. A runaway engine in the Rock Island Railroad yards at Council Bluffs crashed into and overturned a coach on the Wabash train, killing Jesse Bell, porter, and injuring a woman passenger and two children, and then struck and disabled an engine on a Rock Island train. Disaffected Creek Indians, known as the ‘‘Snake band,” have been riding about the country west of Eufaula, I. T., Winchesters in hand, whipping and maltreating peaceful Indians. The peaceable people have applied to the United States authorities for protection. Mrs. Mamie Drungould of Joliet, 111., at the union depot, St. Paul, Minn., en route to her home, made her way to the second floor of the station, opened a window and threw herself on to the tracks below. She received injuries from which physicians say she cannot recover. A burglar ransacked the house of Cashier Fred Sfillxvagon of the City National Bank, at Niles, Ohio. He talked to Stillwagon in a jolly mood, thanking him for the plunder. He locked the inmates in a room and escaped with diamond rings, a watch and some money. There prevails in Platte County, Neb., a disease which has carried off the majority of the hogs. The loss to the farmers is placed at $500,000 in the last three or four months. Men who had 400 to 500 hogs each find themselves, now that the plague has about exhausted itself, with onl) ten or fifteen hogs. The North Ohio Traction Company,, which has just secured control of the Akron and Cuyahoga Falls rapid transit lines, will build at once nn extension from Kent to Ravenna, six miles, and another from Akron to Canton, twentytwo miles. The company will increase its capital stock to SI,(I<M),(XM). Four children of Benjamin Miller were burned to death near Middleburg, Ind. Their ages ranged from 8 to 16 years. Miller had risen early, lighted a lamp and gone to the barn. The lamp exploded, setting fire to the house. The four children burned were asleep on the second floor, and it was impossible to rescue them. The Ashland and Ironton Bridge Company and the Ironton and Kentucky Bridge Company met at Ironton, Ohio, and consolidated. The name of the new company is the Ironton and Kentucky Bridge Company, with capital stock of SI,2(M),<MM). The bridge between Ashland, Ky., and Ironton, Ohio, will cost more than SI,<MX).(.MK). Mrs. Carrie Nation, the woman who wrecked the Carey Hotel saloon in Wichita, Kan., a few weeks ago, again led a band of temperance women the other afternoon which wrecked two saloons in East Douglas avenue and were just entering the t’nrey saloon to wreck it again when the police arrived and took the women to the station.

SOUTHERN.

Luther A. Porter, recently cashier of the Wiirrery Deposit Bank of Bowling Green, Ky., is said by the bank officials to be $40,000 short in his accounts. Norman McKinney, colored, has been lynched for wrecking the Plant s stem fast train near Dunnellon, Fla., an I the Victim implicated two others,»who may share the'snmc fate if they are caught. William Porter was shot ami kilL-d by Moses Smith near Dunbar, W. Va. Both men were farmers and two week* ago there was a quarrel between their families. Since that time the men have been enemies. The postoffiee and store of Burnley & Hall in Trousdale County, Tenn., was robbed and burned. The robbers cracked the sufe and secured between 1250

and s.‘>o6 in cash, besides a lot o? stamps. The store was then fired, and the value of the property destroyed is estimated at SIO,OOO. At Corbin, Ky., the blowing up el White's grocery, where Rollio White, who had shot Jtimes Shotwell, was awaiting officers to put him under arrest, was supposed to have caused the death of several persons. Mrs. Susan Cox was found dead from a bullet, wound outside the building.

FOREIGN.

Bubonic plague is gradually increasing in Asia Minor. Gen. De Wet has crossed the Vaal river and joined the commandos in the TransVaa). British ship Moel Try van foundered Dear Cherbourg, eleven of the crew drowning. Officer in Swedish ariiiy has invented an air torpedo with a range of nearly four miles. Czar of Russia has ordered 12,000 winter garments to be distributed among Fekin paupers. Samuel Lewis, London’s noted usurer, left an estate of $20,000,000, of which he willed $4,750,000 to charity. Premier Barton says the Australian commonwealth will own the railroads and have a protective tariff. Baron de Rothschild and Count de Li(bersae fought their long-expected duel, with rapiers, and the latter was badly wounded in the arm. The British steamer Kaisari, which sailed from Rangoon for Reunion, has been wrecked at Reunion. Twenty-five of the persons on board the vessel, including the captain, lost their lives.

