Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1902 — Page 2

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

CAPTIVE FOR A YEAR

!-WOMAN ESCAPES FROM ANARCH* IBT COLONY*- ..»■ Had Pat All Her Resources Into Cotn- | mon Fand In Return for Promised Home—Supposed Victims Oear Man I Accused of Double Murder. '" X ° > ' I. ; » / [ X / V > : Mrs. L. E. Lerison, who, with her son, departed the other day for Kansas City, Mo., tells a most remarkable story of more than a year’s captivity and her final escape from a settlement of anarchists across the spund from Tacoma. Wash. Mrs. Lerison was induced to Join the colony by representations that she could make a fortune by investing her money there, and that she would be assured of a comfortable home all her life and an education for her son. She had $250, which was turned into the common fund, and was then forced to earn her own living. She rejected the principles of anarchy. After endeavor; |ng to get her money back she wrote to her brother, J. G. \V. Stinson of Kansas City, but receiving no reply wrote •gain. She then received a telegram that money had been sent more than a month before. She made her escape by taking to a row boat and drifting all night until picked up near Tacoma. On telling her story it was ascertained that a ticket had been awaiting her at a railroad office for a month.

• FIRE BWEEPS SIX BLOCKS. Damage of $600,000 Caused by Flames at Portland, Ore. In Portland, Ore., fire that started in the Phoenix iron works, formerly . the Wolff & Zwicker plant, East Madison and East Water streets, burned for four hoars and destroyed six blocks of buildings valued at $600,000. The insurance amounted to $200,000. The principal losses were: East Side Lumber Company, SIOO,OOO, insurance $30,000; Phoenix iron .works SBO,OOO, insurance $45,000; .1. li. Johnston shipyard $75,000, insurance $40,000; Portland City and Oregon Railroad Company $30,000, insurance $ 20,GOO; Madison street bridge, $25,000; Standard Oil Company. $15,000; Parleu, Oreidorff & Co.. $15,000, insurance $lO.000; Torpedo .saloon and hotel, SIO,OOO. All the buildings destroyed were wooden structures except the warehouses of the Standard Oil Company and Parlen, Orendorff & Co., which were brick. ESCAPEB CHARGE OF MURDER. St. Louis Prisoner Greeted by Missing Wife and Daughter. Mrs. Annie Mullering and her 14-year-old daughter Emma, who have been mysteriously missing since the of May 7, appeared at the St. Louis police station, where Hermann Mullering, the husband and father, has been held prisoner. suspected of double murder. Mrs. Mullering has been employed as a servant In the family of A. S. Mermod in Kirk- . wopdrand the daughter has been working Itbr another Kirkwood family.

Lea cue Base-Ball Race. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...37 12Philadelphia. 22 30 Chicago ....28 21 Cincinnati ...21 30 Brooklyn ...29 23New Y0rk...20 29 Boston 23 2-1 St. Louis... .20 31 The clubs of the American League Stand as follows: W. l: " W. L. Chicago ....30 IS Detroit 21 20 Boston 29 24 Baltimore ...24 28 'St. Louis.. . .25 23 Washington. 24 29 Philadelphia 25 23Cleveland ...22 32 Say Bank Was Looted. The police of Philadelphia and New York are searching for Henry B. McDowell, president of the United State's Trust Company of Philadelphia, which made an assignment last Tuesday.- Warrants issued for his arrest charge him •with embezzling $50,000 worth of valuable securities, but State Banking Commissioner Reeder says the man must have got away with fully $250,000. ' Jewels Are Not Clothes. In the bankruptcy case of Hannah 'Levy of Circleville, Ohio, the United States Court held that diamonds cannot Ibe considered as wearing apparel, but must be regarded as the equivalent of cash. Mrs. Levy sought to retain possession of certain diamonds, among them an engagement and a wedding ring, on the ground that they were wearing apparel. Chinese Cruiser Kai-Chi Wrecked. A dispatch from Shanghai says that the Chinese cruiser Ivai-Chi was wrecked by a terrific explosion while lying in Yang-tse river. The Kai-Chi sank in thirty seconds and 150 officers and men on board were killed or drowned.

