Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1898 — Page 6

THE RENSSELAER DEMOAT. SHIELDS * DILLEY, RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

CONFERENCE IS DONE

NEW ARRANGEMENT TO BE MADE WITH CANADA. formation of a Commission to Con* alder All Controversies Is Agreed Upon President McKinley Proclaims a New Reciprocity Agreement Reach an Agreement. p The Canadian negotiations which have been in progress in Washington have been concluded and a definite agreement reached for the creation of a commission which ! shall consider all the subjects of controls. versy between the United States and Canada and frame a treaty between the,imperial government and the United States for the complete adjustment of their controversies. The agreement is now to be submitted to the British government for ; its approval, and when this is given the organisation of the commission will be | completed. For the present the agreement is confined to the one point that the ’ commission shall be created, the time and t place for the commission to begin its work being left for future determination. It I is understood, however, that the first meeting will be held at Quebec,probably I during the coming summer, lue membership of the commission will be deter- | mined by the executive branches of the { two governments. The discussions have proceeded in a manner most satisfactory I to all parties concerned, it being stated I by those participating that the spirit of I good will waa marked throughout. The I purpose was not to arrive at final conclu- | sions, but rather to pave the way for a commission which would effect these con- | elusions by complete examination of all I the details of the several question* involved. These include the Bering See, I North Atlantic and lake fisheries*, border J immigration, reciprocity, mining regula- | tions in the Klondike and in the British North American possessions, and also the f determination of the Alaskan boundary line. Race for the Pennant. j Following is the standing of the clubs ,■ In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. U Cincinnati ..24 7 Chicago 17 18 Cleveland .. .24 12 Philadelphia. 14 17 Boston 23 13 Brooklyn ....12 19 Baltimore ...17 13 Louisville .. .12 25 New Y0rk...19 15 St, Louis 10 22 Pittsburg .. .19 17 Washington.. 8 24 I Following is the standing of the clubs t in the Western League: W. L. W. L. | Indianapolis. 24 8 Kansas City. 17 16 fit. Paul 24 12 Detroit 14 21 J CoJumbns .. .19 14 Minneapolis. 13 21 . Milwaukee.. 19 17 Omaha . 1.... 7 26

NEWS NUGGETS.

bf Rhode Island’s new State officers were ft Inaugurated the other day with appropriJ ate ceremonies. Biddle Reeves, of the firm of Reeves & B Oewes, real estate brokers, at. Denver, K Colo., was found dead io bis room. Apoi plexy caused his death. | Widespread distress is reported in va- !> rious parts of the interior provinces of I Spain, more especially in the Province of Catalonia. Food prices have risen considerably and many working people have been thrown out of employment. Mrs. Postlewaite, a restaurart-keeper, ; has confessed that she killed W. C. Boyd, j a butcher, whose dead body was found near Hutchinson, Kan., a few days ago. | She said he went to her room at night aud threatened to kill her unless she would I marry him. J The Black Hills express on the FreK mont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Road, | dash<d into a freight train just west of Blair, Neb. The dead are: Lucien E. 5 Cook, engineer; Fred fireman. The injured: Charles Gassard and James M. Mason, mail clerks. r The last grand jury session at Toledo, •| Ohio, resulted in nn indictment against ' Levi A. Cass, publisher of the Toledo | Commercial, on a charge of criminally list beling Charles P. Griffin. Cass was plactj ed tinder S4(K) bail, but forfeited his bail and has not been found. Sheriff Stager Si has officially offered a reward of $25 for || his arrest and delivery as a fugitive from it justice. gl A letter, said to contain the names of I Spanish spies in the United States, has | -been abstracted from 42 Tupper street, ;j Montreal, Quebec, where Lieut CarFl rasnza, Senor du Bose and other members - of the Spanish secret service live. It was i secured by a United States secret service j «gent Carranza and his associates are j ’ moving heaven ami earth to regain it, and [ • have offered immense rewards, but it is E gone. I ’ Miss Alice F. Ordway, until recently f , assistant State librarian at Topeka, Kan., El committed suicide at the Elm House, ' Greenfield, Mass. She went there from | Louisville, Ky. She was found dead in I ** r room and an investigation revealed 1 that she had taken chloral. She was on I her way to Barton Landing, Vt., her nail live place, on a visit, having recently lost F ~ he** position because of political changes | at Topeka. H At Cincinnati, Ohio, during the DecoraI tion Day exercises in the east end apl itI .form, which had been erected on a hillt 1 Mde, gave way and seventy-five children | I jwent down. Parents fought the police i t, desperately to get at their children and E F the officers finally had to use their clubs ft| : check the panic. Seven girls and boys - K ere known to be hurt. At least twenty inI jured children were carried away before t their names could be learned. fc Gen. Erastus N. Bates, first United | States Senator from Minnesota, died at I Minneapolis, aged 70 years. i I .! According to the Washington corre- »' epondent of the London Telegraph, plane f r already under woy at Washington for ; an offensive and defensive Anglo-Anieri- / ean alliance, by the terms of which EngF land is to recognise the Monroe doctrine. ■ President McKinley has banned a proCJni nwtkn setting forth the terms ot a new Eknahmercial reciprocity agreement with French Government. It Is the first jiff 1 -[agreement entered into under section 3 Rt the Dlngley tariff law.

