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mmmm Ifeffeitry Plaindealer. J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. McHENRY, ILLINOIS W: ft#- tm-' EVENTS OF THE WEEK i • Tlx territorial statehood convention at Outhrio, O. T.. resolved for a constitu­ tional convention in June and a State Section in October on a proposition to go SCongress and demand admission in De-mber. • * ^The robbery of over £00,000 from Parr's Bank iu London took a dramatic turn when the chairman of the bank announc­ ed at a meeting of the shareholders that £40,000 in the" biggest notes had been re- turned to the bank by post. The home of Daniel Burns, at the north md of Steubenville, Ohio, lias been crush­ ed by a huge rock weighing about one hun­ dred tons which loosened from the top of • hill and rolled down with frightful force. Mr. Burns, his wife and son were badly Injured. "North-bound train No. 2 on the Big TPoVir road, while running forty miles an hour, instantly killed an unknown man And woman who v^ere walking on the ttkek a few miles west of Cleveland. The bodies were mangled in a horrible man- iter, ; Fire in Johnstown, Pa., caused a loss of *100,000, with $25,000 insurance. The heaviest losers are the Herald Printing Company, John H. Waters, the Johns­ town supply house and the Cambria County Medical Society. The society lost fyOOO books. ' The murder charge against.Tohn Miller. • •"•illrs. Dickinson and Mrs. Wilson, accused ;«f the assassination of Daniel Wilson in Suisun Valley, Cal., was dismissed, there being no evidence to hold the parties. The «»se promised highly sensational develop­ ments at one time. While at work on one of the boilers of the cruiser New York, in dry dock at the Brooklyn navy yard, six men were scald­ ed through the unexpected turning on of steam in the boiler. One of the men, Fire- otan John Shea, is perhaps fatally injur­ ed* The others are expected to recover. " The accounts of the contributions from various countries to the Pope's Peter's pence during 1898 have been made public. They show that the United States led in the subscriptions, with $142,200; Great Britain and her colonies, $125,000; Prance, $39,000; Italy, $74,000; Austria. $60,000, and Germany, $36,000. Jilted by the girl he loved, Wesley Ly- aas, a coal miner aged 20, shot his rival. Thomas Roberts, another miner, aged 22, and attempted to kill Mary Davi&~Sat Shawnee, Ohio. Lyons then killed him­ self. Miss Davis had refused to allow Lyons to accompany her home from a dance and accepted Roberts as her escort. The official count of the vote cast throughout the grand dominion of Ohio for Pythian grand lodge officers resulted •S follows: Grand chancellor. John C. Qeyer, Piqua; vice-grand chancellor. Jo- siah Catrow, Germantown^grand prelate, Lt, W. Ellenwood, Marietta: grand mas­ ter of exchequer, George B. Donavin, Delaware; grand master-at-arms, Charles J. Deckman, Malvern: grand inner guard, 8. N. MeCloud, Marysville: grand outer guard, Charles E. Brown, Cincinnati. The fact that the United States ar- Mored cruiser Brooklyn did not enter port St. Thomas, D. W. I.-, after appearing . df Charlotte Amalie, was a great disap­ pointment to the people there. The pitef* Who informed the Brooklyn that tjte < health regulations provided that she ; would be quarantined for fourteen days, which is said to have made the warship , „ return to Cuba, is blamed for his unau­ thorized action: It is added that there is Ho doubt the Brooklyn would have been glassed by the doctor if, she had entered t$e harbor. m The steamer Aorangi from Australasia Igrings details of a terrible cyclone which t awept the south seas, devastating vil- < lages, wrecking shipping and causing many deaths. At Samarai, in New Gui­ nea, the gale was terrific. Cocoa palms Went down by hundreds and were carried to sea. Torrents of rain fell. Twelve r vessels were wrecked. The ketches Be " hem and Baidan were lost off Goodenougb Island and Mr. Kennedy, manager of the New Guinea Development Company, was drowned, together with his crew, save one hoy. The cutter Ivy was lost in the Ivoss- qptan group and Captain Godel and crew were drowned. In the Solomons the hur­ ricane did most damage, whole villages Jbeing destroyed. Hundreds of cocoa plan- j t^tions were uprooted and yam patches leveled. Over five hundred natives are i feported to have been killed. * M* y'W* • 1 oil ever the adjoining works and causing a Are that caused $75,000 Ipsa. Judge E. W. Woodbury, who framed the first prohibitory liquor law enacted by the Maine Legislature, is dead at his home in Bethel, Me., aged 81 years. George W. E. Ayres of Philadelphia, shot and killed his wife Mary, seriously wounded John J. Wilson, who boarded with Mrs. Ayres, and then committed sui­ cide. Clark W. Bryan, aged 74 years, for­ merly part owner of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, and late owner of the Union, shot and killed himself. A few months ago he i^et with business reverses. A little daughter of Georgfc^ Edwards was horribly burned at a bonfire at Vine- land, N. J. Envelo|MHl in, flames, the child ran Screaming along the street and eluded her pursuers until nearly all of her clothes dropped in ashes from her WESTERN. V* • fatal head-end collision occurred on the Chicago Great Western Railroad at North Hanover, 111., and as a result three men were killed, three engines, a dozen cars and the station