Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1901 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. ftcNSSEUER, - . INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Masked highwaymen invaded tln* saloon of Nicholas Michiods, 235(5 South Canal street, Chicago, 1, tally assaulted the proprietor nild his wife, secured booty worth $2,500, and then looked the plair in the ice box. The robbers, three in number, escaped. The officials of the Northern Steamship Company held a meeting in St. l’aul, at which it was definitely decided to run the two large steamers of the line, the Northland and Northwest, between Chicago and Duluth, instead of between Buffalo and Duluth us* heretofore. Canal Dover. Mrs. 'Grim left home about ' two months ngo and her husband tried t > find her, but was unsuccessful. A month ago he received word from Steubenville that his wife had' jumped into the river and been drowned. Mrs. Grim states that she has boon living with relatives near Cincinnati. The Britannia group of copper mines has been consolidated into the Britannia syndicate, limited, by the acquirement of the undivided three-tenths interest 'of Leopold Boscowltz, the price paid for this interest being $1!M>,000. The property is located on Howe sound, about thirty miles from Vancouver. Charles A. Hinckley, alias It. Morris, lured across the Canadian line by Bert Miller and others, is now in jail in Conconully, Wash., on charge of stealing $07,000 from the West Side Bank, New York, in 1884, of which bank hi* had been tin* teller. He hail been living at Columbia, B. 0., and the haul; offered a reward of SIO,OOO for his arrest. The foreign have definitely decided to demand the imposition of the death penalty upon all twelve of the Chineso officials name* in the list snbmitteil, including those who are dead, on account of the moral effect upon the Chinese. The sentence on the living must be inflicted except in the cases of Prince Tuan and Duke Lnn, which the Emperor may commute to banishment to Turkestan. Crying out that drugs were the agents of the devil, n half-dozen women followers of Dowie adopted the tactics of Mrs. Carrie Nation and wrecked a number of drug stores on tin* West Side m Chicago. In some instances there were hand-to-hand fights with the druggists.' Armed as they were,with pitchforks, umbrellas and canes, the women came out the victors in nearly every encounter, and succeeded in destroying property wherever they went. Itival factions of the colored Baptist Church in Osage City, Kan., are at war, and as a result a partly finished church is in ruins. Some time ago some of the members left the church and immediately started to build another place of worship. This did not suit the other members, and with axes and hatchets they demolished the building. The carpenters arrived while the work of destruction was going on and many of the negroes were seriously hurt.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Queen of Sweden is said to be suffering from a dangerous throat affliction. Six-year-old girl was crushed to death in u bargain counter rush in u Brooklyn store. Prof. Sir Felix Semon flatly denies the story that King Edward has cancer of the throat. Blackford, Ky., was destroyed l>y lire. New York Assembly lins passed the Platt police bill. The Federal Salt Company has obtained control of the Herman Island works in the Gulf of California and now controls the output on the Pacific coast. In consequence of the recent death of Baron William You Rothschild, Baron Armand De Rothschild of Paris becomes the head of the Frankfort banking house of the family. The steamer Daisy, Captain Ot tender* fer, plying on Warrior river, in Alabama, was demolished by an accident and Engineer Glover was killed. Two barges of stone were lost. Kltmde Alreisen, a discharged employs - of the Sheffield Farm Dairy Company, was fatally shot while in the act of robbing one of the company's stores at 281 Lenox avenue, New York. Thirty thousand more British troops are to be poured into South Africa. In a war office bulletin it is announced that the government has decided to heavily re-enforce Lord Kitchener. At Akron, Ohio, a perpetual injunction hss been granted against a combination of the cereal companies. The action was commenced by Mrs. Nellie L. Hower, a stockholder in the American Cereal Company. The Amerjean Cigar Company has bought the factory of the Hummel & Vogt Company at Louisville, Ky. It is said the factory's capacity will be increased from 12,000,000 to 100,000,000 annually. The Frunco-Beigiun Railroad from Pekin to Ilnnkow, 135 kilometers of which was destroyed, bus been completely restored and traffic has been resumed. The track has now been built into the city of rekin. A fire supposed to have boon started by trumps destroyed the residence and farm buildings of Guy Whiteside of Tynehcud, H. C., and burned to death his two children, who were asleep whcji the fiatnes broke out. * Joseph Muldowuoy, a clerk in the North American Transportation and Trading Company's store at Rampart, on the Yukon, wns shot and killed hy Don Carrollton, who was jealous of Mulduwney's attentions to Mrs. Carrollton. President McKinley has conditionally accepted Invitations to visit Little Rock, Ark., and Han Jose, Cal., on his western tour. Fire at Evansville, Ind., destroyed the dry goods house of Lnhcr, Bacon & Co., entailing a loss of $150,000. Losses to neighboring firms will be SIO,OOO, with partial insurance. Two person* perished and three were fatally Injured in n fire which totally destroyed the Exposition Hotel in Binghamton, N. Y. The monetary loss on the building and effects will amount to $lO,000.

