Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1903 — Page 2

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

BELOVED OF PRINCE.

KOREAN KING’S SON ATTRACTED BYAMERICAN GIRL. ' ~~ - - Eniwha WillWcd Miss Angie Graham K if Hi. Father Will Give Consent— Borcherevink Will Make Another Expedition to South Pole. Prince Euiwlia. the second soil of the King of ('orca. is infatuated with Miss Angie Graham, the beautiful 18-year-old daughter of the Rev. Dr. C. B. Graham, presiding elder of Wheeling. W. Va., district M~.K. conference. The prince met Mis* Graham at the Ohio Wesleyan. UniVfersity, Delaware. Ohio, where Uith are students. Last fall when she went home for the holidays he went to Wheeling and stopped at a hotel, registered as P. P. Yee. It is said that they will be married after he graduates if his father's consent can be secured. FLAGS TRAIN TO GET REWARD. Kansas City Boy Confesses Tnrning Switch Near Independence. William Barnett, the 19-year-old son of a section foreman, has confessed to turning the switch near Independence, Mo., on the night of Jan. 1 and then flagging the Little Rock and Wichita express otr"the Missouri Pacific Railroad for the purpose of securing a reward from the railroad company for saving the train. When the train came to a standstill young Barnett informed the crew and passengers that he had seen two men break the lock on the switch, evidently with the purpose of holding up the train, and that be had scared them after an exchange of shots. Barnett displayed a hole in his coat, which he asserted was made by a bullet tired by one of the would-be road men. EEADY TO SEEK SOUTH POLE.

Borchgrevink Will Accept Offer to U—- Explore Antarctic Landa. S C. E. Borchgrevink, the antarctic explorer, in a lecture at Copenhagen nnnoanced that he had received an offer from America to conduct an antarctic expedition. He added that he-was willing to accept it. He believed that exploration of the huge continent around the south pole was one of the most important problems of the century. Stock Burned iu Prairie Fire. News comes from the southeastern part of Morton County, South Dakota, of the loss by prairie fire of 5,000 sheep and 300 head of cattle belonging to ranchers. The fire broke out during the recent high wind ahd spread with great rapidity. Seventeen ranchmen suffered severely, some losing their houses in the flames. Wind Wrecks Many Houses. Advices from Berrien and Worth counties, Georgia, are that a severe windstorm did much damage. At Omega, in Worth County, the hotel was blown down and a number of houses were unroofed. The wind swept a path 100 yards wide through the town, damaging every bouse and uprooting every 1 tree it encountered. Fire Damages Steel Plant. Fire almost destroyed the oldest portion of the W. Dewees wood plant of the American Sheet Steel Company at McKeesport, Pa. The fire originated from a broken gas pipe and the light explosion which resulted from the break set' fire to the wooden supports of the ingFive Hart in Trolley Wreck. , Five jiersons were hurt in a street railway collision at Pittsburg ami one of them is dead. A Liberty avenue <ar was standing in front of Superintendent ""Maxwell's • office in Homewood when a big Frankstown avenue car ran away on the grade behind it and crashed into the rear of the stationary car. Trouble with Indians Feared. The ArMpahoe Indians are starving. Kot a day passes but a band is in Lander, Wyo., begging. The Indians raised no crops this season and rations are not issued to them by the government, as their treaty expired last year. If they get desperate they may kill stock of settlers and serious trouble may follow. Club for Sunday School. Hie clubhouse John D. Rockefeller. Jr., is to build for his Sunday school class of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York, will cost $350,000. The young millionaire has in view two or three desirable sites not a block from the corner of Fifth avenue and Fortysixth street. Indiana Doctor's Horrible Death. Dr. George F. Shoey, a pntpiinent pby- \ sician, was burned to death in his room nt his boarding house at Medora, Ind. Other occupants of the house had u narrow escape. Railroad Man Passes Away. General Samuel Thomas, one of the best-known railroad men in the country, died at his home in New York City, aged 63 years. General Thomas was a native of Ohio. Blizzard in Middle West. .*>. Blizzard and heavy snow storms have been raging throughout northern Indiana, Nebraska, Michigan and Kansas. W. D. Beokett. Omaha lawyer, was frozen to death near the city limits. b Minneaoto Town Offered Library. - Andrew Carnegie has offered to give Brainard, Minn.. $12,000 for a library ■ite if the city will maintain and furnish the site. E&i Petition Taft to Remain. ' Six thousand Filipinos paraded at Manila and petitioned Governor Taft to remain. He declared that the appointment to the Federal Supreme bench already haa been refused, but that he now believes acceptance beat Rafe Blowing Easy in Village*. Fifty-alx banks hare been robbed in -In the United States during the last four month*, and seven iu Illinois. Cities are practically Immune, but uitrogly eerin I and electric lantern make safe blowing

