Walkerton Independent, Volume 28, Number 30, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 February 1903 — Page 2

3nbtpcniicnL — A W. A. I»Til>lislier. ! WALKERTON, - • • INDIANA. ( - . - ( SUMMARY OF NEWS. ‘ I Negotiations are on foot for the sale i of the Toledo, Bowling Green and < Southern Traction Company, operating between Toledo and Findlay, Ohio, forty- 1 seven miles. It is believed the Pomeroy- < Mandelbaum syndicate will buy the 1 road. 1 Three hundred employes of the Golden Reward Smelter at Deadwood. S. D.. ’ have struck because one man was laid i off. About 700 other men will be thrown 1 out of employment as a result, the com- * pany having decided to close down two -of its large mines. ' Robert Edgar Vance, an actor. 52 1 years of age. died at Baltimore. Five weeks ago Mr. Vance’s nose began to bleed' and he was removed to the hospital. Every known remedy was tried by the physicians and surgeons to relieve the sufferer without avail. Charges against indicted Retail Coal Dealers’ officials in Chicago filed with Judge Horton by agreement, include notices to wholesalers that carload tales to individuals and manufacturers may lead to proscription. The Glen X iew Golf Club and Statp normal schools are included among offenders. A specifjury called by Judge Brown at Ely, Nev., to investigate the tragedy of Jan. 7, in which three men were killed and two wounded, returned two indictments against William Lloyd, president of the miners’ union, who is charged with having concocted a scheme for getting rid of Traylor, either by kidnaping him or taking his life. The melting of the snow has caused extensive floods and serious damage in Scotland. The River Tay has overflowed in Pentshire and many carcasses of deer, cattle and sheep and quantities of household furniture are floating in the streets of Perth. In Inverness the River Ness has overflowed and the railroad bridges have been damaged. The River Dee has flooded parts of Balmoral and has elsewhere caused great destruction. Charles Chisholm, P. Herbandson, N. O. Noben. Alexander Smart, Iver SwenMon, L. G. Thompson, J. H. McLean. Charles Weigel and 11. C. Bradten, members of the North Dakota Legislature, and J. N. Tolman, a legislative representative of Carbon County, Montana. spent Sunday in Glendive to arrange for the segregation of eastern Montana and western North Dakota.and the creation of a new State, to be known as Montague, extending from the Belt Mountains in Montana to the Missouri River in North Dakota. Glendive is to be chosen the capital. BREVITIES, A cave-in at the Pioneer mine at Ely, Minn., caused the death of Jacob Maki a Finn, and injured three others. Vermont abandons prohibition, special election resulting in adoption of local option law by a majority of about 1,000. It is announced that Sven Hedin, the Swedish explorer, may be sent in search of the. south pole by the French Geographical Society in the spring. The Southern Pacific has reached an agreement with Its firemen on the question of w’ages. The increase 4n wages granted averages between 6 and 12 per

cent. At a meeting of 5,000 strikers in An gi—<-r"lying idle for ten years, the tunnel under the East river between Fortysecond street, Manhattan, and Long Island City will probably soon be rushed to completion. Fire at Waukomis, a small town on the Kock Island Railroad, ten miles south of Enid, Ok., destroyed ap jurbe block of buildings, causing, a loss estimated at $75,000. The bank at Cambridge, 111., was entered by robbers and SIO,OOO was stohm. Five robbers, their Hight impeded by heavy snowfall, were captured in a barn a few miles from town. The German government has decided to readmit the Jesuits, who since 1872 have been excluded- from the country. Chancellor von Buelow made the announcement in the Reichstag. A combination freight and emigrant car containing six persons plunged from the tracks of the Queen and Crescent Railroad into the river at Vicksburg, Miss., and all in it were drowned. In Syracuse. N. Y., the Hotel Mowry was discovered to be on fire shortly before 1 o’clock a. m. Eighty guests were obliged to make a hasty escape through the smoke-filled halls. All got out in safety. Sixty-six officials, including the Governors of several provinces, have been arrested in Japan in connection with a school book scandal resulting from the alleged introduction by bribery of many inferior books. Walter Ramsey of Harrison, N. J., was shot and killed in the apartments of Mrs. George McDowell in Harrison by Mrs. McDowell’s husband. McDow.eil •left the house after the shooting and eluded the police. Because, it is said, his fiancee broke their engagement, William Waters, one of the most prominent men of Butte, Mont., committed suicide by shooting, dying in the midst of many wedding presents sent for the ceremony. Henry Phipps, director of the Carnegie Steel Company, who is traveling in India, has handed to Lord Curzon $lO,000 to be devoted to some practical object or in scientific research that promises to be of enduring benefit to India. The Franklin County, Ky., grand jury has adjourned. Notwithstanding the fact that Henry E. Youtsey, serving sentence for life as accessory to the murder of Gov. Goebel, was before the jury for over a week, no indictments in the Goebel case were returned. While four newsboys were sleeping in a warm spot in the areaway of the Second National Bank building in Pittsburg some one dashed two bucketfuls of scalding water over the quartet. Two of the hoys, Harry Hess, aged 12, and Fred Reek, aged 11 years, were scalded so that they will die. Application for pardon has been made to Gov. Odell on behalf of Thomas Tobin. who was convicted of the murder of Captain Craft, whose head was cut off in the basement of a drinking place in New York. It is asked on the ground that Tobin was insane and illegally convicted. Attorney General Cunneen of NewYork has given an opinion that the offering by the Pullman Palace Car Company of an annual pass to a member of the Legislature is a violation of the State constitution and that its tender constitutes a misdemeanor. The acceptance by a legislator would mean the forfeiture of his office

