Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1901 — Page 6

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT, F. E~ BABCOCK, publisher. (UNSSELAER, • • ! • IfitiiANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

While a Cincinnati, Hamilton an«l Dayton passenger train was thundering along between Findlay, Ohio, and MeComb, a wheel on a, coach burst. One jdecc went through the Ibmi'.ufjhe eiill and out through the roof, narrdwly missing two passengers. At Orapd Haven, Mich., fire totally destroyed the public library building, inelmling 5,000 volumes. The loss is $109,000, insurance $45,000. The high school was in the same building, a four-story brick structure. The tire, it is supposed, was of incendiary origin. Senator Miller introduced a bill in the Minnesota State Senate for a 5 per cent tax on the net earnings of express companies, such tax to be in lieu of all personalty tax, but real estate holdings are specifically declared not to be exempt from the general tax levy. John I£. Searles, best known throughout the United States as a fonder director. secretary and treasurer of the American Sugar Refining Comps n.v - and now president. of the American Cotton Company, has mode an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. While working in the cable subway in Uexiugton avenue, New York, Thomas Robinson was decapitated. Robinson was reaching over the moving cable when a passing ear lifted it. The cable caught him under the chin, choking him, and the car grip cut off liis head. .1. J. Hill has disposed of the St. I’nul Globe newspaper property to a syndicate of Democrats, and the Globe Newspaper Company has been organized, with former Gov. John Lind, L. A. Rosing, I’oliee- <s>mmi»*iotwr If.- ! P.~ (''inner, r>ttrr Bremer and G. M. Evans ns incorpora tors. The first break In.the,ranks-of the vesselmcn who have been affiliated with this Luke Carriers’ Association was made when the Detroit ami Cleveland line eon ceded the demands of the Marine Engineers’ Association and announced that the line would not remain in tin- Lake (’a i-viers’ Association. A wagon train ami a detachment of the signal corps, together with six Maeabcbe • scoutk, were atltH-ket} by tire insurgent* about midway between the towns of Siland and Dasmariuas, in Cavite province, Luzon. Three Americans were kitted and two of the Macahehc scouts were wound- I ed, w hile one man is missing. Frank L. Dinsmore's death sentence ! was ntflrmed by the Nebraska Supreme I Court. He was convicted of the murder j of his wife and Fred Lane of Odessa,! Neb., in whose family lie boarded. Mrs. i Tame confesses that tie planned to kill the two and then charge that Lane killed : Mrs. Dinsniorc and committed suicide. Col. Fernando Gonzales, with a de- ' taehmeiit of Mexican soldiers, who started in pursuit of a force of Yaqtii Indians several days ago. overtook a Surge body of the fugitives near Las l’rietes and a desperate tight’ followed, which resulted in over thirty of the Indians lieing killed and a number of others wounded. Three soldiers were killed-.

NEWS NUGGETS.

John I>. RodicfcUoi-toTs given .8110,000 fur a dormitory at Vassar. England's new budget is likely to include a duty on sugar imports. it is reported id Rome that Ambassador Fava will la* recalled from Washington. Aaron S. Daggett, recently appointed brigadier general of the army, has la-cii retired. Design for a nqval memorial arch and water gate iu Battery Park, New York, lias Im-oii accepted. Detroit hankers have bought the famous Garcia group of mines in the Stall of Oaxaca, Mexico. Winona. Minn., is dissatisfied with the government census figures of 19.710 andwill make a new enumeration. Hie Legislature of Alabama has adjourned. Its most important act was the calling of a constitutional convention. La Fleur & Dreary, shoe dealers of St. Henri, a suburb of Montreal, have failed, with liabilities of SIIO,OOO, assets $57,000. At Matthews. Ind., the dwelling of Mrs. Hattie Peal, a widow, hunted during her ahseuee, and two of three small ehildreu left in charge were burned to death. The resolution introduced by W. M. Mullock, postmaster general, providing for the payment of Canada's share of the cost of a Pacific cable, was adopted by the House of Commons at Ottawa. An outlet' of arsenic ended' the life of Miss Sadie Salisbury, one of Erie County’* most bountiful young women, at her home in Albion, Pa. Her death was the culmination of long brooding a lo\e affair.

