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i *?•&%' mm MeHenry Plaindealer. FTK. GRANGER, Publisher. MCHENRY, -e- ILLINOIS. SUMMARY OF NEWS. Sire which started in the servants' din- ]>| room of the Coates House, one, of Kansas City's leading hotels, at 2:30 in tile morning, routed out all the guests, but was extinguished before any damage of consequence was done. No one was in­ jured. The National Steel Company some time * ago purchased the Aetna Standard Iron and Steel Company of Bellaire, Ohio, pay- . lag about $4,000,000 for the entire plant. A 10 per wnt increase lias been given the mien, numbering 4.000, in the above works and a large plant at Mingo Junction. The report of the murder of sixteen jitORpectors from Kentucky has been re­ vived at Juneau,'Alaska. No details are at hand, but the story is to the effect that the gold seekers were killed while asleep by Indians, who wanted their kits and •applies. Burglars robbed the postoffice at Rich­ land Center, Pa.,. securing stamps and money orders valued at about $<!00. The safe was blown up by dynamite. Two amen sleeping in the rooms above the office were locked in* by the thieves. The rob­ bers escaped. Manager W. B. Bryant of the South- western Telephone and Telegraph Com­ pany at Hillsboro, Tex... committed sui­ cide by shooting himself through the heart. It develops that his accounts with the company are several hundred dollars short. The loss is reported of the schooner, Stella Ehrland, which sailed from San Francisco Feb.; 2(5 with a party of scient­ ists sent by the Smithsonian Institution to investigate animal life in the tropics. The vessel was wrecked off the coast of Lower California. All on board were saved. Sixty thousand miners in Illinois and the four competitive States laid down their tools the other morning and spent the day in celebratiou of the eight-hour day, which has been in force in union mines for one year. At nearly every mining center there were public exercises and speaking by prominent labor leaders. Assistant Secretary of War Meiklejohn has ordered departmental commanders in Cnba, Porto Rico and the Philippines to report on the geographical and physical features of the countries, the text to be accompanied by available maps, prints and surveys, and on climate, mineral re­ sources, forests, character and products, etc. ;-- The Finnish-American central commit­ tee at New York has issued an address to all Finlanders in the United States and Canada calling upon them "to rise up as one man. strong in the knowledge of the righteous cause, and uphold their sacred rights before the world." and resist Rus­ sian plans for annihilation of Finnish na­ tional existence. Io reviewing the commercial situation Bradstreet's says: "There is a quieter tone in several lines of business this week independent of the reduction in volume of distributive demand, resulting from con­ tinued unfavorable weather conditions in a large section of the country. The strength of quotable values, however, fails to show that any material slackening of underlying movements has as yet be­ come apparent in leading lines. Industrial conditions continue of a most flattering character, with advances in wages still a prominent feature in the iron, steely ma­ chinery and allied trades." All the employes of the Western New York &nd Pennsylvania Company's shops at Oil City, Pa., struck for a restoration of 10 per cent cut in their wages made two years ago. They were joined by the men . Buffalo and Olean. N. Y. Unless the matter is satisfactorily adjusted soon all divisions of the road will be tied up. The officials of the road stated to representa­ tives of the men that they were not shar­ ing in the general prosperity, and could not afford to grant the men's demands. The earnings of the company in 1898 W 1 !wr rr-!!c !css tfeAji in ISO". Their freight traffic is their principal source of revenue, and epnsists only of hauling coal and iron, and competition is very sharp. James Lablanche, a young French-Ca- nadian, stabbed and killed his Indian sweetheart, Olga Possami. at Pelee Point, Ont., and then stabbed himself to the heart. The point is near Pelee island and during the winter months the inhabitants are isolated. Lablanclie and the pretty Indian girl were lovers and last summer they plighted their troth, but when the young Frenchman went to call on his sweetheart a few days ago he learned that another, an American from Sandusky, kid filled his place in the maiden's heart. • He was distracted. He induced the giri to take a walk with him. and when near "Lover's Rock" he stabbed her. killing her instantly. He then threw the maid­ en's body into the lake and a her stabbing Mpnelf fell into the water after her. by James L. Howard, manufacturer of machinery. The promised restoration of wages at the Pacific worsted and cotton mills in Lawrence, Mass., has gone into effect, about 5,000 employes being affected. It is understood that the increase is about 10 per cent. Mrs. Stanford of San Francisco has sold her Central Pacific Railroad stock for $1,504,000 to Speyer & Co.. New York and London