Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1902 — Page 6

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

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

By a deal just closed in Kansas City a New York syndicate obtains two gold mines and a copper mine in Mexico, the property of Buenaventura Bueerra. one of the wealthiest men in that country. The consideration, jt is said, was $500,000. A tornado passed over the town of Davenport, in Lincoln County, Ok., doing much damage to crops and stock. ■Several farm houses were blown down. Mrs. John Penn and daughter, aged 10 years, were killed by the fall of their house. An explosion occurred aboard the submarine boat Fulton a short time after she reached the Delaware breakwater at Philadelphia. Five of the crew were injured, one of them perhaps fatally. The explosion is supposed to have been caused by gasoline. The navigation syndicate has been a profitable investment for J. Pierpont .Morgan. It is authoritatively stated that the New York financier will get £2,500,<K»O ($12,500,000) for his work in organizing and financing the combine. This sum is to be in preferred stock. Admiral Schley was the recipient at Memphis of a magnificent silver service, the gift of admirers from Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama, it was presented to him in the presence of a vast audience by former Senator Thomas Turley, who made the presentation speech. Samuel 11. Balkwill, a Tacoma capitalist. and Receiver Scobey of the Olympia land office have organized the Consolidated Gold Company, with a paid-up capital of $15,000,000. to unify and operate paying mining properties in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and California. The discovery lias been made that a large number of Polish immigrants, located in the eastern part of St. Joseph Mo., have buried aliout SIOO,OOO in gold, divided into small amounts, in various dooryards. The Poles will not trust the banks and insist on making secret excavations for their savings, which remain under constant guard of some member of the family. The King’s Daughters' Horae, a charitable institution at Oakland, Cal., containing forty inmates, was badly damaged by fire and two patients, William Bray, at one time a New York editor and John 11. Murray were burned, and Bray died of his injuries. The fire is supposed to have originated by Bray overturning a lighted lamp while in an epileptic fit. “Mother” Jones, who is an organizer for the United Mine workers' Union, says that May 17 will witness one of the greatest stoppages of labor on record. According to her statement, on that date every man in the country will lay down his tools, quit work and take a holiday, to show the mighty effect on business that can be produced by labor asserting itself if only for one day. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ... 8 2 Boston ...... 5 6 Chicago .... <i 3 Brooklyn .... 5 7 New York... 7 5 Cincinnati ... 3 7 Philadelphia. (1 5 St. Louis.... 2 7 The clubs of the American League stand as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago .... 4 2 Baltimore ... 3 3 Detroit 3 2 St. Louis.... 3 4 Washington.. 4 3 Boston 3 4 Philadelphia. 3 3 Cleveland ... 3 5 Five girls are known to have been killed and more than a score injured during a panic at the cigar factory of Harburger, Homan & 00. in Philadelphia. The company employs over girls. A workman employed in the building was slightly injured by being caught in an •■levator. Some person cried "fire.” an.l immediately there was a rush for the stairway of the building, The crush was so great that many of the girls turned back and rushed for the windows. Before they could be restrained from jumping a score or more had hurled themselves to the street. The jsdice officials say that those who were killed were crushed to death in the jam on the stairway- as they made a mad rush to gain the street. The girls were packed in the hallway leading to the street by the hundreds. and those who were killed, fainted and were trampled and crushed to death by their excited comrades.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Alger. Smith & Co. of Grand Marais, Mich., have sold feet of lumber to Eastern men for SOOO,OOO. During gun practice on the British war ship Formidable, near Magdalena Island, a gun burst, killing three marines. An official estimate of the total cost of tlie South African war to Marell 31, places the amount at nearly 1223,000,000. Prominent citizens opposed to the government’s Philippine policy met in New York and appointed a committee headed by Carl Schurz to expose alleged cruelty by the army. In a fight with pitchforks and clubs on lliehard Williams' farm on the Osage reservation. sixteen miles northwest of Pawnee, Ok., Willard Wilson killed Charles Parker after a prolonged combat. Ferdinand llandauck, the oldest man in Crawford County, Ohio, celebrated his 101st birthday anniversary the other day. He is hale and is frequently seen in tall trees with a saw, trimming them with the vigor of a man of fifty. 'Die Legislature of the Chickasaw Nation is in special session at Tishomingo to consider the cattle tax question. The nation had great trouble in collecting this tax, and the Legislature is to be asked to consider the turning over of the collection to the United States government. the money st* collected to be -turned Into the Chickasaw Ration. Bruno Hermann, editor of the Freie Presse, a German weekly published in Lincoln, Neb., died from the effects es an overdose of sleeping powders. Circumstances point to the drug having been taken with suicidal intent.

