Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1901 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN QEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher RENSSELAER, iNDiAN

FIND BODY IN CREEK.

PRETENDED KIDNAPERS DEMAND SI,OOO FOR CORPSE. Clever Scheme la Exposed and Balked by Natural Coarse of Events—Trade i Advices as Reported by Bradstrect's Are Rather More Cheerful. The dead body of William Stelp of Johns & Stelp, hardware merchants, who mysteriously disappeared on Jan. 31 last, was found in a creek in an outlying portion of Kansas City. Stelp had taken his life with a revolver, which he still clutched in his hand. About the same hour the body was found a relative of Mrs. Stelp handed Chief of Police Hayea a letter, received by the woman, iu which the writer offered to return Stelp ou the payment of 51,000, which was to be left at a point designated. The letter demanded that the money be sent at 7 o’clock of the evening after the body was found, and closed: “If this money*is not paid within this time your husband will suffer immediately.” Stelp, who had served as a juror on a murder case, worried himself insane over the verdict rendered, and wandered away. The alleged “kidnapers” are beliejred to have taken advantage of his disappearance to ply their game. FARMERS' DAUGHTER KIDNAPED. Minnie Hultz Is Spirited Away by a Former Employe of Her Father. The 14-year-old daughter of James Hultz was kidnaped at Center Church, nine miles east of Marion, Ind. The girl went to the church in company with her sister, Ada, who is 18 old. After the service Miss Ada was accompanied home by a gentleman friend and Minnie was left iu company with some neighbors. Minnie was approached by John Marlow of Marion, and it is said she was placed in a buggy by him and they disappeared. The absence of Minnie was not discovered until the next morning. A search was commenced at once. James Hnltz is 4 wealthy farmer worth SIOO,000, and it is thought the daughter was taken for a ransom. Marlow came to their home in October and applied for a position and was given work on the farm. Because of his attentions to Minnie Marlow he was discharged after working five days.

CHEERFUL BUSINESS KEFO^TS. Retail Trade Enlarged by Wintry Weather —Spring Demand Opening. Bradstreet's commercial report says: “Trade advices are rather more cheerful. This applies as much to current retail bdsiness, which has been enlarged by •wintry weather, as it does to opening spring trade, which finds stimulation in the general confidence felt as to the outlook for the coming year. Prices show exceptional strength, all things considered, the one weak spot being raw cotton, which shares the rather unsatisfactory tone manifested by the cotton goods and yarn markets. Foreign demand for our breadstuffs has been rather better and this is reflected in heavy exports, particularly of corn. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 4,814,878 bushels, against 4,997,813 last week. From July 1 to date this season wheat exports are 125,790,374, against 126,856,301 last season.” Forty Men in a Bnrning Mine. Forty miners were imprisoned for four hours in a burning mine at Lindentree, Ohio. The fire was started by the explosion of a barrel of gasoline. For four hours the forty men carried water in their tin buckets and threw it upon the flames. In the meantime a rescuing party had befcn organized in the village and fought the flames from the outside. None of the imprisoned miners was injured. Fonr-State Bank Syndicate, Preliminary steps have been taken for the organization of a large country bankers’ association. 1 Over thirty bankers from Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois are interested in the plan, none of whom represented a bank of less than $1,000,000 capital, the aggregate capital represented at the meeting being between $50,000,000 and $75,000,000.