EASTERN.

Fire destroyed the large plant of the National Wire Company at Fairhaven, Conn., entailing a property loss estimated at $325,000. The Ilev. J. A. Keller was shot down by T. G. Barker at Arlington, N. J., because of charges made by the latter’s wife against the rector. A palace of marble is to house the new public library which is to be built upon the site of the old distributing reservoir *in Bryant Park, New York. At 1 o’clock the other morning Thomas McHenry, a well-to-do lumber merchant residing near Kohraburg, Pa., was shot by an unknown assassin, and death ensued six hours later. In a collision between a Bessemer passenger train nud a Nickel Plate freight at Wallace Junction, Pa., .Freight Conductor Peter Donahue was killed and twenty passengers injured. As a result of eating pork supposed to have been “doctored” with some sort of preservative, a whole family was poisoned in Pittsburg. One member is dead and five others are seriously ill. In Lexington avenue, New York, a runaway cable car caught up with two other cars and pushed them ahead in a wild run for twenty blocks. Four persons were hurt seriously and a score slightly. Richard Delafield, the president of the National Park Bank of New York, received by u vote of the directors the largest salary ever paid to a bank president in the United States. His stipend of $25,000 was raised to $40,000. „ Owing to misuuderstandiug of signals, a Reading Railway passenger train ran into the rear end of a coal train near Port Clinton, Pa. Irvin S. Fornwuld of Reading, brakernau, was killed, and Levi Lesgel, brukemun, was injured. A car of the Adunis Express Company attached to the train which left Philadelphia at midnight the other night for New York, was rifled by robbers en route. A quantity of miscellaneous freight was taken estimated at about $4,000. Unknown persons sent a box fall of dynamite to Dr. Luther Emeriek of Georgetown, Del. Before he could open It his secretary took it into the yard nud opened the infernal machine without an explosion. There was enough dynamite in the box to blow the house to pieces. A small keg of dynamite used for blasting purposes exploded in the Fernwood mine at Pittston, Pa., owned by the Erie Railway Company. Joseph Santino had an arm blown off ami nn eye destroyed; the skull of Anthony Hres Santino was fractured. Both men probably will die. AA’ith his face covered with gold paint, Jacob Abrams, 00 years old, an eccentric game constable, was found dead in his home at Cove, Oyster Bay, L. I. Apoplexy is said to have caused death, but the authorities believe he met with rough treatment while being initiated into a secret society. A boiler explosion occurred in the sugar factory of the AA’. AA’icke Company, in East 31st street, New York, by which over twenty persons were injured and which was followed by one of the fiercest conflagrations New York has witnessed in many years, causing nn estimated loss of $1,500,000. The burned area, in general extent, took on about one city block.

WESTERN.