Samuel Mower, who murdered his wife anil children In May, I!NnI, at their home, three mill's from Morton, was found guilty at Pekin. 111., I>y a jury and his punishment was fixed at twenty-one years in the penitentiary. A. It. Taylor, president of the Kansas State normal sehool, announces his resignation. effect ire in April, to accept the presidency of the James Millikin University, a Cumberland Presbyterian college, now buildiug at Decatur, 111. There is much suffering nt Lancaster. Ohio, ns n result of a failing of the natural gas supply. Factories and schools have been forced to close and the Lancaster Traction Company is unable to run its cars owing to the lttek of fuel. At Greenville, Ohio, an incendiary dost royed the lumber yard of Kantz & Wright and damaged surrounding property. I Aims SOO,OOO. An enst-bound passenger train on the Pennsylvania Itailroud ran iuto a rreight train at Hopetower, thre<> miles west of Coatesvllle, Pa. Over a dozen passengers - were injured by the eollision. While struggling in a nightmare iu a sleeping ear near Johnstown, Pa., K. B. Ktewttlnlus of Chicago put ids foot through a window and severed nn artery. Refora medical aid could lie summoned 4e became very weak from loss of blood.

EASTERN.

Mrs. Chine starved herself to death la New York, though she hud $2,800 iu the bank. Albert Bernstein, noted waxwork* showman, committed suicide in a Bowery hotel. George McAuary, a Chicago man, committed suicide by asphyxiution iu Scranton, I'a, New York burglars took jewelry worth $30,000 from the residence of Francis B. Hoffman. Eight big gam tiling houses of New York have combined, with a capital of $1,000,000. Cejlector Bidwc-ll of New York will drop a lot of deputy inspectors in order to stop smuggling. Unkuown steamer was sunk off the Norfolk coast by collision with the steamer Chamois, which itself may have gone down. Pour,children of Mrs. Alonzo Scott perished in a fire which destroyed Jacob Bnlt's residence at Litchfield, Pa. A hired man rescued Mr**. Balt and Mrs. Scott. - Twenty one fishermen were carried out on Lake Erie off Silver Creek, N. Y., on floating ice, but seventeen of them were rescued. The other four have probably perished. The extensive establishment of Hirschtierg, Hollander & Go., dealers tu paints" and oils, at Baltimore, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO, of which SBO,OOO is on stock. Special Inspector Guld of Champlain, N. Y., arrested Jule Coutre of Rouse’s Point, N. Y., driving eight Chinamen across the boundary line of Canada into the United States near Champlain. William Maxwell Evarts, Secretary of State under President Hayes and one of The grrntest constitutional lawyers and orators this country has produced, died at his home in New York, of pneumonia. More than 200 young women students at Bryn Mnwr College, Philadelphia, rendered <-lli,-ieiiJL service- ia extinguishing a fire in the cottage of Prof. Scott, a member of the faculty, iu the college grounds. The warehouse of the Knox Express Company, a four-story structure at the corner of Four and u Half and C streets Northwest, Washington, was destroyedby fire. The loss is estimated at SIOO,OUO. The shirt manufacturing establishment of Tilth-man Brothers A Fagan, at Adams avenue ami Church street, Philadelphia. was destroyed by tire. The loss is estimated at $70,000; fully covered by iusu ranee. The Leary dye works in the five-story building at Platt and Mill streets. Rochester, N. Y.. was destroyed by lire. Three bodies have been removed from the building and many injured persons have been taken to hospitals. Maj. Daniel W. Whittle, the noted evangelist, formerly of Chicago, and tinlifelong friend and associate of I). L. Moody, died at East Northfiehl. Mass. Death was caused by rheumatism and a complication of ailments. In a collision between the Washington police and members of the Pennsylvania regiments attending the inauguration tinpolicemen used tln-ir revolvers and a little girl. Ollie May Wellington, was wounded, but not seriously. Mrs. Catherine Fullerton, lio years old, was knocked down, beaten and kicked into insensibility and robbed in Columbus avenue, a busy Boston thoroughfare, by John Dawson, who is supposed to have become insane from hunger. Harry Rickey, 52 years old", cashier of the Chestertown, MU., bank, and treasurer of the building association there, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. An examination of his books shows that ho embezzled $40,000 of the association's funds.

