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eN. M. T F. Q.F. M. (T U Q. 2nd. S) 9th. VylTth. V 25th. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Thlnjj are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. "Beb" Evans Getting Health. The United States training ship Buffalo has arrived at San Diego, Cal., from Magdalena Bay bringing official mail and press dispatches from Admiral Evan' battleship fleet. These dispatches say that the target practice has already began and will be completed within three weeks, when the fleet will sail for the north. Rear Admiral Thomas, commanding the second squadron, denies that Admiral Evans lia3 at any time been so ill as to turn ( command of the fleet over to him. Admiral Evans comment on the cruise was to the effect that he was ordered to bring the ships to the Pacific and obeyed. AH aro in splendid trim and ready for any duty. There will be no battleship drills at Magdalena- Bay, that part of the program being reserved, as usual, for the fall. Admiral Evans' health is steadily improving And he says he hopes to be able to leave the ship when the fleet arrives at the California coast, where it will stop on the way to San Francisco. Students in Wild Riot. College feeling among the students of the University of Michigan burst forth in a riot at Ann Arbor. More than a score of students were locked op In jail and the Star theater, a five cent place of amusement, was literally wrecked. The mob of students, which numbered fully 2,000, directed a "college rush" .against the front of the building, tearing away windows and doors and plaster and rolling the theater piano out Into the street, where leaders of the students mounted the Instrument and performed a dance to the accompaniment of mad cheers and yells from the unmanageable crowd. The trouble dates back to a week ago, when a student the audience, who persisted in giving the Ann Arbor college yell too often to suit the management, was ejected and thoroughly clubbed by a special policeman in the employ of the theater. Gillette Will Be Executed. Governor Hughes of New York will not Interfere in any way vith the execution in the week beginning March 30th, of the death sentence upon Chester Gillette, of Cortland, convicted of the murder of Grace or "Billy" Brown of South Otselic, Chenango County, at Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks. in July, 1906, and now In the death cells at Auburn prison. The Governor would not talk about the matter for publication, but entertains no doubt of Gillette's guilt. Young Hanna in Romantic Wedding. Mark A. Hanna, son of Daniel A. Hanna, and grandson of the late Marcus A. Hanna, who is a freshman in the Sheffield scientific school at Yale University, married M'.ss Adele Pratt, of Elmira, N. Y., Saturday evening. Mrs. Hanan Is the daughter of Mrs. Agnes Murdock Pratt, of Elmira. She met Mr. Hanna at a hop given at Tuffs college. Eight Kilted by Explosion. Eight persons are dead, another is badly injured, and property valued at many thousands of dollars is a mass cf wreckage as the result of an explosion of gas in the basement of the five-story building occupied by the Natchez Drug Company and located at the corner of Main and North Union streets in Natchez, Miss. Ready for Night Rid:rs. The American Tobacco Company has placed a agttling gun on the roof of their warehouse in Maysvllle, Ky., to prevent night riders burning the building. Men will be constantly on guard and work the gun If the night riders appear. School House Burned. The Jefferson street public school in Little Falls, N. Y., was damaged by Are to the extent of $",000. The fire sti'jted in the furnace raom Just before the hour at which the pupils usually enter the building. Rear Admiral Kane Dead. Rear Admiral Theodore F. Kane, retired, 13 dead at his home In New York City. He was born in Washington, D. C, in 1810. In the Civil War he was In active naval service on the Bainbridge, the Savannah and the Neptune. Bandits Still at Large. The trio of Tyro, Kansas, bank robbers are still at large, evidently safe in the hlll3 along Hom'ny creek, twenty miles southwest of battlesville, Okla. Many Shot in Trages Fight. Another serious outbreak is rejwrted in the Iiimlxr ramps in Grant parish. La., where friction was recently brought about by negroes accepting a cut in wages, the whites standing out against the reduction. A number of persons are reported to have been shot. New Eegime in Ilayti. The new regime in Ilayti has been bejrun by the shooting, summarily, of the leaders of the opposition: English ami French war ships have Len ordered to .Port-au-Priace aiid an American war thip, it is expected, will be sent there. Escaped Convict Killed by Sheriff. Joseph Hassanell, one of the convicts who escaped from the North Dakota ienitentiary in Bismarck recently, was kill -d by Sheriff Beck of McLean County iu a pistol duel- A few houre earlier A'frel Woolens, the other escaped convict, was captured by a posse fifteen miles west of JIandan. Policeman Expects Fortune. John F. Von Muegge, a special policeman in New York, says he will get a fortune of $-200,000 and a title if he hold. his job till August, thus completing a ..period of fifteen years in that position.

