Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 February 1897 — Page 2

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\yAKM POLITICAL REBATE ON THE FINANCIAL QUESTION

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^mt DMI of Talk About Gold and the FoulUe Scops ot Concrccslonal Action ^T"'""°4'£pv

Washington, Feb. 10.—The hotiife t&day passed the fortifications appropriations bill with but a single amendment and made some headway with the postoffice appropriation bill. But the major portion of the day -w«i consumed in a political debate on the financial question.

Mr. Knox of Massachusetts said that the stipulation regarding gold bonds applied Dnty to Arizona, which had outstanding gold bonds to be refunded.

Mr. Payne of New York said he saw no reason why the other territories should not be permitted to issue gold bonds. He said this bill bore no relation to the question of whether we should put gold in the bonds of the United: States.

He had voted to put gold in the bonds, he ad^ed, when the administration put the country in a position where not to do so would cost the people $12,000,000. Congress refused, and now the tax payers would have to pay those $12,000,000. f,' '.'And yet you maintain." interrupted Mr.

Terry Of Arkansas, "that we should pay those bonds in gold, although we paid $12,r 000,000 for the privilege of paying them in silver."'• We Many UeuiocrHti Favor Gold Contracts. "Every one maintains—almost every one maintains," replied Mr. Payne, "that the bonds are payable in gold. Even the late

Democratic candidate for vice president (Sewall), who ran on a silver platform, held gold bonds and the silver mine owners who were rampant for free silver sentiment wrote 'gold' in their notes."

Mr. Hartman of Montana indignantly denied this statement, but Mr. Payne insisted he was right. He said that the Western debtors in order to get money at a respectable rate of interest were obliged to agree to pay principal and interest in gold. lie said be believed every United States bond should be paid in gold.

Mr. Maguir of California replied to Mr. Payne. He said the honesty of the believers in free silver was to be questioned because some of them in loaning their money made gold contracts. Silver had bylaw been deprived of its legitimate function as money. Gold had been given special privilege. Silver was mere token money. Why, he argued, should a business man abandon the business advantage which the law gave him because of his conviction that as a matter of policy silver should be remonetized.

Mr. Bailie of Texas made a brief argument to demonstrate that a gold contract being contrary to public policy was illegal.

States Having Gold Clauses. Mr Walker of Massachusetts, chairman "of the comfnittee on banking and currency, declared it was as notorious as that the sun shines that there were certain states of the Union whose monetary system was beyond the reach of congressional legislation. There were seven states whei\3 all transactions were in gold, and yet it was curious, he said, that the representatives from those states on this floor sought to compel the rest of the Union to take 50 cents on a dollar. He insisted that congress should not interfere with private contracts. He urged the house to vote down an amendment that had been submitted by Mr. McMillin of Tennessee, which was as follows: "Provided, that the principal interest of the bonds funded under this act shall be payable in any lawful money of the United States except the Arizona bonds above described heretofore issued."

Mr. Lacey of Iowa deplored the fact that financial debate had been precipitated by the bill and expressed the hope that this bill would not be run ashore and wrecked on a silver coast.

Mr. Hartman again got the floor to deny the statements of Mr. Walker, who, he said, had furnished "more misinformation to the world on this question than all the rest of the house." I He insisted that gold contracts were not

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in his state, and read one of fifteen letters from cashiers of banks in his state, all denying gold contracts. His correspondent said he had been in the banking business for twenty years and had never seen a gold note.

In justification of his statement, Mr. Walker produced and read some gold notes made in ufah and California. He said he regretted it if he had made a mistake in enumerating the seven states, but he insisted that there were seven states where practically all time obligations were payable in gold.

Mr. McMillin's amendment was agreed to 149—7 after which the bill passed. Mails on Non-Alrtutl ltoadn.

The house then went into committee of the whole, and took up the postoffice appropriation bill. Mr. Loud, of California, in charge of the bill, said there was some question about the justice of the present method of determining the compensation to be given to the various railroads for carrying mails. Mr. Loud said congress could do nothing but fix the maximum compensation. It was within the power of the postmaster general to devise methods for obtaining the transportation of the mails at just and equitable rates. The cost of the transportation of the mails during the past eighteen years had been $308,000,000. Of this $30,640,000 had gone to the land grant roads which received twenty per cent, less than non-aided roads. Yet the transportation of mail was so profitable to* those laud strant roads at the reduced compensation that tbey had put on fast mail trains in order to get the contracts. He thought all the roads should be put on the same basis. The non-aided roads could afford to carry the mails at the rates paid the land grants roads.