WESTERN.

The Toledo Republican city convention nominate!] Brig. (Jen. W. V. MeSlaken for Mayor. John Bennash, who was wanted at Huron, died suddenly while under arrest at Kdgely, N. D. A boiler in tin' mill of Jacob Lindewood, at Creuzet, Ohio, exploded, instantly killing four men and iujiiriug several others. William Mitchell met William Jones iu n saloon nt Marion, Iml., and stabbed hint with a dirk. Jones expired instantly. Mitchell (led to the woods Fire at Columbus, Ohio, caused damage to tlic amount of $-.000 in the rcsidciiee of Col. James O. Neal, late consul to Liverpool aud cx-Speaker of the Ohio House. Senator Edward O. Wolcott has resigned as a inemlier of the Republican national committee front Coiorndo uiul Archie M. Stephenson has been designated as his successor. By forming a liviug chain and lowering one of their number into the lake by his heels, five hoys saved Sidney Morrison of Chicago from death by drowaing iu Lake Michigan. Rosiyn Ferrell died in the electric chair at the State penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. His crime was the murder of Ex press Messenger Charles I.uue on the night of Aug. 10, 1000. At HoldeuviUe, I. T.. Johnson Miller, a full-blood Creek Indian, was shot to death liy a body of masked men. Miller was under arrest for the murder of Herbert McDude Dec. J Hi Inst. After holding up and robbing A. Anderson under the elevated railroad tracks at Twenty-third street, Chicago, William Tate, colored, was shot and severely wounded by Officer F. C. Rush. W. T. Bond, who served in the Philippines as a member of the First Colorado volunteers, committed suicide at. Leadvillv by drinking carbolic acid in the Episcopal Church during Lenten services. Michael O'Brien, a farmer of Mexico, Mo., arose from his bed the other night,’’ went to his smokehouse and cut his throat. No cause for his self-destruction :s known, lie leaves considerable property. Gertrude O. Ives, widow of the once noted Napoleon or flnuncc, 11. C. Ives, died iu Cincinnati recently. She was known us Miss Graham, nnd (lid not disclose her identity until shortly before her death. W. C. Clark, nged 52 years, Secretary of State of Colorado in 1878, met accidental death in the Ward block in Denver. Ha tripped while coming down the stairs nnd fell to the bottom, breaking 1 his neck. A Baltimore nnd Ohio passenger train

