St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 34, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 March 1897 — Page 6

Jn^epenbent. W. A. EADLJBIY, Publ Isher. WALKERTON, - - ■ INDIANA BUTCHER BRAZILIANS TROOPS AMBUSHED AND SLAIN BY FANATICS. Disaster Causes Great Excitement in Rio Janeiro — Many Dives Imperilled by Fire in a Chicaeo Apartment House. Ambushed by Fanatics. Nows has been received at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, of a serious defeat of the Federal troops by the fanatical insurgents in the State of Bahia Sunday. The news of the disaster was at first denied at Rio Janeiro, and one paper was suppressed be-' cause it published bulletins of the battle. It is, nevertheless, a fact that the Brazilian. troops fell into an ambush which ■was cleverly laid by the fanatics, and before recovering from the surprise the Federal vanguard was annihilated and the remainder of the force, as it came up to the point where the fanatics were intrenched, was assailed and suffered very severe losses. Col. Tamarindo, Col. Caesar and several other officers were killed, and 200 prisoners and many officers were wounded. The fanatics captured a number of prisoners, four guns with their caissons and a large quantity of ammunition. The news of the disaster has caused great excitement in the Brazilian capital, accompanied by some disorder. The monarchists were especially the objects of popular wrath and a mob destroyed the offices of the newspaper organs of that party, including the influential Gazetta Jarde. Gen. Arturoscar will succeed Col. Caesar as commander of the Federal forces in Bahia. President Moraes, in regard to the situation in Bahia, said he believed the outbreak was due to political intrigue. Flee for Their Lives. Fire drove scores of tenants from the Belvidere apartment house, Chicago, at noon Tuesday. Many of the women and children were barely able to escape with their lives. There was no time to save any of the furniture or effects. The Belvidere was occupied by many families, and there wore an unusual number of children in the building. At the hour the fire occurred most of th’e men were downtown, and in many cases there was none but women and children in the rooms. These were saved only with the greatest difficulty. They were taken from the windows and carried to the ground on ladders supplied by the fire department, the number of fire escapes being insufficient to afford them means of escape before the flames reached them. The panic spread to the entire building and the helpless tenants ran screaming through the halls, imploring some one to save them, while the busy engines outside threw streams o? water through the windows and into the threatened rooms. The west side of the building suffered most severely, and fluj fire was finally confined to that portion, but not until after the tenants of the entire place had been driven from their homes in a panic of fright and with nothing more than the clothes they had on. NEWS NUGGETS. Search was continued in the snowslide at the Daly mine at Park City, Utah, and the body of Joseph Zucea was taken out. Papers on Zucca’s body indicated that he formerly lived at Rutland, 111. The disaster will cause the suspension of operations at the Daly mine for several weeks. Four children and their nurse walked out on the Big Four Railroad trestle at Terre Haute, Ind., to look at the wreck caused by the recent rains. The fast Knickerbocker passenger train, from St. Louis to New York, dashed around the curve and knocked two of the children, Robert and Ellen Parker, aged I'2 and 15 years, into the water, instantly killing them. The woman saved the other two children. Gov. Black of New York has declined to interfere in the sentence of death of Arthur Mayhew, convicted of murdering Stephen Powell at Hempstead March 7, 1896. The Governor will commute to life imprisonment the sentence of death imposed upon William Youngs, the Fort Hunter wife murderer, on the ground that Youngs, who is weak-minded, was under great provocation at the time of the commission of the crime. It is probable that the will of the late William Lampson of Leroy, N. Y., by which he left the bulk of his estate, valued at $1,000,000, to Yale College, will be contested. At the time of his death it was supposed that the only relatives were distant cousins in England. However, there are a number of second and third cousins living in Batavia and Medina, who, it is reported, contemplate contesting the validity of the will. The British minister at Lima, Peru. < ' uptivin. 11. 1,. "XI. Jones, incurred! tile animosity of a part of the public press. 1 One paper in particular asks for his removal as persona non grata, because of certain utterances which he made in an interview with the minister of foreign affairs, Senor E. de la Riva Aguero. The original cause of the disfavor with which the English diplomat is regarded is a British claim connected with the postal (department, which he is pressing. Havana dispatch: Gen. Weyler has issued an order directing that hereafter all (women arrested in Cuba who are called “suspicious” shall be tried by court-mar-tial. While the penalty is not publicly (stated, it is supposed if the women are (found guilty the death penalty will be (imposed. The issuing of this order has (been protested against by some foreign (consuls. Gen. Weyler says, it is asserted, that the women are hardest to subdue, [and that if he had his way he would kill them first and try them afterward. Gov. Stephens of Missouri has commuted the sentence of John Schmidt, sentenc(ed to hang at Clayton for the murder of Bertram Atwater, a Chicago artist, to twenty-five years’ imprisonment in the (penitentiary. John’s cousin, Cotton Schmidt, a mere lad, and a negro were hanged last month for complicity in the murder. The censorship in Uruguay over the press and cable has become very strict. There is little news to be had, but it is (certain that the revolution is spreading [throughout the country.