house destroyed. lt is announced in Wallace, Idaho, on " what is seemingly good authority, that there will be a liae built from there to connect the Oregon Railway and Naviga­ tion Company with the Burlington road. Mrs. Mary Tyson Williams of Denver claims to be a niece of James Tyson, the Australian who recently died leaving a fortune estimated to be worth over $25,- 000,000, and she expects to receive a share of the estate. Fire broke out Sn the seventh story of the building at 701 and 703 Lucas ave­ nue, St. Louis, in the hat and cap factory of Gram & Glass. The contents were de­ stroyed and the seventh story of the build­ ing was badly damaged. At Fort Ancient, Ohio, while prospect­ ing on a prehistoric mound-builders' vil­ lage site, Clifford Anderson, a farmer, found some portions of human skeletons, stone hatchets, arrowheads and pottery and other relics of the past. The Moon-Anchor mine at Cripple Creek, Colo., has been sold to an English company. The old company receives 50,- 000 shares of £1 each -in the new com­ pany (one-seventh of its capitalization) and a minimum of $900,000 in cash. The bank at Arthur, Ul.,\was robbed at atf early hour the other morning. The robbers carried away in gold, greenbacks and silver from $3,000 to $6,000. The bank officials admit that the sum is in excess of $3,000. Six men blew the safe open with dynamite. The Toledo police are mystified by an­ other mysterious diamond robbery. Thieves entered the residence of E. D. Libbey, the glass manufacturer, and stole diamonds and other jewels to the value of about $2,000. No clew to the perpe­ trators has developed. Right Rev. Bishop Rademacher of the Catholic diocese of Fort Wayne, Ind., has been taken to St. Louis ^ud placed in the Alexian Brothers' hospital for treatment for insanity. The bishop has charge of a great deal of property belonging to the church, and the management of it has caused him so much worry that his mind gave way.- Burglars forced open the rear door of the postofflce at Napoleon, Ohio, drove in the combination spindle on the safe with a sledge hammer and punch stolen from a shop near by. then blew open the inner safe and money chest with dynamke. The postmaster admits that the loss is a large one. Mayor P. C. Hesser of Fort Scott, Kan., has been expelled from Grace Episcopal Church by public announcement because of his failure to make an effort to close the saloons of the city. His wife thereupon withdrew. Hesser was elected as a Pro­ hibitionist. The Circuit Court of Cleveland, Ohio, overruled the demurrer to the disbarment charges against Judge F. E. Dellenbaugh. The court held that it had jurisdiction in the case and that the charges were suffi­ cient, if proved, to justify Judge Dellen- baugh's disbarment. J. S. Giles, county clerk of Millard County, Utah, has disappeared. He is accused by George Bishop of Smithfield of forging the names of George E. Smith, receiver, and Byron Groo, late register of the United States land office, to receipts and certificates affecting entries tp public lands. Seventeen afrrests under the new anti- ptfolroom law were made at Kansas City the other day on warrants sworn out by City Attorney D. A. Brown. The prison­ ers included John W. Moore, president of the Board of Trade, and others who are either grain commission men or buck­ et-shop keepers. SOUTHERN. BREVITIES. Colima volcano in Mexico is in erup- Adelina Patti, the singer, was married M-'/ ' the other day at Brecon, Wales, to Baron * ^ . Cederstrom, director of the health gym- « silastic institute in London. f*--.' ' Mrs. Frances Coleman, aged 73, an in- |j- Gf Cincinnati city infirmary, was ... . ' Iturned to death by her clothes catching |r\/ £re while she was smoking. Coal operators and miners of* Ohio, In- diana, Illinois and Pennsylvania have *" fettled their differences over wages, and " there will be no great coal strike this year. Ecttador Government troops have de .jieated the rebels at San Ancaja. The ' *'lbsses on both sides were 350 killed and 200 wounded. More than 400 insurgents were captured. Justice Henry W. Williams of the Su­ preme Court of Pennsylvania died sud­ denly in his room at the Continental Hotel at Philadelphia. Heart disease was the cause of his death. A New York alderman proposes to make street railway companies put two conduc­ tors on each car, one to collect fares and the other to attend to passengers who wish to board or leave the car. The town of Porus, the inland terminus pt the central line of the Jamaican rail- *oad, has been almost destroyed by fire, -involving heavy losses. There were no - fatalities. ' . At Dayton, Ohio, William H. Snyde.. . aged 19, sent a bullet through his brain l*.; because Stella Seibold would not marry him. '% Passengers on the mail steamer Aoran- i g>i from Australia, say that the steamer Southern Cross, with her band of intrepid explorers under Captain Borchrevink, has left Hobart on her voyage toward the Antarctic. to so force the Chinese exclusion laws of this country In Porto Rico. Treasury officials ascertained, that Chinese agents were preparing to flood Porto Rico with Chinamen from other countries, hoping thereafter to get them Into the Uaited States. FOREIGN. Aguinaldo has publicly proclaimed tits republic of the Philippines, at Malolos. A joint stock company has been formed at Cologne, with a capital of £500,000, to lay a cable direct'.from Germany