IN GENERAL.

The heaviest snowfall known in years has absolutely blockaded all the railroads of Alaska. From Skaguay to Dawson and below the Yukon is covered deeply, while the drifts iu places exceed twenty feet. The White Pass and Yukon Railroad is tied up its entire length. W. W. Rockbill, special commissioner of the United States to China, has been lecalletl. .Mr. Rockhill's withdrawal is due to the il< 'ire of the administration to have - him iu Washington, where he will be able to advise the President and Secretary Hay on the Eastern problem. F. 1. Andrews and others of Coudersport, Pa., have closed a deal for 40,006 acres of timber and mineral lands in Monroe County, Tenn. An engineering party will be put in the field iu a few days to survey for a fifteen-mile extension of the Nashville, Tellieo and Charleston Railroad from Tellieo Pla’cs Into this timber and mineral belt. At a meeting of the four classes of the West Point military academy ,'t was unanimously agreed to abolish the practice of hazing. A resolution to this -iffect was drawn up and presented to tho congressional investigating committee. (Jen. Dick sa:d; ‘‘This voluntary act of. thn corps Ims so impressed the eomiu’ttew that they have reason to believe that in spirit and in letter it will be carped out by those cadets who are now at the limitary academy. This action of the men 5s greatly commended by the committee. 0 Bradstreet’s says: "It has been a week, of ebbtr-g strength in the cereals. Argentine reports have been devoted to stretehipf estimates of the export surplus from thn' country. Northwest wheat receipts hnVv aliio been heavy, and the socalled Wall street interest has been reported to hate been liquidating. Corn receipts ar? also heavier ami prices are lower. WReat, including flour, shipments for the week were 3,336,654 bushels, against 5,1X51,005 last week ami 3.(Mi1,000 in the corresponding week of 1900. Corn exports sgg.-cgate 5,184,550 bushels, against 4,397,435 last week and 3,199,312 bush?U tnis week a year ago." Federn’ Sti-el Company interests have bought, outright or secured options and proxies on practically the entire common stock issue of the American Steel snd Wire Company. Arrangements have been made for th? underwriting of a Federal Steel bond ijsue large, enough to pay for the stock, much of it subscribed in Chicago. but most of it taken by the great Wall strec/ interests—Morgan, Porter, Flower, Gary, Mills, Spencer, Rogers and others of t.imilur weight. Norman B. Ream and Marshall Field represent the Chicago interest, and Boston is in it In the persor of Nathaniel Thayer. Under cover of what amounted almost to a panic in the security market this'enormous deal has been brought to completion.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.00 to $5.65; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.42; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.60; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2,36 cto 37c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rs e, No. 2,47 cto 48c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 18e to ?9c; potatoes, 43c to 49c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.60; b--gs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, ctnimou to prime, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, N'o. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 white, «l7e to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 2i*«, St. Louix—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.80; hogs, $3.00 to $5.35; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat", N*. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. 2, 35c to 36*; oats, No. 2,24 cto 25c; rye. No. 2,50 f« to 51c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.85; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.10; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 81c; corn, No. 2 mixed. 38c to 39c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 25c to -7 c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.60: hogs. $5.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. i yellow, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 53c to 54c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 78c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 36c to 37c: oata. No. 2 mixed, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $6.00 to $6.70 Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern 72c to 73c; corn. No. 3,35 cto 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 1, 51< to 52c; barley, No. 2,58 cto 59c; pork., mess, $13.50 to $13.80. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, fair to prime, S3.(K to $5.55; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 t< $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 tc ss.7fi. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.35; hogs. $3.00 to $5.85; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50: wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2, 46c to 47c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 82c| butter, creamery, 22c to 23c; eggs, west•ra. 23c to 24c.

DOOM THREE TO PRISON.

McAllister, Death and Campbell Guilty in Boaschieter Case.