EASTERN.

Albert Smith, colored, wag hanged at Philadelphia for the murder of his wife. Sol Smith Russell. America’s greatest comedian, died at Washington of alovi* paraplegia. One of the buildings- at the Shenandoah Powder Company, at Krebs Station, Pa., blew up. Four men were killed. Mrs. Alice H. Putnam of Chicago was chosen president by the International Kindergarten Union convention at Boston. The schooner Barklow, from Marine City, foundered In Lake Erie, half a mile from Put-in-Bay, and three persons lost their lives. The petition of a lecture bureau for an injunction to restrain Miss Ellen M. Stone from lecturing was denied by Judge Richardson in Boston. Michael Cherko, aged 38, was murdered at Freeland, Pa., during the progress of the Greek Easter services. George Smith is under arrest, charged with the crime. Constable Charles Engelbrecht was shot to death on the Secaucus road near Snake Hill, N. J.’ The police are searching for a man whom they suspect of the murder. The body of Janies V. P. Turner, a well-known lawyer of Philadelphia, who disappeared, was found in Fairmount Park. Death is thought to have been due to hemorrhage. A locomotive attached to a passenger train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad blew .up near Dover, N. J., killing the engineer. None of the passengers was hurt. The first colored student to win a prize at Yale is George Crawford of Tungaloo, Ala., a member of the middle class In Yale Law School. He won third prize, S2O, in the annual contest for the Wayland prizes. Carroll D. Wright, bend of the bureau of statistics of labor, Washington, is to be the head of the new collegiate school attached to Clark University, Worcester, Mass., over which Prof, G. Stanley Hall presides. C. E. Borchgrevink, the antarctic explorer, has made formal application at Washington to become an American citizen. Mr. Borchgrevink will be a rover for some years, but the United States will be his home. At Glens Falls, N. Y., fire caused a property loss estimated at over $500,000. It started in the clothing store of Webb Brothers, and from thence spread to the large plant of the Joseph Fowler Shirt and Collar Company. John Wann maker, charged with selling poison contrary to law, was acquitted in Philadelphia of the charge by Magistrate Stratton, who said the accused was guilty of a technical violation, but did his best to repair the fault. Simon Shamoniski, a Hebrew sentenced to the Onondaga County jail at Syracuse, N. Y., for fifteen days, was released on appeal to County Judge Ross, on the ground that he could not live on the jail diet during the passover season. Plans which are being prepared by the yards and docks department of the navy indicate that one of the largest dry docks in the United States will be built at the Brooklyn navy yard. It will cost about $1,000,000 and will be built entirely of concrete. While lying in Newtown creek, near the Manhattan avenue bridge, in Greenpoint, New York, the tugboat Thomas Percival was destroyed by an explosion. Three of the crew—an engineer and two firemen—are missing. Edward Moran, a watchman, was found 1n The debris. He was fatally hurt. Yale University will receive the residuary estate of Edward Wells Southworth and also the reversionary interest in a bequest of $15,000 made to a relative of the testator for life, according to the terms of Southworth’s will. The personal property is estimated at $200,000 and the realty at $30,000. Forest fires in the immediate vicinity of Oil City, Pa., have entailed a loss of $30,000 u;»on Venango County oil producers, many tanks and derricks being burned. Reports from Forest County show that the fire is doing much damage in the virgin forest near Tionesta. .The big saw and lumber mill at Gilfoyle, neur there, was destroyed. William McCarty, 12 years old, lost his life at Portchester, Conn., while trying to save his blind father in the belief that he was in danger. The boy was playing with some companions, when he saw his father walking near the railroad and an express train approaching. He started across the tracks to save him and was struck by the train. Constable Rhoades arrested Michael Grosscup at his home at Stowe, Pa., on a charge of assault. Grosscup went upstairs ostensibly to change his clothing, but sprang through a window and ran away. The constable, who weighs 200 pounds, attempted to follow his prisoner through the window and became wedged fast. It was necessary for a carpenter to cut the frame away to release Rhoades.