CONVICTED OF $5,000,000 STEAL. Four Found Guilty in Pennsylvania Capitol Conspiracy Cases. The jury in the first of the Pennsylvania capitol conspiracy cases to I- tried gave a verdict of guilty as to every one of the four men who have been on trial at Harrisburg for the last s;vcn weeks. The men found guilty are John II. Sanderson, contractor; William P. Snyder, former auditor general; W. L. Mathues. former State treasurer; ami James M. Shuinaker, former superintendent of public buildings and grounds. The State claims that frauds to the amount of $5.t M ).( r. K were committed. The four men were convicted of defrauding the State in furiihdiiug the new capitol, which cost the State about $13,000.o0 instead of ? l.OvrO.OOO. the figure at which the contract was estimated. The prosecution was thrt outcome of the political upheaval in Pennsylvania in 19o5, which resulted in the election of William II. l.erry. a IVmocrat, as State treasurer in the fall of that year. Berry threw open the hooks of the State treasury and showed that the cost of building the capitol was more than three times the amount of the contract. The case was laid before the Attorney General and indictments were found against fourteen persons. When the cases now pending against the four persons who were convicted are concluded the other defendants will be heard.

FUTUSE BATTLES TO BE IN AIR. Nikola Tesla Predicts Great Improvement in Art of Killing. That present methods of warfare will be displaced by the use of electric waves projected through the air with effect sufficient to destroy an entire army in the space of a few, minutes was the assertion of Nikola Tesla in tin address delivered before the Entertainment Club at the Waldorf-Astoria in New Yorki A 20,000.000 horse-power energy source will develop this electric force, he continued, its generating power in turn being drawn from the waterfalls of the country. "With the age of great economics upon which we are now entering," he said, "it will Im held wasteful to construct at great cost battleships which are fit for active service only a few years. The battles of the future will be fought through the air. Further, there will be the creation of a system of wireless telephony which will render it possible to hold communication, not with every corner of the world, but with the other planets." COBONEE'S DECISION. Faulty Construction Caused Deaths in Colllnwood School Fire. Coroner Burke has rendered his decision in the Collinwood school fire. Existing conditions are blamed, but no specific fault is charged to any one. Fred Ilirter, the janitor, is exonerated. The coroner found that the fire started in a closet, under the front stairway and was caused by overheated pipes, which ignited the stairway. The death of the children, he says was due to faulty construction wlercby a partition projected in front of the stairway at the bottom, making the children turn out of the way in their rush for the door. He holds that the children became panic-stricken and were jammed in the doorway because of the turn in the hall to get to the door. PLAN TO HALT ALIENS. National Immigration League Would Sift Over Foreigners. Many plans for fosteriug immigration on lines that will eliminate the advent of undesirable citizens were devised at the annual meeting in New York of the National Liberal Immigration League. The plans provide for ti e distribution of immigrants by giving free transportation to them as well ns to lative workmen, from congested to less jiopulated togions, for the deportation of alien criminals, and the "Americanizing" of the immigrant by fostering patriotism. The league voiced its opposition to the diseriminaton against immigrants from. Southern Italy in Virginia and North Carolina. Morse Pleads Guilty. Charles W. Morse, the former banker, and Alfred H. Curtis, formerly president of the National Bank of North America, pleaded not guilty in the United States Circuit Court in New York to a joint indictment containing twenty-nine . counts. Eleven of the counts charged them with conspiracy and eighteen with making false entries. Bail was fixed at $00,000 for Morse and $10,000 for Curtis. Acquitted of Heresy Charges. The Kansas conference of the Methodist Episcopal church exonerated Dr. J. T. MeFarland of New York, editor of the Methodist Sunday school publications, of heretical charges preferred against him by Dr. George A. Cook, a member of the Troy conference. 7?r. Cook is the man who brought charges against Chancellor Day of Syracuse university. Machine Sells Post Stamps. To determine whether they will be practicable for general use two slot machines for the vending of postage stamps have been placed in the corridors of the general postoffice in New York. The droppin, of a coin will immediately bring forth a stamp of the desired denomination. New Balloon Record Is Made. Leo Stevens, in his balloon No. 21, made a new speed record for New England. He made a trip from Pittsfield, Mass., to Hampton Falls, a distance of ISO miles, in three hours. W. E. Whitehouse of New York was a passenger. The capacity of the balloon was 35.000 cubic feet and carried G)0 pounds of ballast. 22 Firemen Suffer from Fumes. Six firemen were overcome and sixteen partially succumbed to the fumes of wood alcohol from a fire in the dry kiln of the Northwestern Compo-Board Company in Minneapolis. Firemen Joseph Steffers, Will Stebbins and P. O'Laughlin are in a serious condition. Forest Fire Kills Man. Passengers arriving at Wilmington, N. C, on a belated Atlautic Coast Line train from Fayettcville report a fierce forest fire raging in the vicinity of Tomahawk, fifty miles west of Wilmington. One man was killed. Attorney, in Debt, Kills Self. Attorney George C. Kohler, son of former State's Attorney General J. A. Kohler, committed suicide by shooting himself in the temple while sitting in a chair at him home in Akron, Ohio. Kohler is said to have leen heavily involved financially. Death for Priest's Slayer. Giuseppe. Alia, who killed Father Leo Heinrichs in St. Elizabeth's Itoman Catholic church in Denver, Feb. 23. has been foiui.I gui'ty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. Two Chinamen Hanged. Two Chinese, Jung Jow, and Mock Kuug, were hanged in Moyaraensing prison, Philadelphia, for the murder of two fellow countrymen during an outbreak in the Chinese quarter July 4, 1900. Since their conviction the two men have embraced Christianity, both becoming Baptists. Object to Negress; Fire on Home. Twenty-five "White Caps" rode into McCutchinville, Ohio, and riddled with ballets the home of Constable Peter D. Kieffer. The visitors objected to a negress ai servant in the home of Kieffer.

