Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1903 — Page 2

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

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

The Cummiqgs block, containing the postofflce, the bank of Fuller & Pects and Collins’ jewelry store, burned to the ground at Canaan, Conn. It is believed the fire was started by burglars after they had broken open the safes in the building. An autoppy held on the body of Horace 11. Hagan, a widely known politician and banker who died suddenly at Guthrie, Okla., supposedly frofn heart disease, indicates opium poisoning. It is stated that Mr. Hagan took an overdose of the drug to allay pain. What promises to be the largest discovery of gold ever known in that country has just been made at Arlintnnga, South Australia. There has been n rush of diggers to the district where the find was made and syndicates ure forming to purchase and work claims. The failure of A. B. Turner & Broiher of Boston was announced on the Stock Exchange. The firm was largely interested in Massachusetts Consolidated Mining and in western railway projects. The failure is attributed to the stringency of the money market. At David City, Neb., the jury in the Lillie murder ease brought in a verdict of guilty and fixed the punishment at Imprisonment for life. Mrs. Lena M. Lillie was accused of murdering her bus band, Harvey Lillie, early in the morning of Oct. 24 last by shooting him as he lay asleep in his bed. Mrs. Lillie claimed her husband had been shot by a burglar. The Golden State Limited, of the Bock Bland Itailroad, running over the Union Pacific tracks, crashed into the smoker of another passenger train which was trying to make a‘siding at the Hock Island junction, just outside of the Kansas City yards. The smoker was thrown from the track, turned over and smashed Into kindling wood and seventeen passengers sustained injuries. Police Captain Sam Boyd of the fourth district in Bt. Louis was suspended after n conference between Chief Keily and President Harry B. Ilawes of the police board. This action was taken after official notice was given of the Indictment returned by the grand jury against Boyd for neglect of duty in allowing the existence in his district of h/nises where young girls were held ns prisoners.

BREVITIES.

Mayor Julius Flelschmann, of Cincinnati, was renominated by the Republicans. It is estimated that over 3,000 head of cattle perished in Kansas during tiie recent storm. The Methodist Ministers’ Association adopted resolutions commending President Roosevelt’s negro policy. Thomas Tooncy, of Chicago, had bis right leg amputated at the knee in a trolley car collision near I’iqun, Ohio. John Hoffman of Springfield, Ohio, and William B. Kauffman of Little Rock were fatally injured in a collision near Spring Park, Mo. Reports from China show that the rebels in the northern districts nro gaining in strength and that foreigners ore openly threatened. Extension of the option on the Panama canal is the end which Attorney G moral Knox lias secured after considerable diplomatic negotiation. Louis Hoscnfield of Chicago lias secured a franchise at Louisville for a belt line that will increase facilities for transportation in the manufacturing district. Floods caused considerable damage near Pittsburg, but the water is subsiding. Farmers nlong the Wabash in Indiana lost about $150,000 through floods. Alfred Knapp, in explaining his confessions, said his sister betrayed him, and he determined to tell the story in order to make the family disgrace complete. The four-story tobacco warehouse nnd factory of M. Abenheim & Co., of New York, located at Farmville, Vn., was destroyed by fire, causing damage of #60,000. Though only 45 years old, Mrs. Cormack McCallis gave Birth the other day to her twenty-third child. • Mrs. MeCallis was married at tho age of 17 and resides in Ilazletou, Pa. Thousands of cattle dead and dying in the snow on the plains pan he seen from every railroad throughout the Colorado range country. The storms wrought havoc among the herds. Emma Bauch, 9 years old, swallowed the wooden mouthpiece of a toy balloon nnd died in the presence of the entire Sunday school of the Ainalee Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, N. Y. The engines of a Missouri Pacific passenger and a freight train were telescoped In a wreck near Fort Sciftt, Kan., and Engineer James Garrett and Fireman Walter Smith were seriously injured. Information gathered from the general catalogue and the alumni association records shows that of the 1,835 women that have graduated from the University of Michigan only 533 have married since graduating. The tire loss of the United States nnd Canada for the month of February, 1903, as compiled from tile carefully kept records of tiie Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, shows a totul of #16,000,000. Fire starting on die eighth floor of the Dekum block, at 3d and Washington streets, Portland, Ore., caused a loss of #250,000. The building was of brick, eight stories high, 100x100, and ono of the finest structures in the city. At Philadelphia several thousand union garment workers struck for better conditions, higher pay and recognition of union, and several hundred carriage workers and painters for higher wages. At Pittsburg 1,000 painters and peper hangers struck for Increase in pay. A sensational and novel ltold'-up was perpetrated at Butte, Mont., when Charles Payne, an armless man, entered the California Club nnd with n revolver held between the toys of his right foot ctepelled the faro dealer to return to' him #5 which he had lost during the Sight.