Wreck on Northern Pacific. At least six persons were killed in a bead-end collision at Lower Lake siding, two miles west of Staples, Minn., on the Northern Pacific Railroad, between passenger trains. Flamea Sweep Rugby, N. D. Fire wiped out the business section of Rugby, N. D., with a loss of $40,000. The residence section was saved only by most strenuous work. Wyeth Wins American Derby. 1 John A. Drake's colt Wyeth, at 12 to 1. won the American Derby in Chicago, with Lucien Appleby aecond and Alladiu third. Four Boys Are Drowned. 1 1 Four boys were drowned by the capsizing of s boat at Fern Glen, a resort fifteen miles from Bt. Louis. The drowning occurred at the annul 1 picnic of the , St. Louis Turnverein. The boys were rowing on the Meremac river when their X*W Has Four Beta of Twins. ; The wife of William Martin, a Greeley County, Kan., farmer, gave birth to twin jboya* They are the fourth set of twins jKxa to that couple in succession. There wre thirteen children in the family.

FROM THE FOVR QUARTERS OF THE EAREH

WIFE IN ODD ELOPEMENT. v- ■ Tonng Farm Employe Connives with Woman to Deceive Public. One of the strangest elopements that probably ever occurred was thnt of Mrs. McEathron, wife of a traveling salesman for Carson, Pirie & Co. of Chicago. To all appearances Mrs. McEathron was drowned in the James river, near Huron, 8. D. Her husband owns a stock farm seven miles from Huron. He travels on the road and his wife manages the farm. Mrs. McEathron started for a drive. Later the horse returned home. Search followed and the trail led to a bridge crossing the James river. Her buggy was found smashed to splinters, and tracks made by the vehicle indicated that she bad a desperate struggle with the runaway horse and that she had been thrown over the bridge into the river. Hundreds of citizens turned out to search for her and the river was dragged. After this bad been kept up for some time Itoy Underhill, a young farm employe dTTSfrsr McEathron, became confused in his statements and finally confessed that Mrs. McEathron and he had planned an elopement. Underhill said that he had driven her to Iroquois, where she had taken the train. That it was his intention to join her as soon as it was settled that she bad been drowned. He confessed that he smashed the buggy at her instigation and that there had never been a runaway. —RIVES UP LIFE FOR CHILD. Cleveland Man Makes Heroic Effort to Save His Nephew. Fritz Engenit died at St. Clair hospital in Cleveland, having sacrificed his life in an attempt to save his sister and her young son from the flames that destroyed their home. Engonit’s attempt to rescue his sister and nephew was a recklessly heroic one. An exploding gasoline stove had set fire to his sister’s dress. He beat out the flames with his hands and attempted to dash through the burning room to where the boy was, cut off by the fire. Twice driven back, and frightfully burned at each attempt, be was compelled to desist and the child was rescued from a window. “What I did was nothing," he fold his sister at the hospital when she tried to thank him. “What less could I have done?”

KIDNAPERS THREATEN TO KILL. Utah Lad Disappears and $5,000 Is Demanded for His Release. Nel Anderson, Jr., 17 years old, son of a prominent merchant of Brigham, Utah, has disappeared, and his straw hat has been found with the following note pinned to it: “Your son is kidnaped and we demand $5,000 for his release, to be paid at the waterfall east of Brigham, or his legs and arms will be cut off and he will be killed. We mean every word we say. —Chain Gang Robbers.” The sheriff was notified and search for the lad was begun, but no trace of him has been found. i GIRL BEATEN BY A BURGLAR. Lett Unconscious by Robber Who Ransacks the House. Elsie Swift, 14 years old, was found in a*fainting condition at her home in Chicago, she having been gagged and severely beaten by a burglar. Pulling her by the hair, the robber compelled the helpless girl To guide him through the house to places where valuables were supposed to be hidden. His quest, which was not as remunerative as he had anticipated, angered him, and he tore the rings from her fingers and escaped. Unknown Man Dies on Train. A man 67 years of age died on a Erie train just east of Ashland. His ticket read from Sharpsville, Pa., to Chicago. Evidently was a well-to-do business man, as he was well dressed. His pockets contained a number of notyg Ins, sums varying from S2OO to S4OO and $53.20 in money. Texas Corn Is Damasted. Rains have been reported from only a small part of northeastern Texas, where the corn and cotton crops are said to have been in better condition than in any other part of the State. Outside of this limit the outlook for a corn crop this year is poor. Transport Meade Sails. The United States transport Meade sailed from San Francisco for Manila via Nagasaki. She carried a full cargo of arms and supplies and bad on-board fifty recruits, eleven signal corps men. twenty-two members of the tfospital corps and about fifty cabin passengers.

