Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1901 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT, F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. " RENSSELAER, ■ - ffiCIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

There now seems to be no doubt that an immense new steel plant is to be built at Norwalk, Ohio, and preparations hare been pushed so vigorously recently that-all that 4s Jwav is to place the money to cover the contracts for the buildings. Edward Whalen, better known its “Boston Frank,” one of the cleverest “pennyweight*’ trick operators in the country, is in the custody of the Baltimore police. He was arrested in W tishing ton in company with Mabel Harris, of Philadelphia. lite Cyclorama building at Royal ami Maryland avenues, Baltimore, whs destroyed by fire. The only animals saved in the “zo«»” were a lion and a came). All the others were burned to death. Frank C. Bostwick estimates his loss on animals at about $400,000. Charles F. W. Neely, charged with embezzling $3,000 of postal funds, has arrived at' Havana from New York. The prisoner" was delivered to the 4»eeper of the Careel. Neely, who is in good spirits, received many visitors and talked confidently of his acquittal. The body of Judge N. Pearl, of Grand Gulf, Miss., who had been missing for two weeks, was found in a small but swift stream. He had his watch mid money on his person. The coroner's inquest shows that the deceased met death by' accident, having fallen from the bridge. Two of a gang of swindlers received long term sentences in the Boston Superior Court, Della McLean getting eight years and William Drinkall seven years in prison. The gang recently inveigled Dav4d Gordan, a collector, into all at and relieved him of a small sum of. money and a watch.

Walter (’. McAlister, William A. Death, and Andrew ,1. X-tuupbelJ. who were found guilty of murder in the second degree for the killing of Jennie Bosschieter. on Oct. IM. HMM), together with George J. Kerr, who pleaded guilty to assault, have been sentenced to thirty years in prison. Peace among the warring Creeks Ims apparently been reached and all that remains to be done is to give Cliitto Harjo, the chief Snake, who has caused all the trouble, a preliminary hearing ami send him to Muskogee for trial for treason. In the meantime a few more of tin' minor leaders will be arrested. The parents of Fred Alexander, the negro who was burned at the stake by a Leavenworth, Kan., mob on Jan. 15, were in Kansas City the other day seeking advice about suing "the city and «.unity of Leavenworth for damages and support. The father of the dead man is a Baptist minister. He said he is con lident that an appeal to the colored people of the United States would bring forth a popular subscription large enough to carry the case to the highest courts in the country. An attempt was made nt Caseyville, HI., to kidnap Willie, a 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Kinsella. The father saw a man dragging the boy ns fast as he could toward the village of Alma. Mr. Kinsella mounted a horse and went in pursuit. He overtook the man, ami jumping from the horse attacked him. A desperate fight ensued for possession of the boy. The father beat the other man almost into insensibility and took the boy. back home. The man had been known by the name of Bert Williams.

BREVITIES.

Benjamin D. Silliman left SI(>O,(MH) to The cession of Sibutu anti Cagayan <le Jolo Islands to the United States has been gazetted in Madrid. At Greenville, Ohio, fire destroyed the Johnson & Trainor grain elevator and contents. The origin of the blaze is said to be incendiary. The loss is $20,000, insurance $7,000. The probate judge of Toledo, Ohio, has decided that all prisoners committed to the city workhouse without a transcript ot'trial accompanying the commitments are unlawfully detained. tn a row in the Italian quarter at the north end of Boston one man was killed and three were wounded seriously. One of the men, Raphael Faila, is under arrest, charged with murder. Edward D. Cornell, a retired hat manufacturer and for many years president of the Hatters' Union, committed suicide by hanging. Heavy losses in the stock market are said to have prompted the The protest of \V. E. Apperson and .1. M. Stuart against the patent isstied to tli6 Camp Bird-Tom Walsh Mining Com- , any for a mill site at Montrose, Colo., has been dismissed by Land Receiver Fink. •Two women were killed, four men were injured mid several other persons narrowly escaped death in n fire which destroyed the Hotel Jefferson, a sevenstory brick building nt 102-106 East Fifteenth street, New York. Sir Cavendish Boyle, K. C. M. G. government secretary of British Guiana since ISDIi, has been appointed governor of Newfoundland, succeeding Sit Henry Edward McCallum, recently appointed governor of Natal. Mrs. Rademakcr of Kansas City. Kan., was knocked down and rendered unconscious near her home by n footpnd. Her assailant struck her with a club, and becoming alarmed by npproacldng pedestrians ran away without robbing her. 11. W. Pearson of Duluth. Minn., has sued J. J. Hill ami the Great Northern Railroad for $1,500,000 as vompensation for discovering coal lauds. At the session of the National Association of Ornamental (rfuss Manufacturers at Louisville, Ky., A. L. Brown of Chicago was elected president nnd A. J. ffXiuler of the same city treasurer. Dr. A. A. Ames, four times Mayor of Minneapolis, is shocked ns the result of n midnight slumming lour and proposes to reform the saloons of the city. The order has gone forth that all winerooms must be torn out at once.

