Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1898 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, • -

FRAUD ON INDIANS.

TIMBER DEPREDATIONS ON THE CHIPPEWA RESERVATION. Green Trees Cut as Dead and Down Timber—Exorbitant Prices in Stores —Remarkably Rich Gold Strike at Rat Portage, Ont. Report from Agent Jenkins. Special Indian-Agent Jenkins, in a report to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones on the investigation of the timber operations on the Chippewa reservation in Minnesota, makes some statements radically differing from those in other reports. He says the trouble was in the management of the camps and in the system itself. Owing to the inability of many of the camps to pay out, and, as, under the rules, the laborers’ claims were the last to be paid, scores of Indians working there did not receive the wages they expected, and hence serious complaint arose. Of fifty-three camps in operation the last fiscal year many employes] less than 16 per cent. Indian labor, and very few had over 50 per cent., the Indian labor average being from 15 to 20 per cent. The system of stores maintained by the camps, with their exorbitant prices and credit to reckless Indian buyers, is stated to have caused great dissatisfaction. The chief source of all the Indian complaints was that the green timber of the reservation was being ruthlessly cut down and destroyed under pretense of being dead and down timber. BOY GIANT DIES. James S. Mclndoo, 19 Years Old and Seven Feet Two Inches Tall. James S. Mclndoo, the “Minnesota giant,” died at Madelia, Minn., of hemorrhage of the brain. Mclndoo was an Illinoisan by birth, coming into the world at Crescent. Iroquois County, July 5, 1880. At the time of bis death he had not attained full growth, but was already 7 feet 2 inches tall, 2 feet 3 inches around the head, 4 feet 8 inches around the shoulders, 4 feet 6 inches around the chest, 4 feet 1 inch around the waist, and weigher! 368 pounds. He wore No. 24 shoes and a No. 9 hat. Mclndoo was of Scotch-Irish parentage. His size was normal at birth and remained so up to his seventh year. Since then he had developed with startling rapidity. He recently concluded a trip with the Forepaugh circus. ORE OF MARVELOUS VALUE. Remarkable Vein Is Ftruck in Rat Portage, Ont., Gold Mine. Hat Portage, Ont., is wild with excitement over a marvelous strike made in the Mikado gold mine. The ore fills a slope forty feet high and two and onethird feet wide, and the richest ore is worth on a conservative estimate from $25,000 to $35,000 a ton in free-milling gold. The ore is being put in barrels and sacks and men are guarding the treasure. The mine is owned in England. At a low estimate there is now S2SO,(MM) in sight. The latest advices from miners coming in say the vein is now eleven feet wide, with no decrease in value. The length and depth of the ore body is not yet determined.

Fatal Fire at Terre Haute. The worst fire in the history of the city of Terre Houte occurred the other night. The blaze started in the big show windows of the Havens & Geddes company, dealers in dry goods and notions. The cause is not definitely known. A conservative estimate of the damage is sl,1100.000. Several employes were injured by jumping from windows, two of them fatally. Dr. Borcek Shot in Hia Bed. Dr. Frank T. A. Borcek of Fayette County, Texas, was murdered while asleep in his bed by some one who entered the house and shot him through the dead, without awakening, so they say. any of the occupants of the house. J. B. Comins. a farmer and lumberman, was shot dead in his house at the village of Garrison by an assassin, who fired through a window. Fire Low of Baldwinsville. N. Y., was visited by a disastrous tire. The fire started in the plant of the Kenyon Paper Company and spread rapidly to n building occupied by the New Process Rawhide Company, the stone mill of 1 totaling & Co. and the building of Clark. Mercer & Co. The loss, estimated at $1 16,000, is nearly covered by insurance. Grain Trade Badly Crippled. The ear famine became so serious that the entire grain trade of St. Louis was crippled, and ex|M>rters found it almost impossible to obtain cars to carry their grain to the seaboard. Every railroad running into the city suffers from the shortage of equipment. At one time the roada were IJMM) cars behind on orders. Theatrical Manager Shoots Himself. Lem B. Schloss. 28 years old, a theatrical manager and the husband of Lottie Gilson, the actress, shot himself in his room in the Hotel Vendome, New York. He fired four shots from a revolver, but only one *o( them hit him, inflicting a ■light scalp wound. Schloss declared the shooting was accidental. Boys Guilty of Manslaughter. At Chillicothe, Ohio, two boys, Elmer and George Butler, aged, respectively, 20 an<l 13, were found guilty of manslaughter and will serve a term in the penitentiary for the killing of Daisy Browser. In the trial it wns proved that the girl had been shot down from ambush for no cause whatever. Massacred by Chinese Rebels. According to a dispatch from Shanghai the rebels have seized the town of Chung Yang, fifty miles southwest of ichang. province of Hoo Pe, on the north bank of the Yang-tae-Kiaug. 200 miles above Chin Kiang Foo. They have massacred a French priest and I<M) converts. No Verdict Against Kenney. At Wilmington, Del., the jury which held the fate of United States Senator Kenney in its hands was discharged by Judge Bradford without reaching a verdict.