EASTERN.

Thomas W. Keene, the tragedian, ha* gone to his home on Staten Island, N. Y., suffering from an attack of appendicitis. AU Salisbury, Md., Garfield King, negro, aged about 18, was taken from the jail, hanged to a tree and almost shot to pieces. The corning mill of the Hazard Powder Company at Hazardville, Conn., in which fuses were prepared, was blown up. Alfred Dlunden was killed and Foreman James Colburn was seriously injured. While miners were working in the Red Ash vein of the Kaskn William colliery, about ten miles east of Pottsville, Pa., a large body of water was struck and six men are supposed to have been drowned. By an explosion of gas at the Laurel Hill mine of W. P. Rend & Co. of Chicago at Pittsburg, Pa., Robert and Archibald McMullen, brothers, were killed. The men bad gone to an old entry for a machine. The gas had accumulated there and was ignited by their lamps. Robert McMullen was 21 years old and married, and Archibald was 15. The bodies of the two victims were burned to a crisp. The big mine tiffibera were splintered and tons of slate tumbled down. Entry doors were blown off all through the mine. Auxiliaries of the American National Red Cross Society are the order of the day in New York City. Everywhere, in fashionable and middle-class homes, in halls and colleges, women are meeting to discuss ways and means to assist in the nation's war. The Ice Plant auxiliary reports upon the progress of its work. The aim is to provide an ice factory, capacity of one ton per day, and so arranged as to regulated the temperature of the cold storage room on board the Red Cross hospital ambulance ship. Miss Catherine S. "Leverich, secretary, reports a fund of $1,090 already in bank from subscriptions and donations. Under the auspices of Mrs. Seth Low, Mrs. Munroe Smith, Mrs. Francis M. Burdick, Miss Emily James Smith and Mrs. James S. Russell, a Columbia University auxiliary has been formed, also to co-operate in equipping the Red Cross hospital. The war workshops of the Red Cross auxiliaries, as they are called, have been opened in various parts of the same city. The object of the auxiliaries is to provide clothing and other necessaries for use in the hospitals for both soldiers and sailors. Incidentally, too, employment is to be offered to all needy or destitute families of enlisted men. Red Cross Auxiliary No. 2 opened its headquarters in well-lighted upper rooms of the Tuxedo, at Fifty-ninth street and Madison avenue. Several wives of enlisted men applied early for sewing that they could do at home, where they had children to care for. A number of them received work, and other cases tvere left for investigation. Young girls were few in the morning crowd, but by noon half a dozen or more were seated before the sewing machines that stood about the room like desks in schools. A big teapot, with a milk pitcher and a group of cups and saucers, was seen on a table in the ante-room. Hot lunch, 4t was explained, was to be served daily to the workers, and the plan was to include in the bill of fare more substantial things than milk and tea as soon as other arrangements are complete.

WESTERN.