Mr. Bromwell of Ohio, a member of the postoffice committee refused to give his assent to the subsidy given the fast mail from New York to New Orleans. He declared the $196,000 appropriated was a free gift to the railroad company. He gave notice tie would tomorrow move to strike out this tppropriation.

Mr. Swanson of Virginia, defended th« ippropriation which he declared furnished I

fast mail service on a trunk line for the attribution of mail throughout, the Southsrn States. It was. he said, and inestinable service to this section.

^ENORMOUS APPROPRIATIONS.

Sundry Civil lSill Provides For S50. 0G4,748--The items. ife Washington, D. C.. Feb. 11.—The house

Committee on appropriations today finished Ihe sundry civil appropriation bill for the next fiscal year. The bill carries a total 3f $50,664,743. This is $8,HI,068 less than the estimates and $1S,644,190 more than the appropriations for the current year: $17.529,053 of the appropriations is for carryiug out river and harbor contracts, and $4,072,7W for public buildings. The principal Kerns for carrying on work on public buildings are:

Allegany. Pa., $.".".,000: Boise City, Ida., $U 0,000: Buffalo. N. Y., $500,000 Cheyenne,

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Wyo., $100,000 Denver, Colo., (mint), $200,fOO Helena, Mont., $100,000 Kansas City, Mo., S2(€,000 Merits*#, Miss., SJ0.000 Mil-

waukee, Wis., $400,0000 New York City, appraiMrtf' wMebouse, $300,W0 Newport, Ky., $50,000 Portland, Ore., $200,000 Pueblo, Col#., $150,000 PotUville* PA., $40,000 South Omaha, Neb., $100,000 St. Paul, Minn., $125,000 San Francisco, $100,000, and Savannah, Ga., $175,000. The lftitft of cost of the Omaha building is increased $100,000, and $125,000 is appropriated for finishing it.

The large sums for harbor works contracted for by the secretary of war include Philadelphia harbor, for removal of Smith's windmill and Petty islands and siioals, $694,000 Galveston, $500,000 the Hudson river, $500,000 improvement of channel connecting the great lakes between Chicago, Duluth and Buffalo, $1,090,000 Humbolt Bay, Cal., $400,000 Savannah, Ga., and Florida, $400,000 Cumberland Sound, Ga., and Florida, $400,000 Boston, $400,000 Buffalo, $550,000 Dunkirk, N. Y., $398,000 Delaware Bay, Del., $450,000 Winyaw^Bay, S. C., $400,000 Sabine Pass, Tex., $400,000 Cleveland, $400,000 Milwaukee, $168,000 uluth and Superior, $500,000 Grap's Harbor, 'Wash., $400,000. tjr**

The river appropriatio£s"inelude': Allegany river, Pennsylvania. Locks and dams at Herr Island above Six-Mil^ Island and Springdale,' $400 000 Upper Monongahela, six locks and dams, $400,000 Yazoo and Vicksburg harbor, $400,000 Bayou Plaquemine, La., $400,000 Cumberland, above Nashville, three locks, $400,000 falls of the Ohio at Louisville, $400,000 Ohio river for dam No. 6, at mouth of Beaver river, $300,000 Chicago river, $113,000 Illinois and'Mississippi canal, $1,000,000 water way from Keweenaw bay to Lake Superior, $400,000 Mississippi from'the mouth ot the Qhio to St. Paul, $653,333, not more than $100,000 of the sum to be used to prevent the Mississippi breaking into the ^O^che riyef, near B^ach Ridge, at Caifo, HU-.iFBrai'aiouth of, Missouri river to St. Paul, $826,666, including $30,000 for the sand, bar ,at Dubuque and $15,000 for the sand bar, at Muscatine, la., Mississippi, from the head of the mouth of the Ohio, $2,583,333 Missouri, from mouth to Sioux City, $300,000 including $25,000 for repairing works to Nebraska City WTillimette and Yamhill rivers, Oregon, $160,000.

THE ARBITRATION TREATY

senator Turpie Speaks In Fa*or of the Anglo-American Treaty Washington, Feb. 11.—The senate spent the greater part of the day in exe^ative 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 ot the treaty. The session opened with Senator Turpie's speech. He laughed at and held up to ridicule Senator Morgan fears of the effect of the acceptance "6V the treaty. He declared that the United States as a nation was big enough to be perfectly independent and fearless in such a matter and said we ought to -set an example to other nations in all matters looking to the promotion of 4he reign of pes«« which was the paramount purpose of the pending agreement. He. contended that the perfection of the treaty would have the effect of preventing such war panics as .those which followed the excitement over Venezuela, the existence of a treaty providing for the submission of all questions to arbitration would be both a guarantee against war with England and a safeguard in case of war with other countries. He also urged that in case it was found the enforcement ot the terms of the treaty involved the Monroe doctrine, and the Nicaragua canal, the question could then be taken -up by Congress and acted upon as effectively as at present.

