Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1902 — Page 2

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

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

Ralph D. Clark, Joseph White and William Beacon were killed by a train on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway at Langhorne, Pa. Clark and White were painters employed by the Reading company, and Beacon wai a colored resident of Langhorne. The Wayne Circuit Court handed down a decision holding that the savings depositors of the wrecked City Savings Bank of Detroit must be preferred over the commercial depositors in the distribution of the money to be .realized from the. sale of the bank's real estate investments. Efforts are being made to form a combination of over a score of the wholesale grocery firms throughout Ohio and Michigan. Options have been secured on the majority of the leading houses in the two States, and the promoters of the combination are confident of Hie success of the project. A report from Parral, Mexico, says that Charles Gilbert Webb, who was recently captured there by Postoffice Inspector Fredericks of Denver and an El Paso detective, is no longer in jail, but that the suspect’s brother, I .ester Webb, has in some mysterious manner substitutes! himself for the prisoner. Fire swept through the Adams Express Company's freight house and the freight offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in Chicago. The damage to the buildings will not amount to more than $3,000. Express freight, valued at $25,000, was put in jeopardy mid a large amount of if wasdamaged by water. Two scrubwomen prevented a wholesale jail delivery at Kokomo, Ind. Guy Neff. Bert Lackey and Bert Lewis, reputed leaders of a gang of thieves, took advantage of the absence of Sheriff liarnews and with saws slipped to them in pies sawed off their cell bars. 'Hie women held the crowd at bay till the door could be locked. The schooner S. G. Dunn reached Oswego, N. Y., after a perilous trip on Lake Ontario, the crew facing death for many hours. The Dunn, which is in command of Captain William Wakely, was bound from Fairhaven to Toronto with a cargo of coal. Soon after leaving Fairhaven water began to come into the hold and gained so fast that it could not be kept down with the two pumps. Captain Wakely succeeded in working his way to Oswego with his sinking boat, and a tug responded to his signals of distress when a few miles away. The Dunn went to the bottom as soon as she reached the dock.

NEWS NUGGETS.

The Countess De (’astellane, formerly Anna Gould of New York, has given birth to a son. Extra session of Maryland Legislature eompletisl its business and adjourned In two and a half hours. The ferry that crosses the Danube near Orsova, a Servian frontier town, sunk. Seventeen persons were drowned. Anton Adler, 36 years of age. shot and fatally wounded his wife, Lizzie, six years his senior, at St. Louis, while in a jealous frenzy. President Roosevelt has decided to appoint John S. Clarkson, former First Assistant Postmaster General, surveyor of the port of New York. It is announced that the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks has purchased the Hotel Bedford at Bedford City, Ya., and will convert the building into a national Elks' home. Isaiah Rhodes of Bailey's Gap, N. Y., announces that his daughter, Mrs. James McGowan, aged 28, of Tucker's Corners, gave birth to five children, all girls, and that all are doing well.

Prominent Seattle business men and politicians have announced their intention to construct a railroad from Resurrection bay through central Alaska to Rampart City—s 74 miles. The Senate voted to extend the provisions of the present Chinese exclusion act until Dec. 7, 1904, and applied them to the Philippines and other insnlar possession* of the United "States. A courier who arrived at Canton the other day reported that more than 2,000 imperialist soldiers sent by Marshal Hu against the rebels were ambushed in a narrow defile and were killed or captured. Gunnery Lieut. 11. S. Bourne, Lieut. Miller and nine bluejackets were instantly killed by the bursting of a 12-inch gun on board the British first-class battleship Mars, during gun practice oft Berehuven. Australia. Mrs. Wallace E. King and her two children were burned to death in their home at Wallin, Mich. The tire, which started from an unknown cause, destroyed a store and two houses. The financial loss is >B,OOO. 'f*he Protestant Episcopal Church of the Savior on Thirty-eighth street. Phil- \ adelphia took fire and was soon destroyed. Surrounding property was in imminent danger. The loss is estimated at >150,000, covered by insurance. An infernal machine passed through the Grand Junction, Colo., poutotiiee and was delivered to Isaac (’. Wyiniisi, the Boston millionaire, to whom it was addressed. Mr. Wyman handled the package carefully and there was no exjjpaion. Gen. Malavar, Filipino insurgent leader and dictator, has surrendered himself and his command unconditionally and orders all Philippine insurgents to cease fighting. It is thought in Washington and Manila this practically ends the war. After drinking ten glasses of whisky, ten glasses of gin and ten cans of beer and eating twenty-four hard-boiled eggs for the edification of three white men, according to report, John Hamilton, 25 years old, colored, was found dead in Cincinnati. When Coroner Schwab viewed the remains Lena Davis told of the gormandising feat. The Bussian minister of the interior, M. Hiplagulne, was shot at ami fatally wounded in the lobby of the ministerial offices In St. Petersburg by a man who held a pistol close to the minister’s pet* •on.