struck a buggy near Washington Court House, Ohio, and instantly killed Maggie Lowe and Elmer Flint. They were driving across the tracks and did not hear the train approaching. a Eight cars and a portion of the ear sheds of the Metropolitan Elevated road at Forty-sixth avenue and Harrison street, Chicago, were destroyed by fire. A watchman iu the yards discovered the blaze and turned in an alarm. Mrs. Nnny Wright, an old woman who was imprisoned at Fort Scott, Kan., for .forging pension papers, was released by order of President McKinley. Her term bad expired, but she HAS being held, for failure to pay a fine and costs. A fire which started at 5 o'd®gk i4i the evening and burned half the nighs consumed the business portion of Park River, N. D., causing a loss of over $100, : 000, with only partial insurance. The entire business center is in ashes. Iu the Missouri House a bill was passed punishing kidnaping by death or imprisonment for not less than five years ,in the penitentiary. The .Senate has passed a bill making the minimum penalty for this ciime 100 years’ imprisonment; —- Calvin Ballows, aged 43 years, an em ployc of the Tree Manufacturing Company at Greenfield, Ind., was instantly killed by the Pennsylvania mail. His home is supposed to have been in New York, where he had a son employed in a bank. Angered by her action in breaking their engagement to marry, Bpd Taylor, 23 years old, a baseball player, shot and killed Ruth Nollard, 18 years old, on a street in the heart of the business section of Kansas City. Taylor was arrested. John Kittridge and John Fields, mining engineers, were carried down Crittctidcn Momintln, Rear Eldorado, Colo., by a snow-slide. Kittridge caught hold of a stump and saved himself, but Fields was carried to the bottom of a deep gulch and killed. George W Jiin-ett ..f who killed his step-fathea with an ax during a quarrel, was set free by a justice of the peace nud no further proceedings will be taken against him. The sympathy of Columbus people is on the side of the hoy. A fire, which started in the living apartments of Warden Davis of the State penitentiary near Lincoln, Neb., destroyed the entire main building, together with the east and west eellhouses adjoining. The penitentiary building was erected in lHTti at a cost of SBOO,OOO. Fire in Alger, Smith & Co.'s mill yards at Duluth destroyed nearly $50,000 w-ortli of lumber. Fire started mysteriously in one of the piles and was confined to the yard. The loss is fully covered by insurance. The senior member of the firm is ex-Secretary of War Alger. An explosion occurred at shaft No. 3 of the J. R. Crowe Coal Company in Weir City. Kan. Two shot firers, S. B. Hatfield, single, and J. W. Watkins, married, were killed. Watkins was colored. The explosion is supposed to have been due to an accumulation of gas. Because the father of 9-year-ohl Jacob Johanson. iu Sun Francisco, believed the child told an untruth he seared his cheeks and ears and hands with a red-hot poker. Johanson was arrested by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and S-ied to justify his action by biblical authority. Four boys, inmates of the poor farm, situated near the Chicago and Alton Railway, near Marshall, Mo., conspired to wreck a passenger train. They put fish plates an«l small railroad iron on the track. The train struck the obstructions, tore boles in the ear fioor and cut the air brake. Dell Johnson, living with his pnrenia, nine miles west of Orlando, Ok., shot both his father and mother with a Winkilling them instantly. The murderer is an unmarried man about 2(1 years of age. He was adjudged insane some months ago, but was thought .to have been cured.

Fire at the Dayton, Ohio, malleable iron works destroyed the warehouse and annealing room, regarded as fireproof. The building cost $30,000 and the contents will put the loss above $50,000. Edward Clneman, colored, a watchman, was cremated ia the flames. The origiu of the fire was a gas explosion. William Herrell was married and returned with liis bride to Rocky, O. T. That night a charivari party gathered, anil some one fired a revolver. The ball passed through the side of the house and entirely through the body of George Herrell. who was asleep, killing him instantly. The youfig man was a brother of the groom. 11. J. Mayhant and A. M.. Stevenson of Denver have closed a big mining deal for sixteen gold mines located in the North Lead district, immediately north of Lead, R. D. The purchase takes ia the famous Hidden Fortune mine, the Harrison, Durango, Golden Crown and other paying properties, including the fifty-ton cyanide plant on the Golden Crown mine. The deal will call for nearly $1,000,000.

SOUTHERN.

