Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1902 — Page 6

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

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Two men were almost instantly killed and two injured, one dangerously, by the falling of a furnace gate weighing over a ton at Jones & Laughlins’ steel works in Pittsburg. The accident was due to the breaking of a chain which supported Abe gate. A convoy of empty wagons was attacked und captured by the Boers southwest of Klerksdorp (Transvaal colony). The escort consisted of a force of the Imperial Yeomanry; three companies of the Northumberland Fusilecrs and two guns. The lighting was severe. Cigarette smokers are not wanted at the Northwestern Academy, lOvanston, I’ll. Dr. H. F. Fisk, principal of the academy, made a speech to the students against their use, and ended by advising those who thought they couldn’t quit them to leave the academy. Maj. C. E. Washburn. Republican member of the Kansas City board of election commissioners, was found unconscious In an alley in West Ninth street. He was suffering from severe wounds on the face and head. Maj. Wushburn said his injuries were due to a fall. Frank Oilman, a pioneer settler, 71 years old, shot himself dead in a rooming house in Denver, Colo. He is the last of three brothers to kill themselves because of the loss of their father’s estate, which was valued at SIOO,OOO, but was eaten up by long litigation in ah attempt to break the will.

As the result of an explosion of gas at Aplington, lowa, a large new brick and stone block of Arernls & Ivrammer was badly wrecked and three persons were burned. The damage to the building and stock will reach several thousand dollars. The explosion was caused by carrying a lighted lantern into the basement to investigate the failure of a gas machine to work. The bankers' commission at Shanghai lias received the first installment of the Chinese indemnity, via Hongkong, amounting to 1,820,000 taels. The installment will he distributed to the powers in tlie following percentages: Russia, 29; Germany, 20; France, 15 7-10; England, It; Japan, 8; United States, 7; Italy, 0; Belgium, 2; Austria, 1; Holland, 2-10; Spain, 1-10. An epidemic of crime prevailed in the country surrounding Kansas City, Mo., during the twelve hours preceding noon Tuesday. At Lawrence, Ivan., Edward Katbermnn, a high school boy of excellent family, was shot dead on the street by ,T. It. Shane, a photographer. The motive is unknown. At Boonville, Mo., Charles Reis shot and killed his wife, owing to jealousy. At Marshall. Mo., Will Johns stabbed Mrs, George Whitney to death in a family quarrel. At Farmington, Mo, a human head was' found, apparently freshly severed from the body. The remainder of the corpse has not been found.

BREVITIES.

A. E. Batson was arrested at Spickard, Mo., charged with having murdered five members of the Earl family near Welch, La. The steamer Neckar, with 1,000 passengers hound for New York, after a narrow escape in nine days’ fight with gales, reached Halifax disabled. Dudley Johnson, white, and Benjamin Foster, colored, were hanged tit Asheville, N. C., for burglary, which is a capital offense in that State. President Roosevelt, acting upon the recommendation of Attorney General Knox, has dismissed Arthur B. Noyes, judge for the second district of Alaska, For the loss of both feet in being run over by a street car a jury sitting in the New York Supreme Court awarded 7-year-old Vincent Muessmau $150,000 damages. While her companion. Jack Kirk, was asleep, Lulu Watts, a variety actress of Nome, Alaska, attacked him iu a fit of jealousy and severed his head from nis body with a razor.

Attorney Ernest Wedekind of Chicago, dreading the disgrace of trial for alleged misappropriation of a client's money intrusted to him, killed himself while iu custody of ollieers. Charles Homer Anderson, aged 14. and Henry A. Bennie, aged 10, committed suicide in Chicago, the former because of grief for dead mother, the latter ou account of a love affair. Lieut. Gov. Tillman of South Carolina, nephew of the Senator, has asked President Itoosevelt to withdraw acceptance of invitation to take part in a sword presentation in that State. Several persons out walking found the remains of Lena May Prondergast, aged 17, who had been missing from ltonham. Texas, since Dec. 23. The girl was murdered and her body concealed iu a hollow stump. The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed National Bank Examiner J. W. Delay receiver of the First National Bank of Belmont, Ohio, upon telegraphic advice from the directors of the bank that they had closed the doors. George, John and Martin Stakumus, trot her* and miners, have been imprisoned by a cave-in iu the Cameron colliery at Bhamokin, Pa. For several hours their rapping upon the side of the breast could be heard, but then it ceased. One of the large refining tanks in A. Miller & Sou's oil refinery, Allegheny, Pa., exploded, the oil catching fire. No person, so far at known, was injured, us all the workmen are thought to have ' been away from the plant for dinner. John B. Sherman, founder and former president of the Chicago Union Stock Yards and Transit Company, died after a brief illness at his borne in Hint city. The Germnn Emperor's new schooneryacht, Meteor, was launched Tuesday from Shooter’s Island, New York. The boat was christened by Miss Alice Roosevelt. By a premature explosion of dynamite ou the grading of the Colorado Railroad at Babtown, fifteen miles south of Jeffersou City, Mo., Archibald Johnson of Chicago and C. K. Andrews of Marshall* gown, lowa, were killed.