EASTERN. I s i John St. Clair, alias Sinclair, a negro, who murdered his sweetheart eight , months ago, was hanged at Washington. , Baron von Sternberg, special envoy of i Germany, has reached New York and t declares the Kaiser is a friend of Amer- , ica. The Big Four Railroad has granted । machinists an increase of 5 per cent in - wages, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie j road has given all employes an advance ( of 10 per cent. 1 Five thousand Brooklyn horses are being fed on molasses because it is 1 cheaper than oats; it is declared nutri- । tious for draft animals, which do not get time to digest grain. Undetected, seven New York detectives entered fifty-six houses in the wealthy residence district of the city in a single hour to prove that recent robberies are due to laxity of servants. The measure prohibiting the practice of Christian Science, mind and faith cure in healing was defeated overwhelmingly in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, the vote being 70 to 194. Yale seniors under five feet five inches tall have formed the Pewee Club and will delve into history and science to secure evidence that little men are more useful to society than their larger brothers. Lawrence Sluter Benson, author of “Benson’s Geometry” and well known as a novelist, philosopher and mathematician, is dead at the City hospital in Newark, N. J., penniless. Death was caused by paralysis. John T. McDonough of Albany, N. Y^ announced that he would accept tl^ SHTppointment as justice of the Supremo Court of the Philippine Islands which was tendered him several days ago by President Roosevelt. William Polk, a negro recently from Chicago, was fatally shot at Laurel, Del., in a desperate fight in which he fatally cut*a (deputy sh^iff and slightly injured Sheriff Steele. An attempt to arrest Polk caused the encounter. C. B. Allison, a well-known electrical contractor, was called to the door of his home in Sh^radep, a Pittsburg suburb, and shot ylown, by a mysterious assailant, who has not yet been identified. Mr. Allison is seriously wounded. Herman Helsicher, a young cigarmaker who on Dec. 19 attempted to kill Voltairine De Cleyre, a noted andrehist, was convicted at Philadelphia of aggravated assault and battery with intent to kill and was sentenced to six years and nine months’ imprisonment. Massachusetts Supreme Court, in answer to a request of the Legislature, decided that municipal coal yards are contrary to the constitution. The court holds that a municipality cannot engage in competition with, men who have invested their money in business. In a heavy fog which hung over New York bay the New York Central tug No. 6 crashed into the little ferryboat Bay Ridge and sunk her off the battery. The Bay Ridge was badly wrecked and sunk ten minutes after she was struck. Those aboard were removed in safety. Orders have been received at the United States armory at Springfleld, Mass., to rush the shipment ot 100,000 Krag rifles to arsenals over the country. The Original cause of the order was the passage of the militia bill, but the rush feature apparently has a special cause. R. D. Coulter, an attorney of Pittsburg, is one of the incorporators in the largest capitalized corporation in rhe 1 rvorld, not even excepting the United - States Steel Corporation. The concern 1 'iff ths International Construction and De- ’ velopment Company. Its capital is $lO,-