The Texas SctiHte pasaeds finally the hill making kidnaping a capital offcaoe. Another big oil geyser has been struck about fifteen miles from Port Arthur, Texas, and it is sending a stream iuto the air upward of 100 feet. Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give $25,000 to the free public library at Jackson, Tarih., provided the town will make an annual appropriation sufficient to keep up the library. Guests of the Phoenix Hotel, Ix-xing-ton, Ky„ were thrown into n state of panic by n tire in the block, which filled the hotel with dense volumes of smoke. Quick work on the purt of the employes •mrt night watchmen saved all the guests. A disastrous freight wreck on the Southern Railway occurred one nnd onehalf miles west of Lenoir City, Teno. Both trains were through freights ami were running nt a high rate of speed uud had n head-cud collision. Four trainmen were killed, three fatally wounded and several seriously injured. At Urnntsville, W. Va., Miss Jaunia Meta was entertaining a young man in her father's parlor when some one tired n bullet through the window nt her. The bullet passed within an in<4i of her head. George Taylor, tttltlc walking nloug the road near the Metz home, was shot at three times from nrnhush, one bullet passing through his coat. An unknown negro entered the residence of Mrs. Buchanan, In the heart of

Atlanta, Ga„ and compelled her to cook his breakfast. Then, tying her feet and hands, he quietly ate the breakfast, after which he set fire to the bouse. The negro escaped without being detected. Mr*. Buchanan screamed and assistance came before thy fire had gained much headway.

FOREIGN.

Cervcra has been made a vice admiral by the Queen Regent of Spain. Finns not occupying land will be given 2,000,000 marks by order of the Czar. Boers in bathing and shot seven of them. One of Prince Tuan’s proteges has started a rebellion iu the province of Kansu. The Manchester Evening Mail says Gen. Botha has formally surrendered to Gen. Kitchener. Sultan of Turkey has ordered 50,000 troops to put drfwn a threatened revolution iu Maredonia. Hunger has driven the peasant* t>f southern Italy to rioting and troops are protecting Ravenna. De Wet and Steyn, with 1,500 men, have crossed the Grunge river and escaped from their pursuers. Bodies of Verdi nnd his second wife were buried iu the chapel crypt of the Musicians’ Home at Milan. . . .. A band of seventy armed insurgents entered the town of Snog in the province of South Ilocos, Luzon, where they killed one native and abducted five. At midnight they attacked the town of Santa Maria, burning fifty houses. The insurgents were repulsed by the Americans, who had one man wounded.

