Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1902 — Page 2

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

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Another of the great Chicago apartment buildings, the Vincennes, at Vinrennes avenue and Thirty-sixth street, has been destroyed by fire, and many tenants barely escaped with their lives. The loss is $150,000, and it is covered by insurance.

A new record for a long-distance run up grade was made on the Burlington road. The second section of passenger train No. 3, with three cars, made 112 miles from Akron to the Denver union depot in 120 minutes. The entire 112 miles is up grade. Three earthquakes reduced to ruins Quesaltenango, the second city of importance in Guatemala, having 25,000 inhabitants. and destroyed the town of Amatitian. It is reported that 500 persons were killed but the rumor lacks confirmation. Mrs. Sarah Lynch, 75 years old, was found dead in the.rear of her home in Cleveland, and her husband, Martin Lynch, «0 years old, is under arrest, charged with the murder. The woman was shot through the temple. Lynch •was covered with blood and was drunk.

A fire that originated in the office of Dr. John Hunter destroyed half a dozen residences and small stores at Wigsville. Ohio, entailing n loss of $25,000. The insurance is said to be small. The village had no fire protection, The i*>stoflice and the mail therein was destroyed. Plans have been made by the South Chicago Furnace Company for the erection of a steel mill to cost $2,000,000 on the company’s ground on the Calumet river, in connection with its present large plant. The new mill will give employment to 2,000 men anil be one of the best equipped of its kind in the country. The body of Patrick ('larkin, one of the pioneers of St. Patti, Minn,, was discovered face downward in a pool of water in West St. Paul. After thorough investigation Coroner Miller reported death due to a rupture of a blood vessel caused by external violence. (Harkin's watch was missing, but a little loose change was in his pockets. The affair is mysterious. A burglar in Jersey City caused great amusement by breaking into a house hatbbring a smallpox patient. He gave his name ns James ('otter. Entrance was effected through the basement, and Cotter was leisurely prowling about when the daughter of the smallpox victim heard him ami attracted an officer by screaming. Cotter will be strictly quarantined for twenty-one days. Cruel and inhuman treatment will be the plea of Thomas Foley of English, Ind., for divorce. His wife admits that she tied his hands and feet while he was drunk and applied salt to his hands, face and clothing, that the cattle in the field where he lay helpless might lick him to death, as a revenge for a beating she received during a drunken orgy. Foley’s skin was raw in many places and his clothing in shreds. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: VV. L. W. L. Pittsburg ... 5 O Brooklyn .... 3 4 Philadelphia. 5 1 Boston 2 5 Chicago .... 4 1 Cincinnati . . 1 5 New York... 3 3 St. Louis.... O 4 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. I*. W. L. Chicago .... 1 O Boston 1 1 St. Louis.... 1 oßaltimore ... 0 2 Philadelphia. 1 O Cleveland ... b 1 Washington.. 1 0 Detroit 0 1

BREVITIES.

Fire in the Barbican district of London, crowded with warehouses and shops, caused damage estimated at $1,500,000. President Roosevelt has official communication sent to Gen. Funston expressing the wish that he stop talking publicly on the Philippines. It is announced that the gift John D. Rockefeller has made to the Southern educational movement is $1,000,000. This is the first announcement of the exact amount of the donation.

Idaville, Ind., was almost wiped out by fire Wednesday. The loss is about $50,000, with SB,OOO insurance. The town is without fire protection. Fifteen business firms were burned out. Bowles Colgate of New York, who until eighteen months ago was senior member of the manufacturing firm of Colgate & Co., is dead at Lakewood, N. J. Mr. Colgate was born fifty-six years ago. At Hull. Qik>., the house and stable of Thomas Hill caught fire, presumably through a stroke of lightning, and Hill, his wife and three children and Jcflin Watson, a hired man, were burned to death. Possibility of long and widespread tight us outcome of war on the Moros in Mindanao caused the President to direct Geu. Chaffee to exhaust diplomatic menus of settlement before opening hostilities. The steamboat Elko was burned to the water's edge in the Delaware and Raritan canal, just below Trenton, N. J. The boat carried freight between Philadelphia and New York. The loss is estimated at $50,000.

