St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 20 February 1897 — Page 2

Independent. W. A. JSZNJDUEIY, ?»uDllslier. T—h ■ ~ ..- , WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA FUTILE EFFORT TO REACH THE SIDE OF A DYING SON. Henry J. Mayliam’s Trip Across the Continent—Duestrow, Wife Murderer, and Slayers of a Chicago Artist Fay Death Penalty for Their Crimes. A Few Hours Date. A special train from Chicago, chartered by Henry J. Mayham, a Denver investment broker, reached Denver at 3:52 Tuesday morning, having run 1,026 miles in 18 hours and 52 minutes. This journey goes into history as the greatest railroad feat ever accomplished. The best previous railroad long-distance record was 19 hours and 57 minutes for 961 miles from New York to Chicago. Mr. Mayham, who left New York Sunday, eliti&ered a special train at Chicago in son, William B. Mayham, as quickly as possible. Every resource of the Burlington system was brought into play and over two hours were clipped off from the best running time that was thought to be possible. On straight stretches of track the train covered more than sixty miles an hour. The mountain climb from Akron. Colo., to Denver. 118 miles, was made in 124 minutes, the train running an even mile a minute most of the distance. No special train bearing high officials of the nation ever attracted more careful attention from the officers of the railway. Telegrams from all parts of the United States inquired concerning the progress of the train and the possibility of Mr. Mayham reaching the side of his son in time at least to grasp his hand before he was beckoned across the dark river. But in spite of the Burlington's splendid record Mr. Mayham arrived in Denver too late to see his son alive. The young man died shortly aftt r midnight.

Died on the Gallows. Dr. Arthur Duestrow, the St. Louis millionaire, was hanged at Union, Mo., in the coutryard of the county jail Tues day. A few hours before the execution took place Duestrow threw off the mask , of insanity, sobbed like a woman and ad , mitted that he killed his wife and child. ' At Clayton. a suburb of St. Louis., Peter, ( better known as “Cottonhead” Schmidt. ( and Sam Foster, colored, were banned. I’eter Schmidt, who is only 16 years old. ( was swung off first. He died with a sul- ( len look on his face and without any sign , of repentence. Sam Foster, the big bru- ( tai negro who followed him to death sis- । teen minutes later, was so weak that he , almost had to be carried to the scaffold. , His lips quivered and his eyes tilled with tears as the black cap was drawn over his head. Both died almost instantly. The two men, or rather boys, held tip Bertram E. Atwater, a young Chicago artist, at Webster Groves, a suburb <d St. Louis, the night of Jan. 23, 1896. Mr. Atwater, who was on his way to pay a visit to his fiance, resisted and was shot dead within a stone's throw of the door of her house. .John Schmidt, who Ims also been convicted of complicity in the murder, has been sentenced to hang March IS. He is a cousin of I’eter Schmidt, who was hanged. Utah Wants a Strip of Land. R. G. Lund and E. D. Woolly, the commissioners appointed by the Utah Legislature to treat with the Arizona Legislature for the annexation to Utah of a part of Arizona north of the Colorado River, are at Kingman, A. T. They say the pacific settlement of the boundary question will advance Arizona's chances for Statehood. The territory involved lies north of the Colorado River from 150 to 250 miles away from the county seats. The commissioners will go to Flagstaff and thence to Phoenix to get the Legis hit tire to memoralize Congress to make the segregation. NEWS NUGGETS. Thirteen million square feet of Amer; i