EASTEERN.

The Southwestern limited on the New York Central road, west bound, was wrecked at the East Syracuse, N. Y„ yards. Three trainmen were killed. An unknown woman, who was well dressed, committed suicide at Haildoufield, N. J., leaving a note which saiij she was the last of a distinguished family and was lonesome. Ithaca, N. Y., voted for city ownership of water works, 1,335 to 30, and people say had the municipality controlled its water supply no epidemic of typhoid would have occurred. E. T. Burdick, president of the Buffalo envelope works, was found dead in his room with his skull crushed. The indications are that the murdere was committed by burglars. Ethel Bowman, who is 20 years old, wulkcd for the first time in her life last week at her home at Plainfield, N. J., her cure having been brought about by the treatment of Dr; Lorenz. Charles Martin, the Austrian consul in Baltimore, and also prominent in business and social circles, was killed By a fall through an elevator shaft. He was married a week before to a Philadelphia girl. Two north-bound freight trains on the Pennsylvania collided near Alma, N. J., and an unidentified man was fatally injured. Conductor James Seagraves and Engineer Robert Chadwick were seriously injured. Edward Ford Howard of Montclair, N. J., a junior in tiie Sheffield Scientific School of Yale, was found dead on a projection of the face of East Rock, New Haven, Conn. Death is supposed to have been accidental. The Ilostetter-Connellsville Coke Company's mine near Latrobc, I’a., was tiie scene of a mysterious fire damp explosion in which two men lost their lives and many were brought out unconscious by rescue parties. Mrs. Jane Hendrickson, widow weighing 300 pounds, aged 58 years, and worth several million dollars, eloped at Brooklyn, N. Y., with livery driver, Patrick McHugh. They are now in the South on honeymoon trip. The officials of district No. 5, United Mine Workers, and the operators signed an agreement at Pittsburg, Pa., fixing the dead work scale. Many of "the mauds made by the miners were granted without discussion, while a few were refused. Dr. J. E. Rankin, president of Howard University, Washington, has resigned, owing to advanced age and infirmities. Dr. Tennis S. Hamlin, a member of the board of trustees and pastor of the Church of tiie Covenant in Washington, hu.s been elected president pro tern. Prosecuting Attorney Durant, who has been directing arrests of street railway strikers in Waterbury, Conn., was attacked by two men as lie was going home. The men knocked him down with clubs. As be lay on the ground he fired four shots at them while they neat him. The fourteen years’ fight between the Delaware regular Republicans and J. Edward Addicks faction, is ended ami J. Frank Alice, Addieks leader, lias been elected United States Senator for the long term, nnd I>. 11. Ball, “regular.” for short term. Senator llunna was the peacemaker. Six men are thought to be dead and twenty-five or thirty others are injured, several of them seriously, from the effects of an explosion at the Edison cement plant a’t New Village, N. J. A large part of the plant was burned. The explosion occurred in one of the large coal bins nnd was caused by the ignition of a quantity of gas. The structural iron workers of the Pittsburg, l*a., district, which takes in all points within a radius of 135 miles ofthat city, struck against an alleged x filiation of tiie agreement on the part of the American Bridge Company. In Pittsburg 700 skilled and 1,000 unskilled men are out._ The s rike will tie up all structural iron work in the district.