The Denver Times has l>cen sold by its bondholders for *IIO,OOO, David H. Moffat, preaident of the First National Bank, being the purchaser. A new company will be immediately organized to purchase the paper from Mr, Moffatt. The safe in the Van Buren County court house nt Clinton, Ark., was blown open and al»out *<l.ooo stolen. No clew to the robbers has been found. Because her stepfather, Joseph Wilke, was forced to sell his old homestead in St. Paul, to the Omaha Railway, Mrs. Hera ph I n M. Reinhart drank four ounces of carbolic acid and died soon afterward. 'Hie sale of the Kinney-Hawkins-Cros-by mine, a few miles west of Hibbing. Minn., to the Deering Harvester Company of Chicago has been closed and *525,000 was paid to the holders of the Isaac.

EASTERN.

Frank R. Stockton, the well-known writer of stories, died suddenly while on a visit to Washington. Andrew Carnegie, addressing New York students, told them wealth does not bring happiness or satisfaction. Booker T. Washington denies that he has bought a summer home at South Weymouth, Mass., b : says he will rent or lease one. Ida Hennessey, 17 years of age, who has been asleep since April 12. died the other day at Oswego. N. ¥.. without regaining consciousness. Mrs. Amelia Haberdunch was burned to death in a fire that destroyed two three-story frame houses in Jersey City. The financial Ipsa is $5,000. The postal authorities in "New York are exercised over the discovery of counterfeit postal cards in the mails from nearly every part of the United States. John Weber, one of the men qn strike In the Ridgewood. L. 1., silk mills, was shot and killed by Michael Hankinson. a weaver who bad refused to join the strikers.

Fireman E. .1. Ehrmnn of Erie, I’a. was killed and Engineer A. St. Clair seriously hurt by the collapse of a bridge and wreck of an ore train at Ashtabula. Ohio. After a debate lasting less than ten minutes the Massachusets State Senate killed the House bill to establish a maximum rate of 2 cents a mile upon railroads.

Passenger train No. 10 on the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad was derailed near Charleroi. Pa., and a number of passengers were injured, none fatally. Oscar S. Straus, the president, made the principal address at. the opening sesriou of the American Social*Science Association at Washington, speaking on "Our Diplomacy." Fire originating in a stable owned by the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad Company at Bellevernon, Pa., destroyed $50,000 worth of property and rendered many families homeless. Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale has a project for a Unitarian cathedral in Boston. It would have a congregation of 200,000 people and would be open every hour of every day in the year.

A forest fire in Scotts’ mountain near Belvidere, N. J., destroyed hundreds of acres of young timber and valuable buildings and woodland. The fire was started by a party of tramps who were camping in the woods. Engineer W. W. Irwin was killed and two hurt in a wreck, the west-bound Pennsylvania passenger train on the Pittsburg, Youngstown and Akron division crashing into a work train near Covert's station. Pa. At Hudson, N. Y., the jury in the case of Burton, Willis and Frederick Van Warmer, charged with the murder of their uncle, Peter A. Hallenbeck, returned a verdiet of murder in the first degree against all three of the accused. Both (he leading executives of the United I’tangelical churches are now residents of Pittsburg, Bishop Dubs having removed from Chicago to that city in order that he may be in closer touch with the official organ of the church, of which he is editor.

The great Monongahela plant of the American Tin Plate Company in Pittsburg was damaged by fire to the extent of SIO,OOO. The works, consisting of twenty mills, cover five acres, and for a time it was feared the entire plant would be destroyed. Joseph Holden Sutton, Princeton graduate, a lawyer and managing clerk for the law firm of Holls, Wagner & Burghardt, New Y’ork, killed himself in the Hotel Manhattan after writing letters to twenty-one friends, including the ushers at n wedding at which he was to be best man.

The American Express Company’s freight shed in Green street, Buffalo, N. Y.. was totally destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at about $150,000. The blaze, which was discovered by n watchman, started in the oil room. Six New Y’ork Central passenger douches were also burned.

Ou Hooper’s Island, in Chesapeake Bay, the body of a boy has been found concealed in the carcass of a horse, where it was bidden after a murder. It is said the body is that of a boy who had been working on one of die farms of the island, but who mysteriously disappeared several weeks ago. Major Octavus L. Pruden, one of the assistant secretaries to the President, died at Garfield hospital in Washington from an affection of the heart. He was well known to public men throughout the United States and had occupied a confidential position nt the Whtie House for a long number of years.