SENATE- HAS ANARCHIST SCAKE. Upper House Members Annoyed by Intruder of Strange Appearance. While Senator Carter was making a spe eh I'rLIay ;.fternooii a man decidedly unfamiliar to everybody present entered the Senate chamber, glanced nervously around, and then hastened to the roar, where he took a seat, lie was slight of build, had long hair and a black beard that was a truss between that of Herr Most and McphistopheJes. Barney Layton, the assistant srrgeant-at-arms. noticed the intruder, and not wishing to make a scene first asked the doorkeepers who he was and how he got past them. They didn't know who he was, and said he just flashed a card and pushed h'.s way in. "lct me see your card." demanded Laymen, a few seconds later, confronting the stranger. He handed out a business card bearing a foreign name ending 'ski." as near as Layton can remember, with the added inscription of "counselor-at-law" and a New York City address. "You get out quicker than you came in or you'll ride downtown in a patrol v agon." said Layton. Whereupon the strängt r bolted for the door. By this time several Senators had their attention attracted, ami a sigh of relief was heard as he made his exit.

RIFLE MEET AT FORT SHERIDAN Army Competition Will Be Held There Beginning ca Aug. 10. Gen. Bell, chief of staff, has issued instructions for holding the annual small arms competition of the army in URiS. The combined departmental small arms' competition will be held at the following places: Departments of the cast and the gulf at Fort Niagara, N. Y. ; departments of Dakota, of the lakes and of Missouri at Fort Sheridan. HI.; departments of California and of the Columbia at the Presidio of Monterey, Cal.; departments of the Colorado and of Texas at Leon Springs. Texas. The army rifie competition will be held at Fort Sheridan, beginning Aug. lO. The army pistol competition also will be held at Fort Sheridan, beginning immediately after the completion of the rifle competition. All successful competitors will, if they so desire, be sent to Camp Perry, Port Clinton, Ohio, to take part in the national individual match, the national pistol match and the matches of the National Rifle Association, beginning at that place Aug. 21. VICTIMIZED BY A VISION. Dream Induced Rich Doctor to Give Away His Wealth. Bobbed, be says, of his fortune by a vision that told hin he would die in six months. Dr. John Wesley Sill, 84 years old, formerly a prominent physician at Worcester, Mass., with a $40.000 estate, ws taken to the poorhouse the other day. Sill says that a year ago a vision appeared to him and told him he would die in six months. Tie gave away all his real estate, everai farms at home and in Canada, a business block, and his library to nephews and nieces. He saved just enough to live on six months. Now the six months have passed and Sill's money is all spent. He says the nephews and nieces refuse to give him back anything. FIVE DROWNED IN OHIO FOG. Towboat Strikes Bridge Pier and Men in Crew Perish. . Five men are reported drowned in Ashland. Ky. The towboat Boaz, which left Pittsburg on a recent morning for Cincinnati, with twelve coal boats, sixteen barges, three fuelhoats. and a crew of thirty-five, ran into a heavy fog at Catlettsburg. Being unable to tie up, the boat struck an exposed pier of the proposed Ashland-Irontou bridge one mile below Ashland. It is said nearly all the barges were sunk. The entire crew had been called out on the barges to tie up the fleet. William Matticks, a deckhand from Pittsburg, who swam ashore, says, at least five were drowned. GET JAGS AT THE SILOS. Farmer's Hired Men Find a Brand New Intoxicant. Farmers about Pottstown, Pa., complain that some of their hands are getting on cheap drunks by imbibiug a new drink, which has not yet been given a name. It is the "milk" from the corn in the silos, and its flavor is said to be equal to that of whisky. Wells have been dug under the silos for thV? "milk" to drain into, and the bibulous soil tillers go there and slake their thirst. Tragedy at Girls' School. A sensational murder and suicide occurred at the Laurens school, an exclusive finishing school for' young women, on Audubon road, Boston. Miss Sarah Chamberlain Weed of Philadelphia killed Miss Elizabeth Bailey Hardee of East Savannah, Ga., and then herself. The women were about 35 years old, and had been intimate friends since their graduation from Wellesley college. Miss Weed was evidently insane. Priest's Slayer Attempts Escape. In a mad attempt to escape jail in Denver, where he is awaiting death, Giuseppe Alio, the condemned murderer of Father Leo Heinrichs, made use of a razor blade, with which he slashed the neck of a "trusty" who was cleaning his cell, and endeavored to get away. The "trusty," despite his cut, sprang after Alio and pinioned him, and he was quickly overpowered with the help of Deputy Warden Car pen. ' Atlantic Squadron's Itinerary. A partial itinerary for the battleship fleet after finishing target practice at Magdalena Bay has been announced by the Navy Department in Washington. It includes visits to San Diego, Santa Barbara. San Pedro, Santa Cruz and San , Francisco, arriving at the latter place- on May 5. Castaway Is Not Found. The cruiser Yankton, that went to In defatigable Island in search of Fred Jeffs, an American seaman, said to be marooned there, has returned to Acapulco. It failed t find Jeffs. May Lease National Railroads. Japan has found the burden of its nationalized railroads too heavy to bear and is considering a proposition to lease them to a syndicate of European capitalists. Want Millions from Harrlman. Shareholders have petitioned directors of the Union Pacific to mik Ilarrimau give up $40.000,000 alleged to have been lost through his stock speculations. Evelyn Thaw Seeks Divorce. Evelyn Nesoit Thaw has begun suit to annul her marriage with Harry K. Thaw and the latter lefs it be known that he will resist tK action. "Drys" Win in Minnesota. Municipal elections were held in the small cities and villages throughout Minnesota Tuesday and the principal question was that of license or no license for the saloons. Returns received show that out of 113 towns fifty-one voted for no license. Fire Damages Club House. The clubhouse of the Ray Side Yacht Club, on Little Neck bay, near Flushing, L. I., was destroyed and several boats owned by members of the club were badly damaged by a supposedly incendiary fire. IiOss $50,000.