baukers. who are financiering the settlement of the Central Pacific debt to the Government. The safe of the Windsor Hotel, New York, was found and opened. It con­ tained the receipts for St. Patrick's day, $3,000; $20,000 belonging to guests, and many packages of jewelry and other val­ uables, all practically uninjured. All shipyards on the Delaware are so busy with work at present that the own­ ers report they are not prepared to take new orders unless work is* not to begin for some months. There are now under con­ struction forty-six vessels of many types. Articles of incorporation were filed in New Jersey by the woolen trust, capital­ ized at $65,000,000; the Sutherland Con­ struction Company, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. and the United Zinc and Lend Company, with a capital of $6,- 000,000. _________ WESTERN. Navigation between Detroit and Cleve­ land is open. Miss Antonette Cary, youngest daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Cary of Elyria, Ohio, and Frederick William Shipley of Chicago were married the other day. S. B. Armour, read of the Kansas Gity paekyag house of Armour & Co., and brother of Philip I). Armour of Chicago, died at his home in that city, of pneumo­ nia. Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, widow of the California millionaire, has within the last four months made $1,000,000 through the advance in the value of her Central Pa­ cific stock. At Topeka, Kan.. John Henry Collins received the death sentence for the mur­ der of bis father with the same placid demeanor that has characterized his ac­ tions from the first. The Missouri House has passed a bill placing slot machines in the same class with other gambling devices. The crime of maintaining these machines is made a felony, punishable the same as other fel­ onies. Captain Hiram M. Chittenden, corps of engineers, stationed in St. Louis, has been placed in charge of the improvements in the Yellowstone National Park. He will retain his station and duties in St. Louis,, however. The five-story brick structure of the Ar­ mour Curled Hair and Felt Company in Chicago was destroyed by fire, with all its contents. The loss will reach $250,000. Many of the employes had narrow escapes from death. James Reed, aged 22 years, colored, was. hanged at Kansas City. Reed shot Mrs. Susie Blakesley to death in her home in a fit of jealousy. He died on the same scaffold on which his father, Martin Reed, died in 1894. At Bowling Green, Ohio, Mrs. E. H. Westenhaver, whose husband was killed by John and Paul Zeltner, has filed suit against them for $10,000 damages on ac­ count of the death of her husband. She has attached the farm of the brothers. The Missouri House of Representatives has passed a bill which will abolish de­ partment stores. It divides goods into seventy-three classes and places a license tax of $500 on each class. Any store, to carry all classes, must pay a tax of $36,- 000. At San Francisco, Kitty Wannenmach- er, aged 15 years, was shot and fatally wounded by her foster brother, Joseph Miller, 19 years old, while the young man was playing that he was a highwayman, with a rifle which was not supposed to be loaded. Whift^ inspectors in the Lake 8hore yards at Cleveland were looking over the trucks and wheels of a freight car which had just arrived from the east they were horrified to find the lower part of a man's body clinging to the iron work of the trucks. The body had been severed at the hips. As yet the upper part of the body has not been found. At Dennison, Ohio, six masked burglars at Io!a, Kan., under a charge of forgery. Alvin Bullard, serving* au eight-year sen­ tence in the Kaamis ,penitentiary for horse stealing, has confessed that he, Allt- good and "Bill" Turner were the murder­ ers of New, and that Mrs. New and Dobbs ni absolutely innocent*- SOUTHERN. Brig. Gen. D. W. Flagler, chief of ord nance, died at Old Point Comfort, Va. At Alkire's Mills, W. Va;, lightning struck the home of Oliver Alkire, setting fire to his clothes. Work has begun on coal mines on top of Lookout mountain, just across the Georgia line from Chattanooga, Tenn. Lightning struck J. E. Howerton's barn at Oakville, Ky., killing Robert Penod and dangerously injuring Mr. Howerton. At Gordonsville, Tenn., Jeff Kenny, q farmer, strucK George Williams on the head with a mattock, killing him instantly. At Colliersville, Tenn., .lohn Gilbert, a drug clerk, was shot and killed, it is claim­ ed, by Albert S. Morris. Three men have been arrested. Negro miners made an attack, on the camp of the whites at Dolomite,'Ala., the other night. The white men returned the fire and several of |he negroes were wounded. The bodies of Lonnie Lane, aged 22, and Miss Glennie Sauls, aged 14, have been found near Kinston. N. C. It is be­ lieved Lane shot Miss Sauls and then kill­ ed himself. Walter A. Farrabee shot William S. Arbuckle in the hip in front of the Clar­ endon Hotel at Memphis, inflicting a pain­ ful though not serious wound. The cause of the trouble ip said to be domestic af­ fairs. The steamer Rowena Lee, plying be­ tween Cairo and