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TRAINS CRASH IN CITY STREET. ■ '-BM _ . Three Dead, Fourteen Injured in Passenger Collision at Ada. Ohio. During a blinding snowstorm at 5 o’clock in the afternoon two trains on the Pennsylvania system collided on the main street of Ada, Ohio. Three persons are dead and fourteen or more injured, one fatally, as the result of the accident. The accident was one of the worst that ever occurred on that division of the Pennsylvania system. Tfain No. 35, west bound for Fort Wayne, had started out of the station, but at the main street crossing was compelled to stop by an accident to the air brakes. A flagman was sent back to notify No. ID, a fast train going in the same direction, which was several minutes late. On account of the snowstorm the engineer on No. 19 was unable to see the signal in time to slacken speed, and his engine, running forty miles an hour, crashed into the rear of coach No. 35. The latter train consisted of two coaches, the rear one being a combination baggage and passenger car, with another passenger car in front. Both xvere telescoped and scarcely a passenger escaped injury of some sort. KICK A REAL GOLD BRICK. W’all Street Brokers and Messenge Boys Scorn Bar of Shiniug Metal. The wise ones in Wall street who think they know a gold brick when they see it took passing kicks at a shining bar of metal in lower Broadway, New York. This brick of real twenty-two-carat gold, worth hundreds of dollars, was kicked al»out the financial district by messenger boys, jocular brokers and knowing financiers for an hour or so, when a stupid looking youngster who had never heard a joke in Lis life came along and picked it up. The owners were found to be assayers on John street and the boy was handsomely rewarded.

TORTURED BY THIEVES. Woman’s Feet Burned Before She Revealed Hiding Place of $225. Levt Eicher, 95 years old, anil his wife, residing in Springfield township, Pa., were tortured by masked thieves until they told where their- money was hidden. The robbers held n lighted lamp to Mrs. Eicher's feet and burned thetn until the flesh fell off "before she would consent to show them the strong box where $225 in bills was bidden. Then they bound their victims to a bed with ropes and left them, taking a horse and saddle from the barn. Eicher, it is said, recognized one of the thieves. Bank Is Betel Blameless, The Nebraska Supreme Court gave a decision in favor of the Omaha National Bank in the case wherein the State of Nebraska sued for the recovery of $210,(XX), the proceeds of a warrant presented by former State Treasurer Joseph S. Bartley. It was on the cashing of this warrant that Bartley -was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary. Seven Men Killed in Wreck. As a result of a rear-end eollisioff between a passenger train and a freight train on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Cochrane station, just above Duquesne, Pa., seven men are dead, one fatally hurt, and five others are injured. Four of the men were roasted alive. The accident was caused by the carelessness of a freight brakeman, who has fled. Cole Younger Seeks Pardon. Cole Younger applied to the Minnesota board pf pardons for a full pardon. He has been on parole from the State prison for a year nnd n»half. The terms of the parole forbid him to leave the State or to exercise any rights of citizenship. The purpose of this application is to enable Younger to return to his old home in Missouri. Small Blaze Claims Four Victims. Fire iu the Hotel Somerset in Chicago caused the loss of four lives—those of a mother and three daughters. The flames were confined to five rooms on the fifth floor, but they burned so fiercely for a few minutes that the victims were unable to escape, three being overcome in the building, while the fourth jumped from a window and was killed. ; Powers Sign Joint Threatening Note. At a meeting in Pekin nil the foreign ministers except Minister Conger signed the joint note informing the Chinese government that a failure to fulfill its obligations to pay the war indemnity on n gold basis, as provided for by the peace protocol, would entail grave consequences. Girl Sells Her Inheritance Right. With the possibility of beriming a countess nnd the heiress of nn Italian nobleman. Miss Florence I. Bruton of Alameda, Cal., 18 years old. hns bartered her inhrritanceirigbts for $9,000 in American gold. , Eighteen Perish at Sea. News of the wreck of the Norwegian bark, Priuce Arthur, and the death by drowning of eighteen of the crew was received. The Prince Arthur was bound from Valparaiso, for British Columbia to load coal. Toy Pistols Killed Many. The roll of victims who met death by lockjaw as a result of burns inflicted by toy pistols during the holidays reached seventeen when 9-year-old Frank Hume of Portsmouth. Va., died of his injuries. Aoonymoua Gift of SIO,OOO. An anonymous gift of SIO,OOO to a proposed fund for a memorial to Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in New York ha* been made. It is expected the fund will reach a total of SIOO,OOO. Hundred* in Fare Panic. One of the moot disastrous fires in th* history of Ixindon. Ont., occurred in th* bls phot of the McClary Manufacturing