000,000.000. . m- That John D Rockefeller bentice. m -nvw-iorK.' This new heir to the Rockefeller millions was born a few days before Christmas, but the fact was kept from the public. Over 5,000 men were thrown out of work when the Havemeyer sugar refinery in Williamsburg. N. Y., the largest of the sugar trust plants, closed its doors. The pay roll has averaged $40.000 a week. There was no explanation, no warning, scarcely a rumor of the impending distress. The fast express train from Wilkesbarre for Philadelphia, on the Schuylkill Valley division of the Pennsylvania Railroad collided head on with a freight train near Lofty, Pa. The engineer and fireman of the freight train were killed, the engineer and fireman and colored porter of the passenger train seriously hurt and seven passengers slightly injured. WESTERN. High water and an 'ice gorge washed out three sections of the long trestle over Alum creek, about six miles out of Columbus, Ohio. The safe in the postoffice at Dodge Center, Minn., was blown open and S3OO or S4OO in stamps and over SIOO in money taken. Mrs. Alice Hoeffer, wife of a prominent farmer living near Boonville, Mo., was accidentally shot and killed by her little 4-year-old son. At the Episcopal convention in San Francisco the proposition to change the name of Protestant Episcopal to Catholic Church of America was voted down. The postoffice at Brice Ohio, was dynamited by robbers and SSO in government money, SIOO in stamps and Sls belonging to Postmaster Springer were stolen. The steam schooner Crescent City ..ro™— on Fish rock off the Mendocino, Cal., coast during a gale. The passengers and crew, numbering in all twenty-six, took refuge on the rock. Sergt. J. R. Fredericks of the United States weather bureau, survivor of rhe Greely Arctic expedition, was painfully hurt in Indianapolis while trying to stop a frightened horse. The big “A” mill of the WashburnCrosby Company in Minneapolis has been closed owing to the inability of the railroads to remove the flour promptly because of lack of cars. Senator Hiler Horton of St. Paul has introduced a bill into the Minnesota Legislature prohibiting promiscuous kissing unless the kissers possess physicians’ certificate of good health. Former United States Senator John B. Allen died at Seattle, Wash. He was a veteran of the Civil War and removed to Washington State in 1870, when he took up the practice of law. Gov. Van Santos Minnesota has issued a proclamation requesting the people of the State to contribute to relieve the distress of the starving in portions of Sweden, Norway and Finland. The big lumber mills at Port Blakeley, Wash., together with 50.000 acres of timber lands in Mazon and Kitsap counties, have been sold for $3,000,000 to a syndicate of Michigan lumbermen. James Tulloch, a Chicago soap manufacturer, choked to death while eating supper at a restaurant. A large piece of meat lodged in his windpipe, and he died before a doctor could dislodge it. The shortage of former Secretary G. C. Bayer of the Germania, Circleville and New Citizens’ Building and Loan As-

sociations of Circleville. Ohio, who has disappeared, is said to be about SIOO,OOO. Charles Smith, a member of the Lawton, Ok., City Council, shot himself tlirough the heart in the police court room. Smith brooded over charged of boodling in connection with tliA city campaign. The great department store of Weinstock. Lubin & Co., in Sacramento, Cal., was destroyed by lire.' Frank Kasebolt, a fireman, was killed by a falling wall, and others were injured. The loss may reach $1,000,000. A man named Huntley, keeper es a “blind pig” at McHenry, N. I)., was shot and killed by Dr. A. MacLachlan, and Ellis Willoughby, a machinery dealer, who was an innocent bystander, was probably fatally wounded. SOUTHERN. James Barker, general passenger and ticket agent of the Missouri. Kansas and Texas Railroad, who has been at Hot Sulphur wells, San Antonio, Tex., since November for the benefit of his health, died of Bright's disease. The trainmen and conductors of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas system have by a poll absolutely rejected the counterpropositions made by the road, offered in response to their demands, and a general and immediate strike seems inevitable, j .Masked men at Mount Gilead, Ky., entered the house of John B. Ferrow and demanded money of Mr. and Mrs. Ferrow, whom they found asleep. The aged couple gave them q. purse containing $5, but the robbers insisted on having more money, and* shot Ferrow, whos# wound is said to he fatal. 'ftflPPW tdacH' bears attacked the chil-dren--of’a mountaineer named Parker, living, on the road from Mone to Arcadia, Va,, otHlhe James river, and killed and ate his 2-year-old baby. Parker’s three children were playing in the edge of the woods only a few hundred yards from the house. ■ The two older children called their parents, but they came too late to save the infant. FOREIGN. The entire crew of twenty-four men of the Norwegian steamer Avena, which went ashore on the coast of Denmark, lost their lives.