Memphis, sank in sev- enty-fiye feet of water opposite Tyler, Mo., and all on board excepting Captain Carvell and a pilot were drowned. At least eighty persons were on the boat. FOREIGN. The dowager empress has ordered tlie governors of the maritime provinces of China to resist forcibly any landing of armed foreigners. Henry E. Cooper has received his com£ mission as Attorney General of Hawaii and has been sw*~ ( in. President Dole will now appoin, a minister of foreign affhirs to succeed Mr. Cooper, who for­ merly htld that office. Extension of woman suffrage and laws to promote the welfare of the women in Cuba and the Philippines will be discuss­ ed at the thirty-first annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association at Grand Rapids April 27 to May 4. George Bidwell, the elder of the two brothers who gained world-wide notoriety by defrauding the Bank of England out of $5,000,000 in 1872 by forged securities, died in a lodging house at Butte, Mont., of pneumonia, after a two weeks' illness. He was 67 years old. The Berlin correspondent of the London Morning Post says: "In their desire to ef­ fect a friendly settlement of the Samoan difficulty the German authorities have de­ cided to discontinue their support of Ma- taafa, hoping that this will induce the United States to recall Chief Justice Chambers." Mataafa and his chiefs in Samoa con­ tinuing to defy the treaty, the English and American admirals were forced to back their authority by bombarding na­ tive coast villages, several of which have- been destroyed. The Germans are said to be supporting Mataafa. The name board of the new French bark Marechal Lannes, of 1,711 tons, Captain Le 'Petit, which sailed from Swansea for San Francisco, together with large quantities of wreckage, including hatch and a skylight, has been washed ashore in Broad Sound and near the en­ trance to Bristol Channel, on the Welsh coast. 1 IN GENERAL- BREVITIES. t At Bastrop, Texas, Elisha Swan, a 19- f®ar-old negro, was hanged. The Davies & Thomas Iron Company of Catasaqua, Pa., has increased the wages Of employes 10 per cent. Cissy Loftus has begun suit at New York for divorce from her husband, Jus­ tin Huntley McCarthy. The passenger steamer Stella sank in a Cog in the English channel. One hundred and twenty lives were lost. Mrs. Ingersoll and John Collins, the al­ leged kidnapers of* little Gerald Lapiner, have be»n removed to Chicago for trial. At Nevada City, Cal., Policeman Wil­ liam Kilroy was shot and killed by Ed Moore, whom he was trying to arrest. Moore escaped to the hills. t * By means of the X ray a large snake feas been found in the stomach of an in- Valid whose case had baffled doctors at Buffalo for ten years. Henry Lapin and his wife, aged 45 and 42 years respectively, were burned to death in their home on a truck farm in lie lower section of Philadelphia. Edwin Munshawer, a discharged letter carrier, was caught in the act of robbing the Norristown, Pa., postoffice. The pris­ oner said he had robbed the postoffice thir­ teen times during tlie month of March and •ix times in February. EASTERN. ' te:!i readjustment managers of the Cen­ tral Pacific Railroad Company announced fa New York that the readjustment plan jp uow operative, the bond and stockhold- having given their consent. The Penwick distillery, at Cheswick, JPa., owned by Elias Black of Cincinnati, Was partly wrecked by a boiler explosion Hugh Nulton, the engineer, and James Henderson were fatally scalded. At Hartford, Conn., fire completely de­ frayed the Howard block and slightly ^damaged the Hines Bros.' hotel. Lose #75,000. The Howard block was occupied Crocker, an aged and well-to-do couple, and bound and gagged them. Mr. Crock­ er was tortured by having lighted matches put to his feet to compel him to reveal the hiding place of his money, but refused. Mrs. Crocker was subjected to barbarous indignities. The robbers secured only $97. At Los Angeles, Cal., the Mount Lowe Railway was sold under foreclosure pro­ ceedings by the court commissioner for $190,000 to Arthur L. Hawes, who acted as agent for Valentine Peyton of Dan­ ville, 111. A majority of the stock was owned by the Singer heirs and A. B. Cody of Chicago, while Andrew McNally was also fine of the committee that has been financing the enterprise. Five fishermen of Sandusky, H. C. Pas- son and his three sons, James, John and Charles, and Louis Roberts, have reached their homes after a most thrilling expe­ rience on Lake Erie. They went out in a small sail boat to lift their nets and were caught in a terrific storm, which carried away the spar of the boat and drove the ice down upon them so that they were for nearly twenty hours drifting helplessly about in a heavy se^ among crushing and grinding ice floes, and in momentary dan­ ger of going to the bottom. They were finally rescued. A special from Hollen, Kan., says: Henry Sanderson, the young farmer who attempted to murder bis sweetheart, Myr­ tle Fleisher, near Mayetta, and instead wounded Mrs. John Fleisher, her aunt, who was at her side, so that she died, was lynched by a mob from Mayetta. The mob, with