WESTERN.

J. Sterling Morton, former Secretary of Agriculture, died at the residence of his sou, Mark Morton, at Lake Forest, 111. William W. Carr, a telegraph operator, was shot and killed by the accidental discharge of his shotgun near Eudora. Kan, New plant to cost $3,000,000 and give employment to 5,000 men is to be built in Chicago by the American Bridge Company. The Franklin mill of the Sterling I’aper Company burned nt Hamilton, Ohio, causing $150,000 loss, with $75,000 insurance. At Winside, Neb., Mrs. Katie Dimmel). divorced wife of John Dimiuell, killed her small child and committed suicide by hanging. St. Paul Prohibitionists won their fight and the name of John Henry Fits will go the official ballot as th? party’s candidate for Mayor. Four persons were killed and twentythree injured, eight seriously, In wrecking of California limited on the Santa Fe near Medill, Mo. M. Widdekind of Pocatello, Idaho, was elected president by the National Embalmers' Association, which closed its convention nt St. Lottis. Custar, Ohio, an oil town of 500 inhabitants. wns totally destroyed by fire. A high wind was blowing, which prevented any possible chance of saving the town.

The loss, which will exceed S»W,6bO, includes nine stores and scores of dwellings. Gov. Jefferson Davis of Arkansas denied charges of drunkenness made against him by Baptists, and asked Little Rock church' to try him. A Grand Trunk passenger train was wrecked near Valparaiso, Ind., by two freight cars blown on the track. Two of the train crew are missing. William Price and Bernard Sutter were killed by an explosion of dynamite at Issaquah, Wash. There was not enough of Sutter’s remains left to hold an inquest. Gov. Ezra P. Savage of Nebraska resigns from the candidacy for renomination as a result of criticism of his action In pardoning former State Treasurer Bartley. The wife of Lee Gallaher, receiving teller of the First National Bank est St. Joseph, Mo., who has confessed- to hav-ing-vYolen $26,000, died from grief over his troubles. a , The town of Herkimer, Kan., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. The place had a population of about 500. The origin of the fire is unknown. The property loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Severe windstorms in several"-States in the Missouri valley caused loss of life and destruction of property. Three were killed at Jopliu, Mo., and five fatally injured. Omaha reported one fatality. The spotted-fever scourge in the' Bitter Root valley, Mont., has broken out with greater violence than at any time known in the history of the peculiar disease. Eight persons died of the malady within one week. . Directors of Wittenberg College nt Springfield, Ohio, have decided to offer free tuition for one year to high school graduates receiving the highest grades in Ohio, Indiana, southern Michigan and northern Kentucky. The Rock Island Railroad Company, in order to secure a route from Lawton, Ok., for an extension into Texas, has condemned the public highway as far as the Red river. Active construction will commence immediately. Forest tires have been raging in the mountains in the Gallinas Canyon above the Las Vegas Hot Springs, New Mexico. Great damage is being done, and it is feared that houses of ranchers in the canyon will be swept away by the flames. Martin Lynch, who was arrested a few days ago. charged with the murder of his wife, committed suicide In his cell at the county jail in Cleveland by hanging himself from the doorknob, which was not more than three feet from the floor. The 1,700 employes of the Singer Sew ing Machine Company returned to work at South Bond, hut because of the disorganized state of affairs Manager Pine put only 800 men to work. The Singer company did not concede a point to the strikers. Burglars broke into the wood and feed store of Brand & Wubben in St. Paul, cracked the safe, stole checks and valuables and then set fire to the building, which was consumed, causing a loss of S7OO and almost effacing the evidences of the burglary. Forty students of Baker University at Baldwin, Kan., have been suspended for breaking into the gymnasium during a basket ball game between the two girls’ teams of the college. The officials say the offenders can be reinstated only on petition to the faculty. Patrick Noonan was arrested at Helena, Mont., and brought back to his former home in Preston, Minn., to answer the charge of