The British cruiser Pioneer ran into ( the torpedo-boat destroyer Orwell near ( the channel of Corfu during naval opera- ( tions. Fifteen sailors lost their lives. Major Edwin F. Glenn of the Fifth ; infantry, who was tried by court-martial I on the charge of unlawfully killing prisoners of war, has been acquitted at Ma4iila. General Miles was the guest of the King and Queen at dinner at Windsor Castle the other night. The I’rince and Princess of Wales and others were among the party. United States Minister Powell has demanded of the Dominican government a , reply to his demand for immediate pay- . ment of the $350,000 alleged to be duo . to the Clyde line of steamers. The iron trade of Europe is somewhat , excited over the imminent prospect of the government of Norway and Sweden ’ assuming control of the iron mining in- ’ dustries of those two countries. Morocco pretender's army has been - annihilated by the Sultan's troops and Bu Hamara, its leader, reported killed. The eamp, provisions and ammunition e have been captured, with the artillery e taken from the Sultan on Dec. 23. 1 The volcano of Isaleo, in the Central a American republic of Salvador, has ini' creased in activity and there is fear of ,- an eruption. For several months ‘A, «>

volcano has been ,smoking. but now.. , |. ■ —— -"nnTeu —"snrron TThas been arrested in Barcelona. He has - confessed that he was selected to kill the King of the Belgians, but was pret vented from carrying out the deed by being arrested during the strike in Barf celona a year ago. Eight ladrones and one constable were t killed in an encounter at Ormoc, West s Leyte province. P. I, The fight was a - hard one. but the constabulary ultimate- > ly won by a daring charge. One hundred ■ and fifty ladrones surrendered at Ormoc the following day. The district had been . disorderly, and it is believed that the 1 surrender of these men will lead to it i pacification. t - 1 IN GENERAL. I George E. Roberts of lowa, director of the mint, has been reappointed by, President Roosevelt. Superintendent Cable of the Rock Island denies the rumors that have been in circulation regarding a strike of Rock Island telegraphers. ; La Tarde, the liberal party newspaper of Santiago, asserts that negotiations ’are in progress for the sale to th? United States of the two Chilian warships now being built in England. Eleven women and children were burned to death and seventeen persons were injured in the Finnish settlement on Malcolm Island, some distance up the coast from Vancouver, B. C. An English syndicate is backing C. O. MacDonald’s project for submariix? coal mining at Southhead, N. S., and negotiations have progressed to a stage insuring the beginning of mining in the spring. Naval Constructor Richmond Pearson Hobson has tendered his resignation from the service, giving as a reason a disease of his eyes, on account of which he was invalided home from the Philippines. A^ttjtH-4^tthims-s<^rrtr-wttWt±T^tT!H T Tow^ ’ of San Marcial, the mining center of the State of Cananea. Mexico, and almost taken possession of it. The defenders of San Marcial included more than twenty Americans, eight of whom were killed. The Venezuelan government has been notified by France that customs at several of the former’s ports will be collected by French officials under 1807 treaty right. President Castro declared foreign claims will get equal treatment. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review reported business in spring merchandise deliveries heavy, with liberal fall contracts also being placed. January railroad earnings gained 5.7 per cent over 1902. The fuel situation is less serious. Minister Bowen, for Venezuela, rejected the compromise offered by the allies by which they would take ftvo-thirds of money collected, and presented what is 1 practically an ultimatum, that question of preferential treatment be referred to The Hague tribunal. Minister Bowen’s latest proposal, that all nations having claims agaiust Vene- ■ zuela be given the same treatment as Great Britain, Germany and Italy, has been rejected in toto by the allies. This means that the negotiations at Washington, for the time at least, are at a complete standstill. According to a cablegram from Guatemala City from Dr. Godfrey Hunter, ; ; formerly United States minister to j Guatemala. Godfrey Hunter, Jr., was ' i acquitted of the murder of William Fitzgerald, of Grand Rapids, Mich. The I , message states that during the trial ' thirty-eight witnesses swore to the fact । that there was a conspiracy against the i life of Godfrey Hunter, Jr. .

