Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1904 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, ■ • INDIANA.

MAN EATS RAW OATS.

FOND DU LAC JEWELER GROWS TO LIKE STRANGE DIET. Stomach Disorder Impels Him to Tukin£ Course of Food Which Finally Benefits Him-Kobs Telephone Booth for Fuads to Bury Child. '•I could easily subsist on $2 n month." was the statement made by Henry Lobb, the North Fond du Lac (Wis.) jeweler who has been experimenting in dieting for several months. At the present time lie consumes, as a daily ration, one gallon of milk, raw oats such as are fid to horses and corn. In order to aid digestion he puts Ids victuals through a coffee grinder and sometimes soaks them in water. He drinks all the water he cares for. In the summer time he egts fruit ami takes salt, but no pepper J.nd n.> sugar. He eats but two meals a day. It was for the benefit of his health that Mr, Lobb began his strange diet, and lie lias become fond of it. To aid him in his purpose his wife has taken, in a large measure, to her husband's bill of fare, on which she is improving in health. |r. Lobb has gained in weight to the extent of over thirty-five pounds in a few months, and states that the stomach trouble with which he used to.be 'afflicted has left him entirely. HOBS TO BURY HIS CHILD. Sinn Arrested at Kansas City Given Liberty by Soft-Hearted Police. Charles Gartman was arrested in Kansas City in the net of robbing a public telephone box of SB. “What are you crying about, you big baby?’’ asked a policeman when he saw tears gather in the eyes of the prisoner as he was being searched at the station. “There is a dead baby at my house,” the man answered in a voice broken by sobs, “and my wife is sick. I did not have a cent to bury the child.” Investigation proved Gartman's story true, whereupon the - captain released him and told him to go home. OHIO ELECTRIC lines merge. Combination to Be Effected with Capitalization of $5,000,003. Arrangements have been practically completed for the consolidation under the name of the Ohio Union Traction Company of the following electric roads: Central Market Street Railway of Columbus; Columbus, London and Springfield Railway; Springfield and Urbana Railway; Urbana, Bellefontaine and Northern Railway. The four companies (operate about 200 miles of track and have a total capitalization of $5,000,000.

American Army the Finest. Lord Wolseley, writing concerning the falling off of recruits for the British army, says: “The American army is the only one I know of which, like our own, is obtained upon a system of voluntary enlistment. But the American government, wiser than our own, pays their ' men well, and the result is that the American army, as far as it goes in numbers, is, I believe, the finest army in the world.’’ Ships Crash in Clear Day. In brighe weather the Wilson line steamship Colorado, Captain Cox, from Hull, while proceeding up the lower bay at New York, collided with the outwardbound Bristol City line steamer Boston City. The Colorado tore a large hole in the port side of tlie Boston City. The Boston City began to fill rapidly and was inn into shallow water to prevent its sinking. Thirty Perish on the Desert. Thirty bodies of men who perished in the Nevada desert from thirst and hunger have been found by a body of surveyors who are an advance party of the new San Pedro. Los Angeles and Salt Lake Hailroad. They died while attempting the waste area that stretches i a distance of eighty miles from Las Vegas to the California line. Mrs. Maybrick Is Released. Mrs. Florence E. May brick has been released from prison by order of King Edward, after having served fourteen and a half years of a life sentence for the alleged poisoning of her husband. Plana White Negro Race. Dr. J. W. Hill, a physician of South Bend, Ind.,, believes he can change the skin of the negro and produce n white race and a test is to be made of his theory.

