Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1898 — Page 2

TBE RENSSELAER DEMOCRAT. SHIELDS * DILLEY, Publishers. RENSSELAER. INDIANA.

THE KINg IS AVENGED

JUSTICE METED OUT TO TWO WOULD-BE REGICIDES. Two Men Who Tried to Kill Kins George of Greece Are Kxecnted at Athens—Young Minister in Tennea’ nee Shot by Unknown Persons. I ~ Assassins Pay the Penalty. At Athens, Kurditza and Georgius, the two willing tools of the Ilmitzavantis, who tried to take the life of King*George of Greeee and his daughter on Feb. 20, ]>aid with their lives the just penalty of their crime. The men died bravely, else they would not be Greek. They were stolid fellows of the lowest order. Both had confessed their guilt to the military authorities before whom the trial wan had, and to whom was intrusted the carrying out of the deuth sentence. They claimed that the act was n imtriotio one, and that their motive was anger at the course of the accepting the proposition for international control of the Greek finances isunling the payment of the war loan. Although they did not intend to do King George a good turn, it is certain that the two would-be assassins did more than any other person to restore the prestirfl* which had'been so cruelly injured by the war. The King was driving in a landau with his daughter, the Princess Marie. Two men, hidden in a ditch, opened fire on the carriage. At once the King arose and placed his regal body Is-tween his daughter and the hostile fire. The coachman whipped up his horses and got away. The King escaped untouched, but one of the horses was slightly wounded. Fierce in their loves and hat<>« and admiration, the Athenian populace went wild over the King’s parental chivalry, awl many who had grown bitter towards the monarch forgot their anger in admiration of his personal bravery and gave back their shattered fealty. Kurditza, the leader of the two murderers, was formerly a non-commissioned officer in the army. Georgius whs u Macedonian workman. t ~ Race for the Pennant. Following is the standing of tbs cluba In the Katioual Base-ball League: W. L. W. L. Baltimore... 1) 51 Pittslnirg ... 0 9 Cincinnati ..12 4 New York.... 8 8 Cleveland .12 tl Philadelphia.. 7 7 Brooklyn ... 1) G Bt. Louis 4 10 Chicago 0 G Louisville ... 5 1G Boston ...,.10 0 Washington.. 2 13 Following is the standing of the cluba in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Indianapolis. 13 2 Minneapolis.. 6 10 St. Paul 15 3 Milwaukee... G 11 Columbus ... 9 4 Omaha 4 13 Kansas City. 9 8 Detroit 2 13 . . Young Preacher la Slain, - Rev. Mr. Buchmuu, pastor of the Swedenborgian Church at Gruetli, the Swiss colony in the Cumberland Mountains, in Grundy County, Tennessee, was assassinated by unknown persons. The minister, who is a young man, was sitting near a window reading to n friend, when a gun was discharged through the window, the entire load taking effect in his back. He arose and walked into another room, where he fell dead. There was no clew to the identity of the murderer, but it is supitosed that some one became offended at a late sermon awl took this means of expressing disapproval.

NEWS NUGGETS.