Ohio Bank Robber* Sentenced. John Day, Robert M. Haley and James Fitzgerald, the Shanesville bank robbers, were sentenced by Judge Shotwell at Canal Dover, Ohio. The first-named got nine years and the other two ten years in ’the penitentiary. Day pleaded guilty. Russian Tariff Is Increased. The State Department has been informed officially that the Russian government had imposed the discriminating duty amounting to about 50 per cent additional on American manufactures of iron and steel. Hart in a Car at''"Pittsbure:. Car No. 25 on the Hamilton avenue division of the Consolidated Traction Company in Pittsburg jumped the track and toppled over ugpinst the curb, wrecking the car and injuring twenty or more passengers, four seriously. , Held for Killing Spouse. Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy, who shot her husband, Philip H. Kennedy, in Kansas City on Jan. 10, has been indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first decree. Hero Raves Three. Michael McQuaid, a young man from Bangor, Me., made a brave rescue of a woman and her two children from a tenement hohse fire in New York. § Ac'resa Edith Talbot Shot. Jmliss Edith Talbot of the Bowdoin Square Theater stock company was shot and seriously wounded ns she was leaving the stage entrance of the theater in Boston, after the performance, by a man Who made good his escape. There is no 4dew to his identity. 'mL Three Ivllled f hree Hurt. News has been received of an explosion 0t dynamite at Patterson Creek, Md. Two unknown Italians and a man named ‘?ohn Boarder were blown to atoms. igNpce others were seriously injured.

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new pacific cable scheme. Germany and Netherlands Planning to Lay Several Lines. Information to the effect that Germany and the Netherlands are planning to lay a new cable to connect with the Dutch East Indies and make them independent of the British cable syndicate has been transmitted to the State Department at Washington by Consul General Guenther at Frankfort, Germany. It is proposed to have the main line go to Shanghai, with branch cables from there north to Kiao Chou, east to Japan and America, and south to the Indian archipelago. The southern line will have its first station oti the Bismarck and Caroline Islands, and from there will go west in a roundabout way through the Dutch dominions to the North Natuua Islands, without touching, any of the British possessions. The North Natuna Islands will form the terminus of the line. The Netherlands’ share of the construction will consist of three cables: From the Natuna Islands to Poutt Pontianac, Billiton. Banka and Palembnng, in connection with the land line, which will traverse the country by way of Ivalianda through the Snnda Straits to Batavia; from Palembang direct to Batavia, and from Macassar to Ambon. Here Germany will continue the cable to German New Guinea to connect with the main line. HITS NOTED PRIZE FIGHTER. Oae-Legge.l Hack Driver Asssiiilts Robert Fitzs: nmions. C. A. Sweet, a hack driver with a wooden leg, punched the nose of, Robert Fitzsimmons, the prize fighter and actor, at Painesville, Ohio. Fitzsimmons wa,s about to leave the place a one-night stand of “The Honest Blacksmith.” Sweet had driven him to the station and they quarreled there over the fare. Sweet demanded 50 cents. Fitzsimmons thought the charge exorbitant. “You peg-leg lobster,” he said, “do you think you can play me for a sucker?” Fitzsimmons thought 25 cents enough. There was more talk and they compromised on 35 cents. Sweet pocketed the money and climbed back on to his hack. As he did so he characterized Fitzsimmons in terms that were not complimentary. Fitzsimmons made a grab for Sweet's leg. Sweet turned, swung his fist on the lanky fighter's nose and lashed his horses into a run. Fitz jumped up and down in rage. His train whistled around the curve and the hack vanished down the street.

SHOOTS HER FORMER HUSBAND. Chicago Woman Tries to Kill Man from Whom She Was Divorce 1, Mrs, Ella Seely shot and wounded her former husband, W. A. Seely, chief buyer for Swift's Packing Company, at his residence in Kansas City. The wound is not serious, although the ball passed through Seely’s arm. Mrs. Seely wore a beard and a cap and was otherwise disguised as a man when she was admitted to the Seely residence by Mr. Seely’s present wife. Seely, with the assistance of his wife, succeeded in overpowering the woman. Mrs. Seely was arrested. Mr. Seely and Mrs. Ella Seely were divorced, about ten years ago. Since then Mrs. Seely has spent much of the time in Chicago. She is about 55 years of age. Shot in Gnmbling Hons-. Philip D. Ivillam, 33 years old, was shot and probably fatally wounded in a gambling house in Denver kept by James Marshall and “Hub” Heatley. Killarn gasped "Jim Marshall shot me,” and became unconscious. A force of special officers had been sent by the owner of the premises to oust Marshall and Heatley, who were in arrears for rent. Ivillam was an officer. Collision on the Pennsylvania. Fireman Glenn was instantly killed and Engineer Thompson and Brakeman Smitely were seriously injured in a Pennsylvania freight wreck at Plymouth, Ind. A double-header fast freight collided with a light engine. Both engines were badly wrecked and eight cars were demolished. sentinel Reported Sold.. It is reported that the purchase of the Sentinel, the only English morning paper in Milwaukee, by Henry C. Payne, Chas. F. Pfister and Frank G. Bigelow is now an accomplished fact. These gentlemen are the street railway people, whose extension of franchise the Sentinel fought bitterly.