murdering John Skinner in 1874. Noonan was passing as J a meg New, and has been a fugitive for twenty-eight ysars. Prof.. George M. Howells of Washington says the explosions at Robinson, Ivan., were caused by a meteor, which buried itself in the ground and obstructed some underground stream. This caused the spring to appear, and might also account for the warmth of the water. Reports of a fabulous find of gojd at Sand Creek, Mont., were received. A man named Meyer shipped to Butte samples of ore for assay that go from ssl to $28,000 to the ton. The extent of the strike has not been ascertained, but Meyer says he has an abundance of ore. > The world’s fair will be ix>st;>oned to 1904, according to plans which have just been completed in St. Louis. Washington will be notified that the directory is resigned to postponement in the best interests of the fair. Any measure to l>ostpone to a later dale than May 1, 1904, Will be strongly opposed. Under a decision handed down by Justice Brown of the Minnesota Supreme Court the practice of repeating messages by telegraph companies, where the party to whom the message is directed has gone to another point, is a pure gratuity, and failure to do so does not entitle the party to damages for non-delivery. A tornado, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, passed three miles south of Parker, Knn., destroying all houses and barns in its path and tearing down the telegraph line of the Missouri, Kansas nnd ‘Texas Railroad. The dwelling of Oscar Hoyt, a farmer, was destroyed and his sister nnd his sou were injured. The strike on the street railway system of the United Railroads of San Francisco has been officially declared off. Victory rests with the employes, who are conceded nil their principal demands. The United Railroads have granted an advance in wages, a ten-hour day and in a measure recognized the Carmen’s union. The farmers of Kaunas intend to throttle the grain trust and will fix their own prices on wheat and corn. The plan is for each farmer to list his crops with the secretary of the association, who will thereby be better qualified to name a price for which the products will be sold because he will have a monopoly of the entire crop. As the night shift went to work the other evening in the tunnel of the Canadian Power Company ut Niagara Falla, discovery was made of an attempt to wreck the tnnnel and kill the men, thirty in number, working UK) feet l>elow the surface of the earth. This was to-be accomplished with a stick of dynamite and an infernal machine. A deal has been completed tietween’ John Soullin. president of the Wiggins Ferry Company nt St. Muis, and Festus J. Wade, president of the Mercantile Trust Company, whereby the business and property of the Wiggins Ferry Company passes into the bands of another owner, whose name Is not made public. The consideration is $5<000,000. 'l'he Venture Company of Loudon has

bought the Camp Bird gold mine at Ouray, Colo., for $5,500,000. The company bought Stratton’s Independence mine at Cripple Creek three years ago for $10,000,000. Three experts, including John Hays Hammond, recently examined the Camp Bird mine thoroughly, and Hammond is now in London, where he has gone to turn over the property. The Mosier Safe and Lock Company of Hamilton, Ohio, closed a contract to furnish the First National Bank of Chicago the largest burglar-proof vaults In the world for its new building. They will be of the finest hardened steel and will cost $300,000. The contract calls for their completion within one year. The Mosier company will put a special force of mechanics at work on them at once and keep them at it until the job is completed. The larger of these vaults will be G 5 by 45 feet and the other nearly as large. Trouble which has been brewing in western Kansas for several months has reached the stage of war, in which Frank Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate, is fighting Chauneey Dewey, the Chicago capitalist. The start was the refusal of farmers to allow cattlemen to use their pastures, but the ranchmen have encroached until it is said the farmers are almost afraid to sow their crops. Dewey is backed by all the ranchmen and cowboys and Rockefeller has the farmers with him. The other day a band of farmers drove Dewey’s cowboys off, and it is said many of the farmers have purchased arms and ammunition. State militia may go to the scene.

SOUTHERN.