One Mun Killed in Hotel Fire. The St. Clair Hotel in Toledo was gutted by fire. Robert Smith, a sailor, whose union card gives his place of residence as Oswego, but whose wife and family are in Cleveland, was cremated. Several others were injured by jumping or in being taken from windows. Two Missing in Big Fire, Two lives were lost, many persons were injured, sixty families were made homeless and property valued at $200,000 was destroyed by a fire that swept through upper Creede, Colo. It is believed the flames were set by incendiaries. Kansas Wants 0,000 Men. Kansas needs 6,000 harvest hands. The State employment bureau has furnished lta Kansas City agent of the Missouri bureau with a list of places where the men are to be sent. The railroads make a special rate of one-third fare. Plot Against Jfing Edward. Plot to assassinate King Edward is rumored in London; King's sickness is declared feigned to keep him from public functions where plot might be carried wot. His majesty did not attend Ascot races. Mutilated Body la Found. The finding of a headless body, horribly ■tangled, brought about a complicated Situation at Knoxville, Tenn. The police

and county constabulary arrived on the scene simultaneously, a squabble ensuing for the body. The police were vie* torious and carried it away. A few hours later a telegram was received from Indianapolis which inquired the whereabouts of just such a man as had befin found dead, but the police positively refused to divulge anything. THOUSANDS RUSH FOR LAND. Men and Boys Race Across Line When Fort Hall Reservation Is Opened. Exactly at 12 o’clock Tuesday 1,300 men and of all ages rushed across the line of the ceded Fort Hall reservation in Idaho and disappeared in a cloud of dust in the mad rush for homesteads and mineral lands. Most of them were mounted on horses and ponies, a majority being heavily armed. Probably 1,000 persons departed later with pack animals. Before 2 o’clock Pocatello was practically deserted. Many signs of trouble were apparent before the starting signal was given. In scores of instances it was known that three or more men intended to settle on the same piece of land. The botfndary line of the ceded portion of the reservation opened to settlement was lined for miles with people awaiting the hour of noon. Pocatello had been surrounded hy people, but the larger proportion gathered on the “hogback” a mile southeast of the city and it was from this point that the great rush took place. It began at a whistle signal from the Oregon Short Line shops. THIEF GETS LOOT FROM THIEF. Steals Gems in Kansas City and Loses Them in St. Louis. After obtaining three diamonds valued at SSOO, it is charged, hy entering the room of a wealthy stockman in a family hotel in Kansas City, George Martin, colored, was robbed of the gems by another thief. The second theft took place in St. Louis. Detective Tom Hayde arrested the man in Grand Rapids, Mich. Martin was employed as a porter in the Burlington Hotel in Kansas City. It Is charged the negro took S6O from the room of Mrs. Louise Taylor, the proprietor. The following day J. C. Goodrich missed his diamonds. Martin was suspected and the police found he had left the city. He says he was robbed in St. Louis just after leaving the train. Word was received from the St. Louis police verifying this statement.