RAVAGES OF CHINESE REBELS. Outlaw Yumantie Butchers Christians and Destroys Property. The steamer Empress of India brings news of the butchering of Catholic and native Christians by the rebels of SzeChuen province. China, under the notorious outlaw Yumantse. This rebel and his followers have rendered 20,000 native Christians homeless in Central China and taken over sixty lives, including those of several European missionaries. Six thousand Catholie refugees have gathered in the city of Chun-King from the surrounding country. Property already destroyed by the rebels is reckoned at 5,000,000 taels. France is making a claim for this amount in reparation of destroyed prop'erty belonging to French missionaries. KILLS HIS BROTHER. Red Cross Nurse Claims to Have Acted in Self-Defense. John D. Hayes, who served as a Red Cross nurse with the Second United States infantry under Gen. Shafter at Santiago, shot and killed his brother, Edward S. Hayes, proprietor of a hotel at Ble.ecker and McDougal streets. New York. According to the story told by John Hayes, his brother accused him of appropriating a portion of the proceeds of the evening business for his own use. They ha<Tseveral quarrels over this. and. according to the murderer, who is under arrest. Edward attacked him with a club and ice pick. After having had his cheek laid open. John Hayes drew a revolver and shot his brother through the head. FAVOR AMERICAN MACHINERY. United States Rapidly Gainins on England in Trade with GermanyIn a report to the State Department Commercial Agent Stern, at Bamberg, predicts that the United States will soon surpass England in the value of exports of machinery to Germany. The present year shows even a falling off in tbe case of England'while the imports of American machines show an increase of 75 per cent over last year's figures. In 1895 the imports of, the United States of these goods into Germany did not amount to the sixth part of the amount of the English imports,while to-day they are equal to 60 per cent of the latter. Village Absorbed by Its Rival. The town of St. Lawrence, two miles east of Miller. S. D„ will soon be a memory. For long it has fought for supremacy with Miller and has at last yielded. It is now being moved, incredible as this may seem, to the latter city. Dwellings and barns, hotels and buildings that once made up St. Lawrence are being uprooted and transferred to sites within the corporate limits of Miller. St. Lawrence was founded in 1882 by Chicago capital, and at first had great ambitions. It wanted to be the county seat, and it yearned after some of the State institutions, but it could get none. Then it sunk an artesian ■well, but the pipes would not work, and Lawrentians claimed that Millerians had stuffed the rents up with iron bars. Pretty soon the site of the once proud city will be as barren and desolate as that of Persepolis, Troy or ancient Carthage. Diphtheria at a University. Princeton. N. J., is threatened with an epidemic of diphtheria. The first case reported was that of F. C. Goldsborough, '99, a student at the university. He was immediately transferred to the infirmary and all the members of the club were quarantined. They spent one night in the clubhouse and were bundled out of town by the faculty, three men being held as suspects.

