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IcHenry Plaindealer. J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and P*. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. SFf-" SAv I r * ' ! ' I : \ x . •'iv *• if- S . . ; ' 1' "ifcT EVENTS OF THE WEEK •" it Ftdoeah, Ky., death was preferred to cold and hunger by Bessie Fisher, yet In her teens, who suicided by discharging « pistol in her mouth. The girl had been left alone with a fatherless babe and a little sister and brother, without food or fuel. At Montreal. Qne., the jury in the case of Cordelia Viait. accused of the murder of her husband. Isidore Poiriero, of St.' Canul, on Nov. 27. 1807, brought in a ver­ dict of guilty, and the prisoner was im- mediateir sentenced to be hanged on March 10. \ A passenger traiafon the Florida Cen­ tral and Peninsular Railroad was wreck­ ed near Madison. Fla.. by a collision with cattle on the track, although the engineer made every effort to stop the train. Six persons were killed. John T. Sullivan, an army attache, Engineer Chandler and four colored men. In the insane pavilion of Bellevue hos­ pital, N^w York, is Frederick G. Fischer, son of Charles Fischer, piano manufac­ turer. In the alcoholic ward of the hos­ pital is his wife. Mrs. Nellie Fischer, and neither knows the other is there. *A com­ mon cause placed them in the institution --overindulgence in intoxicants. The steamer Danube, from Lynn Canal, reports a succession of fatal accidents during the construction of the "White Pass Railway, caused^by an avalanche. First Officer Lawrence of the Danube, while at Skaguay, was told of six of these accidents occurring within a week. inf which fifteen or twenty men had lost their lives. The town of St. Lawrence. S. D., will MOD be a memory. For long it has fought for supremacy with Miller, its neighbor­ ing rival, and has at last yielded. It is now being moved, incredible as this may seem, to that city. Dwellings and barns, hotels and buildings that once made up St. Lawrence are being uprooted and transferred to sites within the corporate limits of Miller. In a report to the State Department Commercial Agent Stern, at Bamberg, predicts that the United States will goon surpass England in the value of exports of machinery to Germany. The present year shows even a falling off in fhe case of England while the imports of American machines show an increase of 75 per cent over last year's figures. In 1S95 the im­ ports of the United States of these goods Into Germany did not amount to the sixth part of the amount of the English imports, while to-day they are equal to 60 per cent of the latter. Chief Gnnner's Mate John Everitt, who received an honorable discharge from the navy on Oct. 25. made a gallant effort to save Ensign J. C. Breckinridge, who was washed overboard from the torpedo boat Cashing on Feb. 11. and did succeed in recovering the young officer's body from the waves. The facts were reported to the Navy Department, and Secretary Long sent Everitt a medal for bravery. The Benevolent Association of New York also sent a medal, and Gen. Breckinridge, the father of the young ensign, sent him a handsome gold watch. Ret. E. E. Strong, D. D., editor of the Missionary, Herald, has prepared a sum­ mary of world-wide Protestant missions for the last year. It shows that there has been a large increase in subscriptions, coming chiefly from this country, where an increase of $25,000 is shown, and from Great Britain, where to the $(5,471,840. regularly contributed, is added $2,089,134 expended by organizations not strictly missionary. The American board has re­ ceived in contributions the last year $687.- 203, making a grand total of $30,405,043 received since organization. The twelve colleges of the board have 2,483 pupils. Scandalous proceedings in the legisla­ tive councils of Austria-Hungary have reached their climax in the municipal conncil of Vienna. The other day the city chambers were converted into a bear gar­ den. Dr. Lueger, the mayor, and an im­ placable Jew-baiter, ordered three prom­ inent Hebrew citizens out of the cham­ ber, suspending them from three sittings. When the three men refused to retire, they were dragged from their seats by main force and carried out of the chamber by servants of the house, amid volleys of hisses, yells from the opposition and in- salting cries from the majority. NEWS NUGGETS. quarters ©t St. Petersburg, where com- j rel, which resulted In the son shooting ths munlcation Is now carried on by boats. I father, the ball taking effect in the left The inhabitants were panic-stricken and I side near the heart, producing a wound there was great loss of property. Great that will result fatally. loss of life has been reported. I Henry Nelligan, cook, and George W At Philadelphia W. A. Steele, formerly | Beverly, bugler, of the First Florida Regi- cashier of the collapsed Chestnut Street ment, were killed at Huntsville, Ala. National Bank, was found guilty of aiding and abetting the late William M. Singer- ly in misapplying the funds of the insti­ tution and making false reports to the comptroller of the currency. Gideon W. March, former president of the wrecked