Henry .Gillette, of Geijevn, Ohio, took morphine and is dead. In the French parliamentary elections the moderate republicans gained eight Beats. At Seneca, N. Y., Mrs. Fred Hebei and two children were suffocated by a lire that occurred at their home. Count Castellane, who married Anna Gonld, was a successful candidate in the parliamentary elections at Paris. At Watertown, X. Y., ll.' X. Martin and his wife were killed in their home by breathing coal gas. Five other people narrowly escaped. In Bell County, Kentucky, John Carroll, ngisl 111, son of the Rev. John Carroll, killed his playmate, Robert Nelson, aged 15, with a stone. \ Secretsr.v C. W. Mock, of the Tacoma School Board, while riding a bicycle, was run into by tin unknown woman. Mr. Mock died of his injuries. Pine City, Minn., about seventy miles from St. Paul, was threatened with destruction by tire. Half the business portion of the town was destroyed, A big plug tobacco combine has been perfected in New York. The new company has a capital of .$00,000,000, and absorbs the business of Lorillard & Co. and P, J. Sorg A: Co. The-Supreme Court of Kansas has decided that if a wife, even if not properly a wife, aids her husbjmd to acquire property she is entitled to an equal division of such property on sciwration. The Queen of Belgium, who is a daughter of the late Archduke Joseph of Austria, while driving in the vicinity of the royal palace at Laoken, was upset into the lake.' Her majesty was not injured. The Kims Hotel at Excelsior Springs, Mo., was destroyed by tire. The guests, numbering over 100, were asleep when the alarm was given, although none was injured. The flumes started in the engine room and were soon beyond control. The hotel was built in 1 SKI) and cost $200,000. It was insured for $40,000. It was the property of Col. Henry Etteuson, of Leaven worth, Kan. The railroad between Astoria and Portland, Ore., is completed. Several construction trains are at work ballasting and getting the roadbed in shape for'the formal opening of the line, which will lx* with a grand excursion train. After that two regular trains each way will be ruu between the metropolis of Oregon and its only seaport. ' Judge Hagner at Washington, D. C. t signed a decree granting Frances Hodgson Burnett, the novelist, a divorce from Dr. Swan M. Burnett, a well-known oculist of that city. She la permitted to resume ber maiden name of Hodgson. - • • •

EASTERN.

The board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania has decided to offer undergraduate courses for women in every way equal to those now open to men, and which nre to lead to*the same degree now given to the latter students. At Montpelier, Vt., the jury in the Mildred Brewster murder trial returned a verdict, finding the defendant not guilty, by reason of insanity. Mildred Brewster was charged with having killed Anna Wheeler, of whom she was jealous, near Montpelier, May 29, 1897. The Pennsylvania limited express ran into a freight train at South Bristol, N, Y, The engineer and fireman of~the express train were seriously hurt, but all of the passengers escaped injury. The engine and four coaches on the express train were derailed ami several freight cars were broken to splinters. Peter Schueher of Venango township, Pa., shot and fatally wounded two men, George Henderson, pathmnster, and Edwnrd Skinner, and then committed; suicide. The shooting was caused by a dispute over cutting down a ditch in front of the murderer’s property. All nre well known and the two former wealthy farmers. Charles Look of Sandy Hook is in the Danbury, Conn., hospital with a broken neck. He lias been living more than a week in that condition. He can breathe and talk, but below his neck he is completely paralyzed and practically dead. His head is placed in a frame and held by a weight. Although his injury is such as to make his case hopeless, there seems to be no immediate danger of his death. The powder magazines at Indian Head, Md., the Government’s gun testing grounds at an isolated joint on the Potomac river, narrowly escaped destruction by the proximity of a tire started supposedly by Spanish spies. For several hours thousands of cords of wood owned by the Government was ablaze, and the officers and men at the proving grounds risked their lives in fighting the fire to save the magazines. The police of Bloomfield, N. J., and citizens generally are greatly wrought up by the actions of vandals, who in the Bloomfield cemetery upset nearly 200 headstones from as many graves and broke monuments and marble slabs, some being ruined. ’Hie most damage jvas done to tile most beautiful part of the cemetery, where the costly stones were not only thrown down and broken, but flowers were uprooted and tossed nbout and the graves were otherwise desecrated. Th,e damage will hot be less than $2,000.

WESTERN.