Democrats Win in Boston. The Democrats won most of the places in the Boston municipal election. They elected their two board of apportionment candidates, the street commissioner, six cd the nine members of the school board, six of the twelve aidermen. and forty-four cf the seventy-three councilmen. The city gave a majority for license of 9,87(5, against one last year of 17,500. Cook nt Bay in the Diner. John Smith, third cook of the Northern Pacific coast train, ran amuck, assaulting Conductor McLennan and terrorizing the waiters and passengers. Smith barricaded himself in the diner, where, armed with a long meat knife, he defied arrest. Officers met the train at Fargo. N. D.. and after an hour's delay Smith was finally overpowered. Killed by Avalanche. The steamer Danube, from Lynn Canal, reports a succession of fatal accidents during the construction of the White Pass Railway, caused by an avalanche. First Officer Lawrence of the Danube, while at Skaguay, was told of six of these accidents occurring within a week, in which fifteen or twenty men had lost their lives. Soldier One of Six Killed. A passenger train on the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad was wrecked near Madison. Fla., by a collision with cattle on the track, although the engineer made every effort to stop the train. Six persons were killed. John T. Sullivan, an army attache. Engineer Chandler and four colored men. Slain by Alaska Indiana, Capt. James Nelson of the halibut sloop Carolina and Barney Phale, a fisherman, incut ashore on Kupriauoff Island, in Portage bay, Alaska, to hunt for doer. Phale never came back, and the captain tells that he was deliberately shot by Indians. Deadly Smelter Fumes. A special from Butte, Mont., snys: "Five deaths occurred in Butte which are claimed to have been caused by the dreadful sulphur and arsenic fumes from the smelters. Many people who can do so arc leaving the city to get out of the smoke." Railway Wreck in Colorado. A passenger train on the Gulf road was ditched by n broken rail about three miles south of Barleu. Col., making a bad wreck and injuring several persons. The entire train, except the locomotive, left the rails; Big Consolidation in Gas, Unless n hitch occurs all the electricity and manufactured gas for illuminating gas and heating will soon be supplied to Pittsburg and Allegheny by one concern. Firemen Fatally Crushed. Two firemen were killed and eight others injured, four of them fatally, by the collapse of n wall of a burning building In Chicago. England Muy Hold Crete. The I,ondon Daily Mail says: “We understand that the British occupation of the Island of Crete is to become permanent."

ATTACKS AN EMBASSY

WASHINGTON PRINTER THROWS BRICKS THROUGH WINDOWS. Much Damage Dorie to Sir Julian Paunccfote's Residence—Miss Pauncefote Is Injured - French company Strikes at an American "Industry. Objects to British Alliance. The Washington police have under arrest Joseph W. Pearson, a printer, 26 years of age, who on a recent night made a,violent attack on the British embassy -with bricks, which he flung into the drawing room in which members of the family of Sir Julian Pauncefote were seated. Miss Pauncefote was struck by a brick, but fortunately its force was somewhat spent and she escaped with a slightly injured ankle. Several windows were smashed and the magnificent cut glass of the main entrance doors was broken and ruined. The total damage, it is estimated, will amount to S7OO. A telephone call was made for police as soon as the first missiles -were thrown, and the servants rushed out and were engaged in a fight with Pearson when the police arrived and arrested him. He was taken to the police station, where his mother called later and said she had noticed her son had been acting strangely ever since he graduated last June from studies he had been pursuing diligently for two years past. Pearson is thought to be insane. MENACES AMERICAN INDUSTRY. French Company Wants a Prohibitive Duty on Cotton-Seed Oil. Consul Brittain at Nantes reports that an influential companj 7 has been formed in France and that strenuous efforts.will be put forth by its members to secure the passage of a measure which will place the import duty on cottonseed oil at so high a, figure that it will be practically prohibitive. The importance of this proposition lies in the fact that nearly all of this oil imported into France comes from the United States. The consunrtnation of the plan, the consul sMfrs, w 7 ould be a severe blow to American exporters. It is said to be the purpose of the French company to undertake the manufacture of cottonseed oil in France, importing the cottonseed for that purpose from Egypt, on the theory that it will then be impossible to dictate the price of oil in the United States. COLLEGE STUDENTS RIOT. Police Called to Subdue Expelled Youths at Knoxville, Tenn. A riot resulted from the refusal of several students at Knoxville College. Knoxville. Tenn., a Presbyterian school, to comply with the new order that they must march to the classes in double file order. A meeting of the faculty was called and the students notified that they must comply or leave. They decided upon the latter course and at once became boisterous and were in the act of making personal attacks on the faculty when a police detachment arrived. Concession from Mexico. The Mexican Congress has confirmed one of the largest concessions for many years. The concession was granted to Captain A. B. Smith of Los Angeles, Cal., and his associates, for colonizing, steamship and railway enterprises of the first magnitude. The colony lands include many leagues of the Gulf of California, with conditions that a railway be constructed at once from the lands to Yuma, Cal., and a steamship service be placed from the head of the gulf to the southern Mexico boundary. Death of the “ Barley King." The death of Edward Johnson occurred at Zanesville, Ohio, after a protracted illness incident to a stroke of paralysis sustained several months ago. The deceased came from Syracuse, N. Y.,. and embarked in the pearl barley and oatmeal business and shortly afterward patented a process for pearling the barley, which enabled him to control the market of the United States, and he became known as the barley king.