WESTERN.

The Universities of Minnesota mul Wisconsin will not meet in debate this year. The freight problem has reached its crisis and four Minneapolis Hour mills have been forced to shut down. The woman found dead in a Kansas City rooming house has been identified as Mrs. Lilly Shelton of Chicago. A 1 Wade, convicted of the murder of Miss Kate Sullivan and denied clemency, was sentenced at Toledo, Ohio, to death In the electric chair. The Shedd block and a row of brick buildings extending from Lincoln to Burlington avenue at Hastings, Neb., were burned. Lora $125,000. The Masonic Temple at Cheyenne, Wyo,. was destroyed by fire. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $.‘55,000. George Knight, fireman, was fatally injured. % The collection of jewels valued at about $20,000 formerly owned by Kate Castleton, the netress, are to be sold by her mother, Mrs. Eliza Freeman, at Oakland, Cul. Mrs. Philip E. Burrough, whose husband whs for many years tiie British consul at Kansas City, Mo., was thrown from her carriago in that city and died •oon after. George Cole, who held up the Burlington train near Ilutte, Mont., about three weeks ago. pleaded guilty nnd was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment by Judge McClernand. The extremely cold weather of tho last few weeks has ruined the peach crop of Missouri. While the crop of this fruit has been practically destroyed, no other fruit has suffered material injury. W. E. Marlin, a photographer at Colorado Springs, his 4-year-old son were killed by an explosion which occurred while Martin was mixing saltpeter and sulphur to form Unslilight powder. The police have arrested Garfield Snyder, a Denver, Colo., young man, on suspicion of having operated as the “lone highwayman” Who lias held up and robbed a number of saloons in that city recently. The supposed body of Mrs. llnunah O. Knapp, third wife of Alfred Knapp, the Hamilton, Ohio, strangler, was found In the Ohio ttlver at New Albany, Ind. Tho jewelry and clothing fit Knapp’s description. W. A. Scott, general manager of the Chicago, Minneapolis, Kt. Paul and Omaha Railroad, died in St. Paul. ll* had