can lumber was imported into China lasi ; year, mostly from Washington and • >rc gon. Banker William Lampson, who recent I ly died at Leroy. N. Y.. bequeathed Ibe i bulk of his property, valued at .$1 JMMiJHM). I to Yale University, his alma mater. . Sir Alfred Milner has been appointed Governor of Cape Colony, to succeed Lord Rosemead, better known as Sir Hercules Robinson, who resigned on account of ill health. William P. St. John, ex-president of the Nev, York Mercantile National Bank and treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, died suddenly at his home Sunday night. Deputy Sheriff Bouggott, of Williams, A. T., captured James Parker, the \«l son train robber, twenty miles north of Peach Springs, Monday' afternoon. When overtaken Parker was wading in the middle of Diamond Creek and offered no resistance. The bandit was completely worn out. His feet bad been frozen and were badly blistered. He said he bad been without food for fifty hours. The penalty for train robbery in Arizona is death. The will of Albert M. Billings, who died at Chicago Feb. 7, was admitted to probate. '’Vhe estate in Illinois is valued at $2,300,000, which is a smaller amount than Mr. Billings was popularly supposed to be worth. His (state, however, it is said, will figure up nearly $5,000,000, as he had large interests in New York, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Besides liiis. during his lifetime, Mr. Billings gave his son. C. K. G. Billings, large amounts of money to help him in business. Gen. Gomez, the Cuban insurgent leader. is reported to have been wounded in a battle with Spanish troops. Miss Josephine Rowley, member of an influential Roman Catholic Church of St. Louis, has been exeommuicated because she married Dr. W. L. Whipple, a Protesttint, in defiance of the mandates of Archbishop Kain. The tollgate raiders blew up the tollgate on the Lawrenceburg pike, near Frankfort, Ky.. vrlth dynamite. The previous night a mob wrecked all of the six tollgates on the Kinney turnpike entering Vanceburg.

CANEA IS BOMBARDED GREEK CHRISTIANS ATTACK THE TURKS. 1 Garrison Puts Besiegers to Flight After Both Sides Suffer Heavy Loss — Prince Berovitch Seeks Safety in Austi ia. Shot and Shell Exchanged. There has been hot fighting in Crete. More Greek troops have embarked at Piraeus for the rebellious island. Greek forces, under the command of Prince Niedas, have started for Thessaly, and a Greek war ship has tired on a Turkish transport conveying soldiers of the Sultan to the Candian shores. Moreover, the foreign consuls have been compelled to abandon Canea and to take refuge on the cruisers in the harbor. This, in a few words, records the happenings of one of the most sensational Sundays in the history of modern Europe. The most startling development of the highly sensational day was the abandonment of Crete by its Governor. Prince Berovitch, without asking the consent of the Sultan, abandoned Canea early in the _-..d he reported to have taken T.loyd steamer for Trieste. for this startling net otWm^i’rince, it must be said that it shows a cowardly lack of courage at the time when a directing hand was most needed in the Sultan's turbulent province. There are some who believe that Austria has had a hand in the affair and that the Vienna government prompted the departure of Berovitch. In the meantime Turkey now has no directing hand in Crete, and anarchy, chaos and rebellion rule in the island. Foreign Consula Seek Refnee. The day opened ominously enough with a bombardment of Canea by the Christians. From the heights surrounding the town cannon shot and canister were poured into the fated city, creating the wild est excitement and alarm. The foreign consuls found it necessary to flee the city. Representatives of Greece, Russia, Austria and France deemed it wise to abandon their consulates and to seek shelter in the war ships of their respective na lions.