WAD BOGS MUZZLED. GREECE'S REPLYTOTHE POWERS IS CONCILIATORY. la Willing; to Withdraw Iler Fleet from Cretan Waters—But Land forces Must Remain There to Protect Christians. Looks Like Coercion. The reply of Greece to the “identical notes of the powers” has been received at the various capitals, and it proves to be a much less defiant document than was generally expected. The previous declaration of officials at Athens that Greece would refuse to withdraw her forces from Crete has been carried out, but in away that ■seems to offer abundant opportunity for advantageous compromise. The demand of the powers called simply for the withdrawal of the Greek troops from the Island of Crete and the Greek fleet from Cretan waters. Greece offers to obey the mandate regarding the fleet, but, although she points out that it would be impossible to withdraw the troops, she expresses a willingness to place them under the control of the powers to restore order. This ought to prove satisfactory to the powers, for ■it practically makes the Greek troops their own, and. moreover, the reply has a general conciliatory tone that seems to preclude any intention on the part of Greece of resisting the spirit of the powers’ ultimatum. The reply is said to recognize in flattering terms that, the powers have been actuated only by high aims, but it makes the suggestion that the Cretans be allowed to choose their own government and thus determine finally whether they really prefer autonomy, as claimed by the powers. It is clear that Greece lias succeeded in injecting into a refusal to obey

MAP OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA, WHERE WAR IS POSSIBLE. \4UST fl I 4 C XL B^^N F a X if tu r k r X. n- /feu - ■ ■' :.c.i . --1 fe ■ z" \ XU , This may shows the former extent of the Turkish dominions, large sections of which were taken away by Europe after the war of 1576. Bosnia and Herzegovina are now administered by Austria and ma.' be considered part of her territory. Servia is an independent kingdom. So is Rounmnia, made up of the provinces of Wallachia ami Moldavia. Bulgaria is a semi-independent principality, with control over Eastern Roumelia, which is still tributary to the Turkish empire. Monte- i negro is an independent principality. Greece litis been an independent kingdom since the revolution of IS2I 29. Macedonia, still a Turkish province, though formerly part of Greece, has long been in a ferment of revolt, and now Crete is striving to throw off the Turkish yoke and join herself to Greece. The town of Larissa. in Thessaly, is the rendezvous of the Grecian troops on the frontier, while the Turkish troops are gathering at the seaport town of Salonica, on the Gulf of Salonica.