to the United States. Gen. Michael Annenkoff, the distin­ guished Russian engineer, who construct­ ed the transcaspian railway, is dead. He was born in St. Petersburg in 1838. -.The Morocco Government troops, com­ manded by Prince Marani, have defeated the Tafilet rebels in a big battle. This is expected to finish the Tafilet rebellion. Natives are reported to have murdered the Spanish governor and a number of Spanish officers on the Island of Pela- wan, one of the southwestern Philippines. * A dispatch from Bucharest, Roumania, says that a pack of wolves, emboldened by hunger, recently attacked a monastery at Lopevean, in the Moldavian mountains, and killed a friar. The steamer Labuan, which has arrived at Labuan, British Borneo, came from the island of Balabae, thirty miles south of Palawan, Philippine Islands, and not from Palawan, as previously cabled. The murder of the Spanish officers which she reported occurred at Balabac. The Lk- buah brought sixty-five women and chil­ dren. They had been robbed of every­ thing, but otherwise had not been ill- treated. The Sulus assisted the Bala- bacs in killing the Spanish officers. The Spaniards have left Palawan, where the natives were fearful of the Sulus. Stores had been looted, business was at a stand­ still, and the natives were armed and ready, for mischief. Es-Assemblymau J. M. Bassford and his brothers of Suisun, Cal., are inclined to believe the story that their brother,, Frank Bassford, is restrained of his lib­ erty on the peninsula of KamchatRa, as told by Sailor Morris, who returned from Manila two weeks ago. Morris says there are several Americans illegally and cru­ elly detained as prisoners by the Russian authorities. When at Yokohama he was informed by Barney Fox, a seal hunter of unquestionable veracity, that there were to his knowledge eighteen Americans held on £he peninsula named, and that they were forced to work in the salt mines there. It is thought that the efforts now being made through Government officials regarding Bassford will do much to re­ move the curtain covering the inhuman treatment of American seal hunters and others in northern waters. IN GENERAL. Martin Redoch, confessed embezzler of $2,134.05 postofflce funds of Yazoo City, Miss., was arrested at Birmingham, Ala. The birthday of Robert E. Lee was gen­ erally observed in Southern cities, where banks and many other business houses closed for the day. The large iron works and foundry of J. D. Connell, South Petera street, New Orleans, La., were destroyed by fire, en­ tailing a loss of $30,000. The United States revenue cutter Alma was driven on Padre Island, about fifteen miles south of Corpus Christi, Texas, dur­ ing a storm, but all on board escaped to land. In the lower house of the Texas Legisla­ ture a sensation was created by Dudley G. Wooten of Dallas, who is regarded as the House leader, introducing a resolu­ tion favoring Texas withdrawing from the Federal Union because of alleged injustice and violation of the State's rights through the policy adopted in enforcing the war revenue law. A special from Dewitt, Ark., says that during the Christmas holidays a party of gentlemen arrived at that place and went hunting on the island near by. On the second day one of them, Philip Faudi, a millionaire retired merchant of St. Louis, went out hunting and he has not been seen or beard of sincc. The supposition Is that Mr. Faudi lost his life in some unknown manner and that his body was lost in the water or the tangled grasses. The Canadian Government has decided to allow the law to take its course In the case of Henderson and the three Indians under sentence of death at Dawson. They will be hanged in March. Commodore Philip, former captain of the Texas, now the commandant of the New York navy yard, is to be presented with two jeweled swords. One of these is to be given by citfizehs of New York City. The other will be presented by the Sunday school ehildreu of Texas. The committee representing the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois and Indiai^a. which has been in Hot Springs, Ark., investigating the Government site for a national Pyth­ ian sanitarium recommend the establish­ ment of the institution in that city. The location of the institution means an in­ vestment of $500,000. News has been received of the Paul Jones. Fishermen have come itf to New Orleans who rei>ort that several days ago they found the hulk of the Paul Jones and that of an unknown schooner. Both were lying stranded on one of the Bird islands, and the Paul Jones was broken amidships, showing, in the belief of the fishermen, that she had been blown up. The men said that the shore all about was strewn with wreckage and the personal effects of the passengers. The Paul Jones carried a party of pleasure seekers from Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville and St. Louis. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "A new year rarely opens brilliantly. Difficulties between holders of material and manufacturers continue to hinder in some industries and in some may prove embarrassing, but the activity is, on the whole, unsurpassed hitherto, and the volume of traffic is beyond all ex­ pectations, in some branches consumption is running beyond the producing capacity, but in others it is hindered by doubts about the future supplies and prices of materials. The woolen manufacturer is still waiting, witti"<ftily moderate demand for goods as yet. Sales of wools for the last three weeks af »the three centers of the Eastern market hdve been 16,495,800 pounds, against 22»322,970 last year. The cotton manufacturer h^p a large demand for goods, but raw cotton has so rapidly advanced that there is hesitation in the purchases of staples. The iron and steel manufacture leads all others in the vol­ ume of new business. While production is much the largest ever known, many of the works are withdrawing all quotations or naming prohibitory prices in order to check orders which they cannot fill for months to come. Failures for the week have been 249 in the United States, against 374 last year, and 32 in Canada, against 53 last year," ' MARKET REPORTS* TASK OF SCRUBBING OUT THAT OITY 13 A BIG ONE; It Will Require Time to Put the Un­ healthy Ciba* Capital In a Sanitary Condition - American Energy Now Busy with the Great Undertaking. WASHINGTON. EASTERN. Miss Emma Rumpler, 22 years,of age, was killed and Miss Grace Winthrop was injured at a fire in a three-story brick building at Passaic, N. J. Philadelphia Democrats nominated Dr. W. Horace Hoskins for Mayor, Frank R. Shattuck for city solicitor and John A. Thornton for magistrate. Charles Frohman has secured the Lyric Theater in New York for a term of five years. This is the fifth New York theater acquired by Charles Frohman ^ At Olean, N. Y., a still burst at the *• m. -Sf f Senator Cullom has been informed that during 1899 all Federal contracts for In­ dian supplies will be placed in Chicago. The first assistant Postmaster General has issued an order increasing the sal­ aries of all the regular free delivery car­ riers who provide their own horses or other modes of conveyance from- $300 to $400 per annum, beginning Jan. 1 last. The Wpr Department has issued an in­ vitation for bids from responsible ship­ ping concerns of all nations for transpor­ tation of the Spanish prisoners iu the Philippines from Manila to Spain. The treaty requires the United States to trans­ port these prisoners home. Secretary Alger has ordered the Relief of Manila to serve there, as a hospital ship and also as an ambulance ship for the conveyance of sick and wounded soldiers from Manila to Nagasaki, or even to San Francisco. The Relief ia now at New York and will go by wajr of the Suez canal. By request of the Secretary of the Treasury the War Department has order- «d the America* officials ha Porto Rico't 10c to 18c. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2, 37c to 39c; oats, No. 2, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 56c to 57c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 16c to 17c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 tb $4.25; wheat. No. 2 redi 68c to 70c; corn. No. 2 white, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 wbfte, 30c to 31c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25 wheat, No. 2, 73c to 75c; corn, No. i yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2, 28c to 29c rye, No. 2, 55c to 57c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $'2.50 to $4.25 wheat, No. 2, 71c to 73c; corn, No. mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 2, 58c to 60c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $2.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 37c to 38c; oats. No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; rye, 58c to 59c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye. No. 2, 56c to 58c; clover seed, old, $3.95 to $4.05. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, <>8c ,to 69c; corrt, No. 3, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 1, 56c to 58c; barley, No. 2, 44c to 52c; pork, mess, $9.50 to $10.00. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75: hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers. $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.50. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. '1 red. 80c to 82c; corn, No. 2, 44c to 46c: onts. No. 2 white, 35c to 3»k'; butter, creamery, 15c to 29c; eggs, West- The work of-reorganising the civil gov­ ernment in Havana is now under way, and though ,the .difficulties are naturally great it is encouraging to learn through the report of Surgeon General Sternberg, who has returned from Cuba, that the Americans are making remarkable head­ way. Gen. J^udlow has in charge the work of rehabilitation in Havana and his en­ ergy has already accomplished much. The sanitary regeneration of the capital is the most difficult problem that confronts the Americans and according to Surgeon General Sternberg the work will require time, patience • and money. Under the wise direction of Gen. Ludlow a good be­ ginning bas been made and the surgeon general gives it as his opinion that the city will be in such condition by summer as will permit unacclimnted persons to live in it. t / To those tflfo* know the sanitary con­ dition of HavAna under Spanish rule this means much. The city was really little less tham a .plague spot. There were foul pools on tlje streets, spreading their poi­ sonous exhalations uuder the tropical sun. The carcasses of dead animals, such as dogs and cats, were allowed to lie on the streets ahd decompose until picked apart by buzzards. Vaults in private houses frequently connected with drains just un­ der the paventent along their frontage and these drains of- loose