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7 14 21 28 e F. Q.F. M. T L. Q.TN. M. 6th. Vyl4th. Vi 21st.i;si2fth. FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Sides and Conditions of Thing re Shown Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. J. K. Jones is No More. Former United States Senator James K. Jones, of Arkansas, died In Washington, D. C, Monday after an Illness of a few hours, aged C9 xars. He was one of the leading Democrats in the Senate from 1SS3 to 1903, and was one of the strongest supporters of Vil:iam J., Bryan, having acted as chairman of the D"nocratic National Committee and conducted the campaigns of 1SSG and 1000. Since leaving the Senate in 1903 be had conducted a law practica ic Washington and had not actively engaged in politics. Last week Senator Jones returned from a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Leonard Corrigan, in Arkansas, and was apparently enjoying good health. Complaining slightly Monday morning, he remained in bed, and at 5:30 in the afternoon he died, the immediate cause of his death being heart failure. Reckless Autoists Hurled to Death. Whirling up Ocean Parkway, New York, at a speed of fifty miles an hour, a touring automobile, carrying a party who had spent tht night at Cone? Island, crashed into a tree, turned turtle and fell upon th occupants. Two men were instantly killed and two so seriously crushed that they may die. The automobile was owned and driven by John Lanyon, of Brooklyn, who was arrested after the accident occurred. In the automobile with Lanyon. beside the two men who were killed and the two injured, wa3 Ernest Eggert. The accident is believed to have resulted from a disarrangement of the steering gear. $100,000 Damage for Infringement. In & suit filed in the Common Pleas Court at Canton, Ohio, the McCaskey Register Company claims damages for $1C0,000 from the American Case and Register Company. Both prrties to the suit are in Alliance. The plaintiff avers that rights of patents have been infringed, that there has been an effort to persuade employes to leave, its place and that a conspiracy has existed on the part of the American Case Register Company to destroy the business of the plaintiff. It is the largest damage suit ever filed In Stark County. J Liner Vaderland is Safe. A dispatch from Antwerp says: The accident to the Red Star line steamer Vafterland, over which considerable anxiety was felt because of rumors that she had gone ashore or had been in collision with another vessel, was rery slight, consisting of a simple disarrangement of her machinery. The steamer returnei to Flushing after repairs had been completed and has now left for Dover. Back Broken, But Will Wear Harness. Charles E. Frank, the Elkahrt attorney who' suffered a broken back in an automobile accident in South Tend, Ind., about six weeks ago, was removed in a special car to his home at E3kh?.rt. He is now expected to recover sufficiently to transact business affairs through the aid of a harness. Corn King's Secretary Drowned. Mr. Robinson, private secretary to J. A. Patten, the Chicago corn king, who Just closed a corner in May corn, was drowned at English Lake, forty-four miles north of Logansport, Ind., by being thrown from a boat while fishing. The lake was dragged three times and the body recovered. Playing Soldier; One Dead. Floyd, 3 years old, the son of Walter Jackson, of Shelby ville, Ind., was accidentally shot by his 6-year-old brother and lived only twenty minutes. The boys were playing "soldier" on the front porch. The elder boy was armed with a shot gun. . Train Ditched by Wreckers. A special train on the Minnesota and International railroad was ditched near Nishawa, Minn., by wreckers and the engine and three car3 derailed. Chas. Yorn, the baggageman, was badly bruised. No one else was injured. Was a Wet May. May went out with a record for wetness, the total rainfall being 9.10 Inches, unequalled since the Weather Bureau was established Is New York thirty-eight years ago. Inherits Violin 400 Years Old. Prof. August Wolf, of the Valparaiso (Ind.) University, has received from Germany a violin over four hundred years old, bequeathed to him by his uncle, who recently died In Heidelberg. Four Injured by Tornado. A tornado which struck Hnle, Mo., a village near Chilliccthe, unroofed the bank and a nomlxr of bus! less houses. Everett Ramsey was fatally injured by flying timbers. F.irl Jones Roy Templeton and Henry New son were seriously injured. Ho Cargo for Sttamer. Unable to obtain a cargo bet aus of the dullness of the shipping season, the new steamer Trufale -wail et for IJtiffalc from Superior, Wis- in ballast. This i a most unusual thins, particularly a: this season of the year. Clex "land's End Is Near. rlent Cleveland $3 suffering from cancer of the gall-Madder or stomach. This was learned from a iersona friend of Dr. Bryant, who has been attending Mr. Cleveland for two months. It is the general opinion in Dakewood. X J that the ex-President will never leave Laiewood alive. Loses $80.000 by Marriage. Mrs. Thomas I5uff of Chicago failed to KroaV the will of an uncle m M. Louis who disinherited her for marry in? his lister's divorced husband, lie tas leit jut $80,000 estate to this divorced sister.