been ill for several months and under went a surgicaT operation in the hope of securing relief. r The Montana House of Representative* in committee of the whole has passed the bill licensing gambling and making it n local option measure in small communities. For eight years gambling has been a felony in Montana. The dead body of Charles W. Clayton, who apparently had been nsphyxiated by naturul gas, was found in his room at Dayton, Ohio. Clayton was 22 years old, and came from Chicago.: He had secured employment ns a stenographer. A car on the Cleveland and South western Electric Railway went over au embankment twenty feet high at Henrietta, Ohio. There were twenty passengers nboard, some of whom were severely hurt, but the greater number escaped without serious injury. For the first time in the history of labor organizations in the United States an injunction was granted at St. Louis to restrain ordering of an original strike. The writ was issued on application of the Wabash Road, whose trainmen nnd firemen voted to strike. John W. Smith, engineer on the Panhandle express No. 5, was found dead at tiie throttle by hist fireman near Columbus, Ohio. His head had struck a mail crane or other obstruction and death was instantaneous. The train was running fifty-five miles an hour. The press mill of the Lnflin & Rand Powder Company's works at Turck, eight miles south of Kansas City, exploded, killing three men and injuring fifteen others, three of them fatally. The explosion is the fourth since the establishment of the works in 1889. Twelve men were injured, two of them probably fatally, by the collapsing of a scaffold at the new South Division High School building, at Thirty-ninth street and Prairie avenue, Chicago. The twelve men were thrown forty feet to the ground and fell among bricks and lumber. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway wage conference in Topeka agreed to an increase in salaries of 15 per cent for through freight, mixed train, local freight and work train conductors and brakemen, ami 12 per cent for passenger conductors, brakemen and baggagemen. In the lower levels of the l’enn mine at Butte, Mont., suddenly and without warning, a large force of men, under the direction of F. Augustus Heinze, ns is claimed, with threats and reckless use of powder, fought and drove about thirty of tiie Boston and Montana Company's miners from work. Chris T. Benson, a prisoner at the county jail in Olympia, Wash., killed Jailer David Morrell and escaped. Benson left open the inner and outer doors of the jail, but Mrs. Jesse Mills, wife of the sheriff, arrived with a revolver in time to prevent seven prisoners from gaining their liberty. Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 9, the fast express from St. Louis to Kansas City, crashed into a south-bound Missouri, Kansas and Texas freight train at the crossing of the tracks in the suburbs of Sedalia, Mo. The engine was partly demolished nnd four freight cars were knocked off the track. A run started on the Germ an-Am erie-aij Bank of Muscatine, lowa. The direct cause was the circulation of a false report to the effect that the stockholders had lost heavily on the Chicago Board of Trade. President Gelsler announced that every depositor would he paid in full. Other Muscatine banks came to the rescue. Joel Graham, a Caledonia, N. Y., fireman, anil John Hein, a Cleveland sailor, were arrested at Toletfo, Ohio, suspected of being two of the ten robbers who tortured and robbed the eight occupants of tiie home of Christian Joehlin. They attempted to bribe the arresting officer and told conflicting stories as to their whereabouts. Bishop J. M. Hamilton of the Methodist Church, in an address in San Francisco, practically declared himself in favor of marriage as means of removing race lines. The speech has caused much comment nmong Methodists. He said he had often married whites to blacks and Chinese and had no prejudice against siu-li marriages. Gov. George K. Nash was made defendant in n petition filed in the Probate Court at Columbus, Ohio by heirs of the late David W. Brooks. The Governor was named as executor of the will, nnd it is charged that lie has failed to give an accounting of the trust fund of SIO,OOO. The Governor says he is willing the matter should be brought to an issue. Annie B. Wood anil other heirs of Silas Armstrong, an Indian, have been given title to Missouri bottom land valued at $ 1.000,000, now occupied by Armour and Fowler, packers, and others at Kansas City. Attorneys for the defense have filed notices of appeal. If the verdict of the lower court is sustained the Armour Packing Company will be the heaviest laser. Train wreckers, in an attempt to ditch nnd rob No. 12, one of the fast express trains on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, wrecked fast freight No. 98 and caused the death of Fireman Joseph Hughey, of Washington, Inil., nnd Harvey Friend, of Odin, 111., who was learning the stations on the road so as to work as a fireman. Brnkcnmn W. L. Lucas wus injured. The wreck took place near Lebanon, 111.

SOUTHERN.

The fast Cincinnati Southern passenger train of the Southern Railway was wrecked three miles west of Lenoir, Tenn. Three persons were killed nnd twenty-five injured, some of whom mav die. Benjamin I. Goodwin, aged 70, reported to he worth about $300,000, or.e of tho richest fnrniers in central Kentucky, walked into a Lexington saloon, put a revolver to his cheek and tired, killing himself. William Farmer, deputy sheriff of Clayton County, Ga., instantly killed his father-in-law, James Christian, mortnlly wounded his wife, nnd attempted to kiil his son, hut missed lire. The frenzied mail then turned the gun upon himself and fired, dying instantly. Fire nt Frankfort, Ky., destroyed the Hniy building on East Main street* and it* contents, entailing a loss of $50,000. The building was occupied by the Rupert Wholesale Grocery Company, Frankfort Shoo Manufacturing Compnny and the Beckman Guard, State militia. Fire caused much damage in the section of tho city of Louisville, Ky., knowu

ns the “cabbage patch,” made famous by Mrs. Alice Tlegnn Rice’s story “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.” Four cottages were destroyed and the flames got close to the home occupied by Mrs. Mary Bass, the original Mrs. Wiggs.