FIVE PEOPLE BADLY BURNED. Accident to Child Involves Those Who Assist Her. Annie Reno, aged 10 years, was fatally burned at Braddock, Pa., and four others who went to her assistance were severely burned. Their names are: Jennie Ellis, Mrs. Annie Baker, Mrs. Mary Maloy and Justice John G. Richards. The little girl was playing near a rubbish fire in the rear of the Robinson Hotel when her clothing caught fire. Her screams brought help, and the four people who rushed to her assistance were all seriously burned. They will recover. The girl was burned so badly that her death was only a question of a few hours. Honor to Bland’s Memory. A statue erected to the memory of Richat4s Bland, who served in Congress almost continually from 1572 until 1899, was unveiled /at Lebanon, Mo., with impressive ceremonies. Au immense crowd gathered to hear addresses by William J. Bryan, William J. Stone and others. The statue is of bronze, life size, and rests on a pedestal of stone six feet high. Murder and Suicide. Benson Peoples, a young nagm-erf Newcomerstown, Ohio, won the love of the pretty daughter of Elijah Starts and inforthed the girl’s father of his intention to wed the girl. A quarrel ensued, during which Peoples fatally shot Starts. He then shot and killed himself. Pelee Sends Forth Slime. A column of slime 100 meters high has been ejected from the volcano of Mount Pelee, Martinique, and has fallen on Basse Pointe, enveloping the lower portion of the town ahd razing twenty-two houses. No loss of life has been reported. Love Unrequited, Ends Life. At Wheeling, W. Va., a man’s suit of clothes was found on the steel bridge, indicating a suicide in the Oljio river. In a coat pocket was found a note in which the writer said he had decided to end his life, as no one cared for hinveven the girl he loved. *

First Car of 1002 Wheat. The first car of 1902 wheat was received in Kansas City the other day. It graded No. 2 red and was from Tulsa I. T. It was sold for cents per bushel, which was about 3 cents above the market. Cleveland and Hill Speak. Grover Cleveland and David B. Hill spoke at Tilden Club opening in New York and urged reuniting of Democratic party. Former declared new issues could be found in extravagant appropriations and high tariff. Powder Mill Kills Four. The coining mill of the Cambria powder plant at Seward, Pa., blew up, killing three men and injuring five others, one of whom died later. Two others were fatally hurt. Wintry Season Hurts Russia. The winter has been remarkably prolonged throughout European Russia, and has wrought considerable damage in the vineyards. Crops are backward in all the provinces. Panama Canal Bill Passes. The Senate passed canal bill with Spooner amendment, authorising the President to purchase the Panama canal and complete an isthmian waterway over that route. . £

GIVES DAUGHTER AS PRIZE. Kaiisas Farmer Adopts Novel Scheme to Save His Wheat. Farmer James Woolsey has succeeded in having his 500-acre wheat field cut before the yellow grain grew musty. But it cost him his daughter. He gave her as a prize to the young harvester doing the greatest amount of work in a specified time. Willis Rodway, a young mechanic from Illinois, won, and be and Anna Woolsey were married at Pratt, Kan., the other day. The Woolsey farm is one of the largest in Pratt County, and the scarcity of harvest .Workers in that section weighed upon the farmer’s mind. His wheat grew dead ripe, and there was no one to help him cut it. Then he devised a plan to offer as a bride to the hardest worker his ID-ycar-old daughter. She was as dutiful as good-looking. The men came by the score. She was given the privilege of rejecting any of the contestants she personally disliked, and many were thus ruled out. The contest was spirited. It lasted three days, during which time Rodway, working ten hours a day, cut 100 acres and wore out three good teams. HOLD UP AN OFFICE. Fonr Masked Men Invade Santa Fa Building in Chicago. Driven into a small room under threats of death, four employes of the commissary department of the Santa Fe Railroad system watched three expert safeblowers blow open the large safe of the company while another member of the gang stood guard over them with two revolvers. So experienced were the cracksmen at their calling that within ten minutes after their entnunce to the building they had shattered the door of the heavy strong box, taken what money was in the safe and escaped in the network of railroad' tracks adjoining the building. The scene of the robbery was in a one-story frame structure at Seventeenth street and the Chicago and Westera Indiana tracks in Chicago, and it was shortly after 10 o’clock p. tn., when scores of switch engines, with their crews and many other employes, were in the immediate vicinity. CONFIRMS LOSS OF UURONIAN. Message in a Bottle Tells of Fourteen Survivors A-drift in a Boat. A letter received at Montreal from Stillwell Parker of Headship Harbor, N. S„ states that a bottle was picked up forty-five miles east of Halifax containing the following note written on a scrap of paper: “Steamer Huronian turned over Sunday night in Atlantic. In small boat fourteen of us.” The Allan liner Uuronian,. bound from Glasgow for St. John, N. 8., sailed from the former port on Feb. 7, and nothing up to this time has been heard of her, although several steamers have searched for traces of her. ATTEMPTS MURDER AND SUICIDE. Insane Indiana Man Cuts the Throat of His Nurse and Himself. William Agar, made insane by brooding over bis sister’s illness and his own financial troubles, attempted to murder Mrs. Davis, his nurse, at Terre Haute, Ind. He cut her throat and stabbed her repeatedly, but she may recover. After she had escaped Agar jumped into a cistern and slashed at his own throat and the arteries in his wrist, but did not inflict a fatal wound. He is now in jail. Woman Murders a Neighbor. Miss Rose Wheeler, aged 25, is dead, and her mother, Mrs. William Wheeler, aged 68, is dying, as the result of an assault made upon them by Mrs. George Leightner, aged 26. The two families reside in a double house in Toledo. Mrs. Leightner says that the deed was committed in self-defense.