WESTERN.

Court decision in Missouri permits teflebers to whip pupils whenever it is deemed necessary. George Roberts went to sleep on the railroad track and was beheaded by the cars at lAinu, Ohio.

Henry W. Jamison, representative of the Chicago Fair Oaks Association, is missing from Sacramento, (.'al. Rev. M. Harwood, pastor of the (»>ngregational Church at Fairview, Kan., who is accused of heretical views, has resigned. The jury disagreed in the case of O. W. Coffelt, charged witli murdering (1. C. Montgomery, a Santa Fe detective nt Winfield, Kan. Indiana Order of Roman Catholic Benevolent Societies at Laporte adopted resolutions placing the order under the national federation.

In a fight between deputy sheriffs and desperadoes near Braggs, I. T., four men were killed and seven wounded, among them a noted outlaw. Four hundred thousand acres of Rosebud Indian Agency will be opened to settlement this summer; land located in Nebraska and South Dakota. D. W. Dunnett, a prominent attorney of Hutchinson, Kan., dropped dead In the federal court in Topeka while arguing n case before Judge Hook. For alleged illegal fencing of government land over KM) ranchmen near Casper, Wyo., have received notices to remove barriers within sixty days. The large brewery of the Christian Moerlein Company, at Cincinnati, suffered a losa of over *IOO,OOO from fire, sup-

poaed .to be due to spontaneous combustion. The Santa Fe Railway has begun work on 500 miles of extensions in Indian Territory, it is said, to offset alleged advantage gained by the Rock Island. The Great Northern “flyer” jjas wrecked in collision with a freight near St. Cloud. Minn., one woman passenger and four train menacing slightly hurt. Anti-merger suit of State of Minnesota against Northern Securities Company has been removed by Minnesota District Court to United States Circuit Court for hearing. At Toledo, Ohio, Daniel Rosenbecker. aged 13, pleaded guilty to killing his playmate. Arthur Shanteau,'aged 7, and was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. A liot wave extended over the West, tlie Kansas wheat crop is threatened unless rain comes at once. The mercury reached 95 degrees at Omaha and 02 at St. Joseph. Between fifty and seventy-five lives were lost in the burning near Cairo, til... of the steamer City of Pittsburg, bound from Cincinnati to Memphis with 150 persons on board. Fire destroyed the building occupied by the Depot Carriage and Baggage Company in Kansas City, causing from $40,000 to $50,000 loss, fully insured. Fortysix horses perished. Richard Roan anil Arthur Rogers, aged 12 and 15 years, respectively, were killed by lightning at Akron, Ohio, just before the beginning of a ball game. Several others were shocked. An explosion tore Alice Grimstead from her father's arms while on a fire escape nt the Monterey apartment building ia Chicago, and caused her death, the structure being destroyed. Wesley Elkins, the lowa boy who twelve years ago murdered his father and mother, has been granted a conditional pardon. He will live with Prof. Harlan at Cornell College. In San Francisco about 3,000 street car men went on strike for an adjustment of wages and hours and recognition of their union. There was no disorder, but the strike caused much discomfort. Gov. Cummins of lowa has offered a reward of $1,200 for the murderers of the Peterson children in Des Moines a week ago, and will increase the amount if the guilty men are not soon found. John Cummings, a farmer near Portland, Kan., was arrested charged with the murder in 1800 of Anna Richman, aged 13, a domestic. His wife was Conscience stricken and told the officers. The residence of Prof. F. D. Mae Mott of Ada, Ohio, University was badly wrecked by a dynamite bomb, thrown through a window. A jealous lover of a domestic employed by the professor is charged with the crime. He cannot be found. The headless body of Harry Egbert, 15 years old, was found lying on the top of a coach of a Big Four train at Daytou. Ohio. The head was found at a bridge south of the city*. The boy was on top of the car beating his way when hit by the bridge. In a quarrel over a baseball that was said to have been thrown into his yard by a neighbor’s child “Abe” Siupsky, u St. Louis politician, shot and fatally wounded Charles Pinckard, a saloonkeeper. Slupsky is under arrest. He says he shot in self-defense. After deliberating less than twenty minutes a jury in Judge Brentano's court in Chicago returned a verdict finding Lewis G. Toombs guilty of the murder of Carrie Larson on the steamer Peerless on the evening of Dec. 30, and fixing the punishment at death.