EASTERN.

Kroonland, the largest vessel thus far built in the United States, was launched at Philadelphia, "Billy’’ Emerson, once famous minstrel, known all over the world, died in poverty in an obscure Boston hotel. Three high school boys at Westfield, Mass., were expelled because they persisted in eating onions for breakfast. Twelve Princeton students were arrested at Trenton, N. J., for painting class number on battle monument and houses. At Wilmerding, near Pittsburg, Pa,, in a bobsled accident, one young wojnan was killed and four other coasters badl.v Injured. Two workmen were killed and three injured at Beck’s Run, on the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad, by being struck by a train. Fifty lives were probably lost in New York in a fire which destroyed the Park Avenue Hotel aud Seventy-first regiment armory. Property loss was over $1,000,000. Seven of the precious stones in the altar of the Tiffany chapel, in the crypt of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, on Cathedral heights. New York, were lemoved by thieves. Vera A. and Charles Louen, 3 and 4 years of age respectively, were burned to death in a tire which destroyed the Rose Petit orphanage, on Hermitage lane, at Greendale, Worcester, Mass. Michael Leinkran, a passenger on the Kronprinz Wilhelm, was arrested by treasury officials in New York and uncut diamonds worth S4O,(MX), alleged to have been smuggled, were taken from him. Two women were injured and a dozen or more passengers badly hurt by an explosion on a Green Point trolley car in New York. The blowing up of the motor set fire to the ear and it was destroyed. Charles aud Willie Ralph Cramer, three runaway hoys from Latrobe, I’a., are held by the St. Louis police. On the hoys, none of whom is over 10 years old, was found $432 in bills. Cracksmen made a daring attempt to get at the vaults of the Varick Bank in New York, with the intention of looting them. They were scared from their purpose after they had severely wounded a night watchman. Isaac Henderson, aged 21), a theological student at Drew Seminary, New Brunswick, N. J., committed suicide there after having been driven insane by the belief that lie had been drawn irrevocably into a life of sin aud dissipation. His home was at West Lafayette, Ohio. While trying to replenish the oil in the beach lantern on the Sunken Meadows, near North Brothers Island, New York, the 14-year-old son of Samuel Wright, keeper of the lighthouse, was drowned by the upsetting of a rowboat in the lee and sleet. The father, who was with the boy, was rescued. The repair shop, the machine shop aud other buildings of the Fifth avenue branch of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad were destroyed by fire. Besides machinery, twenty-five elevated cars were destroyed. The loss is estimated at between $200,000 and $250,000. Three firemen were slightly injured. Four apartment houses in Kingston avenue, Brooklyn, were destroyed by fire. The fire was caused by the explosion of a steam heating boiler in the basement of one of the apartment houses. The flames spread rapidly to the three other buildings. All the occupants of the houses made their way to the street in safety. Six hundred men and boys went on strike at Hickory Ridge colliery, Sliamokin, l‘a., owned by the Union Coal Company. The strikers asked for tlie discharge of a clerk who, they said, treated them unfairly in dealing out supplies. The superintendent refused to grant their demand and the strike followed.

WESTERN.

Squads of minute men have been ordered to Wetfimka, Okla., to protect the town from the Crazy Snake Indians. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kennedy of Cochransville, Ohio, were drowned in the Ohio river opposite Sistersville, W. Va. President John W. Proudfit of the Alamo Gold Mining Company, operating at Cripple Creek, failed. His liabilities are estimated at $50,000. A 9-year-old boy at Ypsilanti, Mich., tied to railroad tracks by playmates, was rescued just in time to prevent death under an express train.