8. R. Fryer of Van Wert, who put up at a hotel in Limn, Ohio, was caught in a folding bed and fatally injured. Dr. Kodermund, who willfully exposed himself to smallpox in Appleton, Wis., has been locked up in the Milwaukee detention hospital. The Western Store Fixtures Manufacturing Association in nuuual session at Quincy, 111., decided to advance prices 5 und 10 per cent. Henry A. Everett of Cleveland and Detroit capitalists now own the controlling interest in the United Street Railway Company of Detroit. Information lias been received of an explosion in mine No. 7 in Franklin, Wash., whereby two men wero killed and several persons injured. W. L. Meredith, son of Superintendent Meredith of the government bureau of printing and engraving, has bceu confirmed as chief of police of Seattle, Wash. A heavy storm of wind and snow prevailed over lowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio on Sunday. Railway traffic was badly impeded. Walter Lehmlcko, manager of the Isaac Staples water works at Hot Springs, Ark., committed suicide there. He whs formerly register of deeds of Washington County, Minn. Fire in the business center of Beatrice, Neb., burned out lloagland's drug store and Woods' photograph gallery. Adjoining buildings were seriously threatened. Loss $30,000. Mayor Ziegenbein of St. Louis has signed the bill passed by the municipal assembly of that city for the issue of $5,000,000 of bonds for the Louisiana purchase world’s fair. A terrific explosion of natural gas 4n Cincinnati completely wrecked the house of John Loftus. Mrs. Maggie Clnry, housekeeper, was fatally burned and Mrs. Loftus prostrated. Firs destroyed the Dolphin paint and color works at Toledo aud injured the adjoining buildings. The total loss on buildings and stocks is $85,000. The cause of the firo is unknown. Tony Giovanni, a 2-year-old child, was seized and carried off by a gray eagle while playing in the yard of his home in a Denver suburb. The child was finally recovered, apparently unhurt. At Bt. Joseph. Mo., the building of the Krug Packing Company was almost entirely destroyed hy lire. President Henry Krug estimates the loss at SIOO,OOO aud states that it was fully covered hy insurance. Charles Layton, son of the president of the Commercial National Bunk of Sandusky, Ohio, recently dismissed from the position of assistant cashier of that Institution, committed suicide hy shooting himself. Th# attorneys for Captain Oberliu M. Carter, now serving n'sentence in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., for misappropriation of government funds, will appeal the case to the United States Supreme Court. All tho furnace workers In the Mahoning valley, Ohio, havo accepted a reduc-