brick or stone per­ mitted leaks, so that the pavement was rendered foul and unhealthy. Beneath each kitchen stood a cesspool that emit­ ted its ppisonous odors through each building and oh the streets garbage was allowed to rot in the sun. The New Havana. But all this is now being changed. Garb­ age will in future be removed daily, cess­ pools will be cleaned and closed, sanitary closets aJttpectin^ with sewers will take the place of disease-breeding vaults and dogs and cats after death will find other resting places than the streets. Naturally, in order to carry out such sanitary' reforms, in full throughout the city will require a good deal of energy and CANAL BILL PASSES SENATE. Plan for Bsildiag the Nicaragnn Ditch Approved in Upper Houm, The Senate passed the Nicaragua canal bill Saturday. The final discussion of the measure was had on the amendment of Mr. Spooner providing that should tho President fail to carry out the Instructions in regard to the Maritime Canal Com­ pany, he may treat directly with Nicara­ gua, Costa Rica or any other Central American country looking to the building of an interoceanic canal. The canal bill fathered by Senator Mor­ gan, in a somewhat different form, pass­ ed the Senate once before, but failed to receive consideration in the House. The fight which was made on the bill in the Senate was principally due to an attempt to change certain features of it, some of which changes were secured, whereupon the opposition Senators allowed the bill to pass without offering serious protest. Oue objection raised against the Mor­ gan bill was the recognition given by it to the Maritime Canal Company, which is believed by many to have no valuable rights and little tangible property. As amended the bill aims to protect the Gov­ ernment from excessive payments in this line. Objection was made also to the part which the United States Government is to play in the matter. The bill provides that the canal company shall have a cap­ ital stock of $100,000,000, of which $92,- i>00,000 shall be subscribed by the United States Government. The affairs of the company are to be controlled by a board of seven directors, five to be named by the President of the United States and one each by the Governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. This plan, apparently, would require the modification of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Therefore it has been contended by some of the opponents of the Morgan bill that the United States would better proceed to secure the modifi­ cation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and then build and control the canal directly, instead of indirectly through a subsidiary corporation. INSTRUCTIONS ARE GIVEN. President Furnishes Advices to Phil­ ippine Commissioners, The President has furnished the writ­ ten instructions to the Philippine com­ missioners. It is understood that the com­ mission is charged to make a careful in­ vestigation of the socini and economic con­ ditions of the islands, and of their pros­ pective value to the United States as ac­ quired territory. The commissioners are especially urged " to examine into the an- STREET SCENE IN HAVANA. time, especially in the building of sewers; and until these are in readiness the sys­ tem of vaults will remain. But a strict inspection of them will be enforced and the poisonous leaks will be stopped. To instance how unhealthy the condition off life is in Havana the recent experience in the quarters occupied by Gen. Ludlow, near the palace, may be cited. There the air proved so foul that candles were ex­ tinguished by it and even cats and dogs, used as they were to the odors of the capital, were suffocated when forced to breathe ijt;.. In carrying out his reforms Gen. Lud­ low is experiencing the proverbial con­ servatism of the Spaniurd and for that matter the Cuban. The older residents regard the new health regulations as un­ necessary, and well-to-do and well-inform­ ed persons in making their objections de­ scribe themselves as "healthy enough." But "healthy enough" for the Spaniard does not mean "healthy enough" for the American and the sanitary reforms will be carried through until Havana is made as clean and wholesome as the average American city.' One fortunate thing is noted by Sur­ geon General Sternberg, namely, that the health of American troops in and near Havana is good. "Medical officers, how­ ever," adds Gen. Sternberg, "generally apprehend that there will be considerable sickness as the unhealthy season ap­ proaches, and strenuous efforts are being made to prepare for a large number of sick in case the military situation makes it necessary to retain a considerable body of troops in Cuba during the summer months "Order? have b^en given for the pre­ paration of fhe Spanish military hospital, Alphonse Xllt., which has a capacity of 2,000 beds; alsb for an officers' hospital at the Velado and for another hospital for infectious diseases." nexation and independence sentiments on the islands, and also to gather all possi­ ble information as to the capacity for self- government. GOES INSANE IN ENGINE CAB. Fireman on Illinois Central Becomes Crazed from Grip. An incoming train on the Illinois Cen­ tral fhe other morning brought news to Louisville, Ky., of a terrible struggle in the cab of the locomotive between the en­ gineer and a crazy fireman. Walter Cole, the fireman, fell