At Minneapolis, Minn., the Fifth district Republicans nominated Loren Fletcher for Congress for the fourth time by acclamation. At Madera, Cal., County Treasurer Krohn was terribly beaten by robbers and the strong box of the county rifled of its contents by the robbers. At Astoria, Oregon, a fire completely destroyed the box factory of the Clatsop Mill Company, the Columbia Cannery, the Pacific Union Cannery and the Leinenweber Cannery. Roy Anderson and Thomas Cooper, convicts, were shot by a guard while trying to escape from the Ohio State reformatory at Mansfield. Anderson died. OoopArr will recover. '—-William Twinein, a commission merchant, who died a few days ago at Delaware, Ohio, left an estate valued at $7,000,000. The estate will fall to his seven sons and daughters. B. A. Speere refused to divulge the hiding place of his money to a band of masked men who called at his home near Quincy, Ohio, and they beat him so badly that he died in a short time. The docktrivu on the Duluth, Missabe and Northern ore dock at Duluth, Mifin., have gone out on a strike for higher wages. They were receiving $1.35, and ask $1.50. Over 100 men went out. At Cincinnati, the amalgamated iron and steel workers’ convention presented Mahlon M. Garland, former president of the association, a silver service of six pieces. Mr. Garland is now surveyor of customs at Pittsburg. A fusion of the Populist, silver Republicans. liberty, negro protective and socialist labor parties of Ohio has been practically agreed upon. Conferences looking to that end have been in progress for several days in Columbus, Ohio. Sir Henry Irving answered a message from the Bohemian Club of San FrflWciaco, expressing the sentiment that the Stars and Stripes and Union Jack were now entwined, with the following cable: “Love greeting. We shall coal together.” The Midland Terminal train from Cripple Creek, Colo., run down two crews of men near Gillette, ten miles out. Four men were killed. The men were at work on a trestle 100 feet high. The men realized their danger and jumped to the ravine below.

Kearney Speedy, known all over the country as a nervy bridge jumper, dived from the Merchants’ bridge into the Mississippi river at St. Louis and escaped unhurt. The distance was 128 feet. The river was very high and running with driftwood. In the case at Cincinnati of the Central Trust Company of New York against the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Kailroad Company Judge Lurton ordered • decree of sale, date not set, and appointed R. B. Cowen and A. H. Hifin 6s special masters to sell it. The minimum price set is $4,800,000. William C. Antisell, the well-known piano manufacturer, died at the receiving hospital in San Francisco, Cai., and not for several days was his identity known. Antisell, while intoxicated, had fallen off • car. He seemed to have sustained only • trivial wound of the scalp, but he died the next day. He was 45 years old. The directors of the Trans-Mlssissippi Exposition at Omaha have decided “that the,exposition grounds and buildings be kept open on Sundays from 1 p. m. to 10 p. and conducted in the same manner

as on week day*, except that the Bale of liquors be not permitted, that concerts be given, and that religious services be held in the auditorium on Sunday afternoons.*' One of the biggest transfers of packing house interests ever made in St. Louis was completed when D. L. Quirk turned over the plant and property of the East St. Louis Packing and Provision Company on the east side of the river to the Chicago Packing and Provision Company. The purchase was' arranged for in Chicago, the price paid being in the neighborhood of $500,000. A posse was sent out from Belen, N. M., in pursuit of two bandits who held up a Santa Fe train and robbed the express car. Word has been received of a fierce battle which the posse had with the outlaws about sixty miles southwest of Belen. The posse was led by Sheriff Vigil and was accompanied by several Indian trailers, who succeeded in following the outlaws to their retreat in an isolated district in the mountains. The officers came upon them and Sheriff Vigil called on them to surrender. A fierce fire from their rifles was the answer received by the posse. The deputy and an Indian trailer were wounded at the first fire, but the sheriff stuck to his post until he was struck dead by a bullet. The posse roturned the fire, and it is believed that one of the robbers was severely wounded, but both succeeded in making their escape. At Omaha, Neb., Miss Dorothy Mauer, a pretty young woman, secured un ax and chopped to pieces a number of groups of Cupids which decorated the Fipe Arts building of the exposition. She tried her weapon also upon several pieces of costly statuary, whose undraped figures she considered improper. The young woman performed her feat at midnight, and throughout the time occupied a most perilous position, banging out over the grand court of honor. Had the frail fretwork to which she was clinging in order to execute her work with dispatch given way she would have been precipitated fifty feet to the stone pavement below. When she bad done the work to her satisfaction she descended to the ground, again performing a feat involving great danger. She was met by a big policeman and several exposition guards, who had been prancing around on the ground begging her to desist in her work and come down that they might arrest her. Several times they had attempted to reach her, but the work had been too hazardous and the danger too apparent. The groups of statphry destroyed were very valuable and are utter-, ly ruined, pieces being scattered all over the building. The workmen gathered up several bushels of arms, legs and other parts of the figures. Miss Mauer, who is a Salvation army lieutenant, declares the figures were immodest.

