Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1901 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. £ OEO. B. MARSHALL, Publisher, ftf NBSELAEff, - - INDIANA.

TRADE LIVENING UP.

- ‘-T' 4 * iSE* v ' " ;: >gsr ftJfriLL RATHER ON BETWEENm K SEASONS ORDER. |l, Ipron and Steel, Leather, Urns and Jl || Lumber Trades Make Heat Reports E-lUaLtt in Wool Noted—Girls Shot by , I a Jilted Lover. K E|Bradstreet’s weekly review of trade I pftayst ’’Business is still of a betweeniseai HP' character in most lines, but a liven- £ &l»g up of interest in several trades has 5 BBeen' noted. Relatively best reports come lf‘Mßlrom the iron and steel, lumber, leather i £ and drug trades, but there has been some $ Enlargement of wholesale distributive | Krade on spring account in the South aud | HHentTal West. Some gain in wool sales is I at Eastern markets, but weather | have not been favorable at the Bfeast to business as a whole. Summed * BlP* briefly, the situation is one of w:deconfidence in the general business isoutlook. Cereals have given a further of life, partly on light NorfihIfcwest receipts and advices that Argentine Bgplppaents will not exceed 36,000,000 ' bushels, or about half those of a year K but also largely on the unquestion* R;tbly heavier volume of Wall street money ffedseeking an outlet in the grain market. lljpPheat, including flour, shipments for the ■ 'week aggregate 5,901.093 bushels, § against 3,914-,301 last week, and 4,248,- | 920 in the corresponding week of 1900. B* Corn exports aggregate 4,897,345 bushels, against 4,470,521 last week, and 3,I 614,576 a year ago.” JILTED LOVER SHOOTS TWO. Tonag Woman and Her Sister Botb Probably Fatally Wounded. I Amelia and Tillie Bergman, aged 24 and 17 respectively, were the victims of a murderous assault made upon them at their home in Galena, 111., by George ■ Durerstein, an unsuccessful suitor for the 1 baud of Miss Amelia. Durerstein accompanied the girls from their place of business and when they arrived home, a I quarrel ensued, Durerstein shooting both girls, probably fatally. A ball from a I 32-caliber lodged in the neck of one of jr the girls and the second shot entered the body of the other victim. The shooting I was witnessed by the girls’mother. The latter, assisted by neighbors, carried her daughters into the house. Immediately after the shooting Durerstein escaped into the alley. He was pursued by a mob, which he held back by firing. Durerstein resides at Scales Mound. He is 22 years of age. POLICE SAVE NEGRO’S LIFE. A Leavenworth Mob Prevented from Lynching Woman’s Assailant. Fred Alexander, a colored man, charged with attacking a young white woman on the street, was saved from being lynched by an infuriated mob at Leavcuj» worth, Kan., by the prompt action of the police in removing him from the station. While Miss Eva Roth; employed in a store, was on her way home to supper she was seized by Alexander on South Broadway, the fashionable residence street. Miss Roth managed to scream for help and her cry was heard by Prof. Evans of the high school, who ran to her assistance. The negro fled, but was soon after captured by the police. A mob quickly gathered and searched the station and jail, but failed to find the prisoner. The police, anticipating an attempt at violence, had removed Alexander in a hack to the State penitentiary at Lansing. Gypsy Princess an Eloper. Posey Harrison, the 17-year-old daughter of Nailor Harrison, the gypsy king, and heiress to the queenship of the united tribes in the United States, is missing from her father’s home near Madison, N. J., and her father believes she went with and was married to her cousin, Morris Harrison. Bind a Family and Rob a Safe. Five masked burglars robbed the farm house of Henry Stroker, near Versailles, Ohio, of SBSO. Mr. and Mrs. Stroker and their son, Grant, were bound and gagged till they told where the safe was in which the money was kept. Besides the money the robbers stole jewelry and horses and then escaped. Thirteen la Fatal Again. Jacob Cole, a wealthy real estate dealer and an old-time resident of Fordbam, N. Y., died at the Fordham hospital just thirteen hours after he had been stricken while playing a game of pinochle at the Boosevelt Club. There fell to bis band the “suit of death.” Fatal Theater Panic. Five persons were killed and scores injured in a panic following a cry of “Fire” in the West Twelfth Street Turner ilnll, in Chicago. A Yiddish play was in progress and an audience of 1,000 persons, mostly women and children, was present. Falls Fifty Feet Coasting. < Jamie Cratz, 6 years old, coasted over the brow rf>f the west bluffs at Tenth street, near the tlnion depot in Kansas City, and went down a sheer fifty feet before striking. He sustained a fracture of the skull, but may recover. Boon for Southern Farms. Oaptaifi John C. Brain of Mobile, Ala., is the promoter for a New York project I, to build a fertilizer works in Chattanooga. The works wall cost $1,000,000. will be used as a basis of the fer-