EASTERN.

Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt was christened Muriel, ’ Fire wiped out the principal business section of Mattewmi, N. J., causing a loss of more than SIOO,OOO. Engineer Holland wus probably fatally injured in the wrecking of the Cleveland and Pittsburg flyer.at Gletoficld, Pa. Six hundred Hebrews of New York took an oath to rest not until the murder of Mayer Weissbard has been avenged. New York Phonograph Company has sued Thomas Edison and his various phonograph companies for $225,000 damages. - - - Sixty including many women and children, broke through the ice on a large pond back of Evergreen cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y., ami in the wild struggle for life two boys were drowned. An explosion of molten copper at the works of the Baltimore Copper Melting and Rolling Company resulted in fatal Injury to Charles Murkey, Patrick Downey, Timothy Chisham and Frank Martin. The nail, wire and rod mills of Newcastle, Pa., controlled by the American Steel and Wire Company, have received orders to resume work as soon as possible. More than 800 men are employed in the three concerns. The Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph is authority for the denjal of the story that the. Carnegie interests have acquired control of the Pressed Steel Car Company. The two companies, it says, hover er, work closely together. Mary Gair, aged 5 years, died in illiamsport, Pa., under peculiar circumstances. During the past two weeks the child had been suffering with eczema, which developed into hemorrhage of the skin—virtually sweating blood. John Zylaukus, a young coal miner, who was missing for over a week in the Green Ridge slope at Scranton, Pa., was found ii; one of the headings acting like n madman. In some unaccountable manner he became lost in the mine. Lola Vernon, 15 years old, of Swarthmore, a suburb of Philadelphia, white skating on Crunnn creek broke through the ice and was drowned. Lynn Merritt ami Foster Harrow, boys, attempted to save the girt; and nearly perished with her. As a result of a friendly boxing match between George R. Ainsworth, a Harvard student, and Curtis L. Crane, of Brookline, Mass., his most intimate friend, the latter is lying dead at the Cambridge morgue. Heart disease caused death. By the death of Beniamin D. Sillimau of Brooklyn, N. Y., Yale will obtain from the estate of his brother, Augustus E. Silliman, an endowment of SBO,OOO for a lectureship to illustrate the presence and wisdom of God as expressed in the works of nature. The loss at sea of a boat's crew of six men from the whaling schooner Chtyles H. Hodgdon of New Bedford, Mass., is reported. The men had put off in chase of a school of whales, but were caught in the school. Before help could reach them they disappeared. Judge John D. Shaffer at Pittsburg, Pa., appointed George C. Johnstone receiver for the Odd Fellows’ Endowment Association of Pennsylvania. The liabilities of the association are $70,000 and the assets $30,000. The association has about 2,000 members. A quarter of a million dollars’ worth of drugs and chemicals was destroyed by fire at 126 and 128 William street, New York. The property was owned by Plant Bros, under the name of Lehn A Fink. Fireman Daniel O'Connell fell headlong from a roof to the rear yard and was killed.

WESTERN.