Northwestern limited train killed two employes of the road and badly injured another, who were working on the trucks at Sangamon street, Chicago. In Muncie, lud., fire destroyed the Economy shoe store, owned by Samuel Schwartz. The stock was valued at $17,000, with $13,000 insurance. Missouri Supreme Court denied the writ of mandamus asked for by the St. Louis school board to compel taxution of public franchises at their full value. Senator \V. A. Clark lias sold his group of Colusn-Purrolt mines to the Anaconda Company, thus ending costly litigation resulting from the discovery of cross veins. E. 11. Kirkhnm, 70 years old, proprietor of a general store at Coalgate, 1. T\, and a man of wealth, committed suicide in a Kansas City hotel by taking morphine. Edward Kinsella and Charles Matteso*, firemen, were killed while fighting a fire in the plant of the George 11. Smith Steel Castiug Compauy at Milwaukee. Attorney W. A. Lewis of Spokane, Wash., was sentenced to serve eight years and six months in the penitentiary at Walla Walla for stealing $225 from a client. George Childrose killed Henry Meyerer of Chicago, father of the girl he loved, and committed suicide because he had made arbitrary demands for money nud was jilted. Mrs. Richard M. Iveown was burned to death in an explosion of turpentine at her home in Milwaukee, and her little boy, Percy, was also badly burned, but will recover. A mandamus suit of the city of St. Louis against the State Board of Equalization to compel the assessment of franchise corporations has been filed In the Missouri Supreme Court. Hal Sayre, known ns the wealthiest youth of Denver, was killed at Roswell, N. M. It is said he attempted to enter a widow's house and. was shot by W. M. Vandyke, a rnlhvay engineer, who heard the woman’s outer/. Sayre was unarmed.

Sayre was a lieutenant in the rough riders and a personal acquaintance of President Roosevelt.

Charles Woodward has confessed at Casper, Wyo„ to the killing of' Sheriff Ricker. The confession came as a surprise, as he was expected to seek to prove that Jim Westfall did the killing. R. D. Flood, representing the Southwestern Broom Company of Evausville, Ind., has purchased 200 tons of broom corn brush from the Union Broom Supply Company at Charleston, UL The price was SIOO to $125 a ton. The shortage in the supply of water in the city reservoirs, causing low pressure, resulted in the entire destruction of the Lima Steel Casting Company’s big plant in South Lima, Ohio. The loss is about $75,000, with $25,000 insurance. A policy of close espionage over employes has been put in force by the United States Steel Corporation at the National plant in Youngstown, Ohio. A detective foree has been sworn in to protect the property and keep in close touch with the men.

A desperate but unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck the Connecticut zinc mine two miles northwest of Joplin, Mo. Unknown miscreants lowered two boxes of dynamite down the shaft and exploded it midway. Fortunately the damage done was slight. John Redell, who for five years has been at the head of the fire department of Omaha, has been formally dismissed from the service. The lire and police board, after hearing charges of cruelty and mistreatment of firemen and their families, found Redell guilty. Fire destroyed every building except two on the block bounded by Front, Main and Madison streets and the Willamette river, and the docks facing the river between Main aud Madison streets, Portland, Ore. Loss $70,000, principally to the flouring mill of Albers & Schneider. By a ruling of the United States Court of Appeals in, St. Louis it is held that a mortgage issued in one State is binding in any other State or territory and does not have to be refiled. This decision reverses the ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Indian territory. J. I. Moore of Chicago was found guilty of forgery at Mankato, Minn., and sentenced to five and one-half years in Stillwater penitentiary. Moore sold some land for a North Dakota man last sumenver and forged the purchaser's note and mortgage, getting S4OO by the transaction.

It is announced that subscriptions have been received in excess of the amount necessary to secure the SIOO,OOO offered by a New York man whose name has been kept secret for rebuilding Wooster, Ohio, University, recently destroyed by fire. The trustees will have $350,000 at their disposal. John T. Davis and his associates have discovered a mountain of arsenic in a range fifty miles southeast of Tacoma, Wash. The ore can be mined cheaply anil the property will be developed on a large scale. This is claimed to be the first important body of arsenic ever found in America. The House of Representatives of the Ohio Legislature has placed itself on record as being in favor of electing the United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. This action was taken when the Worthington resolution came up for consideration, it being adopted by a vote of 73 to 23.