Kina Edward Opens Parliament. The first Parliament of the reign of King Edward VII. was opened by the King in person. His majesty was accompanied by Queen Alexandra, the Duke of York and Cornwall, the Duke of Connaught aud many others of the royal family. Aim of Assassin Is Wil ’. Unknown men shot at George C. Orchard, county clerk of Butler County, Mo. Mr. Orchard was sitting at his desk in the court house in Poplar Bluff when a bullet came crashing through the window beside which he was sitting and missing him only by a few inches. Machine Shop and Roundhouse Burned Fire destroyed the machine shop and roundhouse of the Boston aud Maine Railroad situated at Mechanicsville, N. Y. Seven locomotives were burned. The loss will amount to about $125,000. Famous War Veteran Dies. George W. Brintnail, a war veteran, who was known as the “drummer boy of Shiloh,” died at Lancaster, Pa. He was 15 years old when he first enlisted and reenlisted twice afterward. Mob Hangs a Negro. At Paris, Ky., George Carter, a negro, paid the extreme penalty of his crime against Mrs. W. E. Bofid, at the hands of a mob. Wife’s: Feet Forever Frigid. * At Wilkesbarre, Pa., Thomas R. Jones filed an application for a divorce from his wife Mary on the ground of cold feet.

MARKET QUOTATIONS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.45; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 75c to 76c; i corn. No. 2,37 cto 38c; oats, No. 2,24 c to 25c; rye, No. 2,48 cto 49c; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 17c; potatoes, 39c to 43c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $5-40; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white. 27c to 28c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.80; hogs, $3.00 to $5.35; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50: wheat. No. 2. 72c to 73c; corn. No. 2, 36c to 37c; oats. No. 2,25 cto 26c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati —Cattle, $3.00 to $4.85; hogs,. •$3.00 to $5.45; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 58c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $4.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.30; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, 52c to 53c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 77c to 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 39c to 40e; oats. No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rve. No. 2. 51c to 52c; clover seed, prime, $7.00 to $7.20. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 northern. 72e to 73c; corn, No. 3 36c to 37c; oats. No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye. No. 1,52 c to 53c; barley, No. 2. 58c to 60c; pork, mess, $13.50 to $13.92. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, fair to prime, $5.00 to $5.70; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.90; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.00. New York—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.20; hogs. $3.00 to $5.90; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2. 46c to 47c; oats. No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, western, 18c to 19c.