Company. A boy working in the stamping department dropped a burning match into an oil vat and with a report like a cannon the oil burst in a sheet of flame and spread over the first-floor. The employes rushed from the building in a panic. The loss is $300,000. WRONG WOMAN IS SUSPECTED. Mrs. Laura Stackhouse of Marietta, Ohio, Confesses to Crime. Mrs. Laura Stackhouse, alias Laura Miller, alias Irean Monsell, has confessed at Marietta, Ohio, that she was the woman who has been using _tbe mails for fraudulent purposes in advertising that she was seeking a husband and then securing money from men who answered. The arrest of Mrs. Stackhouse clears Mrs. D. O. Hazelrigg, wife of a prominent oil operator of Williamstown, W. Va., who had been held under surveillance by mistake. The women are said to be “doubles,” frequently having been mistaken for each other on trains and at meetings, as well as at the postoffice. MONEY LENDER IS KILLED. Pittsburg Man Robbed and His Skull Fractured in an Alley. Andrew Overick, proprietor-of a Polish boarding house, a -broker and a money lendeb, was found unconscious in Mulberry alley, Pittsburg, with his ■. kull fractured. He did not regain consciousness and died the other day at the West Penn hospital. Overick always carried large sums, and as his pockets were rifled, the police are inclined to think his murderer made a rich haul. A former boarder is suspected and the police are looking for him. Overick was 32 years old and married. STRIKES GOLD) DIES OF JOY. Prospector After Making a. Rich Discovery Expires on the Spot. David Thompson, one of the best known prospectors in-the Black bills, over which country he has hunted gold for seventeen years, the other day struck a ledge of great richness, and after tdn minutes of demonstrations of delight fell to the ground in a fit. A few moments later he was dead. An examination made later by physicians showed a blood vessel in the brain to have been ruptured. Blind from Face Powder. Miss Nellie Sullivan, a nurse, while weeping at the funeral of her grandmother in Middlebury, Vt., brushed some face powder,into her eyes - with her handkerchief. A few days later she became blind and went, to a hospital. It is stated that the powder had ruined the sight of one eye and there was but little hope of saving the other. Gives $1,500,000 Hospital. Henry Phipps, formerly a partner of Andrew Carnegie, has given $1,500,000 to establish in New York an- institution for the study and prevention of tuberculosis, which will be called by his name. The donation was given in the form of $300,000 cash, with the rest of the sum as an endowment with an annuity provision. Rejected Actor Ends Life. William J. Percival, leading man with the Metropolitan stock company, and known on the stage ns Jack Landon, killed himself in the presence “of Miss Anna Nelson, the leading lady of the company, because she refused to marry him. The company was playing at Greenwood, Neb. Know Hits the Trusts. Attorney General Knox, on request of Senator Hoar and Congressman Littlefield, has submitted a remedy for trust evils, including a law against rate discrimination and interstate commerce in products of illegal combines. Action by Congress seems unlikely. Carnegie Library in Washington. The public library for which Andrew Carnegie gave $350,000 was dedicated at Washington with addresses by donor and President Roosevelt. The former had given 730 library buildings and plans to donate 800 others now asked for. Nebraska Woman Held for Trial. After a preliminary hearing which lasted ten days Mrs. Lena Lillie, charged with the killing of her husband on the night of Oct. 24. was held to the District Court in SIO,OOO bonds at David City, Neb. The bond was at once furnished. Cleveland Y. M. C. A. Suffers. Fire partly destroyed the central building of the Young Men’s Christian Association at Cleveland. The losses to the association and to merchants occupying stores on the ground floor, will aggregate SIOO,OOO. The fire started in the kitchen. Fire at Leroy* N. Y. Leroy, N. Y., suffered a fire loss of $75,000. The fire was caused by n gas explosion in the rooms of the S. Oatka Mose Company. The postotfice was burned and much mail destroyed. The Lampson House block nlso was burned. Business Block Burns. The new Houlton block, containing Houlton’s bank, the opera house, three general stores and postoffice, was burned nt Elk The loss la $75,(XX), partly insured. Business Conditions Satisfactory. Weekly trade reviews report proinptcollect ions nnd satisfactory business conditions, fuel shortage being the only disturbing element. Nebraska Rank Robbed. The Bank of Louisville, Neb., was broken into and robbed of $4,200. The robl»er» drilled into the safe from the rear, avoiding the burglar alarm. Daniel H. Haitian Dead. Ex-Gov. Daniel H. Hastings died at Bellefonte, Pa., of pienro-pnenmoaia, after M illness of four days.