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

DRIVES KNIFE INTO FOE’S HEAD. Farmers Engage in a Desperate Fight Over a Long-Standing Grudge. The removal of a rusty knife blade 1% inches long from the brain of Fred Foine, a prominent Henry County farmer, has brought to light one of the fiercest duels ever fought in Northwestern Ohio. Two years ago Fred Foine and his neighbor, Henry Schroeder, were the best of friends, till a quarrel occurred over the use of another neighbor’s cornplanter. A few days ago Foine left for his home in a buggy, and, knowing that his Old enemy would pass that way, secured a rock and secreted himself. Soon Schroeder came along on his horse and was hurled to the ground by a blow on the head from a rock. Foine viciously jumped on his victim, biting and striking him with the rock. Too weak from his fall to ward off his assailant, Schroeder drew an old, rusty pocket-knife and stabbed Foine in the head and face. Schroeder escaped by crawling in the darkness to a near farmhouse. Foine went home, but the next day, from exposure and his undressed wounds, became violently ill. A few days ago the wound was opened. A magnet was applied and resulted in the extraction of the rusty knife blade. Foine, though in a critical condition, may recover. Schroq,der has sold his farm and will leave the country.

SLAIN BY HIS BRIDE. Mrs. Philip H. Kennedy of Kansas City Shoots Her Husband. Philip H. Kennedy, agent for the Merchants’ Dispatch Transfer Company, was shot and killed in his office in the New Ridge building in Kansas City by his wife, who was Lulu K. Prince. The woman fired four bullets into her victim, and then, as he lay gasping and dying, she sprang upon him and ground both heels into his face. Mrs. Kennedy was at once arrested. Kennedy and Miss Prince were married Dec. 4 last at the court house, Judge Gibson performing the ceremony. The father and one of the bride’s brothers constituted the wedding guests. A few days ago Kennedy brought suit to have the marriage annulled on the ground of coercion. In his petition Kennedy declared he had not lived with his -wife as her husband and only married her then because of threats by the father and brother that if he didn’t they would kill him.

MURDER IN ZANESVILLE. Mrs. Vina Grady Is Found Dead —Negro Barber in Custody. Mrs. Vina Grady, white, and a member of a prominent family, was brutally murdered in the front room of her home in Fountain alley, Zanesville, Ohio. Adrian Mndison, r colored harher, known to be infatuated with the woman and who was seen by her children to leave the house with his clothing covered with blood, is in custody, charged with the crime. The woman’s skull was crushed with a blnnt instrument, but the doctors who held the post-mortem examination give it as an opinion that the woman was choked to death. Madison insists that the woman was well when he left the house and claims the blood on his clothing came from the nose. Militnry Court’s Report. Oscar L. Booz of Pennsylvania was hazed while a cadet at the West Point military academy, but his death was caused by tuberculosis and the hazing was not responsible for the deed. There is no foundation either for the allegation that Cadet John Breth’s death was due to hazing. Such is the finding of the military court of inquiry, which investigated the charges made by the parents of the two boys. Biennial Election Law Void. Judge A. R. Dewey of the sixth judicial district of lowa ruled to set aside the Titus amendment relating to biennial State elections, on the ground that it was not legally submitted to the Legislature, and was not legally adopted, and is now no part of the constitution of lowa. Much Smallpox in Kansas. Dr. W. B. Swan of the Kansas Board of Health reports 267 cases of smallpox in the State. "The type of the disease is more severe than it was last winter,” the doctor says, "and I think there will be a' considerably larger number of fatalities.” Boy Shoots His Bister. While William Chichester and his wife, who reside down the river from Marietta, were absent trading, Thomas, a 9-year-old son, emptied both barrels of a double-barreled shotgun into his sister Florence, aged 14, killing her instantly. Child Kills His Mother. “I am going to shoot you, mamma,” playfully said the 6-year-old son of Mrs. John W. Pennington, residing near Graham, Ga. The report of a pistol was heard and the,mother fell to the floor imortally wounded. Vessel Is Burned in Dock. Fire destroyed the harbor excursion steamer Idlewild, which was tied up for the winter at Bairds’ dock, Erie basin, Brooklyn, N. Y. The flames spread to the dock. The loss is heavy. Children Burn to Death. At least a score of children are dead as the result of a fire that destroyed the hospital section of the Rochester, N. Y., Orphan Asylum. i Canteen Is No More. By the decisive vote of 34 to 15 the United States Senate abolished the army canteen. , Lind Assaults an Editor. Ex-Gov. Lind of Minnesota assaulted Mauaging Editor Henry T. Black of the St. Puul Dispatch. Senator Chandler Defeated. New Hampshire Republicans threw •ver Senator William E. Chandler and •elected Henry B. Burnham.