Condition of Chicano Trade. Dun's review of the condition of Chicago’s trade shows the situation to be satisfactory and the prospects for the future to be unusually bright. It. & <>. Kugincer Killed. In a collision’ between n Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern passenger train and a freight train near Cullom's Station, Ohio, Engineer George M miser was killed. Tilbury Found Not Guilty. A jury in Judge Dunne's court in Chicago found James (J. Tilbury not guilty of charges of extortion and blackmail made by Mrs. Hollis M. Thurston. Operation Upon W. C. Whitney. William c. Whitney underwent an operation for appendicitis nt New York and is rei>ortcd to be recovering satisfactorily from the shock. Manila Short of Fuel. The prohibition of coal exports by the Japanese government threatens to create a fuel famine in Manila. ■ 1 v ■ Persian Premier Called Back. Ex-Premier Ali Asghnr Khan Atnberk Asa tn, who is reiiorted to have fled from Persia upon losing office, has been called back from America by the Shah to resume the reins of power. Omaha Rd I tor la Married. Miss Katie Katz, daughter of Mr. nnd Mrs. Kaufman Kats, nnd Victor Rosewater wege married at noon nt the home of the bride’s parents in Baltimore, Md. The groom is editor of the Omaha Bee. of which hie father, Edward Rosewaterproprietor. i

FROM THE FOVR QVARTERS OF THE EARTH.

LOSS BY FIRE IS $250,000. Between Twelve and Fifteen Million Feet of Lumber Destroyed. Half a square mile of glowing embers was all that remained Thursday of one of the largest lumber yards in JJJorth Tonawanda, N. Y., after one of the worst fires in the history of the place. The north end of Tonawanda Island was swept by the flames and between 12,000,000 and 15,000.000 feet of lumber, valued at $250,000, was destroyed. The heaviest loser is the firm of White. Rider & Frost, whose loss will amount td~ $225,~ 990. Other firms that suffered are W. W. Tyler & Co. and the Company. The fire-started in the White, Rider & Frost yard shortly before midnight and soon was beyond control. Appeals for assistance were sent to Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Lockport,-but before aid arrived hundreds of thousands, of feet of lumber were blazing. All the men available were set at work removing lumber 'to make, a clear passageway across the island from east to west. The work was completed at 7 o'clock, just as the hurricane of flame reached the cleared space. There was no wind and at 9 o'clock the danger was past. The fire is believed to have been incendiary because oil-soaked, burning waste was found in several places. FIFTEEN FALL TO DEATH. Case at Stratton’s Tn dependence Mine, Victor, Colo., in Terrible Descent. As the result of an accident that occurred in Stratton's Independence mine, near the center of Victor, Colo., .fifteen men are dead and one other is severely injured. In the main shaft sixteen men were being hoisted in a- cage from the sixth, seventh and eighth levels. When the cage reached the surface the engineer was unable to stop the engine, and the cage, with its load, was drawn up into the gallows frame, where it became lodged temporarily. The strain on the cable caused it to part, and the cage shot down the shaft. Two of the occupants, L. I*. Jackson and James Bullbek, had become entangled in the timber rods near the top of the gallows frame. Jackson was crushed to death by the sheave wiieel falling upon him, while Bullbek had a marvelous escape from death, but received painful injuries. The other men were hurled to death down the 1,500-foot shaft. INDIANS THREATEN TO RAID. Say They Will Leave Nothing Alive but Birds and Snakei. Runners-in from Texanna. I. T., report an uprising among the full-blood Indians of the Cherokees and ask the protection of the officers for the whites who live in that country. The Cherokees belong to the Ketoowah band, which has opposed the government in the allotting of lands. They have left their homes around Poorman's Glip and gone to Greenleaf mountains-, where they threaten to raid and “leave nothing alive but the birds and snakes.” Runners are going constantly between the Ketoowahs and the Snakes atid they are trying to get their forces together. If thi,s is done bloodshed is feared. The. Sn!rl»s and the Ketoowahs led the uprising in 1890. Former Mayor Ames Released. The prison sentence over Dr. Albert A. Ames, former Mayor of Minneapolis and central figure in one of the most'sensational stories of civic corruption ever recorded in the United States, has been -removed. The verdict in the lower court which sent the ex-Mayor to Stillwater penitentiary was overthrown by the Supreme Court of Minnesota on the ground of lack of proof. Sewer Makes 560 Pick. Since Jun. 1 560 cases of typhoid fever have been reported in Columbus, Ohio, and there been nineteen deaths from the disease. The health authorities claim the prevalence of the disease is due to contamination of the water in the Scioto river at the west side pumping station by leakage from a sewer at the Columbus State hospital. Chicago's Mayor Is Released. Mayor Harrison of Chicago, by order of Judge Tiithii! in habeas corpus proceedings. was discharged from the custody of the sheriff, was declared to have v no part of blame for the Iroquois disaster, nnd the coroner’s jury was censured for having gone beyond the evidence nnd the facts in holding the Mayor to the grand jury. Killed by Moro Traitors. It has been learned that Lieut. Campbell W. Finke of the Twenty-second infantry was killed while trying to enter Moro Cdtta, in Mindanao, for the purpose of examining the locality. Lieut. Flake was shot treacherously, the Moros firing into the party while Major Bullard vas parleying with them. Eaten by Wolves in Forest. The mystery of the disappearance of J. C. Sullivan of Minneapolis from Black Duck, Minn., last spring has been solved by the finding of his bones in tlie forest of the Little Fork country, where he had gone to locate a claim. He hnd evidently been eaten by wolves. Fire Drives n Janitor Crazv. Crazed by brooding over the Chicago theater fire, Frank Nelson, for twenty years janitor of Forepattgh’s Theater in Philadelphia, was taken to the Philadelphia hospital, leaving his wife nnd five children destitute nt their little home. Wreck Near Brokonbnw, Neb. s 1 Two train hands were killed In a rearend collision lietween two Burlington freight trains near Brokenliow. Neb. Taylor, a fireman, nnd an unknown brnkemnn are the dead. Independent' Brewer n Suicide. Carl Corper, 62 years old president of the Carl Corper Brewing Company and tor many year* prominent In Chicago