The arbitration proposition, Mr.: Turpie declared, was no new thing. It had been proposed many times. In the Fifty-first Congress a concurrent resolution was adopted by a Congress Republican in both braches in favor of the general principle of arbitration.

This resolution, Mr. Turpie said, gave expression of that congress in favor of arbitration, an expression which the people believed in and which had never been condemned. He claimed that the treaty could not involve the Nicaragua canal or any other question such as claimed by Senators Sherman and Morgan.

Senatpr Turpie declared that arbitration would not prevent war, but it was one of the means to the end in that direction. At the conclusion of his remarks, Senator Morgan took the floor and went o^er the ground which he had before discussed, paying more particular attention to the points made by Senator Turpie with reference to the Nicaragua canal. •_

He declared that under the terms of the treaty, and Unless specifically protected bv amendment, and especially abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, the canal would be subject-to arbitration. Mr. Morgan also pointed out the influence which England was exerting in the Ceaavil American states and declared that the s?nato of .he United States must protect the in.ereso of this counry. He replied to Mr. Turpio'o attitude and said that if the Indiana senator was such, a man of peace as lfe now professed to be lie had created a very false iajp.ession in his attitude on the Cuban question.

Senator Sherman took no part in today's discussion, but he told several senators that he was exceedingly anxious to have the question disposed of as speedily as possible. He said that he v*as contemplating sskihg the seriate soon to fix a day by unanimous Consent tor a vote. It is the general opinion that the request will not now be acceded to.

TOO MUCH FOR THE GUN.

A T«?8t of Powder Reveals Too High Pressure. San Francisco, Feb. 11.—On the bluff 300 yards back of Fort W infield Scott the big ten-inch breech-loading rifle was fired today fo rthe first time. Every one belonging to the Presidio reservation who was off 1 duty was there to witness the sight. About 100 people from the ciiy were thor by \nvitation.

The experiments were to determine whether the Brown prismatic powder is suited to this class or rifle. The firing was I dorte by Lieutenant John D. Miley, under whose supervision the great rifle had been inounted. Lieutenant Babbitt, of Benecia arsenal, had charge of taking the velocity, i:

The test, which was practically to fletermine whether the powder gove high enough velocity or low enough pressure, was not altogether a success. Three shots were fired, ^he first of which, at 2 o'clock, was .twoI thirds of a full, cljarge of powder—1S3 2-3 pounds. The second, at 3 o'clock, was 250 I pounds. The last. a 4 o'clock, was a full charge—280 pounds

Castiron shot with chilled points was used. The weight of shot with each firing was 575 pounds, it was the last shot which revealed the fact that the pressure was too high to be safe. It ran up to 41,000 pounds. The limit allowed is 37,000 pounds. Everything above that figure is a great strain on the gun and of course weakens it. Every time this great rifle is fired it costs the government $200.

And He Wits Cnrrouicil Off. Traveler (at a crowded hotel)—How much do 1 owe you? What's my bill?

Hotelkeeper—Let me see was Traveler—I didn't have any room. I slept on the billiard table.

Hotelkeeper—Ah, well. 40 cents an hour. —Boston Post.

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12,1897.

A WEEK OF WEDDINGS

WK G. BLEDSOE AND MISS tJTKllA KKEVXS MAKRlttD Ulf NtGHTT-

Marriage Performed By Rev. Shney Is Followed By a Urge Howe Eecep-tioa*-Otb«r WedtHng*. '-.HM

"A very happy wedding took place in the east part ot town last night. The contract

After the ceremony was performed the newly married couple proceeded to the residence of the bride's parents at the corner of Fourteenth and One-half street and Liberty avenue, where a wedding supper was served and a reception tended Mr, and Mrs. Bledsoe. During the evening about 200 guests were present. Many valuable presents were received from the young couples' host of friends. The bride wsfc attired 1& white silk with pearl trimmings. Miss Braden wore blue silk trimmed in chiffon, and Miss Luce was dressed in pink trimmed in pink ribbons and chiffon. It was a very happy affair and will long be remembered by all those present. The decorations in the dining room were especially good, they consisted chiefly of of pink and white.