ROBBEXS WORSTED IN BATTLE. Citizens, of Eagle, Wis., Wound Ona Thief and Capture Another. As a result of an early morning encounter between a posse of Eagle, Wis., citizens and a gang of four burglars atid safe blowers four miles from that village, one robber was shot probably fatally, one was captured and the other two escaped. At 2 o’clock in the morning the robbers broke into the Witham livery stable and stole a horse and a double cutter, starting toward Mukwonago. The theft was discovered and the owner started after the robbers with a party of four, overtaking them near a clump of woods. The robbers nt once opened fire, which was returned by the posse, with the result that one was heard to scream and later, on their attempting to escape, fell. Another was captured and the other two escaped to the woods. The man vflio was captured had on his person two bottles of nitroglycerin and a complete set of burglar tools and two revolvers. HER HUSBAND’S BODY PICKLED. Mrs. Mclnerney's Long Search in Omaha and Chicago Rewarded. Mrs. Daniel Mclnerney’s long search for the body of her husband led her to Omaha and back again to Chicago's various hospitals and ended when she viewed the “pickled” remains in the dissecting room of the' anatomy department of the University of Chicago. Mclnerney is said to have died last September in the Cook County hospital in Chicago, and as •no one called to claim his body, it was given to Rush Medical College, being later transferred to the big school on the Midway. Though the Mclnerneys are said to have been estranged for a number of years, the object of the woman’s search was to give the body decent burial. She was granted permission to take the body away. Railroads’ City Land Can Be Assessed. Judge Newnham, of the Superior Court, handed down an important decision at Grand Rapids, Mich., affecting ■city taxation of railroad lands. It is the case of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad against the city. The city wins out in its contention that lands heretofore regarded as railroad lands, but used for other purposes, can be assessed. Woman Acquitted of Murder Charge. Mrs. Mary Katie Brown, of Clinton, Ind., who was charged with murdering Mrs. W. F. McDonald, was acquitted. The women took up a quarrel in which their children engaged, and Mrs. McDonald attacked Mrs. Brown with a poker, when the latter shot her. The jury was out only a few minutes. Street Cars in > Crash. Twelve persons were injured in a street car collision at Grand avenue and Palm street, St. Louis, oye being hurt internally. The accident'was caused by an x>pen emergency switch throwing a north-bound car to the other track in front of a swiftly moving south-bound car. Many Perish in Lisbon. A dispatch from Lisbon says that the whole city was thrown into a panic, owing, to the bursting of the reservoirs in the northern part of the town. The low lying districts were completely inundated, and many persons have perished. A large number of buildings were destroyed. Carrie Nation Causes Woe. Dr. J. T. McFarland, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, the largest church in Topeka, Kan., was fined SIOO by the police judge'for contempt of court. Dr. McFarland severely rebuked the judge in open court for a fine imposed on Mrs. Nation. Millinery Stores Raided. A great surprise was sprung in Toledo, Ohio, when a lot of deputy game wardens made a general tour of the city, visiting every millinery store and seizing quantities of wings and portions of birds that are within the class specified by the game laws of Ohio as not game birds. Hunter Acquitted at Guatemala. Advices have been received from Guatemala that W. Godfrey Hunter. Jr., son of the retiring minister to Guatemala, has been acquitted by a native • court of the murder of William A. Fitzgerald, also an American citizen and former resident of Grand Rapids, Mich. Widow rs Noted Sonss Writer Earned. Mrs. Wylie, the widow of Stephen Q. Foster, the famous writer of old melodies, including “Old Folks nt Home,” was probably fatally burned at Pittsburg. While sitting in front of nn open fireplace the flames coinmuuicated to her clothing. Emma Calve Will Marry. It is announced in Paris that Emma Calve, the prima donna, will shortly marry Jules Bois. a journalist. Her marriage will not prevent Mme. Calve from fulfilling her engagement in tbo United States next season. Fire Loes nt Fargo, N. D. At Fargo, N. D., fire destroyed the Edwards building, owned by Alexander Stern & Co., and occupied by nntnerona 4>usiuess firms. The total loss is esfL mated at $200,000, with insurance ok $135,000. _____ Asthma Victim a Suicide. William Vohslage. 37 years old, on optician, formerly of San Francisco, but for the last three months a resident of Montclair, N. J., committed suicide by shooting himself in the left breast Ha was a victim of asthma. Sells Land for $1 <IOO,OOO. According to an agreement which has been placed on record E. J., known as “Lucky,? Baldwin ha* contracted with CoL Albert De teur of Loa Angeles, Cat, for the sale of lands within Rancho La Puente for $1,200,000.