Millionaire's Will Being Contested. At Stillwater, Minn., an attempt is being made to break the will of Isaac Staples, who died last May, leaving an estate valued at more than $1,000,(MH). To two of his sons, who were alleged to be spendthrifts, he gave one-half his estate, and the other half was equally divided among three others, leaving the descendants of two of his daughters but a few thousand dollars each. Crushed to I'cath. Benjamin Davis, aged 38, a night roller, was killed at the Sharon. Pa., iron works. He was engaged in putting in a liner on the 12-inch mill, when his arm caught in the boxing. In an instant his body went through the small space, horribly mutilating it. His head was crushed and his neck broken. Big Department Store Burns. Fire destroyed the large department store of G. Hartstein Rons at Milwaukee, entailing a loss of SIO.(MM), of which $50.<MM) wns on building and S2O,(MM) on stock. Losses to adjoining property will make the total loss foot up in the neighborhood of SIOO,OOO, partly covered by insurance. shot by n Carthage, Mn. Man. John D. McCrellis, a retired business man. and for thirty years a lending citizen of Carthage, Mo., shot and mortally wounded W. J. Gilfiltan at the latter's home. Gilfillan is charged by McCrellis with ruining his himo. McCrellis gave himself up and was released on bond. Child Killed Herself. ’ At Paducah. Ky„ death was preferred to cold and hunger by Bessie Fisher, yet in her teens. who suicided by discharging a pistol in her tnouth. The girl had been left rflone with a fatherless babe nnd a ! little sister and brother, without food or . fuel. Destructive Fire in Kansas. '• A S7S,(MM) fire occurred at Coffeyville, I Kan,, destroying the business houses of Read Brotheis. W. M. Condon A Co,, the Leader. Slosson A Co. nnd the Jones-Bas-sett Company. Part of the loss was cov ered by insurance. HwlM President Chosen. The Swiss federal assembly has elected M. Mueller, who was vice-president for 189.'', to be president of the Swiss federation. M. Hauser of Zurich was elected vice-president. They are both radicals. ■ l»» ■■■ ■ I Cabinet Vacancy Coming. Cornelius N. Bliss of New York, Secretary of the Interior, will resign Jan. 1.