IN GENERAL

About 12,000 acres of land in the central part of Sinaloa, Mexico, made into the largest orchard in the world, will be the culmination of piaus of New York and Chicago capitalists. Sixteen American men iu the employ of Messrs. Winters, Parsons & Boomer of Ross I and, B. C., who have a contract to do s'ome work for the Red Mountain Railroad, were ordered deported. It is announced by his private secretary that Webster Davis has sold his book on the Boer war for SIBO,OOO. A New York syndicate represented by Franklin Quinby is the purchaser. Capt. Wardi who was drowned, and Pilot Jordan are officially blamed for the steamer Rio de Janeiro disaster, the coroner’s jury returning a verdict at San Francisco charging both with criminal negligence. The National Switchmen's T’nion has presented a petition to General Superintendent Blodgett of the Lake Shore road, asking that standard of “Chicago” wages be paid all switchmen employed by the company outside of lhat city. The big British tramp steamer Samoa has been purchased by the United States government and when she arrives at San Francisco $200,000 will lie spent in fitting her up for transport service. The Samoa is on her way here from Hongkong. President George Uhler of the National Association of Marine Engineers has declared a strike of his organization and lake traffic is threatened with a tie-up. The strike is caused by the refusal of the Lake Carriers’ Association to grant the demands of engineers for additional help in the engine rooms. After having braved the perils and endured the discomforts of a trip to the interior of Alaska to wed W. H. Bledsoe. a pilot employed by the Alaska Commercial Company, Miss Nina Moore, an accomplished and beautiful girl of San Francisco, found upon, reaching her destination that her fiance was the husband Of a variety actress named Lloyd. Bradstreet’s says: “The strength of iron and steel this week recalls the boom of 1899. It is probable, too, that the broad and strong consumptive demand and not the operations of pools or cliques is responsible for the steady advance*. At Pittsburg Bessemer pig is 75 cents higher, and nt Chicago • Southern pig shows a similar gain. Steel billets now sell at $3 over the pool price for prompt delivery. The cereals are without notable change, wheat and corn being fractionally lower in a dull, scalping market. Corn is rather in lietter export demand, hut rumors of a “deal” at Chicago restrict operations somewhat. Wheat, including Hour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,233,313 bushels, against 3,424.392 bushels last week. Corn export* aggregate 4,185.440 bushels, against 3,207,008 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.70; hogs, shipping grad *s, $3.00 to $5.57; sheep, fair to choice, 83.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 75c to 70c; corn. No. 2,38 cto 39c; onts. No. 2,24 c to 25c; rye. No. 2,49 cto 50c: butter, choice creamery, 21c to 22e; eggs, fresh, 13c to 14c; potatoes, 39c to 41c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.55; sheep, common to prime. s3.o(Pto $4.00: wheat, No. 2,75 cto 70c; corn. No. 2 white, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50: sheep, $3.00 to $4.05; wheat. No. 2,71 cto 72e; com. No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats. No. 2,25 cto 2<Jc; rye, No. 2, cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $4.85; bogs, $3.00 to $0.00; sheep, SB.OO to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; onts, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 28c; rye. No. 2,50 cto 57c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.(50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.40; sheep, $2.50 to $51.50; wheat. No. 2,79 cto 80c; No. 2 yellow, 39c to 40o; onts, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c: rye. 53c to 54c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 78c; corn. No. 2 mixed. 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 28o; rye. No. 2,51 c to 52c; clover seed, prime, $0.50 to $6.75. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern. 72c to 73c; corn, No. 3, 370‘t0 38c; onts, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, No. 1,51 c to 52c; bnrley, No. 2,50 cto 57c; pork, mess, $13.50,t0 $13.90. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, fair to prime. $3.00 to $5.70; sheep, fair to choice, Jt.1.90 to $4.00; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.85. New York—Cattle, $1.25 to $5.30; hogs, SI.OO to $5.80; sheep, $3.00 to $4.80; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn. No. 2, 4«c to 47c: oata. No. 2 white, 82c to 88c; butter, creamery, 21c to 22e; eggs, western, 15c to 10c.

Congress.