FOREIGN.

It is reported in St. Petersburg that England is preparing to annex Muscat. Cyclone in England, Ireland and Wales killed scores of people; a railroad train was blawn from tiie 1 track,—Giacomo Puccini, the composer, was thrown into a ravine near Milan in an automobile accident and liis leg was broken. Five hundred Chinese imperial troops were ambushed by the rebels of the province of Kwang-Si and slain. The rebels captured large supplies of arms intended for a besieged garrison. Pope Leo was carried to St. Peter’s Church in Rome for celebration of Bis twenty-fifth anniversary as pontiff, in the presence of 75,000 people and surrounded by cardinals and 315 bishops. M. Rulong, the Russian consul at Mitrovitza, Albania, lias been murdered by Albanians. The consulate was established in 1902 in the face of the bitter and persistent opposition of the inhabitants. Conflict between- Russia, Austria, Balkans and Turkey is unlikely to mateTialize this year; At banians Tire expected to rebel instead; railroad construction lias been stopped and Austrian troops are on guard. A dispatch from San Salvador says that Gen. Regalado lias handed over the presidency to Gen. Pedro Jose Escabm, who was declared elected Feb. 19. This was the first peaceful transfer of the presidency in fifty years. The British steam collier Ottercaps, from Newcastle-on-Tyne, 'was driven on the rocks at Feuntenot, France, nnd broke up and sank immediately. It is believed that the crew and passengers, numbering thirty, perished. An explosion in the cellar of the imperial palace in Vienna caused momentary excitement, but it was soon ascertained that it was due to the accidental igniting of some sporting ammunition. Two workmen were injured. Mrs. Florence C. Mayhrick, who has for thirteen years lain in an English prison, charged with the murder of her husband, xvill be released May 1. 1904. This information conies direct from the State Department at Washington. through representatives of Mrs. Maybrick. A detachment of scouts under command of Lieutenant Nickerson attacked and defeated a body of ladrones near the village of Mariquina, seven miles from Manila. After an hour's fighting the ladrones were scattered. Nineteen were killed and many There wore no casualties on the American side. The Czar has personally intervened in behalf of the famine-stricken Finns, and lias ordered that extensive relief works be started without delay. Railroads costing $1,000,000 will be built at once. A $2,000,000 loan for other railroad construction has been authorized, and a bank with a capital of $.800,000 establish eil to loan money to peasant farmers. An appropriation of $140,000 has been made for the drainage of swamps.

IN GENERAL.