Sanderson, marched to Banner creek, tied a rope around his neck, and fastened the other end to a beam. His neck was disjointed by the fall of twelve feet and death must have come almost instantly. The mob then quickly dispers­ ed. The body was cut down by Sheriff Haas. None of the mob is known by the officials. Convict Otis Hurley was detected at the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary as he lay in wait for his former victim, Miss Daisy Sprague, whom he attempted to murder in September last. Hurley had been in soli­ tary confinement, and wore a ball and chain, but with the aid of a steel saw he removed his fetters and cut his way out of the cell. When discovered he was in hid­ ing on top of a safe in the office where Miss Sprague is employed as bookkeeper. He was armed with a stiletto made of half a pair of scissors. Hurley is serving a twelve-year sentence for his former at­ tempt upon the life of the young woman, of whom he is enatnored. The Kansas City Star prints a three- column stpry of the arrest of a remarka­ ble gang of Kansas criminals, who have for years lived by means of robbery and murder. One of them is believed to be the murderer of Joseph New. who was killed in Greenwood County, Kansas, two years ago, and for which crime his wife and George H. Dobbs are now serving life sentences. So firmly does Warden Lan- dis of the Kansas penitentiary believe in the innocence of Mrs. New and Dobbs that he will immediately urge the Gov­ ernor to pardon them. 'Frank Alltgood, •alleged to be the real murderer, is in jail The steamer Brighton -came into Hali­ fax, N. S., and got the Lloyds to send as­ sistance to the steamer Kairos. The lat­ ter had been three weeks disabled when the Brighton left her, unable on account of the breaking of hawsers to give fur­ ther aid. Sir William McDonald, the Canadian millionaire tobacco manufacturer, has made another munificent donation, said Lc ;|&00,u00, to Mctiiii University, Mon­ treal, for the school of mining. The total amount of Sir William's gifts to McGill University exceeds $3,000,000. Capt .William A. Andrews, who cross­ ed the Atlantic to Paris in 1878 in a small boat, the Nautilus, will on June 17 of this year start on another voyage across the Atlantic in a tiny craft. The boat will be constructed of aluminum and canvas, and will be small and light enough when collapsed to carry under the arm. The voyage, Capt. Andrews calculates, will take him sixty days. The American Indians of St. Regis res­ ervation are egging on the Canadian In­ dians to revolt against the Canadian Gov­ ernment. It is expected that the Ottawa Government will look to the State of New York to aid it in quelling the disturbance. Between 200 and 300 of the Indians dis­ armed, beat, maltreated and nearly killed Inspector Hogan and Dominion Police­ man Chamberlain and chased them and Constable Morris of Dundee from the res­ ervation and kept the Indian agent, John Long, a prisoner for five hours. THE MARKETS. American and British Ships Sbell Native Towns. * • •*, / ^ ______ • ' - SAILORS ARE KILLED. 4'? Attack# Rebe l s At oat the Clash The outbreak was suppressed, and It was announced that the three consuls had' agreed to recognise Mataafa asking. This was afterwnrd denied. Mataafa estab­ lished a provisional government and at­ tempted, with the aid of the German con­ sul and Dr. Faffel, the German president of the council, to oust Chief Justice Chambers from office. This attempt fail­ ed through the activity of the American and British consuls and* Commanftet jSturde of the British cruiser Porpoise. Affairs continued in an unsettled state, the government of Mataafa being tyran­ nical. . The gravest aspect of the matter, of course, is involved in the possibility of '.further complications in the relations of *•••>*1 Tillajtes Are De s ti'oycd mdid a Large Number of Natives Killed and Injured--Three British Sailors and an American Sentry Killed by the Rebels During a Fierce Attack--Ger­ man Conuul Kefuaea t» Aid the Other Power*. * Th|B startling news from Samoa, cabled to this country from Auckland, whither' the intelligence had been sent by the usu­ al mail advices, indicates that a serious clash has taken place between the official representatives of Great Britain and the United States and the native adherents of Mataafa. The followers of Mataafa, af­ ter having refused to disperse in accord­ ance with the demands of the English and American officials, attempted to make a demonstration against the British and American consulates. From the fact that the commanders of the British and the American warships, the Porpoise and the Philadelphia, felt justified in shelling the natives who engaged in the demonstra­ tion, it 4s to be assumed that the provo­ cation offered by Mataafa's followers was extreme. According to the Auckland dispatches, the chiefs supporting King Mataafa hav­ ing refused to abide by the terms of the tripartite treaty, and continuing to defy them despite the representations of the agents of the United States and Great Britain, Admiral Kautz, the American naval commander, convened