Meanwhile the batteries of tin* Turkish fortress replied with vigor to the volleys of the Christians. Shrieking shell am) whistling bullet answered each other with venomous rapidity, but the uncovered position of the Christian fighters left them easy victims to the marksmanship of the protected 'I in ks. The ( 'retails were finally dislodged, after n stubborn at I fierce resistance, and the forces of Abdul Hamid occupied the Alkndiri Hills. Dispatches failed to giv. the mortality on either side, but it is believed that the Combatants suffered severely. It is evi dent the military conduct of affairs at Canen is not satisfactory to the Porte, ns the military governor there has been re moved from his post. There is consider able* anxiety regarding his successor, ns the select ion by the Sultan will to acer tain extent give an indu ation if his future policy. At Heraklion the situation is most sori ous. The Christians, fiaring a massn. re at the hands of the enraged lurks, are seeking shelter on the wnr ships, and soon lone but Mohammedans will |w left in that town. At Hnlcpa the conditions are just ns distressing. There was fight ing there all day. the victims of the niv age struggle numbering s<s»res. Greeks nt the British < o su «»te. When the G reek consul hit (;ii<;i v.'h ' bis staff he boarded the Greek iron j clad. Hydra, after placing the refugees at the consulate tinder the protection ~f the British consul, who told them to b an! the Greek war ships. Ip to the pr s, nt lime, however, the refugees remain -.r the British consulate. 'Die closing of the ! Greek consular office seems to imlc ate a ’ definite rupture of the relations between I Greece and Turkey. The R'issinn nm, 1 French admirals have received identical ' instructions enjoining upm them the adoption of energetic measures. This is probably in m . u dan ■ nit h the ' English pnqmsals w hu h the ambassadors i at Constantinople agreed upon, namely, j tin* joint naval nr, ipatam of t’nnw. Re tinio and Heraklion, the removal of the Greek fleet and the prohibition of the dis patching of tin' Turkish re enforcements to the Island of Crete.

O’MALLEY IS FREED. Jury Acqnits theCh’C e;<> Alderman of the Murder of Gustav Co’linnder, Aiderman Thon is J. O'Mallev, of Ch ' cage, with John Santry. was acquitted j Saturday night of the charge of being j concerned in the murder of Gustav Coll: j ander on election day. The acquittal of | O’Maik y furuisht a the < (pud THOMAS J. O MALLEY. the most remarkable criminal proceedings on record in this country. The verdict was received with cheers and O'Malley and Santry were flooded with congratulations. The Aiderman, as soon as the words “not guilty” were heard, threw himself on the neck of W. S. Forrest, his lawyer, and kissed him, and several of the jurors shook hands with the freed man. News has been received at Painesville, Ky., of the drowning of Andrew Wilson. Preston Hall ami Harry Brown in Pike County. The mon had been on a spree for several days and had started across Big Sandy river on the ice on their horses Rev. William Pral). D. I)., pastor of St. Jolin’s, the leading Episcopal church of Detroit, was married to Miss Helen Ames Lothrop. daughter of George V. N. Lothrop, ex-minister to Russia. The ceremur«y was performed by’ Bishop Davies.

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WOMEN ARE GAINING. Inert n*? in Proportion of Women in W orking Cln««cB. The eleventh annual report of the de(Mirtment of labor, transmitted to Congress by C<-mmissi<mer Wright, Relate* entirely to the work nnd wages men, women nnd children. It shows that t ■ I : no> ‘ w lv> •wok qf class is im reusing. while that of duldiw 1 is decreasing. The report was p<''pnriL. in pursuance of a joint resolution of t jJL gross. Tile definite purpooes <»f (he V v, stigntioll were to determine to what tint, if any. women were aupei ceding men; tn show the conjugiFi rmilitnm nf the women who were employed. to com- ’ pare the relative efliciel..J of tin II ill I women, and finally to show the relative rates of Wages revK ol by < a I “• V ill cm h industry. Th. agents .( ih. np <itment ms ured information from IJM.i esfablishmeuts of various kinds, loc.itcd in thirty different State- nnd employing 1 I s .- .’167 per-ons. a number large vnough to insure that the data collects I was thbr | oughly representative. The « umph te data -ought for. however, was obtained from only 'All ( stnbltshtm nts. These IKI! establishments employed (M,- I AtMi ptr- as ten veers ago ami I<* S .GI3 in I s 'Js *t. ’>f this number in the first p. riod 2-’i. 17'J v. cd mah-s of lb years «>f age or over, as against -13.1'25 in the seo ’ <>nd; and 1.175 nml< - under IS years of age, ns against 7.5 in in the second. In