$ I 1 I WORK OF ( j CONGRESS 1

In the Senate Thursday the consideration of the conference rejort ou the currency hill showed plainly that there would be little or no obstructive tactics against its passage-. Senator A Id rich briefly explained the measure and a little iolitical by-play was introduced by Senators Culberson of Texas and Bacon of Georgia, who taunted members of the majority with disinclination to pass anti-injunction and campaign contribution publicity bills before adjournment, which called forth claims of interest in both measures by Senators cn both sides, but gave no promise of action at this session. Senators Teller of Colorado, Owen of Oklahoma and Newlands of Nevada all spoke in opposition to the currency bill, and, no other Senators desiring to speak, the latter part of the session was devoted to considering unobjected to bills on the calendar. House bills were passed requiring interstate railroads to equip locomotives with aslipaus that will not require employes to go under the locomotive to dump and clean them, and to promote the safe transportation of explosives. In the House the following measures were passed : To establish two or more fish cultural stations on Pu get sound, Wash.: amending the law of transjortatioa between Hawaii and the United States by removing the penalty for carrying passengers from Hawaii to this country; providing for the entry cf agricultural lands in forest reserves ; .; ;- When the Senate convened Friday it became apparent that a filibuster, small in numbers but determined, was about to try to defeat the currency bill. Senator Culberson spoke at som? length a'tor the reiort of the conferees was introd'i ed and Mored President Roosevelt's administration for extravagance. During tM speech Senator La Follette conferred with Senator Stone, who had just arrived f r Missouri. The Wisconsin Senator lal'td for a roll call every time it appeared tueio was no quorum present while Mr. Culberson was speaking. When the spe?j'i against the administration was finish ;d Air. La Follette took the floor and announced his intention of talking the ecrrncy bill to death. He resorted to many devices to pass the time and keep the floor, calling for roll calls, reading from documents and answering questions. He took the floor at 1 o'clock in the afternoon and held it till late at night. The situation in the Senate on the currency question, combined with the oppressiveness of the heat aid indisposition to do farther business, caused the House at S:30 o'clock to take a recess until 7 o'clock at night. With the greatest difficulty a quorum was maintained, "a, large number of members already having left the city. A bill was passed providing for making allotments on the Fort Peck Indian reservation, Montana, and a lot of miscellaneous business was transacted, being mostly disagreements to Senate amendments to minor bills. Up to the time of taking the recess the Democrats had forced five roil calls. But eighteen members were in their seats when the House reconvened. After nearly an hour's wait for a quorum to appear, during which time all the resources of the ser-geant-at-arms were employed, the House took a recess until 11 a. m. Saturday. The rassage of the government em ployes liability bill and' the adoption of conference reports on the public buildings and the deficiency appropriation bills im mediately followed final action on the Aldrich-Vreeland compromise currency measure in the Senate Saturday. This disposed of most of the remaining im portant legislation before that body. The deficiency bill carries appropriations aggregating $30,718,848, of which $12,400,750 is for beghining work authorized by the public building bill. The Senate at 4 :27 in the afternoon passed the AldrichVreeland currency bill by a vote of 43 to 22, this action being taken after a day deToted to a filibuster against the meas ure. Senators Stone of Missouri and (lore of Oklahoma occupied the time of the Senate after 7:03 o'clock in the morning, when Mr. La Follette retired. Mr. La Follette broke the record for long speeches, holding the floor continuously for eighteen hours and forty-three niiuutes. At C o'clock in the evening the Senate took a recess for two hours, when a resolution for sine die adjournment at 11:50 was adopted. Having concluded its labors for the session the House shortly after 9 p. m. adopted a resolution to adjourn sine die at ten minutes before midnight. The news that the currency bill had passed the Senate quickly reach-d the House and evoked great applause. From that time on business moved with a rapidity that signified a speedy termination of the first session of the Sixtieth Congress. The conference report on the public buildings bill, which had been hell up pending action on the currency question, was quickly brought out and agreed to. This action was immediately followed by the adoption of the conference report on the general deficiency bill, thus clearing the decks of all important pending legislation. Other measures put through were: Providing life-saving apparatus oa the Farralone Islands off California; granting pensions to the surviving officers and enlisted men of the Texas volunteers ; authorizing the issuance of Runs and ammunition to the Memorial University of Mason City, Iowa, and providing for compensation to government employes for injuries received while in the performance of their duties. Several pension bills also were passed. At 11:50 the House adjourned sine die. TOLD IN A FEW LINES. An operation on Jacob Kitz, who shot himself at Nerv York, removed four ounce? of his brain, but he retains all his faculties. Alvin F. Ileaton, Jr., a school boy it Kan ab, Utah, is said to have confessed murdering Mary Stevens, 19 years old, tc whom be had been attentive. United States citizens residing in th City of Mexico are conducting an excit ing ballot to see whether or not intoxi cants shall be served at the Fourth oi July celebration. The defalcation of William Montgomery formerly cashier of the Alleghenj National bank at Pittsburg, will react $1,250,000, instead of $109,000, as firsestimated, it is said. William B. Truesdale, president of tin Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail road, in an interview in New York declar ed that the anthracite coal trade had no suffered as greatly an generally suppose during the business depression. Fire destroyed property valued at $5S, YiO at Itarrytown Landing, N. Y. Nearli every building in the town was destroyed It is believed the fire started from I plumber's lamp at the Riverside Hotel. A bill appropriating $50,000 for a memorial to Abraham Lincoln on the sit of the Lincoln birthplace in Kentuckj was passed by the Senate upon motiotf of Mr. Wetmore. An earnest but ineffective appeal wa made in the House by Messrs. Richard son, Alabama, and Jones, Virginia, In a pension of ?ÖO a month to L'llcn Per: nard Lee, widow of (!en. Fitzhugh Lee. Gen. Crozier, chief of ordnance of the army, issued an order in Washington, I) C, to have all caliber SO Oatling and Colt automatic guns turned into tht Springfield (Mass.) armory for reehambering and resighting lor model of 100G ammunition.