The body of L. P. Copeland, an attorney of Reno, Nev., has been found in an irrigating ditch. The Flour City National and the Security National banks of Minneapolis, Minn., have consolidated. Frank Carolan, who married Harriet Pullman, sustained a broken leg at San Mateo, Cal., while hunting. One man was burned to a crisp nnd four others seriously burned by an explosion of hot metal at the Bellevue, Ohio, steel works. The three children of 8. R. McCarty, janitor of a Kansas City office building, were burned to death in a fire that destroyed their home. Burglars blew open the safe in Barnes Brothers’ store at Stewart, Mo. They secured SI,OOO and escaped. The store building was burned. Fire which started in Pitkin & Brooks’ china and art ware store, Lake and State streets, Chicago, destroyed the building nnd contents. Loss $500,000. Before Mrs. Carrie Nation had been in Topeka two hours she engaged in a rough-and-tumble fight and was whipped by the wife of a local saloonkeeper. Sheriff James Summers of Madison County, Mont., was shot and killed near Virginia City by John Woolf, 18 years old, whom he was trying to arrest. Gov. Dockery sent a message to the Missouri Legislature advocating the passage of a law inflicting the death penalty in cases of kidnaping for ransom. Solomon Bear, who murdered his son Isaac on Aug. 6, 1900, two miles north of Churubusco, Ind., was sentenced to imprisonment for life in the Noble Circuit Court. Mrs. Catherine Wieczoreck died in St. Joseph, Mo., at the age of 105 years. She was born in German Poland, nnd up to within a few minutes of her death never suffered a moment's illness. In a decision the Ohio Supreme Court holds that the State supervisor of elections (the Secretary of State) is the final judge of all controversies arising under the election laws of the State. Mrs. Maud Lewis, nged 23 years, was . struck down by a footpad near her home in Kansas City. Her assailant escaped. She is the fourth woman seriously injured by highwaymen at night within n month. Gov. Nash of Ohio has decided to convene a court-martial to hear charges agaipst Col. Zimmerman. Maj. John C. Fulton, Assistant Surgeon William Guy Wreen and two captains of the Fifth regiment, National Guard. Martin Stickle was hanged nt Kalama, Wash., for the murder of W. B. Shn.aklin near Kelso, Mich., in 1890. He had confessed bis crime and also that he killed

Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Ktiapp Nov. 28, 1000. His motive was robbery. Chester P. Bentley, the absconding secretary of the Goldstone and other Cripple Creek gold mining companies, pleaded guilty at Colorado Springs, Cfllo., an I was sentenced to six months in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of sl. The Lake Shore Railroad is about to establish immense car and locomotive repair shops, equipped with all the requirements of modern railroading, at Collinwood, the suburban freight yards near Cleveland, at a cost of $1,000,000. Mrs. Henrietta R. Howell, wife of a wealthy Chicago lumber dealer, who was reported to have been abducted from a private sanitarium at San Francisco, has been found in a private residence, where she had wandered during the night. The first number of W. J. Bryan’s Commoner has made its appearance at Lincoln, Neb. Aside from the two columns devoted to light humor, and a limited number of extracts, the eight pages are solely the product of Mr. Bryan’s pen. ' Springfield, Ohio, somewhat of a sensation was created in police court when Judge Miller ordered all prisoners in the city prison released. He said he released them because one was allowed to get drunk and none had been required to work. An irnseriled T-nvclope containing $7,000 in checks has been recovered from the mails for its owner through the efforts of Postoftiee Inspector Sullivan of Denver. Not a check was missing when the envelope was found. The blunder was made in Leadville. The cable power house of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, at Ninth and Washington streets, Kansas City, Mo., was destroyed by fire. The loss is about $75,000 and is covered by insurance. Sixty cars and 1,200 gallons of coal oil were destroyed. Dr. William Smith, formerly first professor in the American College of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo., who is lecturing in Springfield. Ohio, on that science, attempted suicide while temporarily insane in his private office by the use of a hatpin. He was unsuccessful. Deputy Marshal Grant Johnson and Bunnie Mclntosh of Eufaula, I. T., two men noted for their bravery and daring iu hazardous expeditions against outlaws, made a bold dash upon the encampment of Snake’s Indians near Eufaula and captured Chitto Harjo, Crazy Snake. Randolph Willis and Thomas Taylor, both convicted of burglary and under sentence of three years in the penitentiary, escaped from the county jail at Pomeroy, Ohio. They sawed out the steel bars of their cell and dug a hole through the wall of the jail building. A smallpox epidemic is sweeping over Kansas. The State Board of Health has reports from forty localities in the State where the disease has made its appearance. The town of Agra has been quarantined, and the State Board of Health will have to quarantine a half-dozen other places. Three scars_on the forehead of Miss ■Pauline Lewolling, the second oldest daughter of the late Gov. Lewelling of Kansas, bear witness to a hazing by girls of the Wichita High School. Just when the episode occurred and the perpetrators are secrets closely guarded by the parties Concerned. Before daylight the other morning Police Sergeant James Hickman of the mounted division in St. Louis had a pistol duel with a horse thief, whom he encountered in the western city limits, and was severely wounded iu the left arm. The robber escaped, though it is thought he was badly wounded. The Rio Grande freight depot in Colorado Springs was burned. Watchman L. C. Wells was found dead in the building. lying in a pool of blood with a revolver near his right hand. It is suspected that he was killed by burglars, who fired the building. The loss on the building is estimated at $5,000. Gov. Nash has sealed the fate of Rosalyn H. Ferrell and the latter will meet his death in the electrocution chair in the Ohio penitentiary March 1. The dangers which might result from lax justice in such a murder as that committed by Ferrell were pointed out and the Governor said he would not assume.,such responsibility.