POWERS ■— A CRISIS * ' MD FRANCE OPUNITED STAT A . , I POSE ALL ' ES> | - ’> I *^ - eneziieh>n Trouble Serious Hitch i England, Germany Causes Alarm , . » iDt Bowen’s Pinal 1 ro and Italy Rej4 ... _ . Fears a World War. posal—Castro I „ ... lotion by the allies of Emphatic ref j was rcce ived Venezuela’s las?' * Satur( ]av. At the by Minister Bot waß not if ie d that same time Mr. F ou having C(l . ia l I 1 rance would! ers joiniug in treatment witfi Bet tlement of claims, the blockade m * there f ore , critical md The situation 1 ’ ited States, for the it involves the the eight cre ditor American is or whic h the a iiies venations of X haviug a right t 0 fuse to recog - of their c i a ims immediate st j eE tions o f Mr. Bow n through the ' , in behalf of ’Britain and Italy deGermany, JBl *eatment in payment mand prete ^ en thus far has deof claims. 1, de, and j n attitude elined to ace t a j one o f Venezuela has the backi Tnt but of the Unite! which he reptV gix . otber creditor na States, France,!, Jatiou France and th, tions. In thrn eag wrongly allied United States s as Germany, Brit though informs The six other nation? ain and It^ily i _ Belgium and Spain, ar , two of whici ’ jp a greemeut with th । also firm i American* 'WpK' tn ROH

Th o nll i en’sjast pr< I snail ne oom. ' ington Frio ‘ peaceful means : that the ai i^ing that when that ‘ the United St • " ill not give m but v ill ' nations recei concluded that t iui< . the blockadir nations uoi j thereforeoe laid 4ements we must defend ’ ^uLoumJ 11 th< Ration has notified the to follow ' onon: ,eminent that in virtue swers the pt tl .1 of ISI>7 I rance uas . 1 took upon thw>. directly a part 1 ' n , of withholding cust o ™ houses m ernmeuts and, ^guaranty for hei •im । a retraction oi , s * n R out of the P' 'em- ’ mands. ‘nee. it is said, rmummMeanwhile h the convention "f . -

time. Heis 4 j i this right mi eond? ’o.i , as to the progr ‘ on 11 s 1,1 ' seling patience f'y P a ‘'b 1 113 ' will yet yield. ^"de- V rance, uHh . has as yet red nthorizatmn o o r.u.m-. , the powers that ‘b’- intends to r. im of settling the 'ollection. XVashington sit H the powers ha’' AMS DESTRO‘ERcounter? :• , .. “ .7^ U c Lost in Nava! ManPeurn „ r . 84 Off I orfu. A Caracas coi dent Castro as ’ °t destroy er < >r«i was interview: ) eß ßritish cruiser 1 mneer "1 cannot grr ar maneuvers off <Ol u. ington. I fear l -nt doo with her. I tiict will be mu - he I’ioneer u war. I have! 1 apP’’* l undor 1 demand for pr« e torpedo-boat <b^ti -y, . lows: The X'e" rt’nu* spwd, ran aero-, •ires equal trea seconds either na.' nation, at the sited the collision, but a-> and respel cruis.r struck the agreements r.'i" "As far a. c f- e forward half of the Is absolutely pel je « stone almost with powers seem to ' water. Ihe aftei p - This is a strong* D’ t>r " ns hept ai o.n >' you recall i ter-tight. compartments Spanish-cl; 11,1 "as lowed into per . sanction v mp^ned nt nig.it aim pretend t< 2 >wii* to the f.imt h i.’receive. -X-.hts Ff the erm<er ..y- • I it to the captain >f tl-e nWXVe hoTh- ’ ’ imo

with the v has been dt fight. We is no honor international ourselves.” The French Venezuelan go of the conventu lowed to collet revenues of st Venezuela as a matic claims ai revolutions. Ft ed forever by the exercise of that the intercs ways be reguja ment has not It out asking the |n England and It. right of direct ■ WARSHIP f Fifteen Lives eux The torpedorun down by t difring the na and fifteen men crash was terS steaming at ful draught when th also at her ext her bows. Thr would have aver it was the arm Orwell fair br< pletely in half,* vessel sinking lil out a swirl on th' tion of the destr one of the wa being uninjured a The accident it is thought tha prevailing the li

peared more dis’; I.Wll>) Mill 01g>^ for the accident appears that the took long -chance a margin in crcL cruiser, knowing t ■peed. [ DA Tte H All this time C bill against the never find it out.i In Chicago a p East a dark alle, 1 is shoulders the 7 Good-by to tit and privacy wr wireless pocket Apostle Smoot questions as to He i probably a would do to him interview. New York sch that marriage y—missal hereaftet worked school t< the luxuries of li One of the big been placed in " but about the him to receive—holders who b tha prospectus

PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS OF COINEY HATCH ASYLUM. r — — “ I al WPOjHaJ^^ The Coluey Hatch insane asylum in Middlesex. England, which was P-irry destroyed by tire recently, is one ol the largest of the insane asylums in Lu.- me. The 1 institution is very old and has >< < n added to by degrees for more than fifty years. The main building, which was not touched by the tire, was built in 1849 and was dedicated with great < “ie- , , . . Aii.<.rt husband

' mony by the late Prince Albert, imsnanu , • of Queen Victoria. The asylum was - originally built to accommodate LO’H > patients and was put up as an addition s to the institution already in existence at i Hanwell, which had room for ab >ut 1 000. The buildings destroyed were of wood, whereas the main budding is ot t stone and is considered fireproof. e DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA. a One of the Consequences Is a XV heat Shortage of 13,000,000 Bushels. When we read in the papers that the drouth in Australia has caused a wheat / shortage of 13,000.000 bushels, which is < being made up by importations from the r ’ Pacific coast States, we are apt to think kp more of the brisk business m coast w heat markets than of the suffering the news w . means in Australia. In parts ot Queens-

\\ aukegan. Envoys Have been m f York for months laboriously p.annm„ t the campaign and word has been receiv- , j ed bv Dowie that an option had beet ( obtained on Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Music Hall and that all was - in readiness for the exodus from I hi J The restoration host lias been gathered from members of the church in C hieago and it is to be re-enforced by the Zion ••seventies.” phalanxes ot Dowieit-s that are closely connected with the colony. The surpliced choir, the robes, the nci 1 vestments and the other insignia ot the prophet are ready forth.- movement. . ’ "One hundred thousand souls will be ... r ......1„ for 1 lowie ,

th e rallying cry of th.-crusade, tor -om. tr; Las fixed that as the minimum of conv.rGons. Daily meetings are to be held lIV the members of the rut until le uhole of New York is brought under the spell Os a revival. The fire is to be di-r.-eted against every class, curbstone seiOees being counted on as the most pm . b) tent method of spreading the tenets of IMwiehm. j r . _ . ' I) - E *W’"s I III’ । Two thousand employes of the < hieago and Alton are affected by an increase m pay recently announced by ’he ot!l< ial ■ In order to increase the wages of tlu-ir . mechanical help, which is scarce, '' ! ern railroads are reducing salaries or ■ office employes The clerks are md organized, but will protest against the e duetion. i* r

"i*t known, though it Captain of the Orwell 3 in leaving so narrow sing the bows of the her to be under lull ©V ll 'astro is piling up a big powers, but they may

rodent man will not go with a bag of coal on e nights. ; pleasures of solitude iii Marconi gets that •lephone perfected. .refuses to answer any his views of polygamy, fraid of what his wives after they had read the 00l teachers are warned "rill be ground for disAre the poor, overachers to have none of fe? Texas oil companies has he hands of a receiver, mly thing in sight for kicks from the stockeved the fairy tales in

VV ORK Os MANV H - i " QIME ItOISIMURES;- i | O ** * 3^ < H-******’M~^ ; i The Senate committee on legislative i expenses Wednesday reported the salaries of officers and employes, giving a , total of $24,123.W. The Senate on 1 uesday proceeded to the election of a m e ' States Senator. Robertson of Mmne- ' haha nominated A. B. Kittredge for the ’ short term and Cooley of Bon Homme 1 nominated the Hon. John A. Bowler as 1 the Democratic candidate. '1 he vote was.

j Kittredge, 37; Bowler. 4; absent. H 1 ™ ' the long term Northrup of Minnehaha ' nominated Kittredge and Cooley of Bon Homme nominated Bowler. Iho vote was the same as on the former ballot. In the House Egge of Minnehaha nominated the Hon. A. B. Kittredge as the Republican nominee, and Gross of Pot. r nominated the Hon. John A. Bowler of Minnehaha as the Democratic candidate for the same place. On the roll being called Kittredge received 73 votes and Bowler 9. Absent and not voting, ;>. i* l9 ballot for the long term resulted precisely the same. ruawl States S m tor a bn C.