EASTERN.

Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage died* in being unconscious two days. Fire nt Washington, D. C., caused a loss of $60,000 to the American lee Company and other firms. A shower of mud lasting two minutes darkened the sky and spattered windows at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. David B. Hill's boom for the Democratic nomination for President in 1904 was launched at a meeting of Tammany Hall, New York. Frederick Bryton, the well-known actor, who was associated with Clara Morris at one time, is dead at his home in Rochester, N. Y. Mrs. Alda Collins, wife of Elmer I*. Collins, a young farmer of Portville, Del., was murdered and her mutilated body found in a stable.

In course of bitter debate on the subject of. elections Senator Depew announced his purpose to retire from public life at the end of present term. Fire in Brooklyn, N. Y., destroyed the furniture factory of Masel & Huebner and the pipe foundry of David Binns. Several frame tenements were also burned. The loss is estimated at SIIXI.OOO. The engagement of Helen Gorman Wild of Baltimore to Prince Eugene of Sweden, fourth son of the King of Sweden and Norway and hitherto regarded as a possible heir to the throne, seems certain to be fulfilled. Fire which destroyed the Wallace block in Pittsburg drove thirty families from their homes. The block was a 3-story brick. The flames spread with wonderful rapidity and many narrow escapes by the tenants were made. Steps have been taken by the children of Col. John McKee, the Philadelphia colored millionaire real estate dealer, to prevent the registration and execution of the decedent's will, which bequeaths the balk of his $2,000,000 estate to an orphans' home under the control of Archbishop Ryan ami the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. It is stated that the Allied Securities Company, which was incorporated in New York with $2,000,000 capital, was organized to acquire all the large woven wire concerns in the country. The company, it is said, obtained a controlling interest in the Page Woven Wire Fence Company of New Jersey, which recently acquired the property of the Page Woven Wire Fence Company of Illinois. What is said to be one of the most peculiar death certificates received by the New Y’ork Board of Health in many years has been filed in the case of Mrs. Bridget O’Connell, 62 years old. It states that her demise was due to “apoplexy caused by her husband’s death in the Civil War thirty-eight years ago.” Mrs. O’Connell became paralyzed on one side when she was informed that her husband had lost his life in battle. A second stroke brought death.

W. E. Koch, a jeweler at Y’ork. Pa., has found cash and securities valued at $15,000 in an ol«l chest. Several years ago Koch purchased for a trifling sum fit a public sale a small antique chest. Having no immediate use for it, he placed it in the garret oyer his place of business. Finally he decided to use the box, and upon taking it apart for repairs a false bottom was found, underneath which was found the hidden wealth. The former owner of the chest is unknown. The proudest passenger to walk down the gang plank of the Deutschland when she made her dock in New York was Herbert Cummings, a young mulatto sent over on the same steamer by a florist to decorate the cabin of Prince Henry on bis return voyage from this country. The lad was detailed to attend to the floral decorations on board Emperor William's yacht Hobenzollern while she was in port, and the prince liked him so well that he asked that he be sent to Bremen when he sailed on the Deutschland. At the end of the voyage Prince Henry presented to him a handsome gold watch and chain and gave him a letter of recommendation.