tion of 10 cents, from $1.90 to SI.BO per day, in wages and the strike which was threatened will not occur. About 1,600 men are affected. The man who committed suicide at Carthage, Mo., and was supposed to be F. Crombie of Chicago, has been ideuti fied ns Frank 8. Converse of Milwaukee, llis body has been ordered shipped to Whitewater, AA’is., by his widow. At Kansas City tire destroyed the Coates Opera House. AValker AVhiteside and his company were playing “Heart and Sword” in the house. The theater block was a total wreck, but no one was injured. The loss is fully $150,000. The Supreme Court of lowa announced that the decision of the lower court in the Titus biennial election amendment was affirmed. This knocks out the amendment to the constitution and results in a State election being held next fall in lowa. After a careful investigation Superintendent of Schools L. 11. Jones says that Cleveland public school pupils are being made stupid by smoking cigarettes. Young boys are dull and stupid and cannot learn their lessons. Boys of 10 or 12 seem to be most seriously affected. The National Mutual Life Insurance nud the Northwestern Life Association, both having headquarters in Minneapolis, will he consolidated Feb. 21. The consolidated association will have 25,000 policy holders, $40,000,000 insurance, $700,000 annual income and SOOO,OOO of assets. The bus’ness portion of Fort Abercrombie, N. D., was destroyed by a tire which is reported to have started by au overturned lamp in a machinery house. The loss is placed at from SBO,OOO to $90,000, with less than $40,000 insurance. Eleven business houses were burned. In Detroit, Mich., fire completely gutted the building at 40 to 50 Earned street, occupied by the Dreskoli-Jupp Paper Company, nud before the firemen gained control of it spread to the plant of the Free Press Printing Company, which •suffered extensive damage. ’The loss is about $200,000. Arthur It. Barnard, the teller of Dr. Dowie’s bank, cleared up the mystery of his 1 disappearance by, voluntarily returning to Chicago. He had run away, he explained, because his fiancee, Miss Edna Pugh, had gone in company with another young man to a party to which he was not invited. Half a dozen people xvero injured by tlie explosion of u gasoline lamp that wrecked the interior of Oilinger’s barber shop in Saliua, Kan. Rev. George Caldwell, a United Brethren minister, was blown through a plate glass window*, temporarily blinded by the explosion and burned from head to foot. The Supreme'Court of Missouri ousted from office Joseph Flory, w*ho for six years had held the position of railroad and warehouse commissioner, and seated Joseph P. Rice, who was appointed last December by the then Governor, Lon ' Y. Stephens, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Joseph Herrington. An enth*e family of five children of Mr. and Mrs. August Luepke were smothered to death by a fire in a small frame house at 420 Russell avenue, Milwaukee. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a lamp explosion, though this will never be known, ns Mrs. By water, the only person found alive in the house, was unable to speak. At Lebanon, Ohio, Dora Creager, aged 18 years, shot Charles Thompson and the wouuded man died in about two hours. The shooting was the result of a quarrel. Miss Creager attempted suicide by taking laudanum, but her life was saved by physicians. The two had been engaged for some time and their marriage was contemplated. J. C. Gilchrist of Cleveland has purchased of the AA’ilson Transit Company the follow ing vessels: The steamers AA’allula, Olympia, Sitka C., Tower and Yakima and the schooner Yukon. The deal involves $375,000. Mr. Gilchrist also purchased the steamer Charles A. Eddy from Captain Boutelle of Bay City, Mich., for $70,000. O. J. Aassen, one of the oldest farmers of Minnehaha County, 8. I)., with another man left Garretson with nMonm to drive home and later the other man drove into Baltic for a doctor, claiming that Aassen had been thrown out of the rig and hurt. AA’lien the physician arrived Aassen was dead. Sheriff Huston is investigating the mystery. Mrs. B. F. Coleman, wife of a Pennsylvania telegraph operator in Tiffin, 0., while suffering from a temporary mental aberration, left her home, walked on the ice to the middle of the Sandusky river, disrobed, pluuged over the dam, apd, after wandering about for nn hour in a nude condition, sought nud was given shelter at a near-by house. Rather than submit to hazing Claud AA\ Norton and Harry Powles, cadets at the AVeotworth Military Academy at Lexington, Mo„ ran away from that institution. They were arrested in Kansas City and will be sent back to Lexiugton. Norton and Powles said they had been hazed by their upper classmen beyond the limit of endurance. The boys are both 14 years of age.

SOUTHERN.

Mrs. Hager, one of the most prominent citizens of Urifflthville, W. Yu., hud a tooth pulled and died an hour Inter. Captain J. E. McCoy, president of the McCoy Shoe Company of Wheeling, VV. Yu., has been declared bankrupt, the extent of his liabilities bring $342,871. Union workmen on buildings ut Fort Worth, Texas, have been discharged by the contractors for refusing to sever their connection with the Building Trades Council aud Trades Assembly. The bill to punish by death or imprisonment for life, in the discretion of the jury, any person guilty of kidnaping was passed hy the Virginia House with a broader scope than the original hill. Tobacco dealers iu Chattanooga have received notice of the final passage of the anti-cigarette bill and of its signnture by the Governor. It is stated that the sale of cigarettes Is practically stopped all over the State. A number of Eastern capitalists have been In Jacksonville, Fla., buying up several thousand acres of laud lu the Fat Island region, and also the large prairie —or a portion of It—between Ilfgley and Lake Griffin. The purpose of the company is largely to Invest in cans growing and sugar manufacturing. John Gibson, who burned to death his

little daughter with a red-hot poker, was convicted at Huntington, W. Va., of mur* der in the first degree. Judge Kinner sentenced him to the penitentiary for life. The verdict is a disappointment to the people, who were general in the belief that nothing short of Gibson’s life should compensate for his crime.

FOREIGN.