KNOX ON MONOPOLIES.

Attorney General Benda Message to Congressional Committee. Attorney General Knox submitted a communication to the subcommittee of the House committee on judiciary which is endeavoring to formulate a measure to regulate trusts. This communication is in reply to a request of Chairman Littlefield. ‘ - It deals exhaustively with the subject, the Attorney General's recent Pittsburg speech. Attorney General Knox’s answer is under three heads, namely: The questions which have been decided by the courts, the questions which are pending in the courts, and suggestions respecting further legislation. In introducing his recommendations he says: “The end desired by the qverwlielming majority of the people ofall sections of the country is that combinations of capital should be regulated and hot destroyed and that measures should be taken to correct the tendency toward monopolization of the industrial business of the country. I assume a thing to be avoided, even by suggestion, is legislation regulating the business interests of the country beyond such as will accomplish this •nd. “In my judgment, a monopoly in nny industry would be impossible in this country where money is abundant and cheap and in the hands or within the reach of keen and capable men, if competition were assured of a fair and open field and protected against unfair and artificial and incriminating practices. “If the law will guarantee to the small producer protection against piratical methods in competition and keep the highways to’ the markets open and available to him for the same tolls charged to his powerful competitors lie will manage to live and thrive to an astonishing degree.” Coming down to the suggestions asked for and desired by the committee he says: “My suggestion, therefore, islhat as a first step in a policy to be persistently pursued until every industry, large and small, in the country can be assufed of equal rights and opportunities and until the tendency to monopolization of the important industries of the ; country is checked, that all discriminatory practices affecting interstate trade be made offenses to be enjoined and punished. “Such legislation should be directed against those who give and those who receive the advantages thereof and coverdiscrimination in prices as against competitors in particular localities resorted to for'the purpose of destroying competition in interstate and foreign trade, as well as discrimination by carriers. “Such legislation to certainly reach producers guilty of practices injurious to national and international commerce should, In my judgment, take the form of penalizing the transportation of the goods produced by the guilty parties and the federal courts should be given power to restrain stlch transportation at the suit of government.”