Pedro Anlvarado, a multimillionaire of Mexico, has offered to contribute $50.000,000 for the payment of the national debt. / Presklentr Palma of Cuba has signed the soldiers’ pay loan bill, which authorizes the issue of bonds to the amount of $35,000,000. President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress Friday asking passage of bill reducing tariff on Philippine products nnd quoting Gov. Taft as to grave need of islanders for such relief. Speaker Henderson has withdrawn from the firm of Henderson, Hurd, Lcnehan & Keisel at Dubuque, lowa, of which he has been a member for twentytwo years, and, it is said, will join the New York law firm of which Thomas B. Reed was a member. “I am not a polygamist. I have been married only once and my wife and six children are in Utah at the present time. The statement that I have contracted a polygamist marriage is absolutely and unqualifiedly false.” So said Senator-elect Smoot in an interview. Tho United States gunboat Isle de Luzon, which went aground near the mouth of the Mobile river during a dense fog, has been floated. Her officers report that no damage as far as they know was sustained by the vessel, but a thorough examination will be made. The National Tube Company, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, will expend $9,000,000 on its fourteen plants. Plants at Lorain, Ohio; Benwood, near Wheeling, W. Va.; McKeesport, Pa., and also other plants in Pittsburg will be enlarged. Sharon mill will be dismantled. Passengers arriving in New Orleans oil the steamer Breakwater brought the first news of a desperate battle fought in Honduras between the government troops and insurgents under Lee Christmas, an American. Tho battle was fought at Mani, two days’ journey from Tcgucigalpo, the capital. Of 200 men under Christmas, sixty were killed and 100 wounded. M. Jusserand, the French ambassador, nnd Herbert W. Bowen, the Venezuelan plenipotentiary, have signed a protocol for tlie settlement of the French claims against Venezuela by a joint commission to meet at Caracas and for the reference to The Hague tribunal of the contention of the allied powers for preferential treatment in the satisfaction of their demands. It has become pretty well known throughout interested circles in St. Paul that Wm. R.Merriam, director of the United States census, will before many days tender his resignation to President Roosevelt and ask that it take effect at once. Mr. Merrinm Jias accepted a position with an international credit concern of great magnitude and will make his headquarters .in New Yurk. Nicaraguan forces under the command of Gen. Vasquez, sent to help President Sierra of Honduras to cope with the revolution begun by Senor Bonilla, hare occupied Cholutoca City, sixty-eight miles south of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa. Gen. Ortiz, with Salvador troops, has invaded Honduras to assist Bonilla. Bonilla himself has occupied tho town of Ocotopec, fifty miles north of San Salvador, and is now advancing towards San Antonio del Norte.

CONGRESS

The Senate on Monday passed the general deficiency appropriation bill after agreeing to the committee amendments and amendments appropriating $3,000.000 to carry out the provisions of the omnibus public building bill and increasing the appropriation for the payment of claims to $1,370,000. The conference reports on the fortifications appropriation bill and the Alaska homestead bill were agreed to. The House amendments to the immigration bill were disagreed to and conferees xvere appointed. At the evening session the conference reports on the postofflce nnd agricultural appropriation bills and the immigration bill were agreed to. The House bill allowing I’or*o Rico a delegate in Congress was presented and went over until to-morrow after Mr. had offered a substitute containing a provision for a commission of three to investigate and report on claims of the Roman Catholic church to certain property in the island. The House, by a . vote of 207 to 3, agreed to the -conference report on the Alaska homestead bill, the Speaker declining to entertain a point of order that no quorum was preseqj. Mr. Grosvenor, from the Committee on Rules, presented a special rule to put the immigration bill into conference by direct vote and to cut off the, previous question on conference reports. ‘On the rule, which is intended to check the Democratic filibuster, twenty minutes’ debate was allowed. The previous question was ordered, IG2 to 103, and the rule was adopted, 154 to 101. The conference report on the fortifications appropriation bill was adopted, 214 to 8. The Immigration bill, with Senate amendments, -was sent to conference, 190 to 1, under the operation of the new ruleSimilar action was taken. 200 to 5, on the omnibus public building bill. The conference report on the postofflce and agricultural appropriations were agreed to.