Keystone National Bank in Philadelphia, has been sentenced to twelve years and six months in prison and to pay a fine of $500 for making false entries in the books and false returns to the Comptroller of the Currency. Four persons lost their lives In a fire at 134 Prospect street, Brooklyn, N. Y. *three were burned while trying to escape; the fourth met death while trying to save others. The fire was in a five-story flat building occupied by five families. I,n the basement was a boys' club, and the flames started there. The scheme of F. L. Tappscott of New York to form a sewer pipe trust having failed, W. H. Eastlund of Toronto has proposed a sales agency combine, which shall have the handling of the product of all factories, including the fixing of prices. It is probable that the organisation will be effected before Jan. 1. A suit has been filed in the United States Court at Toledo by the Merchants' National Bank of Baltimore for itself and others against the Ann Arbor Railroad Company--the T.. A. A. & N. M. Railway Company--Wellington R. Burt and the XfVtropolitan Trust Company, for the purpose of setting aside the sale of the railway property, for the appointment of a receiver for the road, the payment of the debts and the ultimate sale of the road to clear up all obligations. Th% peti­ tion alleges fraud in the first sale of the road to the present company. They were on bad terms and had a fight in camp. Private Porter Weisnant, troop D, Tenth Cavalry, was found with a bullet wound in the throat in West Holmes street. He said only that he had been held up by two white soldiers and shot. Then he expired. WASHINGTON. WESTERN. li';v W',--• lit *t*i fh- • §|f- f.i" Cornelius N. Bliss of New York, Secre­ tary of the Interior, will resign Jan. 1. Jules Cambon, French ambassador, ex­ pects to return to his post at Washington about Jan. L Antonio E. Terry, husband of Sibyl Sanderson, the opera singer, died at Paris, aged 42. At Bismarck. N. D., James W. Cole, murderer of Miss Ford, was sentenced to be hanged March 24. Four Belgian traders are reported to have been killed and eaten by natives of Upper Ubanghi, Africa. i Calvin S. Brice, railroad'financier and former United States Senator, died from pneumonia at his home in New York. Sir William Vernon Harcourt has re­ signed the leadership of the British lib- s^ra.s owing c.0 ptrsoiia» ft-eling against Rosebery, and a split in the party is cer­ tain. A syndicate of Toronto capitalists is after the street railway franchise in Ha- • vana, and has made an offer of nearly $1,500,000 for the present service in the Cuban capital. A mob of women at Grenada. Spain, considering that the discovery of Ameri­ ca was in their opinion the principal cause of Spain's misfortunes, stoned the statue Of Columbus there. The London Daily Mail says: "We un- • derstand that the British occupation of the Island of Crete is to become per­ manent." Unless a hitch occurs all the electricity and manufactured gas for illuminating and natural gas for heating will soon be supplied to Pittsburg and Allegheny by one concern. ~ ' " A passenger train on the Gulf road was r Pitched by a broken rail about three miles south of Barlea, Col., making a bad Wreck and injuring several persons. The entire train, except the locomotive, left the rails. At Hyannls. Mass.. the engine house and carpenter shop of the New York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad were burn­ ed, with four locomotives; loss, $75,000. At Seattle, Wash., United States Attor­ ney Gay has filed a libel against the noted Cuban filibustering steamship Laurada, accused of smuggling whisky into Alaska. Ernest L. Hospes, of Stillwater, Minn., has filed a petition in bankruptcy. The liabilities are $179,500, with the assets about $375. Ilospes was formerly in the lumber business. An explosion in the Indianola and Hath- swa mine, three miles from Poteau, I. T., caused the death of at least five men. The disaster was caused by an explosion of dust following a blast. Antioch College, Springfield, Ohio, is un­ der quarantine on account of a case of small-pox in the institution, contracted by Lee Anderson, a student. General vacci­ nation is ordered at Yellow Springs. John Tongass has served eight years in the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, for the murder of Albert Van Riper, who is now alive and working at Kenton, Ohio. He was convicted upon purely circumstan- titl evidence. A special from Debeque, Colo., says that 150 hunters assembled there to par­ ticipate in a grand hunt for mountain Hons, bears and other wild beasts that prey upon the live stock of the ranchers in that vicinity. Harry A. MacDowell, a private in Com­ pany M, First Colorado Regiment, who committed suicide in Manila, was a native of Chicago, where he was born twenty- Bine years ago. His parents live in Col­ orado Springs, C8lo. George Perry, a colored school teacher, and his daughter Eunice were struck by a Chicago and Alton train at Higginsville, Mo. The girl was killed and the man will die. They wore crossing the track and did not notice the train coming. A plan to reorganize the Werner com­ pany of Akron, Ohio, has been