SOUTHERN.

Eugene Burt was hanged in the county jail at Austin, Texas, for the murder of his wife and two children in July. 1890. He protested his innocence to the last. At the seventh annual commencement exercises of the Tuskogee normal and industrial institute, at Tuskogee, Ala., 1,047 students were in attendance, and fortyeight were graduated. The total cash receipts for the year have been $114,469.60. Of this $62,000 has gone into current expenses and $52,000 into plant. The students have paid in labor $52,000 toward their expenses. An engine collided with the Oakdale accommodation at Graysville, north >of Chattanooga, Tenn., on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. The crew on the engine, Conductor Simpson, Engineer Hudson, Fireman Edwards and two brakemen, Matthews and Swanson, were instantly killed, except Simpson, who is not expected to live. Engineer Walkenshaw, Fireman Day and Baggagemastbr Dresback of the accommodation train were seriously hurt. At Key West, Fla., James J. Dorsey, 55 years of age, an old-time export merchant, was found dead in a yard within half a block of the Key West Hotel. He had received a considerable sum of money in wages the night before and was probably murdered for it. He was so terribly beaten about the head that only a search of his clothing revealed his identity. William Carne, a sailor of the United States auxiliary gunboat Morrill, was probably fatally injured in front of a barroom in the southern portion of the town. The man, who was intoxicated, was set upon by a gang of negroes. Several arrests have been made. The people are so aroused they have demanded that the city be put under martial law.

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Bliss reported to the House that $258,538 worth of the Creek Indian nation warrants were regularly issued and would be paid, but that warrants amounting to $11,150 of the general fund and $74,580 of the school fund were fraudulent, and that $2,534 of the general fund and $1,784 of the school fund are doubtful. Hugh O’Beirne, second secretary of the. British embassy at Washington, has made a report to the British foreign office on the extent of commerce between the United States and China. The report shows that the present volume of United States trade in China represents more than oneseventh of the entire trade of the empires It is 50 per cent greater than the trade of Germany with China, and comes next to the trade of Great Britain, that being the first in commercial importance. The increase in American trade has been going on rapidly within the last ten years, and this increase has been entirely on the side of American goods, our exports increasing while Chinese imports were decreasing. By far the most valuable branch of the trade is that in cotton goods. Mr. O’Beirne showed the importance of the Chinese market for United States cotton cloth by stating that last year China took $7,480,000 out of a total export of $17,281,000, or about half of all American cotton cloths shipped abroad. He says the Chinese, especially those of Manchuria, prefer die American drills and sheetings, as they are heavier. The great bulk of these cottons are shipped from the New England mills to New York, and then via the Sues canal. But there has been quite recently a remarkable increase of shipment from the west by way of San Francisco and Puget sound. The export of American kerosene oil to China now ranks second in importance to that of cotton goods. Mr. O’Beirne says the Russian oil is the only serious foreign competitor with which the American product has to reckon. In 1896 China took 82,000,000 gallons of American oil, as against 28,000,000 of the Russian oil. Mr. O’Beirne also shows the increasing value of American trade in wheat, flour; iron and steel tfnd railroad material. He says the Chinese show a full recognition of the superiority of the American flour over their own product He says the increas-

ing industrial activity of China, and thd building of railroads; will secure to Amer* lean makers a large proportion of the contracts for steel rails, locomotives, ete. He remarks that the iron and steel industry is one in which the United States have recently shown their ability to. compete with all rivals.

FOREIGN.