SOUTHERN.

Ashea Waba, an actress, known as “Little Egypt,” attended the matinee at the Crescent Theater, New Orleans, and would not remove her hat. She was arrested and fined sls or fifteen days in jail. On New Year's day Otis Word, the 14-year-old son of C. M. Word, disappeared from his home near Victory, Ga. The boy, when he disappeared, had $lO. Recently the body of the missing boy was found in a pond at Victory wjjh the throat cut. The Sullivan-Alger syndicate of Michigan, of which ex-Secretary Alger is the head, has given the contract for the erection of the largest sawmill in the world in Escanaba County, Florida. It is to have a capacity of 300,000 feet of lumber a day. News has been received of the death of Ham White, the stage and bank robber, who was serving a term in the Texas pcnitentlffry. He died of consumption. Twenty years ago Ham White was the most notorious outlaw in the Southwest. A landslide on the Atlantic, Knoxville and Northern road threw a freight train and three cars in the Hiawasce river at McFarland, Tenn. Engineer B. D. Felinet and Fireman J. W. Collette were killed and Stenin Shovel Foreman Green Perry fatally injured. A decree has been entered in the United States Circuit Court in Nashville, Tenn., in the case of Gen. Russell A. Alger versus T. R. Anderson et al., whereby Gen. Alger is given a personal judgment for $201,014.97. The litigation arose out of the purchase of coal and mineral lands in Tennessee. J. M. Carpenter and John A. Stone, backed by a Pennsylvania syndicate of $10,000,000, have purchased 4,000 acres of timber, iron and copper lands in Monroe County, Tcnnesaee, paying $300,000 for the property. They any they will build a railroad to the property nnd will develop every product of the tract. The recent ‘’bringing in” of the great oil gusher near Beaumont nnd the demonstration that the oil field promises to soon rival nny in the United States in point of production, together with the

further evidence that the Corsicana dintrict is also growing rapidly in that direction, has caused a movement by the several private individuals and independent companies who have producing oil wells in Texas toward organizing a combine with a view of shutting the Standard Oil Company out of Texas entirely.

FOREIGN.

Verdi, the Italian composer, is dead at Milan. His best-known works are “11 Trovatore,” “La Traviata” and “Aida.” , An operation was performed on Mr. Kruger's eyes at Utrecht by Profs. ler and Dhreymans. The operation was perfectly successful. Lord mayors of Irish cities were elected as follows: Dublin, Timothy Charles Harrington, M. I’.; Cork, Aiderman Fitzgerald; Limerick, John Daly. Most of the German papers say there is no reason to doubt the amicable disposition of Albert Edward toward Germany and of the continuance of hearty relations between the two countries. At the Old Bailey in London Julian T. B. Arnold, sou of Sir Edwin Arnold, who was ordered extradited from San Francisco in October last, charged with misappropriating trust funds, was sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. While the Queen Regent and her children were boating in the royal park on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, a shot wus fired from the bank and penetrated the gunwale of the-boat. The park was searched, but the assailant was not discovered. The remains of a young man of refined features, which have been in the morgue in Paris for two weeks, when they were found floating in the Seine, have been identified as those of Thomas L. Harris, an artist well known in the American colony. His father is supposed to be Henry Harris of Kansas City. He had not lived with his parents for some time, an aunt having adopted him. He was only able to make a precarious living by the brush and debts began to annoy him.

IN GENERAL.