Seven persons were killed and forty injured in cyclone that nearly destroyed the town of Glen Rose, Texas. Allen Cogsdell, North Carolina farmer, announced he would kill himself at dinner June 10, and sent out invitations. His wife will fire the shot. William Rogers, aged 72, shot and killed his granddaughter. Miss Mary Awfield, aged 30. and committed suicide by shooting, near Butler, Tenn. Near Dallas, Texas, James Clevinger was shot and killed by E. Clifton, who 'was in turn killed by an unknown man, who shot him through the heart. Edgar T. Washburn of Wickliff, Ky., has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with $26,000 liabilities and no assets. The creditors are lumber dealers in Chicago and Milwaukee. I'he vault of the First National Bank of Wickliffe, Ky., was blown open by robbers. The sound of the explosion awoke the citizens of the town, who drove the robbers off, but did not suc-ceed-in capturing them. The robbers, four in number, failed to get any money. The steamer Sunrise burned to the water's edge at her wharf in New Orleans. The fire spread rapidly and some of the passengers and crew narrowly escaped, but all were saved. The boat carried considerable freight, which was badly damaged*. The Sunrise was valued at $25,000. Mrs. R. Worthington of Chicago, whose husband is a race horse man, and Mrs. G. D. Byles of Memphis were badly bqrned and the former is not expected to recover. Mrs. Worthington was boarding with Mrs. Byles. They were preparing a meal on a coal oil stove, when an explosion followed, igniting their clothing.

FOREIGN.

William McKinley Osborne, United States consul general at London, is dead after lingering illness. Fifty persons were injured in an accident on the Great Eastern Railway, near Hackney Downs station, London. Ambassador White reports Emperor William of Germany as saying in reference to the Monroe doctrine: "I have no intention of acquiring even the smallest island jn the western hemisphere.” Lieut. Col. Frank D. Baldwin, who is operating against the Moros on the Island of Mindanao, telegraphs that • the capture of Sultan Pualo's fort has had a most salutary effect. The dattos are submitting. Count Zeppelin, the aeronaut, has been ruined financially by his experiments with airships. He is unable to obtain any further support ip Germany for his projects and he is breaking up the old frameworks of his airships. He has sold five tons of aluminum. More than 3,500 rebels on the island of Samar have surrendered and given up their arms to the American authorities. Chief of the capitulating forces Is Guevarro, who succeeded Gen. Lukbau last February as the commander of the entire insurgent forces of the island. Goa. Guevarro, together with forty officers, 189 men and 161 rifles, is now in custody of Gen. Frederick Dent Grant on an American gunboat at the mouth of the Gandara river, west coast of the island.

IN GENERAL.

The house of Jean Baptiste Moncham, a French butcher, residing in St. Morbert settlement, Manitoba, was destroyed by Are, and five children were burned to President-elect Palma of Cuba, after conference with revolutionnry generals, decided to postpone payment of soldiers’ claims till fanners have been helped to resume. Invalid soldiers will be cared tor. Thorough inquiry into conditions in iJfeat industry shows that cattle shortage is alight; that tariff and combinations with railroads for rebates enable big packers to keep up prices in spite of satisfactory range conditions. A blllion-dollar packing trust is predicted by Chicago financiers if the United States wins its suit against the packers; combine would follow lines of United States Steel Company and control entire packing Industry of the country. Dawson telegrams state that orders have been received there from Ottawa directing that the royalty on gold be abnliahed and au export tax imposed instead. This means the retention in the Yukon territory of the gold dust now in circulation and that resulting from the present clean-up. According to the Nome Nugget nn important discovery has been made there. A New York syndicate, at the head of which is George D. Roberts, a wellknown mining man-of the Pacific coast, had been prospecting the tundra between Nome and Penny rivers. The result of the work the paper describes as startling. It shows that gold dust estimated in the millions is deposited in the vast tundras which skirt the Bering coast.

Good Reasons.

Patent Medicine Salesman—Madam did your husband use the bottle of “Faker’s Elixir of Life” I left him? Mrs. Krape—Yes. It tCok immediate effect. * J Patent Medicine SalesiAn Good. Then you can say that he’ll.use no other? Mrs. Krape—l’m sure of it. He’s dead.

How Cheap Baking Powder Is Made.