the powers so much diplomatic compro- ! prise that her position has been materially ; strengthened. She has adhered to the only two points she has claimed the right < to have troops in Crete for the purpose of : holding the fanatical Mussulmans in ; check and the right of the Cretans to I choose what form of government they will ; have. The former position she adheres to rigidly, for, since the business of her troops in Crete is only to preserve order, it is naturally immaterial to Greece whether j they are under the control of the powers or not, so long as order is preserved. Neviertheless, there is an apparent concession made in the offer to submit to such control, which gives the powers a favorable opening to recede from the letter of their demand. Regarding the proposition that the Cretans bo given the privilege to choose their own form of government, Greese of cdtifse can no furiher than ur«(» the suggestion. It seems to be an adroit answer, however, to the statement of the powers that Crete really prefers autonomy, for if the powers are sincere in that belief they can have no objection to submitting the proposition to a vote. The general tone of the reply of Greece shows that the nation has no intention of irritating the powers to the extent of declaring war on Turkey, and that the preparations for conflict have been made doubtless for purposes of defense in case an attempt should be made to humiliate her beyond endurance. Monday the foreign admirals notified the Greek vice-consul at Canea that he must leave Crete. They also wired to their respective Governments for the dispatch of 600 men to maintain order in the large towns. It is reported that the siege of Candamo has been raised and that the Mussulmans have gons to I’alikosa, where they are safe. Although the danger is not entirely past, it seems fair to assume that this latest European war scare will now gradually fade away into harmless diplomacy. The London Globe understands, upon high authority, that great tension exists between Great Britain and Belgium on the subject of the demands of Great Britain for indemnity as a result of the imprisonment of Ben Tillett, the English labor leader, arrested at Antwerp last year, while promoting a strike. The foreign office officials declare that negotiations on the subject are proceeding amicably.

OVER A BILLION. Expenditures of Concrcss Jiiat Ended Reported to Be $1,043,437,018. Representative Cannon of Illinois chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House, and Mr. Sayers of Texas, who is at the head of the minority of that committee, have prepared their reviews of the appropriations of the Congress just ended. Mr. Cannon makes the total appropriation submitted to the President for bis approval at the last session, including the general deficiency, which failed in conference, $518,103,458, or $25 - 383,270 less than the estimates submitted to ('ongress by the executive. The appropriations for the first session were $515845.191. making a total for the Congress of $1,043,437,018, which, he says, is $49,797,812 more than the appropriations for the preceding Congress. The increase, he points out, includes for fortifications, $12,563,467; for river and harbor works, including contracts therefor, $2,476,506? for public buildings, none of which were authorized by the Fifty-fourth Congress, $2,343,394; for the postal service, sll,454,305; for the naval establishment, SB,947,523, and on account of permanent appropriations, mainly to meet interestiand sinking fund charges for the bonds issued by the Cleveland administration, $24,983,744. gj “The appropriations are,” sa y non, “in my judgment in excess W - <!l ° legitimate demands of the public But this fact, while greatly to be ddW’T'?’ is not, in my opinion, properly eht^M a . e to the action of either of the Krea^B^ ’ cal parties of the country. It is ’WL result of conditions accruing out of thcffules of the House and out of the rules,*l?actices and so-called courtesies of the. Senate, together with the irresponsible Planner whereby the executive submits to Congress estimates to meet expenditures for the conduct of the Government. If the appropriations made by Congress have been extravagant and beyond the revei nues of the Government, how much more