At 11 a. m. Tuesday the Seuate entered upon the last legislative day of the Fifty-seventh Congress. A resolution was adopted continuing until the next regular session —the standing and solect committees. The conference report on the sundry civil bill was agreed to. The conference report on the bill to protect the President was presented, but not acted upon. A motion to take up the pure food bill was defeated, 28 to 32. Mr. Quay asked unnuimous consent for a vote on the omnibus statehood bill, the pure food bill and the conference report on the bill to protect the President, but objection was made. After debate by Messrs. B’oraker, Lodge, Teller and Elkins on the responsibility for the filibuster and the need of cloture in the Senate it was agreed that the Philippine tariff bill be taken up, displacing the Aldrich bill. Mr. Patterson opposed the bill and Messrs. Bacon, Lodge nnd Forakrr supported it. The conference report on the omnibus public building hill was agreed to after Mr. Warren had criticised the Senate conferees for yielding on certain items. A joint resolution was agreed to transferring nil tiie authority nnd jurisdiction conferred on the Secretary of the Treasury by the immigration bill to the Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Messrs. Carmack and MeEnery spoke in opposition to the Philippine bill. Tiie amendment increasing the duty on sugar and tobaaco from 25 to 50 per cent of the Dingley rate xvas agreed to on a yea nnd nay vote, 29 to 19. The conference reports on the uaval and general deficiency bill;! were presented and agreed to. When the Home convened at 11 a. m. Mr. Richardson sought to make the point of no quorum, but the Speaker overruled him and recognized Mr. Payne to demand the years and nays on the pending question coming over from Monday night—-the adoption of the conference report on tfie immigartion bill. The Speaker declined to entertain an appeal. The report was adopted 197 to 17. The conference report on the sundry civil bill was presented and adopted, 211 to 11. The conference report on the omnibus bill was adopted, 202 to 11, without debate. The conference. report on the bill to reduce the population requirements for “reserve”, cities for bank deposits from 50,000 to 25,000 was presented, and after a recess from 7 o’clock until 10 o’clock, was adopted. A bill intended to give former soldiers and sailors preference for appointments nnd retention in the civil service was passed, 148 to 57. The Fftty-seve.pt h Congress adjourned at noon Wednesday, its term having expired by limitation. With decks clear of all supply" bills, the appropriation measures for the several branches of the general service for the coming fiscal year having been disposed of, the House at 4:10 Thursday morning took a recess until 10 o'clock. Bills granting all Mexican war soldiers a pension of sl2 a month, and allowing country banks to secure currency on bond deposits were passed. The conference report on tho naval lull, agreed to by the Senate, was adopted. The House won a victory over the Senate in the measure as finally passed. It provides for three battleships of 10,000 tons each, as desired by the Senate. The conference report on the general deficiency hill was agreed to. The Senate at 1:52 a. m. took a recess until 10 a. m. Mr. Quay at the last moment withdrew his statehood amendment, offering a Senate rider to the Philippine tariff bill which had been underconsideration for the greater part, of the evening. The House was declared adjourned sine die at 12:03 by the clerk amid the singing of patriotic songs nnd a general ovation to Speaker Henderson.

In the National Capital.

Senate passed the bill appropriating $50,000 for a statue of Couut Pulaski. Consul General Gowdy, Paris, will investigate the charges that the valuable furs of Mrs. Charles Fair were changed after her death for Inferior one,*. Senator Fairbanks’ amendment appropriating $25,000 to experiment in telephoning Important mail communications to farmers was killed in the Senate. Senator Tillman'* speech on negro question recognized ns strong nrguineut; opening “door of hope” to blacks declared to mean shutting It for Southern whites; ratio of Illegitimate births among negroes in District of Columbia now 2d per cent of total.