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SliELL WILL IS VOID. Jury Finds Millionaire Insane When He Made Testament. The jury in the sensational Snell will case, on trial at Clinton, 111., returned a 'verdict setting aside the will of Colonel Toiu" Snell, the tventric old millionaire, ou the ground that he was insane at the tliiie the will was written. The verdict awards $750,000 of Colonel SneH's fortune to his only living son, likhurd. The children v( Thornton Snell will also receive $;50,0O0. The original will gave Richard Snell OS cents a week; the breaking of it makes him almost a millionaire. Mabel Snell McNaniarn, the protege of the dead man, who was by the will to receive $1,200 a year, gets nothing. The case attracted much attention because of the number of women involved. Many women, some of them members of prominent Illinois families, wrote love letters to the old colonel which brought them rich returns in the way of gifts, usually of money, from Snell. Among the persons Involved and whose letters were brought out at the first trial were the wife and daughter of Rev. K. A. Hamiltou. Rut the most notorious of the letters wer those said to have couie from Mabelle Snell McNamara, whom Snell Baldwa his niece, but whose relationship was denied by the contestants. She Is alleged to have gotten $100,000 from the colonel, before he made his will. That the letters written Snell by Mabelle Snell and other women wrecked his mind and character was the declaration made by Richard Lemon, counsel for the contestant, in the notorious case, lu his closing argument "Colonel' Snell was sane," he declared, "until these vampires got possession of him and wrecked him In inlnd and character and influenced him In giving up his wealth." Colonel Snell, whose will practically disinherited his son Richard, became a millionaire by shrewd deals in Illinois land. He moved to Clinton in the early '50s, and with small capital began his business. Every Collar he could get and save and he saved most of the money that fell into his hands he invested iu land. Much land bought at $1.25 an acre he sold at $200 an acre. At the time of his death he owned 5,000 acres of fine farm land in the vicinity of Clinton. Previous to the death of his wife in 1875 he was considered an exemplary husband. When, her body was buried hs was prevented from Jumping Into the open grave and begged to be buried with her ALL ABOUND THE GLOBE. Ruth Rryan Loavitt, daughter of William Jennings Rryan, will go on the stump for her father this fall, it is announced, at Omaha. Bessie Johnson Mariani, daughter of Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, has brought suit for divorce against her husband, Frederic Mariana, Italian steel expert. Members of the class of "!8 of Yale university will erect a flagstaff near Woodbridge Hall, New Haven, Conn., in honor of Augustus C. Ledyard, one of the Yale men who lost their lives in the Philippines. T.ie first gymLl.sium to be opened by the Y. M. C. A. in Russia has just been started in St. Petersburg, at the expense of James Stokes of New York City. The Mexican government has announced that if the Yaqui Indians surrender they must do so unconditionally, all of the requests of the chiefs for leniency having been refused. Reports by the public service commission of New York show 4,707 accidents in April on street railways, subways and elevated roads. Preceding months showed: January, Vhitil; February, 3.051 ; March, 4,3,". Ernest P. Bicknell cf Chicago was elected president by the conference on charities and corrections in session at Richmond, Va. Tamisuka Yokoha va and Yasuo Matsui, Japanese architects fron Tokio, have arrived in New York for the purpose of studying the construction of AmericaJ theaters and fathering data for the Tokios artistic and imperial theater. John Murray, the publisher, has obtained a verdict of J?:7,."(H damages niainst flu London Tiim-s !xcause th Times n'i :is"d the publishing firm of extortion in scllin the letters of the late Quo'ii Victoria at a high price. Frances Wynne, a New York salesgirl, has obtained $J.(KX from a patent-medicine concern because, she says, it used her picture an advertisement without her permission. ? The London Economist announces that Delagoa bay, in Portuguese East Africa, probably will be leased to tho Transvaal as an outcome of a conference recently held at Pretoria. "The Educational theater," or the children's theater, as it is popularly known in New York, is curing young people of their longing for the professional. Of r30 who have taken part not one has gone into the theatrical fraternity, says its director.