Eight new warships will be added to the German navy this year. Municipality of Berlin has bought an electric tram system for 10,000,000 marks. Anti-Jesuit riots in Spain have spread to A’aleuciu, where the Jesuit college was attacked. The Boer attack on the Boksbnrg mines resulted in damages amounting to £300,000. King Edward has conferred the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order on Count von Metteruich. Italian Senate has passed a law making the house in which A’erdl was born a national monument. When King Edward VII. was proclaimed in Cork many Irishmen cheered for Kruger and De AVet. A dispatch from Cairo says severe fighting is reported in Abyssinia. The casualties are said to number 7,000. Duke Henry, who is to marry Queen Wilbolminn, made his state entry into The Hague and’ was received with enthusiasm. The French torpedo boat No. 24 sank w'ithiu a mile of the harbor at Havre as the result of a boiler explosion. All the crew were lost with the exception of two. The funeral of England’s dead queen, A’ictoria, was held with great pomp and ceremony at Windsor, and her remains now repose in the royal mausoleum at Frogmore. Tommy Atkins, one of the best 2-year-ohls on the American turf last season and second only to Commando in the stable of James It. nud F, P. Keene, is dead iu England.

IN GENERAL.

By an explosion of nitro-glyeerin at the Giant Powder Company’s works, five miles from A’ictoria, B. C., John Fenton and George Phillips were killed. The men were standing outside the building When the explosion occurred. The German steamer Barcelona, which arrived iu New York from Hamburg via Halifax, N. S., brought into port the captain and fourteen seamen of the Russian bark Cuba, which was abandoned at sea in latitude 40:30, longitude 13:10, in a dismasted and water-logged condition. At a mining camp near Nacosan, Mexico, Tom Barnes, nn American, and Chris Morales, a Mexican, fought a 43-rotmd battle under London prize ring rules. Both .were fearfully punished in the three hours’ fight, which grew out of a quarrel over the affections of a young Mexican girl. Merida advices show that a battle has been fought between Maya rebel Indians nud Mexican troops twenty-five miles from rebel headquarters. Eight hundred Indians armed with muskets attacked the Sixth battalion, which held its ground, though outnumbered, aud inflicted a heavy loss on the enemy. The battleship AA’isconsin, which was constructed at the Union iron works, Sun Francisco, has been formally placed in commission. Captain Reider taking command for the government and Irving M. Scott acting for the Union iron works. The usual ceremonies were observed. About 300 marines were placed on the AVisconsfn. Bradstreet’s says: “Business ns a whole has been of a larger volume this week. Cold and stormy weather has unquestionably stimulated retail business in boots, shoes, rubber goods and clothing. Woolens are slow of sale and the squeeze in raw cotton, though temporary, has not helped converters, who have to pay more for their material, but get no more for their finished products. Heavy cuts in rubber goods point to coming sharp competition in this industry. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 3,779,100 bushels, against 4,838,078 bushels last week and 2,734,937 bushels in the corresponding week of 1900. Corn exports aggregate 2,487,707 bushels, against 3,972,152 bushels last weeß and 3,598,902 bushels in this week a year ago. Failures in the United States for the last week of January number 238, as against 281 last week and 171 a year ago. Canadian failures number 27, aa compared with 31 a year ago.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.85; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.45; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2,80 cto 37c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye. No. 2,48 cto 40c; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, fresh. 17c to 18c; potatoes, -41 cto 46c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.27; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn. No. 2 white, 88c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c. Bt. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.80; hogi, $3.00 to $5.35; sheep, $3.00 to $4.40; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn. No. 2, 8c to 37c; oats, No. 2,24 cto 25c; rye, No. 2. 50c to 51c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.35; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20c to 27c; rye, No. 2,55 cto 50c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $4.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.35; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 89c to 40c; onts, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 53c to 51c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 78e; corn. No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; osts, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 20c; rye, No. 2,51 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, SO.OO to $0.75. Milwaukee—Wheat, No.'* 2 northern, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 8,30 cto 87c; onts, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c: rye, No. 1,50 c to 52c; barley, No. 2,59 cto 00c; pork, mess, $13.50 to $13.72. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, fulr to prime, $3.00 to $5.55; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.00. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.50; hogs. $3.00 to $5.90: Sheep, $3.00 to $4.60; wheat. No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn. No. 2, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 82c; butter, creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, westera, 20c to 21c.