• B ^Fhe*?’!flowing*£^^ railroad mileage built in the tinted States during the last decade: , 1893 3,024,1898 3 265 X:. SX::::::::::: w 1897 l*he table exemplifies the steady recovery of the country from the depressing conditions which existed after the panic of 1893. In 1894 and 18. M rads were cheaper than before or since, but onlv about one-quarter as many miles of track were laid in each of those years as in 1902. . f The purchases by the railroads of freight cars and locomotives during the last four vears show how rapidly the ? business of the country and consequents Iv their business has been increasing'. 1 tie following table gives the number of cars cmin

and locomotives under contract or con, struction on Jan. 1 and July 1 of 1898 and subsequent years: Frelght Locomo . cars, fives. _ Jan. 1. 1898 ’n 088 3<)2 Su no Jan. 1. 1899 cg 4 519 July 1. ISO'- 1 Kt 2 Jan. 1. 1900 "ji 106 1.001 J- Uns 1,102 Jan. 1. 1901 r , (,03 1,311 July 1, 1901 77 225 2.281 Jan. 1, 1902 ql\;9s 2,172 Julv 1, 1902 \ The total number of freight cars in service on American railroads ’“greased from 1,119.045 Jan. 1. 1898. to 1.488.197 July I’last, mm the lo— ives^m se. vice from 32, <<l to 0<,J40. railroads never have felt rhe need^ ol more cars and locomotives so acute... a. during the last six months. Busmess ba t Sealed more rapidly than their faciU I for handling it.

for the regulation of their profession ana the licensing of all persons duly authorized to teach piano playing to the rising generation. Representative Parish, of Momence, on Wednesday introduced the bill at the request of the Illinois Association of Music Teachers, by whom it was prepared. Senator Gardner introduced a resolution putting Illinois on record in favor of the election of Luited States Senators by direct vote of the people. The measure is an application to Congress to call a convention for pro- I posing amendments to the constitution of | the United States. Senator Putnam and , i Representative Wh-ek-r introduced a bill prohibiting convict labor under con-

•act in penitentiaries and reformatories. Gov. Mickey, in a message to both j >r im h; s of the Legislature, took a decid- , d srmd against the Dietrich land leasn- bill, introduced by the senior Nebraska Senator in Congress, giving to iac h person the privilege of leasing twenty sections of land for grazing purp ses He said he was opposed to the bill is it is. "It gives too much land to each pXi.” he said, "and it does not i o to be naid lor the

fix anv detimte price to oe pam use of the land, i am in favor of cuttuig down the amount to be allowed each individual in the interest of the homesteid.r I kimw that many objections a e' made to the measure by western nmchmen on the gi • rid ’hat twenty «eetions nr.- not emmch. but I think that tho small grower ought to have a chance. ’Ey a vote of forty-seven to nothing, witlmiit debate, the Senate adopted the ■ injnt ri - -lution, introduced by Senator

Morgan, declaring that, as lumber wa I i a natural product, and a duty on it was j I not in accord with the principle of protection. the Senators and Congressmen from Minnesota be requested to favor the entire removal of such tariff on lumber. Senator Hiler Horton introduced a bill prohibiting promiscuous'kissing unless the kissers possess physicians certificates of good health. iw At a joint session of the House and ■ 1 Senate held in the hall of Representa- • fives at noon Tuesday Senator bair- • banks accepted re-election. He sai . d accepted the duties "with a full appre--1 elation of the responsibility which their necentance imposes. They devolve upon

accept* * • * . me a duty to the people to mere party I affiliation, and it is my purpose to serve 1 them all to the utmost of my humble 1 ability.” . ■ | Odds and Ends. : i Estate of late J. W. Mackey valued - ! at $2,451,726. > I Missouri Legislature may pass a whipi ping post bill. * John D. Rockefeller gave Brooklyn " ; 1. M. C. A- SIOO,OOO. d Andrew Myers. Lyons, Neb., fatally 7 shot his brother, Erick. :- Southern Express Company will m_ e ’ cl ease wages of its 5.000 men about $5 >f a month's l , Warren Ramsey, ex county « rioner, Orrville. Ohio, is charged with i" ; accepting a bribe-