.MARKET QUOTATIONS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.95; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.40; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 78c; corn, No. 2,36 cto 37c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,47 cto 48c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 21c; potatoes, 44c to 49c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.60; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 77c; corn, - No. 2 white, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 26c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, No. 2, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2,24 cto 25c; rye, No. 2,49 eto 50c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.00 to $4.85; hogs, $3.00 to $5.30; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 81c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 3Se to 39c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 55c. Detroit —Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $5.05; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2,80 cto 81c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 39c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 52c to 53c. Toledo —Wheat, No, 2 mixed, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2,52 c to 53e; clover seed, prime, $6.00 to $6.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 3,35 cto 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 1,53 c to 54c; barley, No. 2,60 cto 61c; pork, mess, to $14.95.. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.20. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.40; hogs, $3.00 to $5.65; sheep, $3.00 to $4.45; wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to<80c; corn. No. 2, 45c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 23c to 24c; eggs, western, 24c.

CAVE-IN ENTOMBS SIXTY MEN. All Save Themselves by Crawling in Darkness Nearly a Mile. A landslide or Cave-in occurred at Santiago mine, some six mfles from Moberly; Mo., entombing sixty men. The main entrance to the mine, which is on the tunnel plan, was completely stopped. The mine was enveloped in total darkness, and the entombed miners had to crawl and feel their way to a small entrance, or air tunnel, nearly a mile from the main entrance, where the cave-in occurred. No one was seriously hurt.

FOUND DEAD BY TRACK. Young Man’s Body Shows Tnjnries Which Excites Suspicion. Arthur Storm, a young man of the south part of Shelby County, Ind., is dead under peculiar circumstances. A few days ago he left home intending to take a train on the Clover Leaf railroad. A few hours later he was found wandering unconscious near the track with a fractured skull aud otherwise injured. He died a few days later without regaining consciousness. The cause of his injuries has not developed. FATALLY SHOT BY ROBBERS. Farmer Held Up by Three Masked Desperadoes Near Portsmouth, Ohio. James Rose, a prominent farmer near Portsmouth, Ohio, was shot and fatally wounded by three masked robbers. He was aroused and went to his door, revolver in hand, when he was set upon by the robbers and a desperate fight ensued. He was shot in the face and his death is expected as a result. He is positive that he killed one of the trio, but no traces of the body have been found. Many Die in Fight. Gen. Kitchener sends news of a serious simultaneous attack by the Boers on the British positions between points sixty miles apart, along the lines of the Pretoria and Lourenzo Marquez railway. The losses on both sides were heavy. According to reports the Boers were beaten off after prolonged fighting.

Finds Valuable Will in Cellar. Impressed by alleged spiritual manifestations, Dr. C. Townsend of Madison, Ind., took a lamp and explored his cellar, uncovering a will made twenty years ago by his deceased wife giving him the bulk of valuable property which went to his children in the absence of a will. It is a court sepsation.

V Find a Priest Dead and Robbed. Rev. Charles Paul Riegel, rector of the Roman Catholic Church of the Presentation, of Cheltenham, was found dead In the hallway of a furnished-room house at Philadelphia. His clothes had been rifled of everything of value, including a gold watch and chain and his money. Caleb G. Jesse Pardoned. Caleb G. Jesse. • convicted last February of shooting and killing Frank Griffin, editor of Griffin’s Marysville, Mo., Review, and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, has been pardoned by Gov. Stephens.