so have been tin' estimates of the execu- . tive. The record shows that in no instance during the many years past have ■ the appropriations made by Congress I measured up to the full amounts recoin- | mended and asked for by the admiuistra- i ' lion. It is said that ours is the only Gov- ! i eminent in the civilized world wherein the administrative branch apparently shows no degree of responsibility to the ' taxpayers for its demands for the expen- ; diture of public money, and that curs is the only Government wherein the legisla- I tive branch alone exercises the function ' of duty or check upon public expenditures, without any considerable degree of co- । operation on the part of the executive.'’ Mr. Sayers, in his statement, malas the total appropriations of this Congress Ssl. 197,812 in excess of the Fifty-thi^B^r gross, $16,332,470 over the Fiftyil^ 011 ^ Congress and $7,757,900 in excess y'* l he Fifty-first Congress. u Telegraphic Brevities, r The murder of a prominent Piute medicine man near Bagdad on the C^orado desert in southern California by ajMexican has aroused the red men. 1 The correspondent of the New York Herald in Rio .Janeiro. Brazil, telegraphs that the treaty of extradition betw&i the I nited States ami Brazil will be feigned this week. C. C. Wells, of San Francisco, has invented an appliance called a railway joint bridge. The bridge, it is claimed, entirely eradicates the pounding of the ends of the rails when a car passes on or off. The Amalgamated Society of London ordered a general strike on the Northeastern Railway system. Crowded meetings of railway men were held at. New ( astle and Hartlepool ami confirmed the decision. The House of Commons has adopted a supplementary naval estimate of £SOO- - bringing the total expense for the navy during the present year to $22 - 330,000. This ei .rnmus figure is nearly double the cost of the navy fifteeij years ago. Charles W. Warner was appointed permanent receiver for .James Wallace & Sons, brewers, in New York City. His bond i* fixed at <5300,000. The receivership is the outgrowth of a controversy between the sons of James Wallace deceased, whose estate was valued at $2,000.0'30. j

TWO YEARS FOR HART SENTENCE PASSED UPON THE FILIBUSTER. Must Also Pay a Fine of SSOO-Greece Answers the Demands of the Powers in a Conciliatory Note—Summary of a New Work. Cnpt. Hart Sentenced. Captain Jolin D. Hart, owner of the filibuster Laurada, was sentenceil in the United States District Court at Philadelphia to two years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of SSOO amt the costs of the prosecution. He is to stand committed until the fine and costs are paid. The cost of the prosecution will amount to nearly SS,(MM). Captain Hart was taken to prison immediately after the sentence was pronounced. Captain Hart is about 40 years of age and has been in the fruit importing business for nearly twenty years. Shortly after the Cuban-Spanish war broke out be leased two of his steamers, the Laurada and Bermuda, to the Cuban patriots for the transportation of arms, ammunition and men to Cuba. Some ^■|j^ptargest expeditions that touched the ^^Wres of Cuba were shipped on these vessels, and their departure was due in a great measure to the skillful manipulation. of the steamers by Captain Hart, (’ounsel for Captain Hart have not yet decided whether they will appeal to the I nited States Supreme Court or present a petition for a pardon to I’rcshhmt McKinley. Greece Ready to Withdraw Fleet. The reply of Greece to the identical notes of the powers delivered at Athens insisting upon the withdrawal of the Greek troops from Crete and of the Greek fleet from Cretan waters was received at Loudon at noon Monday. The reply of Greece is characterized by four jMiints. In the first place it is conciliatory in tone, fully recognizing the high aims of the powers. Secondly, it offers to withdraw the Greek fleet from (’retan waters. Thirdly, while pointing out that it is impossible to withdraw the Gre k troops from the Island of Crete, it offers toplace them under the control of the powers to restore order. Finally, the reply meets the statements about the Cretans really preferring autonomy by suggesting that the (’retails be allowed to choose their own government. Advices from Uanea, Island of ('rete. say: The Turkish officials are allowing the Mussulmans to desecrate the cemetery and monasteries. Coffins are being forced open and remains are being thrown into (he fields, the object being to steal the valuables buried with the dead. State Department Reparts. rhe State Department at Washington has just connected the extinsive work initiated by Secretary Olney of collecting ami publishing in book form a com]>lete set of reports by I nited States amba-->.t i dors, ministers and consular officers