WESTERN.

James Jackson, colored, was hanged nt Kansas City for the murder of Prophet Everett, also colored. The theatrical syndicate will build a new theater in Randolph street, Chicago, to be called the Iroquois. ( Gov. Nash of Ohio says he will appoint Lieut. Gov. Nlppert to the vacant probate judgeship at Cincinnati. George E. Chamberlain of Portland, Ore., was nominated for Governor by the Democratic State convention. The State Bank at Milligan, Neb., was broken into, the safe blown and robbed of a considerable amount of money. Fire in the Baptist Female College at Lexington, Mo., created a panic among the students, but none was injured. Perry A. Hull, Chicago lawyer and politician, died at Beaumont, Texas. He had been ill but one week from pneumonia. Railroad companies headed oft Chicago freight handlers* demand for higher pay by granting increase totaling >25,000 a month. Fire destroyed the storehouse of the Kansas City Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company, causing >IOO,OOO loss, partly insured. The wheat crop throughout Missouri is reported to be In tine condition and the average, 54 per eent, larger than the previous year. James Ross, Jr., a wholesale grocer of Kansas City, filed a petition in bankruptcy, placing liabilities at >20,000 and assets >12,000. Fire destroyed the seven-story apartment building, the Tashmoo, in Chicago. One fireman was killed. The loss is estimated at WOO.OOQ. Henry Harrison Hyatt of Toledo, a 5 ale sophomore, has been nominated n cadet in West Point Military Academy by Senator Hanna. In n fight between deputy sheriffs and desperadoes near Braggs, I. T„ four men were killed and seven wounded, among them a noted outlaw. Report tiled at Wapakoneta. Ohio, accuses thirty-three former county officials and seven newspaper/ of drawing nearly >25,000 in violation of law. Heavy Hardware Dealers* National Union at Bt. Louis elected J. A. Gregg of St. Paul president nnd W. C. Brown of Chicago secretary-treasurer. Seventy-two hours after Prof. Jose|Hi M. Mi|ler murdered Miss Carrie M. Jeunett with a hatchet iu Detroit, Mich.,

he was in Jackson prison, sentenced to spend the rest of bls life there at hard labor. Max Rollins, a jeweler of Youngstown, Ohio, committed suicide by shooting. In the past year he lost heavily, and this is assigned as the cause of suicide. Rev. Granville Lowther at McPherson, Kan., says he will appeal from the verdict of the Methodist committee finding him guilty of heretical teachings. Edward Kelly, “king of safe blowers,” arrested by Chicago police and escaped, knocking down Lieut. McCann, big captor; dived into cellar window to escape sliots and was caught again. A. T. Sharpe, a traveling salesman for Parke, Davis & Co. of Detroit, was stabbed to death at Memphis by a young man, who afterward gave himself up, saying he acted in self-defense. The Burlington road has made public the details of a record-breaking of 14.8 miles, from Eckley to Wray, Colo., made March 24. The distance was covered at the rate of 98.6 miles an hour. Part of the Chicago express on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad was wrecked by an open switch ut Sheffield, Mo. No one was injured and the train continued north after a delay of two hours. Rev. T. L. Niehols, founder of "The Christian Brethren,” who arrived in St. Louis on the mission ship Megiddo, says that the millennium will come in ten years, and that when it does mankind will be able to fly. Judge Kennedy of the Central police court in Cleveland discharged Charles Anderson, who shot and killed William Franks in South Euclid, a suburb. After a brief hearing, the court said it was a clear ease of self-defense. lowa’s Twenty-ninth General Assembly adjourned Friday evening, though officially the session is supposed to have adjourned at noon. Tardy action of the committee ou enrolled bills caused the delay. The session enacted about 225 laws.