COMMEPCIAL FINANCIAL

—•—» “Milder weather not only NBW York ! accelerated the demand fo* - J many lines of merchandise but relieved the pressure for fuel, whldl threatened to become a serious mattet, and incidentally facilitated efforts to reduce tho freight congestion. Wit,h other retarding feature than the holiday, business fully maintains its gratifying position. Returns of both domestic and foreign trade are fully equal to those of the same month last year, and in many cases there are marked gains. Tho people are consuming on a scale never before equaled, ns evidenced by the enormous distribution nnd continual inqulrle* for prompt shipment. Firmly held quotations also bear testimony to the fact that demand is often greater than supply.” The foregoing is from the Weekly Trade Review of It. G. Dun & Co. It continues: \ Increased interest has ...displayed by purchasers of all products of iron und steel, giving n decidedly firmer tone to the market nnd in many instances quota* tions have advanced. One of the detinito changes was a rise of $2 a ton in wire products, which was not a surprise, and a new ore schedule averaging over 25 cents a ton higher. This makes ex - ery step of the process more expensive to tha independent producer, ore, pig iron, coke, wages nnd freights having reached » higher position. To the leading producer, however, the situation is less disturbing, as most of these factors are under ono control, and it will be possible to bold prices of finished steel at a fairly conservative position. A very heavy tonnage of pipe has been moved on old orders and considerable new business is reported. Few additional ndvances have occur - red in quotations of cotton goods, the developments of the week being chiefly in the direction of establishing the market on the higher basis that was suggested by earlier spasmodic advances. There is morj conservatism on the part of buyers. Business in woolens has fallen off unexpectedly, some early buyers reducing the size of their initial orders, while in a few exceptional cases there have been complete cancellations. This clinngo of front is attributed to the fact that manufacturers have not held to opening prices. / New England shoeshops have secured moderate advances in several grades of footwear, chiefly of fall styles in demand by western buyers. Other divisions are very firm and the entire market exhibits an upward tendency. Quotations of leather are fully maintained, although trade is quiet in sole. Foreign dry hides are strong but inactive owing to light stock and restricted arrivals. Failures this week numbered 211 in the United States, against 215 last year, Uradstreet's Grain Figures. Wheat, including flour, exports for tlieweek ending Feb. 26 aggregate 2,G5C,-» 879 bushels, against 2,713,792 last week, 8,234.540 In this week a year ago and! 5,233,313 in 1901. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregate 160,792,648 bushels* against 180,166,099 last season and 134,295,952 in 1900. Corn exports aggregate 2,368,939 bush* els, against 3,739,457 last week and 4,185,440 in 1901. For the fiscal year exports are 30,739,582 bushels, against 23,118,990 last season and 131,780,324 In 1901.

THE MARKETS

Chicago—Cattle, commit to prime, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades, $5.50 to $7.55; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 to $5.40; wheat. No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2,44 cto 45c; oats, No. 2, BUe to 85c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; hay, timothy, $8.50 to $14.00; prairie, SO.OO to( $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 27c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 16c; potatoes, 40c to 47c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $7.15; sheep, common to prime, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn. No. 2 white, 44c to 45c; oats, No. 2 white, 37e to 39e. St. Louis—Cattle, $4.50 to $5.50; hogs, $5.00 to $7.45; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn, No. 2, 41c to 42c; oats. No. 2,34 cto 35c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 60c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $4.50 to $4.80; hogs, $4.00 to $7.25; sheep, $3.50 to $4.85; wheat. No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No.. 2 mixed, 46c to 47c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 38c to 39c; rye. No. 2,57 cto 68c. Detroit—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $7.10; sheep, $2.50 to $4.26; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 3 yellow, 45c to 40c; oats, No. 3 white, 87c to 38c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 54c. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 8,42 cto 43c; oats. No. 2 white, 35c to 30c; rye, No. 1,60 c to 52c; barley, No. 2,64 cto 65c; pork, mess, $19.35. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 76c to 77c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 4&a-to 40c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 86c to 37c; rye, No. 2,62 c to 54c; clover seed, prime, $7,25. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.50 to $5.50: hogs, fair to prime, $4 00* to $7.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to $5.50; lambs, common to choice, $4.00 to $7.10. New York—Cattle, $4.00 to $5.45; hogs, $4.00 to $7.20; sheep, $3.00 to $5 75; wheat, No. 2 red, 80c to 81c; corn. No. 2,50 cto 57c; oats, No. 2 white, 43c to 44c; butter, creamery, 26c to 28c; eggs, western, 14c to 10c.

Told in a Few Linea.

Capt. Purnell Harrington will takw charge of the navy yard at Bremerton, Wash. J. VV. Jaclupn froze to death In Knufman County, Texas. Mercury was 4 below zero. Loula G. Bolile, ex federal marshal, Bt. Loula, is dead. lie bad been operated on for cancer. At Matagorda, Texas, William Sales hilled Felix Methwna, colored, and m White man named Wilson. Sales was arreetrd.