Fire in the freight yards of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad at One Hundred and Forty-fifth street, Chicago, destroyed sixty freight cars. The Riverdale fire department, unable to cope with the fire, called ou Dalton for assistance, which responded, but not before the fire had burned itself out. Arthur Egan, the 17-year-old life saver who rescued twenty-three persons from Luke Michigan at Chicago, was the recipient of the only medal ever presented to an American for bravery by the Royal Humane Society of Great Britain. The presentation was made by Captain Wyndham, the British consul. A band of Crazy Snake's followers made a raid on Keokuk Falls, O. T., just across the line from the Creek Nation, rushed a hardware store, seized a lot of arms and ammunition, and tied. A posse immediately started in pursuit, and, It is said, captured several of the band after a two hours’ ruuning fight. Lake Shore express passenger train. No. 47, on the Norwalk division, was derailed and wrecked inside the city limits of Oberlin, Ohio. All the cars left the track and turned over, plunging into a ditch. The escape of the passengers was surprising, as the train was running forty miles an hour. The cause of the accident was a broken side arm on the engine. Fire from an unknown cause destroyed the entire plant of the Findlay, Ohio, Table Manufacturing Company, causing a loss of $97,000, with insurance of $50,000. The company manufactured fine dining room tables exclusively and represented one of tile largest industries of its kind in the country. As a result of the fire 100 men are thrown out of employment. James Lynch, a prisoner under sentence of death in the State penitentiary at Salt Luke, Utah,has made an atlidavit that L. E. King, also under n death sentence, had absolutely nothing to do with the attempted hold-up of a gambling house in that city, in September, 1900, when George lVouse was shot and killed and for which crime Lynch and King were convicted. Confined to her bed with a badTy injured ankle, the result of a fall, Miss Gertrude Gothie, aged 22 years, was shot and killed by her lover, George Sutton, aged 19 years, who, with his mother, had come to the young woman's hotnc in West Philadelphia to call. Still standing inside the bed, Sutton sent a bullet into his own breast, hut hospital physicians say lie will recover.

SOUTHERN.

L. Willbur Messer, general secretary, of Chicago, addressed the Kentucky Y. M. C. A., in session at Paducah. Th 4 dry goods store of Cordos & Mushy in Richmond, Va., with the entire stock, was destroyed by tire. The loss is estimated at $120,000, covered by insurance. Terry McGovern whipped Dave Sullivan in the fifteenth round of a fight before the Southern AthlctlcClub at Louisville. A fiercer fight was never seen iu the prize ring. A report has reached El Taso, Texas, that the Pennsylvania excursion train was wrecked on the Mexican Central a

considerable distance south. Five can left the rail*. Three children of John Thompson of Owingsville, Ky., were killed and another and the mother fatally injured by the explosion of a keg of powder which had been stored temporarily in the kitchen. A Virginia ts»d Southwestern passenger train was held up between Big Stone Gap and Intermount, Va. The robbers took S7O from a box in the baggage car and escaped. Officers have a clew to the guilty persons. Liddell Childs, a 12-year-old boy of Covington, Ga., suffering from hydrophobia, was taken to Atlanta for the Pasteur treatment. The boy was bitten by n dog two years ago, but rabies did not become manifest until the other day. He was out hunting with his brother, when suddenly he was seized with violent convulsions and began to froth at the mouth. John Bloomfield of South Portsmouth, Ky., was fined one cent for swearing and assessed $1 each for fifteen curses in Squire Austin’s court. It was 'alleged that Bloomfield engaged m a wordy war with William Wilburn, a neighbor, during the course of which the latter received a general cursing. According to a Kentucky law oaths are finable at $1 each. Alfred Witherspoon, president of the First National Bank of Lawrenceburg, Ivy., is in a precarious condition at his home, and Police Judge Porter Walker is under surveillance as the result of a duel between them with revolvers in a dry goods store. Witherspoon last fail had violated the ordinances by recklessly firing a revolver in the town and shooting into some windows, and Walker, as judge of the police court, had fined him S2OO. Since that time feeling between them has been high.

FOREIGN.