In the bankruptcy court of London n receiving order was issued against J. W, Young, a son of the late Brigham Young. His liabilities are £333,892. The Vienna correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says: "Marquis De Hovos, the Spanish ambassador to Aus-tria-Hungary, will be succeeded here by Polo y Bernabe, late Spanish minister to the United States. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the novelist and playwright, it is said, will soon marry Rev. Stephen Townsend, who for thirteen years has been rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church, St. Mar-tin’s-le-Grand, London. He is ten years her junior. Advices received at Hong Kong from Manila say that riots are frequent in that city, anti houses are being burned by the rioters daily. The rebels are org&nizing for an attack on Manila and a battle is expected soon. One dispatch from Spanish sources, to be forwarded to Madrid, claims that insurgent leaders, with a following of 30,000 native volunteers, have offered their services to Captain General Augusti. The archbishop of Manila has announced that four battleships are on their way to Manila, and prophesies a great Spanish victory. Information from a trustworthy source is that reported negotiations between Spain and France with respect to the sale of the Philippine Islands aim at much more important colonial changes. It is said that both Spain and Russia have already agreed to the concession of the northwest coast of Morocco to France. The successful consummation of this plan would insure France's aid against the United States, and eventually against England. Russia especially would be pleased to see this key to the Mediterranean Sea in the hands of France. It is argued that the strategical strength of Gibraltar has suffered a gradual decline, and when menaced by Spain from terra firma would no longer be able to retain control of the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. Add to this the cession of Tangier to France and Gibraltar *■ ould no longer prove a barrier to either Spain, France or Russia. What France offers in exchange for ail this is kept a secret, but it is believed that she may not hesitate in return to openly espouse the cause of Spain against the United States.

IN GENERAL

Former Secretary of State John Sherman and wife returned from Washington to their home in Mansfield, Ohio, and have departed from there for a summer trip to Sitka, Alaska. Fifty enterprising women from all parts of the country will gather at Tacoma, Wash., to start for Alaska, where they purpose establishing a town. Their leader is Lillian M. Lemmon of Chicago. She has notified the members of her party in Chicago, Milwaukee, New York and other cities to meet in Tacoma at once. She has also contracted with a steamship company to transport the party to the mouth of the Koyukuk river, via St. Michael’s. The party includes teachers, clerks, etenbarbers and several married women who are leaving their husbands at home. They will purchase a stock of merchandise and establish stores, a restaurant, hotel, newspaper and postoffice in their town, which will be named New Chicago. Bradstreet's says of the state of trade: “A total volume of business fully proportioned to or in excess of that usually noted at this season of the year is indicated by reports to Bradstreet’s this week. The exceptions are generally where weather conditions have made for irregularity and perhaps dullness. The volume of bank clearings, as was to l»e expected, shows the contradiction usual toward the close of May, but with few exceptions the crop situation, the volume of railway earnings and the reports from a number of leading industries point to a maximum volume of business doing in most phrts of the country. Relatively the best trade reports continue, as for some time past, to come from the central west and northwest, where the outlook, both as regards crop yield and prices, continues eminently satisfactory to the agricultural interests. The wheat situation shows little change, but this and next year's delivery appear to have parted company. Rather more business is reported at most eastern markets both in domestic and foreign grade of wools.”

MARKET REPORTS.

vmeago—tattle, common to prime, $3.00 <to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.74 to $1.76; corn. No. 2,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,26 c to 28c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 63c; butter, choice creamery, 15c to 17c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 12c; potatoes, common to choice, 55c to 70c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice fight, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.19 to $1.21; corn, No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; bogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, sl.lß to $1.21; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2,28 cto 29c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 59c. Cincinnati —Cagle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.17 to $1.19; corn. No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 81c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 56c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.24 to $1.26; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 3Oc to 32c; rye, 55c to 57c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, $1.26 to $1.27; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 85c; ooto, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2,59 c to 61c; clover Seed, $3.20 to $3.30. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, $1.25 to $1.27; corn, No. 3,35 cto 36c; onto, No. 2 white, 29c to 32c; rye, No. 1,50 cto 62c; barley. No. 2,40 cto 50c; pork, mess, $11.50 to $12.00. Buffalo—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; bogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.84 to $1.36; corn, No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c. New York—Cattle, $3.00-to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.44 to $1.45; com, No. 2,38 cto 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 88c to 85c; butter, creamery, 14c to 17c; eggs, Westora, 12c to 13c.