A MARCH

BRADLEY GETS THE TOGA. Former Governor of Kentucky Elected to United States Senate. After a contest remarknhh- loth for Its length and its political I 'tterness former Gov. William O'Connell Brad ley, of Kentucky, wes elected to the United States Senate, defeating former Gov. Rffkuam, who was the Democratic candidate. The balloting in the Legislature had been going on for weeks and tlu national attention. SENATOR BRADLEY. struggle attracted Bradley's election was effected by the defection of four Democrats, who refused to support Beckham. j Senator Bradley Is one of the best known politicians In the State and lias gained wide distinction as a criminal lawyer. He was born in Garrard, Ky.. In 1S47 and was admitted to the bar by iMtial ad of the Legislature in lStV, leing under 21 years of age. In 1STO he was elected prosecuting attorney and In 18SS received 10 votes for Vice President In the national convention. Iu IStHj he was endorsed as Kentucky's candidate for the presidency. His election as Governor in 18!J." broke all txditical records in Kentucky and turned a registered Democratic majority of 4o,00 into a Republican plurality of 0.000. Senator Bradley has long been prominent in Republican national politics and at one time declined the- appointment by President Harrison, of minister to Corea. He is au unrivalled story teller. Jnntor Republic Extension. In view of the success which has attended the junior republic system in isolated cases a movement is on foot for the formation of a National Junior Republic Association, for the purpose of advancing the idea in the various States. William R. George, founder of the George Junior Bepublic, will be the director of the enterprise. A farm for the training of colonists and head workers for new republics has been secured at Freeville, N. Y. It is also planned to institute a system for boys and girls below the age of 15 years, who will have a community carrying out the self-governing and economic ie'eas to a lesser degree. These will probably be called the junior coloiJf -s, to t'istinguish them from the junior republics, which are distinctively for older boyi and girls. At Los Angeles Big Bow won the fourmile race for the Norfolk stakes. S. C. Hildreth's Meelick won the California derby at Oakland with ease. Pete O'Brien is going to be captain of the Minneapolis ball team this season. Drake university of Des Moines has practically completed her football schedule for next season. Frank Bain, who makes one of the largest books in the Oakland ring, quit Derby day with a balance of $5,500 on the wrong side of his sheet. At Wangnnui, New Zealand, Webb, the world's sculling champion, retained the title by defeating R. T. Ressider in a contest on the Wanganui river. To Jockey Chris Kirschbaum fell the riding honors at the Emeryville track, Oakland, Cal. Five firsts, four seconds and five thirds out of 30 times in the saddle was his record for the week. John W. Rogers, trainer for Harry Payne Whtiney. died from pneumonia at Aiken, S. C. Mr. Rogers was one of the lest known trainers of thoroughbreds in the United States. At one time he was employed by Ed. Corrigan. According to an announcement made by John Ganzel, manager of the Cincinnati National League team, Grand Rapids of the Central League will use several of the surplus players now under contract to the Reds. Ganzel states that he will let Arnold have a catcher, two pitchers and an outfielder, all witht big league experience. . Decline In Woolen FrofltM. Although the American Woolen Company reports net profits of over J?-".4K,-HM) in 1W7, this was a decrease of over $1,000,000 from the returns of 1!Kn;. The surplus is $10,000,000 and the number of stockholders has increased 45 jmt cent. Hypodermic injeef.ons of a serum similar to that used in the treatment of diphtheria are being successfully employed in scarlet fever cases in New York, according to doctors in hospitals on the east side. It has been employed with gratifying results in both Germany and France. Mrs. Charlotte L. Noyes, a wealthy young widow, was shot and instantly killed at her home in Ixs Angeles, Cal., by W. 1. McComas, a mining engineer, who has been friendly with her for several months. McComas alleges the woman dashed a cupful of sulphuric acid in his face. Because she remembered the voice of a man whom she had several times seen visiting her coachman, Mrs. Luke Otten of New York recovered property that was stolen from her home and had the thief Dlaced in jail.