German circles, committed suicide in the : office of his brewery by shooting himself j in the right temple with a revolver. 11l i health and the recent appointment of a 1 receiver to conduct his brewery are sup- ' posed to have caused Mr. Corper to become despondent. ST. LOUIS CARS IN COLLISION. More than a Score of People Crushed, Seine of 1 hem Fatally. More than twenty persons were injured, some of them fatally, when two cars on the Broadway line collided in St. l.i.uis. Both cars were north bound -and—traveling in tt--fog so- densethat itr was impossible to make out an object as_ far as a- block away. The accident occurred vvhile the front car was stationary, owing to a quarrel between the conductor and a passenger over a fare. The second car was coming at high speed through the fog, the motorman, Christopher Juergin, ringing his gong. None of the 100 passengers on the two cars knew that the accident was impending until the crash came. The second car crashed through the rear of the front one until it reached almost the middle of it. The dozen or more passengers on the rear platform of the front car were jammed together under the rear car. Motorman Juergin caught the full force of the collision. He was cut and bruised and his back was broken.

TO SAVE THE DANISH ISLANDS. Association Formed in Copenhagen to Prevent Sale of Possessions. The “Danish Atlantic Islands’ Association” has been formed in Copenhagen with the object of arousing the nation’s interest in its outlying possessions and preventing the diminution by sale or otherwise of. territory under Danish sovereignty. The movement originated at the time of the proposed sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States and has been strengthened by the reports that Canada desired to purchase Greenland. Many members of the Danish nobility are among the leaders of this agitation for the retention of the Danish West Indies, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Iceland. THOUGHT DEAD; RETURNS ALIVE. Pratt, Supposed Drowned Two Years Ago, Reappears. Two years ago in April friends of James Pratt saw his coffin lowered into a grave at Bemidji, Minn. Pratt arrived in that city the other day alive and.well. He was supposed to have been drowned and a body which was recovered from Lake Bemidji was identified ns his. On the morning of the accident it happened that Pratt left for the Pacific coast. He did not write his friends and was thought to be dead until his appearance. Nothing concerning the identity of the man buried in bis place can be learned. J. G. FARWELL KILLS HIMSELF. Son of Prominent Detroit Capitalist Ends Life - No Reason Assigned. Jeremiah G. Farwell, son of one of the most prominent capitalists of Detroit, died at Harper hospital from a bullet, wound through his stomach, Cred, it is Supposed, with suicidal intent. He was found at the Woodward avenue ear barns with blood flowing from the wound and a revolver beside him. No motive for suicide is known. Mr. Farwell was 36 years old. Queer fentenc: on Alleged Forger. James Benton, an alleged manipulator of crooked checks, was received at the prison from Indianapolis under an indeterminate sentence of from one minute to five years. This is the first sentence of the kind that has come to the knowledge’ of the prison officials. The board of parole can release the mnn immediately if it likes.