In Prison on False Charge. ■, Peter Santos, a Greek candy merchant at Huntington, pKy., supposed to have been murdered by his partner, George Polltz, has turned up nlive at Columbia, S. C. Polltz is serving a ten-year sentence for the murder of Santos. Bank Employe Is Missing. Harry K. Deer, messenger and assistant bookkeeper of the Farmers and Mechanics’ Bank of Simrpsburg, Pa., is missing. It is alleged that his accounts are short. Joint Note Signed in Pekin. An official report current in diplomatic circles in Pbkin says that the Chinese plenipotentiaries have signed the joint note, thus concluding the preliminary •tags of the negotiations.

ALFED PACKER IS PAROLED. Release of Famous Colorado Prisoner Final Act of Gov. Thomas. The last official act of Charles S. Thomas, who retired as Governor of Colorado, was to grant a parole to Alfred Packer. The release of the famous prisoner was the result of efforts urged in his behalf for two years. Packer has been in prison over seventeen years. He was sentenced to a 40-year term in 1883. A special writer, who conducted the campaign in favor of the prisoner’s release, took the executive order granting Packer his liberty to the penitentiary. The attempted assassination of H. H. Tammen and F. G. Bonfils of the Denver Post by W. W. Anderson, a lawyer, about a year ago, resulted from the agitation of Packer’s case. Packer’s alleged crime was the murder of a party of five prospectors in the wilds of Colorado. He admitted that he killed one of the men, who, he said, was insane and had assaulted him after murdering the other four with a hatchet. Packer was 100 miles from civilization-at the time Und was compelled, he said, to eat the flesh of the murdered man to keep himself from starving. ZEAL OVERCOME BY LOVE. Edward J. Oncken cf St. Louis Re* nonnees Priesthood to Marry. Love caused Edward J. Oncken of St. Louis to become converted. Then religious zeal scored a point on love and the young man, being convinced that he was called to the priesthood, applied for admission to the seminary of the Redemptorist Order at Windsor Springs, Mo. He was admitted, and at once took up his studies preparatory to taking holy orders. After remaining in the seminary one year he returned home on a visit and saw his old sweetheart, Miss Emily Doyon. Then ensued a struggle in the young man’s heart between love and religious zeal. Love eventually triumphed. He returned to the seminary, where Miss Doyon visited him in a few weeks. Then the struggle ended. The young man renounced the priesthood, not having taken any vows. He returned to St. Louis and secured employment as bookkeeper and cashier, of a wholesale grocery house. The other morning he was married to the girl who first converted him to the Roman Catholic faith, then won him from the priesthood.

BLAZE IN INDIANA TOWN. Entire Block of Business Houses Bnrned at Syracuse. The Town of Syracuse, Ind., suffered loss by fire of an entire block of business buildings. The loss is estimated between $25,000 and $30,000, with but $5,000 insurance. The principal losers are: Weyrick & Hinderer, dry goods; S. L. Kctring, brick building; F. L. Hocb, drugs; H. E. Sloan, restaurant; C. H. Conrad, grocery; Miller & Lehman, notions; Mrs. M. A. Benner, millinery, and Dr. B. F. Hoy, office building and fixtures. Syracuse has no protection against fire. A bucket brigade worked six hours to keep the Humes from spreading. LAW TO PUNISH WHITECAPS. South Dakota Juries Convict Such Offenders of “Burglary.” “Burglars” is the definition given “White Cappers” by a jury in the State Circuit Court of Kingsbury County, S. D., and four men convicted under this definition have been sentenced to terms of. ten years each in the Sioux Falls penitentiary because they went to the home of a neighbor and applied to him the genuine "White Cap” punishment. The man •who was thus treated was Nels Sands, a farmer living in Kingsbury County. Girl Student Killed by Negro. Eliza Newkirk, a student at Vorliies Business College, Indianapolis, was shot and killed by Morris Jones, a negro who had been employed as janitor in the college building. The negro then killed himself. Miss Newkirk is said to have been a member of a prominent family in Eriendsville, 111. It is believed the negro killed her in revenge when he was discharged from the college. Insane Man Would Enlist. Arthur Humbert, son of a millionaire New York merchant, was brought to the Bloomingdale asylum from Alaska. He -is said to be insane over the army. When taken into custody he was endeavoring to enlist in the United States army at a post near Seattle. Editor Wright Kills Himself. W. Horace Wright, journalist, lawyer and leader among the forces of the Royalist party in. Hawaii, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid, jle was found dead one morning in his editorial chair in the office of the Independent, of which he was associate editor. Treasure Reveal-d by Dream. Mrs. Rachel A. Moores, a wealthy woman of Texarkana, bus just found $2,800 in gold which was buried by her husband, Col. David N. Moores, in 1860, on his plantation near there. Mrs. Moores says she located the treasure through a dream. Six Kilted in a Wreck. An engine running light struck a freight train on the Mouongaliela River division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Anderson, W. Va., and the collision resulted in the death of sir men and the serious injury of two others. Southern Russia Snowe 1 Up. Dozens of trains are snowed up on the southern railways of Russia, and some are completely buried. Tc« thousand laborers were dispatched to clear the tracks. Several Russian steamers are missing. _____ Family Burned to Death. t An entire family of five persons lost their lives in a fire in Model Town, near Niagara Falls, N. Y. It included Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Taylor and their three children. 1. 3 and 5 years old, resoectively.