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ABDUCTION ENDS FATALLY. Indiana Man Shot While Attempting to Carry Off Woman. An involved matrimonial difficulty resulted the other afternoon in the shooting and death of W. W. Patterson, keeper of the Syracuse, Ind., boat house on Lake Wawas-e, and Ernest Franks, his brother-in-law, was dangerous! v wounded In a desperate ruin ning battle in automobiles, which was fought near Millersburg. According to rejwrts of the affair. Patterson when shot was attempting to aWuct Mrs. J. M. Sargent of Syracuse at the point of a revolver, out of revenge. It is said, because Mrs. Sargent, a close friend of Mrs. Patterson, was accused by Patterson of having disrupted Ms family affairs. Patterson was marred to a daughter of Dr. Franks of Ligonler, having cIoihmI with her. She subsequently left him and went to live with her father In Ligonler. Mrs. Sargent was visiting at the Franks residence. Patterson called Mrs. Sargent on the telephone and told Iter he was coming after her. To this no attention was paid, as the young man had been acting strangely for several days. Later he went to Landlord Hoover of a local hotel and said he was a Federal officer anil had a warrant for Mrs. Sargent's arrest. Together they started is an automobile to Dr. Frank's house. On the way he met Dr. Franks, father of the wounded rtan, and Mrs. Sargent, who were driving to town. Covering them witli a revolver, he dragged the woman 'from the carriage und ihrowing lifjr Into the automobile, forced Hoover, to start toward Millersburg. News of the abduction quickly spread through Ligonler. Ernest Franks, a brother of Mrs. Patterson, organized a posse and started In pursuit, taking1 tlx lead in a big touring car. At Millersburg Patterson left bis auto and entered the telegraph ofliee. Then the posse from Ligonler arrived In an automobile. Franks ordered Patterson to drop his revolver. Instead Patterson fired and wounded Franks. At this a member of the posse fired, fatally wounding Patterson. or Jack Atkins won the iich Metropolitan handicap at the opening of Belmont Park In New York. At Beloit, Wis., Beloit college won handily from Nebraska university in eight innings by the score of 3 to J. Jarred from a vicious blow that had sent him to t he floor and so dazed that he could hardly see, Rudolph Unholz was declared beaten in the eleventh round of his go with Joe Cans at San Francisco. Pinned to the floor for fifteen minutes beneath a platform on which rested 3,000 pounds of iron. Warren Travis of Williamsburg, who is known as a professional strong man, received injuries in the Brooklyn Athletic Club house which may result in his death. Sir Cleges, George Long's colt, won the Blue Grass stakes at Churchill Downs in a terrific drive with Dark Night through the stretch. Benning race track will be removed from the District of Columbia into Mailand because Congress has imiosed a penalty of $500 for betting on rares within the District. Trance, a lively youngster, placed at the .prohibitive odds of 2 to 9, won the Suffolk selling stake at the Metropolitan Club's closing race at Jamaica, He covered five furlongs in one minute five seconds. Allie Moore annexed the title of twomile king in the American-Canadian professional roller skating championship for that distance held in Chicago. Moore took the grand final in ." :12 4-.1, leading John Flannery of Youugstown by two feet at the finish. , In the dual trnck meet between IVnnsylvania freshmen and combined school teams, at Philadelphia. Roy Mercer, an l-year-old George school boy, broke the world's interscholastic pole vault record, hold by C. I'reeney of Chicago, clearing the bar at 12 feet U inch. Mercer also won the quarter-mile race in 0:50 1-5 and the broad jump at 21 feet ! inches. In the Metropolitan Driving Club's matinee races on the Charles river speedway, in Boston. Chase, a bay gelding (2:07 1/4). owned by C. H. Beltedeau, made a new wor'd's record for trotters for a half mile on a speedway. The first heat was trotted in 1 minute flat, lowering the previous record of 1:00 1/4, held by Mack Mack, and the third heat, also won by Chase, was trotted in :00 1/4. The second heat was won by Phoeben W in 1:00 1/4. Brazil is usins an Immense amount of cement, but none of It Is from the United States.