AFTER HAVANA’S CAR LINES. Canadian Syndicate Offers $1,000,000 for a Street Railway in Cuba. Toronto interests in street railways are after the franchise in Havana, and have made an offer of netf.’ly $1,500,000 for the present service in the Cuban city. William MacKenzie, president of the Toronto street railway; Frederick Nicholls, of the Canadian General Electric Light Company, and Z. Lash left for the south to perfect arrangements for taking over the line. It is claimed the Canadian syndicate outmaneuvered an American company that was after the railway iq Cuba. The same Canadian syndicate already operates street railways in Montreal, Toronto, London (Ont.). Winnipeg, Kingston, Jamaica and Birmingham (England). YEAR’S WORK OF MISSION?. Protestant Missionaries in the Field Number 11,830. Bev. E. E. Strong, D. D., editor of the Missionary Herald, has prepared a summary of world-wide Protestant ’missions for the last year. It shows that there has been a large increase iu subscriptions, coming Uhiefly from this country, where an increase of $25,000 is shown, and from Great Britain, where to the $6,471,840, regularly contributed, is added $2,089,134 expended by organizations not strictly missionary. The American board has received in contributions the last year $687,203, making a grand total of $30,405,043 received since, organization. The twelve colleges of the board have 2,483 pupils. Another Trust Formed. A combination of all the rubber concerns of Trenton. N. J., has been formed. The companies consolidated are the Empire, Globe. Hamilton. Home, Mercer and Trenton, with the United Rubber and the Whitehead company. The capital is $5,000,000, and the object is to economize to meet competition. These six companies will be operated from one office. The consolidation will throw many salesmen and clerks out of employment, but it is believed it will increase the number of operatives, which is now 1.400. to 2,000. because the organization wilt reach out for new business and will try to lead the rubber business of the country. Nearly all lines of rubber goods are manufactured by these factories excepting shoes and clothing. Sharp Trick of Russia. The Paris correspondent of the London Daily News says: “By influencing China to delay the payment of the war indemnity to Japan the Russian Government will be enabled to acquire several Japanese warships now building abroad, which Japan will be unable to pay for at the stipulated time.” Children Perish in Flames. Fire destroyed an' apartment house at 223 Union street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Thirty families were driven out in the cold and it is believed that George and Edith Griswold. young children of William Henry Griswold, perished in the flames. Loss $30.000. Alton to the Goulds. Jay Gould’s millions have secured" the Chicago and Alton Railroad, and a consolidation of all the southwestern lines owned by George Gould and the other heirs of the wizard, with the new acquisition, will be announced very soon. Endows Victoria College. At the last meeting of the board of governors of McGill University in Montreal, Lord Strathconi announced his intention of endowing the new Victoria college for women, which he built at a cost of $250,000, to the amount of $1,000,000. The Alameda Brings $3,510,000. The steamer Alameda, from Australia, brought treasure to San Francisco amounting to $3,510,000. The money is to settle in part the balance of trade between this country and England. Freak of Spanish Women. A mob of women at Grenada. Spain, considering that the discovery of America was in their opinion the principal cause of Spain’s misfortunes, stoned the statue of Columbus there. Liberal Leader Resigns, Sir William Vernon Harcourt has resigned the leadership of the British liberals owing to personal feeling against Rosebery, and a split in the party is certain. Two Children Cremated. The residence of Curl Wold, at Halstad, Minn., burned and his two children, who were alone at the time, were cremated. Calvin 8. Brice Head. Calvin S. Brice, railroad financier and former United States Senator, died from pneumonia at bis home in New York.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, 53.00 to $6.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to 53.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to (57c; corn. No. 2,34 cto 35c: oats. No. 2. 26a to 27c; rye, No. 2. 55c to 56c: butter, choice creamery, 10c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 21c to 23c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $3.75; sheep, common to choice. $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn. No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; oats. No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2. 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats. No. 2,27 cto 28c; rye. No. 2,52 cto s*lc. Cincinnati —Cattle. $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2.50 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,60 cto 70c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 28c to 30c; rye. No. 2,56 cto 58c. Detroit—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep and lambs, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2. (18c to 70e; corn. No. 2 yellow. 35e to 37c: oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 30c; rye. 54c to 53c. Toledo—Wheat. No. 2 mixed. 70c to 71c; corn. N<>. 2 mixed. 34c to 36e: oats. No. 2 xvbite, 26c to 28c; rye. No. 2. 54c to 55c; clover sts>d, $3.05 to $4.05. Mllxvaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, GGc to G7c; corn. No. 3. 31c to 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye. No. 1. 54c to 56c; barley. No. 2. 44c to 49c; i>ork, mens, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $3.75: sheep, fair to choice xveth. era. $3.50 to $4.75; Lambs, common to extra. $5.00 to $5.50, New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75: hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 77c to 79c: corn, No. 2. 41c to 45c: onts. No. 2,32 cto 33c; butter, creamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, Western, 25c to 27c.

NATIONAL SOLONS.

REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceeding* of Senate and House— Bill* Passed or Introduced in Either Branch —Questions of Moment to the Country at Large. In the Senate on Tuesday the Nicaragua Canal bill was discussed. Mr. Turpie making the principal speech in opposition, declaring it is in the interest of the Maritime Company, which he characterized as a fraud and bankrupt. He moved a postponement until after the holiday recess. Mr. Morgan defended the bill and the Maritime Company and, opposed the motion to postpone. Messrs. Berry and Rawlins both offered amendments materially affecting the bill. Mr. Morrill supported the bill authorizing the purchase of a site for a Supreme Court building. and this and several other bills were passed. In the House the District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed without a single amendment. The bill carries $6,359,950. The House also passed the Senate bill to amend the laws relating to seamen. All the amendments were rejected. On Wednesday Mr. Danford (Ohio), chairman of the Immigration Committee, tried to secure consideration of the Lodge immigration bill, but the House declined, 100 to 103, to take it up. Mr. De Arrnond (Mo.) make a speech on the decadence of the privilege of debate in the House, and held Speaker Reed responsible. The Speaker replied with a sarcastic speech, in which he referred to the complaints of John Randolph in the early days of the century to show that the same remonstrances were made then that were being heard to-day. In the Senate the Nicaraguan Canal bill held its place as the principal subject. Speeches were made by Messrs. Harris. Money, Stewart and Morgan. An agreement was reached to take a vote on the Turpie postponement motion on Thursday. Other questions before the Senate were: The government’s pension policy and the bill regarding registry of foreign built vessels wrecked on the American coast. On Thursday the House surpassed all records in the expedition with which it passed the pension appropriation bill. Usually one of the most fruitful themes of acrimonious partisan debate, it was passed in twenty minutes without criticism. although carrying $145,233,830, $4,000,000 more than the act for the current year. The House then began consideration of the bill to incorporate the International American Bank. This project was recommended by the Pan-American Congress in 1889. An agreement was effected for a vote at 3 o’clock Friday. It w r as supported in debate by Messrs. Brosius (Rep., Pa.). Adams (Rep., Pa.), Lacey (Rep., Iowa), and Walker (Rep., Mass.), and opposed by Mr. Cox (Dem., Tenn.), Jenkins (Rep.. Wis.). Driggs (Dem., N. Y.), and Bartlett (Dem., Ga.). In the Senate the urgent deficiency appropriation bill making provision for the army and navy for the next six> months displaced the Nicaragua canal bill, preventing even the taking of a vote on the question of the postponement of the latter measure until after the holidays, as had been intended. The deficiency bill was passed after a spirited discussion, turning principally on the point of keeping the volunteer soldiers in the service. The Senate adjourned until Monday. The bill to incorporate the International American Bank was buried under an overwhelming adverse majority of the House on Friday. The debate upon the measure, which opened Thursday, was concluded at 3 o’clock. Mr. Dingley, the floor leader of the majority, made an argument in its support. The other speakers on Friday were Hill of Connecticut in its support and Messrs. Bell (Pop., Colo.), Sulzer (Dem., N. Y.), Maxwell (Pop., Neb.), Maddox (Dem.. Ga.) and Swanson (Dem., Va.) in opposition. The vote by which the bill was defeated stood 103 yeas to 148 nays. The bill to extend the customs and revenue laws of the United States over the Hawaiian Islands was passed without opposition. The bill. Mr. Dingley explained, carried with it the civil service laws relating to appointments in the customs and revenue service in Hawaii. Saturday in the House was devoted to the Indian appropriation bill, which was passed substantially as reported. This is the third of the appropriation bills to pass and it clears the calendar of the big supply bills. The Senate was not in session. Monday was suspension day in the House, and several bills were passed, the most important of which was the bill appropriating $350,000 for the Philadelphia exposition of 1899. The vote was exceedingly close. It had but two votes more than the necessary two-thirds. Bills were also passed under suspension of the rules to authorize’ the distribution of the assets of the Freedmen's Bank, to enlarge the scope of the Fish Commission to include game birds, for the relief of the Fourth Mounted Arkansas Infantry and for the relief of John W. Lewis.- of Oregon. The Senate had a busy day, and there were several important speeches. Mr. Platt, of Connecticut, s|s>ke against the Vest resolution, which declares that the United States has no power to acquire territory. Mr. Proctor, of Vermont, and Mr. Hale, of Maine, exchanged divergent views upon the subject of a commission of Senators to •visit Cuba. The conference report on the urgent deficiency bill was agreed to. The Senate then took up the Nicaragua canal bill, and Mr. Berry (Ark.) speke upon his amendments to the measure. At 5:15 p. m. the Senate went into executive session and at 5:35 adjourned.

Notes of Current Events.