Prof. Joseph M. Miller in Detroit confessed to committing the murder of Carrie M. Jennett. She was one of the pupils of Miller, who is a musie teacher, and was on her way home from a lodge meeting when he killed her by cutting her throat. On account of having to pay a premium of from 1 to I*4 cents over May wheat, together with a decline in the demand for flour and high freight rates, about 50 per cent of the Minneapolis flour mills have closed down for an indefinite length of time. John Boyles shot and killed his wife in a jealous quarrel at McComb, Ohio. The woman was shot through the right temple with a 38-caliber revolver. Boyles says she had the pistol, and as he was trying to get it away from her it was discharged. Leon, the young son of J. Simon, a prominent merchant, was knocked down by an automobile at Middleton, Ohio. When picked up he was a mass of broken bones and lacerated flesh. Physicians’ i efforts were in vain, the boy dying an hour after the accident. The trustees of the Cincinnati public library have been apprised that Andrew Carnegie had offered to give to Cincinnati SIBO,OOO for the establishment ot six. branch libraries on condition that SIB,OOO be annually appropriated for maintenance. The gift was accepted. Prof. J. 11. Beale of Harvard law school has been granted six months’ leave and upon Invitation of President Harper will act as dean of the University of Chicago’s new law school. Prof. Beale plans to establish a school as nearly like the Harvard law' school as possible. Wesley Stults, a grain dealer, has sold his elevator at Monroe, Ind., and may remove from the town. He recently received anonymous letters containing threats to burn his elevator. Those threats so preyed on his mind that he determined to get rid of the property. By the consolidation of the St. Louis and Union Trust companies one of the strongest financial institutions is formed in St. Louis. The new company, which will be known as the St. Louis Union Trust Company, has a capital stock of $5,000,000 and a surplus of $3,750,000. In -Lincoln, Neb., Lawrence Stultz, aged 14, is dead and Louis Fairchild, of the same age, was taken to the city jail with a charge of murder placed against him. The boys quarreled at a ball game as to who should be umpire and Stultz was struck, fracturing the temple. John Donovan, night watchman at the Ryan Annex building, St. Paul, was squeezed to death in the passenger elevator. He was caught as he hung over the edge of the floor, the abarp edge of the car pinching him across the small of the back. The great pressure broke his spinal column. Mrs. Martha J. Calhoun, aged 75, and her daughter, Mrs. Yaugbn, aged 46, were shot and killed by an unknown )>erson two miles east of Mantua station, Ohio. Will Vaughn, a stepson of the younger woman, is locked up in Ravenna jail because of circumstances which are alleged to incriminate him.

The fifth supposedly incendiary tire iu South Chicago within twenty-four hburs destroyed St. Patrick's Catholic Church, spread to adjoining buildings, and despite tlie efforts of the firemen threatened for a time to devastate a large portion of the district. It was not quelled until utter great damage hud been done.

SOUTHERN.

Fire In Garnett Bros.' lumber yard at Louisville, Ky., destroyed lumber valued at >70,000. Gov. Sayres of Texas has issued nn appeal for aid for the Zapata County drought sufferers. W. J. Polk, relative of former President Polk, was found dead at Decatur, Ala., and iif supposed to have been murdered. Albert F. German, Louisville bank clerk, was sentenced to seven years in prison on conviction of fraud and embexxlement. Mrs. W. T. Baynes nnd two daughters were drowned at De Soto, Miss., nnd Charles Fleming met u like fate in trying to save them. A big deposit of nitrate of potash has lieen discovered in El Paso County, Texas, near ths Diablo Mountains. The discovery was made by the University mining survey. When a constable seised him in court nt Fallsburg, Ky., George Cooksey, a Philippine war veteran, killed the officer.

The judge thereupon fired from the bench and wounded Cooksey. Gen. Wade Hampton died at Columbia, S. C. His death resulted not from any disease, but from a general breakdown. Gen. Hampton celebrated his eightyfourth birthday the previous week. Five members of a sheriff’s posse "were killed and four or five men wounded in a pitched battle with a band of outlaws headed by James Wright in Scott County. Virginia, where the band has been hiding in the mountains. YVright was wounded and captured. James D. Brown, aged 55, a prominent North Christian, Ky., planter, and William Pulley, his tenant, fought a pistol duel in the public road over a tobacco crop settlement. Brown w’as shot seven times and instantly killed. Pulley was shot through the shoulder.