formed. Under an order of the court the property will be sold Jan. 18, when a committee will look after the creditors' interests. The capital stock of the new company will be $3,500,000, of which $1,000,000 will be preferred. It was announced at East Liverpool, Ohio, that the pottery trust has complet­ ed its organization under the laws of New Jersey with $20,000,000 of capital stock. The options of the American Potteries Company on the East Liverpool plants expire Jan. 1 and the combine is expected to have all of them. At Toledo a company headed by Thom­ as Kelly has been organized to develop a Yein of gold discovered in Auburndale by a workman who was digging a sewer. The discovery has caused some excitement, and Mc Kelly's »assay of the find shows the vein to be richer than some Colorado mines, yielding $500 a ton. J. Pierpont Morgan and President Mel- len of the Northern Pacific are making the gr^htest railroad fight ever known in the Northwest to compel the Oregon Rail­ road and Navigation Company to come to terms regarding the division of Idaho ter­ ritory. Unless the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company agrees soon the Northern Pacific proposes to build branches paralleling every Oregon Rail­ way and Navigation line through the rich wheat districts of Washington. Idaho and Oregon. The Northern Pacific filed at Olympia its official notice of the location of eleven such branches, having a total mileage of 556. Navigation through the great ice field at the head of Lake Erie in the dense snowstorm led to the stranding of the Bteamer C. A. Black, with wheat from Duluth. below Bar Point. The hig b»rge Aurania, also with wheat from Duluth, went aground within one-quarter of a mile of the Western Transit liner Commo­ dore at Bar Point. While the steamer Aurora was dragging the Aurania through the ice fields, flames broke out on the steamer, and her captain had to scuttle the ship to prevent her total destruction. She went down in eighteen feet of water. Her cargo will be a total loss, but it js thought by the underwriters that thrre will be enough left of the steamer to be worth the raising. The l^rtfitSury Department is POHttder- ing a request by the St. Paul collector of customs to have a tea inspector stationed there. The plan is opposed by Chicago and New York importers. Major General John R. Brooke has been selected by President McKinlcy for Gov­ ernor General of Cubjk He will have su­ pervision of the gd^ernment of the entire island, and win be supreme both as to the military and civil operations of Cuba. The President has pardoned Amanda V. Grierson, now McCarty, the aged actress convicted in the southern district of Ohio and sentenced to one year in jail for vio­ lation of the pension laws. She is s&id to be about 70 years of age and in feeble health. Dr. Wines, secretary of the Illinois State lioard of Charities, has received a letter from the commissioner general of immigration at Washington, stating that any alien immigrant who may become a public charge within one year from the date of landing in the United States shall be returned to the country in which he belongs at the expense of the immigrant fufld of the United States Government. FOREIGN, A rumor is current at Berlin that the great powers concerned have agreed to a German occupation of the Samoan Isl­ ands. beginning with Upola. Gen. Calixto Garcia, the distinguished Cuban warrior and leader and the head of the commission elected by the Cuban As­ sembly to visit this country, died at Wash­ ington, of pneumonia. Advices from Samoa say that the sup- porters of Mataafa. having elected him king, certain chiefs lodged a caveat, which the chief justice has decided in their fa­ vor. It is now understood that Tamasese will be nominated. Cubans at Washington charge that Spaniards in evacuating the interior towns of Moron and Ciengo de Avila, Cuba, poisoned the water in the public cisterns Used by the Cubans, and say that scores of them have died as a result. Terrible atrocities are reported from Formosa. Two hundred rebels recently attacked a village, surprising the people and looting the place. They burned thirty-seven houses. A Japanese police inspector and six constables perished in repelling the attack. Dispatches to London papers from Ber­ lin and Madrid give conflicting reports re­ garding the Carolines, the former declar­ ing the negotiations for purchase of the islands are at the point of completion, while the latter deny that Germany is negotiating for the Carolines. Q§car Strauss, United States minister to Turkey, had an audience with the Sul-* tan. Assurances were given to the Amer­ ican minister regarding a satisfactory set­ tlement of all pending questions between the United States and Turkey, including the payment of indemnity for American losses In Armenia. IN GENERAL. Dr. J. J. Walter, pastor of the Centen­ ary Methodist Church of Portland, Ore., has been appointed missionary in charge of all Methodist work in Alaska. The work of remodeling the Victoria bridge, Montreal, fromi a tubular into an open railroad bridge of twice its wiutu is finished, and the Prince of Wales, who opened it in 1860, has been asked to of­ ficially open the remodeled bridge next summer. A smooth gang of counterfeiters is at work in the Mississippi valley. The coun­ terfeit is of standard silver dollars, and all that have so far been discovered bear date of 1890. It is believed that some­ thing like 200,000 of them have gained circulation. They have the same ring, ap­ parently the same weight and the same external marks as the genuine. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: "The most significant thing this week has been the entire absence of the customary nervous fright before or after the meeting of Congress, the Presi­ dent's message and the treasurer's report. No one showed the least alarm, and no­ body could find a reason for any. Money and stocks and grain markets moved on exactly as if the Government were auto­ matic, certain to do or say no more , than the people bad already decided and ex­ pected. and so the gradual betterment since October continues. There is a larger demand for products in nearly all the great industries, larger export demand for foreign needs, a more healthy domestic demand since seasonable weather arrived, and a comforting conviction that Novem­ ber business, the biggest ever done in this country in any month, was but a step to­ ward something better. This week's fail­ ures have been 248 in the United States, against 312 last year, and 22 in Canada, against 29 last year." SOUTHERN. EASTERN. The coroner has decided that James Mitchell of New York, found dead in Cin­ cinnati, died of alcoholism, and not from poison administered by a physician, as was claimed by Mrs. Mitchell. ! 'Carl McBride and his wife were instant­ ly killed by an express train at Raccoon Station, Pa., on the Panhandle road. They fvere driving in a sleigh and were crossing the tracks when the train dashed into ihem, both being terribly mangled and al­ most instantly killed. The River Neva suddenly rose nine feet the other night, inundating the lower At Chattanooga, Tenn., David W. Hughes, a lumber dealer, has filed a peti­ tion in bankruptcy, with liabilities at $250,000 and assets at $1,000. The St. John Howard, a freight and pasenger steamer running between New Orleans and Ouachita Itiver poijits, was burned at Columbia, La. No lives were lost. In a terrible duel with knives at Mount Vernon, Ga., between Charles Darley, on muleback, and Thomas Jennings, on foot, the former was killed and Jennings bad ly wounded. Jennings is in jail. ^Sam Hall, the negro saloon-keeper of Newport News, Ya., who shot and killed Private Alonzo Andrews, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana, Regiment, has been acquitted of the murder charge against him. At Owensboro, Ky., Mary Glover, aged 1 year, was burned to a crisp. Her mother left three children at home while she was at work. Smoke was seen issuing from the house and the neighbors, not knowing that any one was in the house, made no effort to save the child. WHO SIONED THE PEACE TREATY. S8PS? * * AMERICAN IkitelAwBeid. Swmtary Moore. Senator Gray. C0MMUSSI0NEK8;- Judge Day. ff" Senator Frye Jvuistor IWrijt:" 1 SPANISH COMMISSIONERS. ANTI EOODLE CRUSADE. Chicssoana Oppose Kxtension of Street Railway Franchises. Another wart is on in Chicago--a war against the boodling city aldermen. One of them introduced into the Council an ordinance extending the franchises of city railways fifty .years from 1903, the pres­ ent date of expiration. The purpose is to secure action by the aldermen favorable to the street railroads before the repeal of the Allen law, which is expected soon after the Legislature meets. Mayor Har­ rison is fighting the proposed action of the Council with all his personal influence and the power of patronage. Public meet­ ings ire held, and one of the rope manu­ facturers is engaged in making hangman knots to be worn as buttonhole boquets by honest citizens to suggest the possible fate of boodlers if they sell out the tax­ payers. Democrats, Republicans and citizens ir­ respective of party have assembled in mass meetings in various wards of the city and declared themselves unalterably opposed to any street railway legislation Lindsay Freeman, a wealthy Trigg Srfin Ky" PvDter' a,Dd h!S Charle8' i butter, creamery, 15- to 22c; eggs, aged 19 years, became involved in a Quar- ^ MARKET REPORT8. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 1c $4.50, wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 65c; corn, No. 2, 32c tc 34c; oats, No. 2, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2, 52c to 54c; butter, choice creamery, «i.9c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 24c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis--Rattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $3.50; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 r«ui, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 white, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St. Louis--Qattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2, 26c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 51c to 53c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 66c to 68c; corn, No. mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 30c; ry«, No. 2, 56c to 58e. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $9.50'; sheep* and lambs, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, 68o to 69c; corn. No. 2 yellojv, 34c jto 35c: oats, No. 2 white, 29c to Spc; .rye, 54c to 56c. Toledo--Wheht, No. 2 mixed, 66c to 68c; cq/n, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 2, 53c to 55c, cloyer seed, new, $4.35 to $4.45. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 63© | to 65.:; corn, No. 3, 32c to 34c; oat a, No. 2 wiUte, 27eHo,29c; rye, No. 1, 53c to 54c; barley, No. 2, 43c to 49c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping sveers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice; $3.25 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.75. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No.> 2 red, 75c to 76c; corn. No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2, 30c to 32c; West- MA YOB HA. BR I SON. under the Allen law. Here was a Demo­ cratic ward club with every member pres­ ent; there a citizens' meeting where the hall was overflowing with people. But in each place the sentiment was the same --opposition to boodle legislation. "No Council legislation for the street railway companies," says Mayor Harri­ son, "until the Allen law is repealed. I will not admit that they are entitled to even a ten-year ordinance until that ne­ farious measure is off the statute books." The strength of the feeling engendered can be judged from these incidents: The wife,of one South Side alderman received a noose and an envelope with cross-bones and skulls ui>on it. Another alderman said: "I found one of these," indicating the noose, "on the door of my place of business this morning." Mayor Harrison does not approve of this noose business. He said: "I am heartily opposed to public demonstrations which can be construed as lawless." FARMERS REAP RICH HARVEST. Oat and Corn Crops Br ins $83,000,- OOO More than in 1807. On the basis of the farm prices on Dec. 1, the Agricultural Department figures place the 1898 crop of corn and oats as worth $83,000,000 more than the crops of 1897. Statistician Hyde accredits this largely to the difference in prices. The corn crop is a trifle larger than in 1897 and the average price per bushel is 2.4 cents higher, while the oat crop is simi­ larly a little larger than the 1897 and the prices were 4.4 cents higher. The monthly statement of the bureau of statistics on the exports of domestic products for the month of November last shows the exports of breadstuffs for the month aggregated $26,897,886. against $28,763,548 for November, 1897. Cattle and hogs, $2,105,405 against $2,760,704 in November last yeui\ WINS RACE AND WIFE. Charles Miller, of Chicago, the Victor in the Six-Day Bicycle Contest. Charles W. Miller of, Chicago, last years' six-day champion, won the great race at the Madison Square Garden in I1ILLBB AND ffls BRIDE. New York again this year, beating the world's record, his own, by twenty-four miles and leading the next man to him, Frank Waller of Boston, by twenty-two miles. Thirty-two men started on Monday morning, and twelve finished. Miller, Waller and Pierce, who had been always in the lead, were the freshest of all at the finish. Indeed, Miller was in stich good condition that he was able to appear to advantage in the wedding ceremony, leading Genevieve Hansen of Chicago to an improvised altar in the- Garden amid loud cheering and the roisterous good wishes of 10,000 persons, who gathered to witness the ceremony. Miller receives prizes amounting to $2,400. The follow­ ing score shows the number of miles rid­ den by each contestant: Miller 2,007.4 Aronson 1,729.5 Waller 1,985.7 Nawn 1,721.7 Pierce 1,906.7 Forster .1,608.8 Albert .......1,822.6 Htevens ....^1,519,8 Glmm .1,782.2 Hale 1,502.2 Lawson 1,757.6 Julius ...1,166.7 Th» Nevv? Told in a Few Ltnea. Algeria is the only country in the world where the horses outnumber the human beings.- , A Maori priest in NewvZe^land is al­ leged to have raised a young girl from the dead. Mrs. Ivatherine Rastel of llemstead, L. I., was choked to death by swallowing her false teeth. Flying foxes, the enemies of fruit grow­ ers of New South Wales, -have arrived unusually earlj- this season and are doing great damage? • Tramps who visit Lebanon, Pt, are promptly arrested and jailed and nrade to earn their living by cleaning the streets of that city. The Government will adopt Gen. Wood's suggestion that the bodies of American soldier* be not removed from Santiago before February, Chicago pork packers and exporters have sent to Washington a protest against the effort of the German Reichstag to ex­ clude American sausage. Prominent New York physicians are contemplating the establishment in that city of a house of detention for inebriates, jftarphine victims and opium users. NATIONAL S0L0NS. OF THEIR WORKIIT 'WASHINGTON. V;"- But why does New York persist in call­ ing a dry goods exhibition a horse show? The last thing Hobson has raised is a mortgage on his parental home of $6,000. We still believe that Aguinaldo could run a cigar factory in the United States very acceptably. The only reason why Blanco left Cuba