•« WORK OF CONGRESS BRIEFLY SVHHED VP. •• ~ ~ Number of days in session. . 197 ” • > Number of hills introduced. .14,330 < > ;; \ \ Public acts 345 ’ “ Private acts ...’. 1,250 “ ;; ■ Thtal acts 1.595,11 • > Number of joint resolutions. 395'.. •* • • The chief event of Saturday was the passage by both houses of what is known as the omnibus public building hill. It increases the cost of buildings in thirtytwo States by $2,000,000. The day was devoid of exciting incident in either house, though the galleries were thronged with sightseers. The Senate passed the deficiency bill. Throughout the day •the House was in the throes of the closing hours of the session, with inajgy measures clamoring for attention, and with crowded galleries looking down upon the weary * legislators. Work began at 9 a. m. and proceeded until 5 o’clock in the afternoon, when a recess was tnk-, en until 9:30 p. m. to permit conference reports to he framed. Under suspension of the rules a number of important hills were passed, including those for a national standardizing bureau, for conferring bronze medals on the enlisted men of the navy and marine corps for distinguished heroism, and to amend the Chinese exclusion laws and the omnibus public buildings hill. The legislative appropriatiou bill was also finally disposed of, nnd many conferences were atjVanced. Both houses put in a large share of Sunday under the legislative fiction Lhat It was still Saturday. The House was in session from 2 to 0 in the afternoon, nnd resuming at 8 o’clock it worked on into the night to dispose of the conference reports which crowded in upon it. There was a big tight over the Senate amendment to the sundry civil bill, which linked together the fate of the St. Louts, Buffalo and Charleston exposition appropriations. The House refused to concur. The . conference report on the deficiency appropriation hill was concurred in, thus disposing of that measure. Conference agreements were reached on general deficiency, postollice and naval appropriation bills, the Senate receding on Holland submarine boat amendment to the last named. The Senate passed a bill urged by labor men regulating safety appliances on railroad trains. Senator Carter of Montana talked the river and harbor bill to death Monday and the SenafFadjourned at 11:55 o’clock without giving out the*“pork” contained in that great appropriation measure. Starting in early in the morning, Mr. Carter began his speech with the avowed intention of continuing until the life of the Fifty-sixth Congress should have expired. After a few weak and futile efforts to interrupt him the other Senators gave up all idea of preventing him from completing his talk. Finally at ll:qp o’clock the Montana Senator closed his, remarkable address and Senators Hoar of Massachusetts and Cockrell of Missouri announced that the Fifty-sixth session of Congress had completed its work. The action of the Senate on the sundry civil hill was followed by the Senate receding from the Charleston amendment to the St. Louis exposition bill, which had passed the House as a seijgrate measure. This action passed the hill appropriating $5,000,000 for St. Loqis. Very little interest attached to the proceedings of the House. Most of the time was consumed in recesses, these being taken nt frequent intervals iu anticipation of conference reports on appropriation hills. The hill carrying appropriations for the postal service was passed and the sundry civil hill was finally acted upon. Vice-President Roosevelt entered upon the discharge of his official duties as presiding officer of the Senate when that body met on Tuesday at Hood. He was soon required to make a ruling. During the reading of the journal Mr. Money desired to interrupt the proceedings, that Mr. McLnurin, his colleague, might take the oath of office. Mr. Morgan objected, saying that the reading of the journal should he completed. "I am of the impression tfiat the rules require the reading of the journal first,” announced Mr. Roosevelt when the matter was submitted to him for n decision. The announcement was quietly received, although it was noticed that the Viee-Preshlent had used a personal pronoun instead of saying "the chair is of the opinion.” During the session the President’s laminations for cabinet imsitions were received anil confirmed. “If there Is any appluuse or disorder the sergeant-nt-arms will clear the galleries.” This was Vice-President Roosevelt’s stem announcement as he took his place to preside over the Senate off Wednesday and rapped sharply with his gavels It was called out by the burst of. applause which followed his entrance into the chamber. Applause is strictly forbidden by the rules of the Senate, nnd the new Vice-President does not propose to allow the rules to he violated even by persons who wish to show their appreciation of himself. Mr. Morgan (Ala.), who on Tuesday offered a resolution declaring the abrogation of the ClaytonBuiwer treaty between the United States and Great Britain, *uldres*ed the Henate for nearly two hours upon his proposition. His admonitions to Great Britain were particularly sharp.

This and That.

Railways use up over 2,000,0(X) tons of steel n year, utmost half the world's product. Last year the total number of new’ Uooks published in the United States reached (5,358, or 853 more than in any previous year. Efforts made by F. Wnylnnd Brown and I)r. Augirst M. Unger, Chicago, to have quashed the indictments pending against them iu connection with the insurance policies ou Marie Beffcnbach, who died several months ago, have fall-* ed. The perfunctory manner in which witnesses arc sworn in English courts was illustrated recently during a trinl in London, nfter some twenty witnesses had given their evidence. ' It was then discovered that all had sworn on and kissed n copy of “The Guide to the Law of Landlord and Tenant.”