SANTIAGO IS STORMED

Report of Fierce Attack on Cervera’s Stronghold. SPANISH ARMADA REPULSED Commodore Schley Is Said to Have Forced the Mined Harbor. STORIES ARE NOT CONFIRMED Washington Officials Inclined to Dis* credit the Dispatches. - I ....... Reported at Kingston and Cape Hay tien that a Great Battle Is Fought— Terrific Bombardment Said to Have Drawn Cervera’s Fleet from the Harbor—American Battleships Batter Down the Fortifications with Their Heavy Guns at Long Range—Claimed that Uncle Sam’s Ships Forced Their Way Into the Bottle—Reports Discredited in Washington. Persistent rumors were in circulation in Washington Tuesday that an important engagement had taken place at Santiago. The reports came by way of cablegrams from Cape Haytien and Kingston, Jamaica. The Hayti report said that about 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon an American squadron composed of fourteen warships, of which the cruiser Brooklyn displayed the flag of Commodore Schley, and a number of torpedo boats, began a bombardment with heavy guns of the forts and the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. The American fire was directed principally against the forts and the harbor. The forts of Morro castle. La Zaeapa and Punta Gorda suffered especially. The town, which is situated near the inner end of the harbor, escaped damage. The vessels wore constantly maneuvering during the firing. On account of the height of the forts at the entrance to the harbor the big guns could not be used at close range, so the battleships worked far

COMMOPOBE W. a. SCHLEY.

off shore. The lighter craft, coming farther in, pounded hotly away at Morro. Cervera, during the hottest part of the firing, brought his ships down near the mouth of the harbor and spiritedly returned the fire. The cannonading at 4 o’clock was terrific. It was believed that at that time the Spanish ships had left coverund come out into the open, but this is not definitely known, for the smoke was so dense as to envelop nearly everything shoreward. The forts were badly battered, but the Spanish gunners stood stubbornly to their work. Later advices sftid that Schley forced the harbor and that the advantage was on our side. Notwithstanding the persistence of the rumors and the apparent detail in which they described the attack, the navy department up to a late hour Tuesday evening had not received any confirmation of the fight.

FROM THE FRONT.

The cable between Cadiz and Iloilo has been cut Every regiment is to have twenty-five nurses and this will bring the total up to 3,750. Reports from Key West say the rainy season has begun in Cuba and rain falls daily. A shipping company has been commissioned to carry mails from Manila to Hongkong. The standing toast in Havana just before the war was: “Here’s to the patriot who blew up the Maine.” The English Marquis of Ripon has expressed himself as much in favor of an Anglo-American alliance. Five vessels captured by oar'warships in Cuban waters have been condemned and .ordered sold by the prize court. The captured Spanish ships Panama, Guido, Buena Ventura and the Pedro are to go to New York, to be sold as prizes. A report is current in London and is extensively believed that an alliance has been formed between France and Spain. The French Government is making strenuous efforts to remove the bad impression made in this country by the venomous denunciation of the United States by Paris newspapers. An official dispatch to Madrid from Havana says: “The food supply is assured for a long time. Vessels are arriving here from all parts, even from the United States, with provisions." Walter S. Barker, who was American consul at Sagua la Grande, Cuba, is to be commissioned colonel of men Who have had yellow fever, to be sent to Cuba with the first division of troops.