in a fit at Cecelian Junc­ tion. Engineer Martin Kagin went to his assistance, when Cole suddenly tried to jump from.the train, which was running at full speed. The engineer restrained him and Cole turned on him. A terrible strug­ gle followed. Kagin managed to throw Cole to the floor of the cab and before he recovered stopped the train. His physi­ cians attribute his mental condition to a severe attack of the grip. CANNOT USE THE REVENUE. MUST HOLD THE PHILIPPINES. Poultney Blcelow, Writer and Trav­ eler, on Situation in East. A London dispatch to the New York Herald gives an interview with Poultney Bigelow, the well-known writer and trav­ eler, who recently returned from the Phil­ ippines. He is of the opinion that the United States must hold the islands and that the Americans must soon show the Filipinos that they are masters. Mr. Bige­ low bewails the lack of business talent among the American officers at present in the Philippines, which, he declares, is required to grapple with and successfully handle the colonial question. l«leut. Colonel Davis. Gen. Brooke's Ch>der to Cuban* Kesard- «-intt'Cnddmi Receipts. The United States military authorities have cabled the Santiago department an order directing that not a cent of the cus­ toms receipts of the department is to be expended without the permission of Gov­ ernor General Brooke. The order also di­ rects that the greater part of the sanitary work performed shall be done without money pay and for rations merely. Gen. Jimipez Castellanos, former cap­ tain general of Cuba, has complained to Governor General Brooke that the Cubans in the province of Santa Clara are mur­ dering Spanish ex-volunteers. He says that eight have been killed in one week. The governor general, replying, said he had referred the matter to Maj. Gen. John C. Bates, military governor of the department of Santa Clara, with direc­ tions that prompt measures be taken to punish the guilty. The < ashier's department of the Havana custom house is accused by common re­ port of speculating in the Spanish gold taken in. The centen, nominally rated as equal to ah American $5 gold piece, is ac­ cepted by the United States Government at the arbitrary rate of $4.$2. It is said that as fait as centens are received at the custom house tho cashiers immediately send them Out, sell them in open market at the customary Havana value of $4.88, and pocket the difference of six cents on each Spanish coin after replacing and ac­ counting for the same at the fixed Govern­ ment price. ' About $500,000 in centens has been collected! since Jan. 1. There- m Judge Advocate of the court martial convened to hear Commissary General Eagan's case. The proceedings In the Honse were en­ livened on Friday by a wordy duel be­ tween Mr. Grosvehor of Ohio and Mr. Lewis, Democrat, the member from Washington. It occurred during the de­ bate on a private bill to refer to the court of claims the claim of Cramp & Sons, the^ Philadelphia ship builders, for damag$fs from the Government for delays in^Iclent to the building of the warships New York, Massachusetts, Indiana and Colum­ bia, due to the failure of the Government to deliver armor plate and other materials for these ships on time. The postoffice ap­ propriation bill was passed. At 4:30 p. m. the House recessed until 8 o'clock. The evening session was devoted to private pension legislation and adjournment was taken to Monday. The Senate was in ses­ sion for five hours and a half, but the ses­ sion was practically barren of results. Senator Morgan's Nicaragua canal bill passed the Senate Saturday afternoon by a vote of 48 to 6. As a matter of fact, it was passed twicip, once by a viva voce vote and the second on a roll call. The opposition had been dwindling away for several days. Friends and foes of the antf-scalping bills were also lined up in the Senate the same afternoon. The sup­ porters of those measures won their first victory. By a vote of 33 to 21 they suc­ ceeded in having the Senate bill taken up for consideration. Discussion of the policy of expansion occupied nearly all the time of the Senate in open session on Monday. Mr. White of California addressed the Senate in sup­ port of the anti-expansion resolution intro­ duced1 by Mr. Vest (Dem., Mo.) and an­ other resolution offered by Mr. Bacon (Dem., Go.) declaring that the Philippines ought to be free and independent. The Senate at 2jl0 p. m., on motion of Mr. Davis, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, went into executive session. After the executive session Mr. Chandler called up the bill to restore to their original status officers of the navy and marine corps who lost their status by reason of the promotion of other officers by reason of conspicuous conduct in bat­ tle. The bill went over on objection. Monday was District of Columbia day in the House, and the major portion of the day was devoted to local legislation. The only action of public importance was the passage of the bill to extend the naviga­ tion laws of the United States to the Ha­ waiian Islands. One of the provisions of the bill grarits American register to all vessels flying the Hawaiian flag owned by Hawaiian citizens July 7, 1898. The debate on the army reorganization bill opened iu the House on Tuesday un­ der an agreement by which the general de­ bate is to run fifteen hours, exclusive of three night sessions. Mr. Hull and Mr. McClellari in