J fhe Good Natan of Genius. Conan tooyle looks a typical squire; he is tall, rather fair, with a heavy figure. He talks very slowly and deliberately, _ but Is far cleverer as a listener than a talker. He is one of the few men who have learned the art of sympathethic listening. In a way he is extremely vague. For Instance, the visitor may notice him putting a letter in one of his pockets and then searching carefully In the other for It. He Is a man' who would be always misplacing things for lack of method. But perhaps the thlpg that strikes you more than anything In Cfenan Doyle is tho great, l)lg heart in the man. .. f

AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARS

Mr* Doty of Highland, lowa, Restored, to Health—A Miraculous Case—Her Hsfbaad Is CnreJ of Bright's Disease by Same Meann Highland, lowa, March 4, 1901.—Special.)— Friends of Mrs. W. 11. Doty arevery much pleased to notice the wonderful improvement in her condition. For eighteen years she has been a sufferer from rheumatism, and the tortureshe has endured during this time i* past all description. Mrs. Doty tell* the following story: ”1 have suffered for the past eighteenyears with Kidney Trouble and Rheumatism. I have tried doctors, patent, medicines, plasters, liniments, electric treatments, and nothing did me any good. 1 had nearly lost all faith iu anything, when 1 sent for six boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. I said to my husband I expected that It was some moremoney thrown away, but when I had taken them a week L could see that they were helping me. The lameness I had suffered with for so long is nearly all gone. It is not a quarter as bad as It was. For years I had to wear a warm bandage around my forehead to I have beeu able to remove this altogether. “I cannot find words to express my heartfelt thanks to Dodd’s Kidney Pills for their wonderful cure of my ease. My husband has suffered from Kidney Trouble for years. Last spring a doctor said he had Bright’s Disease, and treated him, but he received no benefit, and he kept growing thinner and weaker all the time. When I got Dodd’s Kidney Pills he commenced taking four a day. He has taken them Ihree months and Is nearly well. Hi* strength Is Increased, and the Improvement In his case Is almost miraculous. Dodd’s Kidney Pills have certainly been a God send to us.” It Is Just cases like those of Mr. and Mrs. Doty that have made Dodd’s Kidney Pills so very popular in lowa. They are 50c a box six boxes for $2.50. Buy them from your local druggist if you can. If he cannot supply you, send to the Dodds Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

Good Guess.

Teacher—Suppose you had one pound of candy and give two-thirds to your little sister and one-fourth to your little brother, what would you have yourself? Scholar—Well, I guess I’d have the measles or something bo’s I wouldn't feel much likp eating.—Puck.

WHAT IS OVARITIS?

A dull, throbbing pain, accompanied by a sense of tenderness and heat low down in the side, with an occasional shooting pain, indicates inflammation. On examination it will be found that the region of pain show* some swelling. This is the first stage of ovaritis, inflammation of the ovary. If the roof of your house leaks, my sister, you have it fixed at once; why not pay the same respect to vour own body ? You need not, you ought not to let yourself go, when one of yonr own sex hold* out the helping hand to you, and will advise you without money, and without price. Write to Mr*. Pinkham. Lynn, Main, and tell her all your *ymp-

MRS. ANNIE ASTON.

tomM. Her experience in treating female ilia la greater than any other living person. Following la a letter from a woman who ie thankful for avoiding a terrible operation. “ I was Buffering to such an extent from ovarian trouble that my phyalcian thought an operation would bo necessary. “Lydia E. Pinkham’a Vegetable Compound having been recommended to me, I decided to try it. After using several bottles I found that I was cured. My entire system was toned, up, and I suffered no more with nsy ovaries”— Mbs. Anna Aaron, Troy, Ma

He Was Emphatic.

**l am informed that your husband la a professor of language*, axul I called to find out what bis terms are.” “Well, when be’a exetted they aro unfit for publication.”—Richmond Dispatch.

A Remedy for the Grippe.

Physicians recommend KKMP’M BALSAM for patients afflicted with the grip, as it ia rspecialls-wdapted for the throat and lung*. Don't wah for the first symptoms, but get a bottle to-day and keep it on hand for ut# the moment it it needed. If neglected the grip brings on pneumo* nia. KEMP’S BALSAM prevents this ay keeping the cough loose nod the luiiga free from inflammation. Ail druggists. 25c and 60c. Tffe Argentine Republic has offered a large tract of fertile land to Japanlf It will send her 20,000 Immigrants.