OIODInM i-ftuimuu ÜLÜÜ u a ENDS 'ID GBEIIT M Currency Bill Is Passed by Congress in Its Closing Hours. NATION LIABLE TO WORKER. Employes' Bill and Public Buildings Measure Among Last Ones to Become Laws. Washington correspondence: The first session of the Sixtieth Congress came to a spectacular end ten minutes before midnight Saturday night. The last legislative day of the session was marked by a spurt of ac tion which, continued a little bit farther, mighty have put a crimp in the relative "do nothing" program wliich the leaders set out to fulfill some munths ago. After adopting he currency conference report the Senate went ahead Saturday afternoon and passed the bill providing comiwnsation for injuries to civil employes of the government engaged in hazardous work. Several amendi"uts adopted by the Senate were accepted by the House unanimously, and thus the Roosevelt percentage in the contest with Congress over the policies of the administration went up several joints. One of the last measures to get through was the pulic buildings bill, which was held back to the last moment for tr.e purpose of keeping members here until the currency bill became an act. A message from President Roosevelt, read to the House at 10:20, told of the signing of both the currency and public buildiug bills, and a wild tumult of applause followed. The end was spectrcular. With that freedom from dignity that always characterizes the breaking tip time in the House of Representatives the recesses between the receiving of messages from the Senate and the President were given over to wild hilarity. There were singing contests between the memlVis on the floor and the newspaper men In the press gallery. Every member on the floor had an American flag. They waved the flags and sang all the old melodies and a lot of songs of brandnew construction set to the old tunes. Aside from the regular supply bills making appropriations for the support of the government during the next fiscal year, the achievements and failures of Congress during the session may be summarized as follows: What Cnnjcre IIa Done. Enacted an emergency curreacy law. Prohibited child labor in the District of Columbia. Prohibited race track gambling in the District of Columbia. Increased widows' existing pensions from $S to $12 a month. Granted pensions of $12 a month to practically all widows of Mexican and Civil AVar soldiers. Authorized expenditures of $.10,000,000 for public buildings. Authorized general appropriations amounting to nearly! a billion dollars. Ordered a currency commission to report on revision of financial ni d banking laws of the country. Reclassified the consular service. Passed employers' liability law to take place of the one declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States. Permitted free operation of foreign vessels in trade with IThilippines. Passed administration bill authorizing employes to sue the government for personal injuries sustained while in the line of duty. Established a range for breeding American buffalo. Started the machinery for tariff revision by the appointment of an investigation commission. Authorized the construction of two battleships with the promise of two next session. Raised the pay of all officers and men of the army and navy, marine corps and revenue cutter service. Tassed a militia law making every able-bodied man between IS and 43 years liable to service. Adopted arbitration treaties with nearly every country in Europe and with Japan. Continued tihe work of the waterways commission. Provided for the defense of the Philippines and Hawaiian ports by submarine mines and fortifications. Appropriated ,$l,rtO,000 for participation by the United States in the Japanese exposition of 1010. What Congrrk I fax Not Done. Refused to place wood pulp on the free Hst. . Declined to accept President Roosevelt's four battleship proposition. HARD LUCK TALES. At Mazomanie, Wis., William Roys-ton, a carjenter who was crushed under a falling building during the tornado, died from the effects of fliis injuries. Two other carpenters were also injured. At Beresford, S. D.. Peter Biker, a pioneer of about 80 years of agf, shot himself with a shotgun. Tlie night before he returned from Sioux City in a very weak condition and liscouragement over his broken down physical condition is supiosed to be the cause. Critical illness of more than twenty people, has resulted from tihe eating of pressed chicken and new cabbage at n church social given by the men of the Methodist Episcopal church at Rockwell City, Iowa. During an electrical storm near Jamestown, N. I)., John .Mörsbach, Frank Dupfe and John TEiomallo had their barns burned and many farm animals killed by lightning. In endeavoring to save a number of setting hens in a burning chicken coop, the clothing of Mrs. Thomalio became ignited, a:id she sustained burns so serious that for a time her life was detqaircd of. When Walter Potter and wife returned from Greene, Iowa, to their arm home they found the home destr03'eI by fire and the children, Charles, aged and Merle, aged 7, so badly burned that they died during the night. The children' used kerosene to start a fire and the oil can exploded. Heads of the lakes boat lines that operate between Superior and Canadian points have received notice from the Canidian immigration department to take no passengers emigrating for Canada unless they are provided with $20 in cash. This is an old order revived because of the present cheapness of labor in Canada.

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THE SIXTIETH CONGRESS.