Congress.

On Thursday the Senate, by a vote of 33 to 25, agreed to the conference report on the army reorganization bill. The shipping bill was discussed during the latter part of the day, aud some progress was made on-amendments. A speech by Mr. Rawlins of Utah against the bill was in progress at the close of the day. The House passed the fortifications appropriation bill and made fair progress with the postofflee appropriation bill. During the general debate upon the former bill Mr. Lnnhani of Texas delivered a notable speech upon the future of the Democratic party, making a strong plea for the necessity of united Democracy and counseled the burial of the hatchet and the welcoming back of those who in the last two presidential campaigns have declined to suport the nominees of the party. Many amendments were offered to the postoffice appropriation bill in the interest of various claims of postofflee employes, but they all went.down before points of order raised by Mr. Loud, the chairman of the postofflee committee, who was in charge of the bill. The Senate spent Friday considering the shipping bill. The House passed an omnibus bill carrying 191 claims for stores and supplies taken by the Union army during the rebellion. The claims were passed on by the court of claims and aggregated $344,480. Practically all the beneficiaries reside in the South. Considerable opposition to the bill was displayed under the leadership of Mr. Cannon, the chairman of the appropriations committee, but it flattened out later and the bill finally was passed without division. The bill to amend the Chinese exclusion act, with a view to preventing the fraudulent entry of Chinese into the United States, was passed. The Senate met at 11 o’clock Saturday and with the exception of an hour and a half at the beginning of the session devoted the entire day to the discussion of the ship subsidy bilk Mr. Turner and Mr. Mallory were the speakers in behalf of the opposition. Mr. Turner's speech was based largely upon exceptions which he had taken to Mr. Frye's criticisms of his former speech. Mr. Mallory opposed the bill on constitutional grounds. Passed bill authorizing the construction of a public building at Hammond, Ind., to cost $125,000. The House spent the day until 3 o’clock in the consideration of the postofflee appropriation bill. The struggle over, the question of restoring the appropriation for pneumatic tube service and of the reduction of railway mail pay were precipitated by amendments offered, but no action was taken. At 3 o’clock public business was suspended to permit the members to pay tribute to the late Senator Davis of Minnesota. The ship subsidy bill was laid aside informally by the Senate on Monday to permit consideration of the appropriation bills. The shipping bill holds its place, and as unfinished business can be taken up when the appropriation bills are ! not occupying attention. The greater ; part of Monday was given to a speech by I Mr. Bacon of Georgia on the right of the : Senate to demand information on file in | the executive departments. He took the J position that the departments are the ' creatures of Congress, and that departmental denial of any demand for papers on file was preposterous, contending that for a hundred years there had been practically no refusal to recognize this right. Secretary Long's letter regarding Santiago naval rewards caused a discussion in which Senators upheld their course in this matter. The House passed the Senate bill to create a commission to adjudicate the claims of United States citizens against Spain which the government of the United States assumed by the treaty of Paris, after having amended the bill ,so ns to refer the claims to the court of claims instead of to a commission. A strong effort Was made to vote down the amendment and pass the Senate bill, but the advocates of this course were defeated by a majority of 35. A bill was passed without debate to extend the charters of national banks for another period of twenty years after 1902, when the present extension expires. Bills to ratify the agreement with the Crow Indians of Montana and to provide for the redemption of Hawaiian coin at par were defeated. About an hour was spent on the postofflee appropriation bill in the discussion of the amendment to reduce the railway mail pay, but no action was taken. The Senate on Tuesday passed District of Columbia appropriation bill and partly considered bill making appropriations for support of AVest Point military academy. During dny ship subsidy bill by vote of Senate was formally laid aside and superseded as unfinished business. The House continued discussion of controverted questions in connection with postofflee appropriation bill. Mr. Griggs (Go.) spoke against organisations of postal employes formed with view to forcing legislation in their interest. Mr. Moody (Mass.) discussed question of railway mail pny from standpoint of member of joint postal commission. Mr. Bfomwell (Ohio) and Mr. Gaines (Tenn.) assailed appropriations for special mail facilities from New York to New Orleans, and Mr. .Catchings (Miss.) and Mr. Meyer (La.) defended these appropriations ns necessary for expedition of Southern mail. The Senate on AA’ednesdny passed the military academy appropriation bill and the war revenue reduction measure. Considered the shipping bill at a night session. In the House debate on the postoffleo appropriation bill consumed the dny. It was agreed before adjournment that the debate should close Thursday at 12:30 p. m., when the votes should be taken upon the several pending amendments.