NOTE SIGNED AT LAST.

Joint Agreement of Power* Acceded To by Chinese Empress. The final step in the peace negotiations in China was taken Sunday at Pekin, when Earl Li-Hung-Chang signed the joint note of the powers, affixing his signature below that of Prince Ching, who signed Saturday, and , thus' rendering China a party to the terms of the treaty comprised in the note. It is feared that the aged Chinese statesman will never recover from the illness which is now attacking him and t;his is now found to be Bright’s disease. Earl Li signed the document while in bed. The instructions to Li-Hung-Chang and Prince Ching to sign the preliminary note of the powers came in the shape of a telegraphic edict, which was practically a duplicate of the first edict re-

KARL LI-HUNG-CHANO.

ceived some time ago, ordering the Chinese peace commissioners to attach their signatures to the note, but which the Dowager Empriss sought to rendei r void by another edict, ordering her representatives to withhold their signatures. Upon the receipt of these instructions Prince Ching asked the Japanese, who are guarding the imperial city, for permission to enter the palace there for the purpose of obtaining the seal. The permission was granted. The commissioners later signed the notes of the several ministers. The Chinese commissioners have, learned that Viceroy Chang Chib Tung, who caused all the trouble that resulted in the Dowager Empress’ forbidding the signing of the note, has changed his mind about the advice he gave the Empress.

PRINCE CHING.

This change was brought about by his reading the telegrams sent by Li-Hung-Chang and Prince Ching to the Dowager Empress in reply to the edict forbidding them to sign. All messages between Singaa-Fu, the seat of the court, pass through Hankow, the official residence of Chang Chili Tung. He sanr copies of these dispatches, and then realized that he hail made a mistake which might possibly result in punishment for himself for badly advising the throne, which is a serious crime in China.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

New York—No new features of any importance have come into the general business situation during the week. Trade interests continue to hold their own, which is about all they can bo reasonably expected to do at this season of the year. Merchants and manufacturers are looking forward with the utmost confidence to another large movement of trade as soon as the spring season opens. Meantime the demnnd is about equal to the production and prices as a rule are holding firm. Wall street continues to discount the expected improvement in general business during the coming year. Chicago—Considerable business was done the past week in the wheat market, and at one time it looked as if prices would have considerable advance; but the net result up to Friday afternoon was a decline of insignificant amount. The general situation includes the presence in the market of some wealthy Wall street operators who think current, prices too low. .aud that it only requires the absorption of a good-sized line of May wheat to make those who have sold it short buy it back at considerably higher than recently prevailing prices. From the standpoint of the regular wheat speculator It is impossible to advance prices’ materially while visible stocks remain as heavy as they are. and-ireceipts in the West are so large that there is no probability of any material lessening of the visible rtipply so long as they keep up their current volume. Business in com was of average amount or more, but ns was the case with wheat, the net change in price was insignificantly small. A large business was done in the speculative branch of the provision trade, with prices on the whole well maintained.

John Craig, of Covington, Ky., a mere lad. become so much addicted to cigarettes that he would steal other goods, sell them and invest the proceeds in his favorite Hmokers. 1 He would smoke from forty to fifty cigarettes a day. Beet sugar is a success on a limited scale. The output last year was vulued at $250,000. About 5,000 acres are iu cultivation. Scranton. Fa., street car strike was declared off. Men get an advance of 3 cents an hour.

Congress.

The Senate devoted Saturday to the army reorganization bill, adopting,all the committee amendments to which there was no objection. Mr. Pettigrew adopted filibustering tactics to delay legislation. In the House debate upon the reapportionment biil occupied the entire session. The Senate devoted Tuesday to debate on the army reorganization bill, killing by a vote of 43 to 5 the provision for a veterinary corps. In the House debate upon she reapportionment bill occupied the day.