A .storm in southwestern Oklahoma killed seven persons. Near Leger Mrs. Janies Johnson was killed by a house being blown against a tent she occupied. Contractor Reed and wife of the Frisco Railway construction corps'were suffocated by a tent falling on them. Miss Laura Heapes was fatally injured and Jesse L. Boogher, president of the Boogher, Force & Goodbar Hat Company, seriously hurt by the sudden fall of a heavy derrick at the ceremony of corner stone laying at the new Cabanne Methodist Episcopal Church in St. Louis.

The first and second sections of a Baltimore and Ohio freight train met in a rear-end collision in North Newark, Ohio, badly wrecking one engine and twentyfive cars. Engineer T. S. Osborne was pinned under his engine an<Lcrushed to death, while Conductor 8. (Z Coates had one arm broken. Hereafter the tourist in the West will pay a higher price for his Indian relics than iu the past. A meeting was held by the Omabas and Winnebagos on their reservations near Omaha several days ago and a relic trust was formed. Great Thunder, a leading financier of the Winnebagos, was elected president. Fire which originated in the Gem City sawmill at Quincy, 111., destroyed property valued at $230,000 and caused the death of one woman from the shock. After consuming the sawmill and planing mill the fire burned over nearly ten acres piled with lumber. Two of the city fire steamers were abandoned in the flames.

An entire freight train, consisting of twelve loaded cars of merchandise, plunged into Big Walnut creek, fifty feet below the track level, at Sunbury, Ohio, on the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus Railway, and was destroyed by fire, causing n loss of $250,000. The wreck was due to the burning of a 300-foot trestle.

Firc declared to be of incendiary origin destroyed engine house No. 2 in South Omaha, Neb., and three firemen narrowly escaped cremation, two of them being badly burned. All the equipment was destroyed, except the hose team which was driven off by Martin Maloney, who was arrested. Several sections of nose were found cut to pieces. The life of Aaron Johnson was saved at the Ban Francisco city and county hospital through an operation never before performed on the coast—the removal of the larynx, on which was a cancerous growth. An artificial larynx is being made for the patient which, it Is asserted, will enable him to speak, though his voice will be confined to a monotone. Fire in the southwestern part of Kansas City laid waste a section of dwelling houses almost a quarter of a mile long and a block wide and did damage to the amount of *75,000. John Stlnne of Quincy, 111., a spectator, was fatally injured by a falling piece of Iron and Edward Bennett, a fireman, was overcome by heat. About fifty houses were de-

stroyed and sixty more families were rendered homeless.. The jury In the ease of William Strother, the negro charged with the murder of A. Deane Cooper, the millionaire who was killed in a bathhouse in St. Louis several months ago, was unable to agree on a verdict after being out all night and was discharged by Judge Ryan. The jury stood seven for acquittal and five for conviction. Seven ballots were taken. "The auti-trusj law of Missouri is unreasonable, oppressive, unconstitutional and void,” is the finding of Judge Butler, appointed by the Supreme Court In July, 1900. as referee and special commissioner to Investigate the affairs of the Continental Tobacco Company which absorbed the J. (J. Butler, the American, the Drummond and the Brown Brothers’ plants in St. Louis, ns well as that of Wright Brothers, St, Charles. Because he was refused something to eat a tramp, calling at the home of Joseph Allen in Springfield. Ohio, in the absence of‘the parents, threw a stick or dynamite on a stove, which was surroffnded by Alien's six children. A 12-year-old boy in an effort to save the others grabbed the explosive. His hand was blown off and the other, children badly burned about the face. The stove was also wrecked. The tramp escaped. Representatives of Pittsburg, New York and Philadelphia capitalists have' been in Marietta, Ohio, inspecting a 500ncre tract of land which they optioned for the purpose of erecting a mammoth iron and steel industry. The representatives will make a proposition to the Board of Trade to locate there. The plant is to cost over $2,000,000, and is for the purpose of supplying independent concerns. They want to be in operation by winter. in squalid rooms at 3413 State Chicago, an entire colored family, consisting of father, mother and six children,) were found dead. Two theories present! themselves for the extinction of the family. Threats made by the father that he would kill himself and family are accepted by the police to be the most plausible theory. That he plied the family with poisoned liquor is the opinion of the officers who examined the room in which the bodies lay.