a meeting of STREET SCENE AT APIA. the three powers which hold the joint pro­ tectorate of Samoa. It has been known from the first that Germany's representa­ tives in the islands are favorable to Ma­ taafa, while the British and American representatives have stood together in de­ claring Mataafa ineligible for the king­ ship. It was because the American who holds the position of chief justice had de­ cided that Mataafa was ineligible, while the German representative at Samoa re­ fused to abide by the decision, that the disagreeable international complications arose. PERISH IN THE MISSISSIPPI. Steamer Sowena Lee Slnlcs and Tbree People Drown. The managers of the Lee line of steam­ ers announced Thursday morning that only three lives were lost by the sinking of the Rowena Lee, near Tyler, Mo., Wednesday afternoon. The first report of the disaster which was received said that all on board had perished save the captain and an under officer of the steam­ er. It was estimated that between fifty Has* CM** 5,111 or "VW MEN PROMINENT IN THE SAMOAN TROUBLE. the consuls and the senior naval officers on board his flagship, the cruiser Philadel­ phia. After discussing the question in all its bearings it was resolved to dismiss the provisional government. Admiral Kautz therefore issued a proclamation ordering the adherents of Mataafa to return to their homes. When the proclamation was .vie* and went inland. Herr Rose, the Ger­ man consul, then issued a proclamation upholding the provisional government, whereupon the Mataafans assembled and surrounded the town. The British cruiser Royalist had mean­ while brought a number of Malietoan pris­ oners from the other islands, where they had been confined by the Mataafans. The Americans fortified Mulinuu, and 2,000 of the Malietoans took refuge there. The Mataafans barricaded the roads within Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2, 30c to 37c; oats, No. 2, 26c to 28c; rye. No. 2, 55c to 57c; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 58c to 65c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 36c; oats. No. 2 white, 81c to 33c. St. Louis--Oattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4 00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2, 75c to 77c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2, 27c to 29c; rve, No. 2, "56c to 58c. * Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 58c to 00c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 3Ge; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; rye, 59<j to 61c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 75c to 76c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 55c to 57c; clover seed, new, $3.45 to $3.55. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 3, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 1, 55c to 57c.; barley. No. 2, 46c to 48c; pork, mess $9.00 to $9.50. Buffalo--Cattle, good Shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hog*, common to choice $3.2 :~> to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $5.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.25. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $5.7$; hogs $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.50. wheat, No. 2 red, 84c, to 8Q9: corn, No 2, 43c to 46c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 39c; butter, creamery, U3c to 28c; cm Western, 12c to 14c. COURT HOUSE AT APIA. the municipality and seized a number of houses belonging to British subjects. An ultimatum was sent to their leaders, warning them if they did not evacuate the municipality by i o'clock, March 15, the place would be bombarded by the American and British warships. To this ultimatum the Mataafans paid not the slightest attention, but, on the contrary, began an attack on the Malietoans. Bombardment Is Begun. American Consul Osborn and British Consul Maxse consulted; and at their in­ stance, a half hour before the ultimatum expired, the Philadelphia and the British warships Royalist and Porpoise opened fire on some distant villages. The Yankee and British gunners had great difficulty in locating the enemy, owing to the dense forests in which they were concealed. The fire from the warships, however, soon set fire to some of the shore villages and caus ed much damage. A defective shell from the Philadelphia exploded near the American consulate, and the marines who were standing guard outside had a very narrow escape. A piece of the shell went through the Ger­ man consulate, causing great destruction The Germans became alarmed and board­ ed the German warship Falke. The reb els made an attack on the town at night and killed throe British sailors. A Brit­ ish marine was shot through the legs ac­ cidentally by a British sentry. Another was shot in the feet. An American sen try was killed at his post by the natives. The bombardment continued slowly for eight days. Mataafa and Malietoa Tanu were the rival candidates for king. After the elec­ tion Chief Justice Chambers decided that Malietoa was legally elected. Under the treaty agreements the decision of thd Chief Justice was to be final in such cases. Supported fey the German consul, Ma­ taafa. revolted against this decision aad attached Malietoa's men. and sixty persons went down. Telephone connection was secured to Caruthersville, Mo., by the officials at Memphis, and a few minutes later the announcement was made that the Rowena Lee had sunk in thirty feet of water off the landing at Tyler, and three persons were drowned. Putting ont from the Tyler landing the .1*1..