FOREIGN.

It is officially announced that the triple alliance in Europe will be renewed in its old form. The London Financial News says it is stated the loan of $5,000,000 to be raised by Corea will be financed in the United States instead of Japan. Oriental advices say that Japan was visited by a cyclone recently. It destroyed seventeen fishing villages, killing forty persons and injuring hundreds of others. General strikes involving tens of thousands of men and affecting many industries are started all over Belgium. Troops to the number of 35,000 are called into service. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in budget statement in the English House of Commons, proposed revival of’ancient duties on grain and flour because of heavy w’ar cost. Britain’s balance sheet for the year shows deficit of £58,000,000. Emperor William has undergone a surgical operation on the face, a fact that became known when he canceled an engagement for himself and the-Empress to dine at the Austrian embassy. It is said the operation is not serious. At the close of the celebration of a grand mass the tower of the cathedral of Cienta, in Madrid, collapsed and destroyed three adjoining houses and part of the doisters. Two bodies and a number of injured persons have been recovered from the ruins. The Italian authorities continue to collect “conscience money” for the Vatican as a result of their efforts to run down the miscreants who robbed the pontiff of 8,000,000 francs. The latest parcel of stolen property returned consisted of SBO,OOO in American government bonds. The French Minister of the Colonies, M. Dechais, has received the report of a revolt in French Congo. On March 4 a large body of natives came down the banks of the Sangha river. They looted all the factories, massacring all the officials, European and native, at the Keleinpa. M. Cazeneuve, director of the Sangha River Company, was killed and the factory, containing goods worth $30,000, was pillaged.

IN GENERAL

Eugene F. Ware of Kansas has been selected HF the President to succeed H. Cljy. Evans as Commissioner of I’en"sions. President Roosevelt announces Gov. Dole’s course has been snch as to warwant his continuance as Governor of Hawaii. Christian workers of the United States and Canada have been called to meet at Winona Lake, Ind., from June 30 to July 5. Senator Hanna wins fight for acceptance of bond for SIOO,OOO bail for Maj. Rathbone, and the latter will be released from Havana jail. The Canadian Pacific purposes building storage elevator of 1,000,000 bushels’ capacity at Port Arthur, Ont., at once and the Canadian Northern also will increase its elevator capacity by 1,500,000 bushels. Arrangements have been completed for the formation of a gigantic rival to the United States Steel Corporation. The new company will be incorporated in Trenton, N. J., and will have a capital of $200,000,000. Judge Eli Torrence, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., has issued a new series of general orders. The thirty-sixth national encampment will be held at Washington this year by decision of the national council. President Roosevelt cabled'Gen. Chaffee to investigate thoroughly all charges of cruelty to natives by American soldiers and let no guilty man escape. Gen. Smith and those concerned in “water cure” accusations probably will be courtmartialed.

A representative of the McCormick Company of Chicago has been in Toronto, Ont., for about a month and has selected four suitable sites for a branch of the firm* reaper works. The Chicago managers will decide which site to purchase and work on buildings will be rushed this summer. After three years’ discussion the leading stove manufacturers of the United States are perfecting a consolidation in which between forty nnd fifty of the largest plants will be united. The present movement is being fathered by Mazard Kahn, a leading manufacturer of Hamilton, Ohio, nnd Mr. Warren of Detroit. Bodies of Bessemer iron ore almost free from phosphorus and hundreds of miles in extent have been found on islands which line an inland sea along the coast of British Columbia nnd southeastern Alaska. The islands were supposed to be valueless except for a stunted growth of fir and cedar and a few fur-bearing animals. In the course of winding up the American military occupation of Cuba a decree has been Issued granting commutation varying from a quarter to a halt the sentences of those prisoners serving sentences of twenty years or less. Convicts having appeals pending will benefit by the decree if the appeals are withdrawn. All persons convicted of electoral or press offenses are pardoned. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America was formally launched Thursday by the filing of incorporation patters under the laws of New Jersey. The charter is an amended one of the old Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, which was Incorporated in New Jersey is November, 1899, with a capital stock of >10,000,000. E. Rollins Mqrsc, banker and broker of Wall street, is the leading spirit in the new enterprise. He said the capital atock would be >0,050,000.