CONGRESS

In the Senate on Wednesday Mr. Hale of Maine reported an appropriation bill to supply deficiencies in pensions and for other purposes. As reported the bill carries $8,498,405, of which $8,075,872 is for pensions and the balance for the army,, navy and courts. After a brief discussion of that feature of the measure which makes possible temporary appointments of clerks without civil service examination, it was passed. Discussion of the war revenue measure was resumed. Mr. Stewart of Nevada and Mr. Allen of Nebraska made speeches against a bond issue. Mr. Caffery of Louisiana argued: against the proposed tax on corporations, and upon motion the McEnery amendment was .laid on the table by a vote of 36 to 10. The Senate then passed bills granting additional powers to railroads created by laws of the United States and operating lines in Indian territory and appointing commissioners to revise the statutes relating to patents, trade and other marks and trade and commercial aames. Mr. Lacy of lowa, from the Committeeon Public Lands, called up. and the Housepassed, the House bill granting certain* lands to the territory of New Mexico for common school, college, university, charitable institutions, public buildings, irrigation and Rio Grande river improvement purposes. Pursuant to an arrangement the House then listened to eulogies upon the late Senater J. Z. George of Mississippi. Consideration of the war revenue bill was continued in the Senate on Thursday, speeches upon it being made by Mr. White of California and Mr. Teller of Colorado. A bill was reported by Mr. Sewell providing for the employment of retired army officers during the present war. It was passed. Mr. Money of Mississippi, being recognized, presented the resolutions upon the death of Mr. Walthall. The eulogies were pronounced by Mr. Money, Mr. Hawley of Connecticut, Mr. Berry of Arkansas, Mr. Proctor of Vermont, Mr. Gorman of Maryland, Mr. Cannon of Utah, Mr. Cockrell of Missouri, Mr. Bate of Tennessee, Mr. Pasco of Florida and Mr. Pettus of Alabama. The House passed resolution directing the Secretary of War to prepare and submit plans and estimates for the improvement of Aransas Pass channel and harbor, Texas. A bill providing for the sale of unallotted lands of the Pottawattamie and Kickapoo Indians in Kansas and a bill amending the law for times and places for holding terms of United States courts in Idaho and Wyoming were also passed. Mr. Cannon of Illinois called up the pension deficiency bill as amended and passed by the. Senate, and, after discussion, the House concurred in the Senate amendments to the bill. The Senate amendments to the bill granting additional powers to railroad companies operating lines in the Indian territory were concurred in. A roll-call upon the amended bill to amend internal revenue laws relating to distilled liquors was pending when the House adjourned. Soon after the Senate convened on Friday Mr. Carter reported from the Military Affairs Committee a bill providing for a second assistant Secretary of War to be named by the President, and to receive a salary of $4,000. The bill was passed. Discussion of the war revenue measure was then resumed, and speeches were made by Messrs. Teller of Colorado, Nelson of Minnesota, Cockrell of Missouri and Gorman of Maryland. These measures were passed: Donating a condemned cannon to the thirty-second national encampment, G. A. R.; providing for a survey of the harbor at Sheboygan, Wis., and extending the time for the completion of the Fort Smith and Western Railroad. In the Honse a yea.and nay vote was taken npon the bill to amend the internal revenue law relating to bondage and outage periods of distilled spirits. The bill passed, 132 to 65.

Most of the day Saturday was spent by the Senate in discussion of the war revenue bill, several Senators being beard upon different features of the measure. A prop«tion was made to vote upon theameijimcnt offered by Mr. Gorman of Maryland limiting the excise tax "upon railroad, steamboat, electric light, telegraph, telephone, express and other corporations to those whose gross receipts exceed $230,000 annually and making the tax one-half of 1 per eent. Mr. Aldrich moved to lay upon the table the amendment pffered by the committee for which Mr. Gorman's amendment was intended as a substitute. This brought on the moot important vote yet taken in the Senateupon the bill. The vote resulted in yeas 41, nays 27. The Senate remained in secret legislative session for three hours on Tuesday. The entire time was given to a rather free discussion of the Hawaiian question based on a motion declaring it to be the sense of the Senate that the question of annexation should not lx* discussed in open session. At the conclusion of the debate the Senate voted viva voce not to» pursue the subject further except behind closed doors. Consideration of the pending war revenue measure was continued in open session, but no real headway was made. The House passed a bill authorizing the construction of a railway bridge across Lake St. Francis, near Lake City. Ark. A concurrent resolution, directing the commission now codifying the criminal laws to prepare and submit a code of civil law and procedure for Alaska, was also approved. A number of private bills were passed and the House, in committee of the whole, passed a bill authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to keep open during June and July this year such lifesaving stations on the Atlantic and gulf coasts as he might deem advisable.

Weight of the Average Baby.

The average baby i>oy weighs seven, pounds and the dear little new girl a. trifle aver six pounds. When they have attained the full development of manhood they should weigh twentytimes as much as at birth. That will make the average voter balance 140 pounds and his gentle sister 125 pounds. Mr. Baby, if he can be Induced to stand up straight, will measure one foot eight inches, and Mlsn Baby one foot six Inches In height on her birthday.