In the Senate Tuesday was occupied by discussion of committee amendment restoring canteen provision in army reorganization bill. Amednment supported by Messrs. Sewell, Hawley, Money and Carter and opposed by Messrs. Gallinger and Hansbrough. The arguments on each side were along the customary lines, opponents of the amendment asserting the conteen led to drunkenness, immorality and consequent lack of discipline, while its advocates declared the post exchange promoted discipline and good order in the army, as well as reduced drunkenness to a minimum. The House by vote of 165 to 102 passed Burleigh reapportionment bill, which increases House membership from 357 to 386. The Senate on Wednesday, by a vote of 34 to 15, concurred jn House provision in army reorganization bill abolishing the army canteen. Referred House reapportionment bill to committee on census. The House devoted the day to consideration of river and harbor bill, but made little progress. The assaults upon the river and harbor appropriation bill, which were begun the previous day in the House in a speech delivered by Representative Corliss of Michigan, were continued with vindictive emphasis Thursday afternoon. Representatives Grosvenor, Hepburn and Cushman were the principal members who spoke in opposition. Mr. Hill of Connecticut announced the death of Representative Frank G. Clarke of New Hampshire and at 4 o’clock the House adjourned. Considerable progress was made by the Senate with the army reorganization bill, but the final vote upon the measure seemed to be still far off. An appeal was presented by Mr. Teller of Colorado from more than 2,000 persons in Manila urging the United States government to cease its operations against the Filipinos. The appeal is sensational in its statements and so, unusual in form that Mr. Hawley of Connecticut made a vigorous objection to its publication as a document.

The Burleigh reapportionment bill will probably become a law within ten days. The Senate committee on census reported the measure favorably without a dissenting vote and the Senate late Friday afternoon passed the bill as it came from the House. A House of Representatives of 386 members, twenty-nine more than there are iu the House at present, is the meaning of the reapportionment measure. Not since the Fifty-first Congress has the House passed as many private pension bills at a single sitting as it did Friday. In all 170 special pension bills were passed at the session. The most important was one to increase the pension of Gen. Americus V. Rice from $36 to SIOO. Gen. Rice was wounded several times during the Civil War and lost a leg at Vicksburg. He was formerly a member of Congress from Ohio and was the author of the arrearages of pension act. The Senate had passed a bill to increase his pension to S6O and the House raised the amount to SIOO. Representative Loud of California, from the postaffice committee, reported to the House a hill revising and codifying the postal laws. No radical changes in existing laws are proposed in the bill. The Senate bill relating to the accounts of United States marshals and clerks of the district courts of Utah was passed. The Senate devoted Saturday to eulogies of the late Senator Davis of’Minnesota. In the House the river and harbor bill again occupied nearly all the session.

Odds and Ends.

Northern capital is used to a considerable extent in developing Southern industries. Over five-sixths of the silk manufactured in Turkey is exported to Western Europe. The banks in the Indian Territory have to keep a cashier who can speak the Indian language. The Province of Manitoba, almost the same size as Great Britain and Ireland, has only 210,000 inhabitants. Theye are lk',ooo islands between Madagascar and India. So far us known at present only 000 of them are inhabited. Jenner’s famous discovery that persons who contracted cowpox while engaged in milking never had smallpox, dates from 170 G, The Philippines a,re known to possess over 400 species of trees, aud a more careful survey will bring the number nearly to 300. Sugar City, Colo., is seven months old, and has a population of 2,000. A new sugur refinery costing SBOO,OOO has just been ppened. A high wind at Cumberland, Md., a flock of wild turkeys into the streets, and quite a number of the stragglers were captured. A curious criminal law exists in Greece. A man w r ho is there sentenced to death waits two years before the execution of the sentence. A man who has just died in East London retired some years ugo on a modest competence acquired by selling hot water at 1 cent a quart. The New York Journal says there are five millionaires in New York who should pay taxes on $234,000,000. The amount they now pay on is $5,850,000,' ‘ " John D. Rockefeller, Jr., son of the Standard Oil magnate, has subscribed $250,000 for the founding of a New York institution for learning for poor boys and girls. Robert Wilcox, delegate to the House of Representatives from Huwaii, has received SI,OOO mileage, the largest mileage claim ever paid to a member of that body. A woman in Fort Hamilton, N. Y., has filed a petition praying the conrt to enjoin her son from courting a certain young woman who lives in a near-by town.