Mr, and Mrs. Bledsoe will make their home with phe bride's parents. Those present from abroad were Mr. Ben Roby of St. Mary's, Ohio- Mr, Eugene Reaves of St. Mary's, Ohio, and Mr. A. S. Lane of Viicennea.

General Breckenridge says "the administration of the home is excellent," tjyvtjjt has on hanA in cash $35,618.14, of $34,506.25 was on deposit in the Indiana National Bank at Indianapolis at the^Ugie of the inspection. The improvements ^hipjh were completed last year were two,ideational barracks, a new dining hall, and standpipe at a cost of $74,972.76. Th^afif improvements ordered and now und^ w#-y are three additional barracks, new jfeail?r house, gas well and lease of addiijioijp.1 grounds, cost $74,800. The e^timat^s ulftr the new year made by the secretary ,flf the treasury are for a gate lodge, new haA'p, greenhouse and electric light plantiujat a cost of $19,500.

The average number of inmates in the home the past year was 1,422, an increase of 213 over the preceding ye*r. The losses in the number of inmates sustained by the home were as follows: Discharged, 269 transferred, 188 by death, 81 to insane asylum, 11.

Speaking of the amusements pVovided for the inmates, the inspector general says they have the benefit of a band, which gives regular concerts, a theater, billiards and a library, which embraces 2,264 volumes. Books may be taken out by card or read in the reading room of the. library. During the past year 16,879 books have,been taken out of the -library by card and 11,000 read in the reading room, according to the registry report.' This is an average of twenty books for each member of the home, and, according to the inspector, the veterans show a preference for fiction or the history of the civil war.

Twice a week religious services are held in Stinson Memorial Hall for the veterans. Two chaplains, who receive $50 a month each, one a Catholic and the other a Protestant, conduct the services.

During the past year sixty-six veterans of those who died were buried in the cemetery at the home. Their burial garments consist of a blouse, uniform trousers, hospital shirt, socks and drawers. The coffins are made at the home and cost S4.96 each. The total cost of a funeral is $$.93. Of the eighty-one deaths, which .occurred the past year, seventy,-six were from natural causes, one from violence, one a- suicide and three the result of accidf-nt

The sundry civil bill reported today .carries an appropriation of $23,000 for the. Macion Soldiers' Home.

THE STRATFORD PEEPER

William H. Stratton Sentenced to J|UFor One Hundred Dars. Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. U.—Today Judge Peck, in Stratford, sentenced Williams H. Stratton to 100 days in jail. Several mtfKths ago there was a great commotion'iii11the

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towh about a "peeper" who. weat around looking in windows and frightening wonSen. On Sunday night last, between 9 and1 10 o'clock, as Mrs. Elvira Curtis whb'llves alone in the house at the corner of Barnum avenue and King Street, was engaged ill her household work, she heard a noise like footsteps under her window, and, looking up. caught a glimpse Of a man glaring at ht through the pane. The man pass: 1 from ouct window io ihc ci!}jr, a Ad ."nali/hj

one near tie dorr. He unlo iked the door and entered. Before Mrs. Curtis could esfiape he grasped Ber wrists and the» Attempted to ohoke her.

Mrs. Curtis resisted vigorously and succeeded in breaking away from him and runfiing to the back door, where she shouted jfor help. Then he ran away. Mrs. Curtis recognised him as "Old Stratton." Not daring to venture out in the dark she barricaded herself in a room and waited for daylight, when she informed Sheriff Stagg. She said It was the third time Stra'.ton had bothered ier, but that he had never been violent be-

ing parties were Mr. William Q. Bledso^^^ The sheriff kept a lookout for Stratton

and Miss Estella Reeves. On account .of their large circle of friends a church wed-« ding was planned. The ceremony being performed in the United Brethren Church wlttf the Rev. Shuey officiating. The church was decorated with many palms aid Cut flowers which made this already pretty church very attractive. On the arrival ofjhe bridal' party the church was yrell filled despite Ihe fact that the weather was very disagreeable.^ When they proceeded to the altar they w«sre_ preceded by little Misses Avice and Ulta Shuey as ribbon girls. The bridal party? was composed of Miss Myrtle Braden of Kansas, 111., a cousin of the bride, and Miss Grace Luce, as maids of honor, and Mr. Walter Bledsoe, best man, and Mr. Oscar Leek.

and' arrested him yesterday afternoon. He has been under suspicion for some time.