Weasel Kills Infant Child. A weasel came into the house of William Woodard at Pleasantville, Ind., and climbed upon the bed where the infant child of Woodard was sleeping with its mother. The weasel bit the child in the hand and sucked away the little one’s blood. The child died. Boy Killed by “Water Cure.” The authorities of Potowatomie County, Okla., are investigating the case of Arthur E. Pecore, aged 14 years, near Shawnee, whose death is alleged to have resulted from attempts of several companions to treat him with the “water cure.” Offers Reward for Lynchers. Gov. Aycock of North Carolina has offered rewards aggregating $30,000 for the arrest and conviction of Unknown persons who, on the night of June 11, took the two Gillespie boys, negroes, from the jail at Salisbury and lynched them. Klevator’a Fall Malms Fifteen. An elevator with fifteen persons in it fell from the fifth floor of Macy & Co.’s store in New York. Every person in the elevator, of whom thirteen Tkere women, was injured. South American Rupture Threatens. Rupture between Brazil and Bolivia is threatened unless latter cedes SO,OOO miles of rubber land to syndicate headed by J. Pierpont Morgan and Sir Martin Conway. Mob Attacks Silk Mills. Anarchists led mob of <5,000 at raterson, N. J., in an attack upon silk mills and police. Ten persons were shot* four of them fatally. Succeeds to Saxony’a ThiZne. The ministry has proclaimed, l’rinee George, brother of the late king/liing of Saxony. Prince < George has taken the oathjof allegiance. Charles F. C Havlland Dim , Chagles Frederick Haviland of New York.Am rrican representative of the great Fremh china manufacturing house, died at the Oakes home in Denver, Colbn

PANAMA ROUTE WINS.

NICARAGUA CANAL BILL BEATEN /, IN BENATE. Spooner Amendment Adopted bx a Vote of 42 to 84—Honoe Has Previously Legislated in Favor of Nicaragua) Thus Mixing Matters. The Spooner substitute, directing President Roosevelt to secure the Panama route, was adopted by the Senate Thursday afternoon. The vote was 42 yeas to 84 nays. Debate on the isthmian canal bill closed at 2 o’clock and voting was begun at once on the Nicaraguan measure reported by the committee and the jSpoouer Panama substitute. The first roll call came on Bacon’s amendment, which was adopted, 52 to 20. All the Panama advocates voted for the amendment, indicating that they are in a majority. With defeat staring him in the face, Senator Morgan made another speech for his pet Nicaraguan bill. He had not intended to speak again, but Senator Allison, chairman of the Republican caucus, made a speech for Panama which the venerable Alabaman thought 'demanded an answer. Senator Allison supported the Panama route because he said he did not presume to ignore the testimony of eminent engineers who had deliberately made that fthoice. “The insinuation that the Spooner substitute means no canal is utterly without foundation,” said Senator Allison, replying to the oft-repeated charge that the Panama advocates are opposed to the interoceanic waterway. "The people of the United States demand that this canal be built by the government, and it will be, if not by Panama, then by the Nicaraguan route.” Senator Morgan made a strong final plea for the Nicaragua route. Regarding the greater cost of the canal by that route he said there was an eminent engineer who would build it for $146,000,000, and another had Offered to build the canal free for the United States if given a lease of it for the first ten years after Its completion. Matters Now Mixed. 1 The bill as passed is known by the name of Senator Spooner, “find it authorizes the President to acquire the Panama rights and property if it shall be found that a good title can be furnished. If not the President is authorized to proceed to acquire the Nicaragua route. The* passage by the of the Spooner bill really leaves the building of an isthmian canal as far off as ever, according to a Washington correspondent. The House of Representatives has passed a bill for a canal at Nicaragua and until the two branches of Congress harmonize in the matter of route and all other details there is no legislation. ~* A conference committee will be appointed to attempt to effect an agreement, but it is not anticipated that this committee will be ready to report before next session of Congress, and then the fight over the routes will be renewed in the House, to which the conference committee must report for approval. There is another obstacle which must cause delay. If the ,Panama route is chosen a treaty must be negotiated with the Colombian government, and this treaty must be ratified by two-thirds of the United States Senate.