The past winter Ims been a very favorable one for range cattle, which have come through fat and strong. There have beeu no severe weather losses in the intcrmouutain district. Frank V. Salazar, an Oakland. Cal., blootblaek, is claimant for 200,000 acres of la ml in tho State of Sonora, Mexico. His title, he-asserts, is based upon government patents issued to his grandfather. . Negroes at Springfield, Ohio, chased tli’e proprietors of a museum from the city beeu use they exhibited the embalmed remains of two negro murderers lynched at KiWinghaui, Ala. The police had, to disperse the 1110 b. There was a tremendous bulge in wheat on ’Change at St. Louis, and for a while the market boomed up like a rocket. There was an increase at one time of 9% cents a bushel. This brought the market up to $1.18%. Burglars broke into the Farmers and Merchants’ bank of Humphreys, Mo., and blew open the safe, but the officers of the bank have not made public what was taken. Their doors were opened the next morning for business. A. man in State militia uniform, found wounded and probably dying near the railroad tracks several miles from Lincoln, Neb., has been identified as Calvin Hopper, a private in Company I, who, it is charged, deserted Camp Saunders. There are two bad wounds on the head.

It is reported that twenty Indians are dancing on Marshall prairie, thirty miles from Tacoma, Wash. All but two or three Indian families are in the dance, which begins at dusk and continues until 20r3 a. in. The country is sparsely settled and the whites are alarmed, fearing an outbreak. The National Association of Canned Goods Manufacturers closed a two days’ session at Cleveland, Ohio, and adjourned to meet next year in Philadelphia. A resolution was adopted providing for a national seal, which all members in good standing will be permitted to use. Officers elected were: President, George W. Moon-, Baltimore: vice-president, Mrs. C. It. Sears, Circleville, Ohio; treasurer, F. O. Conant, Portland, Me.; secretary, E. S. Judge, Baltimore. The colonization commission of-the Social Democracy makes a formal announcement that the report of the first attempt to establish a co-operative commonwealth lH*ing made in Kansas was erroneous and arose from the fact that the co-operative commonweal;*! company wok incorporated in dllat State. It is said that colonies Will soon be established in Tennessee, Washington aud Colorado and in Idaho and Kansas later on. “The main purpose of concentrating socialists in sparsely settled States will not be abandoned, even if we should start in Tennessee as a beginning,” it is added. Definite statement of the plans is withheld until the deeds for the land have been secured. At Duluth, Minn., fifty frame buildings on Minnesota point, just above the ship canal, were burned. There wns a puff of smoke, a burst of flame and then u long row of ramshackle buildings were in a blaze. An hour later 2,0()0 people were homeless. The tin 1 took twelve frame store buildings, fronting on lower Lake avenue, just-’below the "Under-tlie-Ilill” district, and swept from there back to the lake shore. The district was populated by the poorest people iu the city. There are no very large individual losses. The total is thought to be over SIOO,OOO. Among the sufferers were fifty families of Jews, members of a colony, who were at a mass meeting praying for the success of- the American nrmy in the war with Spain. There were many narrow escai>es from death, hut it is believed that everyMody was. rescued. The most thrilling criminal episode which has taken place iu New Orleans since the Italian lynebings of 1891 occurred the other day. A. negro barging, who was pursued across the most populous districts of the city, killed two wouldbe captors and was finally shot to pieces by a mob after a desperate fusillade, In which several citizens were wounded. Hie