Walter C. McAllister, Andrew J. Campbell and William Death, three of the four persons indicted for the murder of Jennie Bossctfieter, a mill girl of Paterson, N. i J., who was mur-l dered on the ntght I of Oct. 18 last, were adjudged guilty of murder iu the second degree. According to the New * Jersey law the maximum penalty for the crime is ‘ thirty years in prison. Thus was brought to an end a trial which has stirred interest all pver the country and has been 1 watched in New I Jersey more anx- j iously and eagerly, it is declared, than any event in the criminal court for more than a quarter of a century. The story of the. murder of Jennie" Bosschieter, the 17-year-old daughter i of a Paterson, N.J J., family, is one'

of the most revolting in recent criminal annals of the country. Her dead body was found near a bridge over the Passaic river, a short distance from Paterson, on Friday morning, Oct. 19, and the facts concerning her death were brought to light withiiutwo days. Four men were implicated in the crime, all of excellent family, and all, with one exception, standing well in public esteem. Evidence was given to prove that the men met Jennie Bosschieter in a saloon and treated her to drugged wine. The unconscious girl was then taken in a hack by the four- men to a lonely spot outside the city and maltreated. The girl was replaced in a hack, the men purposing to leave her on the doorstep of her home. On the way back to the city her death was discovered. The men then decided to drive to the country and leave the body by the roadside. The carriage was driven to a point in Bbrgcn County and the body thrown to the ground with such force that, the head striking a rock, the skull was crushed.

Few-Line Interviews.

Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson of Mississippi—When we elect a man to au office he has two things to do. One is to attend to the duties of his office, and the other is to look after his re-election, and he attends to the latter so well that he has no time to attend to the duties of his office at all. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and it is the price of anything else that the public wants that is worth having. So, when a man is elected to au office the people cannot afford to go to sleep. They must keep awake and stand behind him with two sticks, sharpened at the front end. A government of the people, for the people and by the people requires the constant attention of the people to see that they get the service they pay for. Philip C. Hanna, United States Consul at Monterey, Mexico—When a man is killed in an accident in Mexico the men in charge of the train are arrested and thrown into jail. There is no action against the corporation to obtain damages for the victim’s family. It keeps us busy interceding in behalf of the unfortunate railway men. The Mexican officials, as a rule, are disposed to be friendly to the Americans, but this is an old law that must be obeyed. Our only hope is to get a special treaty, or induce the Mexican government to change the law. There are four big American railways in my district, and there are now aliout six operatives detained pending trial. Dion Geraldine of Chicago, Builder of the Chicago World's Fair Buildings—l will never again undertake a job of putting up an reposition if I can get anything else to do. It is the most soulkilling and unsatisfactory business on earth; I would do most anything in preference. An exposition is always the occasion for the bringing together of n swarm of boodiers, political leeches and cranks. They hasten to an exposition and hover over it like flies over a molasses barrel. I want no more of it. I have hnd enough of that kind of experience to last one through life. The building of the World's Fair at Chicago nml the Omaha exposition is quite sufficient. J. C. Stubbs, Third Vice-Preaident of the Southern Pacific Railway—The advisability of union depots is a mooted question. It may be a great convenience for the ]»nss<*ngers, mix] It is a nice thing for a city to point to a great depot that has cost millions to build, but it is still doubtful if there is ever a union depot that does nil that is expected of it. There are union depots, so called, that nre not so in nny real business sense of the word, and they have often proved to be anything but a blessing.

Congress.