SOUTHERN.

Four fires at Dallas, Texas, at the same time and supposed to have been started by incendiaries, caused loss of SIOO,OOO. Ellis Washington and Philip Wallace, colored, were hanged at Donaldsville, La., for shooting and killing Lee Geismar. a merchant at Geismar, La., on Jan. 12. Alexander Woodward, aged 63, was assassinated at his home near Ellijoy, Tenn. J. N. Ogle, who lives on a nearby farm, is under arrest charged with the crime. At Lake Charles, La., the jury in- the case of Edward Batson, charged with the murder of the Earl family, returned a verdict of murder in the first degree. The penalty is death. At Loone, Tenn., four persons were killed and a fifth was fatally hurt by an Illinois Central excursion train. The victims were in a wagon and attempted to cross the tracks when the second train struck the vehicle.

FOREIGN.

Another fight between Turkish troops and eighteen Bulgarians occurred near Kilindir. Eight of the Bulgarians were killed while the others escaped. There is an increasing belief in political circles in Holland that the serious illness of Queen Wilhelmina—now officially announced to be typhoid fever —will compel the appointment of a regent and of the convocation of the State’s General for the purpose. New treaty between Russia nnd China provides for surrender by former of all claims in Manchuria and evacuation by its troops within a year. This is regarded as solving far eastern problem, aud as a triumph for American diplomacy and the “open door” policy. Five socialists were killed, twelve wounded and many policemen injured at Lo.uvaln, near Brussels. The fight between the socialists and the soldiery waa the direct result of the rejection by the Chamber of Representatives of the ist demand for universal suffrage. The recent earthquake at Shemakha, in which thousands of persons were killed, has had a curious effect on the level of the Black Bea and the Caspian. Ridges of rock have appeared at points where the chart formerly marked fathoms of water. As a result of this the harbor of Krasnovodsk, from which the Central Asian Railway starts, has been rendered unapproachable by large vessels.

IN GENERAL.

After an intensely dramatic battle in the House, the Cuban reciprocity bill, with the differential on sugar eliminated, was passed, thirty-four Republicans voting with the Democrats. A wonderful group of ancient silver mines have been discovered near Tubutama, in the Altar district, in the State of Sonora, Mexico, by a party of American prospectors In charge of Con O'Keefe, an expert mining engineer. Governor General Wood at Havana has issued an order pardoning W. H. Reeves, who was recently sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $35,516 for complicity iu the Cuban postal frauds. Reeves was liberated at onee. Gen. Wood says he pardoned Reeves because he was a witness for the State.

The Interstate Commerce Commission has issued a bulletin showing for the three months ended on Sept. 30, l!X)l, a grand total of 725 killed and 2,(522 injured In train accidents of all kinds in the United States. The total number of train collisions was 1,247 and derailments 1,002, causing damage aggregating *1,842,224 to cars, engines and roadways, exclusive of damage to merchandise. A British, American and German shipping combination is now definitely arranged. It involves no change of flag nnd little change In management. The White Star, Dominion, and Leyland lines will run under the British tiag, and the Atlantic Transport, the American, and the Red Star lines under the American flag. The Hamburg-American and the North German Lloyd lines enter by agreement a harmonious community of interests while maintaining their ideutF ty and nationality.

The Tunis Girl Must Be ■ Fattened. The marriageable girl in Tunis has a trying ordeal to go through after her betrothal to the man, not of her choice, but whose choice she is. She has to be fattened to the required size before the ceremony takes place. As soon as the betrothal takes place, she is taken to a room, and there cooped up till*the fattening process Is concluded. Silver shackles are fastened around her wrists and ankles, and the task of her parents and future husband is to Increase her bulk till her wrists and ankles fill up the shackles. If the husband Is a widower, or has “discharged” his first wife, the girl has the shackles of the first spouse placed on her and she must fill them out It takes a long time to do this, as a rule, and sometimes It cannot be accomplished in spite of all efforts. It is then open to the future husband to cry off the bargain or waive the condition. In the case of a bachelor, he takes care to see that the bracelets and anklets are not too large; that is, if he is fond of the girl, but if he is being forced into the marriage by his parents he is a great stickler for custom.