Drouth Fatal to Stock. Thousands of cattle and sheep are dying in southern California as a result of the drouth, which is unprecedented in the history of the section. The hay crop is a failure owing to the lack of rain. Hay is being imported from the middle West in large quantities. Kansas Bay Scalded to Death. Elmer Gardner, a student at the State Agricultural College in Manhattan, Kan., wafi scalded to death by falling into Mi pump pit that furnishes hot water for the institution. The earth caved in, precipitating him into the boiling water. Fuspectc ! of S hafer Mureer. Harry Behr has been arrested in Louisville, charged with the murder of Miss Sarah C. Schafer, the Bedford, Ind., school teacher. His clothing is blood stained and his face scratched. The stories of his movements are conflicting. Kintr Alfonso in Danger. A report from Madrid is [hat during King Alfonso's levee nt the palace, the police discovered an infernal machine underneath n bench near the doorway of the palace. Poor Health of Po-e. Pope Pius’ health is declared to be poor, and already there is talk in church circles of summoning a conclave. The pontiff is declared .to be suffering from physical depression. Lumberman Kittel by Employe. Joseph Walters, operating n sawmill near Bussell, Ky., for the Pendergast Lumber Company, was ar lulled and killed with a crowbar by Alfred Keaton, nn employe. Keaton escaped. Root Succeeded by Taft. Secretary Root hns taken formal leave of the cabinet and his successor, William 11. Taft, has been greeted. Frozen to Death In Bed. Henry Mertz, an old man living alone at Linwood. Mijun.,-'was found dead in bed. He had been frozen to death.

VERDICT FREES WOMAN. Ln'u Prince Kennedy-Kramer Acquit" te I of Murder of Hu.bnnl. Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy-Kranier, on trial a second time for the murder, in January. 15)01, of her first husband, Philip H. Kennedy, was found not guilty by a jury in Kansas City. At her first trial Mrs. Kramer was convicted ami sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. The case was reversed, and during her release on bond last February she married .JLohn Kramer, an attorney who had defended her brother, .Will Prince, laid- convicted on a charge., of. conspiring, with the defendnirtrßYEHT Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy killed Kennedy, who was local agent for the Merchants’ Dispatch Transportation Company, a month after they had been married. He hnd refused to live with her, bringing suit to have the marriage annulled on the ground that he had been forced into it. The first verdict was reversed on a technicality. Mrs. Kennedy’s defense was emotional insanity, and evidence was presented to show that her grandfather and greatgrandfather died in insane asylums in New Hampshire and Connecticut. PISTOL DUEL WITH BURGLAR. St. Louis Driißsist Kills One Robber and Wotindi Another. Awakened from slumber by the barking of his pet dos. Paul W. Deichman ran from his sleeping room into his drug store in St. Louis and there fought a pistol duel with one burglar and instantly killed another over whom he stumbled. Eight shots were exchanged, all at close range. The burglar whom Deichman first encountered fled when tlie druggist turned and killed his companion, but it is believed that he, too, was wounded. Outs'ide the store he stumbled, but escaped, with a third man who had acted as “lookout.” Deichman’s drug store is the Cass branch of the postoffice and is known to do a heavy business in money orders, registered letters and stamps. SAVES LIFE OF LITTLE BROTHER. Omaha Lad Likely to Die as Resalt of Burns in Rescuing Baby. With his own clothing aflame. Howard Ambrose, 12 years old, saved the life of his 4-year-old -brother Perry from a fire that burned the Ambrose dwelling in Omaha. Howard Ambrose is seriously burned and his death is likely. The boys had been left at play by the mother. When the fire started Howard dragged his brother through the flames, and mistaking a cupboard door for an exit, got caught in a little room. Neighbors res'cued both. - * > LAD TELLS OF MURDER. Frank Czepk, One of Chicago Bandits, Makes a Confession. One of the three youths arrested for the murder of Mathew • Daniels in Chicago made a full confession to the police and boasted of many robberies. The prisoner, Frank Czepk, declared Frapk Ray killed Daniels in tlie saloon at 1005 North Hoyne avenue, and said his other comrade, Joseph Dolinski, fired two shots. Czepk denies firing a revolver. The police also secured from Czepk confessions to seventeen other robberies.