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.-'.'....II -T - k FIVE YEARS FOR WALSH. Convicted Chicago Banker Sentenced to Fort Leavenworth Prison. JohJi IX. Walsh, the Chicago banker, tnvicted of the misuse of depositors' funds, was denied a new trial by Judge A. B. Anderson in the Federal Court and was sentenced to live years in the government prison at Fort Leavenworth. The sentence was five years on each count on which the president of the old Chicago National Bank was convicted, but it is to run concurrently. All the lentils raised by the attorneys for the defense in their plea for a new trial were overruled by the court, who, in his opinion, reviewed at some length the events during the trial and after the return of the verdict. In overruling the plea for a newtrial the court comnieuted on tlie evidence of guilt shown in the hearing, asserted that the trial had Utm fair V JOIIX R. WAIStl. and convincing of the guilt of Mr. Walsh, but in pronouncing sentence th? nuirt declared that he was moved by the age and former standing of tue defendant to Imitose the minimum punishment, believing that the short term would serve the purpose of the law as fully ;s a sterner judgment. EVELYN SEEKS DIVORCE. After Standing by Thaw Since Tragedy, Wife Would Be Free. Evelyn Neshit Thaw has Instituted proceedings for the annulment of her marriage to Harry K. Thaw. The action is based on th. allegation that the defendant was insane when the union was contracted. Mrs. William Cofley Thaw is made a co-defendant. It is understood the attorneys for Mrs. Thaw will depend practically on the evidence of Insanity introduced at the lust trial of Thaw to prove that he was mentally incompetent at the time to legally contract a marriage. Alienists will probably figure prominently as witnesses and the men who appeared as experts for Jerome in Thaw's trial will be summoned us witnesses in Evelyn's behalf. Mrs. Thaw's lawyer denied the reirt that It had been agreed to settle $50.000 on the younger Mrs. Thaw. He denied also the report of nil tillowanco of $15,000 a year for life. He also emphatically denied the report that Evelyn Is contemplating a return to the stiige. saying: "Mrs. Evelyn Thaw has no plans for the Immediate future." NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS. The Ohio .-täte Senate has passed a county option bill. Mrs. Lydia A. White, aged 80, a real daughter of the American revolution, is dead of pneumonia at Lancaster, PaFire in the mining town of Sewell, on New river, W. Va., destroyed eleven buildings and caused a loss of $25,000. The Michigan constitutional convention mid the South Carolina Legislature each voted down a proposition for State prohibition. The collier Ca'sar has arrived at the New York navy yard to be overhauled to carry two submarine torrtcdo boats to the Philippines. They will be part of the permanent defenses of Manila. Caleb Powers, tried so oftvMi on the (harge of complicity in the murder of William Goebcl. is expected to be a candidate for the Republican iiomyiuilon for Congress in his Kentucky di-ilr:. Fire starting in 1,enibke's dry goods store at Albert Lea, Minn., caused a loss to the building and four mercantile firms, the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company and six other tenants of $."0,o;io. J. V.. Brady, formerly president of the Merchants' Refrigerating Company of Kansas City, which failed last November, was indicted iu that city, charged with the embezzlement of $7i,Ot)0. Henry Bergh, nephew of the founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, offers a prize of $50 ) for an invention that, will be more humane than the present method of slaughtering animals. Andrew Charlton, Jr.. and Anna L. Reynolds have been married at Stamford, Conn., for the second time. The first marriage took place in 1802 when Charlton was 27 years and his bride 14. 'Eight years ago they were divorced.

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WORK OF COMGHESS Cotton as a basis for the issuance ot treasury notes in times of money stringency was the thief feature of a speech in the Senate Tuesday on the pending currency bill by Senator McLaurin ol Mississippi. Senator (JaIIii;ger secured an agreement to vote on the ocean mail ship subsidy bill March 20. After passing several bills on the calendar the Senate adjourned. Consideration of the iKstotfice appropriation bill was resumed in the House. A speech by Mr. Hamilton of Michigan upholding the right of the federal government to control corp(H"ation? and sustaining the President in his attitude toward tkem, was the feature of the day's proceedings. Small of North Carolina and Finley of South Carolina attacked the proposition to increase the pay for ocean mail service on the ground that it was a subterfuge for a ship subsidy. A message from the Presidents and re ports from the-coramittee on military affairs on the Brownsville affray consumed the time of the Senate daring the early part of the session Wednesday. A brief debate brought out a statement by Senator Warren, chairman of the committe? on military affairs, that a bill will soon be introduced for the reinstatement of the discharged colored soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Regiment under certain conditions. The Aldrich bill was discussed by Senator Clarke of Arkansas who declared that he would vote for neither the Aldrich no. the Bailey substitute. After the passage of several bills on tho calendar the Senate