Cks P < g CONGRESS| In the Senate Thursday Mr. Lodge concluded his remarks in opposition to the omnibus statehood bill, and Mr. Bard of California, also spoke in opposition to it. Just before the Senate adjourned Mr. Foraker, of Ohio, took occasion to say that the proposition of Senator Quay to tack the statehood bill on an appropriation bill was not extraordm ary Legislation had been placed on appri.priation bills before by the will of the Senate. Mr. Clay, of Georgia, expressed

the same view in a few remarks. A message from the President was read, m which he asked for the necessary power to co-operate with Mexico and China regarding the restoration of the parity of silver and gold. It was referred to the Committee on Finance. A Senate bill was passed authorizing the building of darns and other improvements on the Columbia River in Washington The House passed the Indian appropriation bill and began consideration of the postoflice appropriation bill. Mr. Burton (Rep. Owl continued his criticism of the extravagance of the items of the Indian bi.l tothe end, but his three days’ attack on the bill was not productive of many reductions. The dav in the Senate Friday was s< t apart to pay tribute to the memory of . Mr. McMillan. At the conclusion of the • Um.- m7.

' Memorial session for the late Senator James McMillan, of Mich.gan, was held by the House on Sunday. The Senate on Monday had the army appropriation bill under consideration It was about to be passed when Mr. I - . of Alabama, requested that it go ove to permit some amendments to ->e offered The statehood bill was up to a slmrt time, and Messrs. Bard and 'Ou irles spoke in opposition to it. 1 i.e House passed about forty bills under suspension of the rules. The most mi । suspens a b . n to authorlze portant of them . n|> .. tions wilh

a resumption of the negoua Great Britain for the preservation of the Maskan fur seals and to give the t^ert t irv of the Treasury authority, if a m<> dus vivendi is not concluded prior to the dus nelauic sealing season this opening of the pelagic . t i, p 1 *, ^-,-torminate the seal herd on tue vear.toextirmin.il -mnna f-n.iles Rribylov Islands, except 10.000 f. . mah S i an d 1000 males. Ihe Senate a < -P preprinting $1.5”0.000 for a new Department of AgricultureJmild« n S was On Tnesdav the Senate passed without objection or discussion the Elkins bill to further regulate railroad transportation. The army appropriation bill, which went .vr nt the request of Mr. Pettus was ?Xd The provision establishing a

general staff was eliminated. Later, the independent measure, identical in i s pi--viJons with the general staff section of the armv bill, was passed, after un.m, teen reconsidered to permit the incorporation of an amendment by Mr. Deny, ZS the Chief Os staff exclusively imder the direction of the President. M . Quarles continued Ins remarks m 'V-"’ < ion to the statehood bill. He spoke f"vo h— and a half -th-’ eluding. The House spentpra -• ^-.^ I t he whole day on damn. bills .m over from the previous week. Mr. E . - • t ,.„r icier ot the « them all. but succeeds- >^’etea throe bilK. Kfter

I were disposed of, general debate on me postoffice appropriation bill was resumed. and Mr. Robb (Mo.) addressed the House on the trust question. In the National Capital. Republican leaders agree to push Panama canal treaty in order to secure ratification before March 4. Senator Morgan makes first move in opposition. The fortifications appropriation mH as reported to the House carries 57.993..‘4 s being $205,012 less than the current law. The bill contains no new legislation. President commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence pronounced against George Barclay and James Brummett, who were convicted of murder in Oklahoma. President Roosevelt has accepted an , invitation to attend the bicentennial ceh^ ' « nf the hit ’ ■ 11-

bration ot tne to. .m... ■■■ - • to be held in New York Feb. I. ■ be one of the principal speakers he celebration. Representative Lacey. G airman of the I House committee on pah lands, 1:1s im rodneed a bill to enable persons to .0- . ate coal claims on unsurveyed lands m Panama canal will revolutionize existin’' trade routes when completed: 1 lined 1 states wi 1 gain no advantage in Orient, but will monopolize trade on woe coast ' of South America and Hawaii. ano „..n in Australia. ' Southern Senat ws and RepresmPativ^ 3 left White Hous- reception m .uT am held indignation meetings at capitoi e h cause several negro officials attend..: b President Roosevelt’s reception to Con । gi.ss and the judiciary.

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