crime for which the negro was being arrested when he made his dash for freedom wss of some weeks’ standing. Officers had orders to arrest him on sight, and when seen he was taken into custody. The moment the officers were off their guard the desperado, who was of large physique, dashed them away and ran. Police Corporal Cleary witnessed the act and rushed in front of the man to prevent his egeape. In an-instant the negro sent a- bullet through the officer’s brain. The shot brought crowds from oil directions, and the hue and cry went up as the criminal dashed away. He was pursued to the open country, where he took refuge in a barn. Officer Trimp was the first to attempt to enter the building. He was shot dead by the negro. Finally a man got to the roof and sent n bullet into the negro’s head. The body was riddled with bullets by the infuriated crowd. Back of the recent arrest of a man giving his name as Jones at Gallipolis, Ohio, on the charge of burglary and the subsequent arrest of Mrs. Pratt of Toledo, is a sensational story. The alleged burglar is announced by the police authorities to l>e Melvin O. Ladd, a prominent Toledo real estate man, who has a wife and two daughters. A sister of Ladd says she knew of his infatuation for the handsome widow, hut the wife was in ignorance of the intrigue. Mrs. Lewis, whose house was the robber’s goal, is worth $75,000. Mrs. Pratt is her daughter by adoption and her only heir. Marshal Kuhn of Gallipolis was shown a picture of Ladd and declared it was that of the man in jail there. He said: “I am confident the couple were in a conspiracy to rob Mrs. Lewis, who always keeps a large sum of money in the house, and if the coast was clear they intended to kill the woman.’’ A hint was given the police that an attempt was to be made to rob Mrs. Lewis and possibly murder her. The man arrested, said to be Ladd, was caught with a piece of gas pipe in his hands, and when searched had a revolver, dirk and mask in his possession. The window had been4eft open downstairs, so he could easily have effected an entrance, Mrs. Pratt and Ladd had beeu seen to meet several times recently and they were being watched. Ladd is shrewd and Mrs. Pratt is considered deep and designing. She refuses to say a word.

SOUTHERN.

Flood devastated the Arkansas valley. Mil ny towns were submerged. At Mobile, Ala., Sergt. Crowley, Company A, Third Infantry, was fatally shot by a private in the Nineteenth Regiment, whop) he was attempting to arrest for drunkenness. As a result of a mimic battle between the United States and Spain by American and Polish boys from 12 to 16 years of age in Canton, \V. Va., a day or two ago, John Keprofsky is dead and eleven youngsters are locked up on the charge of causing his death. The boys organized two forces, the Poles representing Spain, in charge of a fortress. Keprofsky was sent out to rceonnoiter. He was called upon by the storming party to surrender, but refused, and was shot in the abdomen by one of the American boys. Another tragedy at the volunteer camp at Mobile, Ala., following so soon on the suicide at the regular encampment, caused a great stir among the troops. Collins, sergeant in a Birmingham company, was shot by a negro fruit’ vender named Louis Reeves. The negro got away, but was hotly pursued by over a thousand militiamen, armetj with pistols, knives and clubs. Citizens and police joined in the chase. The negro was finally captured in hiding and the crowd was foiled in its purpose of lynching him by a detective, who got him away on a street ear. Later in the evening he was taken to the county jail under a guard and no further trouble is apprehended. The closing act in the-much-discussed debt settlement compromise between the United States and the State of Arkansas was enacted the other afternoon, when the State board authorized Auditor Sloan to pay the United States $572, the amount called for in the bill recently passed by Congress. As soon as the Government transfers to the Auditor all Arkansas securities now held by it. excepting the SIOO,OOO which the Government is to retain, the Auditor is authorized to pay over the $572. The securities to be turned over to the State amount to a little over $2,000,000. Gov. Jones voted no and filed a protest against the acceptance of the settlement. The protest is similar to the veto message he filed with the Legislature, when tiie measure passed that body last winter over his objections. Auditor Sloan, Sseretary of State Hull and Treasurer Gully voted in the affirmative.

FOREIGN.

Bread rioters and gendarmes collided at Placentia and Figline. Italy. A rioter was killed at eneh place. An anarchistic riot liroke out at Milan. Italy, and 300 persons were killed and 1,000 injured before the soldiery restored order. * A terrible sfory of cannibalism is reported from New Guinea. Fourteen escaped prisoners from Maiiar.ana attacked a friendly village, and eating eighteen men. An English tramp steamer laden with 2,000 tons of cotton and oil went ashore opposite Caesar's creek, near Miami, Fla. It is not known whether there was any loss of "life. A dispatch from Free Town. Sierra Leone, West Const of Africa, says. The rebellion which grew out of the dissatisfaction of the natives with the lint tax has spread to Shongay. in the Sherboro district. The headquarters of the American missionaries have been burned by the insurgents. A detachment of police has been sent to the assistance of the members of the mission. Lieut. Artiago of the Cuban army, now in Washington, is in receipt of a letter from the camp of Gen. Calixto Garda, which goes to show that the insurgents are eucournged by good news from this country. “Against this good news,” the letter continues, “we have much suffering and hardship, dne mainly to the lack of commissaries. But our deliverance is near at hand, and mo are of good cheer. The most interesting hit of news I have to tell you is about the capture in our camp of a spy. He was a non-commis-sioned officer, but he lives no more. He presented himself to our commanding general as a horn Cuban and was duly enrolled. His intelligence was of a high character, and he was raised from the ranks. He sustained a close companionship with the cook of Gen. Garcia, a poor and unintelligent negro from Santa Clara. The spy would have put poison In the food of our beloved chieftain bud he not been apprehended. He was caught red-