Condemed in Missouri and Confiscated in New York.

Judge Clarke of St. Louis has convicted and fined heavily a number of grocers for selling baking powders containing alum. The week before the Health Department of New York seized a quantity of stuff being sold for baking powder which they found was made from alum mixed with ground rock, aud dumped it Into the river. The Health Authorities are thus taking effective means to prevent the introduction into our markets of injurious substitutes in place of wholesome baking powders. As alum costs only two cents a pound there is a great temptation for those manufacturers who make substitutes and imitation goods to use it. Alum baking powders can be detected by the health authorities by chemical analysis, but the ordinary housekeeper, whose assistance in protecting the health of the people is important, cannot make a chemical examination. She may easily know the alum powders, however, from the fact that they are sold at from ten to twenty cents for a pound can, or that some prize—like a spoon, or glass, or piece of crockery, or wooden ware—ls given with the powder as an inducement. As the people continue to realize the importance of this subject and consumers insist on having baking powder of established name and character, and as the health authorities continue their vigorous crusades, the alum, danger will, it is hoped, finally be driven from our homes.

TOBACCO UNDER CLOTH.

Plante Sheltered by Tents Become Veritable Trees. As the plants grew, the advantages of raising under shade became easily evident. Most patent of all was the fact that the many insects which prey upon the leaves were kept out by the covering. So strongly was the tight tent of cloth built, moreover, that the roughest winds made necessary only few repairs, and the plants, usually lashed and torn by the storms, were entirely protected. Under the cloth also a uniform temperature was possible, varying from three to five degrees warmer than that of the open field. The cold nights of the spring, which deter the growth of the plants in the open, did not influence the growing under cover. Within tlie tents a continuous tropical climate existed. The hot sun that baked the soil was tempered and a considerable larger percentage of humidity was kept under the cloth than was possible In the fields. The effects of heavy rains were also modified. The leaves were not harmed by the swift drops, nor did the soil become packed and hardened Into a crust. Instead, the water beating upon the cloth sifted through and fell In a fine, warm mist upon the plants. The growth seemed to have the advantages of both the open air and the hot> house, gaining the health of one and the protected fineness of the other. With the getting of the fine t possl ble leaf the plants were not topped. In the early summer the long stalks, standing up like rows of sturdy poles and bearing thin, broad leaves of a vivid green, were touching the roof ol their house of cloth. And the fame of tented tobacco fields and plants nine feet high went out among the growers. Many of them came to see the fabulous growth, doubting the reports they had heard, having no faith In building cheesecloth houses for tobacco, prepared to ridicule ths whole project. But when they walked down between rows upon rows of veritable trees of to bacco, says Arthur Goodrich In ths World’s Work, which shook out greal green leaves three or four feet above their beads, and when they had exam Ined these luxuriant, symmetrical, shining leaves, twenty to twenty-four Inches In length, and noted the thin fineness of them, their perfect size and shape for wrappers—giving two full cuts without waste— and their remarkable strength and stretch, many of the visit ors began to examine tlie structure, tc inquire into costs and to make plans for their own lileds of tobacco. Tlie Secretary of Agriculture, Mr Wilson, came up from Washington and went over the ground, congratulating the growers and making suggestions.

Carries His Bed.

The Grand Duke Pnul of Russia is sc tnll that no hotel bed la long enough foi his comfort, and he han one built lc sections, which he carries with his lug gage everywhere. The bed Is put uj by a special mechanic, under the super intendence of the royal valet, wherevet the Grand Duke goes.

Congress.