Odds and Ends.

Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka is writing a new temperance story. Tobacco growers are making efforts to have the taxes on tobacco reduced. A large force of graders is now at work grading upon tho Santa Fe extension from Liberal, Kun., southwest across Beaver County. Robert Eidridge, a miner employed at Raymond, nenr Sedalia, Mo„ was instantly killed by a hoisting bucket falling down the shaft in which lie was working and striking'him on the head. It is stated ttiat on the extension of the Ilock Island road from Liberal, Kan., to El Faso, Texas, there will be a tangent 120 miles In length, which will probably be the largest piece of straight track in existence.

Protector Against Panics.

A Russian engineer. Prince A. TDsbavachoff, has Invented an electrical apparatus manipulated from the stag© of a theater by which, at one touch, all doors and exits are opened toward the outside.

The Power of the Pre se,

Is a common expression, but few realize Its actual power. Great as Is the Influence of the press, It cannot begin to equal the power of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters over disease. The Bitters strengthens the stomach, purifies the blood, and cures dyspepsia, Indigestion and constipation. It will tone up the nerves, stimulate Inactive kidneys, and as an appetizer, it is unequalled. If you want to get well, and keep well, use Uostetter’s Stomach Bitters.

Compressed Air Displacing Mules.

Compressed air is supplanting tho mule in the mines in Wisconsin. Chronic Nasal Catarrh poison© every breath that is drawn into the lungs. There is procurable from any druggist the remedy for its cure. A small quantity of Ely’s Cream Balm placed into the nostril© spreads over an inflamed and angry surface, relieves immediately the painful inflammation, cleanses, heals and cures. Drying inhalants, fumes, smokes and snuffs simply develop dry oatarrh; they dry up the secretions which adhere to the membrane and decompose, causing afar more serious trouble than the ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid all drying inhalants, use Ely’s Cream Balm. It is reliable and will cure catarrh, cold in the headand hay fever easily and pleasantly. All Iruggists sell it at 60 cents or it will be mailed by Ely Brothers, 56 AVarren St„LN.Y.

Saving Water Power.

During the last year nearly 5,000,000 tons of coal have been saved by large manufacturers utilizing water power.

A Remedy for the Grippe.

Physicians recommend KEMP’S BAD* SAM as a remedy for patients afflicted with the grip, as it is especially adapted for the throat and lungs. Do not wait for the first symptoms of the disease, but get a bottle to-flay aud keep it on hand for use the moment it is needed. If neglected the grip has a tendency to bring on pneumonia. KEMP’S BALSAM prevents this by keeping the cough loose and the lungs free from inflammation. All druggists sell KEMP'S BALSAM at 25© and 50c.

Still a Chance for Him.

“So you reject me!” the young lawyer said, rather bitterly. “I wonder If II would do any good to appeal the ease to your father?” She shook her head. “There Is no appeal from my decision,” she replied. “I am what you call the court of last resort.” “But I cannot give up the case In this way!” he exclaimed. She dug the sand with the point of her parasol. “Mr. Braxton,” she said, softly, “might you not ask for a new trial?”— Chicago Tribune.

PRESIDENT OF PRESIDENTS

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