handed, and the convincing evidence mi found on his person. There was a. strong disposition to kill him without a hearing, but the generosity of our general would not allow it. He was tried and shot.” Speaking of the “great republic which so generously is helping us to freedom,” the writer says: “The name American is a safeguard and passport throughout this island except in the little patches of territory which are controlled by the enemy.” Owing to the war demonstration in nearby waters the island of Navassa. one of the small islands of the Caribbean sea, off the coast of Hayti, is threatened with a food famine. Reports of the distressing condition of affairs on the island have reached Washington and' Senator Gorman of Maryland called the attention of the President to the state of affairs and the necessity for relief of some sort. In view of itk close proximity to Cuba, Torto Rico and the islands in those waters, and the fact that Spanish vessels at any time may intercept and attack vessels going there, commerce with the taJhas been suspended. There are represented to be about seventy Americans on the island, mostly from Maryland. Senator Gorman urged immediate action. Orders were at once telegraphed to Admiral Sampson to send a warship to the island for the relief of its inhabitants. John H. Fowler, president of the Navassa Phosphate Company of’Baltimore, said: “The request that the United States afford the men on the island relief was made by me. We are unable to send them any more supplies, owing to the fact that American vessels cannot be chartered for the trip at any price and the Atlas line of steamers out of New York, which sail under the British flag, will no longer carry supplies to either Americans or Spaniards. I expect the men have about enough supplies to last them thirty days. Our sheds, buildings, railway and other works on the island, which cost us large sums of money, will likely have to be abandoned for the present and will probably be destroyed.”

IN GENERAL.

A Spanish spy caught tampering with the magazine on the cruiser St. Taul has been arrested and will be tried. Navigation between Dawson and St. Michaels, Alaska, is expected to be open about June 1, two weeks earlier than usual. The steam yacht Windward has been formally presented to Lieut. Peary by Lieut. A. B. Armitage, who represented the donor. The American bark Forest Queen, Capt. Beasley, from Tacoma, Wash, March 6, has been given up as lost. She was loaded with lumber for San Pedro. The schooner Crown, Capt. Linehan, was lost off St. Johns, N. F., and her entire crew of eleven men was drowned. All of them were married. The cause of the wreck is not known. The North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Which has arrived at New Y'ork from Bremen, made a day’s record run of 580 knots. This beats the liner’s best previous westward performance last September by thirteen knots. The run was accomplished at an average of 23.3 G knots an hour. The first action under the new Canadian alien labor law has been begun in Toronto, Ont, _ There is a strike going on in a large boot and shoe factory,, the proprietor of which imported a number of hands from the United States to replace the strikers. The latter have begun an action to compel J. D. King, the proprietor; to pay the SI,OOO penalty for bringing in aliens and to send the Ameri- ■ can workmen home again. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: “A state of war was so greatly dreaded by those who have seen nothing like it for more than thirty years that its coming has hurt less than its apprehension. Especially since the victory at Manila, which indicated the superiority of the American navy, gun for gun. Expectation that the war will not last long has influenced all markets, and stocks have advanced, the average of prices of railroads $2.70 a share. The general condition of business bus been materially improved. The most sensational of all changes and the most practically important lias been the rise in wheat —13 cents during one day’s session, 21% cents from Tuesday to Thursday night, and 25% cents for the week —throwing into the shade all past advances and all expectations, though a reaction of 1% cents naturally followed on Friday. Exports have not been checked by higher prices as yet, but have caused them, amounting for the week to 2,994,380 bushels, flour included, against 1,498,167 bushels from Atlantic ports last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3,00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.40 to $1.51; corn, No. 2,33 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,30 c to 31c; rye, No. 2,08 eto 70c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 9c to lie; potatoes, common to choice, 70c to 00c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, SI.OO to $1.11; corn, No. 2 white, 34e to 3Gc; oats, No, 2 white, 32c to 33c. St. Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, $1.20 to $1.27; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2,31 cto 32c; rye. No. 2,04 cto 00c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red. $1.17 to $1.19; corn, No. 2 mixed, 38c t0.39c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 34c; rye, No. 2,09 cto 71c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; begs, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.29 to $1.31; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; rye, 67c to 69c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, $1.36 to $1.38; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 36c; oata, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; rye, No. 2,00 cto CBc; clover seed, $3.00 to $3.10. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, $1.19 to $1.21; corn, No. 3,34 eto 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 84c; rye, No. 1,68 cto 70c; barley, No. 2,50 cto 54c; pork, mess, $10.75 to $11.25.v Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, to $1.20; corn. No. 2 ye"ow, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 37c. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.44 to $1.46: corn. Not 2,40 cto 41c; oata, No. 2 white, 87c to 38c; butter, creamery, 14c to 18c; eggs. Western, 10c. to 11c.