The Pope has entered on the twentyfifth year of his pontificate. Information was received at the American consulate at Salonieh that Miss Ellen M. Stone and her companion, Mrs. Tsilka, have been released and arrived at the village of Strumnitza at 3 o’clock Sunday morning in good health. It is freely stated in London that Gen. Louis Botha, the chief Boer commandant, had managed to get direct communication with Lord Milner aud had offered to surrender on certain conditions, the chief being that he shall not be bauished from South Africa. Gen. De Wet, with 400 followers, broke back northward through the blockhouse line, ten miles west of Lindley, Orange River eolouy. The blockhouses opened fire on the Boers, two of whom were killed. The remainder got away to their old ground near Reitz. Spain is in the throes of a revolution, having for its storm center Barcelona, where bloody riots are of daily occurrence. Government fears civil war everywhere, and the destinies of the nation are in the hands of Gen. Weyler, who commands the army forces. A detachment of the Scots Greys (Second Dragoons), one of Great Britain’s crack dragoon regiments, has been cut up by the Boers at Klipdam. Maj. C. W. M. Feilden and Capt. E. Ussber were severely wounded, two men were killed, six wounded and forty-six captured.

At the annual meeting of the Wilsons and Union Tube Company in Glasgow the chairman said no dividend could be declared because of the unparalleled slump ip prices, due to American competition and the dissolution of the combination of tubemakers. The directors decided to close the works at Govan. What is believed to have been the largest existing band of insurgents in Batangas province, Luzon, has surrendered to Lieut. Charles D. Rhodes of the Sixth cavalry at Banan. Maj. Amoranto, two captains, six lieutenants and ninety-eight Filipino soldiers gave themselves up, and also surrendered five revolvers, sixty-six rifles and two thousand rounds of ammunition.

IN GENERAL.

A daring attempt was made to rob the I.ondon and Mexico Bank, iu the City of Mexico, by an unknown robber, who, after killing the cashier and seeing that ho would be captured, blew his own brains out. The annual encampment of the G. A. R., under an agreement between the G. A. R. executive committee and a committee of Washington business men, will be held at the national capital during the week commencing Oct. 0. President Roosevelt has decided to ask for the resignation of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow, who sent inspectors to West Virginia to investigate the private life of a man mentioned for a postofflee in that State. All the sixty companies distributed here and there throughout the United States and now conducted os separate concerns which constitute the asphalt trust, are to be merged into one concern, the reorganized National Asphalt Company. The United States government is now perfectly satisfied ns to the correctness as to Russia’s intemions respecting Manchuriu. The pledges heretofore obtained from Russia have been renewed nud reenforced so strongly that they must be accepted ns satisfactory. "Jack’’ Morgan, said to have been a former law partner of Senator Patterson of Colorado, a nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan, committed suicide at Chihuahua, Mexico, by blowing out his brains. Morgan weut there with $lO,000, which he squandered in riotous living. Fifty cents a dozen more for brooms will be charged by the broom manufacturers of the United States and Canada within a short time. An advance of 25 cents a dozen has already gone into effect, hnving been ordered at the meeting of the Broom Manufacturers’ Association of the United States and Canada.

Secretary Long states that the report that he intended leaving the cabinet was quite true. He says he has fixed upon no specific date for bis leaving and he has not yet formally sent his resignation to tho President nnd might not do so for some time. The President, however, was fully aware of his purpose, which was formed many months ago. The officers along the border are watching for Frank McCarthy, a Wells-Fnrgo messenger, who is alleged to have robbed his car at San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The story of the disappearance of McCarthy as told to the officers is that he jumped from his car just as the train was leaving San Luis Potosi, and it is claimed took with him between $35,000 and $40,000.

Congress.

With the exception of a few minutes given to routine business, the Senate on Thursday devoted its entire session to the Philippine question. Mr. Patterson of Colorado, one of the minority members of the Philippine committee, delivered his first extended speech in the Senate, and was given careful attention. Other addresses were made by Senators Nelson of Minnesota and ‘McCumber of North Dakota. The House spent the day working on the Indian appropriation bill. Forty-two of the sixty-two pages were disposed of. The appropriation for preliminary work in tlie reservoir for the Gila river valley went out on a point of order. Mr. Smith (Arizona) offered an amendment to strike out the appropriation for tbo Carlisle School, but it was defeated.