Met Doe. 2, 1907. Appropriated $1.0OS.SO4,S01. exceeding total of last sessitm by ?S8,on(l,7."0. Passed currency bill after delay in Senate by filibuster lasting twenty-seven hours and fifteen minutes, in which 110.0S0 words, equal to thirty columns of newspaper space, were uttered. Adjourned May ."0. 100S. Failed to adopt postal savings bank plan. Passed up until next December the bill to reinstate discharged colored troops. No national child laltor law, but date set for its consideration next December. Granted no increased powers to prohibition States over interstate shipments of liquors. Enacted no law requiring publicity of campaign expenses. Made no provision for the "spanking" of Castro, the Venezuelan president. Failed to put wireless telegraphy under government control. Refused to give interstate commerce commission authority to pass upon prolosed increased railroad rates before they go into effect. Failed to relieve the coal-carrying railroads from the necessity of disposing of their mines. Failed to consider bills regulating dealings in options. Other Important mils thnt Failed. Administration-Civic Federation bill to amend the Sherman anti-trust law. Rill for the reduction of the tariff on the products of the Philippine Islands. Anti-injunction bill. (There are ten or fifteen measures of iis nature before Congress.) Rills for revision and codification of the laws of the United States in accordance with the report of a commission which put in seven years at the task. Bill to make Porto Ricans citizens of the United States. Bill for retirement of superannuated federal clerks. Hill to provide cmbar-sies for representatives of thq United States in foreign countries. ' Bill to establish forest reserves in the southern -Appalachians and in the White Mountains of. New Hampshire. CUERENCY BILL PASSES. Measure- Is Forced Through Despite Filibustering Tactics. Washington correspondence : With tlie end of the most remarkable filibuster in the history of the Senate and the passage of the Aldrich-Vreeland emergency currency bill by both houses and the winding up of other business, the Sixtieth Congress adjourned sine die at 11 :50 o'clock Saturday night. At 4 o'clock the Senate adopted the report of the conferees of the two houses on the currency bill by the decisive vote of 43 to 22, and thus was taken the last congressional step necessary toward the enactment of emergency currency legislation, toward which Congress'hus directed Its principal effort since it convened last December. The result came unexpectedly soon, but not until the Senate had been well worn out by a filibuster which, while not' largely supported, made up in intensity what it lacked in numbers. The obstructive tactics were legun by Senator La Follette (Republican) of Wisconsin when the reiort was taken up by the Senate, Friday, and leing prosecuted by hhu all Friday night, was continued Saturday by Senator Stone (Democrat) of Missouri and Senator Gore (Democrat) of Oklahoma. Mr. La Follette broke the record as a long distance shaker, talking eighteen hours and forty-three minutes; Mr. Stone held the floor for six hours and a half, almost without interruption, and Mr. Gore spoke for something more than two hours. When Senator La Follette ended his record breaking sieech at 7:03 a. m. Saturday he was still in strong voice, and said that he was "reluctant" to yield the floor, but realized that other Senators wished to speak. Many of the Senators were routed out of bed Friday nht and early Saturday morning and' brought into .the chamber to make a quorum. Among these were Senators Stone and Gore, the Senate leaders deciding that it would not be good policy to allow them to enjoy an uninterrupted night's rest and be fresh for the task of continuing the filibuster began by Mr. La Follette., Many of the Senators were brought in partly dressed by the deputy sergeants-at-arms. President Roosevelt was summoned to the capitol to sign bills during the last hours of Congress at 9 o'clock. Ho was waited upon by a committee comprising Representatives Payne, Hepburn a'nd Williams, and Senator Hale and Teller. Shortly before 10 o'clock he signed the compromise currency bill. Previous to his signature of the currency bill the President had handed it to Secretary Cortelyorj, who carefully read Its provisions. Two other members of the Cabinet were present Secretaries Root and Garfield. Cane ARafnat the Buttercup. Dr. W. N. CJialfant, who recently announced the theory that many of the cases of measles are due to tlie poison, contained in the common field buttercup, now adds to the indictment against this flower of hitherto good reputation by asserting that it is probably the origin of canJ cer anJ other maladies. He has found that 'it contains a number of active joisons, one of which, if taken internally, may cause death. Girl of Three Polion Daby Sinter. Elizabeth IIojerstatcn, aged IS months, was instantly killed in Cincinnati by strychnine powders given to her by her sister Annie, aged 3. Mrs. Hoperstaten, mother of the children, got the powers for herself from Dr. Edward Johnson. Annie saw the powders, and, thinking them candy, gave the in to her sister. KicAvutliMiM In Olympia. Recent excavations within the sacred precincts of Olympia at Athens, near the great altar of Zeus, have revealed remains of human habitation more than 2,t M K) years before Christ. Eight hundred brewery workers, employed at the Kansas City breweries, have struck. Thj strike completely tied up every brewery in the city. The men demand an increase in pay averaging $1 per week per man. A clever swindler, passing as the representative of an eastern art publishing concern, succeeded in swindling Mrs. James A. Patten, wife of a millionaire prain dealer of Kvanston, 111., out of $30,000, given for the purchase of worthless art works.