the first jH-riod 27.16-”. were females is y ■ ars of age or over, nnd 6.743 females under J's years of age. a- against 45.162 and 12.751. rc.-pe< tiveiy, in the present l«riod. From these figures it is -• < n that male employes 1S years of age or over increased in the pri sent period over the former period Ik”.I per cent, while female employes of the same age increased t>6.3 per cent. Male employes nudcr I s y ars of age increased s i t; per »,nt. while female eniploy , - under is years of age increased I 31*. 1 per cent. As . oyateral information an interesting j ■ how ing is made of the figures of the last three censuses concerning the employI ment of women. 'Die proportion of fe^ males In years of age and over employed^ in all occupations in the United States! rose in its rehiti' n to the whole iiutuboT|i employed from I pi r cent in 1870 tog 17.22 per cent in LbtiL- uldle^iiiales de-i creased in proportion from 85.32 per ceirjJ in IS7O to 82.7 S per cent in 1890. The report throws considerable - 111 upcii the mu. h dis, ’ion us to married w men in industrij^fi pursuits. For the present period, out if an aggregate of 7!*,957 women. 70,921, Ofl ss.7 per cent, were single; 6,755, or S.ijf per cent, married; 2,011, or 2.5 per cell*, divorced, and 244, or 3-10 of 1 per cci^ unknown. The last census figures on thr s point are also analyzed. Os rhe 3,914,57jj females 10 years of age or over engage^ in gainful pursuits in the United States m IS9O, 69.54 pet; cent were single or their conjugal condition unknown, 13.16 p<i r cent were married, 16.16 per cent weii e widowed and 0.9 per cent were divorce! RUINOUS WASTE OF MONEY. I Congress Burns It at the Ratcot Ha’jf a Hill ion a Year. A special to the New York World sayl. "The time is near at hand when the ped’ pie will have to make the wholesale a& propriations of public money a direct^fe—sue. They will have to do this for tlx* •. own protection. When this time conf I ', individuals may not be able to escape/? Representative Dockery of Misso*. made this statement with tl,e utmost estness. "At this session,” he said, “ab® ,$515,000,000 will be appropriated. ThjF added to the appropriations of the session, will bring the total amount of (H rect appropriations by this Congress I the enormous aggregate of at least 000.000,000.” I Mr. Dockery said that this was ba|

I enough in itself, but the people could not realize the whole cvH of this riotous rxpenditure until they began tn realize that there seemed to be no way of checking it. “We really need an express provision In the rules that would charge some one J with the duty of protecting the taxpayers (That might be done in the House, birt H lj is hopcb-- to think of correcting this evil jin ilm» fwnst*, Kona ter is I courtesy would I absolutely forbid it. In the lb.use there .may Is a volunteer who will consent to Tguard the treasury nnd drive back the j phinder.-r - ' j Mr 1 bw-kcry when asked to give fig | tires shaving the men ain the c ^t of j running the Government, said: '*'l he average annual actual expendi- > lures for ea« h fl-« ul year from 1*75 to IbSK, inclusive, for the ordinary • xpem ■ - iof the Government, not counting payment- on the public debt nn-1 payments font of postal revenm-, were only $257. >*13.11 I The average for the same pur | pones from 1»9 to inclusive, was $345.4”7.4!fJ*. That is, the average annual j inert n- of . xpenditure- in the hist eight lyars Ims been $!**,573,757, or an aggreI gate increase of the Htnpendous sum of $<24.590.2X* in eight years us compared | witL tlo* precvtliug f.>nrt*-en vears.” I Th<so expenditures, counting in the pos ■tai onti.iys and the requirements of the I public debt, call for nlwmt half a billion I dollars <a< h y ear mie third of the whole I volume of emr money in actual circulai lion.