For more than six hours on Friday the Senate had the Philippine tariff bill under discussion. Mr, Bate delivered a carefully prepared speech in opposition to the pending measure. He was followed by Mr. Spooner in a brilliant defense of the Republican attitude toward the Philippine Islands. Mr. Spooner became involved frequently In heated colloquy with members of the minority. Mr. Tillman began a, characteristic arraignment of the administration in the Philippines, but had not concluded when the Senate adjourned. Tbo House passed the Indian appropriation bill. No amendments of importance were attached to it Friday. The latter part of the session was devoted to the consideration of private claims bills, a number of which were passed. A resolution was passed providing for an investigation of Mr. Nardin’s relations to the Shoshone Indian School.

Senators Tinman and McLanrin of South Carolina indulged in fisticuffs during a dispute in the Senate chamber on Saturday and Both were held in contempt. The Senate on Monday passed the Philippine tariff bill by a vote of 4G to 26, a strict party vote. Final debate was begun at 11 o’clock, and a vote was taken at 4 o’clock. Aside from the controversy over the Tillman-McLaurin incident there was no especial feature to the proceedings, with the exception of a possibility of an encounter between Senators McComas and Wellington of Mnryland. who indulged in a caustic tilt. The House passed a bill to divide Texas into four judicial districts, and also the Towney resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information concerning the transfer of sugar lauds in Cuba since the American occupation. It then transacted some business pertaining to the District of Columbia, and later took up the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. The bill carries an appropriation of sl,931.G78, an increase of $82,950 over last year. It was made the vehicle for speeches on trusts, coinage and other irrelevant matters. —:-

The Senate was iu session but fifteen minutes Tuesday, adjourning out of respect to the memory of the late Congressman Rosseau O. Crump of Michigan. The names of Senators Tillman and McLaurin have been restored to the Senate roll, from which they were stricken by direction of President Pro Tempore Frye. This does not mean that they will be permitted to speak or vote, for the Senate as a body will take up the ease of the South Carolina offenders and decide upon some action before a vote is taken on any other question. This action is the result of a desire to take from the shoulders of tlie president pro tempore the responsibility for curbing the two men and shift it to the Senate as a whole. The House passed the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. It was the fifth of the regular aunual supply measures to be sent to the Senate at this sessioa. No amendments of importance were adopted. The feature of the day was a speech by Mr. Richardson (Ala.) in reply to Mr. Corliss’ speech a few days ago in favor of the construction of a Pacific cable by the government. The question of reforming the consular service was debated at some length, but no amendments on that subject were offered.

The House on Wednesday sent the Philippine tariff bill to conference, nonconcurring in all the Senate amendments. The Democrats sought to amend the amendments by reducing the rate of duty and declaring that the United States should relinquish all claim to the archipelago, but all their propositions were defeated. Mr. Tawuey of Minnesota made a personal explanation regarding Gov. Toole of Montana, saying that in formerly classing the Governor ns an opponent of Gov. Van Sant in the railroad merger e**e he had been under n misnpprehensioil. The Senate transacted no business.

In the National Capital.

Graduation of Naval Academy class on May 1 will add sixty officers to the navy. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Col. F. L. Guenther, to be brigadier general. Gov. Taft told a Senate committee the snlaries of the Philippine commission are too small; should be increased. President Roosevelt informed the cabinet be hoped to end the Schley controversy by his appeal decision. Former Secretary Gage is said to have accepted the presidency of the United States Trust Company of New York. Republican members of the ways and means committee have agreed to grant tariff concessions of 20 per cent to Cuba, providing the island will enact our immigration laws. The question of States rights is involved iu the Tillmau-McLnuriu suspension. Democrats declare a State cannot he deprived of its representation by holding Senators in contempt. House judiciary committee has favorably reported bill for national bureau of criminal identification in Washington. Gen. Corbin lifts announced the names of officers and enlisted men of the army who are to be rewarded for bravery in campaigns of Cuba. Philippines «nd China. Democrats in Congress deny Ifrat nny changes will bo made in the sensational speech delivered by Representative Wheeler of Kentucky. The Republicans will circulate it broadcast as campaign material.

A WESTERN CANADA FARMER. .