PRESIDENT ON TRUSTS.

Statement by Roosevelt Points Out Some Evils and Remedies. President Roosevelt has mado known the attitude of his administration regarding trusts and combinations. A statement which follows closely the recommendations made by Attorney General Knox to the judiciary committees of the Senate aud the House was given out at the White House and is as follows: The people do not desire the business of the country to be interfered with beyond the regulation necessary to control combinations where .they act Improperly and to correct any tendency toward monopoly. In this country, where money Is cheap and abundant and within the reach of keen and capable men, monopoly will be Impossible if competition Is kept free. Small enterprises have certain advantages over large combinations and will live and thrive if assured of nn open and fair field. Rebates and discriminatory rates constitute one of the chief restrictions on competition. They unjustly swell the earnings of favored concerns and, supporting a vast volume of capital stock which represents nothing but unfair advantage over rivals, contribute largely to the upbuilding of monopoly. The administration recommends Immediate legislation: That all discriminatory practices affecting Interstate trade be made offenses to be enjoined and punished. Such legislation to be directed alike against those who give and those who receive Illegal advantages, and to cover discrimination in prices as against competitors In particular localities resorted to for the purpose of destroying competition. In order to reach producers guilty of these offenses who are as producers merely beyond national control a penalty should be Imposed upon the interstate aud foreign transportation of good* produced by them, and federal courts should be given power to restrain such transportation at the government's suit. Such legislation Is necessary because the existing Interstate commerce law does not give an effective remedy in this class of cases against either shipper or carrier. The casus omissus in the Interstate commerce act should now be supplied by imposing a penalty upon carrier and beneficiary alike and by giving to the courts the right to restrala all such Infraction* of the law. The prohibition against carrier* should be limited to those subject to th* act to regulate commerce. Only carriers operating a line of railroad or a rail and water line as one line are required to publish their rates and adhere to them. It Is Impracticable to control lines operating wholly by water. Rates of water transportation are necessarily open to the freest competition, are Invariably low by comparison and thus naturally furnish the standard of reasonableness without express regulation. It should be made unlawful to transport traffic by carriers subject to the Interstate commerce act at a less rate than the published rate and all who participate in violating the law should be punished. Provision should also be made to reach corporations and combinations which produce wholly within a State, but who** product* enter interstate commerce. Thl* provision should relate, first, to concerns which fatten on rebate*, second to concerns which sell commodities below the general price In particular localities or in any other way In particular localities seek to destroy competition.

Emma Calve Will Marry.

It I* announced In Pari* that Emma Calve, the prima donna, will shortly marry Jules Bols, a journalist Her marriage will not prevent Mme. Calve from fulfilling her engagement in the United State* next aeason.

Sparks from the Wires.

Heavy rains about Memphis, Tenn., did $500,000 damage. Mrs. Lyde Ward, 53, St. Louis, turned on the gas. Dead. Wreck on B. & 0., Oakland, Md., injured six passengers. Rockefeller lias given another $1,000,000 to Chicago University. King Edward will, It has been announced. visit Ireland next year. Miss Clara Barton has boon elected president for life of the National Bed Cross Society. w