North German Lloyd Steamship Company will pay higher dividends this year than ever. Venezuelan troops at Caracas mutinied, killed the colored lieutenant colonel and seven men and then fled. The executive council of the Modern Woodmen of America has changed the date of the opening of the biennial head camp of the society at St. Paul from June 4 to June 11. The climax of the cold spell at Dawson and the Yukon valley was reached when the thermometer at Dawson fell to 68 degrees below zero. On the same day Forty Mile registered 78 below. Fifteen hundred acres of sugar cane was burned at Santiago de Cuba as the result of political friction on Joseph Rigney’s plantation. During the war Mr. Rigney supported a Spanish garrison. Mr. Rigney’s loss is about SIOO,OOO. The stores of D. A. McPherson. W. A. Johnson and Nicholas Pitt, in AVilliam street, Montreal, were destroyed by fire, together with their contents. The buildings were stocked with butter and cheese. The total loss is estimated at $250,000. An explosion occurred in the warehouse of the Walkerville (Ont.) Match Company, which resulted in the death of William Brindle and George Phillips, employes. Several others were injured. The loss -by fire is estimated at $35,000. Prof. Frederick G. Novy, one of the most widely known members of the University of Michigan faculty, has left on an important mission for the United States government. He goes in all possible haste to California to investigate the likelihood that the bubonic plague is about to break out there. Bradstreet’s says: “Speculation is limited in nearly all lines of produce and in stocks, and it is probable that clearing returns at present give a clearer idea of actual business than for three months past. Prices show few important changes, the cereals being slightly higher, while hog products and coffee are lower, with dairy products weak. The feature of the week in iron has been the placing of large orders—2oo,ooo tons —of Bessemer pig at equivalent to $13.25 at Pittsburg. This has steadied the market generally except for foundry grades, which are weak. A feature in the export line was the shipment of 3,000 tons of steel billets to Glasgow from Birmingham, the largest shipment of this material ever sent abroad from the South. Talk of a coming big deal in May wheat at Chicago has revived again.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.05; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $5.35; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn. No. 2,36 cto 37c; oats. No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 20c; eggs, fresh. 17c to 18c; potatoes, 41c to 47c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.60; hogs, choice lightss4.oo to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn. No. 2, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2,25 cto 26c; rye/ No. 2,50 cto 51c. Cincinnati —Cattle; $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.30; sheep, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 38c to 30c; oats, No, 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 56c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.60; hogs. $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 80c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 38c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 53c to 54c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 78c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixyd, 24c to 25c; rye. No. 2,51 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, $6.00 to $6.70. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 73c to 74c; corn. No. 3,36 cto 37c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, No. 1,50 c to 52c; barley, No, 2,59 cto 60c; pork, mess, $13.50 to $13.85. Buffalo —Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.80. New York —Cattle, $3.25 to $5.40: bogs, $3.00 to $5.70; sheep, $3.00 to $4.60; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 2, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 82c; butter, creamery, 21c to 32c; eggs, westers. 19c to 20c

Congress.