adjourned. Persistent assaults on the postoflice appropriation bill in th"? House resulted in the amplification oi that measure in many .important parts despite the protests of Chairman Overstreet and the committee. The letter carriers fiually won their fight for $1,200 salaries. The House also allowed an additional $25.000 for clerks in third class offices and $15,000 additional for cobtract stations. There were incorporated in the bill a provision prohibiting the transmission through the mails of intoxicating liquors, which was later modified to include cocaine and its derivatives. Altogether the appropriations carried by the bill were increased $1,225,000. Senator Ixdge of Masachusetts Thürs day strongly indorsed the Aldrich currency bill in the Sonate and declared that it would be serviceable as an emergency measure. Senator Paynter of Kentucky opposed the bill. Referring to Senatot Depew's recent remarks about "night riders" and barn burning in Kentucky, Senators Paynter and McCreary of that State condemned such lawlessness and denounced the tobacco trust. The postoflice appropriation bill had rough sailing in the House. The attacks were begun on the section relating to the pneumatic tube service, which was changed so that extensions of such service should not be confined to the cities named, but should be made wherever the Postmaster General may think best. The House was a unit for withholding a portion of the pay tc railroads for transportation of mails until a correct system of weighing should be established. A vigorous but inefTectnai fight was made on a proposition to increase by $2,000.000 the appropriation for paying the exiienses of railway maii clerks while traveling on business of th department. Senator Bacon of Georgia in the S- ut, Friday spoke of executive encroachment? on the legislative power of the government and read freely from newspaper reports to show that legislation is beinj mapped out in the White House nt conferences at which Congressmen are not even present. The bill providing for the shipment of material intended for tht Panama canal in American sh'ps wa passed. Senator Simmous of North Carolina spoke in favor f the ocean mail shiipirg bill.. Carrying th largest appropriation in all its history $222.RH).:i02 the postoflice pppropriatiou bill the same day passed the House. This is $1,425.000 more than was reported by the committee. Chairman Ovorstreet opposed the proposition to increase the pay of letter carriers, but that net ion was confirmed, l.'lti to 12'. The appropriation for the rural delivery service was increased $290.000. The Senate was not in session Saturday. Metuliers of Ihe House wore afforded an opportunity, nneer licence of general debate, to express their views on topics of the day. Among other subject-? politics, the recent financial panic, the tariff and the Sherman anti-trust lawwere discussed while the pension appropriation bill technically was under consideration. Among the speakers were Mr. Hamlin of Missouri, who placed on the shoulders of the Republicans the responsibility for the recent panic; Mr. Länglehof Kentucky, who wanted pensions granted certain iersons in Kentucky who aided in suppressing the rebellion, and Mr. Hughes of New Jersey, who desired the Sherman anti-trust law amended so as to work hss hardship ou labor organizations. NATIONAL CAPITOL NOTES. Congressman Hamilton of Michigan has introduced a bill providing for severe penalties for circulating false reports about national banks. The cabinet meeting decided that it lz not one of the duties of cabinet officers to draw bills at the request of Congressmen. When officially requested by committees of Congress, however, bills will be drawn but not otherwise. Congressman Cook of Colorado will iu a few days introduce a bill to restore the duty on manganese ores, which nre used largely in the manufacture of steel. The tariff was removed in 1S07 by the passage of the Dingley tariff bill. Senator Culberson's resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the Senate if any national banks outside of New York City complained lietween Oct. 1 and Nov. 15, 1007, of the refusal of national banks of New York to pay in cash, New York exchange or to respond to calls for reserve was adopted hy the Senate. The President received a visit from Charles G. Burton, commander-in-chief of the (i. A. R., and three members of the pension committee of that organization, who talked with him about tho bill pending in Congress increasing the pensiou of widows from $S to $12 per month. Resolutions demanding the restoration to the army of the colored troops dismissed as the result of the Brownsville affair were adopted at a mass meeting after addresses by Bishops H. H. Turner of Atlanta, W. I). Chappelle of Nashville, aud other negro loaders. Fifteen States, having a large negro population wore represented. The first reading of the Fowler currency bill was completed by the House committee on banking and currency. The bill, together with the several amendments, tentatively agreed to, will now be taken up and discussed preliminary to final revision and report. The United States board of food and drug inspection made public its decision in the matter of what constitutes an "original unbroken package." The board decides that in enforcing the law original unbroken packages "will be restricted to such a package containing the fo.id and drug product as has been prepared for shipment or transportation as au en tirety or unit."'