CONGRESS

The House on Thursday disposed of two important measures. The Alaskan land bill, extending the homestead laws to and providing for certain railway rights of way in the district of Alaska, as amended by the Senate and agreed upon in conference, was passed. The labor arbitration measure, providing for the arbitration of labor disputes between employes and certain common carriers, a bill which had received very wide indorsement by labor organizations throughout the country, received the approval of the House. It provides that in ease a serious controversy concerning wages, hours of labor or conditions of employment shnll arise between a carrier subject to the act and the employes, the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Lnbor shall, upon the request of either party, endeavor amicably to settle the dispute by mediation, and in case the endeavor shnll fail then the controversy may be submitted to arbitration of a hoard of three persons, each party to the controversy to name one arbitrator, and the two thus named shall name a third. The agreement to submit must contain stipulations that the arbitration shall be begun within five days, and the award shall be filed’within twenty days from the appointment of the third arbitrator; tlint the award shall be filed in the Circuit Court of the United States for any district wherein the employer carries on business; that the parties shall consider the award final and conclusive, and faithfully execute the same; that the award shall continue in force as between the jtnrties for one year, and that the employer shall not dismiss nor shall any employe, dissatisfied with the award, quit work under three months without giving thirty days’ notice. The award shall become final and operative ten days after filing, unless an appeal shall be taken within the ten days on exceptions to matters of law. The act recognizes organized labor and.provides penalties for employers discriminating against employes by reason of their connection with or purpose to join such organization. Mr. Morris (Minn.) called np and the House passed a joint resolution declaring the lands within the former Mille Lac Indian reservation in Minnesota to be subject to entry under the land laws of tlie United States. The House adjourned to Monday. Just before adjournment the Senate passed an important war measure authorizing the President a’nd general officers of the army to supply the Cuban insurgents with arms and munitions of war Fitting tribute was paid by the Senate to Commodore Dewey for the magnificent victory he achieved in the battle of Manila Bay. A Inessa gt* from t InNFresident was received recommending that a vote of thanks be extended by Congress to Commodore Dewey and the gallant officers and men of his command. Without a word of debate and without a dissenting voice the Senate agreed to the resolution carrying into effect the recommendation of the President. The Senate went farther, even, that that. A bill was presented increasing the number of rear admirals in the navy from, six to seven in order-that the President might nominate Commodore Dewey to the highest position in the navy within his gift, and that, too, was passed without dissent. In addition a joint resolution was unanimously agreed to directing the Secretary of the Navy to present to Commodore Dewey a sword and medal of honor it rid to have struck, in commemoration of the battle of Manila, a bronze medal for each of the officers and men who participated in the gallunt fight. The resolution appropriates SIO,OOO to enable the Secretary to carry its provisions into effect. The greater part of the day in the House was sumed by war measures. The recommendation of the President that a vote of thanks be tendered Commodore Dewey and his associate officers and men was followed quickly with a unanimous vote, and with equal concert the House passed the bill creating an additional rear admiralship for thd hero of Manila. The bill providing for the organization of a volunteer engineer brigade and enlistment of 10,000 volunteer troops immune to tropical diseases was passed after two hours of debate. The principal ground of opposition presented was found in the features giving to the President the appointment of all officers. The Senate bill authorizing the army to distribute food among the suffering Cubans and to arm the Cuban people was pnssed. Four war measures were pnssed by the Senate on Tuesday. One of them provid eel,for carrying on the additional work in the adjutant general’s office; the second authorized the enlistment of if volunteer signal corps, two-thirds of the members of which must be expert electrician* or telegraphers; the third was the so-call-ed “immure bill,” pnssed by the House of Representatives, and the fourth wui a measure suspending existing law sc additional hospital stewards can be appointed. The postofllce appropriation bill, carrying appropriations which aggregate more than $99,000,000, was passed, aftei a debate which lasted several days. The resolution submitting to the Legislature* of the various States an amendment tc the constitution of the United States changing the date of the beginning of the terms of the President, Vice-President and members of Congress from March 4 to May 4 was adopted. The House, it session less than an hour, passed n bil: appointing three commissioners to propose necessary revision of the statutes relating Jo patents, trade and other marks and trade aiul commercial names.