RIOTS RULE PATERSON.

Wild Mobs Led by Anarchists Wreck Mills and Attack Police. Ten persons are in the Paterson, N. J., city hospitals suffering from gunshot and revolver wounds received in strike riots led by anarchists which kept that city In a state of terror all day Wednesday. The troubles grew out of a stormy meeting of the dyers’ helpers which was captured by anarchists, and a mob was soon organized which wrecked nearly every mill in Paterson. The police were met with volleys of stones at first, and later with bullets, and they were powerless to quell the disorder. The leaders of the riots included several members of the Group of Existence, old comrades of Bresci, the assassin. Chief of Police Graul utterly failed to meet the situation. Mayor Hinchcliffe, after urging him to put on his uniform and go out with his men, denounced the chief and charged him with having lost his "nerve.” The Mayor himself then took charge of measures to quell the disturbance. The Mayor went to police headquarters and had all the men of the reserves lined up in front of him. Then he said to them: “Men, if your clubs prove useless, you know what to do. Be aggressive from the start.” The trouble began with a meeting addressed by William McQueen, an Eng-lish-speaking anarchist, editor of a red sheet called Liberty, and his companion, Galleano, an Italian anarchist. Most of the rioters were Italian dyehouse helpers.

INANUTSHELL

Whitmer’s lumber yards, Keyser, W. Va., burned. Loss $75,000, insurance $35,000. J. F. Kurth, a wealthy miller of Crosby, Mo., was drowned while fishing with a party of friends in the Platte, near his home. Rush Bell was shot and instantly killed at Lafkin, Texas. Andy Nelson surrendered and was locked up on a charge of murder. Tom Dilly, a cattleman, shot and instantly killed Steve Chipman, a prominent sheepman, and shot Chipman’s Mexican herder through the left hip, eight miles north of Sunnyside, U. The men quarreled over range rights. It la announced that Miss Jean, daughter of Mrs. Langtry, will be married shortly to lan Z. Malcolm, M. P; All surveying parties working for tha Burlington Railroad have been called in. It is said that no new extensions of tha system are now contemplated. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has petitioned Congress and tha President to have three battleships constructed in the government navy yards. James Ewing Shot and killed N. E. West because of an old grudge. Tha killing occurred sixteen miles southeast sf Miami, L T., near Grand river.

CONERESS.