CHICAGO. The weekly review of trade in th Chi cago district, published by L. G. Dun Ä. L'o.. will say: "Trade exhibits further recovery, scrollable weather proving beuehcml: and here is improvement in both production ind distribution, together with larger novements of breadstuff's and liv. stock uid a b -Mer general demand for luonev. "These gratifying developments are also upplcmented by a volume of payments hrough the hanks little short oc that a rear ag and a commercial mortalll-.- 4hc owest in several months. Tie supply of unds for business puross is mad aieIe by unusually high deposits, and this ncouragcs more bidding for discounts. .vith the rate for choice paper easier at ' per cent. "Resumption appears In heavy construction and new building, involring outays exceeding those at th's tiou List vcar. but railroad work is in abeyance (ending financial arrangements. Conditions favor an early lake traffic, anAthis stimulates renewed activity throuioiit the docks and shipyards. "Factory employment has gain! mod erately and the idle hands are smaller in number, although new contracts in iron, teel and equipment come fonvr.rd slowly. Ore piles on hand exceed the normal, but pig iron stocks in this district discljse little accumulation, and with prices down o expectations inquiries become more nu merous and suggest increased furnace outputs shortly. Woodworking branches re flect a brighter outfcjk basel upon current demand, and wages of cabinet vorkrs are advanced, but the aggregate buy ing of lumber is not yet equating expectations. "Tanning indicates some effort to aug ment stocks, and there is a iirrner tone in leather, hut the market for hides continues depressed, notwithstandiug smaller receipts. Shoe manufacturers are seasonably active, and there is steadiness in novelties and trunks, while furniture leather shows increasing shipments. "Building materials are in stror-ger reltiest. lower average of cost inviting more investment in residence projerty. and the packing industry is exceptionally busy and giving employment to more than the normal forces at good wages. "Mercantile collections at western points occasion less difficulty, and shipments of general merchandise to the South and the gulf States surpass those at this time last year. "Failures reported in the Chicago dis trict number SO, against 40 last week and 25 a yenr ago. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number 11, against 13 last week and 8 in 1907." NEW YORK. i There is quite considerable improve ment in both the tone of general distribu tive trade and in the volume of business actually booked by jobbers. Withal, how ever, there is little change to be seen in the character of the buying, which is still ilong very conservative lines, and. while the volume of business doing is larger now than at any time since last fall, the shrinkage from a year ago is distinct and unmistakably large. Collections are still very backward ; prices of staples tend lower, as for a long time past; the earning power of employes in many lines of industry is leing curtailed by short time or 'wage reductions, and the threat is made that a refusal to accept lower wages may result in a widespread suspension of activity in the coal trade. The demand for iron and steel shows little real expansion, aside from some lines like wire and similar goods. Oh' material tends to ease, and many consuming plants are running on short time. The long standing curtailment of cotton goods production shows no signs of ending; in fact, a continued heavy cut in production is indicate, and notice has been given, in addition, of a 10 per cent reduction iu wages at some eastern mills. Business failures in the United States for the week ending March 12 number 27i. against 287 last week. ISO in the like week of 1!07. 187 in RXK3. 180 in 1005 and 193 in 1901. Failures in Canada for the week number 31. as against 49 last week and 23 this week a year ago. ism Chicago Cattle, common to prime, S4.O0 to $0.35: hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $4.72; she?p, fair to choice, $3.00 to $i.10; wheat, No. 2, 93e to 95c: corn, No. 2, lc to (3c; oats, standard. 52c to 53c: rye. No. 2. 80c to 81c; hay, timothy. $9.50 to $10.00; prairie, $8.00 to $12.00; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 28c; eggs, fresh. 10c to ISc; potatoes, per bushel, G5c to 73c. , Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.O0 to S4.05: sheen, $2-50 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, 90c to 97c; corn. No. 3 yellow. 05c to G7c; oats. No. 3 white, 53c to 55c; rye. No. 2, S4c to 85c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.07 to $1.08; corn. No. 3, 00c to 02c; oats, standard, 52c to 53c; rye. No. 1. 81c, to 83c; barley, No. 2, 90e to 92c; pork, mess, $11 aKk Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $5.5": l.rgs. $4.00 to $5.0); sheep. $3.00 j $5.25; wheat. No. 2, $1.00 to $1.01 ; corn. No. 2 mixed, 04c to I.c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c ; rye. No. 2, St k? lo S7c. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers. $4.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to choice, $3.50 to S5.05: sheen, common to good mixed. $4.tK) to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $8.00. New York Cattle. $1.00 to $5.70; hoes, $3.50 to $5.15; sheep, $3.00 to $5.75; wheat, Np. 2 red. 99c to $1.0.: corn. No. 2, 05e to 07c; oats, natural white, 57c to KV ; butter, creamery, 27c to 29c; eggs, western, 10c to ISo, Toled. Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 95c to !Oe; corn. No. 2 mixed. 02c to 04c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 52c to 54c; rye. No. 2, 79c to 80c; clover seed, prime, $11.95. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $1.85; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $1.50; wheat, No. 2. 90c to 97c; corn. No. 2 white, 02c to 03; oats. No. 2 white, 51c to 53c. St. Louis Cattle, $1.50 to $d.25; hogs. St.OO to $4.70; sheep. $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2. $1.02 to $1.0:1; corn. No. 2. 02e to 03c; oats. No. 2, 52c to 54c; rye, No. 2. 83c to 84c. One man. was killed and several injured in the wreck of passenger train No. 19 on the Fort Worth and Denver railway two miles south of Alvord, Texas. A highly sensational rumor was current that Gov. Huglirs had received letters threatening his life unless he desisted in his crusade against race track gambling. When the Governor was asked about this h" would neither-confirm nor deny it. The Julius Weis buildi... Conn ion street and Varieties place, N'.v Orleans, was burned and several adjou-mg buildings were damaged. The Wei:s huiläng was occupied principally by '!rvyers an 1 real estate firms. The loss is est i mated at $100,000 It pays to advertise in this paper.