EXTORTION SCHEME IS BLOCKED, Dean Earl’s Letter Demanding: Jlousj Foun 1 Before It Was Mailed. At Nevada, Mo.. Dean Earl completed a sentence the other day for vagrancy. Sheriff Harkreader searched him and found a letter ready to be mailed to B. F. McKeyuolds, a wealthy farmer, demanding that SI,OOO in cash be left at a railroad crossing near his home on a specified night. The letter told the farmer if he failed to comply with the demand his life would be destroyed by dynamite and his family killed. Earl was taken before Prosecuting .Attorney King. He admitted writing the letter, but there was no law to hold the prisoner, and he was released. McKeyuolds was notified of the contents of the letter. MAY HAVE KIDNAPED A GIRL. Daughter of Mrs. E. L. smith of Reed’s Landing, Minn., Missing. Mrs. E. L. Smith of Reed’s Landing, Minn., has appealed to the police of the Northwest to locate her 15-year-old daughter. She says one Elmer Thompson and his wife took the girl on Jan. 28, and since then no trace of her has been discovered, The Thompsons shipped their household effects to Chippewa Falls, . Wis., hut uo sigu of them can be found there. Revival Leads to Tragedy. “To keep them’froin going to heaven,” “Doc” Petrie of Elktou, Ivy., smashed the skulls of his wife and the cook. Then he poured oil all over his clothes and struck a match that he might join the women in hell. Now-Petrie is the only one of the three still living. The trouble started when the religious revival struck Elkton. ___________ Passenger Train Is Wrecked. The second section of Erie train No. 3 was wrecked half a mile from Wren, Ohio. An axle of the engine broke while running fifty miles an hour, and the entire train was ditched, several cars turning over on their sides. Charles Finney, fireman, jumped and was killed instantly. There were no serious injuries among the emigrants. Many Are Lost in a Wreck. It is now feared that the steamer wrecked near Bacalieu, a small island northeast of the Avalon peninsula, on the southeast coast of Newfoundland, in which disaster all on board were lost, is the British steamer Lucerne, Captain Reid, which sailed from Androssan for St. John’s, N. F„ coal laden.

Fire Causes Loes of $1,500,000. Fire destroyed the extensive plant of the National Glass Company at Rochester, Pa., entailing a loss estimated at sl,500,000. i The company’s plant was the largest tumbler works in the world, covering seven acres of ground and employing 1,500 people. Shot tn Pr.mary Riot. More than 150 shots were fired, a sergeant of police and two negroes were wounded, and a ballot box was stolen during a ribt about the Second district polling place of the Fourth Ward, at 12th and Linden streets, St. Louis, where a primary election was being conducted. Bick Wife Draws Fugitive. Jefferson Amberger, formerly of Mount Sterling, Ky., who killed Carl Silfer, a section boss on the Southern Ohio Traction Railroad in Huber’s saloon at Amanda on s>ov. 20, was captured on a charge of murder in the first degree. He came out of hiding to see his sick wife. Find Headless Body of a Man. At Columbus, Ohio, the headless body of a man was found in the rear of Chas. Henson’s saloon. The body had been badly hacked by a knife. There is no clew to the identity of the murdered man. Magnate Is Near Drowning. In trying to cross n flooded creek at Otay, Cal., Paul Morton, Y r ice President of the Santa Fe: his wife and Miss Howard of Chicago had a narrow escape from being aweflt down-stream and drowned.

LARGE PAPER MILLS BURNED. Kimberley and Clark Plant in Wisconsin is Destroyed. Fire practically destroyed the paper mill plant of the Kimberly & Clark Company, at Kimberly, near Appleton, Wis.. entailing a loss estimated from $400,000 to $500,000. - The fire broke out in the machine room and the adjoining buildings were soon ablaze. The finishing rooms, print mill, three machine rooms and a number of other buildings are a total loss. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The alarm was quickly spread through the Fox River valley and the fire departments from Kankpjina, Neenah and Appleton were called. D. Cowie, superintendent of the mill, was severely injured during the progress of the fire by falling off a high platform. He sustained several broken ribs and may be injured internally. The Kimberly mill is the largest paper mill in the Fox River valley and was built about ten years ago by the Kimberly ifc.Clark Company. It was stated by a menjber of the firm that the loss was fully covered by insurancq.nnd that the plant would be rebuilt for a certainty as soon as possible. . ALASKA TRAFFIC TO BE HEAVY. Many Vessels Being Built—Protection Wanted tor inside Route. Travel to Copper River and the Klondike is now well started. Not less than two dozen sailing vessels will start for Nome and Bering Sea in April and May. The sawmills on the Yukon have resumed operation and every town between Bennett and Dawson is building boats and steamers. Not less than eighty vessels will be engaged in the Alaska traffic during, the coming summer, including those ou the upper anil lower Yukon, together with steamers sailing on regular routes from Puget Sound. The people of Southeastern Alaska have petitioned Senator Perkins of California to aid them in securing a lighthouse and other means of protection for the inside route between Tacoma and Skagway. The petition sets forth that 15,000 passengers, 200.000 tons of freight and $20,000,000 in treasure are annually transported over this route.