-u.- liivIJtu oLuslruclioii, knock­ ing in the hull, but succeeded in landing all the passengers and crew except the three missing. From the best informa­ tion obtainable the disaster was caused in this way: The river ati Tyler is over the banks, and the boat in landing ran up almost to the street of the little town. In backing to the landing it is thought the boat ran on to a stump, and broke in two. She floated down the river some distance and sank, and will prove a total loss. WHAT THE LATE CONGRESS DID. Statement Prepared Giving In Flgnrei 1 Result of the Work Done. B. S. Piatt, enrolling clerk of the Sen­ ate, has prepared a statement giving in figures the results of the work of the last Congress. The statement shows that 1,457 bills and joint resolutions became laws out of a total of 18,463 introduced in both houses. Of the measures intro­ duced 12,608 were presented in the House and 5,855 in the Senate. Of those which became laws 942 originated in the House and 515 in the Senate. There were only two direct votes during the Congress, one of these applying to a Senate bill and the other to a House meas­ ure. There were in addition to these four pocket vetoes--bills which failed to be­ come laws because they were not approv­ ed by the President. The record shows that the Senate pass­ ed 1,173 of its own bills and that the House acted favorably upon only 517, or fewer than half of them, while of the 1,081 House bills passed by the House the Senate acted favorably upon 946. A larg­ er number of bills were introduced than In any previous Congress. MOTE UPON MAL0L0S. AMFRIOAN TROOPS CLOSE ON AQUINALOa , ~ IN ifot Bnxrnirement Extends Ore)- Three • American to»» About 40Ktlied and 200 Wounded--Many Natives Die. •--FllUpinoe Retreat to Their Capital. The fighting around Manila was resum­ ed Sunday at different points, the out­ come of the day's operations being fur­ ther victory for the American arms and the continued retreat of the rebels, though the enemy was strongly intrenched and the natural obstacles to our advance were almost insuperable. The Filipinos were forced back at every point, but ow­ ing to the destruction of bridges and the roughness of the country the Americans were unable to follow up their advantage as promptly as could have been wished. Many of our soldiers suffered severely from the intense heat and there.were sev­ eral prostrations, but neither heat, a strongly intrenched enemy, tangled bam­ boo thickets, nor brass bullets intimidat­ ed pur gallant fellows, who drove the Fili­ pinos before them wherever they found them. ' - Gen. MacArthur and Gen. Wheaton at the head of their brigades carried off the boners of the day. The former, with thre j brigades, assisted by the army gun- COL. H. G. KGBBRT. The regular army of the United States will be reCTuited to full strength, 105,000, by May 1. Gen. Gomez will go on distributing the $3,000,000 to hid soldiers, as if the As­ sembly did not exist. Charlie Wah-IIang, once king of Bos- toiPChinatown, a notorious character of national reputation, is dead. A hundred years ago the Hawaiian Isl­ ands were said to have had 400,000 pop­ ulation; now 30,000 is a high estimate. In Philadelphia, 15-year-old Sadie Lur- din committed suicide by drinking lauda­ num on account of her inability to obtain employment. William Morrison, an 18-year-old print­ er's apprentice in Boston, has falleu heir to $20,000,000 by the death of an uncle in California. Welcome A. Botbin, husband of Corde­ lia Botkin, convicted of the murder of Mrs. John P. Dunning of Dover, Del., through the agency of poisoned candy sent through the niails, applied for a divorce at San Francisco, on the ground that his ; wife had been convicted of a felony. • ' • m'-h.. boats, drove the enemy out of their trenches around Polo, although they held strong positions and the advance upon them was over a rough country. The rebels could net withstand the impetuous onset of our men and were driven back like sheep, after firing a single volley. Gen. Wheaton*s brigade, after a sharp engage­ ment, took Malinta, but could not follow, up this advaatage at onoe, owing to the destruction of a bridge by the rebels and the impossibility of fording the river. An incident of Gen. Wheaton's advance was the evacuation of the city of Malabon and Its burning by the rebels, which Gen. Wheaton was unable to prevent owing to the natural obstacles in his front. It is a grateful feature of the day's op­ erations that our casualties were light, so far as the number of killed is concern­ ed. Among these was Col. Egbert of the Twenty-second infantry, one of the most gallant officers in the army, who was shot in the