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niREATEN TO ELOW UP TOWN. Anarehiatft Send Demand for Money nntf Village I In Terror. Wawafca. a village of SüO inhabitants, is in a state of terror over the receipt of a letter by the local constable, Lyman Thompson, signed '"Anarchist," and mailed from New York City. The writer demands that the town send $75) to a pertain place in New. York City or the town will lie blown to atones. The majority of the residents regard the matter as simply a weak attempt to extort money, but coming close on the heels of the anarchistic attempt uia the life of Police Chief Shippy of Chicago even the scofTrrs are worried. Some of th residents are leaving, "not that they are afraid, but simply that it is a very good season to make a visit in a neighlicring town or in the country." The authorities have sent the letter to the postal authorities at Washington. Steps are being taken to guard the town. INDIANA MINERS FAVOR STRIKE Vote I'nanlmoarlr for IlMnind Upon Operntors for Higher Wage. By a standing vote of every man in the hall, he convention of Indiana miners at Terre Haute demanded that the national convention of the organization shall ask for an increase in the wage scale for the coming mining year. The delegates also pledged themselves to stand back of their officers in the demand, plainly indicating that they would indorw a susjension of coal mining after April 1 if the increased wage is not granted by the operators. Word reaches the miners' headquarters in Terre Haute that many of the - delegates hive len instructed by the locals to demand an increase and there is now little doubt but the national officers will have to accede t.o the demand and indorse a scale of wages that they know in advance the operators will oppose. . MATCH AND DYNAMITE. Edward Dlnsrmmaii Soff em Frshtful Injnry mmd May Die. Edward Bingaman, It years old, at Lucerne, touched a match to a dynamite cap and the explosion which followed explod ed several more caps which the boy wa holding in his band. The youngster's left hand was completely blown off, the flesh torn from his arm and breast, and the lungs were exposed. The boy lingers between life nd death. The dynamite caps were found in a vacant house, and several playmates were with the boy when the explosion occurred. Two suffer-ed injuries by being blown off their feet. Hold Huaband While Another Kill John Grubbs, the negro arrested for the murder of William Colwan, near Kushville, confessed that Mrs. Colwan assisted him in the crime. He said she threw her arms around her husband's neck while he struck Colwan with a hatchet. Another mob formed, and Grubbs was taken to Indianapolis for safe keeping. Railroad Too Fact for lUm. John Wiekliffe, aged C9, walked from his home at Xenia, Ohio, to visit hi." daughter, Mrs. Joe Heck, at Jasonville, because of a religious scrapie against riding at the speed of railroad trains. Last year he walked to Moberly, Mo., to visit a son and perhaps will go there from Jasonville. Crnitbcd vvhtle Changing Car. J. Monro: Anderson, farmer, GO yearn old, of South Mnncie, while in the act of changing cars at the Lake Shore railway station in Waterloo, en route to Detroit, Mich., was struck by a passing train. His injuries are thought to be fatal. Kill IIIr Moceaaln. Thomas Horn, while hunting ducks near Petersburg, killed a water moccasin measuring nearly five feet in length snd six inches in circumference. Several ether snakes have been killed in the vicinity this spring, but the moccasin is tho largest. , DIb Fire in fwbnrg. A fire which for a time threatened to wipe out the town of Newburg caused a loss of $50,000, covered by insurance. A tobacco warehouse three store buildings and one residence were destroyed. Store Work I Bnrned. The Southern stove works at Bvanville were destroyed by fire. Loss $35,00), covered by insurance. IlllnoU CI t Inen Dar Indiana Farms Hart Brown of Leesburg has sold his Kosciusko county farms to Baumgartner Brothers, Bloomington, HL, for $71,000. SHOET STATE ITEMS. Henry Gruffs, a negro, was arrested in Kushville, charge! with murdericc Charles Coleman, also a negro. A mob gathered around the jail and Sheriff King announced he would shoot the first man who attempted to enter. A huge rat, driven to desperation by hunger, attacked May Knight, the year-old daughter of John Knight, a Bloomington blacksmith, in bed and seri ously lacerated the young girl's ear. Th child was awakened lv the rat sinking its sharp teeth in the Under flesh of the lobe of the ear. The St. Joseph river is rising and flood conditions nre the most serious ever known in the northern part of Indiana. Unless the river begins to recede within a few da3'8 COO families in Elkhart. South Bend and Mishawaka, Ind., and Niles and St.: Joseph, Mich., will be unable to iaove into their homes for weeks. The daiaage so far is estimated at $175,000. Henry Schoenfeldt of Iii vereide was arlested in Danville, III., charged with defrauding the First National bank of Tip ton of a large sum of money by uttering a fraudulent check. He was taken to Tipton by an officer soon ifter his arrest. Charles Dion, a Chicago detective, is in jail in Kvansville on the charge of robbing the wholesale grocery of Parsons & Scoville. lie was bound over to the Circuit Court, but was unable to give bail. Dion was sent there by a Chicago detective agency to investigate certain thefts that had been committed in the store. It is charged that a short time after his arrival he commenced to steal articles in the store and carry them to his room, lie reported to the firm that three of the employes bad done the stealing, and this led to their dismissal. When Dion's room was searched after his arrest t large quantity of goods was found Mayor Lyons of Terre Haute sent a long letter to the Ministerial Association the other day in reply to a request that he enforce the law against Sunday theaters. He declined and explained that he classed the law against theaters, baseball and summer parks as "blue laws." The association had said nothing about baseball. The association will send a committee to him to try to persuade him to comply with his oath. The ministers do not say how far they will go, but declare that they will persist in methods to make him do his duty. Under the new law proceedings for his removal can be brought in the Circuit Court or by impeachment a the city council. ,