— . I ’ I / z r -'1 U , I, ■■ WGown to be worn by Mrs. McKinley at f the inaugural ball. CORN-BURNING STATISTICS. Au Official luvestivr*tion to Be Made by a Nebraska State Board. The Nebraska State Board of Transportation has been engaged for several days in collecting figures showing the number of farmers of the State who are now burning corn for fuel. The secretaries are also making an estimate of the quantity of coal which these corn burners Would use if they could get it in exchange ’’for the corn. These figures are to be used in an effort to get a reduced rate for out shipments of corn and in shipments of coal from the railroads. The secretaries think they can show to the railroads that the increased business which will be brought to their lines will pay them to make a reduction in the rates. As it now >s the farmers cannot afford to ship their corn and consequently they have no money with which to buy coal. The result, so far as the roads are concerned, is that there’is no hauling of corn or coal for a the farmers.

GOT NO CHANGE BACK. A LONDON WOMAN’S MISTAKE COST HER 54.75. Her Sovereign Became the Lord’s the Moment It Touched the Plate-Ger-man Mill Hands in Despair—Pittsburg Post Plant Burned. No Rebate Allowed. A Ixmdon judge has ruled that where a worshiper by mistake puts a larger amount than intended into the church collection box the money cannot be refunded on a plea of error. The decision grew out of a suit brought by a women who attends service in the fashionable Episcopal church at Regent's Park against the vicar and the church wardens, her contention being that, during a lit of mental aberration, she had placed in the plate a sovereign ($5) instead of a shilling (25 cents). She therefore sought to recover some $4.75. The court held that the moment the money fell into the plate it became nn accepted offering to the Lord, and that neither the church officials nor the courts are at liberty to authorize its return to the donor. This is said to be the first case and decision of the kind on record and may stand as a precedent for many generations to come. Fire Routs a Newspaper. The office of the Pittsburg (Pa.) Post, on Fifth avenue, was almost totally destroyed by fire Sunday morning, causing a loss to tie paper of about $60,000, well insured. The loss on the building, which belonged io the McCullagh estate, is $25,000. The only other tenant in the building was Gleason, the railroad ticket broker, whose- loss was small. The Commercial Gazette, next door to the Post, wa« in imminent danger, but good work by tire firemen saved that plant. The Commercial presses and engines are for the time being disabled by water, which flooded die basement. Both the Post and the Commercial were promptly tendered the use and services of machines, presses, ami the offices of the other newspapers in the city. The Post will be issued from the office of the Lemler until a new plant can bo established. It is supposed that electric wires are responsible for the fire. Bad for German Millworkers. United States Consul Monaghan, nt Uhemuit z, says that, seeking the reason for the hiss to England of American and other markets for textiles, the German manufacturers believe they have found it in the fact that in England a mill hand tends two looms, while in Germany he tends buit one. IL nee the word has gone out that the English practice is to prevail in Germany. The mill hands are in dcspair. In vain they have urged that the

h» avy extra work will break them down physically at 4(» years of ago; that their ey es will wear out, and that half of their number will be thrown out of employment without knowing another way to earn a livelihood. BREVITIES, An American giving the name of Chas. S' ott has been arrested in Cuba. He is -uppused to be Oliver Ream, of Canton, * >hi(’ John D. Rockefeller Ims promised to contribute $250,<160 to help pay off the Sls.liHHt indebtedness of the Baptist foreign and home missionary societies. The inventory of the estate of the late J- seph B. M<-Cullagh, editor of the St. Loui-.. Mo., Glolu-Democrat, was filed with t le clerk of probate court by Public Administrator Richardson. The personal property is returned at $576,127.40. The rial estate is not valued. It consists of two lets in St. Izuiis, one at Leavenworth, Kan., and one at Golden City, i Ark., nnd 21*5 a<res of land in Jasper ; County, Mo. The opinion of the Supreme Court sus- ' taming the finding of the United States 1 District Court of the Northern District of Illinois in the ease of Editor Joseph R. '