thickest of the fighting, the place where he was most likely to be found. He had proved his gallantry in the civil war and he was wounded at San Juan. He died shortly after receiving the praises of Gen. Wheaton for his splendid courage and fine work. In his death the army has lost one of its best soldiers. The total number of Americans killed in the en­ gagement of Saturday, Sunday aad Mon­ day is 40 and the wounded 200. Severe fighting continued Monday and our casualties were about forty. The in­ surgents destroyed bridges, which imped­ ed progress of train and artillery. Our troops met the concentrated insurgent forces on northern line, commanded by Aguinaldo in person, and drove them with considerable slaughter. They left nearly 100 dead on field, and many prisoners and small arms were captured. At every railroad station circulars were posted, signed by the Filipino command­ er-in-chief, Antonio Luna, ordering all spies and bearers of news to the enemy to be shot without trial, and instructing thait 1^' ' '• " ".V -"".a ;nanner. Further, all towns abandoned by the Fili­ pino trwps nre first to be burned. While deploring the existence of war, the circu­ lar maintains the undeniable right Of the Filipinos to defend their homes, lives and lands against "would-be dominators who would kill them, their wives and children," adding that this motive ought to impel all Filipinos to sacrifice everything. The army has forced its way through an almost impassable country, while suffer­ ing from the intense heat and having to engage an enemy who will not fight iH the open, but retreats from one internch- nient to another behind which they are concealed while our gnllant troops are exposed to their volley firing. Our troops are gradually closing around them. Opinions differ in Washington as to what the effect upon the insurgents will be in the event the American troops soon capture Malolos, the headquarters of Aguinaldo, and drive the insurgents to the jungles. By some it is thought that would practically end the war, but others hold that as long as the Filipinos can pro­ cure supplies they are apt to keep up a guerrilla warfare, and that it may be many months before they lay down their arms and ask for terms. The conflict has gone so far that the authorities are deterr mined that the campaign must be waged fiercely. SPANISH AID THE REBKLS. Prisoner* Released on Condition that Ihey Take Up Arms. The suspicion which had for some time been entertained by War Department offi­ cials in Washington--namely, that Agui­ naldo had released the Spanish prisoners of war on condition that they take up arms against the Americans--was con­ firmed by the message from Gen. Otis, which was received Sunday. The Spaniards who remained in the power of the insurgents have made com­ mon cause writh them, and Gen. Corbin was ready to admit that this had been his belief for some time. The Spaniards are good fighters, and it is their influence which is responsible for the recent resist­ ance to the American advances. With­ out their help and leadership the Filipinos had given no indication of military knowl­ edge or heroic conduct. They ran like sheep under the first fire. Now they stand •and fight to the death. Gen. Corbin says the best estimate of Aguinaldo's strength is 30,000. Sparks from the Wires. A deed recently presented for record in Topeka, Kan., was dated Sept. 7, 1869, and bore a civil war revenue stamp. Governors will be elected this year in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Ohio, Iowa* Maryland, Kentucky and Mississippi. A chair which Lincoln had used in his home was sold at auction in New York for $270 to the Lincoln Club of Chicago. Gen. Gomez says he recognizes only on« power in Cuba, the United States, and that the Cuban Assembly "can only talk." The new police force in Havana, com­ posed of ex-soldiers of the Cuban army, are shoeing timidity in handling the pe» pie. SNOWFALL OUT OF SEASON, Precipitation Extends All the Waf^ from Santa Fe to Detroit* ' A snowstorm extending from Santa Fa to Detroit, accompanied at many points in its course by high wind, swept up freak the southwest at midnight Wednesday and continued until dark Thursday even­ ing. Reports from points in Kansas, Mi»- souri, Iowa and Illinois indicated that the storm was severe for this time of year, and in many cases a record-breaker. In Chicago the fall was three inches. In some cities the storm was accompanied by such high wind as to resemble a blizzard, and the fall of snow was so great as to ef­ fectually blockade street car traffic for hours. From Galesburg came the news that all traffic and business was stopped by the blizzard. Peoria reported the first real snowstorm of the season. Good sleigh riding was reported from Mon­ mouth, a foot of snow having fallen with<?^ in twelve hours. Outside of Illinois the greatest storm ' seemed to be in Kansas and Nebraska. Chillicothe, Mo., reported the worst storm in many years, with snow a foot deep and the storm still raging. Between Atchi­ son and Omaha a heavy snow fell, drifted by a strong wind. The Missouri Pacific, expecting blockades, had equipped en­ gines at different points with snow plows. From six to twelve inches fell between Atchison and Grafton, and two feet afc; Biue Rapids and Wateryille, Kan. Street car traffic in Leavenworth was impeded/'.