4* IMMODEST DANCING

The Charge Brought Against Garmel— Iwenty-Foar Men Fined. New York, Feb. 11.—Three women and twenty-seven men who were arrested in August Hoffman's saloon, at McKibbin street and Bushwick avenue, Wllliamehurgh, on last Wednesday, night, where one of the women known as Garmei, it is said, was giving an immodest dattce, were arraigned yesterday in the Ewen Street Police Court. Twenty-four of the men were each fined $5. Hoffman, the proprietor of the saloon William Hessner, who, It is said, had provided the entertainers, and Hadei Sheriff, Who took part in the daace, were each held iri $500 bail for a hearing next Tuesday. Mazie Howard and Maggie Merritt, who were to furnish the vocal part of the performance, were discharged, while Garmei, who told the police that* she was sometimes known as Little Egypt,_ was, held in $500 ball for a hearing. Ifr

While she was in the prisoners^ pen awaiting a bondsman a man who said he was Milo Boynton identified her as his wife, who left him six years age while they lived In Gr&vesend. She turned her face when she saw him. Boynton said she was not an Egyptian, as she had told the police, but was a native of this country. Last summer she danced at Coney Island resorts. Boynton is a brakeman on the Long Island Railroad»© mf

I/IHIGWAYMEN

B.Ti'iie-Badgley Wedding,

Mr. J. W. Byrne and Miss -Carrie Badgftfy were very quietly piarried at the brides home, 314 North Eighth street, last nig at 8'clock, the Rev. Worth M. Tippy oittciating. Mr. Byrne is an employe of the Vandalia freight office.

A Yerre Haute Girl Married.— Frank Hunt and Miss Grace McGione of Kokomo were unted in marriage at the bride's home in that city last Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. The bride is well known in Terre Haute, having visited Miss Ella Rankin of this city.

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Collins-Moore

At the home of the bride's parents, Mr, and Mrs. William Collins, 2011 North Seventh street, occurred the wedding of Mr. Frank L- Moore and Miss Irene A. Cfollins, Wednesday evening. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. W. Witmer.

MARION SOLDIERS' HOME.^F

Favorable Report of tbe Inspector General

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Special to the Indianiij&lls Ne#9. Washington, Feb. 11.—The significant features of Inspector General Breckenrldge's report to congress on his visit to the branch of the National Soldiers' Home at -Marion were: i, "The m^h'kt ifispection presented an excellent appearance and seemed well disciplined there has been a decrease of 172 in the number tried for breach of discipline the death rate for the past year was only 45.35 per cent, per 1^000, which was much lower than that of the previous year tbe average age of those who died at the home was 61,28 years, against 60.3 years, the average age at death during the year before. The only unfavorable comment on the home was the fact that the faculties for caring for the insane were not complete.

ON BICYCLES

A Novel Method of Robbery Employed at lrfMtUville, Ky. Louisville, Feb. 11.—The most up-to-date set of highwaymen in America is operating in yiis city. They are mounted on bicycles, their-field of operations is the fashionable boulevard on the outskirts of the city, and their victims are the young society folks who have been taking advantage of the mild weather of the last few days to engage in the pleasures incident to wheeling parties.

The first attack was made upon Mr. Henry Mason while spinning out Third street boulevard. After having robbed him, these twentieth century highwaymen punctured his wheel with a knife so c« to prevent successful pursuit. Mr. Mason thought nothing of the approach of the wheelmen until they began to close in on him, and one of them struck him on the back of the head with a andbag. He fell upon the boulevard and the lamp from one of the wheels was kept ih his face to blind him. After the robbery one of the men said that he would now be compelled to do something which as a wheelman he regretted very much. He proceeded to puncture the tire. 1

Two nights ago two parties of society people were held up, several straggling couples being cut off from the main body by the maneuvers of the highwaymen on wheels.

WHERE CORBETT WILL TRAIN

Shawi Springs, Near Carson, the Proposed Scene of Battle to He Chosen. San Francisco, Feb. 11.—James J. Corbett who arrived on the Overland train today will remain here until Monday visiting his father and other relatives. He has selected Shaw Springs, Nev., as his training quarters. The location is only two miles from Carson, the scene of the coming battle. A hotel is located at the springs and there are several cottages in the vicinity. Corbett has ordered the erection of a handball court near the hotel, where he will play with his brother Joe. Corbett expressed his gratification at Stuart's selection of Carson for the fight. Corbett appears to be in prime condition and is in good spirits and confident of vanquishing Fitzsimmons.