CONGRESS

In the Senate on Tuesday the Vest Finance to prepare and report a bill removing the duty on anthracite coal was considered. Mr. Vest (Mo.) defended his resolution at length. Mr. Hoar delivered his address in defense of his anti-trust bill. Mr. Nelsorr (Mino.) then resumed his speech on the omnibus statehood bill. Soon after Mr. Nelson began to speak, Mr. Beveridge suggested the absence of a quorum, and only forty Senators responded. It took half an hour to secure a quorum, and Mr. Nelson had not concluded his speech when the Senate went into executive session and soon afterward adjourned. In the House the general staff bill was passed by a vote of 153 to 52, after a great deal of debate. The most important amendment was one by Mr. Warner (Ill.) striking out the words “Secretary of War” wherever they appear in the bill. After the general staff bill had been disposed of six members in succession, Messrs. Cooper (Wis.), Lamb (Va.), Morrell (Pa.t, Burk (Pa.), Cassell (Pa.), and Adams (Pa.), arose and denied published reports to the effect that they had joined with other members to “pool” their clerical work. A number of bills of a minor character were passed, the most important being one to increase the pension of soldiers totally deaf from S3O to S4O per month. The Senate on Wednesday discussed the bill for the reorganization of the militia and also the statehood bill. Mr. Mallory led the Democratic Senators in opposition to the section of the militia bll providing for a reserve force of trained men, the contention being that it not only' infringed the rights of the several States, but also increased the standin;’ army by 100,000 men. A resolution offered by Mr. Stewart was adopted, directing the committee on the District of Columbia to make inquiry regarding the wholesale and retail price of coal in Washington nnd to ascertain whether the scarcity of coal is the result of failure in shipments to Washington or whether there is any lack of prompt and ellicient distribution among the people. The session of the House lasted a little more then two hours. The Senate bill for the redemption of the silver coinage of the Hawaiian Islands and its. recoinage... into United States coin was passed after an hour’s debate. It provides fur the redemption of silver coins by being received either in Hawaii or the United States in the payment of dues. Standard silver coins of the United States tpay be exchanged for coin of Hawaii at their face value. Hawaiian silver coins will be legal tender until Jan. 1, 1904, Ha-

waiian silver certificates shall be redeemed before Jan. 1, 1905* ami thereafter they cannot lawfully circulate as money. Several bills of minor importance were passed. In the Senate on Thursday a House bill was passed amending the internal revenue laws allowing all distilled spirits now in bonded warehouses, or which may hereafter be produced and deposited therein, the same allowance for loss from leakage or evaporation .which now exists in favor of distilled spirits gauged and deposited prior to Jan. 1, 1899. Mr. Al- - dricli (R. I.) then addressed the Senate on the resolution offered by Mr. Vest (Mo.), directing the Finance Committee to report a bill removing the duty en anthracite coal. Mr. Nelson (Minn.) continued his remarks against the omnibus statehood bill. A few minor bills were passed, and the Senate adjourned until Monday. The House passed the Philippine constabulary bill as it was reported from the committee, except for an amendment limiting the number, of assistant chiefs to font. A roll call was demanded on the third reading of the bill, which was ordered, 401 to 83. The bill then was passed. The resignation of Mr. Lanham, of Texas, who has been elected Governor of Texas, was laid before the House. The resignation is to take effect Jan. 15. Friday was private pension day in the House, nnd 144 bills were passed, none of especial importance. Mr. Russell (Texas) the successor of the late Mr. Graffenreid, criticised the House for undue haste in the consideration of private pension legislation, and precipitated quite a debate. He called attention to the fact that since the Civil War 10,000 special bills had been passed by Congress; over 1,000 of these in the first session of the present Congress. In reply Mr. Lacey (Iowa) called attention to the fact that the cases before Congress were cases in which the general pension laws could not give relief. The fact that only 10.000 bills had passed in forty years; be thought, sufficient proof of the care and discrimination which had been exercised by Congress. Mr. Hull (Iowa), chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, reported the military appropriation bill. The Speaker laid before the House the resignation of Mr. Lanham (Texas) from the Judiciary Committee, and announced the appointment of Mr. Henry (Texas) to fill the vacancy.

In the National Capital.

House committee will report favorably the Fowler currency bill. William E. Curtis snys there will be no definite trust legislation at present session of Congress. Senator Cullom, it is said, is convine. ed that bis bill for trust regulation will be smothered in committee. Representative Hepburn and. Senator Morgan have joined forces in an attempt to find out cost of canal commission. Director of the Mlut Roberts estimates production of gold in the United States in 1902 nt $80,853,070, and of silver at $31,040,025. William E. Curtis says fresh delay in signing the Panama canal treaty mny exhaust the patience of the United States and negotiations with Nicaragua are likely to result. Rear Admiral John C. Watson declares United States must enlarge navy to keep pace with widening interests and favors authorization of six new fighting craft by present Congress. John 11. Fimple of Ohio will succeed W. A. Richards as assistant commissioner of the land office, the latter having been chosen to succeed Binger HerrmaniJ as commissioner.