was the Impossibility of bis carrying it away with him. Trouble is threatened in the upper Swat, and the swatting is expected to begin at almost any motnent. . . . A greater United States requires a lonjg-1 er presidential message. The explanation is simple enough. And then it came about that Spain lost everything but honor, and Spain had none of that to lose. How are the mighty fallen! Aguinaldo is now familiarly known among the Ma­ nila troops as "Aggie." To the very last Iveely refused to give away his secret, but all those men who invested in it were sold. The battleship Wisconsin, just launch­ ed, stuck in the mud. It's early for it to begin taking mud baths. Aguinaldo says that he will never give up willingly. But that does not imply that he will not give up. The battleship Wisconsin was christen­ ed with an original poem. Still, you can't tell. She may prove to be a very worthy vessel. • It is estimated by the United States board of engineers that the Nicaragua canal will cost $133,000,000. Rather high for cut .rates. A cablegram from London announces that "Sir George Baden-Powell is lying at the point of death." That's a queer time for a man to indulge in prevarica­ tion. • j One of the striking measures inaugurat­ ed by Gen. Wood in Santiago is the im­ position of a fine of $1,000 on bull figiit^ ers. This makes bull fighting legally A fine thing. Ex-President Cleveland sees no good reason for annexing foreign territory when there are still millions of acres at home on which the game has not been hunted out. Plunger Gillett organized a cowboy baud during his palmy days. He doubt­ less found that a good way to "blow in" his money. It is doubtful if the Government will be able to bring Aguinaldo to terms until it provides him witji a rubber stamp and a bass drum. Chauncey M» Depew is firmly convinced that the Congressional Record should be brightened up hy the addition of s snappy funny column! There is just owe check from the United States which Spain will receive with pleasure--the check for $20,000,000 to pay for the Philippines. OetaiM Proceedings of Bassta and House--Bills Passed or Introduced . •" Either Branch--Qneetioae of Mo* to the Country at Itarare. The LearislatWe Grind. Seftate reassembled on' Mon- d#y Senator Vest made a speech in oppo­ sition to tentorial expansion, and Senator Morgan began the debate on the Nicar­ agua Canal bill. The House spent the larger part of the day on District of Co­ lumbia affairs. The bill to relieve the condition of American seamen was taken np, but nothing was accomplished. Rep­ resentative Hepburn of Iowa introduced a bill authorizing the President to acquire by purchase from the State of Costa Rica and Nicaragua full ownership, jurisdic­ tion and sovereignty of such land as may be desirable and, necessary to construct and defend a ship canal. The President is also directed to construct such a canal and the bill appropriates $140,000,000 to complete it. In the Senate on Tuesday the Nicara­ gua Canal bill was discussed, Mr. Turpie making the principal speech in opposition, declaring it is in the interest of the Mari­ time Company, which he characterized as a fraud and bankrupts He moved a post­ ponement until after the holiday recess. Mr. Morgan defended the bill and the Maritime Company and opposed the mo­ tion to postpone. Messrs. Berry' and Rawlins both offered amendments ma­ terially affecting the bill. Mr. Morrill supported the bill authorizing the pur­ chase of a site for a Supreme Court build­ ing. and this and several other bills were passed. In the House the District of Columbia appropriation bill was passed without a single amendment. The bill carries $6,359,950. The House also pass­ ed the Senate bill to amend the laws re­ lating to seamen. All the amendments were rejected. On Wednesday Mf. Danford (Ohio), chairman of the Immigration Commit­ tee, tried to secure consideration of the Lodge .immigration bill, but the House declined, 100 to 103, to take it up. Mr. De Armond (Mo.) niake a speech on the decadence of the privilege of debate in the House, and held Speaker Reed re­ sponsible. The Speaker replied with a sarcastic speech, in which he referred to the complaints of John Randolph in the early days of the century to show that the same remonstrances were made then that were being heard to-day. In the Senate the Nicaraguan Canal bill held its place as the principal subject. Speech­ es were made by Messrs. Harris, Money, Stewart and Morgan. An agreement was reached to take a vote on the Turpie postponement motion on Thursday. Oth­ er quest ions before the Senate were: The government's pension policy and the bill regarding registry of foreign built vessels wrecked on the American coast. On Thursday the House surpassed all records in the expedition with which it passed the pension appropriation bill. Usually one of the most fruitful themes of acrimonious partisan debate, it was passed in twenty minutes without criti­ cism, although carrying $145,233,830, $4,- 000,000 more than the act for the current year. The House then began considera­ tion of the bill to incorporate the Interna­ tional American Bank. This project was recommended by