In discussing his training plans he said: "Delaney will go back with me next Monday and help put me in shape. I will take Jeffries along to do heavy work. I understand he is strong and quite heavy. He is just the sort of a fellow I want. I was going to bring a Cincinnati giant but be could not come. I will have Billy Woods, Charley White and Bill MoVoy, besides. They ought to keep me busy. White hna been with' Fitzsimmons and knows all his tricks.".

FITZ IS FIT TO FIGHT

His *iual Stake Deposit Will lie Made at Colorado Springs, Chicago, Feb. 11.—Robert Fitzsimmons.. accompanied by Martin Julian, Ernest Koeber and Dan Hickey, arrived in Chicago tonight at 9 o'clock and left an hour later for the West. Fitzsimmons will give exhibitions at Colorado Springs and Pueblo. Julian will not stop at Pueblo but will go through to Colorado Springs, where he will deposit the $5,000 yet due as the Fitzsimmons' side of the side bet. "I will send it by draft," he said, "back to A1 Smith in New York. I did not put the money up before leaving New York because of the law in that state. 1 will put it in the bank at Colorado Springs and then renUt at once to A1 Smith. 1 have the monoy right with me," and Julian exhibited a wad of bills which looked large enough to have twice the value he claimed. Fitzsiiunjons expressed himself modestly but confidently on the outcome of the fight, and said that if it were not for the thin atmosphere at Carson City he would be ready to fight at any time.

Han Stuart IIHH Sctiled t'pou Curson. Carson, Nev.. Feb. 11.—Dan Stuart lias at last arrived and has announced that the big fight between Corbett and Fitzsimmons will occur in Carson. March IT. Although Stuart had reiterated all the way up from Texas that he had not decided where the fight was to be held, it did not take him long to make up his mind after he got here. Ho gives as a reason for the selection of Carson in preference to Reno that the Carson people had worked hard for the passage of the bill, while the llcno citizens were opposed to it.

The Six lay Bicycle ICftce.

Pittsburg, Pa.f Feb. 11.—The close contest between Waller and Gimm in the six day bicycle race is the means of increasing the attendance largely at the Grand Central Rink. Each of the. leaders made attempts fo make gains, but were forced to acknowledge their efforts futile. The men are all in good condition and making good time. The scoio at midnight: Waller and Gimm 842 miles, Schock. S19: Hall, S01 Forster, 782: Ruckel, 730.

.Ntw Orleans Running Races. New Orleans, Feb. 11.—Weather rainy, track sloppy. Results:

First, seven furlongs—Dave Pulsifer won, Hafl Stone second, Gunwad third. Time—1:37. Second, seven furlongs—-Nannie L's Sister won. Double Dummy st-cond, Vence third. Time—1:40.

Third, six furlongs—Domingo won, If second, Hano Belle third. Time—1:22',•. Fourth, handicap, one mile and a sixteenth —Favorine won. Marquise second, Cannle Lee third. TIme-2:0lVi.

Fifth, six furlongs—Rover won, Sligo second. Favorita third. Time—1:2G. Sixth, six furlongs—Miss Kowptt won, Gil Fordhain second. Bustup third. Time—l:22J".

A Knee Meat on Decoration I)HTThe Wabash Cycling club is making arrangements by which they txfxn to have soinr «f tho heft bicycle races on Decoration Day tha*. JIftte ever been ait emoted in this city.

STUDB'S LAST TALK.

UlSttONART JtAIX* Cli08ES sAFTEJt A MCKfttfO LAST MfGBT.

A Stoag Argamettt Pat Forward in Favor of More Foreign Missionary Work —Ihe Chines*.

The l%st of the missionary meetings which have been going on in thig city was held last night at the First M. E. Church. While the weather interfered materially in the size of the audience It did not in the least lessen the spiijit of the meeting. Mr. Charles T. Studd was present and. gave one of the most interesting talks on the present situation in China that has ever been givaa in this city.

A service of song was conducted previous to the address of the evening, during which Miss Maud Paige sang a beautiful aolo and Professor Shook led the congregation's singing. After Mr. Studd had told in very touching language the story of his conversion and many incidental things in connection with that event, h3 said: "God intends that we should w'alk hand iii hand for the evangelization of the worM., And in order that you may all see the situation as it really is, I want to tell something this evening about China and che Chinese. To begin with, China is 'so differ int from this country that it is almost impoas'-ble to maka people understand the true situation. There is no confidence whatever there. This is noticeable in the manner in which the people build their homes,-

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The speaker then told of bis being colled to the bedside of a young Chinese girl who had- committed suicide by taking opium. When he arrived the dev.h rattle was in the girl's throat, which was soon followed by death. She being a stranger to him he turned to one of the bystanders and asked. "What caused this girl in the prime ot life to commit such an act." The answer was simply, "She was to ua*e been mavried, that is all." ——j&?*

WQ POTTER IS PRESIDENT.