The Senate devoted Saturday to the Indian appropriation bill and made only fair progress. The chief feature of the debate was a sharp attack by Mr. Pettigrew on the Dawes commission, which hesaid was extravagant and was accomplishing little in the way of results. Announcement was made by him that he did not purpose to filibuster against any bill. The shipping bill was not taken up. The House spent the day iu consideration of the naval appropriation bill, completing it with the exception of a single paragraph. The Senate made little progress with the Indian appropriation bill on Friday. Listened to a speech by Senator Depew in favor of the shipping subsidy bill. Passed n number of private pension bills. The House adopted the conference report on the army reorganization bill and , seventy-seven private pension bills. • I On Saturday the Senate discussed na-, | tional irrigation, the text being an, amendment to the Indian appropriation I bill providing for surveys, looking to the | construction of an irrigation dam and ditches for the watering of the reservation of the Pima and Maricopa Indians,' nt San Carlos on the Gila river, Arizona. Mr. Platt of Connecticut led the opposition, and was assisted by Mr. Quarles of Wisconsin. Mr. Stewart, Mr. Chandler and Mr. Thurston argued for the experiment. The report of the conference committee on the army reorganization bill was presented and Mr. Hawley announced that he would call it up on Monday. The House made good progress with the bill to revise and codify the postal laws. Only twenty-eight of the 221 pages remain to be disposed of. Efforts were persistently made to load the bill up with amendments to effect changes in the existing postal laws. The pressure was especially strong in favor of reclassifying certain classes of postoffice employes, but Mr. Loud of California, in charge of the bill, fought all of them, explaining that such amendments were out of place on a codification bill, and would, if adopted, mean its death in the Senate. In this way every attempt to amend the bill was successfully resisted. The hitter part of the session was devoted to eulogies upon the life and public services of the late Senator Gear of lowa. In the Senate on Monday Senator Towne of Minnesota made a speech on the government of the Philippines. Immediately after Mr. Towne's speech Mr. Clapp, his successor, was sworn in. The remainder of the day was devoted to consideration of the Indian appropriation bill. District of Columbia business occupied the most of the day in the House. Bill to revise and codify postal laws passed without amendment. Consideration of claims of Americans aggregating $28,000.000 against Spain deferred until the following Monday. Bill to extend charters of national banks twenty years called up, but went over on objection of Mr. Richardson. In the Senate on Tuesday Senator Frye gave notice he intended to keep shipping bill to the front, even as against appropriation bills, not yielding to them without vote of Senate. indicated disposition on part of Senate leaders to force to early issue question whether shipping bill is going to pass at this session. Mr. Turner spoke in severe arraignment of bill, declaring it to be “lawless, piratical raid upon the Treasury” in interest of few private beneficiaries and committing government to expenditures aggregating $270,000,000. Committee amendments were informally agreed to. Indian appropriation bill was passed early in day. The House spent day upon agricultural appropriation bilL Mr. Corliss (Mich.) made vicious onslaught upon bureau of animal industry of Agricultural Department, but his attack raised host of defenders, and his amendment to reduce appropriation for bureau was overwhelmingly defeated. All that portion of bill relating to reorganization of scientific bureaus of Agricultural Department went out on point of order raised by Mr. Mahon (I’a.) Wednesday the Sei ate spent in debate on the shipping bill after an unsuccessful attempt to secure an agreement to the conference report on the army reorganization bill. The House passed the agricultural appropriation bill.

This and That.

Indian Territory lins more than doubled its population in ten years. Thieves stole n $2,500 brooch from Mrs. Louise Bowers, Chicago. Africa contains 80.000,000 Mohammedans to about 200,(MX),000 inhabitants. Said that Maj. Unge of the Swedish army? has invented a noiseless torpedo. Among the 670 members of the new House of Commons two are above 80 years of age. Lord Brougham co.mmonly spent three Or four weeks in study before writing a great speech. Cincinnati mining company has opened* a three-foot vein of silver ore on Pike’s Peak. Seventy-two degrees below zero was the record low temperature registered by Schwatkn, on the Grand Fish river, in Canada. Jacob Mertz, Omaha, willed his property to bis intended bride, then a magistrate tied the nuptial knot. She was Barbara Lisy. E. R. Steyner, Pittsburg, Pa., president of the Federal Oil Company, is not enthused over the reported big strike at Beaumont, Texas. He says it’s a crevice well. Manila has about 165,000 inhabitants. There is a smaller number of saloons there in proportion to tiie population than in any city of similar size in the United States. The National Live Stock Association selected Chicago ns the place fuf holding its annual meeting next year. A memorial was sent to President McKinley, asking that the association be allowed to select an assistant Secretary of Agriculture. Col. Pink Hawkins, the oldest Creek Of the (‘reck nation, diol nt his home, west of Eufaula, I. T. He went- to the Indian Territory with the first lot of Creeks that came from Alabama, nnd since that time has held many important offices of the tribe, nt one time being second chief.

Jules Verne.

Jules Verne is an officer of the Legion of Honor. There are many others who wear this distinction, and there is nothing noteworthy about this fact except that the decree conferring the honor upon him was signed only two hours before the fall of the empire. His well-known book, “Round the World In Eighty Days,” has brought his publishers about $2,000,000 and to himself a goodly share of the proceeds.

The Nicaragua Canal.

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Where Clocks Are Not Needed.

Liberia is the only civilized country where clocks nre almost entirely dispensed with. The sun rises exactly at 6 a. m. and sets at 6 p. m. throughout the year, and is vertically overhead at noon—

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