support of the measure and Mr. Hay of Virginia in opposition divided the honors. The other speakers were Messrs. Parker (Rep.) of New Jersey and Brown (Rep.) of Ohio in favor and Messrs. Cox (Dem.) of Tennessee, Bell (Pop.) of Colorado and Latham (Dem.) of Texas against it. At the conclusion of routine business in the Senate Mr. Lodge (Rep., Mass.) delivered his announced peech upon the policy of expansion. At the conclusion of Mr. Lodge's speech Mr. Teller (Col.) addressed the Senate upon a question with respect to the constitutional powers of the Government in the terri­ tories. Mr. Clay (Ga.), one of the Dem­ ocratic Senators who expects to tvote for the ratification of the treaty of peace, then addressed the Senate on the general ques­ tion of territorial expansion. $ot since the stirring days before the declaration of war last spring has the House witnessed such an exhibition of ex­ citement and such scenes of unbounded enthusiasm as occurred on Wednesday when the two Republicans, Mr. Johnson, the Indiana member, and Mr. Dolliver of Iowa, locked horns on the question of expansion. The army bill was under de­ bate. At the night session Mr. Crum- paeker (Rep., Ind.) supported the bill and advocated annexation. Mr. Rixey (Dem., Va.) opposed the bill. Mr. Linney (Rep., N. C.) supported the bill. Only a brief time was occupied by the Senate in open session. Mr. Hale, chairman of the Com­ mittee on Naval Affairs, reported the naval personnel bill and gave notice that at the earliest time possible he would call it up for consideration. Mr. Cullom (111.) reported the legislative appropriation bill. Mr. .Chandler (N. H.) introduced a bill temporarily creating the office of admiral of the navy. It was referred to the Naval Affairs Committee. A senate bill provid­ ing for the erection of a building in Wash­ ington for the department of justice at (t cost of $1,000,000 was passed. As the Senate seemingly was about to conclude consideration of the pension ap­ propriation bill late Thursday, afternoon, Mr. Butler (Pop., N. C.) offered his amendment, announced some time ago, providing for the pensioning of ex-Con- federate soldiers. Upon this he took the floor and delivered a speech, in which he. defended the course of the South in the civil war. The executive session of the Senate was consumed in discussion of the failure of the President so far to send to the Senate the documents in his posses­ sion and on tile in the State Department bearing upon the Paris conference. The feature of the third day of the debate upon the bill for the reorganization and increase of the regular army was an hour's speech by Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio. The other speakers were Messrs. Brom- well (Rep# O.). Stewart (Rep., N. J.), Tongue (Itep., Ore.), in support of the bill; Messrs. Dinsinore (Dem., Ark.), Jett (Dem., III.), McRae (Dem., Ark.), Simms (Dein.. Tenn.), in opposition to it. and Mr. Marsh (Rep., 111.), in favor of the bill •with certain modifications. Rocke'eller Must Pay. The application of John D. Rockefeller of the Standard Oil Trust to have the as­ sessment on his country seat in North Tarrytown, N. Y., set aside was denied in court. The assessors placed the value of his property at $1,000,000, and levied a tax accordingly. Rockefeller declared the amount outrageous and illegal and took the case to law. Many hearings were given and thousands of dollars spent. Will Join Dewey's Fleet. The Don Juan de Austria, one of the Spanish vessels sunk by Admiral Dewey's squadron and afterward raised, has reach- fore, if the accusation is true, the cash-1 ed Hong Kong from Manila. She will be ier's department has realised perhaps overhauled and sent back to Manila for 000 la this rpr*I aervios under Admiral Dewey. Sparks from the Wires. The John B. Prescott, the largest schooner ever built, has been launched at Rockland, Me. "Badger" Moore has been placed in Sing Sing prison, where he "will serve bis 19-year sentence. A New York girl has been placed in an insane asylum, the victim of excessive cigarette smoking. The Emperor of Germafiy appreciates the "loftiness of the Czar's peace ideas," but thinks it advisable to strengthen his own forces. The United States grand jury at Perry, Okla.. has returned an indictment against Thomas Green, alias L. A. Ford, an 8- year-old boy, on a charge of breaking into the postoffice there. The late William Endicott, who died recently at Beverly, Mass., was 100 years old. He was a direct descendant of John Endicott, the famous Puritan leader, at whose old homestead, "Orchard Farm," in Danvers, he was bi>rn. A cargo of parrots that arrived in Leith, Scotland, was purchased by a firm of whisky manufacturers. The birds were taught to cry, "Drink Blank's whisky," and were then distributed in gilt cages tc Liverpool saloonkeepers. } THE STATE LEGISLATURES F r i d a y . • ; llMfo Dakota the elwtiofi &t Ste- Cumber as Senator was formally ratified. In Michigan the opposition to Pingre* Introduced a bill to take the place of thft- Atkinson taxation bill. In Minnesota the Senate concurred In. •the House resolution urging early ratJft^ cation of the peace treaty. In Tennessee Gov. McMillin sent a mes­ sage to the Legislature advising a special tax for a State sinking fund. In Kansas it was announced would be introduced prohibiting in futiiip- themortgaging of homesteads. - \ InlPennsylvania, Nebraska, Delaware^ Montana, Washington, Utah and Califor­ nia the Legislatures balloted for Senator without making a choice. In Utah a vote was cast for Mrs. Mat- tie Cannon for United States Senator* and she is being talked of as a possibility* The deadlock continues unbroken. In Wisconsin three ballots were takeik for United States Senator in the Republic can caucus without change, and an ad' journment was taken until Monday nighty J • Saturday. In West Virginia contests were partial­ ly considered. Democrats are conceding- election of Scott for Senator. In California, Utah, Nebraska, Dela­ ware, Washington and Montana the Leg­ islatures took ballots for Senator withotttr breaking deadlocks. In Pennsylvania one vote for Senator was taken without apparent change. Quay men hint at plan for his election to be put into effect on Tuesday. r Monday. In West Virginia the opposing branchoa- of the Legislature continued their warfare- over contested seats. In the Nevada House a test ballot shoW-7 ed votes evenly divided between Stewart and Newlands, with one absent. In Wisconsin the Republican caucua. took three ballots for United States Sen­ ator without material change in the re­ sult. In Montana, Utah, Washington, Cali­ fornia and Delaware ballots were taks»„_ for United States Senator without a choice. In New York both Democrats and Re­ publicans offered resolutions urging the ratification of the peace treaty. The res­ olutions were referred to a committee. In Pennsylvania one vote for Senator was taken without change in standing:. of candidates. The reward for the detee* tion of bribery now amounts to $40,000. In Nebraska, it is said, Senator Alflm has agreed to withdraw from the sena­ torial fight and throw the sixty fusion votes to Editor Rosewater, Republican, for which the editor is to support Allen for Thurston's seat in 1901. Tnesday. In Nevada William M. Stewart (Silver- ite) was re-elected United States Sen­ ator. In Pennsylvania the senatorial fight is growing bitter, but the deadlock is un­ broken. In New Jersey John Kean (Republican) was elected United States Senator to suc­ ceed James Smith, Jr. In Wisconsin the Republican senatorial caucus took twenty-five ballots without change of note for any of the candidates. In Michigan several new measures were introduced, including a general taxation bill and one providing for a tax on In­ comes. In Texas former Governor C. A. Culber­ son (Democrat) was elected by acclama­ tion United States Senator to succeed Roger Q. Mills. In Utah, California, Delaware, Wash­ ington, Nebraska and Montana ballots were taken for United States Senator without a chaice. Wednesday. In Texas the election of C. A. Culber­ son to the United States Senate was rati­ fied. In New Jersey the election of John Kean to the United States Senate was ratified. In Wisconsin the Republican senatorial caucus took ten ballots withaut breaking the deadlock. In Wyoming the joint Assembly ratified the election of C. D. Clark to the United States Senate. In Nevada the Legislature in joint ses­ sion ratified the election of William M. Stewart as Senator. In Missouri the State Senate adopted a resolution protesting against seating Con­ gressman Roberts of Utah. In Pennsylvania the senatorial deadlock is unbroken. A bill has been introduced to amend the jury laws in favor of Quay. In Michigan the House reconsidered the resolution under which the entire body was to make a tour of the State institu­ tions. Thursday. A bill was introduced in Minnesota to protect policy holders in hail insurauce. The New York Assembly appointed a committee to investigate the surrogate's office. In Wisconsin seventeen fruitless ballots were taken in Republican caucus and ono ballot in joint session. Michigan Honse adopted resolution in­ dorsing course of Secretary Alger. Sen­ ate ignored Pingree's junket message. In Delaware, Nebraska, Washington, California, Montaha, Utah and Pennsyl­ vania joint ballots were taken without results. In Montana Senator Whiteside de­ nounced all men voting for Clark as bribe takers, and is unseated after a scone verg­ ing on riot. ? In Wisconsin bills were introduced re­ ducing legal railway charges from 3 to 2,_ cents a mile and putting license fee oh express companies. -•>14 "'•'i-S -i •j "f; i .V*: • - 1 News of Minor Note. Capt. Walker of the Cunard steamer Campania has completed his 400th trl* across the Atlantic. Chauneey M. Depew says that he is tho only wage earner who has been named for United States Senator. It is estimated that there are in the world to-day more than 200.000,000 Bi­ bles, printed in [130 different languages. Senator Daniel of Virginia, who is now in Havana, says the first need of Cuba is charity, and the problem of government may be solved afterwards. Owing to a lack of ships, officers and men. Secretary Long will be unable, for an indefinite period, to re-establish the United States naval stations abroad, which were abandoned before the war. Gen. Wood speaks well of the Cuban office holders whom he has appointed at Santiago. He says the people are cheer* fill and contented "and that everything hf as quiet'as^n a New England village. 4 The pen with which Gov. Roosevelt oC New York signed the oath of office was kept by the Governor himself. It was the one which Gen. Palmer had used during the civil war. The Bible on which the oath was taken was presented to Mrs, Roosevelt. 4 -.vj-j'.