Seven Tears Ago He Had but |34— How He Has Seventy Head of Cattle. This Is Whst a Couple of Esstsre Farmers Learned When on s Recent Trip to Canada. Splendid Words About Saskatoon, Rqsthere and Haguo District, Where They Will Locals. <5?-

Messrs. J. E. Blum and J. Grumper •f Manchester, Washtenaw County, Michigan, paid a visit to Alberta last summer and saw there a Mr. Shantz, one of the good old Pennsylvania stock, who had come recently—some peTen years ago—from Ontario, with $24 In his pocket He has certainly prospered, as he now owns over seventy head of cattle, has a good log house framed over, also a good barn, and in all respects looks a thrifty and well-to-do farmer. He bad some good crops of oats and barley. After spending soma days In Calgary and Edmonton they returned to Regina, Asslnlbola, and looked around the country north to Lun*den and Balgonle, where the crops appeared very promising and heavy, continuing up the Regina and Long Lake road, they came to Saskatoon, on the crossing of the South Saskatchewan river. Of this district they say: “The country here pleased us better than any we have seen. We drove out eighteen miles In a northwesterly direction through the Smith settlement. This Is a wonderful district; the growth was splendid, all kinds of grains and roots were perfection. The older settlers bad good buildings of all kinds and looked very prosperous. In fact we came to the conclusion tliat we had found what we were looking for, a good country. While the nature of the soli changes and is in some parts light, in others stony, and again heavy, generally speaking It leaves nothing to be desired. Hay and water are also !n abundance, and wood can be found along the river slopes and Islands. We have decided to locate there and shall certainly advise our friends to do likewise. We also trust that this report may have the effect of drawing the attention of land seekers to this district, and can honestly advise all such to locate there. They will find a good thing. • As farmers ourselves, from a good district In Michigan, we have come to the conclusion that properly farmed Western Gauada will grow almost anything.” Ask for Information from any agent of the Canadian Government.

Best Lawyer in Town,

Jim Webster was being tried for bribing a colored witness, Sam Johnsing, to testify falsely. "You say the defendant offered yon SSO to testify In his behalf?" asked the lawyer of Sam. "Yes, sah.” "Now, repeat what he said, using his exact words.” “He said he would give me SSO if I—” “He didn’t speak la the third person, did he?” “No, aah; he tuck good care dat dav were no third pusson ’round; dar wae only two—us two.” “I know that, bnt he apok* to you in the first person, didn't he?” “I was the fust pusson myself, sah.” “You don’t understand me. When he was talking to you did he say: “I will pay you $50?” “No, sah; he didn’t say nothin’ ’bout you payin’ me SSO. Your name wasn't mentioned, ’ceptia’ he told me es eber I got into a scrape you was the best lawyer in San Antone to fool the jedge and de jury—in fac’, you was de best in town to cover up reskelity.” For a brief, breathless moment the trial was suspended.—Detroit Free Press.

Another Man Altogether.

Valley, Mo., Feb. 24.—There is a mao In thla town who has undergone a most remarkable physical change in the last few months. His name is Perry Nelson and those who knew him but a short time ago arc amazed at his present condition. He had not been feeling well for some time and suspecting that the trouble came from bis kidneys, which he knew were not nny too strong, he determined to try a kidney medicine. Dodd’s Kidney Pills were highly recommended and Mr. Nelson began a treatment of them. He was awarded by a complete restoration to vigorous good health. He says: “I used six boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills and they have helped me a great deal. I feel like another man and can recommend Dodd’s Kidney Pills very highly.”

Off-Hand Enlightenment.

“Pa, what's th’ difference between •port an’ pastime?” “People make money on sport, Jimmie, but pastime has to be its owu re-ward.”—-Chicago Record-Herald. Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 24th.—Tbe activity at the laboratory of the Garfield Tea Co. la further evidence of the popularity of their preparation*; over THREE MILLION FAM-t I LI KB used th* Qarfleld Remedies last year! Thla vaat public approval apeaka well for the remedlea. They are: Qarfleld Tea. Gar-! Held Headache Powder*. Qarfleld Tea Syrup,] Qarfleld Relief Plnatera, Qarfleld Belladonna Plaatera, Qarfleld Digestive Tablet* and' Qarfleld Cold Cure.

For hie service* the chef of a big hotel may receive SIO,OOO a year, a big salary for cooking, but by no means out of proportion to his valu* to the hotel.

Coughing Leads to Consumption.

Kemp’s Balsam will atop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan* gerous.

There Is a period of life when w« go backward as we advance.—Rousseau.

$200.00 PAID.

To the mother on the birth of her child. Coeta $2.00 per month. Write for par-, ticular*. The Mother*' Association, Phlk adeiphia, Pa.

Do yon Uk* Mrs. Austin's new dress? /