During Thursday’ssession the army reorganization bill was discussed in the Senate at length by Mr. Money (Dem.) of Mississippi, Mr. McComas (Rep.) of Maryland and Mr. Bate (Dem.) of Tennessee. The Mississippi Senator devoted some attention to the practice of hazing at West Point, which he bitterly denounced. A bill fixing the compensation of district superintendents of the life, saving service at $2,500 per annum, except in the case of the superintendent of the eighth district, whose salary is fixed at $1,500, was passed. A- bill to extend the privileges of an act in relation to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods to the city of Milwaukee was passed. It was an exceedingly dull day in the House. The entire day was spent upon the bill to revise and codify the postal laws, which is to be the continuing order, not, however, to interfere with appropriation bills reports until disposed of. It is a bill of 221 pages and is simirtj- a revision of existing laws. Some disposition was manifested to inject into the measure some amendments to the present law in the interest of certain classes of mail employes, but such attempts were successfully resisted. The Senate on Friday passed army reorganization bill by vote of 43 to 23, after adopting amendment providing for payment of S2OO to each soldier in Philippines whose term expires before July 1, 1901, and who will re-enlist for three years. By vote of 43 to 23 rejected amendment by Mr. Gallinger ordering revocation of all liquor licenses iu Philippines, forbidding issuing of licenses in future and prohibiting importation into islands of beer, wine and distilled spirits. Bill then went to conference, with Messrs. Hawley, Proctor and Cockrell as Senate conferees. The House spent entire day on bill to refer to court of claims the claims of William Cramp & Sons for alleged damages due to delay of government in furnishing armor plate and material for battleships Massachusetts and Indiana and cruisers New York and Columbia. Claims aggregate $1,367.244. Bill has been conspicuous at every session of Congress for several years. Filibuster was begun, but advocates of bill succeeded in having previous question ordered. This gives bill tactical advantage in parliamentary way, which practically insures vote upon it whenever it is called up again, — Saturday in the Senate was given'up to eulogies on the late Senator Gear. In the House the session was devoted chiefly to postal codification bill; —whren yvas about half completed. Proposition to compel star route contracts to be let to persons living contiguous to route was defeated. Bill was passed granting fifteen days’ annual leave to employes of navy yards, arsenals, etc. On Monday the Senate confirmed appointment of James S. Harlan of Chicago as attorney general of Porto Rico by vote of 43 to 21. Devoted rest of day to legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, adopting amendment appropriating SIO,OOO to keep library of Congress open from 2 o'clock to 10 o'clock Sundays. The House appointed Messrs. Hull (Iowa), Brownlow (Tennessee) and Hay (Virginia) ns House conferees, on army reorganization bill. By vote of 135 to 57 passed bill appropriating $230,000 for construction in District of Columbia of home for aged and infirm colored people. By vote of 37 yeas to 82 nays killed bill allowing subjects of foreign countries claiming indemnity for injuries received in this country to bring suit in the court of claims. Passed Senate bill to establish branch soldiers’ home at Johnson City, Tenn. Passed bill increasing salary of commissioner of education in Porto Rico from $3,000 to $4,000. In the Senate on Tuesday appropriate resolutions on death of Queen Victoria were ordered engrossed and forwarded to the prime minister of Great Britain. Legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was completed. Treaty with Spain for purchase of two Philippine Islands. unintentionally omitted from Paris treaty, was ratified by vote of 38 to 19' Adjourned as an additional mark of respect to the memory of Queen Victoria The House passed bill to send to the court of claims the claims of Cramp & Sons of $1,300,000 for alleged damages on account of failure of government to furnish armor plate for battleships on time. Passed Senate bill to extend placer mining laws to saline lands. Adopted a resolution of profound regret over death of Queen Victoria, and adjourned as an additional mark of respect. On Wednesday the Senate resumed consideration of shipping bill. It was made the unfinished business of the Senate. thus restoring it to its privileged position. Mr. Vest attacked it iu a speech lasting nearly three hours. Mr. Rawlins precipitated lively colloquy by charging deal had been entered into between Republican memlHTB of Utah Legislature and certain railroad interests and officials of the Mormon Church to secure election of Thomas L. Kearns to the Senate from that Stale. He aroused Mr. Hale and Mr. Chandler, who contended statements of Mr. Rawlins ought not to be made in Senate at this stage of proceedings in Utah, as Senate could not consider the question in any phase in advance of action. The House passed District of Columbia appropriation bill and entered upon consideration of naval appropriation bill. There was some discussion of extent to which navy was to be increased ultimately, in course of which Mr. Wheeler (Dem., Ky.) declared himself in favor of navy large enough to meet ‘‘all comers," and some criticism by Mr. Richardson. minority leader, of rapid growth of naval expenditures.

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London News wants separate compartments in English trains lAsdished in view of the ease with which murders are com niitted in them. John W. Griggs, Attorney General of the United States, has been elected n director of the Trust Company of America <>f New York, to fiH a vacancy in the board. William Penrson wist shot dead and 'robbed, and Mrs. Rhoda King wounded Jn n compartment of a train in England by nn American robber. The man was caught. At a meeting of the Southern Hosiery Van: Spinners* Association at Charlotte, N. nn order for a curtailment of-pro’ duetion was passed. This means an entire stoppage of night wewk.