* Iowa told much the same story as Illir nois. Muscatine, Burlington and Ottawa correspondents all told of "the worst ; storm this time of year for many years," fcnd of impeded street car traffic and rail;. $oad blockades and abaudoned trains. At St. Joseph, Mo., the temperature was 22 degrees, and the storm was so severe that street cars were unable to run. But in St. Louis there was only two-hundredtha of an inch precipitation. Kansas City reported that rain, snow and hail f&ll suc­ cessively, accompanied by strong wind and falling temperature. In South Bend, Ind., snow fell to a depth of eleven inches, and the thermometer dropped fourteen de­ grees in nine hours. Down in New Orleans, Memphis anil Chattanooga and other Southern cities the blizzard was transformed into a thun­ derstorm. and at New Orleans a precipita­ tion of 1.7 finches of rain fell in twelf® hours. In Cincinnati. Indianapolis and Nashville also rain fell. MADE FAMOUS BY M'KINLEY. Georgia Honse V here the President! Has Been staying:. President McKinley has brought fame to the winter home of Mark Hanna, at Thomasville, Ga. It was here that M& McKinley's first presidential boom began, and here his campaign managers laid their plans. Now that the President has again been there, the political writers have been telling all sorts of tales about arrange­ ments for McKinteyr',8 s«^oond campaign. The Hanna residence, at Thomasville it far from being a splendid mansion. It is a large cottage, with,tt small flower gar­ den around on one side, but is very cosily fitted up within. Mr. Hanna has bees interested in the town for a number St MR. HANXA'S HOUSE IS THOMASVILLjfc. years, and has induced his brother, Mel Hanna, and his brother-in-law, J. Wyman Jones, to build winter homes there. They have spent many thousands of dollars beautifying the surroundings of the little Georgia town, one of their ventures be­ ing the establishment of a beautiful park of many acres, with a country club house in the center. To the Hannas much is due in heralding to the world the advan- a of iiii- cliuiiiie of iuc G cm £iu fiUti forests in winter time, and it is largely to this that Thomasville has become so fav­ ored as a Wintering place. NEARLY 100 PERSONS DROWN. English Excursion Steamer Stella Pinks in the Cnsqueta. The steamer Stella, with tourists top the islands of Jersey and Guernsey, struck on the Casquets, a few miles off the French coast, and sank in eight minutes, her boilers exploding with a tremendous report as sue went down. There were 176 passengers on board, only eighty of whom are reported saved. Captain Reeks went down with the ship. The Stella was crowded with Easter holiday excursions ists from London and Southampton. A thick fog prevailed and the Stella got out of her course. When the vessel struck the Casquets the people on board became greatly excited. The officers of the vessel, aided by a few cool beads, mad,e their way among the frightened ex­ cursionists and checked a threatened panic. The people were crowded into small- boats as fast as possible, the women and children taking precedence. The steamers .Lynx and Vera, which1 -- happened to be in the vicinity, rescued several boat loads of the shipwrecked people. All available boats at Guernsey, the nearest point, went to the scene of the wreck. Despite the efforts of the ship's officers the incredibly short time in which the steamer settled caused great confu­ sion, and there was not time to distribute life preservers to all the passengers. Some of these did not wait for the boats, but jumped into the water. Several of them were picked up clinging to pieces of wreckage. The rescued passengers are unanimous in their praise of the conduct of the crew. • Otis' Shrewd Scheme. An odd game of cross purposes between the army and the navy at Manila haa come to light. It was reported some time ago that the navy was trying to buy the uncaptured Spanish gunboats in the Phil­ ippines, but it was explained that Admiraf' Dewey failed because Spain had refused^ to sell them to the United States, and dis­ posed of them to a foreigner at Hong \ Kong. It turns out that the Hong Kong 7 buyer was an agent of Gen. Otis, who shrewdly resorted to this scheme to oqt- wit the Spaniards. Consequently Dew<^r and Otis were bidding against each othc& Told in a Few Line*. The United States is leading Great Britain in the race for the world's com­ merce. The production of sugar in Mexico is about 90,000 tons per annum, nearly all of which is consumed at home. Capt. Wildes, who commanded the cruiser Boston at Manila, has been or­ dered to the command of the Brooklyn navy yard. White House etiquette permits that Mrs. McKinley hold informal receptions on Saturday afternoons. The President' is not in evidence at these pleasant gath-. priugs, nor do the cabinet ladies assist as at more stately functions • t-' ' . I- iiitii