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Meeting to Be Held in Albuquerque, . N. M., Will Give Impetua v to Great Work. WILL HELP FORESTRY, TOO. Projects to Be Undertaken MayInvolve Total Expenditure of Hundred Million Dollars. Following byonly a few months the meeting of the Governors to consider the conservation of the nation's resources the sixteenth annual Irrigation congress, to Ik? held in Albuquerque, N. M., from Sept. 20 to Oct. 10, will be a gathering of unusual significance. Within the next few years the work of tlie government for reclaiming the unfruitful lands of the continent will almost certainly, it is asserted, undergo a big expansion, and where now millions of dollars are being expended in utilizing wasted water supplies and diverting them to fertile arid regions, the draining of swamp lands and the problem of reforestation are likely to be big questions that in the near future will receive the attention of the scientists and engineers of the reclamation service. In the work at present undertaken the next three years will witness an expenditure of $30,000,000, according to the broad program that Is being carried out, and this, added to $31,000,000 that already has gone into the irrigation works concerned, will bring to completion twenty-eight Irrigation projects in sixteen States, making productive 1,910,000 acres of formerly desert waste. From this time on, also, the government engineers plan to begin opera tion on at least one big reclamation project each year until the whole scheme, involving an outlay of $100.000.000, shall have I)oen completed. Plans will be discussed for those to be begun, including big works in the valley of the Colorado River and in the Sacramento Valley in California. All of which lends magnitude and importance to the coming congress. Will Connlder Forestry Alao. The subject of forestry is slated for extended discussion at this gathering, Its relation to irrigation being the most intimate, it is said. Rivers rising in devastated countries are subject to annual floods that cannot be controlled and work only further devastation each year, while the flow can be turned to no useful punose. In the country surrounding Albuquerque, where the modern wonders of irrigation are to be discussed, there are traces cf ancient works full as wonderful in their way because created by primitive peoples ages ago who were the first Irrigators of the West. The most remarkable part of Ic. according to the government engineers who are surveying new canal3 for these same regions, is that the ancients, with their crude instruments, hit upon the most advantageous routes for carrying out these big engineering works, and In many sections to-day, it is said, the surveys are plotting out the new works right along the lines of those in use centuries ago. 9 ßi 7 rsM C Pretty soon steak will be a sign of wealth. The American navy is still the unfeated wonder of the world. The Japs realize that peace has its disasters no less than war. The desire to take Harry Thaw to Europe ought to be encouraged. Congress has been just as busy as though it had been doing something. Prince Relie refuses to plunge at Monte Carlo. He prefers to play a sure thing. It takes a strong-minded woman to support the weight of a Merry Widow bonnet. Evelyn Thaw says she wishes the public to forget her. The public wishes it could. An authority says "diamonds are harder than steel." They are certainly harder to get. Now let us hear from the delegate on Merry Widow hats as one of our national resources. Some are born to trouble, some hunt for trouble and some marry into the, Gould family. Mrs. Hetty 'Green denies that her daughter is going to get married -iow. Husbands will probably be cheiper before the year is out. The House of Representatives costs us $1.i0 a minute. Yet ieople still say that "talk is cheap,? The fact that the Japanese invented limericks a thousand years ago is enough to make some hot-headed itcople want to go to war with them. Every young naval officer knows exactly how to build a battleship, just as every man knows how to run a farm, a hotel or a newspaper. Down in (Jeorgia they start a State campaign a year or two in advance, so as to find time to say all the hard things they think about each other. When Mrs. Hetty Green begins fpending $.1) a day at a hotel it's a sign that the 'panic is over. The price of foreign noblemen has been reduced, but the better ones are still scarce and expensive. The man who swallowed a check for !?1."iO must Siave some personal knowledge of undigested securities. Gov. Swanson says "a clear conscience i to be rM-eferred to gold." Rut some people have neither one. If Russia and Japan do not maintain th? "open door" in Manchuria, Uncle Sam is prepared to smash' a window or t vo Business must in? picking up. Highwaymen' have jnst made a haul of $V0 from a Texas train. Paris concludes that in a Pittsburg divorce suit each side is as bad as the other, and prolvably worse. When peaches sell for $2.00 each, it is a comfort to know that 'there is more nourishment in potatoes. If freight rates are raised, shippers wiU be inclined to believe that Government regulation is working backward. Some of the government's trust prosecutions are badly overcapitalized. The $30,000,000 suit against the Sugar Trust hasn't amounted to even GO cenU.