the Pan-American Con­ gress in 1889. An agreement was effected for a vote at 3 o'clock Friday. It was supported in debate by Messrs. Brosius (Rep., Pa.), Adams (Rep., Pa.), Lacey (Rep., Iowa), and Walker (Rep., Mass.), and opposed by Mr. Cox (Dem., Tenn.), Jenkiis (Rep., Wis.), Driggs (Dem., N. Y.), and Bartlett (Dem., Ga.). In the Senate the urgent deficiency appropria­ tion bill making provision for the army and navy for the next six months dis­ placed the Nicaragua canal bill, prevent­ ing even the taking of a vote on the ques­ tion of the postponement of the latter measure until after the holidays, as had Been intended. The deficiency bill was passed after a spirited discussion, turning principally on the point of keeping the volunteer soldiers in the service. The Senate adjourned until Monday. x5S§ liDlfei' rt r ; j '.v.'*.' ' .. Motes of Current Kvents* The Archbishop of Manila will be re­ called to Rome on account of his opposi­ tion to American rule in the Philippines. Mrs. Petrulia Durham has Avon a ver­ dict for $165,000 in Chicago, and says she will give $75,000 to the Salvation army. The first cargo to reach Philadelphia from Spain since the outbreak of the war arrived on the Norwegian steamer Kings- wood last Wednesday. Rev. T. S. Simrall, pastor of the Pres­ byterian Church of Sweet Springs, Mo., was found dead in bed by his wife, who went in to wase him for the morning tteal. t:- 'i Judge Schuchman of New York has ruled that the plaintiff in a breach of promise suit must prove that her charac­ ter has been damaged to the amount claimed. Abner Ledford. a Georgian, who went to the mines in Colorado at the close of the war, was found alone dead in bed in his cabin at Cripple Creek, Colo., from heart disease. J At Palestine, Texas, ex-Policeman G<us Moore fatally shot Jesus Salazar, a ta- male vender, who was once a captain in the Mexican" army guarding the cast're of Chepultepec. The acquisition of the Philippines, Por­ to Rico and other outlying territory prom­ ises to develop new phases of the labor and immigration problems for the consid­ eration and action of Congress. Detective George Bryant shot and fa­ tally wounded John Russell, a 14-year-old negro thief, at Kansas City, Mo. Bryant had arrested him and found stolen goods in his possession. The boy made a break 1. for liberty. The steamer Culgon has sailed from Sydney, Australia, with a cargo of pro­ visions for Admiral Dewey's fleet at Ma- I nila. The cargo consisted of 5,000 car­ casses of mutton, 250 lambs, 125 tons of potatoes. 81 tons of onions and. 22 tons of carrots. A grist mill at Watertown, Mass.,is \known ttyhave been in use as far back as 1635, when it is believed t® have been a town institution. It is now the property of the Waltham Savings Bank, aittl still continues to grind corn by means of the upper and nether millstones, using water as a motive power. In the United States District Court at Hannibal. Mo., llarve Smith, who robbed the post office at Bowling Gr*>eu. was sen­ tenced to three years in the penitentiary, and Harry Rockhill pleaded guilty to rob­ bing the postottice at Strother. and was sentenced to one year in the Molierly jail. The Navy Department, through the of­ fice of .naval intelligence, publishes some letters which appeared in La Epoea, at Madrid, froni Admiral Cervera, in which the Spanish officer protested against Spain rushing into war with a natioh having a superior iiavy. The letters, which were written before the war, expressed the hope that the Queen and the council might realize the hopelessness of such-a conflict. Chicago is still worried about what to do with its water. Why not wash it?--lfem> phis Commercial-Appeal. , By means of his oscillator, Tesla can change a Chicago girl's kiss into a clap ol thunder--Memphis Commercial-Appeal. It looks as if Picquart's enemies ar** ' about ready to select an island for hit-S future residence.--Cleveland Plain Dealer.* * The Spanish bishop of Porto Rico, wbo>. A resigned when his salary stopped, went* ' on the principle of no pay no cure.--St. Paul Dispatch. Oh, what a glorious opportunity for4-'1 Prof. Norton! Let.him go down and sea what happened to the Maria Teresa.--St. Paul Dispatch. Mr. Corbett can give Spain pointers on j the art of fighting. Mr. Corbett can get licked and make a big profit on the job.--? - * Washington Post. ; , 1 According to Dr. Sternberg's diagnosis^'.';"-'! the trouble in the army can be best cured by congressional appropriation in allopath* ' ̂ ic doses.--Philadelphia Ledger. "?i Nikola Tesla should either rein in hi# imagination or spur up his inventive ge~^!*' nius. The distance between the two is' * •' becoming rather magnificent.--Kansas t " City Journal. ,'J" ; News reports say the Maria Teresa ia^.,r" stuck on Cat island in a bed of sand, and ^ truth rQguires the statement that it was . lack of sand that permitted her to drift."'*--, there.--Philadelphia Times. " Lt would be easier to believe that Lordt i '«j Beresford has agreed to pay Jockey Sloan ^ $25,000 for his services next season it Sloan wasn't so anxious to have the fig* ures published.