The Health Department of New York has seized a quantity of so-called cheap baking powder, which it found in that city. Attention was attracted to It by the low price at which it was being sold in the department stores. Samples were taken and the chemist of the Health Department reported the stuff to be composed chiefly of alum and pulverized rock. ' , The powder was declared to be dangerous to health, and several thousand pounds were carted to the offal dock and destroyed. It is unsafe to experiment with these so-called “cheap” articles of food. They are sure to be made from alum, rock, or other injurious matter. In baking powders, the high class, cream of tartar brands are the most e<<3nomlcal, because they go farther in use and axe healthful beyond question.

Couldn’t Resist the Schoolma’am.

The War Department teelgraphed to an officer in San Francisco who had been ordered to the Philippines: “You can go to New Y’ork and sail on transport that goes by S’jez, if you choose.” • The answer came back: “Would prefer to cross the Pacific direct.” Then the department wired him: “Transport will make good time. Has sixty women teachers on board." The young lieutenant answered: "Save me a berth on transport.”—Harrisburg Journal.

Impoverished Blood.

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Mrs. Mart Shortlry, >6 Court, Gosport Strtef. Co«utry wrists:—“Several years ago I tael withan accident through a fall, hurting my hand so badly that I WM unable to use the same for five weeks. 1 tried everything I knew of bat did not receive «ny benefit. Fmany, as a last resource I applied St. Jacoba Oil and after iiAsng the first bottle I could move my fingers, ’£* •* con< * b«‘tie I could open my hand andfinaUy I regained the use of my hand and all pain left me. - It was oaly by the use of St. Jacobo Oil that I am low able to follow my employment." Thetr Solation. Some little time ago a man presented himself before a Liverpool magistrate with the following tale: “Me name la Patrick O’Connor an’ 1 lives at street, an’ I kapes hens in my gpllar, but the water pipe is burst, an’ my hens are all drowned.” “Well, my man, we can do nothing for you; you had better apply to the water company,” was all the advice he got. A few days later the same man appeared with precisely the same tale. “You were here a few days ago, and we advised you to go to the water company. Did you do so?” “I did, yer honor.’’ “And what dijJ they say to you?” “They told me to kape ducks."—London Tit-Bits. SURGICAL OPERATIONS How Mrs. Bruce, a Noted Opera Singer, Escaped anjOperation. Proof That Many Operations for Ovarian Troubles are Unnecessary. Dxab Mbs. Pinkham : —Tr- -clllng for years on the road, with i. regular meals and sleep and damp beds, broke down my health so completely two years ago that the physician advised a complete rest, and when I had gained MM. O. Kftpck sufficient vitality, an operation for* ovarian troubles. Not a very cheerful prospect, to be sure. I, however, was advised to try Lydia F. Plnkham’a Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash; I did so, fortunately for me. Before a month had passed I felt that my general health had Improved; in three months more I was cured, and I have been In perfect health since. I did not lose an engagement or miss a meal. “ Your Vegetable Compound is certainly wonderful, and well worthy the praise your admiring friends who have been cured are ready to give you. I always speak highly of it, and you will admit I have good reason to do •o."—Mbs. G. Bbuob, Lansing, Mich. 9WOO farftH If atevs la aat fanalaa. The fullest counsel on this subject can be secured without cost by writing to Mrs Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. Tour letter will be entirely confidential.

CONGRESS.