Lively Contest in I» A. W. AssMnblyJEuds in Bis Election. A Albany. N. Y., Feb. 11.—"The battle' of the ballots'' in the L. A. W. assembly for the high office of president is now a thing of the past and tor the next year, Chief Counsel Potter of New York will rule the destines of the American Wheelmen.

The entire afternoon was devoted to the election of officers aiid, as was expected, the contest centered principally on the officer* for president,

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tr6&surcr» 'w, W. E. Connelly of Illinois, who T?as a candidate himself for the office, but seeing that he was beaten, swung his men in line for Potter and made the jspeech placing the name of Mr. Potter in nomination for president. It was left to Chief Counsel William Kemplin of Ohio to place tbe name of President'Sterling Elliot of Massachusetts before the convention for re-election. Everytime the speaker mentioned Mr. Elliott'si name, great applause ensued.

It took some little time to count the ba.lots but when the result was announced it was found that out of 271 votes, cast, Mr. Potter'had received 155 Mr. Elliott 115, and one blank. After the result was announced Mr. Potter mounted the platform and made a few brief remarks.

The newly elected president said that in his own behalf he would state that no ill feeling existed between himself and President Elliott and that the reports circulated to that effect were erroneous. This was the*full ticket elected:

President—Isaac B. Potter. New York. First Vice President—A. C. Morrison, Milwaukee, Wis.

Second Vice President—C. F. Kirker, la.srson N. J* Treasurer—J. W. Clendenning, Covington,

Auditing Committee--J. Vanort, Pennsylvania George L. McCarthy, New York, J* Fred Adams, Massachusetts.

The executive committee was ordered to ^ttle the claim for $450 against the league hv the owners of the property the league had used for headquarters in Chicago.

Good Roads" banquet was der the auspices ot the L. A. row's session, which will wind up the meeting, will be devoted mainly to the constitu

ti0"My

experience," says retiring President Elliott, "has fully satisfied me that the mos^ effective way to spread the gospa o. good roads is through the regular standaiv pub--wet rea* br wish to convert. Our good rodda monthly, while it proved a valuable help, was not a success as a missionary, fo^ the reason that it was taken and read only by those people who already agreed with the sentiments "Last April I closed an arrangement with the Canadian customs authorities by wh'.ch members of the League of American Wheelmen are permitted to enter wheels into Canada without the payment of duty which is ordinarily required. "I believe that one of the most available remedies for the disease of bicycle kleptomania is to pass laws which will Insure very severe penalties for this kind of thef-.. "The value of the newspapers to the cause of the L. A. W. can not be overestimated. The organization is mentioned millions of times during the year, and the impression giver, the reader is usually favorable. The various press bureaus established in some o' the states are a potent Influence toward the acquiring of many new men\jbers.

WAS NEARLY COUNTED OUT

Michigan's Electoral Voto. Through Legislative Krror. Was Endangered. Lansing, Mich., Feb. 11.—Since the formal announcement in congress of the result of the electoral vote has been made known that the 'Michigan electoral vote has all along been in danger ot being declared void. The act passed by the last legislature which prescribes the duties ot county canvassers makes no provisions for canvassing the vote east, for p.^3id3ntiai electors .although It repeals all other laws on the subject. The few officials and other* whose attention .vas drawn to this situation last summer, all of whom are Republicans, kept it very quiet, although the possibility that the vote of Michigan might be required to settle the question catvscd considerable nervousness for a time. The question was never raised and the Deajceratb state committee seems not to havs been co.^niz.mt of the oversight in the law. It will be amended by the present legislature.

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a court with the windows all facing inwarS. The only opening on the outside being o«£ door for entrance. People would not dare have openings on the .outsid? but that it 5r stolen. Walking on the streets with a woman as we do in this country is never done, not even though the woman be the mans wife. Such a meeting as I im addressing tonight," said Mr. Studd, "could not be held there unless the audience was divided by a large curtain, with the men on one side and the women on the' other. If this were not the case there would be a row. We think in this country that anything but a love match in marriage is an abomination, but in China all marriages are abominations, there is no such thing as a live match,"

A few days ago the papers of Terre Ilautb gave public notice that Dr. Hobbs, the well known specialist in diseases of the kidneys,\ had made a discovery which, Jf his claims could be substantiated, would revolutionise the treatment of all kidney diseases in order that the public might be given the benefit of this discovery without cost, they were not only asked, but urged to call at the Buntin Drug Co., of this city, and get a trial package of Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Kid-. ney Pills.i i.