Dunk p of Chicago, convicted of sending ob-' ei.e m.ttter through the mails, was read by Associate Justice Brown. The "eirors" were bowled over one after another, t-ein_- in several instances characterized a- being too frivolous to merit serious < oiisidi ration. .•udge .1. D Clark, in the United States Cmirr at <’hattaimoga, Tenn., in the case o; Ri ?-ell A. Alger vs. the estate of John I'. Anderson to recover money paid for property in ITanklin County in Tennessee. decided in favor of complainant Alter and ordered defendant to repay to said Alger the entire amount paid by him on -aid purchase, with interest from date of payment. The amount involved is .s’o3,।mwi. with interest for seven years. Tie case of Alfred Merritt of Duluth. Minn., vs. John D. Rockefeller is report<d to have been settled for SSOO,<KM) in cash, paid to Merritt. It is understood that all the member- of the Merritt family. who had claims against Rockefeller, have join d in the settlement. 'Die total claims would aggregate Xl.imso.ihhi or $5,i) HHMMi. In the Alfred Merritt case a ( i n ict for .SHJo.oeo w as secured in June. 1595. but a new trial was ordered. Ignace i’clott. better known as Gran'pere I’elott. who celebrated his 93d birthday- Christmas Day. died Monday morning at his home on Mackinac Island. Gran'pere I’elott was the oldest native inhabitant of the Mackinac region and by far the most interesting character in the entire neighborh<M>d. He was the only inhabitant left who had witnessed the capture of Fort Mackinac by the British in 1814. All the islanders called him gran'pere. and the entire native population of 750 souls were interrelated with him in near or remote degree. The passing of Kt. Valentine's day was marked at the Chicago i>ost >ftice Monday by the delivery of I.Ti.immi missives. An equal number wa.s delivered Saturday, making tin- total for the season .lohjmmi. This is much less than last year and about tin- same falling off that has marked the de< line of the observance of the day for the last four or five years. G. L. Morris, who was shot by Squire Irvin Rigg at Deep Waler. W. Ya., died. Rigg’s w ife was visiting a neighbor with others, including Morris, when Rigg entered and tired without warning or provo-,-aiion. The London Daily Telegraph says that an American tourist. Richard Green, while visiting his sister at Leamington, was discovered unconscious in the bedroom which he was occupying Saturday. He died an hour afterward. It is supposed the ajfa r was an accident due to the escape of

WORK OF CONGRESS. THE WEEK’S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of the Proceedings in the Legislative Chambers at Washington —Matters that Concern the People. Lawmakers at Labor. The House Thursday passed the fortifications appropriation bill with but a single amendment and made some headway with the .postoffiee appropriation bill. The major portion of the day was consumed in political debate on the financial question, which was precipitated by a provision in a bill providing for funding the debt of the territories. The bill arousej the opposition of Mr. McMillin (Dem.) of Tennessee because it provided for gobi bonds and the payment of interest in gobi or its equivalent. Mr. Knox (Rep.) of Massachusetts said that the stipulation regarding gold bonds applied only to Arizona, which had outstanding gold bonds to ■be refunded. An amendment by Mr. McMillin (Dem.) of Tennessee was as follows: “Provided, That the principal am. interest ot the bonds funded under this _act shall be payable in any lawful money of the United States, except the Arizona bomTmttTrp^tewwt*™^ This was adopted, and the The Senate spent the greater part of the day in executive session debating the Anglo-American arbitration treaty. The entire time was consumed by Senators Turpie and Morgan, the former in advocacy of and the latter in opposition to ratification. No action was taken on any amendment or on any part of the treaty and but little appreciable progress was made. I he feature of Friday's discussion of the Anglo-American arbitration treaty by ’he Senate was the general effort to reach a basis of agreement whereby the treaty could be disposed of and other business taken up. There were innumerable short speeches during the day, but the principal addressses on the merits of tbctreaty were made by Senators Daniel, Stewart, Hoar, Lodge and Chandler. The proposition advanced Thursday by Senator Turpie that any negotiation under the treaty would under its terms necessarily be submitted to the Senate just as would any original treaty, formed the basis of Friday's proceedings. It was generally conceded by all those wh« spoke ■f it there could be any assurance that this interpretation would be placed on the treaty if accepted there would be no special opposition to its ratification. Senator Turpie contended that no other position | was possible in view of the indisputable I fact that the Senate was a part of the treatymaking power of the United States. - Ti. r. i i- __