I abroad, exhibiting in concise form the financial systems of till the countries of the civilized world, with full explanatory ; mites by the officials of the effects, of the I different kinds of money used as stand- ‘ ards of value u|»on the agricultural and industrial pmiulntiun of the n speetive miI tiotis. tine Volume of this work has al i ready been publishtsl, and the second volumc is just coming from the hands of the printer, emuph ting the work. The reports i have been eollatisf and carefuHy digesti cd by Frederick Emory, chief of the bui reau of statistics of the State 1 lepnrtment, • which is hiTenfter to lie known as the . “bureau of foreign commeiee.” Nineteen ’ nations are tn ated in this last volume. BREVITIES, j The big h til at Rodeo. Cal., was burnled io the ground. Tin re is no tire depart- : meat at ilodeo. and the few inhabitants of ! that town could only watch the building burn. Ihe In tel was unoccupied. It cost ; probably $50,900. A few years ago. w hen | the stock yards at Rodeo were started, the hotel was part of a scheme of Eastern capitalists to start a mammoth plant fur killing cattle ami packing meats in the style practiced in Chicago and Kansas City. At Birmingham. Ala.. Sunday a dozen Greeks, members of the reserves, left for their native land to lend their services to t their King, and others will follow. A | prominent member of the Greek colony I there has advices that parties of his coun- | trymen are being organized in Memphis. | Nashville. New Orleans. Atlanta. Savani nail, at d in fact all Southern cities, to start for Athens tit once. He estimates ' that King George will secure more than j 500 men from the Southern cities. | The University College Hospital at London is the beneficiary of the most princeI ly individual gift thus far announced as a recognition of the queen's jubilee year. I The gift takes the form of a cash donation of $500,090. to be expended in doubling ( the present capacity of the hospital, which I institution, w hen the extension has been eoiupteieil. will covex' an entire' block, bounding foui- streets. A[iun from its munificence, the most extraordinary feature of the girt is that it is anonymous. Preparations for the unusual proceeding of obliterating an entire town are nearly completed by the metropolitan water commissioner, to whom has been granted the authority to root out the town of West Boylston, which lies in the midst of a tract of land to be used in the construction of the mammoth Nashua river basin, w hich is to supply the city of Boston and its suburbs with water. .Among the factories affected are those of the Clarendon Mills, which employ 209 operatives, and tin* West Boylston Manufacturing Company, where a greater number of hands are working. The pope, it in reported, will appoint Mgr. Merry del \'al apostolic delegate to Canada. At Lincoln. Neb.. ex-Treasurer Bartley furnished a satisfactory bond for $50,090, and County Jmlge Cochran granted him a continuance until April 19. Attorney General Smyth thinks Mr. Bartley will at that time be ready for trial. Fully 2,500 of the striking cloak and shirt makers of New York returned to work Friday. Their demand for an increase of from IO Io 20 cents a garment for making ami 5 cents tor pressing and finishing were granted. By the explosion of an oil well boiler on the Hartman farm, m-ar Callery Junction. l'a., John Dunlap, engineer, was killed and William McKeever, tool dresser, fatally injured. The rig caught tire and other wells were threatened, but the flames were quickly extinguished.

DELUGE IN THE WEST. Awful Storm Sweeps Over the Mississippi Valley. Reports from southern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri and Kentucky indicate that the worst rainstorm known in years has swept over those sections of the country. In many places the rainfall, which began Thursday night, registered six and seven inches within eighteen hours, and as a result entire communities were flooded by overflowing streams. A t St. Louis two lives are supposed to have been lost ami several persons are missing. The damage to property in that city will foot up into tin? hundreds of thousands. At Cincinnati no lives were lost, but the damage is said to be enormous. From all points in the State named news has come of disastrous washouts which practically paralyzed railroad traffic and numerous wrecks are reported. By the collapse of a building one child was killed at Cairo, 111. At Cincinnati there has never been a precedent in the history of the local weather bureau