In this w&y it would enable every one to form his own judgment as to the value of this medicine. Does any sane man or woman believe for one moment ihat any physician would dare to so openly challenge public opinion were he not absolutely certain of his ground? Reflect a moment and consider this point carefully.

The avidity with which people from alt grades of society, from the eli'.e to the humblest, availed themselves of Dr. Hobbs offer, affords some startling figures of the great numbers afflicted with kidney diseases in this section.

THINK OF IT! HUNDREDS OP4 SAMPLE PACKAGES of Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Pills werh given out at the Buntin Drug Co. Pharmacy to applicants in one day, every one of whom was willing to give Dr. Hobbs'Pills a fair test.

The free test called for h. restrictions Physicians were not barred—in fact, they were welcome—and, as still further proof of this, while the free distribution of sampies ended at the Buntin Drug Co. Pharmacy a few days since, the Hoobs Remedy Co., Chicago, 111., upon application will even now be glad to furnish free to all Physicians who have not applied for a sufficient quantity of Dr. Hobb3 SparagU9 Kidney Pills to make such test as In their judgment may seem necessary—in fact, the fullest and most searching investigation is most cordially extended to physicians, as well as to the public. f. What Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney

Pills are designed and guaranteed to do.

They soothe, heal and cure any inflammation of the kidneys or bladder.

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They cure Backache. mM They cause the kidneys to filter out ot the blood all poisons and impurities, whetn-» er made in the system or taken in from the Nfe outside. fs

They render sluggish kidneys active^ They cause the kidneys to cast out Ihe sip poison of rheumatism (uric acid), the disease germs of malaria and the grippe.

They cause the kidneys to keep the bloodl if pure and clean and thus prevent neuralgia, hj&m headache, dizziness, nervous dyspepsia, skin Igifi diseases, eruptions, scales, teters and rashes.

They cause the kidneys to work steadily Ms and regularly. They dissolve and cast out brickdust and! phosphate deposits and dissolve gravel and calculi in both the kidneys and bladder.

They yield a clear mind, sweet sleep, steady nerves, active bodies, brimful of the zest and happiness of living, bright eyes and rosy cheeks, because they keep the blood! free from poisons and impurities that would otherwise clog and irritate it.

Healthy kidneys make pure blood. Pure blood makes perfect health. .v Perfect health makes life worth livings Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Pills do this', and do it all the time.

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WILL MARRY A PROTESTANT.

A St. Louis Belle Who Will Leave the Catholic Church.

St. Louis, Feb.

ley, the charming young sister of the wife of General John Siegrist, and a reigning West End belle, will soon abandon the religion of her fathers—the Roman Catholic Church—to become a non-believer, according to the edicts of that church.

She is soon to marry Dr. W. L. Whipple, a Protestant, and for months she has pleaded with her priest, and finally with Archbishop Kain, not to drive her from tho church, to permit her to be married by a priest, as her affianced will not foresafee his religious faith. The archbishop is unyeildIng, despite all the powerful influences socially the devout young woman has brought to bear upon him. Dr. Whipple is aa stern as the archbishop in tho tenets of hi3 faith.

Today Miss Rowley announced that she would be married by.a Protestant minister and thus forsake her faith for the man sho loves. She wiil be married Monday night, and will be excommunicatod at the same time.

The Steamship Arrival*

New'York, Feb. 11.—Arrived: rlavei,' from Bremen Westemland, from Antwerp Palatia, frtfhi Hamburg.

London, Feb. 11^—Arrived: Manitoba, from New York. Delaware Breakwater, Feb. 11.—Arrived: Illinois, from Antwerp.

-S I Bank Stockholders Assessed." Ellenshurg, Wash., Feb. 11.—The Comp*! troller of the Currency has levied an assessment of $100 per share on the stockholders of the Kittitas Valley National Bank, which failed last July. This aggregates $50,000. Most of the stock 16 hfldjn the East. ».

"lighting Joe" Shelby Gradually Siiikloc

They cure Bright's disease. They cause the kidneys to rapidly rifl eW the system of the poisons of alcohol and to-» bacco.

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Josephine Row

Adrian. Mo., Feb. 11.—A messenger »fho arrived at 9 o'clock from the home of "'en eral Joseph Shelby, nine miles from lur^p reports the general's condition as almost hopeless, lift remains unconscious and is gradually-growing weaker.