--Boston Herald. _____________ . ' ^ Peer or Crank ? , The Keely motor must now be packed away with other monstrous conceptions ot;v':i the human mind, like Symmes' Hole, Those who examine Mr. Iveely's work- j shop, if such examination be permitted by his will, are likely to find nothing but in­ volved mechanisms that lack the essen- tial element of practicability.--Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Many great invention? have resulted Ji from trifles or accidents by patient stu- 1 dents, who had seemingly exhausted ev-~J;|§ ery resource. Keely is therefore not to ^ be ridiculed. His idea may seem chimer-^, ^ ical now, but his purpose was beneficent'!^ and the time .may come when posterity will call not him but his critics the foolish . ones.--Galesburg Republican Register. ^the difficulty with Keely was just this --that he made a wrong distribution of his abilities. If he bad put as much en-,;,..^ ergjr and sheer power into perfecting his* motor as he put into organizing his finan-^ j! cial support, he might have thrown Teslaf.Jr'i into the shade, and made Edison hunt?., cover. As it was, he only lacked one thing' * of being a great discoverer--the making of a great discovery.--Kansas City Jour­ nal. But he worked on and died leaving his invention uncompleted. His partners In the enterprise hope that the Keely motor has been pushed to a point of development where it can be taken up by other hands and brains and advanced to practical working. Let it be hoped so; for science has done so much for the race that Amer­ icans look upon things once regarded a* wild with imaginings as plausible and"' Ji practicable.--St. Louis Republic. .< • The W. C, T. U. Temple. . ,i|| The hard times and not the women are to blame; however, and the chances are that any'organization of men would have " been forced to throw up its hands longv, ago.--Peoria Transcript. It is hardly surprising .that women un-_ accustomed to handling large business enterprises should nave become dismayed at the magnitude of the Temple scheme, „ but they might have drawn inspirationr from the courage of Mrs. Carse instead of . listening to the timid counsels of Lady Henry Somerset.--Minneapolis Tribune. The action of the W. C. T. U. conven­ tion in dropping the Chicago Temple ere- \ ates no great surprise. It was too big a. scheme for that organization to under­ take, and even if it had been successful, ' it has never yet been made clear how the ; cause of temperance for which the W. C> T. U. is Working would have been bene­ fited.--Bloomington Pantagraph. That most women are confirmed hero worshipers is shown in the strife of the W. C. T. U. over the proposition to make the Women's Temple a monument to Miss Frances E. Willard. The sentiment which inspired the Temple contemplated the erection of a noble memorial to the cause for which many labored with equal head of the movement led a considerable portion of the workers to idolize the leader above the cause.--Springfield Journal. North Carolina Kace Riots. It seems in North Carolina they, want many negroes there to leave and also wish to prevent those outside from entering. This is like the Southern coon trap that caught them going and coming.--Phila- deuphia Times. , As to the outrage in Wilmington, it iiftay be said that there was no plausible excuse for the revolution of Thursday. The white leaders had only to wait till March to come into power in the city government. Waiting so b*ief a period would not have- brought disaster.--Indianapolis Journal. The accounts of the wholesale and un­ provoked murder of colored men in the South may well arake an >utc'S>geii<; per­ son reflect as to whether or not certain Southern States are a part of the Ameri­ can Union. For a few years there was less of this barbarism, but of late there has been a remarkable revival of it.-- Philadelphia Press. The whites, not the blacks, are the rul­ ers of this country. North and South, East and West. That fact should have been established long ago, and is, we be­ lieve, well understood in every other State in the South except the unfortunate east­ ern portion of North Carolina, and when the terrible work of yesterday is done the fact will be thoroughly established there. --Nashville American. The negroes in the South cannot stand against the whites when it comes to • question of physical force. They may out­ vote the whites in some States or locali­ ties, but in time their victories will sure­ ly be snatched away from them by the shotgun or rifle. Their only safety lies in abandoning the race issue and dividing in politics, as they naturally would if there were not two separate races living side by side.--Minneapolis Tribune. Notes of Current Events. Troops first sent to Cuba will b« com­ posed largely of regulars. Massachusetts' otlicial Republican ma­ jority for Woleott for Goveruor is 83,- 240. Agricultural help is obtainable in Mex­ ico at from 25c to 50c a day (silver), ac­ cording to locality. A movement has been started in Georgia in honor of the memory of Miss Winnie Davis for establishing an industrial school for girls. A party of seven gold hunters from 'California is ret>orted to have been en­ gulfed in quicksand receutly, near La lis . 4. 36^ »'• --