Congress.

In the Senate on Thursday the Chinese exclusion bill was under discussion during the entire session, except for about an hour, in which time the postoffice appropriation bill was considered and passed. Three speeches were made against the Chinese bill in its present form, Mr. Dillingham concluding bis remarks and Mr. Stewart and-Mr. Hoar stating their objections to the bill. Mr. Stewart said he would vote for the measure if it was the best that could be obtained, as he favored the exclusion of Chinese laborers, but he was opposed to many of its provisions. Mr. Hoar, with considerable feeling, announced his vigorous opposition to the bill, declaring he never would vote for it. An amendment was agreed to eliminating section 56, of the bill .and substituting a provision that nothing in the act should be construed to prevent any foreign exhibitor from any,country from bringing to the United States such assistants as might be necessary to enable him to make an exhibition at any fair or exposition authorized by the government. Mr. Depew spoke briefly against the adoption of the resolution providing for the election of Senators by popular vote. In the House, aside from the debate on the Cuban reciprocity bill little was done.

Some remarks which Mr. Depew made Thursday concerning the proposed amendment to the constitution providing for the election of Senators by popular vote, in the course of which he adverted to Southern election methods, precipitated a lively three hours’ debate in the Senate on Friday. When the Chinese exclusion bill was taken up an agreement was reached that voting upon it should begin the next Wednesday. Mr. Teller of Colorado supported the measure in a brief speech, maintaining that it was necessary and that it was not in contravention of treaty obligations with China. In the House the Speaker announced the appointment of the following committee to attend the funeral at Arlington cemetery, Washington, of Gen. Rosecrans: Mr. Hepburn (Iowa), Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio), Mr. Loud (Cal.). Mr. Steele (Ind.), Mr. Lessler (N. Y.), Mr. Elliott (S. C.),. Mr. Clark (Mo.), Mr. Cummings (N. Y.) and Mr. Clayton (Ala.). The postoflice appropriation bill was sent to conference. Messrs. Loud. Smith (Ill.) and Swanson (Y’a.) were appointed conferees. Continuation of the debate on the Chinese exclusion bill occupied most of Saturday in the Senate. The conference report on the postoflice appropriation bill was agreed to, and a bill authorizing the Quincy Railroad Bridge Company to rebuild the draw span of its bridge across the Mississippi river at Quincy, 111., was passed. In the House the calendar was entirely cleared of private pension bills, all of those reported being passed, 177 in all, and including that giving $5,000 a year to Mrs. McKinley. Bills were also passed providing for an additional circuit judge in the Second judicial circuit of New York, and for the creation of the petrified forest national park in Arizona.

The Chinese exclusion bill occupied Monday in the Senate, Senators Foraker and McLaurin (S. C.) making extended speeches in opposition to it. Mr. Foraker contended that the measure was violative of the treaty with Chhia and was calculated to prevent America’s commercial expansion in the far East. While strongly supporting the policy of the government to exclude Chinese laborers, he maintained this could best be attained by an extension of the present law. Mr. McLaurin held that the drastic provisions of the pending bill would cut off America’s cotton trade with China and wreck the cotton industry cf the South. Mr. Teller briefly responded to Mr. Foraker, urging that the right to abrogate treaties was fully recognized. Interest in the Cuban reciprocity debate seemed to be waning, judged by the attendance on the floor of the House, but the earnestness of the speeches on both sides of the question increased rather than decreased in intensity. That the Republican opponents of the bill are determined to prolong the struggle as much as possible was made manifest by their refusal to allow speeches to be printed in the record. The speakers were Messrs. McCall (Mass.) and Brantley (Ga.) for the measure and Messrs. Robertson (La.) and Stevens (Minn.) against it. Mr. Robinton (Ind.) opposed Cuban annexni mi on the ground that it would threaten the ■welfare of the American wr .> earner. The conference report on the postoffice appropriation bill was adopted after aome criticism of the pneumatic tube provision.