In the Senate on Saturday the conference asked for by the House on the Chinese exclusion bill was agreed to and Messrs Platt (Conn.), Dillingham (Vt.J and Clay were named as the Senate conferees. Bills were passed granting permission for the erection of a monument or statue in Washington in honor of the late Benjamin F. Stephenson, founder of the G. A. R.; to construe the dependent pension act of 1890 so as to include all persons who served ninety days during the Civil War and who were honorably discharged, hut excluding those of the First. Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth United States volunteer infantry who had prior service in the Confederate army or nacy; to increase the pensions of soldiers and sailors who have lost limbs in the service, and fiftyeight private pension bills. Mr. Gamble then called up the resolution expressive of the sorrow of the Senate at the death of Senator Kyle of South Dakota, and he and Messrs. Cockrell, Cullom, Morgan, Foraker, Nelson and Kittredge paid fitting tribute to his memory. In the House the fortification appropriation bill, which carries $6,562,455, was passed ami the conference report on the legislative appropriation bill agreed to. The former was amended so as to allow the purchase of the exclusive rights to use the high explosive thorite. A bill providing for two additional associate justices in Oklahoma was also passed. Without a word of discussion of the merits of the measure, the river and harbor bill, carrying in appropriations about $70,000,000, was passed by the Senate on Monday. So thoroughly had the bill been considered by the commerce committee that every Senator was content that it should pass as reported. As no Senator was prepared to begin debate on the Philippine government bill the measure, after a few minutes of Informal discussion, went over until Tuesday. In the House consideration of the military academy appropriation bill was begun. In addition to the regular items it contains provision for extensive improvement of the grounds and buildings at West Point. These improvements are to eost $6,500,000, of which a little over $3,000,000 is appropriated in the bill, Mr. Cannon, chairman of the committee on appropriations. characterized the proposed expenditures as “the rankest kind of rank extravagance." Twenty-four of the thirty pages of the bill were completed. During the general debate Mr. Gilbert (Ky.) precipitated a discussion on the race question, which was participated in by Mr. Gillett (Mass.). Blackburn (N. C.l, W. W. Kitchin (N. C.), Mr. Patterson (Tenn.) and Mr. Gaines (Tenn.). Mr, Cochran (Mo.) and Mr. Gillett discussed the question of the alleged violation of the neutrality laws in connection with the shipment of mules and horses to South Africa. ,

Most of Tuesday in the Senate was occupied -with discussion of the Philippine civil government bill. A bill was passed providing for the entry into the country free of duty of a replies of a bronze statue of Rochembeau, to be erected in Washington. In the House, by a vote of 75 to 72, it was decided to reject claims attached to the omnibus claims bill by the Senate aggregating $2,800,000. On the heels of that action nonconcurrence was voted in the whole Senate amendment (the various items having been ruled to constitute a single amendment) and the bill was sent to conference. Of the rejected claims SBOO,OOO belongs to the French spoliation class, while the rest are miscellaneous. The military academy appropriation bill was passed after the limit of cost of the improvements at West Point had been reduced from $6,500,000 to $5,500,000, and the amount of the appropriation in the bill from $3,000,000 to $2,000,000. The London dock charge bill was called up, but was not disposed of. Speaking to a pro forma amendment to the military academy bill, Mr. Feely (Ill.) discussed briefly the question of the violation of the neutrality law in connection with the shipment of mules and horses to South Africa. The Senate amendments to the river and harbor bill were disagreed to, and the bill was sent to conference, with Messrs. Burton (Ohio), Reeves (Ill.) and Lester (Ga.) as conferees.

In the Senate on Wednesday Mr. Rawlins continued his speech opposing the Philippine temporary government bill. He discussed nt length tlie testimony presented to the committee on the Philippines and the reports made by officials to the War Department. He presented many cases of torture of Filipinos, of the burning of towns and of the incarceration of Filipinos, saying it was a war without mercy, uncivilized and without excuse. Messrs. McMillan, Elkins and Berry were appointed conferees on the river and harbor bill and Messrs. Warren. Mason and Teller conferees on the omnibus claims bill. In the House consideration of the Senate amendments to the oleomargarine bill was begun, a special rule for this purpose being adopted by a vote of 152 to 79. By the ruling of the chair the question of further amendment of the Senate propositions was confined within very narrow limits. Slow progress was made. Tlie opponents of the measure, who sought to modify the Senate amendments in various particulars. were outvoted on every proposition submitted.

Washington Notes.

Labor leaders object to the proposed department of commerce and labor, desiring a bureau of their own. Second annual automobile show was opened by Gen. Miles. Number of famous machines were on exhibition. Oapt. Geo. Detchcmendy, formerly of the Twenty-second infantry, had a talk with Secretary Root with a vjew of securing some official recognition of the important part taken by his command in the capture of the papers, which resulted in the capture of Aguinaldo Sir Richard Stewart, of the British army, has arrived in Washington, He is the personal representative of the government of Great Britain, and will remain in the United States for several months for the purpose of making inquiries into the supply of horse* for use in the South African war.