This and That.

The mjfrriage rate In Ireland last fear was higher than it has been In any year since 1871. “Norsk Kvlndestemmeretsforenlg” Is the name of the woman’s suffrage society of Norway. Whoop! In a season of about eleven weeks $50,000 worth of blueberries were sold In Marquette County, Michigan* Some people study all their life, and at their death they hare learned everything except to think.—Domesque.

Bad Eruptions Sores Broke Out end Discharged, but Hood’e Cured. “My non had eruptions and sores on his face which continued to grow worse in spite of medicines. The seres discharged a great deal. A friend whose child had been cured of a similar trouble by Hood’s Sarsaparilla advised me to try it. I began giving the boy 1 this medicine and he was soon getting better. He kept on taking it until he was entirely cured and he has never been bothered with eruptions since.” MRS. EVA DOLBEARE, Horton, 111. Hood’s parflla It America’s Greatest Medicine. II; six for 16. Prepared only by C. I. Hood A Co., Lowell, Mass. /*** if ——————— Hn/vi ’c Dalle are the best after-dinner HUGH » villa puis; aid digestion, go. 1 "4 Porfoct T/po ofthoNighoot Ordorof \ ExcoHonco in Manufacture. ” ,

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Primitive Incense.

In ancient days sweet odors were obtained by burning asomatic gums and woods; hence the wood perfume, which is from the Latin per, through, and fumus, smoke or vapor. From this arose the idea of ineense in primitive worship. It was used by the Orientals long before it became known to the Western wortd. J’eople of the East utilized it for sacrifice in their temples. At feasts it en ha need -the pleasure of the senses. At funesals it was a bribe to appease the manes of the dead, and later, in theaters, a disinfectant against the unpleasant odors of a crowded building. Pliny assures us that Incense was not employed in sacrifice until after the Trojan war, when fragrant woods were applied to give an agreeable smell. In an ancient magical manuscript it Is directed that three grains should be taken with three fingers and placed under the threshold to keep away evil spirits which might come in the form of offensive odors. The largest brain on record was that of Oliver Cromwell. It weighed a little over sixty ouness.

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