In the Senate on Tuesday the Chinese exclusion bill occupied most of the time. The House bill legalizing the manual of surveying instructions of the general land office was passed. The additional urgent deficiency appropriation bill was passed with a minor amendment. In the House an unsuccessful effort was made again by Mr. Payne to secure an agreement to limit the general debate on the Cuban reciprocity bill. When the House adjourned there remained thirty-five members who desire to speak. The debate during the day wps without particular interest. The speakers were Messrs. Swanson (Va.) and White (Ky.) for the bill, and Messrs. S. W. Smith (Mich.), Dayton (W. Va.), Bmgess (Texas), Meyer (La.) nnd Sutherland (Utuh) against it.

The Senate devoted Wednesday to consideration and final passage of the Chinese exclusion bill, with several amendments. Mr. Lodge secured an agreement making the Philippine civil government bill the unfinished business. In the House the day was again occupied with discussion of the Cuban reciprocity bill.

Washington Notes.

Vereschagin is to paint a picture of San Juan battle. *- Robert B. Armstrong of Chicago has been appointed private secretary by Secretary Shaw. Germany hnaxppealed to United Sta'es to assist in preventing monopoly in wbaless telegraphy. President has promoted Gen. R. P. Hughes, Cols. Isaac D. Derussy, Andrew S. Burt and M. V. Sheridan to vacancies caused by retirements. All have splendid army records.

A WISCONSIN PAPER ON WESTERN CANADA.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Ona of the Favored Districts. The following, clipped from the correspondence columns of the Hau Claire (Wisconsin) Leader, Is but one of many letters of a similar character that might be published concerning Western Canada, the land of No. 1 hard wheat and the best cattle on the continent. It Is a simple matter to reach the lan.-la ipoken of, the Canadian Government having agencies established at St. Paul and Duluth, MinnesotafOrafton. North Dakota; Watertown, South Dakota; Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; Des Moines, Iowa; Wausau and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; Sault Ste. Marie and Detroit, Michigan; Toledo and Columbus, Ohio, and by writing to or calling upon any of these agents at these points full information can be secured. This is a great opportunity to secure a home free of cost, or If you desire to purchase lands, they can be bought now at prices much lower than will exist in a few months. But read what the correspondent referred to has to say of one particular district: To the Editor of the Leader: “The rush of the land seekers will be to the prairie provinces of the Dominion of Canada. The aUurements of a ■oil that yields 40 bushels of wheat to the acre are too great to be resisted and an Immense migration from this country may be confidently predicted. People here laughed at first at the idea of any one leaving the United States for Canada, but the Dominion authorities knew they had a good thing and they stuck to it. Their officials evidently knew the value of printer’s Ink. They spared no expense in letting the people of this country know that these lands were there and that they were exactlv as represented. They did more, They sent out specimens of the crops raised and samples of the grain. We have bad them here at four consecutive street fairs presided over by one of their ablest immigration officers. This gentleman spared no pains. He explained the value of the lands and the richness of the soil from morning to night to all comers. “All this told in the long run. Several went up from hare to spy out the land and, like Caleb, the son of Jepunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, brought back a good report and now some ten families will leave here in a few weeks for Saskatoon to settle upon farms there, and others are preparing to follow. Of course many will appear ■hocked at the Idea of any one leaving the Stars and Stripes for the Union Jack, but patriotism is but a nomenclature after all, and our experience has been that In nine hundred and ninetynine cases out of a thousand, a man Is the most patriotic where he can make the most money and do the most barm to those whom he hates.”

CHANGE OF LIFE.

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