The Archbishop of Manila xvill be ’recalled tn Home on account of his opposition to American rule in the Philippines. Mrs. Petrulin Durham has xvon a verdict for $1(15.000 in Chicago, and says she xvill give $75,000 to the Salvation army. The steamer Culgon has sailed from Sydney. Australia, with a cargo of provisions for Admiral Dewey's fleet at Manila. The cargo consisted of 5.000 carcasses of mutton.* 250 lambs, 125 tons of potatoes. 81 tons of onions and 22 tons of carrots. A grist mill nt Watertown, Mass,,is known to have been in use ns far back ns 1635, xvhen it is believed to have been a town institution. It is now the property of the Wnltbnm Ravings Bank, and still continues to grind corn by means of theupper and nether millstones, using water as a motive |s>wer.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Many letters and telegrams are being received by Senators and members of Congress inquiring when the bodies of thq dead soldiers who lost their lives in battlq in Cuba, or as the result of disease, will be sent to their late homes. It is the intention of the War Department to bring home the body of every American soldier, including those who died of yellow fever and other contagious diseases. Hermetically sealed caskets are being contracted for and sent to Cuba as .rapidly as possible, but the bodies will not be disinterred until some time in February, when it is considered they can be brought here with perfect safety. The bodies of the soldiers having relatives will be turned over to them, but in instances where there are none the body will be interred at Arlington, the national cemetery, a few miles> west of Washington, and the graves will be appropriately marked. . ’ •- The Morgan bill for the construction of the Nicaragua canal is a measure which will be pushed through Congress this ses sion if it can be done. It provides for $100,000,000 backing for the enterprise. This amount will be paid for the stock of a canal company, the subscription being taken at par. The Government will retain $i0,000,000 of the stock, the remainder being distributed to the Central American governments and to the Maritime Canal Company to reimburse it for money it has actually expended for prosecution of jvork on the canal. The Government will, therefore, be the’ controlling stockholder in the corporation. It will escapethe technical responsibility of direct construction, while the terms of the concession, which stipulate that its right and privileges shall not be transferred to a Government or nation, will not be violated. The funeral of Gen. Garcia was an imposing pageant. Among the participants were high officers of the Government, both civil and military, and the ministering clergymen were eminent prelates of the Catholic Church, Archbishop Ireland, Bishop O’Gorman of the diocese of Dakota and others. The I’resident was represented at the funeral. Mrs. McKinley sent a floral tribute; a military escort was provided by the Secretary of War, and every possible evidence of respe’dt and demonstration of honor was made by the United States to the hero of the Cuban revolution. The remains will be sent to Cuba on a man-of-war, with full military honors, to impress the Cubans and the Spaniards with the respect and confidence which the United States Government felt for Gen. Garcia. . If there is any one question which is* asked more than any other in Washington, it is, “What hour does the legislative day of March 3 end?” This question is propounded because the life of a Congress expires at that hour once every two years. That question was settled forty-seven years ago, and this was the Way it happened: March 3, 1851, at midnight, Senator Mason of Virginia, whose term expired that day and whose credentials for another term were on file, asked to have the oath administered to him, upon the ground that'his right to sit under his old credentials expired at that hour. The Senate refused to allow his request and byresolution declared that the session did not expire until 12 o’clock meridian the 4th. The Vice-President says he is a direct gainer financially by the late war and the reason he gives is a decidedly novel one. From his coming to Washington up to the outbreak of the war an average of 100 babies a month were named after him, or at least their fond parents so informed! him by letter. In this particular direction, his value has fallen off considerably, for the youngsters nowadays whose parents, want to start them off under the halo of somebody else’s name are christened Dewey, Schley, Roosevelt, Hobson and all the rest of the recent heroes of land and «ea. A little girl who had to leave the Senategallery the other day cried bitterly. After the big doors were closed the guardian of the stat-chamber secrets asked her why she was so opposed to leaving. “Because,” she stammered between sobs, “because Christmas is coming and Santa Claus was in there, and I wanted him tosee me.” She had been looking at Senator Stewart of Nevada. Veterans of the civil war enter complaint that the army bill which is being framed in the House discriminates Against them. They grumble loudest at the age limitations fixed in the bill ami grow indignant when they talk about the disposition on the part of the new generation of Congressmen to crowd the old heroes into the background to make way for, younger men. Senator Proctor introduced a resolution, providing for the appointment of a select committee, to consist of five Senators, which will visit the West Indies at the expens** of the Government to inquire into the military requirements, and another junketing party is in prospect which will in all probability spend the winter months' in Cuba and Porto Rico. The most appropriate way to celebratethe capital centennial would be to- erect a new residence for the President, for theWhite House is now so er >wded that eleven clerks and typewriters are engaged in a single room, and when a slate dinner* is served the tables have to be spread in a main corridor. An interesting ceremony occurred in the White Rouse in the presentation to President McKinley for deposit in the National Museum of the flag of the United State* frigate Bon Homme Richard. The presentation was made by Mrs. Harriet R, P. Stafford of Cottage City, Mass. There are symptoms of a long debate in the Senate, the general topic to be expansion am! constitutional limitations, concerning colonies. The only good res suit of such debates is to educate the country, because they never change any vote* in th* SvuaU*.