Women to Have Club House. Athletic women in New York society are about to put into operation plans for a club lros.se which they have talked of for a year. 'The York Athletic Club will be incorporated in a few days and the land has. been bought for the site of a club house. The subscribers are the husbands, brothers -and fathers of thapvome« interested in the project, wWh will cost about §250.000. Trap Mafia Robbers. « Three men who are hlleged to be members of a Mafia organization known as the Red Cross Society were caught at Newark, N. J., in a trap which had been set for them. The trap was sprung when they went to a lawyer’s office for the purpose, it is charged, of collecting SI,OOO blackmail from Samuel Russo. Colombia Plans War on Panama, News has reached Panama from Bogota that inasmuch as Gens. Reyes and Cavallero have assured Colombia that the United States will only object to her landing forces in the canal zone, the Colombian government intends to organize and send an expedition against Panama. Ohio Adopts a State Flower. The Ohio House of Representatives adopted a joint resolution offered by Representative Hill of Columbiana County making the scarlet carnation tlie State flower. The concurrence of the Senate is assured. The scarlet carnation was a favorite of the lute President McKinley.

War Preparations Arc Muking. Russia daily is pouring 7,000 men eastward along the line of the Siberian Railroad. Germany nnd Denmark nro said to have agreed in case of war between Russia nnd Japan to effectually blockade the Baltic. Not Guilty of Kmbesxlcinent. J. R. Heino, who has been on trial in the United States court in St. Paul on charge of having embezzled $1,500 of government money while cashier of the local customs office, was given a verdict in his favor by the jury. Wlilte Postmaster for Indianola. The Indianola (Miss.) postoffice case has been settled by the appointment of W. B. Martin, a white man, as postmasiter, on the request of Mrs. Minnie Cox. the negress "whose appointment raised u storm. Chicago University Not Bo pt la t. President Harper in an address to University of Chicago seniors declared that institution is not Baptist, and that Jews of ChicageHnaderit possible.

MRS. MAY BRICK FREE

HER PRISON DOORS OPENED BY SPECIAL ACT. Liberation Is Finally Granted American Woman for Whom Two Continents Have Pleaded—Present Abode Unknown. Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, of London, says that Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the American woman who was serving a life sentence for having poisoned her husband, has been released from the Aylesbury female convict.prison on special license after nearly fifteen years’ imprisonment. Her mother, Baroness De Roques, the paper says, hnd visited her the previous Saturday, and evidently was the bearer of important news. The governor of the prison on Sunday conferred with the prison officials with a view to arranging for the departure of tlie prisoner, which was carried out very qujctly. Present Whereabouts Unknown. Where she now is remains a mystery which no one in authority shows any inclination to clear. Reports from various sources conflict and help to confuse those eager to learn the truth. The London Daily Mail prints a story that TSlrs. Maybrick is now in Liverpool and that the following conditions attach to her release from prison: That she will not appear on the public stage or write a book of her experiences and shall in no way endeavor to attract public attention to herself. Other newspapers announce Mi' 9 - Maybrick's

MRS. FLORENCE MAYBRICK.