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IRNÄTOIAL' CHICAGO. Business in the aggregate discloses a steadier basis and responds promptly to improved weather conditions. The volume of payments through the banks again makes an encouraging comparison, and trading defaults are close to the normal. Much satisfaction is derived from, the better outlook in leading manufactures, furnace and finished mill products being ia renewed demand. Seasonable merchandise was sharply stimulated by the heat wave, the principal retail lines making extended sales of men's and women's wear, while jobbers had many rush orders for reassortment from both city and country. Cotton goods move more freely on lower prices and wholesale stocks undergo the desired reduction. Food products reflect well sustained absorption, shipments of hardware and builders supplies make a nearer approach to thoa of . year ao, and tlrtre is increased interior demands for farm tools, wire and wagons. Bank clearings, $210,410,701, ceed those f a year ago. when the week included only five business days by 10.1 per cent. Failures reported in the Chicago district number 23. against 2S last week and 17 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $..000 number. S, against 7 last wek and 3 in 1007. Dun's Review of Trade. NEW YORK. - Weather, crop and xr& reports are irregular. There are some rather less reassuring advices from some sections as to leading crops, due mainly to excessive rair.fad in wide areas; bad roads ar a necessary result of this, and trade in affected sections naturally has suffered. In other places, where a few days of warm, forcing weather have intervjned, trade i letter, and in instances being due to reductions, which have resulted in large stocks of goods being cleaned up. Taken as a whole, the eastern and central western States send best reports as to final distribution. In some primary lines of distribution the betjer feeling noted some time ago has become more widespread. Business failures in the United States for the week ending May 2S number 2CH, against 2.4 last week, 142 in the like week of 1007, 127 in 1900. 154 in PJOTi and 104 in 1004. Business failures in Canada for the week""number 31. as against 30 last week and 14 in this week of 1907. Bradstreet's Commercial Report, s Chicago-Seattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.30: hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $5.50; sheep, ' fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00;' wheat, No. 2, $1.01 to $1.02; con. No. 2, 73c to 74c: oats, standard. r3c to 54c; rye, No. 2, 82c to Sic: hay, timothy. $0.50 to $15.50; prairie, $8.00 to $13.00; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 17c; potatoes, new, per bushel, SOc to 8Gc Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $L00: hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.30 to $3.80; fbeep. commoa to prime. $3.00 to $4.73; wheat. No. 2, 99c to $1.00; corn. No. 2 white, C3c to 05c; oats, No. 2 white, 51c to 52c St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $7.15; hogs, $4.00 to $5.40; sheep, $3.00 to $4.73; wheat. No. 2, $1.01 to $1.02; corn. No. 2, 72c to 73c; oats. No. 2, 51c to 53c; rye. No. 2, 80c to 82c Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $G.50; hogs, $4.00 to $3.00: sheep. $3.00 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2, $1.00 to $1.01 ; ccrn. No. 2 mixed, 73c to 74c: oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c ; rye. No. 2, 84c to 8Cc Detroit Cattle. $4.00 to $0.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00: Kheep, $2.50 to $4.50: wheat. No. 2, 90c to $1.00; corn. No. 3 yellow, 75c to 77c; oats. No. 3 white, 54 to SGc ; rye. No. 2, 83c to 84c Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $E00 to $1.12; corn. No. 3, 73c to 74c; oats, standard, 54c to 53c; rye. No. 1, 80c to 81c; barley. No. 2, 72c to 73c; pork, mess, $13.72. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers. $4.00 to $7.05 ; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $353; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $5.30; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $0.00. New York Cattle. $4.00 to $C.C5; hogs, $3.50 to $0.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 90c to $1.01; corn. No. 2, 74c to 7Cc; oats, natural white, 57c to 50c; batter, creamery 21c to 23c; eggs western 13c to 17c Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 97c to 99c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 73c to 75c; oat j. No. 2 mixed, 53c to 54c; rye. No. 2, Sic to 83c; clover seed, prime, $13.00. FACTS FOB FAJLHERS. The authorities of the Texas experiment station are advocating State seed inspection. . In order to insure a rice crop for game birds along the Mississippi river sportsmen are sowing large quantities of wild rice seed. On their bid of $130, Spearfish, f?. V was awarded the next annual show of the Black Dills Poultry Association, which will be held in 19(10. Farmers of Shelby county, Iowa, have found out that seed cdrn taken from cribs, however carefully selected, will not grow nearly as well as where it is taken from shocks. Fruit growers in eastern Montana consider that the crop was practically destroyed by the severe cold of April. F. E. Rone of Alva, 111, won ali the first prizes in the carcass awards for hogs at the International. They were all Chester Whites. More than twenty-five steam plow liave been at work in Sully county, S. D this spring, turning up more than a section of land a day. An agricultural expert from Sooth Africa Is in Texas studying the dry farming methods employed there for the benefit of his own country. The Faribault, Minn Commercial Club has accept ed the offer of several. Twin City capitalists to establish an amber cane syrup and stock food factory in th' city. The company will be capitalized et $50,009. . Contracts will be made for raising 3o0 acres of amber cane. Rival grain men have secured an injunction from the circuit judges estopping the contractor from building an elevator for a local farmers association on a site awroved by the Sta railroad commission at Armour, S. I. The site is within 100 feet of another grain housP( and this is interpreted to be contrary to law. The first seeding of spring wheat this season was done by farmers near Java, tf. D., and it is thought this will be a favorable season for the crop. A milk dealer of Caldwell, N. owns a horse whidi lies down to be shod, hold--ing its feet in. the air and making itself comfortable during the oieration. In south'-rn Minnesota and South Dakota, it is predicted that harvest will le much in advance of last season if the present advance is maintained, and it is wife to predict barley harvest July 13. wheat harvest July 2.", and coarse grain about the same date, or altout one cxmth in advance of 10 17. This is the harvest prospect fit the present time.

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