for the amount of rainfall. Mill crqek and the Eig and Little Miami are raging torrents. Mill creek is sweeping down, carrying everything before it. Its normal width is twenty feet. It is how from one-half to a mile wide, engulfing a broad territory. Scores of factories and hundreds of gardens are under water. Great damage is reported from the valley, and many have been compelled to fly for their lives. The Ohio river rose seven feet in twelve hours No flood in the history of the Ohio has so completely cut off Cincinnati from the outside world as the present. The only railroad not tied up were those entering Cincinnati from Kentucky—the Queen and Crescent, the Chesapeake and Olio and the Louisville ami Nashville. The flood in southern Indiana is the worst since 1875. Twenty streets in Indianapolis were under water, and in the entire northeastern part of the city many people got up to find their clothing floating in a foot of water on the first floors. In four hours M'hite river rose six feet. The railroad service throughout the southern half of the State was fearfully crippled. At Langdon station, on the Pennsylvania road, the flyer train, south bound, had a narrow escape. The water was pouring over the rails when the flyer passed that point in safety. A minute later the embankment for a distance of 300 feet disappeared as if by magic. Advices from every quarter of Ihe State tell of great damage By the flood. Nearly all the wagon bridges in the vicinity of North Vernon were washed away and the loss will be many thousands of dollars. Portland suffered a deluge and the town was partly submerged. Martinsville has been completely isolated and three-quarters of a mile of the Big Four tracks was washed out. Half of Washington is flooded and many families are homeless. The fire bells v.cre ringing tor relief of the sufferers. Bridges are washed away and trains are delayed by washouts. At Anderson White river is out of its banks, and washouts tire reported on the Panhandle, Big Four and Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton railroads. At \ incennes tin* Wabash river rose one foot an hour and railroad traffic is seriously impeded. The hardest rain in forty years fell at Madison and hundreds of homes were flooded. The (•hio river has been rising four inches an hour. In the vicinity of Cairo, I)]., tornado and inundation went hand in hand. Roofs were torn off by the storm, plate-glass windows smashed, a frame church under construction destroyed, and one house blown down and wreckage burned. Eight persons were injured and one killed and burned in the ruins. The wind velocity was from sixty five to eighty miles. Mrs. James Darnell had her back broken. Mrs. Cary, injured internally, will probably die. Sol Pettis’ child burned to death, but others in the house escaped with slight injuries. The storm was terrific nt AVinchester, Ky. The track of the twister was about half a mile wide, and came from the southwest. Houses were blown down, trees uprooted and many domestic animals killed. Hundreds of families have been rendered homeless, and creeks and streams throughout the inundated country are rising. CHICAGO’S MAYORALTY To Be Fiercely Contested by Republicans, Democrats and Independents. Chicago is on the ere of a fierce fight for municipal offices. There will be at least three candidates in the field and more may develop. The Populists have already nominated Carter Harrison, sou I Of' JUDGE N. C. SEARS. of the great Mayor whose assassination shocked the country, and the Democrats have talked of endorsing him. The Republicans have named Judge Nathaniel C. Sears. Postmaster ^Washington Hesing, editor of the great German Democratic paper, (lie Staats Zeitung, will be an independent candidate. It will be the hottest election since Carter H. Harrison downed Pork King Allerton four years ago. Judge Sears, the Republican nominee, is 43 years old. an Ohioan by birth, and has practiced law in Chicago since 1880. For t iree years he has been a judge of the Superior Court. Five floors of the Shinkle, AVilson & Kreis company’s wholesale grocery house at Cincinnati crashed down in a heap into the cellar, under a load of nearly 1.000 barrels of sugar. Michael Schwabach, the watchman, was crushed to death, and AA'illiam 11. Gerdse, a clerk, and Michael Coleman, a drawman, were slightly injured. Chief Constructor Hichborn, who has just returned to M'ashington from an inspection of the battleship lowa at Cramps' ship yards, reports that the ship will start on her trial trip on March 29.

SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. A Week’s Proceedings in the Halls of Congress—lmportant Measures Discussed and Acted Upon—An Impartial Resume of the Business. The National Solons. The House Thursday, by a vote of 193 tn 3i, overrode the veto of (lie immigration bill. The conference report on the postoffice appropriation bill was agreed to. 'I hen the fight on the naval bill was renewed, the price of armor plate bein"the matter at issue. The Senate amend”ments to reduce the price from ss(^ to S3OO and to build three torpedo boats ami a practice boat, were agreed to. The Indinc bill. District of Columbia appropriation bill, and the sundry civil oil) were accepted as they came from conference Ikf Senate’s work was confined to closing business, and the measures considered by the House were the only ones in hand All of them went to the President as the House accepted them. Both Senate and House adjournets without day Thursday. In the Senate agreement was unanimous to resolutions expressing the appreciation of the Senate for the able and impartial discharge of the duties of presiding officer by Mr. Stevenson, and by Mr. Frye, president pro tem. Mr. Hoar announced that the committee of Congress had waited on the President and that he had asked them to convey his congratulations on the close of their labors. There was anxious awaiting for the announcement that the President had signed the remaining appropriation bills. But it did not come. Gradually the identity of the Senate was merged into the more striking features of the inauguration ceremony, and the session came to a close without further legislative business. The general deficiency bill failed in conference, and the agriculture, sundry civil and Indian appropriation bills failed of executive approval. 'lhe House was still in the legislative day of Tuesday when it adjourned without day. The closing hours were uneventful. The statement bad worked hard all night to get the sundry civil. Indian and agricultural bills to the president, only to have them “pocket vetoed,” while the general deficiency bill failed of passage because the House refused to subscribe to the $500,900 of Bowman claims which the Senate insisted upon. Mr. McMillin of Tennessee, with a few appropriate remarks, offered a resolution of thanks to the Speaker for his impartiality as a presiding officer, which was unanimously adopted by a rising vote. As Speaker Reed mounted the rostrum the members rose and cheered valiantly. He acknowledged the warm reception and then delivered his parting address. With a whack of the gavel at 11:<>6 he then declared the House adjourned without day and the members hurried over to the Senate to participate in the ceremonies there. The Senate went into executive session promptly upon the receipt of the Cabinet nominations, and as soon as the announcement was made of the appointment of Senator Sherman, whose name headed the list, he was confirmed. It is the prac- । tiee to refer sill nominations to committee, but it was the desire of Mr. Sheman's ' friends to signalize their regard for him 1 by immediate action. There was more form than reality in the reference of the other nominations to committee. Not one of the committees held a formal meeting, they being polled on the floor of the Senate in every instance. No objection was made in committee to confirmation. While the Senate was in legislative session the credentials of Mr. Hanna as Senator from Ohio, to succeed Mr. Sherman, were presented by Mr. Foraker and he was sworn in by Vice-President Hobart. Mr. Davis was also designated acting chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations to succeed Mr. Sherman. Beyond the usual notification to the President, nothing further was done. Most of the new Senators were on the floor when A’ice President Hobart called the Senate to order at noon Monday. The other Senators were not so prompt in making their appearance. The galleries, save that reserved for the diplomatic ?orps, were thronged with curious visitors. As soon as the blind chaplain had delivered his invocation, Mr. Pruden, the President's executive clerk, appeared with tb.e nomination of Oscar A. Janes, of Michigan, as pension agent at Detroit, which was afterward confirmed. The last communication of ex-Secretary Lamont, transmitting certain papers called for by a resolution of inquiry, was laid before the Senate. The Vice President submitted some resolutions of the New York Chamber of Commerce praying for the early ratification and passage of the arbitration treaty. At 12:12 p. in., on motion of Mr. Burrows (Rep.) of Michigan, the Senate went into executive session. The remainder of the session was devoted to executive business and at 1:05 p. m. the Senate adjourned until Wednesday. Told in a Few Lines. The Court of Appeals of Montreal has maintained the right of trades unionist. 4 ■■■■• to strike if the firm they work for refused to discharge non-union men. Benjamin R. Bacon, an insurance agent who, a few years ago, was one of the wealthiest and most prominent business men in Kansus City. Mo., committed suicide. Despondency following business reverses is supposed to be the cause of suicide. The liner Spree reached her pier in Hoboken after a rough voyage. Before reaching the Needles she ran into a dense fog ami had to anchor. The seas pounded her decks, staving a lifeboat to pieces, tearing out a section of rail and inflicting other damage. The California deep water harbor commission has submitted its report to the Secretary of War. Tin? commission decides in favor of San Pedro as the harbor on which the Government appropriation shall be expended. Commissioner Morgan does not sign the report. Paul Robert William Manning, a young Englishman of 24 years, sporting editor of a Berlin paper, ami his fiancee. Ida Margaret Helen Pankratz. a pretty, browii-haired fraulein, who is one year his junior, eloped to America. Miss I’ankratz's parents are wealthy. Judge I’arlange, of the United States District Court, pronounced sentence at New Orleans on the Texas Pacific Railroad officials, E. S. Sargent and L. 8. Thorne, who a few .lays ago pleaded guilty of violatiuc the imerstafe commerce law. They were fined $4,010 each.