Mr. McCumber, chairman of the committee on manufactures, spoke at length In the Senate on Friday on his bill “to prevent the adulteration, misbranding and imitations of food, beverages, candies, drugs and condiments.” He declared the extent of the adulteration and misbranding of food products was appalling. He enumerated many of the fraudsin food products which were being foisted upon the public and declared the time had come for Congress to act, as the instances he had cited were crimes against the retail merchant and consumer alike. In the House one hundred and forty-five private pension bills were passed, including bills to pension the widow of Gen. William Ludlow at SSO a month and the widow of “Parson” Brownlow of Tennessee at S3O a month. The remainder of the day was devoted to general debate on the agricultural appropriation bill. Mr. Lessler (N. Y.) discussed the necessity for a new postotfice at New York, Mr. Cochran (Mo.) the trust question and 11. C. Smith (Mich.) "good roads.” The conference report on the Chinese exclusion bill (a disagreement) was made by Mr. Hitt (111.). The House insisted upon its disagreement and the bill was sent back to conference, the same conferees being appointed. In the Senate on Saturday Mr. Uar mack completed the speech on the Philippine government bill which he began •the day before. He continued his caustic criticism of the administration's poiwy. Mr. Jones, chairman of the committee on contingent expenses, reported favorably the resolution providing for an investigation by (he committee on relations with Cuba of the alleged control of the Cuban sugar crop and sugar lands in Cuba, and it was adopted. A resolution offered by Me. Proctor was passed directing the Secretary of War to send the Senate a statement of the number of disappearing gun carriages under contract, a list of the bids for the construction of such carriages, the total cost of the carriages, where they are mounted and where It is proposed to mount those under construction. In the House afterdevoting an hour to ttie passage of bills by unanimous consent, public business was suspended, and for the remainder of the afternoon tributes to the memories of Representative Stokes of South Carolina and Representative Crump of Michigan were listened to. The House amendments to the oleomargarine bill were accepted by the Senate on Monday, thus passing it. The conference report on the Chinese exclusion bill was also adopted. Consideration of the sundry eivil appropriation bill was begun, but not concluded. Mr. Simmons spoke at length in opposition to the Philippine government bill. In the House slow progress was made with the agricultural appropriation bill, only twentyfive of the forty-nine pages being disposed of. During the debate Mr. Curtis (Kan.) made a brief but fervent defense of Gen. Fnnston against the criticism to which he had been subjected. Mr. Feely (111.) submitted some remarks in support of the contention that the laws of neutrality wero'being violated by this government is allowing the shipment of mules and horses to South Africa for use by the British in the war against the Boer republics. Mr. Feely and Mr. Gillett (Mass.) clashed upon the interpretation of that part of the treaty of Washington which binds the United States and Great Britain as to what constitutes war materials. The conference report on the ■Chinese exclusion bill was agreed to. The Senate devoted Tuesday to discussion of the Philippine civil government bill. In the House, under a special order which allowed three hours' debate, but which cut off all opportunity of amendment, omnibus building bill, which will distribute $17,405,450 among 174 cities, was passed. As the bill covers into the treasury $1,585,000, the total amount carried by the-bill is reduced to that extent. The bill provides for sev-enty-seven new buildings and sites already purchased, seventeen buildings on donated sites and fifty-eight increases in appropriations for buildings already authorized. It also provides for the purchase of sixteen sites. The consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill was resumed, but only seven pages was disposed of. In the Senate debate on the Philippine question occupied practically the entire day Wednesday. The bill for the purchase of the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota and the sundry civil appropriation bill were considered, but no action was taken on them aside from amending the latter by appropriating $250,000 for the purchase of the ground and building now occupied by the cenbureau. In the House the agrieulturnkjipproprlation bill was passed after increasing the item for good roads inquiries from $20,000 to $30,0Q0, and incorporating the following amendment: “The Secretary of Agriculture shall, on or before July 1. 1903, transfer to and consolidate with the weather bureau ami unde/ the direction of its chief all the work of the Department of Agriculture relating to the gathering nnd compilation of statistics by the division of statistics.'* Consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill, the last but two of the regular supply measures, was then begun. By the terms of a special rule adopted it w|ll be in order to attach a rider to it to make operative rhe existing personal tux law of the District, which has been a dead letter lor twenty years. Chairman Cannon estimated that there was $100,000,000 of un« taxed personal property in Washington. The Goldfogie resolution calling on thp Secretary of State for information ns to whether American citizens of Jewish .faith were excluded from Russia was adopted. >

Washington Notes.

Catholic university is shrfrt of funds, and seven professors have been dropped. Congressman Maun of Chicago has asked the House to investigate the public building now being erected iu Chicago. The Her. T. DeWitt Talmage left estate of $300,000, Widow receives onethird and balance will be divided among children, according to will. Bureau of foreign commerce bulletin said that If line of steamers from New York to Brfcr.il were started there would be sufficient freight In rubber and coffee.