DEATH IS GIVEN. Indiana Mur erer Is Doomed to Suffer the Utmost 1 enalty. Judge O. M. Welboru formally passed sentence on Joseph Keith, at Princeton, Ind., who was convicted by a jury Jan. 11 of the murder of Nora lveifer aud sentenced to death. In passing sentence the court fixed Friday, May 24, as the date for the execution and the Indiana prison at Michigan City as the place. The court overruled a motion filed by the defense for a new trial. Before finally announcing that the jury's verdict would be upheld the court gave the prisoner a chance to speak for himself. Keith made a dramatic speech, declaring repeatedly he was absolutely innocent, and that the evidence against him was false and manufactured,“aud he broke down and cried. Later in the day when formal sentence was passed Keith showed no emotion. Revaals a Life of Crime. While revival services were in progress at the Christian Church in Brazil, Ind., a stranger asked to be baptized, and after receiving religious consolation he told the pastor that during his life he killed three men, stole ninety-eight.horses, had made counterfeit money aud helped rob several banks in Texas. The strange convert left the church immediately after having told his story. Two Kille.l in n Creamery. Two men were killed and several others severely injured by the bursting of a milk separator in a creamery in the town of Lisbon, Wis. The machine burst when the place was full of farmers who had brought milk to the cream-' ery. Nebraska Jurist I)rop9 Dea l. Samuel Maxwell, the eminent Nebraska jurist and ex-Congressman, who served for twenty years as chief justice on the Nebraska Supreme Court bench, died suddenly of heart failure at his home in Fremont. Injured While Coasting. At Lafayette, Ind., n serious coasting accident occurred, in which many were injured. To avert a collision with a bobsled, an attempt was made to turn a corner, and the rack ran into a tree. Three women and two men were painfully hurt. Loss of Life at La Par.. A dispatch from La Paz, Peru, says that the overflow of the river has caused the inundation of the city and the destruction of bridges. Many lives have been lost and the damage will aggregate $1,000,000 Bolivian. Cincinnati Prize Fight Postponed. In Cincinnati Judge Hollister granted a permanent injunction against the Jef-fries-Ruhlin prize fight. The promoters postponed the event until after they can carry the case to the Circuit and Supreme Courts. Porch Climbers Are Fooled. Three porch climbers stole n 300-pound safe from the second story of the residence of Chnuncey J. Blair in Chicago, thinking it contained valuable jewelry. The receptacle was empty. Boers Driven Ont. Gen. Christian De Wet and former President Steyn entered Cape Colony and occupied Phillipstown. The British attacked them and drove, them out of the town with loss. Expect Big Pack of Ralmon. All canners agree that this year there will be an increased pack of aalmon on Puget sound and also on the ColumbU and Fraser rivers. r . - ' Text-Books Will Be Free. The Cleveland school council has decided to supply free text books for the first eight grades, commencing with the next school year.

WEYLER RULES SPAIN

RIOTS LEAD TO PROCLAMATION OF MARTIAL LAW. Wedding of the Princess to a Partisan of Don Carlos Accomplished While Troops Fill Capital atad Disorders Continue on All Sides. The brilliant wedding ceremonies at Madrid, when Princess Maria of the As-turias-was married to Prince Charles of Bourbon, were attended iu parts of Spain by manifestations which fairly threaten revolution. It was expected that the union of the princess to one of the detested Carlists would call forth a protest, but such scenes as were witnessed Thursday, not only in Madrid, hut i n Barcelona; Granada, Valencia and Malaga, indicate that the populace has reached the point of desperation which leads to overt acts. A royal wedding is one of the occasions when, if ever, a loyal people are disposed to enter into the “festival spirit with enthusiasm. The sullen crowds in Madrid were so obviously threatening that detachments of cavalry patrolled the street during the time of the ceremony. The gravity of the sit-

GENERAL WEYLER.