After a discussion extending over parts of aeevral days what is popularly known as the London dock charges bill was passed by the Senate on Monday. The opposition to the measure practically collapsed and it was passed without division. Just before the executive session which preceded adjournment a spirited discussion was precipitated over a motion by Mr. Proctor'of Vermont to agree to a -conference with the House on the army appropriation bilL Several weeks ago the Senate was affronted by a message from the House refusing to submit to conference certain Senate amendments to the bill. The opposition to Mr. Proctor’s motion was so vigorous that finally he was forced to withdraw it for the present. The House transacted miscellaneous business under suspension ot the rules. It included the adoption of resolutions appropriating $25,000 for the preparation of plans for a memorial in Washington to Abraham Lincoln, SIOO,OOO toward the erection of a monument to the prison ship martyrs, who died off Brooklyn as a result of the cruelties to which they were subjected by the British during the Revolutionary War, and SIO,OOO for the erection of a monument at Fredericksburg, Va., to the memory of Gen. Hugh Mercer, who was killed- during the Revolutionary War. •J —!- In the Senate on Tuesday bills were passed to regulate the commutation of United States prisoners for good conduct; to amend the act providing for a permanent census office, go as to include “unskilled laborers’’ in the list of thoso employed not included in the civil service; to provide for refunding taxes paid on legacies and bequests for apes of religious, charitable or educational character; for of art, etc. Che rest of *the day was devoted to debate upon the canal bill. The House passed bills to amend the bankruptcy law; providing for the punishment of United States prisoners for crimes committed while confined in State institutions; to increase the fees of jurors in United States courts from $2 to $3 per day; to nllow appeals from final rulings of the general land office to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; to incorporate the Society of the Army of Santingo de Cuba, and to ratify the agreements negotiated by the Dawes commission with the Creek, Kansas or Kaw Indians of Oklahoma. A House bill to -provide for the opening to settlement of 480,000 acres of land in the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian reservations in Oklahoma was defeated.

In the Senate practically the entire day Wednesday was taken up with debate upon the canal bill. A resolution offered several (Jays ago by Mr,..Carmack, directing the civil service committee to inquire into the discharge from the War Department of Miss Rebecca J. Taylor for tha, publication of articles in newspapers criticising the President was called up, and Air. Carmack spoke in support of it. In the House the general deficiency appropriation bill, the last of the supply bills, was passed. In the course of some remarks early in the session Mr. Cannon declared that if he could have his way Congress would adjourn sine die before July 4. A night session was held, at which the House considered bills reported from the committee on Indian affairs. The Senate on Thursday passed the canal bill with the Spooner Panama amendment. There was some debate over the trouble into which the Seuate has got with the House over amendments to the army appropriation bill, and a conference with the House was finally asked, ignoring the “offensive” message whiqh caused the trouble. The conference report on the bill to prevent the false branding or labeling of food oY dairy pcoduets was agreed to, A bill was passed to set apart certain lands in South Dakota as a public park, to be known ns the Wind Cave National Park. In the House debate upon the Philippine bill occupied most of the day.

No business of importance was transacted in open session in the Senate on Friday, except to agree to a conference report finally disposing of the military academy appropriation bill. Soon after the disposition of routine business there was an executive session. In the House day and night sessions werq held for discussion of the Philippine bilk The canal bill was sent to conference aftef the Senate amendment had been non-cqncurred in. The House reiterated the position it had taken on the army appropriation bill by ignoring the aeti(n of the Senate and sending the bill back to .that body after votifly to adhere to Its disagreement to the objectionable army post amendments. The Senate was not in session Saturday. In the House Mr, HtlU (Iowa), chairman of the committee od military affairs, called up the conference report of the military academy appropriation bill. Mr. Hay (Vn.), Mr. Clayton (Ala.) and Mr. Mann (Ill.) criticised the action of the House conferees In agreeing to the number of cadets at West Point proposed by the Senate. Mr. Hull and Mr. Parker (N. J.) defended the conference report, arguing that the increase was necessary in order properly to officer the army. Finally the conference report waa adopted, 88 to 59. Mr. Cannon (Ill.) Ihen called up the conference report upon tho ■ sundry civil bill. He explained that the agreement was only partial, items carrying $1,283,000 being still in controversy. Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) moved that tho House concur in the Senate amendment for a memorial bridge across the Potomac to cost not to exceed $2,500,000 and appropriating SIOO,OOO for the preparation of plans. This was voted down without division and the bill was sent back to conference, after which the debate on the Philippine/bill was resumed.

Washington Notes.

Last of Spanish war reveuue taxes will end July 1; beer tax will return to $1 a barrel; tea tax stands till Jan. 1. Proposition of Gov. Tsft for purchase of frianf lands, says William E. Curtis, probably will he accepted by the Vatican. The Corliss Pacific cable bill has been killed by the House. 116, to 77; argument made that appropriations already exceed revenues by $51,000,000. Venezuela is said to have declared blockade ol Orinoco river; warship may be sent to protect American interests; ttatus of river is like Mississippi.