removal from Aylesbury prison and express th<? belief that she will be released within two or three months. Charles Russell, the barrister who defended Mrs. Maybriek, said: “Mrs. Maybrick has been ‘released’ from Aylesbury prison and has been taken to a retreat, but where I cannot say. She will soon be restored to liberty, but I cannot tell you how soon.” Release bought for Years. For nearly fifteen years the friends of Mrs. Maybriek have sought her releas . Every possible influence has been brought to bear time and again. Influential Americans had inaugurated many movements to secure a pardon for the w.oman who, they thought, had been unjustly condemned, but all ended in failure. It was in Liverpool in August, 1889, that Mrs. Maybrick was found guilty of murdering her husband and condemned to death. This verdict the home office was induced to commute to life imprisonment.

Crime with Which She Was Charged. Mr. Maybriek was a victim of the arsenic habit. It is related by a Mr. Greenwood of Norfolk, Va M that he used it in large quantities, enough to prove fatal to a person not accustomed to its use. Mr. Maybriek was a chronic sufferer from stomach difficulties and nervous prostration. He was taken ill in July. 1889, with acute gastro-enteritis, and died after u few days’ illness. ' Mrs. Maybrick was very much disliked by tlie brothers of Mrr Maybrick, her “pert, American ways” did not please them, nnd a conspiracy was formed by them, it was alleged, to cast upon Mrs. Maybriek the suspicion of having poisoned her husband with arsenic. She was tried before an eminent judge, Fitzjatnos Stephens, and defended by the late Sir Charles Russell, afterward lord chief justice of England. Since "tli'i? trial it has been shown that this eminent judge was suffering from mental derangement at the time of the trial, which accounts for his otherwise unaccountable conduct. He displayed prejudice; even before the inquiry commenced he made on the bench a remark about the case which tlie papers next morning characterized as “a ghastly judicial joke." During the trial he fair in his rulings, harsh in his dictatorial nnd self-assertive to the jury. Ever since the trial the opinion lias been prevalent in both England and America that an innocent woman had been unjustly condemned.

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

During his hunt in Styria Emperor Franz. Josef killed ills two thousandth chamois. Sir Michael Foster line resigned the senior secretaryship of the Royal Society of Great Britain. Baron Speck von*fiternburg, ambassador to the United States, has disposed of his estate in Saxony. The area of the lands held by the Czar of Russia as an individual is greater than that of the republic of France. Lady Clifford of Chudleigh lias been interesting herself in the revival of the lace industry in Devonshire, England. The body of the late German piny wright, Gustav von Moser, was cremated, according to his directions, at Gotlin. Tolstoi Is the most widely translated author in the world. There is uo Slav dialect in which his works are not printed. Mlle, de Flaudre has been given the degree of doctor of science by the faculty of sciences of Paris, with honorable mention. . The Countess of Cromer is most popular at Cairo, Egypt, her residence being exceptionally Well suited for entertainment