uation is disclosed in the fact that it was deemed advisable to proclaim a state of siege, the city thus‘being placed under martial law. Because the local authorities were unable to maintain order affairs were placed in the hands of Gen. Weyler, ami the captain general, who was driven from Cuba by American sentiment, appears to be now in supreme command. Geu. Weyler issued a stringent proclamation. There was bitter opposition in the cabinet to the radical measures taken, and the outcome of the situation, a correspondent says, is awaited with anxiety. If the Queen Regent and her niinisrial advisers have any means at hand for controlling the outburst of public feeling there is nothing to show it. The situation in some respects resembles that in Brazil when the wave of republicanism swept Dom Pedro off the throne. The Queen herself is not loved; her son, the youthful king, is looked upon as a weakling, destined to an early death, and the union of the Queen’s eldest daughter to a Caflist and a reactionary now puts a ban upon the next heir to the throne. There is reason to believe ''that a large element of the Spanish public would rather see the throne overturned than to permit it to be occupied by a queen under such influences as must now surround Princess Maria. During years of misgovernment, they have been heavily taxed nnd # as persistently robbed by the corruptionists who hold political office. The marriage now contracted comes >ns a last straw upon this burden of grievances, and were a leader of the republican forces to rise and assert himself at this juncture the Queen would have little with which to combat them. The reactionaries and conservatives hold the places, both military anil civil, but they are comparatively few in number and without popular influence. The Queen, moreover, has no such strong man as Canovas to guide her aud hold the people In subjection. Until recently she had her choice between casting her fortunes with the liberal and republican element and trusting to their loyalty to maintain the throne or uniting with the reactionists. She has chosen the latter alternative.

MAURICE THOMPSON DEAD.

The Indiana Author Parses Away at Cra wfot djville. Maurice Thompson, the author, died at Crawfonlsville, Ind., Friday morning, after an illness of many weeks. Maurice Thompson came of a Virginia family and was of Seoteh-Irisli descent. He was born at Fairfield, Ind., Sept. 9, 1844. His parents removed to Kentucky when he was a child, and thence to northern Georgia, where they lived until 1868. Ypung Thompson’s mother was a woman of strong character and excellent education, his father a wandering Baptist minister, who rode round the country on horseback and spent little time at home. The son was educated for a civil engineer, but developed more taste languages and literature than for the calling set before him. He learned Greek, Latin and French. His first writings were in verse, which appeared in Southern papers. lie served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. At'the close of the war Thompson made an extended trip to Florida, which laid the foundation for some of his delightful, Southern sketches, published later.' In 1868 he settled in Crawfonlsville, Ind., where he obtained a position ns a civil engineer for a railroad. He married the daughter of Col. John Lee, a railroad president. Sopn after he abandoned railroading and with his brother opened a law office, but gradually drifted into literature. Among. Mr. Thompson’s works are “At Love’s Extremes,” “A Banker of Bnnkersville,” “Sylvan Secrets,” “By Ways and Bird Notes” nnd a volume of poems. But his greatest success is his famous Indiana story, “AlicG of Old Vincennes,” reeeutly published.

Recognizing the danger to property from the presence of a large number of impecunious and idle Frenchmen, the government of British Guiana has approved of a small expenditure from the treasury to enable soma of these men te leave the colony.

Congress.