Senator Daniel, however, took an opposite view, as did Senator Chandler and most of the other Senators who spoke. During the debate on the postal appropriation bill, which was passed by the House, Congressman Hugh Belknap, of Chicago, made a speech in favor of retaining the marine postal service at Detroit. Congressman Belknap said that the vesselmen of the great lakes would never consent to such a change. They are greatly benefited by the present service at Detroit. Several other members made speeches in favor of the present arrangements, and it was decided by the House to continue them during the coming year. The perennial fight was made to strike out the appropriation of SIW,(MH» for special mail facilities from Boston to New Orleans, but it was defeated. 46 to 107. The bill as passed carries $95,435.714. Gem rai debate on the sundry civil bill closed Saturday in the House. The bill was used as a basis for an attack by the Democrats on the vast appropriations made by this Congress, which Mr. Sayers and Mr. Dockery estimated would aggregate slj»4sjhiO.o<>o. Once the gate was op< nod. the debate naturally drifted intopolitics. The relative merits of the McKinley and B flson bills as revenue producers were ataeked and defended. The-

income tax decision and Justice Shiras' change of position came in for a share of attention, and Mr. De Armond (Mo.) concluded the day with a brilliant plea for struggling Cuba, which won from the House shouts of approval. The Senate did nothing of importance. The sundry civil appropriation bill, carrying $v»6,644,143, was passed by the House Monday just as it came from the committee. The main opposition was directed against the river and harbor “item in the bill. Quite a number of other bills were passed of more or less importance, among them the Senate bills appropriating S2._>OJX)O for closing the crevasse at Pass a rOntro on the Mississippi, and to equip the National Guard with uniform Springfield riges, 45-caliber, and the Senate resolution to authorize the Secretarv of the Navy to transport the contributions of the Pacific coast States to the famine sufferers of India. Lhe report in the contested election case of Benoit against Boatner from Louisiana, confirming the latter s title to his seat, was unanimously adopted. The conference reuy^^— ■’c ■ inat i< and cou.<j^i^>^ynr(r ji,’" ‘'-o.w^^,^ autrfue agricultural bill was sent to conference. Owing to thebrief tune of this session yet remaining extra mght sessions were decided upo^ for the consideration of private pension bills, of which many hundred still re main on the calendar. The Senate wil in executive session most of the dav s!ome progress was made on the bankruptcy bill In the Senate Tuesday Mr. Chandler de-’ hvered a carefully prepared speech in ad vocacy of bimetallism. It was an argument against a single standard of either gold or silver, and a warning against a policy of monometallism. Nothing (> 1 •' of importance was done. For the first time this session the House declined to override a pensmn veto submitted to it for action. The bill was that to p ei Xn a.tinj <r. ALabach. the widow of II Allabach ”f the One Hundred and I hiiti-mst I ennsyhania volunteers at the rate of S3O per month. The Hou r sustained the veto by 115 i o 7 9. the requKite tno-thirds not voting for the bill. Odds and Ends. The fi.lm or a soap bubble is the 2.500 000th of an inch in thickness. A man was arrested in New Jersey the other day for digging bis own ^rave The highest inhabited building in Europe is the Alpine Club house, on Mount Rosa—l2.Goo feet above the sea level. Farmers in Douglas County, Kan., are educating their horses to eat potatoes, which they can feed at 11 cents while corn stands for 17 cents.