CONGRESS

The time of the Senate Tuesday wa< again divided between consideration of the Panama question and other subjects. Mr. Stone of Missouri spoke to a re: o lution directing the Senate committee »n foreign relations to make an investiga- " tion into the Panama revolt. Mr. Hey burn of Idaho spoke in support of aweso lution prohibiting railroad companies from taking up land in a solid body ini lieu of land in forest reservations. The resolution presented by Mr. Tillman ask ing for information from the Secretary o' War concerning the appointment of (Ini. Wood and other army Officers was taken up and passed without debate. Representative Boutell of Illinois addressed th • lloutD for nearly two hours in reply t> Mr. Williams’ “stand pat” speech, of ■ few days ago. Mr. Williams replied t • ■ Mr. Boutoil. In the Senate Wednesday Mr. Sim mons (N. C.) spoke in favor of the Pan ama canal treaty; being the first Democratic Senator to favor the measure oa the floor. A bill granting to the citiz.on.of Porto Rico and the Philippines the right- to take advantage of thc-nattrrn! ization laws of this country was passed, but Mr. Spooner moved to reconsider th vote. The resolution giving authority t-o the committee on privileges ami elec tions to proceed with the investigatioirm' the charges against Mr. Smoot was pased. A resolution authorizing tlie Secretary of State to open negotiations with Great Britain for a revision of the joint regulations for the fur seals of Aiask.i was adopted. In the House general debate on the urgent deficiency bill digressed to a discussion of political topics. the race question and aerial navigation. Mr. Sulloway (N. H.j, chairman of the committee on invalid pensions, iutrodiiced an age and service pension bill allowing $8 a month to each soldier who served ninety days and is nbw 02 years old, $lO a month if GO years old and sl2 a month if 70 years old. When the war service was two years an addition of $2 a month in all classes is provided. The time of the Senate Thursday was devoted to debate on the attitude of the United States toward the Panama revolution and the right of the President to withhold information called for by the Senate. The foundation of the con troversy was the Democratic caucus resolution calling on the President to state whether he had yet supplied all the papers in tlie archives bearing on the Panama affair. Messrs. Culberson, Gorman and Bacon spoke on the Democratic side nnd Messrs, Cullom, Spooner and Lodge on the Republican. At the conclusion the Senate unanimously agreed to vote on the resolution before adjournment Friday. The House for an hour was entertained by the maiden speech of J. Adam Bede (Rep., Minn.). Mr. Van Du.’.er (Nev.) was refused the consideration of a resolution calling oil the Secretary of War for information as to what articles manufactured for the department are made by convict labor. The House went into the committee of the whole and resumed consideration of the urgent ileii--tfiency bill, the discussion running into the Panama question and the nice problem.

The Senate Friday adopted the. resolution introduced by Mr. Culberson for the Democratic caucus, which calls on the President to state whether the Senate has been supplied all facts bearing on the controversy of Panama. The vote was unanimous, but there was a roll call on the amendment suggested by Mr. Cullom, calling for the information only in case the President should consider it not incompatible with the public interest to supply it. This amendment w.as adopted by 39 to 20, all the Republican Senators present voting for the amendment and sill the Democrats except Mr. McEncry (who voted with the Republicans) casting their votes against it. The Bacon resolution looking to the adjustment of our differences with Colombia by arbitration was considered, but not acted upon. The House considered whether members of Congress are entitled to two payments of mileage on account of the extra session, which merged into tlio regular session. An adjournment wns taken before a conclusion was reached. Consideration of the amendment increasing the appropriation for the expenses of the district land offices precipitated a discussion on the subject of alleged land frauds. Tire House Saturday passed the urgent deficiency bill. The clause providing double mileage for members of Congress was stricken out by a vote of 16” to 0. Representative Shafroth of Colorado introduced a resolution reciting the work that hns been done by the commission on international exchange and authorizing the commission “to agree subject to the approval of Congress, with other nations upon uniform laws, which will tend to preserve ns much of the gold product of the world for coinage and mpnctnry purpose ns possible. A concurrent resolution accepting the stntuc of James Marquette, missionary nnd explorer, and providing that it remnin in statuary hnll in the-capital, nnd extending the thanks of Congress to the people of Wisconsin, wn» passed. * Notes of National Capital. Representative Watson, Indiana, is de* ferinined to hnve Congress pass Ills -bill requiring an educational test for nil immigrants. Hoosiers may be end to know that the postoffice nt Zulu, Allen County, has been discontinued. Mai) should be addressed to Nails. Senator Beveridge enlightened President Roosevelt on the situation in the far East. The President sent a special invitation to the Senator. United States Consul Gowdy, nt Paris, has been notified by Secretary Hay to represent Panama in all consular matters. .Senator Galllnger Introduced a bill for tfio establishing and organisation of a corps of trained nurses in the United States navy. Bills have been introduced in the House by Delegate KalsnianoleOsf Hawaii appropriating 9150,000 for n building at Hilo, |1,000,000 for it building at Honolulu, $220,000 for a revenue cutter nnd authorising contests of election in Hawaii