The Senate on Monday passed the naval appropriation bill and bill for an additional judge in the northern district of Illinois. The shipping bill was then taken up, and kept before the Senate during the remainder of the legislative day. The House disagreed with the Senate substitute for the war tax reduction bill and requested a conference by a vote of 233 to 38. Considered diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. On Tuesday the Senate had the agricultural appropriation bill under consideration during-the entire session, but the bill was little more than half completed. Debate dealt almost entirely with administrative details of Department of Agriculture, many commendations of department’s work being made by Senates oh both sides of the chamber. The House parsed army appropriation bill and began consideration of sundry civil bill, the last of the big money measures. The Senate during the greater part of Wednesday engaged in executive session*” and in the counting of the electoral vote for the President and Vice-President of the United States. Late in the afternoon consideration of the agricultural’ appropriation bill was resumed, but little progress was made. At a night session the District of Columbia code bill was read. The House devoted the day, excepting an hour and a half consumed in counting the electoral vote and promulgating the result of the presidential election, to the ■ sundry civil appropriation bill. General debate upon this measure was completed, hut little actual progress was made with the bill. On Thursday the Senate considered the agricultural appropriation bill during the day and the district code bill at a night session. The House considered the sundry civil appropriation bill. The Senate on Friday passed the agricultvral appropriation bill, with an amendment increasing from $170,000»to, $340,000 the sum for the distribution of seeds. Mr. Teller announced that he would refuse to agree to a vote on the shipping bill. In the House the entire day was spent in filibustering. Mr. Gannon of the appropriation committee wanted the sundry civil bill taken up. As this day was the last private bill day of the session friends of measures of that kind set up the filibuster. At the conclusion of the morning hour on Saturday when the unfinished busi-' ness—the sliippipg bill—was laid before the Senate, Mr. Spooner moved to proceed to the consideration of the oleomargarine bill. By a practically unanimous vote—only two Senators voting in the negative—the motion prevailed. Thus the subsidy bill was displaced as the unfinished business and the oleomargarine bill was placed in that order. After a little over an hour’s consideration of the measure it was laid aside in order that unobjected bills on the calendar might be considered. Nearly 300 bills, including 197 private pension bills, were passed during the day. The House made little progress with the sundry civil appropriation bill. The major portion of the time was spent in debating a proposition offered by Mr. Hill (Conn.) to strike out the appropriation of SIOfyOQQ for the free transportation of silver eolnT It was defeated, 61 —66. At 4 o’clock public business was suspended to allow the members to pay tribute to the memory of the late Representative Hoffecker of Delaware.

Thin and That.

Kansas has more national than State banks. In the English army n soldier Is drummed tt) church just as he is to drill or dress parade. The estimated popuiatioa of British Guiana at the end »of December last was 287,288. Montana’s Governor signed the eighthour law for mines and smelters. Law will be effective in niuety days. Chinese residents at Pekin presented Gen. Chaffee several umbrellas because of their regard for him and his troops. Wm. Campbell, a colored porter in the Grand Hotel, Denver, Colo., shot and wounded David and Arthur Alien, white. The kangaroo is said to consume as much grass as six sheep. There are now in Australia about 900,000 of these funny animals. The German empire imports about $32,000,000 worth of corn every year, the major part of which comes from the United States. Winter tourist travel is very heavy to South California over all the roads, and the hotels at Los Angeles and other resorts are crowded. The first mulberry tree in America was brought from France in 1526, with the • expectation of establishing mulberry groves in New York. An unnamed beneficiary in Cleveland, Ohio, has given a Glenville, Ohio, clergyman unlimited credit for the relief of the poor in that community. The head of one of Queen Victoria’s prize Hereford steers has been bought by the British museum us the most typical of its class ever produced. Disturbing the burial grounds in the Orient is looked on as a heinous crime. Robbing graves is the only crime under Chinese law for which the thief may be justly killed on the spot by any one finding him out. In the last weeks of our war with Spain there was a project of raising money by selling the famous Prado gajlery in Madrid. The value of the pictures Is about $10,000,000, and this would have paid the war expenses for one mouth qnly. The attention of fruit growers in New Zealand is being seriously directed to the question of the eradication of fruit pests. But for the ravages of the codlin moth and kindred pests New Zealand has excellent facilities for doing a large export fruit trade. Lyons, France, reports that the wine crop of France for the year 1900 will exceed 1,721,000,000 gallons, a yield that has been unsurpassed but three times in history. Forest experts in Germany admit that the empire will never be in a position fully to supply hes own market. In 1899 the imports of wood were 30,000,000 cubic feet. Poland was the only conquered nation in the last century prior to the present events in South Africa whose conquerors have offered no terms hut annihilation td the vanquished.